Chapter 17 p2
When the old man heard this, he was a little disappointed and even wanted to give up. “Forget it, she’s probably busy…”
Li Yi also nodded quickly, starting to feel a little annoyed with herself for being a busybody.
Although she believed this was a sign of the apocalypse, her thinking was still stuck in the past. So, when she heard an old man knocking on the door, she came out to see if she could help.
The dog in Ji Yang’s house was barking so loudly, she must have heard it, but she didn’t want to bother.
That’s right, as a girl living alone, she shouldn’t be like this.
But the old man wanted to leave, but the child didn’t. He sat down on the ground and threw a tantrum. “No, no! I want to eat hot pot, wuwuwu, Grandpa, I haven’t had hot pot in so long…”
The old man’s heart immediately ached. “Alright, alright, let’s knock again. Grandpa will get it for you!”
He didn’t care about anything else and knocked on the door hard again.
Li Yi: …
Her scalp tingled. So that was why!
She had been a busybody!
Just then, apart from the dog’s barking, there was finally a sound from inside the door.
The old man and the little boy looked at the door with anticipation.
As the door slowly opened, a young girl in her early twenties appeared in the sight of the three of them. The old man thought to himself, It’s settled!
The little boy’s eyes also lit up, and he called out sweetly, “Sister, sister, your hot pot smells so good…”
Especially as the door opened, the warm air, accompanied by the fragrance, made even Li Yi, whose family was not short of food, feel a little dazed. At that time, she had ordered to buy whatever she saw. Later, when the army helped transport supplies, she also bought frantically. It was winter, so she wasn’t afraid of things going bad. Her grandparents didn’t like to eat it, her parents didn’t eat much, so it was just her. She hadn’t been harsh on herself.
But at this moment, the fragrance still made her a little dazed.
However, when she saw Ji Yang’s already cold and beautiful face now covered with a layer of frost, she quickly came to her senses.
The beauty was good-looking, and the hot pot was fragrant, but she always felt scared.
She took a step back.
But the grandfather and grandson didn’t notice. They just thought that since it was a young girl, she would be easy to handle, and they wished they could get right in her face.
“Oh? It smells good? You want to eat it?” Ji Yang raised an eyebrow.
“Yes!” the little boy immediately nodded vigorously. “Thank you, sister.”
Ji Yang: “You’re welcome. Just keep thinking about it.”
After she finished speaking, the enthusiastic smiles that had just appeared on the grandfather and grandson’s faces froze.
What?
What did this girl say?
A few seconds later, they reacted, and the old man put on a stern face and began to lecture her. “How can you talk like that, girl? Is that how your parents taught you?”
Ji Yang sneered and said coldly, “Who the hell are you to think you can educate me on their behalf? Get lost!”
“You—” The old man’s face turned red, and the hand pointing at Ji Yang’s nose was trembling. He said angrily, “You have no manners, you—”
But the next moment, a stick appeared in Ji Yang’s left hand out of nowhere, and she swung it hard at his hand.
With a “thwack.”
The old man had come out in a hurry and wasn’t wearing gloves. In the middle of winter, his hands were already aching from the cold. This hit was solid, and the pain turned his face pale, as if his hand had been knocked off.
“Ah!” he cried out, clutching his hand.
“Bad sister, you hit someone!” the boy was also scared and hid behind his grandfather, shouting at the top of his lungs.
Ji Yang smiled faintly. Her cold and detached face did not soften at all, and even gained a hint of chilling coldness. Her right hand, which had been behind her back, appeared, holding a Tang sword that exuded a biting cold wind. The tip of the sword pointed directly at the grandfather and grandson, and her voice was as cold as the wind outside. “I don’t just hit people, I can also chop people. Want to try?”
“Waaaaah—” A burst of crying appeared in the corridor.
The little boy opened his mouth and cried so hard that the little uvula in his throat was visible.
Xixi, who had been guarding Ji Yang’s feet with a fierce but childish demeanor, was also startled and took half a step back, then took another step forward, baring its teeth, just waiting for its master’s command to pounce!
The old man also panicked. His old face trembled, and he protected his grandson and took two steps back. “Calm down! It’s against the law to kill people!”
Ji Yang scoffed, her gaze sweeping over the grandfather and grandson with deep meaning. Finally, she looked at the dumbfounded Li Yi and said in a low voice, “If you want to eat something, go find it yourself. Don’t come to me with your ideas. I have manic depression. A mentally ill person killing someone is not against the law!”
After she finished speaking, she closed the door.
With a “bang,” Li Yi came to her senses, her heart pounding.
She had never seen someone draw a knife in her life.
And it was so real. She really had the feeling that Ji Yang was going to chop them, and she even seemed to smell blood in her nose. As for the fragrance of the hot pot just now, it was all gone.
The old man also breathed a sigh of relief, feeling like he had come back to life. Realizing what had just happened, he was immediately furious.
This damn girl looked so young, how could she be so scary? Could she have been in a gang before?
What manic depression, he didn’t believe it.
After the snow disaster is over, he must go and report her!
The old man thought angrily, pulling his grandson with one hand and touching his own face with the other. In just a short while, he was about to freeze. He had come up here to suffer for nothing.
Wait!
He suddenly thought of something and looked at Li Yi, who was about to leave. “What’s your name, little girl? Thank you for your help just now.”
Li Yi froze and said drily, “It’s nothing, it’s nothing. That… my name is Li Yi, the ‘yi’ from ‘jinliang’.”
“Oh, oh, good name! It sounds like the same as an emperor, right?” the old man said enthusiastically. “No wonder you’re so pretty. By the way, my grandson hasn’t been able to eat much lately. He dreams of eating something with flavor. Little girl…”
Li Yi: …
After a round of praise, her toes were curling, and her thinking had slowed down. By the time she came to her senses, she had already reluctantly given away a row of Wahaha milk and a whole bag of hot pot base in exchange for a few enthusiastic compliments.
She looked at her parents and grandparents in embarrassment.
The four elders looked at her and finally sighed.
Grandma Li: “Forget it, it’s good for the child to learn a lesson.”
“It’s okay, it’s okay, we still have some at home,” Mrs. Li comforted.
Mr. Li silently took out a new bag of hot pot base. “Why don’t we have hot pot tonight too? We still have some frozen vegetables. Everyone can have a taste.”
“Okay!” Grandpa Li said with a smile. “Darling, come and have some hot pot.”
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Ji Yang defeated the enemy in one move, and after that, it was quiet.
The grandfather and grandson never dared to knock on her door again. Ji Yang thought that was the end of it, but one time when she came down from collecting snow on the rooftop, she heard the grandfather and grandson saying, “Little girl, you are such a good person. Whoever marries you in the future, their ancestral graves must be smoking…” and “Pretty sister, you are so nice! This is for you, I really like this!” and then coaxing the Li family so that they couldn’t even speak up to drive them away.
Just like that, one thing led to another, and by the time they came to their senses, the grandfather and grandson had already taken away a lot of good things.
Ji Yang rarely encountered something so interesting. She didn’t appear to ruin the atmosphere, but waited in the corridor. The grandfather and grandson went down happily.
The Li family was not so happy.
The five of them looked at each other, and finally, it was Li Yi who said helplessly, “That’s why we’re a family. We don’t know how to refuse people.”
“They said such nice things, how could we refute them?”
“Sigh, that child’s mouth is so sweet, but his hands are so black. He took half of the meatballs we worked so hard to make. Should we not open the door tomorrow?”
“Okay!”
Ji Yang: …
She felt that it was impossible for this family to really not open the door.
The grandfather and grandson were really annoying. She had also been provoked at the time, which was why she had opened the door. The Li family was a bit thin-skinned. If the other party pestered them a little more, they would probably have to open the door in three minutes at most.
Thinking of this, Ji Yang didn’t dare to listen anymore. It was not good for her breasts.
The medical conditions in the apocalyptic world were not good. If it were a zombie apocalypse, there might be abilities, and a healing ability could directly treat illnesses.
It was hard to say which was worse.
Anyway, Ji Yang felt that she was worse off in the disaster apocalypse.
She opened the door and went home. After playing in the snow for half a day, the fur on the outside was wet. She consciously ran to the fireplace to warm herself. Ji Yang also sat down and slowly took off her clothes.
She was grateful that she had thought of the fireplace back then. This thing was really a lifesaver!
Two fireplaces, plus two heaters. At a temperature of minus sixty degrees, the air conditioner was long unusable, but just these things kept the temperature in her room steadily above ten degrees even when it was minus sixty degrees outside.
Ten degrees still seemed quite cold, but after enduring the extreme cold for so long, the human body had already developed a certain resistance to the cold. The temperature difference between inside and outside was also huge, so ten degrees was already very warm.
According to her current physical condition, she could basically wear a single layer of clothing.
After all, Ji Yang had been taking Xixi out to adapt to the weather, and at the same time, she was also adapting. Before, after more than an hour, she would be so cold she couldn’t stand it and needed to replenish some heat. Now, she could easily last for two or three hours.
In this happy and busy life, almost five months of the snow disaster had passed without her noticing. The few hens had also started to lay eggs one after another. The most she had collected in one day was six.
During this period, there were two more blizzards and one tornado. However, because the snow was too thick, the tornado didn’t manage to pick up much this time, but another group of people were swept away because they didn’t go out in time.
While observing the tornado, Ji Yang saw some of the people who were swept away through her binoculars.
From then on, the people in the community were even more reluctant to go out, except for those who had no food or firewood at home.
The main reason was that during this period, the government officials had appeared once.
Just when everyone thought they could relax for a while, they found that the government was no longer appearing with a whole convoy like last time. There were only two trucks, and the supplies were directly divided among the twelve buildings, so that each person in the building could only get about two to three days’ worth of food.
If they ate sparingly, it was barely enough for a week.
So, the distribution of supplies was much faster this time. When Ji Yang went down to get her supplies, many eyes were focused on her. Of course, in public, no one did anything.
This little bit of stuff was not enough for long, so they still had to form groups to go out. And the number of people gathering together was increasing, from a dozen at the beginning to a large group later.
Ji Yang could roughly tell the situation outside through their team formation methods.
After five months without legal constraints, surveillance, or internet, and a shortage of law enforcement personnel like the police, the world had begun to become chaotic.
Once you were alone, you were likely to lose both your life and your property. Teaming up was the general trend.
In her previous life, Ji Yang had also teamed up every time she went out. But even so, because there were many girls in their team, they often encountered robbers.
However… it was quite satisfying to be a black-eats-black.
You didn’t have to collect supplies yourself. A counter-kill could make you rich.
Returning to this life, under such circumstances, the entire Jiafu Community seemed very quiet.
This let people know that the people inside must have hoarded a lot of food.
For example, at this moment.
Ji Yang had just finished lunch on the balcony and was about to clean up when she saw a large group of people flocking towards the community, and soon they entered a building.
In her previous life, Ji Yang had later gone to the base and learned many things. Densely populated areas were the first to become chaotic. Not everyone was as lucky as Jiafu Community, with a large supermarket nearby and military supplies being delivered for easy procurement.
And the population here was not large, so with a little effort, they could get a lot.
But the city center was the exact opposite. A community could have thousands or even tens of thousands of people. Large supermarkets were located according to commercial districts, so it was impossible to win the scramble!
Being able to last for two or three months was already the limit for a large portion of people.
After that, even if the government appeared, it could no longer control the situation. Once they were in a place that the government couldn’t manage, chaos was certain.
Ji Yang put down the dishes she was cleaning and stared intently at the situation outside. In fact, her angle could no longer see what was happening in Building 1.
But the community was quiet. Soon, through the open balcony window, she heard panicked screams and cries for help.
There was no mistake, it was a group of thugs who had come to rob.
Ji Yang’s expression turned cold.
In her previous life, she had seen too many such scenes, but at that time, she was powerless and could only pretend not to see. Later, she gradually became numb.
When a society ruled by law becomes a law of the jungle, the weak are prey to the strong. If you can’t beat others, you get robbed.
But Ji Yang had never done such a thing. She had her bottom line, and she was lucky enough not to have reached a desperate situation. Now, seeing this scene again, she suddenly had the feeling that she had completely returned to the apocalypse.
The previous peace had always made her feel a little dazed, not quite real.
Perhaps because she was used to living on the edge in her previous life, the rare harmony felt wrong.
Ji Yang took a deep breath and sat on the balcony for a while longer. Feeling that it was about time, she got up and put on the clothes that were scattered on the sofa one by one. Soon, she put on her hat. She beckoned to Xixi. “Come on, let’s go out and play.”
“Woof woof!” Xixi immediately responded enthusiastically when it heard the word “play.”
Ji Yang smiled. Her smile was hidden by her scarf, and only a pair of beautiful eyes could be seen curving.
She opened the door and went out, but she didn’t go downstairs. Instead, she went all the way up to the rooftop. She was in Unit 1 of Building 9, but she was in 1502, and her view was mostly blocked by Building 5 in front. To see the situation in Building 1 clearly, she had to go to the very edge of the rooftop.
The cold wind was biting, and the snowflakes beat against her face the moment she appeared.
But Ji Yang felt a fire in her body. Her heartbeat, much more intense than usual, made her excited.
She let Xixi go and play on its own. She sat down on a pile of snow, and with a flip of her palm, an exquisitely made pistol appeared in her hand. She leisurely attached a silencer to it.
Five minutes later, a group of people came out, full of themselves, carrying several large bags of supplies. It was not clear what they were, but they had certainly stolen someone else’s life-saving food.
They didn’t leave, but instead headed towards Building 2.
Ji Yang didn’t expect them to be so greedy. She also changed her position. The first few people had already walked to a blocked area, but fortunately, the group carrying the supplies was following behind two people who looked like the leaders, and they were exposed in her field of vision.
Now is the time!
Ji Yang’s heart beat even more violently, but her mind was very calm at this moment. She aimed at the target, loaded, and fired, all in one smooth motion.
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