53: Building A was robbed

Xiao Chuxia looked at Jiang Fei, her eyes slightly red: "I just went to that shop to look for medicine and met an old lady. She said that all the survivors in the Comprehensive Market were people who had wandered here to wait for death."

"Their families, despising them for being old and unable to help with anything, and also consuming extra food, drove them out of their homes."

Xiao Chuxia clutched the strap of her backpack tightly.

The medicine inside was all found by the old lady in the shop. She had originally intended to relieve her hunger with the pills but almost lost half her life.

Knowing that Xiao Chuxia was looking for medicine, she gave it to her without expecting anything in return.

Jiang Fei did not speak, pretending to rummage through her backpack, but in reality, she took out two packs of chocolate from the Supermarket and handed them to Xiao Chuxia.

Xiao Hua Lao was soft-hearted.

If Jiang Fei didn't let her do something for the old lady, she would probably be unhappy.

Jiang Fei was actually unfazed by the old people's plight.

Similar things happened too many times in her previous life.

Parents sold their flesh and blood for a mouthful of food.

Once loving couples turned on each other with knives, only wanting each other's flesh to fill their stomachs.

What was more terrifying than the apocalypse was the ugliest side of human nature.

As Jiang Fei expected, after Xiao Chuxia returned from giving the chocolate to the old lady, her eyes were curved in a smile.

"Miss, let's go."

"Okay."

Jiang Fei and the other three left the Comprehensive Market through another exit.

There were more shops outside this exit, and presumably many survivors, as coughing sounds were almost continuous.

Some survivors noticed Jiang Fei's team walking on the ice, envying their down jackets, but they were unwell and lacked strength, so they could only watch with envy and jealousy.

Jiang Fei pulled her warm mask tighter, quickened her pace, and didn't forget to remind Xiao Chuxia and the others: "No matter what happens, do not take off your masks."

"I brought alcohol. When we get to Yulan Garden, we will disinfect ourselves before entering the unit building. These people might have an infectious disease."

If it was just the flu, it would be fine, but she feared it was the virus from her previous life appearing early.

Jiang Fei clearly remembered how many lives that virus had claimed.

In just one night, the death toll reached 240,000.

Humanity had made too few preparations; she hoped the virus wouldn't appear early.

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Returning to Yulan Garden, Jiang Fei and the others disinfected their clothes and walked into Building A, where they saw a mess on the ground.

Several charcoal stoves had overturned, spilling ashes, and the warm quilts were covered with messy black footprints.

The supply point originally established by the community at 0301 was now completely empty, with only Lin Bo's body lying in a pool of blood.

Jiang Fei pulled out a short knife and continued upstairs when suddenly a basin of coal ash was thrown.

Even though Jiang Fei and the other three immediately dodged, their hair and clothes were still stained with some.

"Get out of Building A! Otherwise, I'll chop you to death!" Feng Chenlu's voice trembled as she desperately clutched a rusty cleaver she had picked up from somewhere.

When she clearly saw Jiang Fei's face, Feng Chenlu frantically dropped the knife: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I thought it was those bandits again..."

Jiang Fei wiped the coal ash from her face: "What bandits?"

At the mention of this, Feng Chenlu showed fear: "Just now, a group of armed people broke in, saying they wanted to collect protection fees. They completely disregarded our resistance and looted things everywhere. During the chaos, someone fired a gun and killed Lin Bo, and then they left."

The people hiding in their rooms came out one after another upon hearing the conversation, accusing them one after another.

"They're simply not human! They stole my coal, and they also stole half a month's worth of biscuits I had saved!"

"My cotton clothes were also stripped off and stolen by them! They didn't even leave me a pair of socks!"

"They even tried to kidnap women! If it weren't for someone dying, my sister would have been taken away!"

"Jiang Fei, why did you go out?!" The person who shouted this was crying.

Although Jiang Fengzi was scary, she had never stolen anything from them.

If Jiang Fengzi had been here, those people would definitely not have dared to be so arrogant!

The residents of Building A did not realize that while they feared and envied Jiang Fei, they had come to see her as their leader.

After all, the strength of the 22nd floor was obvious to all, and the pursuit of strength was the instinct of all living beings.

Feng Chenlu calmed down and said to Jiang Fei: "That group of people also went to the 22nd floor. You should go up quickly and see if the door has been damaged. We've been hiding on the 5th floor, afraid to move."

"I'm going to the Patrol Team now; maybe we can catch the Tiger Suppression Gang!"

Jiang Fei grabbed Feng Chenlu's hand: "These people are from the Tiger Suppression Gang?"

Feng Chenlu nodded: "They even said they weren't afraid of retaliation, and if we had the guts, we should go find them, acting as arrogant as could be."

Jiang Fei released Feng Chenlu and went up to the 21st floor with Lu Yu and the others.

Unexpectedly, the electric gate on the 21st floor was wide open and showed no signs of damage.

The door to 2101 was closed, but the doors to 2102 and 2103 were smashed.

Old Mrs. Xu was curled up by the shoe cabinet, her home ransacked, and her forehead was broken and bleeding.

Jiang Fei immediately took out a first-aid kit from her backpack, asked Xiao Chuxia to bandage Old Mrs. Xu, and then went to 2103 first.

The furniture was chopped to pieces, and all supplies had disappeared.

The electric gate on the 22nd floor was intact, presumably because the Tiger Suppression Gang couldn't break it open, so they relieved themselves outside.

There was a large pile of excrement on the steps, smelling foul.

Ling Zhaorui was so angry that he cursed for the first time: "Damn it! Are these people fucking animals?!"

Lu Yu also uncharacteristically darkened his face: "They must have split into two groups; one group followed us to act, and the other came to Yulan Garden to loot supplies."

Just then, a sound came from the 21st floor.

"If you have the guts to let people in! If you have the guts, open the door!"

Xiao Chuxia frantically pounded on the door of 2101, barely concealing her anger.

Seeing Jiang Fei and the other two come down, Xiao Chuxia immediately complained: "Miss, Grandma Xu told me that the 21st floor wouldn't have been in trouble, but the Xiao Zhou and his wife opened the door and let the Tiger Suppression Gang in!"

Jiang Fei's eyes turned cold. She turned and went to 2103, and using the cover of the bed, she took out a chainsaw. After asking Xiao Chuxia to stand aside, she sawed at the door of 2101.

The wooden door was quickly cut open, revealing the wardrobe blocking it from behind.

Jiang Fei kicked it open forcefully.

The Xiao Zhou and his wife were so frightened they wanted to hide in the bedroom but were blocked by the suddenly swinging chainsaw.

The two instantly went weak in the knees and slid to the ground.

"Don't, don't kill us! We were starving too, and wanted to trade some food with the Tiger Suppression Gang, but they didn't give us anything!"

"Nonsense!" Old Mrs. Xu walked over, trembling, and glared at the Xiao Zhou and his wife:

"You wanted to get revenge on Little Jiang and me! That's why you opened the electric gate!"

"Later, you asked the Tiger Suppression Gang for favors, but they completely ignored you! You were afraid Little Jiang would come back to settle accounts with you, so you hid in your home, pretending to be dead!"

The Xiao Zhou and his wife still wanted to argue, but suddenly they met the rapidly rotating chainsaw chain.

"You have half an hour to clean up the trash outside the 22nd floor."

Thinking Jiang Fei was going to let them go, the Xiao Zhou and his wife quickly went to do as they were told.

Meanwhile, Jiang Fei and Xiao Chuxia and the others cleaned up the mess in Old Mrs. Xu's home.

Since the door had a broken gap and there was no replacement, Lu Yu found two iron plates and installed them on Old Mrs. Xu's door, blocking the gap.

Old Mrs. Xu was very embarrassed: "Little Jiang, Xiao Yatou, you've gone to a lot of trouble for me. I don't have anything good left here, just some candy. If you don't mind, take it back and eat it."

Old Mrs. Xu pulled out the shortbread candy from her pocket that hadn't been stolen.

Jiang Fei silently took it.

As soon as the Xiao Zhou and his wife finished cleaning the electric gate and steps of the 22nd floor, Jiang Fei immediately returned to 2202, carried down box after box of supplies, and brought them into Old Mrs. Xu's home.

There were warm items, fruits, instant food, mineral water, and milk, which were more than or at least equal to Old Mrs. Xu's lost supplies, and even better.

"Grandma Xu, please take these."

"Actually, these people came for me."

Jiang Fei lowered her head, like a child who had done something wrong, her fingers slightly clutching the hem of her clothes.

Old Mrs. Xu was startled.

After a moment, she took Jiang Fei's hand, didn't ask about anything else, and just said: "Grandma doesn't blame you, you're a good child, they were just bad to begin with."

If those people had only come for revenge, to retaliate against Little Jiang, why harm the innocent?

Old Mrs. Xu could distinguish right from wrong.

"Grandma Xu, go home and rest. Don't come out no matter what you hear in a bit."

Seemingly guessing what Jiang Fei was about to do, Old Mrs. Xu hesitated to speak but remained silent and closed the door.

Everyone must be responsible for their own actions.

Jiang Fei carried the chainsaw and went to 2101.

The Xiao Zhou and his wife hadn't even caught their breath when they saw Jiang Fei burst in and retreated in fear.

"We did everything you told us to do, what else do you want to do... Ah!!!"