Chapter 21 p1
It all happened very quickly.
Ji Yang heard all of this as soon as she opened the door. With her experience from her past life, she could figure out the general situation almost without thinking. Someone had come to pry open the door, and Jiang Jing’s husband had happened to come back and catch them, beating them up a bit ruthlessly.
Because of this, the person’s family went to Qiao Huijun to seek justice.
As expected, this person happened to be a member of the Extreme Cold Alliance. Otherwise, Qiao Huijun wouldn’t have been so concerned as to twist the truth.
But Jiang Jing adamantly refused to give them supplies. This group of people, perhaps seeing that there were only two of them, swarmed them. It didn’t matter if they didn’t give; they would just take it.
It seemed this group of people had really gotten used to throwing their weight around.
Looking at Xixi, it was anxiously scratching the ground, making a teeth-grinding squeak. Ji Yang couldn’t help but be amused. Did it think Jiang Jing was one of our own just because I gave her things twice?
That’s right. In the animal world, you definitely wouldn’t give things to someone who wasn’t one of your own.
But because Ji Yang didn’t go down immediately, Xixi’s anxious mind began to hesitate. Then, it stopped scratching, tilted its head, and looked at her with a bewildered expression.
Finally, as if it had figured it out on its own, it decided that the unlucky person wasn’t a teammate and turned to go back into the house.
Ji Yang was amused. “Alright, I’ll go down and take a look.”
As soon as she moved, Xixi immediately followed happily. But as they approached the floor where the commotion was, Xixi’s expression gradually became serious.
Originally, it was a messy scene of arguments and quarrels.
Until Ji Yang smelled a hint of blood.
Jiang Jing screamed, “Husband!”
“Ah!” another person exclaimed, “Brother Xu, you killed someone! You killed someone—”
“Shut up! Whoever says that again, I’ll kill them!” a cold shout, and the previous clamor immediately disappeared, leaving only Jiang Jing’s wails, “Husband! You killed my husband… wuwuwu…”
The person called Brother Xu seemed to have been stunned for a long time and didn’t say anything. But just as Ji Yang arrived at the eleventh floor, Jiang Jing also came to her senses and pounced on him.
But the other party was a man, and Jiang Jing was a woman who hadn’t exercised much and had given birth less than a year ago. In her haste, she didn’t have a weapon. As soon as she got close, she was kicked away by the other party.
Jiang Jing fell to the ground, curled up in pain, unable to make a sound.
Her husband was right beside her, with a large hole in his head, his face pale and lifeless.
The man called Brother Xu also came to his senses because of this, a fierce look on his face. “So what if I killed him? Do you think you can avenge your husband?”
Jiang Jing clenched her fists in hatred, but she really couldn’t beat the other party.
Brother Xu snorted coldly. Seeing that she didn’t say anything, he smiled smugly. “In that case, everything your husband had is my spoils of war. Little Liu, take some people and search for all the supplies. We’ll split them. I’ll take this woman. What do you think, Brother Qiao?”
Qiao Huijun was also scared and hadn’t come to his senses. When he did, he heard this sentence, and his face twitched. This Brother Xu was the vice president of the alliance, and he was very ruthless. His status was faintly surpassing his.
He smiled. “Of course, that’s great. We can’t let our alliance members be bullied for nothing, right?”
The others, seeing this, immediately swarmed forward.
The sudden commotion startled the sleeping child inside the house, who immediately started crying.
Jiang Jing abruptly got up and wanted to go in, but she was thrown out by two people. “Get out! These are our spoils of war.”
She almost gritted her silver teeth to pieces. In her despair, she caught a glimpse of a familiar figure appearing at the stairwell.
A glimmer of light flashed in Jiang Jing’s eyes, but it quickly dimmed again.
She was surrounded by butchers. How could she dare to hope that someone would come to save her?
Ji Yang was indeed not here to be a god of war. If she saved her in this situation, what about after? She could protect her for a while, but not for a lifetime. But for Xixi’s sake, she wouldn’t do nothing.
Just as their eyes met, she mouthed silently, “Come here.”
At this moment, everyone was immersed in the excitement of free supplies and didn’t notice the abnormality at the stairwell. Jiang Jing’s heart stirred, and she didn’t care about anything else. She quickly got up and went over.
Qiao Huijun and the others thought she was going to come over and fight them again and were about to sneer and make a move.
But they saw her go directly to the stairwell.
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A few people turned their heads and saw Ji Yang. Qiao Huijun’s pupils shrank, and he subconsciously took two steps back. Brother Xu’s eyes did indeed light up. It had been so long since the disaster, and he hadn’t seen such a beautiful girl!
The next second, he saw Ji Yang hand a Tang sword to Jiang Jing.
Jiang Jing was stunned.
Ji Yang said with a smile, “Take it. Kill as many as you can. At a time like this, you wouldn’t still be afraid, would you?”
Jiang Jing subconsciously took it, but her mind was shaken by these words. Kill as many as you can… Is that really okay?
She looked up and saw Ji Yang’s calm expression.
It was as if she were talking about killing a chicken.
Logically, Jiang Jing felt that this was very scary, but the next second, her body trembled, and an unprecedented sense of excitement spread throughout her body. She turned to look at Brother Xu and the others.
Just as her daughter was crying, the people who had gone to search for supplies were also coming out with a lot of things. There were the various rice, flour, grains, and oils that she and her husband had hoarded, the sanitary napkins and milk powder that she had just exchanged with Ji Yang, the firewood they had found…
This group of people had no intention of leaving her and her daughter a way out.
They deserved to be killed!
“I’ll fight you!” Jiang Jing shouted, gripping the Tang sword and charging forward.
In that moment, her mind was a blank. She only wanted revenge, only wanted to kill them all.
Why were these people so arrogant after killing someone?
Why was it that when the person who did something wrong was beaten, the victim had to compensate with supplies?!
Why was it that they just wanted to live a good life, but there were always people who wouldn’t let them go!!!
Brother Xu and the others’ expressions also changed drastically. They didn’t have such good weapons. The blade looked extremely sharp, and they were all scared and retreated to avoid its edge.
But they were right at Jiang Jing’s door.
This retreat led them directly into the house.
Jiang Jing charged in with her sword, hacking at anyone she saw. She didn’t care who it was. Anyway, they were all bad people and deserved to die!
“Ah!”
“She’s crazy, she’s crazy, this woman is crazy—”
“I was wrong, I was wrong, let me go, ah!!!”
“Help!”
In the chaos, Qiao Huijun was also slashed. He quickly pulled a brother next to him to block, and the next second, this person’s neck was slit by the long sword.
Brother Xu realized that this couldn’t go on. He abruptly pushed a brother into the path of the sword. Taking this opportunity, he circled around, casually picked up a stick, and was about to hit Jiang Jing.
Suddenly, there was a “pfft” sound from his neck.
It was as if something had been shot into it.
In an instant, blood splattered everywhere. As the heat quickly drained from his body, he saw the woman at the door, the one he had just been coveting, holding a crossbow and aiming at them.
At a time like this, Ji Yang naturally couldn’t let Jiang Jing die.
So, she had made a move.
As Jiang Jing went berserk, the smell of blood grew stronger. Even Xixi was a little agitated. More than half of the people were either injured or dead. The remaining people were also in a panic. No one dared to fight a madwoman with a sword.
Until one person shouted, “Find the seventeenth floor! He has a gun! This woman is too scary, she needs to be shot!”
Qiao Huijun: “…”
But the others believed him. They hadn’t dared to look for him before because they were afraid of him killing too many people. In this situation, they naturally needed his help. Just as one person found a gap and slipped out, he immediately ran towards the seventeenth floor.
Ji Yang didn’t stop him. When the person, holding his breath, climbed to the seventeenth floor and knocked on the door for the first time, the door automatically opened a crack.
The door wasn’t closed?
He was stunned for a moment, but when he walked in, he saw the messy house and the corpse lying in the master bedroom, obviously dead for a long time.
At this point, without anyone saying anything, he probably knew.
The old man on the seventeenth floor didn’t have a gun at all!
He was on the verge of tears. He came out of the house, shivering. It was freezing cold, and he was injured. The cold was painful. If he didn’t go home to warm up now, he might die.
He could only take a deep breath and continue to run downstairs.
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However, Jiang Jing was already exhausted. She had been holding on with a wave of hatred. When these people were either dead, injured, or had run away, her hatred seemed to have been vented, and she collapsed on the ground.
But the remaining people who still had some strength were scared out of their wits. Seeing that she was no longer hacking at people, they all scrambled to run away, not daring to resist at all, leaving behind a floor of corpses that couldn’t run.
Jiang Jing stared at all of this blankly. She turned her head, as if looking for something.
But her husband’s body was also mixed in with the blood of this group of people, and for a moment, she couldn’t tell which one it was.
She wanted to get up and find her husband, but she couldn’t. She sat back down weakly. The crying of her daughter in the room had stopped at some point.
She was probably tired of crying. Seeing that no one was coaxing her, she stopped crying.
Jiang Jing wiped her tears and looked at Ji Yang, who was still at the door, with a pitiful expression. When she spoke, her voice was hoarse and full of vicissitudes. “Why did this world suddenly become so scary?”
Ji Yang pursed her lips, unable to say anything.
She didn’t want this either. Even with her space, even with hundreds of millions in supplies, she still hoped that the apocalypse would not come. It didn’t matter if all her money went down the drain.
Jiang Jing knew that it was useless to ask. She was just emotional. Seeing that she didn’t say anything, her feverish mind calmed down a little, and she slowly propped herself up. “Thank you for the sword. I’ll give it back to you.”
Ji Yang: “It’s yours.”
Jiang Jing wanted to refuse, but she opened her mouth and gave up. In her current situation, without a weapon, she would be immediately torn apart by those wolves.
She said seriously, “Thank you. I will live a good life. In the future, if I find any jadeite, I will give it all to you, without exchanging for anything.”
Ji Yang didn’t say anything and turned to leave.
Jiang Jing took a deep breath, and all she inhaled was the smell of blood. She frowned, first went back into the house to check on her daughter, and after confirming that she was in good condition, just a little tired from crying, she added some firewood to the house and then began to clean up the battlefield.
Since she didn’t want to die, she would live a good life.
She couldn’t let down someone’s kindness.
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Downstairs
The person who had run to the seventeenth floor and then scrambled back down also told them about the situation on the seventeenth floor.
This time, the alliance had suffered heavy losses. They gritted their teeth in hatred towards the eleventh floor. They had never expected her to be a madwoman, and with a sword from the fifteenth floor, she had become a god of death.
She must be killed by the big shot on the seventeenth floor!
Otherwise, how could there be peace in the building?
A group of injured people, scared out of their wits, and people whose family members had been killed all gathered in Qiao Huijun’s house, warming themselves and talking.
Only Qiao Huijun had a strange expression, wanting to say something but hesitating.
Just then, the person ran over and, after explaining the situation, everyone was stunned.
Dead?
The big shot with the gun is dead?
The quick-witted ones immediately wanted to rush out. If the person was dead, the gun must still be there!
But the next second, Qiao Huijun shouted, “Stop!”
The crowd stopped. “Brother Qiao, what’s wrong now?!”
Qiao Huijun sighed. “I didn’t want to say it because I was afraid of causing a panic, but the old man on the seventeenth floor has been dead for a long time.”
“!”
“What?!”
“Brother Qiao, what’s going on?”
Some people thought too much. “Brother Qiao, is the gun in your hands? Take it out quickly and kill those two women!”
Qiao Huijun: …
He smiled bitterly. “It’s not. If it were in my hands, I wouldn’t have been slashed just now. I guess the one with the gun is not the seventeenth floor.”
“Then how were those two from the sixth floor shot?” someone asked, confused.
Some people’s faces were already gradually becoming terrified.
Qiao Huijun confirmed their guess. “If there are no accidents, the gun is on the woman on the fifteenth floor.”
The few of them panicked, at a loss. Someone’s legs went weak and they slid off their chair. Someone shivered, touched their wound, and grimaced in pain.
Some people started to shout, “We’re done for now. We’ve completely offended her. Will we be silenced?”
“Brother Qiao, quickly think of a way. No wonder this woman dared to be so arrogant. It turns out she has a gun!!”
“Why don’t we move? To the next building?”
“I think we should report her. Our Xia Country has a ban on guns. How could she have gotten a gun? She must be in the underworld. I heard that there’s an urgent need for coal miners now. All those who have committed crimes have been taken to mine coal!”
“Are you sure we can stay alive before that?”
The few of them immediately shivered and looked at Qiao Huijun again. “Brother Qiao, say something!”
Only then did Qiao Huijun speak slowly, “I think everyone’s suggestions are good, but… the gun is in her hands. You’ve also seen that the fifteenth floor kills people like killing chickens. If she finds out we reported her, the government will definitely not come to check immediately. During this period, our lives and the lives of our families cannot be guaranteed. So… I have an idea—”
The crowd was full of anticipation. “What, what?”
Qiao Huijun’s eyes narrowed, and he said sternly, “Let’s make this gun ours! Then what happened today will never happen again! What do you think?”
Wow!
Everyone subconsciously resisted, but soon, they realized what this meant, and their breathing became heavy again.
Soon, someone responded, “Okay! We’ll listen to Brother Qiao! Why don’t we hold the woman on the eleventh floor hostage and threaten her?”
Qiao Huijun rolled his eyes. “Do you think her gun is faster or your knife is faster? And what makes you think she would give up her gun for the eleventh floor?”
The person immediately scratched his head in embarrassment.
Qiao Huijun said, “I’ve already thought of a way. Actually, the fastest way is to restrain her before she can draw her gun. After all, a gun can’t be held openly. She must be hiding it on her body. As long as we are fast enough, there will be no problem. But she didn’t go out before, so it was a bit difficult to implement. Fortunately, she’s going out now…”
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The Next Day
Ji Yang woke up happily.
The main reason was that there was new jade coming in today!
I wonder if I can expand it by a few hundred square meters at once?
Ji Yang was particularly looking forward to it. But if the quality of the jade given by Luo Laosan was not good, then she wouldn’t trade next time. If it really didn’t work, she would take the time to go to the Southern Province, near Myanmar, which also produced jade.
Since she was going out, Ji Yang had spicy soup, fried dough sticks, and a meat bun for breakfast. After her body was warm, she went to the natural freezer.
These fruits had been frozen all night and were already hard. Ji Yang stored them all in her space, directly packed them in burlap sacks in the space, and tied them together.
It looked like a lot, but it was actually only three burlap sacks.
However, burlap sacks were also becoming scarcer and scarcer. Ji Yang reminded herself that when she traded the fruit, she had to bring the burlap sacks back.
Xixi already knew very well that she was going out. It immediately followed behind her and even took the initiative to pick up the leash that was at the entrance.