Chapter 18 p1
Watching the man fall flat, Shen Baoyi’s gloomy gaze swept over the crowd, who were as silent as cicadas in winter. He said in a loud voice, “I’ve said it before, we brothers are sworn to live and die together, we can rely on each other’s backs. These four watched their brothers charge forward while they hid behind and survived. Should they be killed or not?!”
The others shuddered and quickly nodded in agreement, “They should be killed! They should be killed!”
The remaining three, seeing this scene, trembled like chaff in the wind, kowtowing and begging for mercy, “Boss, spare us! We didn’t do it on purpose, we were just a little slow…”
“Boss, spare us. Gang leader, we will go through fire and water for our Black Dragon Gang in the future!”
“Gang leader, spare us—”
“Take them down!” Shen Baoyi watched with cold eyes and waved his hand.
Immediately, specialized personnel came over and took the three of them away.
Seeing the fearful and apprehensive looks on the others’ faces, Shen Baoyi breathed a sigh of relief and said sternly, “It seems Jiafu Community has already been occupied. Since they’re all people of the underworld, we’ll show them some respect and not collect protection fees from Jiafu Community.”
The other lackeys quickly nodded, also relieved, “Right, right! The gang leader is right!”
They didn’t want to go up against a group of people with guns. Who could win against that!
Regardless of what this group was thinking, on the surface, Jiafu Community was tacitly given up, although it was a bit of a painful loss.
Besides, they had already taken control of the surrounding several communities. A little further out, there were others who had already claimed the territory.
Looking at it this way, it seemed they had nothing to do for the time being.
Shen Baoyi frowned. He couldn’t let this group of subordinates eat for free, otherwise, it would be easy for trouble to arise.
So, someone immediately volunteered, “Boss, since that’s the case, the extra idle hands can’t just eat for free, right? Let them guard the entrances of the commercial streets. When they run into people… hehe…”
Shen Baoyi was enlightened and nodded readily, “Done!”
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All sorts of situations were emerging outside.
Jiafu Community also became lively due to this incident.
What happened in Building 1, although the other buildings were extremely quiet, they had all heard it!
Everyone was trembling. Especially in Building 2, they desperately tried to block the door and even thought of ways to fight back. But they waited and waited, and there was no movement at all.
Soon, someone saw the pile of corpses from their window.
Accompanied by several screams, more people noticed. Someone reacted extremely quickly and rushed down immediately. The target, of course, was the bags of supplies next to the corpses.
Some were even more afraid, wishing they could escape to another dimension, vaguely doubting whether this world was real.
Just a few days ago, it seemed they were still going to school and work normally. How did they suddenly fall into hell?
Some were a little slower, but they also quickly realized it. They hurried downstairs and saw that the supplies that had been robbed from their own homes were now being snatched away by others. They immediately shouted in panic, “Those are my family’s supplies! They were robbed from my house!”
Others, while taking the supplies, suddenly caught a glimpse of a large hole in the forehead of a corpse. The cause of death immediately became clear. He exclaimed in horror, “Holy crap, it was a gunshot!”
“What? A gunshot?”
“My god, a gun! There’s a gun in our community? That’s too scary, isn’t it?”
“Are you an idiot? If it weren’t for this gun, we’d all be finished! I wonder which building the big shot is from. It would be great if I could latch onto them!”
As soon as these words were spoken, many people’s hearts skipped a beat. Unfortunately, in a community, even neighbors might not know each other, so they were all very regretful.
The next second, another group of people ran down. Seeing their actions, they all cried out to the heavens, “Damn it, my family’s grain! You inhumane people, they didn’t rob you, why are you running down to take my grain?”
The others, seeing this, quickly grabbed their things and ran.
Leaving the few of them to curse while gathering the last of the scattered supplies.
But the situation was special now. No one would return the supplies even if they were cursed. They wished they could fill their homes to the brim.
In the end, they could only go back with the little they had left, their faces dark.
Those who came late didn’t even get a single thing.
They took out their anger by punching and kicking the corpses in the snow.
In these times, people’s fear of corpses had lessened a lot.
But as night fell, the temperature grew colder, and snowflakes fell, covering the corpses. Everything seemed to have returned to the quiet days of before.
However, that was only how it seemed.
Although the group that collected protection fees was dead, they had come, and they had brought some consequences. At the beginning, everyone might have been afraid of the person who fired the gun and was quiet for two days. On the third night, Ji Yang heard cries for help in the community.
She didn’t know which building or which floor it was.
After this day, people started to cause trouble even in broad daylight.
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As a girl living alone, although not many people had noticed Ji Yang, there were still some, especially since her house always smelled of food.
They didn’t know how many supplies she had, but she definitely wasn’t short of good food.
Finally, on the fourth day, late at night, a burst of barking from Xixi woke her up.
Ji Yang quickly got up and saw Xixi run to the main door. Its head was constantly looking at her, then at the main door, as if it was anxious to jump out.
The person outside the door seemed to have been startled, and the noise suddenly disappeared.
But Xixi was still extremely vigilant, constantly barking, “Woof woof woof!!!”
This meant that the other party hadn’t left yet.
After a while, perhaps they felt that there was no movement inside, either because they didn’t dare to move or because they were fast asleep. Either way, it boosted their confidence to commit the crime.
Soon, the rustling sound of a door being pried open appeared again.
It seemed they wouldn’t give up.
Ji Yang rubbed her face and rewarded Xixi with a piece of meat. The dutiful little dog didn’t even glance at it, focusing on roaring at the bad guy who was lingering.
Ji Yang, on the other hand, quickly put on her clothes. Finally, she put a raincoat over her cold-proof suit to prevent blood from splattering on her and getting her dirty.
After she was fully armed, she waved at Xixi.
Xixi understood and retreated.
The people outside were scratching their heads in frustration. They didn’t notice the sudden stop of the dog’s barking, but instead became agitated because they couldn’t open the door.
“Damn it, what’s wrong with this lock? I can’t open it no matter what I do!”
“Damn it, I heard these women have persecution paranoia. They’re all scared to death and love to mess with these things. I didn’t expect us to run into one…”
“We can’t have come all this way for nothing, right? I’m about to freeze to death! It’s minus sixty degrees!”
“Let’s just smash it,” one of them swung an axe, a sinister smile on his face.
This axe was stolen from another house. It was very convenient for chopping trees, but of course, they wouldn’t go chopping trees. There was plenty of ready-chopped wood waiting for them.
Ever since they had started prying open doors, their lives had become much more comfortable.
With the success of the previous few times, their courage had also grown a lot. A single girl living alone, they had come not just for supplies, so they were fully prepared.
Since they couldn’t pry it open, they would just smash it! They didn’t believe they couldn’t break the lock?!
With that, the person who was prying the door stepped back, and the other person began to raise the axe.
Ji Yang, listening to the noise, found it amusing. Persecution paranoia? Wasn’t this what it was for?
It was to guard against this kind of person.
Only those with thieving intentions would be unhappy to encounter this kind of door.
However, seeing that they were about to chop the door, Ji Yang still took the initiative to open it.
The noise from inside made the two of them pause. The axe didn’t come down. Instead, they looked at each other and smiled lewdly, waiting patiently.
Soon, the inner door opened, and there was also movement from the outer door.
In about a few seconds, the outer door also opened.
The two of them were full of anticipation, planning to give the little girl inside a surprise. But the next moment, before they could see what the person who opened the door looked like, a black muzzle was pointed at them.
Then, two muffled “thumps” sounded in succession.
The expressions on the two of them didn’t even have time to change. Their smiles froze on their faces, and their eyes were filled with terror.
The sharp pain hit them. In the second before death came, their minds were filled with one thought: So the hidden gun-wielding big shot in Jiafu Community was actually a little girl!
If only I had known, I wouldn’t have come!
But there were no “if onlys.”
Life quickly drained away.
The moment the two of them fell to the ground, the sound of a door opening also rang out. The Li family, holding kitchen knives and cleavers, appeared at the door, just in time to see this scene.
Li Yi subconsciously wanted to scream, but she clamped her hand over her mouth, terrified.
Her parents behind her went weak in the knees and almost knelt down.
A gunshot murder!
Oh my god!
They had only thought that they couldn’t let the bad guys be so rampant, and the person across the hall was a little girl, so they had boldly opened the door, not expecting to see this situation.
Will she kill them to silence them?!
For a moment, the family didn’t even dare to close the door and all stared nervously at the person across from them.
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Ji Yang was also stunned for a moment.
She hadn’t expected the Li family to open their door at this time.
However, she had also thought about this kind of situation. Although she didn’t want others to see, there were always accidents. Otherwise, she wouldn’t be so careful when using her space. As long as it wasn’t her own home, not an enclosed space, she couldn’t be at ease.
But it was no big deal even if they saw.
Not to mention that the government was too busy to take care of itself, even if they really came looking for her, without evidence, they couldn’t just rely on empty words, right?
The things were in her space. Even if others searched her entire house, they would never find them.
All in all, it was impossible for the government to spare the manpower to do such a thankless task. So, she was only surprised for a moment, then quickly put the pistol back and began to move the bodies.
The Li family looked at each other, not knowing what to do for a moment.
It wasn’t until Ji Yang moved the bodies to the windowsill of the corridor and opened the window.
A biting cold wind brought the family of three back to their senses. Li Yi gritted her teeth and walked out. Her parents wanted to stop her but couldn’t. She had already walked over quickly. “Let me help you.”
Ji Yang glanced at her twice. Seeing that her expression was upright, and although she was scared, she didn’t show any disgust towards the matter, she still nodded.
These two men were very heavy. Although she had been exercising and could drag them, it was still a bit difficult to lift them and throw them out the window.
So, when Li Yi offered to help, she readily agreed. One lifted the upper body, the other lifted the lower body, and they easily threw the person down.
It was just…
Both men had been shot in the head, and there were still bloodstains on their faces. Although the temperature was low and it had frozen quickly, there was still a nauseating smell of blood. Li Yi almost threw up, but she managed to grit her teeth.
The snow layer outside was soft, and the heavy object still made a sound when it landed, but it wasn’t loud. It was late at night, and most people were asleep, so no one would know.
One was thrown down, and the other was even faster.
After finishing this, Li Yi wanted to go back, back to the warm bed and her family. What she had seen today had overturned her three views. The key was that she had also helped to dispose of the body!
Alright, she had her reasons for doing so.
One was that she often went out with the people in the building to chop wood and collect supplies, so she knew a little about the chaos in the world. The apocalypse had really come. These two scumbags who pried open a single girl’s door in the middle of the night, she had long wanted them to die. Now that they were really dead, apart from being a little scared, she was completely relieved.
Secondly… to show goodwill to the big shot, to show that they were on the same boat and would not harm her, so that she wouldn’t kill them to silence them.
But Ji Yang called out to her, “Wait a minute.”
A chill ran down Li Yi’s back, and she stood still obediently.
She saw Ji Yang quickly go into the house and come out again, holding a pack of five bags of pickled vegetable instant noodles. “For you, a reward.”
Li Yi was stunned. There’s a reward? And it’s so generous? Hush money?
Her mind, filled with many thoughts, guessed.
Ji Yang was already busy. These people had bled after being shot. Fortunately, the walls outside were tiled, so a wipe with a cloth soaked in alcohol would do the trick.
Finally, she closed the door and took off her raincoat.
The whole process took no more than ten minutes, completing the act of killing two people and disposing of their bodies.
This was all the experience Ji Yang had accumulated in her previous life. The first thing to remember was that the villain dies from talking too much. She had experienced two life-and-death situations where the other party talked too much, giving her the opportunity to counter-kill. So, later on, once she found an opportunity to kill the other party, she would never hesitate or hold back.
Xixi excitedly circled around her, occasionally rubbing against her. Its dog eyes were sparkling, and its whole dog face was full of admiration. Ji Yang could feel its unspoken words: Master is so amazing!!!
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