Chapter 22 p1
A smoke bomb with some added irritants was thrown down, and the ambushers instantly erupted in chaos. Their eyes were squeezed shut, unable to see anything, and they were scared to death. They subconsciously thought it was a grenade.
And the people who were also ambushing downstairs, after estimating that Ji Yang should have reached the ambush point, immediately rushed up, trying to attack from both sides. “Kill! Kill this woman, and the gun is ours!”
Qiao Huijun led the way, his face still filled with the ecstasy of about to possess a gun.
However, the next second, he was stunned by the scene he saw when he appeared at the corner of the stairs.
Before he could react, something also appeared at his feet. Then, a thick cloud of smoke rushed straight at his face, making him instinctively close his eyes. “Ah! My eyes—”
Ji Yang put on a gas mask and appeared in front of them so brazenly.
Smoke bombs, not being major weapons of destruction, were something she had hoarded by the box. She didn’t feel the slightest bit of heartache using them. It was just that she hadn’t expected there to be so many people. Worried that she wouldn’t be able to kill them all and leave behind a hidden danger, she had switched her gun for a crossbow. She aimed at the people who had just climbed up. In the blink of an eye, arrows flew straight towards them.
Unlike gunshots, which would still make a little noise even with a silencer, the crossbow pierced through the defense of their clothes and into their bodies with a clean sound. What followed was only a continuous stream of tragic screams:
“My stomach!”
“Ah!”
“Help—”
Then, one after another, figures fell.
Qiao Huijun, after being blinded, immediately wanted to turn and run. But he couldn’t see anything. As soon as he turned, he missed a step on the stairs and stumbled. He hadn’t even had time to fall when an arrow hit him in the back. The pain made him scream his lungs out, “Ah! Help, help—I’m the president of the alliance, save me!!!”
He had never expected that with this level of ambush, Ji Yang could still counterattack so calmly. Where did she get these powerful things?!
And he had far underestimated her danger.
This woman was not just dangerous because she had a gun; she herself was dangerous enough!
He regretted it deeply.
But it was no use.
After his body was injured, his blood flowed out rapidly, and his body temperature dropped accordingly. He was already injured. If it weren’t for his greed for Ji Yang’s gun, thinking that he could only have a chance to get the gun if he killed her himself, he definitely wouldn’t have come. He didn’t expect to be hit in a fatal spot without even a place to hide.
At this time, everyone was struggling to save themselves. Weapons were thrown around, and everyone was thinking of escaping. Where would they have the energy to save others?
Therefore, not only did no one care about him, but they also trampled on his body one after another, quickly injuring him until he was on his last breath.
At the same time, the geographical location of the stairwell meant that they couldn’t run around randomly. With the slightest carelessness, they would roll down the stairs, hit their heads on the stairs, and pass out. Some were directly tripped, fell face down, and were then trampled and smashed by their brothers behind them, passing out.
Some people heard the noise and realized it was over. They quickly fumbled around, wanting to go into the two households on the fourteenth and thirteenth floors to hide. “Help! Open the door, open the door!”
“Let me in!”
However, with their eyes closed, they couldn’t see anything at all and didn’t even know where the main door was.
By the time they finally fumbled to the main door, an arrow was in their forehead.
*
It was almost a one-sided slaughter.
In less than two minutes, in the narrow space and after losing their sight, they couldn’t escape or attack. Ji Yang could even unhurriedly change her arrows time and time again.
Soon, the stairwells of the fourteenth and thirteenth floors were filled with countless dead and injured. The other residents of Building 9, hearing the tragic screams, all shivered.
It was too scary!
This was simply a psychological shadow that could not be cured in a lifetime!
But Ji Yang’s expression was indifferent.
In her previous life, she had seen scenes even more terrifying than this.
Especially since this group of people wanted to kill her.
Ji Yang didn’t plan on letting any of them go. She chased them down from the fourteenth floor to the twelfth floor. Even for those who had passed out, she still had to deliver a final blow to a fatal spot to confirm they were dead.
After the last person was dealt with, she opened a few corridor windows. The cold wind blew through, taking away the thick smoke and irritating smell. When she felt it was about right, she let Xixi out. But as soon as she did, Xixi kept sneezing.
Ji Yang quickly let it go back.
Xixi reluctantly went upstairs.
But Ji Yang didn’t leave immediately. Instead, she knocked on the doors of these two households.
The main doors were tightly closed, and there was no movement. Ji Yang sneered, “If you don’t open the door, I’ll smash it down!”
As soon as her voice fell, there was a noise from inside. Someone was begging for mercy, and someone was admitting their mistake.
But the moment the door opened, a kitchen knife from 1401 flew towards Ji Yang’s face.
Having anticipated this, she dodged to the side, pulled the door open with one hand, and shot with the crossbow in her other hand, hitting the heart of the person who had made the move.
With a “thump,” a man fell.
A couple inside the house immediately knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, “It wasn’t us, it wasn’t us. They were the ones who insisted on using our house to watch and ambush! It’s not our fault!”
“Please let us go!”
Ji Yang ignored them, went in and swept a glance around, and after confirming that there was no second person, she came out directly. She didn’t do anything. The terrified couple looked at each other and finally hugged each other, grateful to have survived again.
They had almost thought they would die with those alliance members.
“Thank goodness, thank goodness we didn’t participate!”
The woman looked relieved.
This morning, this group of people had come to discuss with them immediately after Ji Yang had left. They had used the excuse of being timid and had refused to do it. But they still had to let them use their house to watch.
There was no choice. If they couldn’t beat them, they could only admit defeat.
Fortunately, this girl didn’t have the intention of implicating them.
“Why don’t we… move?” the man hesitated.
Today was really too scary.
Now there was a corpse in the entrance, and a pile of corpses at the door. 1302 had not been chosen. They had been closing their door since this morning and were even less likely to come out to help deal with the corpses now.
But the woman shook her head. “No, on the contrary, we can’t move away at this time!”
“The fifteenth floor killed so many people from the alliance. The alliance will naturally disband, and the other buildings will definitely not dare to find trouble with this side. We are actually the safest here now.”
She analyzed seriously, “If we go to other places, you’ve also inquired about it during this period. There aren’t many good places to go, and we can’t afford the good places. I think it’s better to stay here.”
The man was convinced and gritted his teeth and nodded. “Okay.”
He looked at the corpse. It was really disgusting to have it piled here. “I’ll go deal with it.”
The woman also got up. After so long, they could already deal with corpses without batting an eye.
—
And on the other side
Ji Yang was indeed going to clean up.
But as soon as she went downstairs, she found that Qiao Huijun’s house on the eighth floor was empty, and the door across from it was tightly closed.
Ji Yang was puzzled and walked straight in. Good grief, the things were in a mess. At a glance, it looked like it had been robbed, but not much had been taken. The food and clothes were all gone.
She looked towards the balcony.
Sure enough, she saw several running figures, carrying large and small bags on their backs. They had probably taken all their belongings.
But at this moment, they were almost at the community gate.
The distance was already a bit far at this moment, not suitable for shooting.
It wasn’t completely impossible. It would be easy with a sniper rifle, but that would make her too big of a target. The government was still controlling these guns and ammunition. If they knew she had a sniper rifle, she definitely wouldn’t get this kind of treatment. With an ordinary pistol, they might turn a blind eye because they were too busy to spare the manpower and there was no evidence.
Ji Yang gave up with regret.
It was estimated that Qiao Huijun had made two-handed preparations, letting his family run away as soon as they realized they were no match. It had to be said that he was worthy of being the one who had created the Extreme Cold Alliance. His mind was flexible.
However, Qiao Huijun himself, Ji Yang had just seen him in the pile of corpses.
He probably hadn’t expected to die before he could even escape.
Since the culprit was dead, it was fine if the rest of them ran away. Ji Yang turned and went out. She didn’t know the others who had ambushed her, so she simply went back. But before she went back, she had to retrieve her arrows.
These things couldn’t be produced in a short period of time. Each one used was one less. It was better to save them if she could.
But when she reached the fourteenth floor, she saw the couple from the fourteenth floor moving the corpses and throwing them out the corridor window. When they saw her come back, the two of them were stunned for a moment. The woman quickly realized something and said, “That… I’ve pulled out all the arrows. Do you still want them?”
“Thank you,” Ji Yang said politely and even took out two potatoes from her bag and gave them to them.
It was a reward.
The couple: “…”
Suddenly, they felt that this big shot was not so cold-blooded and scary.
*
When she returned to the fifteenth floor, Xixi was already waiting, so bored that it was lying on the ground, its eyes watery.
“We’re home!” Ji Yang rubbed its dog head, opened the door, and went in. Xixi immediately brought its dog bowl over. “Woof!”
Ji Yang understood and put a basin of meat in it. “Eat.”
Xixi gobbled it down. Ji Yang also changed out of her heavy equipment and added firewood to the already almost extinguished fireplace. Seeing the embers burn the wood chips, she stopped and took out her large electric pot.
She had said she would eat iron pot stewed goose, so she couldn’t break her promise.
The goose was fragrant, so fragrant that Xixi didn’t even want to eat the bland meat in its own bowl. It ran to its owner and drooled, looking at her with pitiful eyes, waiting for the moment its owner’s heart would soften.
Ji Yang didn’t know whether to laugh or cry and gave it some. She finished the rest herself and even ate half a bowl of rice. Normally, she wouldn’t be able to eat it, but the goose soup was superb with rice, so she forced herself to eat half a bowl more.
*
In the afternoon, the survivors who had gone out to search for supplies and exchange for points returned one after another.
The ambush on the fourteenth floor was widely spread, and wails were heard in the building from time to time, but they quickly disappeared. Most people would admit defeat when they saw the wounds on their relatives’ bodies.
Of course, there were also those who were unwilling to admit defeat and ran to the fifteenth floor to make a scene.
Ji Yang basically broke their legs and threw them down.
In this situation, if they could survive, it was their good fortune. If they couldn’t, then they could only blame themselves for overestimating their abilities and looking for trouble.
Anyway, Tang Fang, the first one whose leg she had broken, had already died quietly at home. The three children had also died. Without an adult to take care of them, they had died of carbon monoxide poisoning while starting a fire for warmth. Tang Fang’s sister-in-law was nowhere to be found.
So, two days later, everyone became like quails.
Those who couldn’t win and were filled with hatred eventually chose to move.
Anyway, there were many dead people now, and many empty houses. They could just find a house to live in.
Of course, most people were still reluctant to leave. For one thing, once they moved, everyone would see how many things they had at home. If they were targeted by someone with ill intentions, it would be absolutely more terrifying than living here.
At the very least, the murderous maniac on the fifteenth floor would not take the initiative to attack others for supplies.
Actually, that was not certain, but for now, it was definitely like this.
For many people, this was already a luxury. In these times, nowhere was safe.
So, it was fine like this.
Ji Yang also felt it was fine.
After a big slaughter, the building was indeed much quieter. Even when she was eating hot pot again, no one dared to come over. The people who came up to get snow all hurried away, and Xixi rarely went to the door.