The closest to Building A was a red rubber boat filled with supplies.
A middle-aged couple and a little girl of six or seven were sitting on it.
The three of them looked well-equipped, all wearing raincoats, and the supplies on the rubber boat were covered with plastic sheets.
The hailstones were as big as fists and as small as rice grains, densely packed and fierce.
Seeing that it was about to reach his own building, the man naturally did not think of hiding first, but subconsciously paddled quickly towards the window of the corridor of Building B.
The woman quickly put the paddle aside, quickly pulled her daughter to protect her tightly under her body, and then lifted the plastic sheet to take out two invisible objects to cover her and her husband's heads respectively.
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
It had only been two seconds since the rubber boat was paddled out, and it was already covered with white.
The rubber boat was also damaged in several places, and cold water began to "gurgle" into the boat.
"Pah!"
"Pah!"
"Ouch!"
"Hiss!"
The woman's arms, which were suspended in the air, suddenly loosened in pain after being hit, and the shield in her hands slipped down, and hailstones of all sizes fell heavily on the heads of the couple.
Stopping would mean death, but paddling forward might give them a glimmer of hope.
The man, with blood flowing down his forehead, could only grit his teeth and endure the pain and continue paddling forward.
"Zhang Qi, Liu Fenglei, help us!" The man lost his previous composure and shouted in panic at the window of the 16th floor passage.
In a few seconds, the woman had already collapsed on her daughter with blood all over her face.
"Tick."
"Tick. "
The bright red liquid slid from her forehead to her neck, and then dripped into the cabin along the edge of the raincoat.
She should have used her body to protect her daughter at the last moment of her life.
"Mom!"
The daughter looked at the scarlet flowers splashing in the cabin and cried heartbreakingly.
The man naturally realized something, and panicked in an instant, begging in a crying voice: "Zhang Qi, Liu Fenglei, please help us!!"
The people at the entrance of the corridor shrank their eyes.
Some looked silent, and some looked regretful.
With such a big hail, whoever went out would be hit, and no one dared to go.
They were all people who had been fishing in the water before. After the heavy rain, they hid in the corridor and lit a fire to keep warm.
Thinking that they would continue fishing when the rain was lighter and there were fewer people, they did not go back upstairs.
The man bit his last breath and rowed the sinking rubber boat to the window.
There were some small shelters here, and the density of the hail was relatively smaller.
He lifted his wife's body and was about to hand his daughter to the window.
Unfortunately, he was injured all over his body and could not use any strength in his hands.
The man wanted to reach out to grab the window sill, but he was always just a little bit short. "Xiaoyu, hurry up, go up first!"
"No, I want my mommy! I'm not going anywhere!! I want my mommy!! Wuuuuu!" The daughter hugged her mother's still warm body in grief, ignoring her father's words.
"Please, we are all neighbors, please help me. I will give you half of my supplies!" The man begged desperately.
No one responded.
"I will give you all my supplies! Please! I will lend you the rubber boat too! Please save my daughter!" The man with a bloody head collapsed and became more desperate.
If he hadn't had to protect his daughter's head, he would have knelt down in front of everyone.
Finally, a triangular-faced man with a shivering body wrapped his head with wet clothes and walked out.
The man on the rubber boat was like seeing a savior, "Liu Fenglei, I will definitely reward you handsomely!"
The triangular-faced man pulled the corner of his mouth: "I want to save you, but you must hand over the house key."
They were all people who moved from the lower floors to the 23rd floor and slept in the corridor, and the man with the rubber boat happened to live in 2301, Building B.
"Can I not give it to you, but I promise that you can live directly in the house, and we will also cover your food and drink in the future." The man said in a negotiating tone.
The triangular-faced man looked impatient: "Are you going to give it to me or not?!"
"I—"
The man choked for a second, and glanced at the rubber boat that was sinking rapidly. After taking a deep breath, he reached into his trouser pocket with a trembling hand and fished out the door key.
The triangular-faced man quickly walked to the window and snatched it away.
Seeing the fierce light in his eyes, the man's pupils shrank, and a bad premonition emerged in his mind, but he still had a last glimmer of hope in his heart:
"Liu Fenglei, please, help me."
The man said, pulling his daughter up and using all his strength to lift her up:
halfway through the words of gratitude, he saw the latter took out a shiny fruit knife, a grim smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and said violently:
"Now you know how to ask for help? Where did we go when more than a dozen of us kowtowed to you and begged you to take us in?! Ah?!"
"Puchi!"
As Liu Fenglei spoke, the sharp weapon had pierced Xiaoyu's heart, but he quickly pulled out the sharp weapon and stabbed the man behind him.
"That's it!" The others in the corridor also said in unison.
"You--"
The man on the rubber boat felt a cold and piercing pain in his neck before he finished speaking.
He loosened his hands, and his daughter's body fell into the water with a "plop".
Immediately, the man also tilted his body and fell into the water.
The water surface was soon dyed red.
"Oh, Liu Fenglei, why did you even kill Xiaoyu!" A man next to him walked up with a look of fear, poked his head out of the window and looked at it, and said with regret.
That little girl was a classmate of his son before the end of the world.
During the mask period, the two of them had taken online classes and had lunch together at his house.
But it didn't matter. This time he knocked on the door of 2301, and the other party didn't open it as usual.
Liu Fenglei glared at him fiercely, "Without her parents, do you think such a little girl can survive in the current environment? What's more, if you don't cut the grass at the root, it will grow again in the spring breeze!"
After he said that, he turned around and looked at everyone with a threatening look and said:
"The official boat will come tomorrow. No one of you is allowed to leak the news of today's events!"
After threatening everyone, he put away the fruit knife, turned over and jumped out of the window, and threw the woman's body into the water.
Three fresh corpses appeared on the water outside the window of the passage on the 16th floor of Building B.
At this moment, the hail outside has become much smaller, only the size of peas.
Some of the supplies on the rubber boat have slipped into the water, but some of them were placed in woven bags and tied to the rubber boat, which was shaky.
"What are you standing there for? Come and help me!"
The other people who were hiding in the corridor quickly got up and picked up the fishing tools in their hands to help him salvage the rubber boat that was about to sink.
Liu Fenglei glanced at the body of the man floating in the water, swam over to take off the gold watch on his hand, and then climbed up from the window with purple lips.
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