Song Chi may be timid, but he's quite cunning.
He could tell that Li Jianguo wanted to harm him, so he resolutely refused to go out to find supplies.
He knew that if he openly opposed going out to search for clean water given his current situation, it would definitely provoke resentment from everyone. So he said indirectly, "Shen Zhou has been out for more than a week and has not found clean water. Are we sure we can find clean water this time?"
They looted all the supermarkets and shopping malls in the area.
They even searched places two hours' drive away, and the supermarket shelves had long been emptied of water.
But people can't survive without water.
Drinking rainwater all the time will eventually cause problems.
So even knowing that clean water would be hard to find outside, the group still felt they should give it a try: "No matter how difficult it is, we have to find it; without water, everyone will die!!!"
Song Chi expressed his agreement with everyone's point of view, and then said, "I actually think that instead of going to all that trouble to search for water sources, we should find a shortcut."
Who wouldn't want to find a shortcut?
But are shortcuts so easy to find?
If it were us, we wouldn't have spent over a week running around to no avail, and we wouldn't have lost several brothers.
Li Jianguo already harbored resentment towards Song Chi, and seeing him speak so slowly, he immediately became impatient: "Speak up if you have something to say, or shut up if you have something to say, stop dawdling like a woman!"
Song Chi was so frightened by Li Jianguo that he took several steps back before speaking, "There is a well in the small courtyard across the street."
Everyone's eyes lit up with greed upon hearing about the well water.
However, Qiao An'an has been hiding the well well these days, and she always chooses to go out late at night when everyone is asleep, so even though the people across the street have lived in the community for a long time, they don't know that the small courtyard across the street uses well water.
Li Jianguo was even more convinced that Song Chi was just making things up to avoid going out: "How do you know there's a well in there?"
Song Chi had no intention of revealing his relationship with Qiao An'an.
After all, that's not a glorious thing.
But he didn't want to look for a water source even more.
Who knows what Li Jianguo will do to him after he gets out?
To save his own life, Song Chi didn't care about anything else: "My ex-wife lives inside. I've been here with her several times before. There's a very deep well inside. Without the well, she and her daughter wouldn't have been able to live here for so long."
Hearing what Song Chi said...
Shen Zhou finally understood why Qiao An'an had refused his request to teach him how to grow vegetables. He had said that someone who could help him enter the community by shooting arrows in a critical moment shouldn't be so indifferent. So that's why.
However, Song Chi is really a scoundrel. He didn't even care about their past relationship after being husband and wife. No wonder Qiao An'an doesn't like their family.
Shen Zhou was about to rebuke Song Chi a few words.
Zhou Ya, who had been standing silently behind Aunt Fang, also spoke up: "Two or three months ago, the girl from Building 3 and the Gu family grandfather and grandson also entered the courtyard, and they haven't come out since. I'm upstairs alone and I don't even dare to take a bath in the large water tank. With so many people, they must have used up a lot of water. Maybe there really is well water!"
After hearing this, everyone turned their attention to Qiao An'an's small courtyard.
Shen Zhou spoke up to stop them, saying, "That's someone else's private property. We have no right to take it for ourselves!"
Chen Zhou has principles, but the others in the community do not.
Everyone felt that in this apocalyptic world, why bother about what belongs to others or oneself? They had lost several brothers in their search for water, and now that there was water right across the street, why not take it?
Some people even climbed onto the pickup truck, wanting to drive to the small yard across the street: "We're not going to steal it, we're just asking them to share some water with us, that shouldn't count as taking it for ourselves, right?"
Shen Zhou felt they were using a fallacy of semantics: "Is there any difference between this and outright robbery?"
Everyone respects Chen Zhou.
But there's no water now, and the water Zhou Ya brought out won't last long. They've searched over a hundred kilometers around here, but there's no water at all. They might not be able to find any even if they go out this time.
If that's the case, why can't we ask the courtyard across the street for water?
Many people in the community became dissatisfied with Chen Zhou: "We've been out for over a week, lost two or three brothers, and still haven't found water. Now there's water right across the street, but you won't let us go and grab it. What exactly do you mean by that?"
Shen Zhou couldn't understand why these people insisted on robbing others.
Even if it's the end of the world now.
Shouldn't people have a basic moral bottom line?
He stood in front of the crowd, shouting, "You're not allowed to go!!!"
Everyone usually respects Chen Zhou, but now that there is no water, they are desperate to survive: "Chen Zhou, we respect you, but we will soon run out of water and die, so we cannot listen to you this time!"
Faced with the threat of survival, many people would throw morality to the wind. Li Jianguo knew that even though Shen Zhou held a high position in everyone's hearts, as long as his interests were threatened, everyone would still turn their anger directly on Shen Zhou.
Furthermore, without the biscuits and water Qiao An'an gave him, he wouldn't have been able to kill Wu Huifang, let alone even get into the residential area.
He was also very grateful to Qiao An'an.
So he stood beside Chen Zhou, stick in hand, and shouted, "Let's see who dares!!!"
Everyone respected Shen Zhou, and even those who disagreed with him ultimately respected him.
But what exactly is this Li Jianguo?
He used to bully everyone because of his height and size, but now that he's injured and acting so arrogantly, no one's going to tolerate his behavior anymore; they're all ready to go up and beat him up.
Aunt Fang saw it clearly.
She also doesn't approve of stealing other people's things.
However, in the current situation, if they confront each other head-on, Chen Zhou and Li Jianguo will not gain any advantage.
Aunt Fang stepped forward and stopped the two groups of people: "After all, I am decades older than you and I think further ahead than you. Have you noticed that the wall of the small courtyard across the street is very sturdy and that the barbed wire on the wall is electrified? I saw a sparrow get electrocuted on it a couple of days ago."
The crowd said, "Who said we have to climb the wall? We can just drive over it."
Aunt Fang continued, "Wouldn't that result in mutual destruction? Once the wall around the courtyard is breached, not only will you zombies be able to enter, but are you sure you can avoid being attacked by the zombies?"
Everyone fell silent after hearing this.
This is indeed a problem.
These zombies seem quite sluggish when they're not disturbed.
But once they hear a sound, they will attack the living at an alarming speed. If the courtyard wall is really knocked down by them with a car, the huge impact will definitely attract a large wave of zombies.
Someone else suggested, "If all else fails, shall we kill all the zombies outside?"
Before Aunt Fang could even speak, someone from their own group retorted, "There are several more waves of zombies around here, not just around here, but also on the highway, in the city, and in warehouses and supermarkets. How can we possibly kill them all?"
Seeing this, everyone could only turn their attention back to Aunt Fang: "Aunt Fang, you are experienced, do you have any solutions?"
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