Chapter 122: Courting Death (33)
Although the partition in the middle of the bed is spliced and can be easily removed, the frames around it are hard and thick, and when frozen by the low temperature, they are extremely strong.
There are also the doors of each bedroom. They look of average quality at ordinary times, but when they are taken apart, they are so thick and hard that they are very difficult to remove.
They originally wanted to break these things into smaller pieces so that they could be carried upstairs more easily. However, even if the knife cut off a corner, the wood remained motionless.
Of course, it’s not that everyone doesn’t want to take an axe, it’s just that they don’t have one at home.
Lan Jin suddenly thought: "We don't have an axe at home, but there should be one in the fire hydrant."
There were indeed fire axes in the fire hydrant, but it was too late for them to come up with this idea. A long time ago, these axes had been taken away by the people in the building as weapons for self-defense, so even if they wanted to find them, it would probably not be easy to find them at the moment.
Ling Jiang chopped for a long time before finally giving up and saying, "This is really not going to work. It's too hard to do. It's all frozen solid. Let's just stop chopping it and move it upstairs first. Let's not waste time in someone else's house."
Lan Jin thought it was feasible. "Okay, let's move it upstairs first. Didn't we remove the door to 3201? We can put everything in there. If there's no room, the other three houses on the two floors are unoccupied. If we remove one house per floor, it will be more convenient for everyone to get the charcoal."
In short, even if you move it upstairs, you don’t have to worry about having no place to put it. As for how to disassemble it, we can talk about it later.
Then the strategy was changed and the work task was changed to demolition and relocation.
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The four of them started working at around 10 o'clock in the morning and worked until around 3 o'clock in the afternoon before they finished collecting the wood for the 24th and 25th floors.
However, just as they were carrying the last batch of wood and were about to go upstairs, they seemed to hear a slight noise outside.
Ling Jiang asked, "Lao Gao, did you hear that? There seems to be someone talking outside."
Lao Gao nodded in agreement, "The sound is quite close, it should be not far from us."
Lao Gao put down the wood in his hand and quickly came to the balcony. He took a look outside and actually saw a few figures who seemed to want to leave the apartment building and were testing the entrance of the building.
Huang Jinghe and she arrived a step late, and when they got there these people were already standing on the ice.
Huang Jinghe looked at it and asked curiously, "They are walking fine. Could it be that they can actually walk on the ice after being frozen all night?"
Lao Gao said firmly, "Impossible! The water is so deep! Even if the temperature is very low, it can't be frozen enough for people to walk on it overnight."
As soon as Lao Gao finished speaking, he heard the sound of ice cracking.
He immediately became anxious. If he hadn't heard it, it would have been fine. But if he had, he couldn't help but warn them. He shouted to the people not far away, "Hey, don't go any further. Go back quickly. The ice is cracking."
There were five people standing on the ice, four men and one woman, all wrapped up like a ball. After hearing Lao Gao's shout, everyone froze in place, not daring to move, and looked for the source of the sound together.
But the man standing at the front of the team, after seeing Lao Gao's direction, scoffed at his words. "He's so far away from us, how could he possibly hear the sound of the ice cracking? Don't listen to his nonsense. He's probably afraid to go out, and he doesn't want us to go out. Let's go, let's get out of here quickly. I don't want to stay in this neighborhood anymore."
Some people are not afraid of death, and there are always others who are afraid of death. After hearing Lao Gao's shout, the three boys at the end of the team dared not move a step. They had only taken two steps and now said weakly, "Why don't we go back first? We didn't go far anyway. Since he said that, he must have heard it."
"Are you stupid? We have lived here for so long, how can we believe what these people say?" The man standing at the front of the team still ignored Lao Gao's words and was determined to leave here. After he finished speaking, he turned around and strode forward.
The only girl in the middle of the team was wavering for a moment, not knowing who to listen to.
Seeing the man at the front of the team walking straight ahead without paying any attention, the girl stood there thinking for a moment, then slowly followed him.
The three people at the end of the team, after a brief thought, decided to listen to Lao Gao's advice, "Let's go back first. It doesn't matter if we leave a little later. We've been here for so long. What if the ice really cracks? I can't swim."
"Are you stupid? It's useless to know how to swim in this weather."
After hearing this, the three of them didn't want to go any further. After making up their minds, they turned around and walked back into the building.
They hadn't gone far to begin with. After just a few steps, the three of them were standing in the apartment building again.
The man walking in front looked back and didn't see the three people following him. He took a deep breath and cursed, "Coward, you're so brave, not even as brave as a woman. Your mother raised you for nothing..."
Before the man could finish his words, the ice under his feet exploded rapidly. The sound was so loud that he was stunned in place. However, before he could finish his words, the ice around him quickly shattered, and he slid directly into the ice cave below. Without even a struggle, he could never get up again.
Lao Gao shook his head and whispered, "There's no hope. This guy is simply courting death."
If he were like the three boys behind, he might still be alive.
But the one who was obviously more anxious at this moment was the girl who was still on the ice. She really didn't expect the ice to crack so easily. After seeing the man in front of her fall into the water, she turned around in fright and ran towards the building.
However, the fragile ice surface could not withstand the speed of humans. When she was only two steps away from the building, the ice surface under her feet suddenly flipped sideways. The girl did not react quickly and her body tilted and she fell.
Then.
The overturned ice surface was immediately straightened, filling the hole where the person had just fallen in tightly.
The three people in the building witnessed all this, and if they had not listened to the advice, they would probably have suffered the same fate. They were so scared that their legs went weak and they sat down on the ground immediately.
As for saving people...
Sorry, they don't have that ability.
The ground near the ice layer was also covered with a thin layer of ice. After the three people fell down, their clothes and gloves were quickly stuck to the ice layer.
Fortunately, it was not the skin. The three of them took off their clothes and gloves and hurried back to their home. They immediately wrapped themselves up again, which helped to relieve the coldness in their bodies.
Everyone had already left, so there was no need for them to continue watching. Lao Gao said, "Let's go home."
They left, but the shocking scene just now could not be forgotten for a long time.
(End of this chapter)
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