41: There really is a ghost!

“I gave you 2 million yuan back then as a betrothal gift for marrying Jiang Fei. Now, with the insect plague, the wedding can't happen, but I need to see her, right?” Sun Deqiang puffed a cloud of smoke towards Li Yanping.

The scent of the cheap cigar was pungent and acrid.

Li Yanping coughed, choked by the smoke, but didn't dare to get angry. She forced a smile and said, “That girl is just...”

Before she could finish, Jiang Zixuan suddenly pressed Li Yanping's hand, signaling her to shut up.

“Jiang Fei is vulgar and unreasonable, unlike me. I just returned from studying abroad and have even received etiquette training. Boss Sun, why bother with such a low-quality person when you have a better option right here?”

Boss Sun scrutinized the smiling Jiang Zixuan.

Before coming, Li Yanping's family had simply washed their faces with accumulated water, unlike their usual grimy appearance.

Jiang Zixuan had a few small pimples on her cheeks, but they didn't detract from her beauty.

He had originally intended to find a young, beautiful girl to bear his children.

It didn't matter who the fiancée was.

“From now on, you will live on this floor. Later, I'll have my subordinates send you daily necessities, and also medicine that can treat the wounds from poisonous mosquito bites.”

Boss Sun looked at Jiang Zixuan with an ambiguous gaze and said, “Wash up tonight and come find me in the top-floor room.”

Jiang Zixuan suppressed the disgust in her heart and nodded obediently.

As soon as Boss Sun and his men left, Li Yanping couldn't help but ask, “Zixuan, why do you want to marry Boss Sun instead of Jiang Fei?”

“He's old enough to be your grandfather!”

“So what?” Jiang Zixuan said indifferently:

“Boss Sun can keep me fed and clothed, and he's rich and powerful. He can help me teach Jiang Fei a lesson. I don't care if he's old or ugly.”

Li Yanping thought it made sense when she heard this.

Boss Sun had the Tiger Suppression Gang backing him. Teaching a Jiang Fei a lesson would be effortless, wouldn't it?

“It seems our rubber dinghy being damaged was fate's arrangement, meant for us to coincidentally meet Boss Sun in Central Square and solve our family's predicament.”

“But Zixuan, you need to find a way to hide the fact that you're not a virgin. Boss Sun will definitely be particular about that.”

Jiang Zixuan impatiently interrupted Li Yanping: “Enough, I have a way.”

She had faked it twice in Yulan Garden and was very experienced in this regard.

Jiang Zhengkang, who had been silent all this time, finally couldn't take it anymore: “Yanping, Zixuan is going down the wrong path. If you won't stop her, how can you support her?”

“The government has already started rescue efforts. We can't sell our daughter for a few bites of food...”

“What do you mean sell?!” Li Yanping stood up, enraged, and blurted out:

“Could you have survived until now without a daughter?!”

“Do you think all the food you ate in Yulan Garden was really given by kind-hearted people?!”

Jiang Zhengkang was stunned: “What do you mean...”

Li Yanping swallowed the truth just in time and was about to change the subject when Jiang Zixuan looked at them irritably.

“Can you two stop arguing?!”

“All the food before was exchanged with my body! Because my mom went to sell herself and no one wanted her! Is that enough?!”

Li Yanping instantly panicked: “How could you say that...”

Slap—!

Jiang Zhengkang hit Li Yanping for the first time, slapping her across the face: “Are you even human?!”

“Zixuan is a child!”

“If you were capable, would our mother and daughter be forced to do this?! And now you dare to hit me?! I'll fight you!” Li Yanping cried and cursed as she lunged at Jiang Zhengkang.

Jiang Zhengkang silently let Li Yanping vent, his eyes dull.

Li Yanping was right.

It was his incompetence; he couldn't blame anyone else.

—

Late at night.

Jiang Fei put on her protective suit, took her rubber dinghy, and left alone, without calling Lu Yu or the others.

First, it was inconvenient to bring people to look for gold, and second, she suspected the man who gave her the information wasn't telling the truth.

If the items in the commercial street were easy to get, why would that person come back empty-handed and be so hungry that he had to trade for food with her?

After dealing with a water snake attempting to climb into the rubber dinghy, Jiang Fei sailed into the commercial street.

The buzzing of poisonous mosquitoes was exceptionally clear in the silent night.

Ripples occasionally spread across the water's surface; it was unclear whether there were snakes or centipedes beneath.

Not finding any bodies or living people, Jiang Fei became even more vigilant. She pulled out a gun and cautiously approached the three-story UN brand building.

After parking the rubber dinghy, Jiang Fei entered through a broken window on the second floor, when suddenly a swarm of black poisonous mosquitoes rushed out.

Roar—

Jiang Fei immediately burned them with a flamethrower, including the centipedes and cockroaches crawling around inside.

She turned on her flashlight to illuminate the area.

Tables, chairs, and counters were toppled over, and a layer of accumulated water, reaching only to the soles of her shoes, remained on the floor.

Items originally on shelves and in counters had been washed out by the flood and scattered everywhere.

There were diving suits, headlamps, respirators, oxygen tanks, compasses, masks, spearguns, fins, and other diving equipment.

Jiang Fei collected whatever she saw into the Supermarket warehouse and headed upstairs.

After clearing out the insects, Jiang Fei shone her flashlight around.

The third floor had fewer items than the second, but it contained a metal detector, an underwater camera, a salvage net, a buoyancy compensator, and wetsuits.

Jiang Fei's eyes lit up.

Wetsuits were good stuff!

Not only could they prevent body temperature loss, but their special material could also prevent bites from underwater creatures.

There were two large boxes in total, divided into dry suits and wet suits. Jiang Fei collected them all into the Supermarket warehouse.

Having obtained what she wanted, Jiang Fei descended the stairs contentedly, then abruptly froze.

A massive crocodile was sprawled at the stairwell, its glowing eyes fixed intently on Jiang Fei.

Outside the second-floor windows, several other crocodiles had also poked out their heads.

Some had even crawled in through the broken floor-to-ceiling windows.

Jiang Fei's scalp tingled.

Crocodiles had tough hides and were difficult to kill quickly.

She couldn't waste bullets.

Jiang Fei tentatively took a step back.

The crocodile at the stairwell suddenly lunged, its jaws wide open.

Jiang Fei quickly entered the Supermarket.

That was terrifying!

Unable to get out, Jiang Fei simply stayed in the Supermarket, took out tools from the warehouse, and harvested the crops in the planting area.

In total, there were 3 large boxes of pumpkins, 3 large boxes of potatoes, 3 large boxes of carrots, and one box each of chili peppers and spinach.

Jiang Fei selected a carrot, washed it clean, and took a bite.

It was crisp, sweet, and juicy, with a unique faint fragrance, tasting better than any carrots sold outside.

Feeling her body's fatigue gradually disappear, Jiang Fei looked at the carrot in her hand with surprise.

Vegetables grown in the Supermarket could eliminate human fatigue?!

If she ate them regularly... could they strengthen her body?

Jiang Fei felt a sense of happiness, as if she had unearthed a treasure. She wished she could turn into an old ox on the spot and fill the Supermarket's land with crops.

Fortunately, her rationality remained.

Not forgetting her purpose for the night, Jiang Fei finished the carrot, took her speargun, and exited the Supermarket.

The crocodile at the stairwell lay in a pool of blood, half of its head smashed.

The other crocodiles had retreated to the second-floor windows.

Was it killed by survivors?

Jiang Fei was about to quietly go upstairs and leave from the third floor, when bang, bang, bang—!

A volley of bullets swept in, and Jiang Fei immediately entered the Supermarket.

That was close!

She was almost riddled with holes!

On the rooftop opposite the UN store.

The young man standing in front of the sniper machine gun rubbed his eyes.

Did he just see someone appear???

He must have been mistaken.

How could anyone appear and disappear out of thin air? It wasn't a ghost.

The young man thought, then re-aimed at the crocodiles in the UN store.

Meanwhile, Jiang Fei waited in the Supermarket for a while, then exited again to check the situation.

Bang—!

A bullet completely smashed one crocodile's head.

Jiang Fei quickly re-entered the Supermarket.

The young man on the rooftop suddenly raised his head, fear flickering in his clear eyes.

He wasn't mistaken!

There really was a ghost!

And a beautiful water ghost at that!

The young man swallowed nervously, picked up the machine gun, and threw it to the person behind him: “Uncle Liu, let's go, let's go quickly!”

“This place isn't clean!”

The middle-aged man called Uncle Liu was dragged away by the young man, looking utterly bewildered.

What wasn't clean?

Hadn't he brought people to clean up this place???