Chapter 25 p2
After this incident, in less than two days, another household moved out of the building.
It happened to be one of the two households.
The remaining person who hadn’t moved also died quietly at home a few days later. It was only when the person across the hall noticed that their door hadn’t been opened for a long time, and there was no response when they tried to knock, that they realized something was wrong.
It was freezing cold, and the road was not easy to walk on. No one dealt with the corpse, and it was just left there.
It wasn’t until half a month later that the government established a body collection team. Each area had a dedicated body collection team to collect the bodies for unified cremation.
If it were like before, relying on the special crematorium vehicles to pull them, they would never be able to finish. There were also many families where the entire family had died. If they didn’t pry open the door, they would never know there were dead people.
At a temperature of over minus fifty degrees, the corpses would not stink.
Therefore, the work of this body collection team was this.
A large pile of corpses was also pulled away from Jiafu Community. The corpses that had been buried in the snow before, as long as they were not very deep, were also dug out by the government officials. Because of the shortage of manpower, the government directly recruited people from the ordinary survivors. They were provided with three meals a day, and there were also two jin of grain every week.
It wasn’t much, but for ordinary survivors, it was already a very good job.
Especially when they went to collect the bodies and encountered a family that had been wiped out, the remaining grain in the house also belonged to the body collection team.
There were many extra benefits.
When Ji Yang was at home with nothing to do, she would observe the situation outside from her balcony. She found that many people from Jiafu Community had also joined the body collection team. They would go out early every day and come back before dark. It was very regular. Every time they came back, they would have large and small bags, which made many people envious.
In addition, because Ji Yang had cleaned up Building 9 once, the remaining people were relatively honest and just wanted to live a peaceful life. So, it entered an unprecedented period of harmony.
The originally scattered teams were reorganized. Now, the people in the team were divided into three teams. One team stayed at home for defense, and two teams went out to search for supplies. They took turns guarding the house, and the distribution of supplies was also reasonable. Both Li Yi and Jiang Jing’s families had joined, and they were no longer going out alone.
During this period, Jiang Jing came over to give her jade once more. This time, the price tag on it hadn’t even been torn off. It seemed to have been gotten from looting a jewelry store.
Ji Yang didn’t take it for free again, but exchanged it with her for sanitary napkins and some supplies.
Jiang Jing couldn’t refuse and could only accept it. Before she closed the door, Ji Yang saw that her eyes were red.
Surviving in this apocalyptic world with a child who was less than a year old, Ji Yang felt very sympathetic to her. But that was it. Her kindness was limited. At most, she could give her a little more when they exchanged supplies.
A few days later, Ji Yang went to the exchange point again as agreed and exchanged a batch of jade with Luo Laosan. At the same time, she inquired about the current situation and heard that the government had just wiped out a black and evil force called the Black Dragon Gang a few days ago, and had seized a lot of supplies. A portion of it was distributed to the oppressed ordinary survivors, and the other portion was confiscated. A notice was posted, and all the more than twenty high-level members were sentenced to death. The rest of the people were also taken to mine coal.
Luo Laosan complained to her with great regret, “It’s a pity you didn’t come before. It was a public execution, just like the beheading at noon in ancient times. It was around that time, in front of everyone, they were shot. Tsk, if you ask me, why waste bullets? It would be better to just behead them. That’s more exciting…”
Ji Yang: …
The living King of Hell is right here.
She nodded in agreement. “That’s right! Execution by firing squad is too easy for them!”
Luo Laosan reminded her again, “There are still some gangs that haven’t been caught. Only a few of the main culprits have been caught, and many have escaped. If you are alone, don’t go too far. By the way, by the way, you don’t have to go to other exchange points in the future. Our boss is now buying jade from all over the city and has also sent a group of people directly to the surrounding several cities to get jade.”
Ji Yang was surprised. “Is it that important? I’m a little flattered!”
Luo Laosan said righteously, “Of course. The customer is God. Whatever you like, we will risk our lives to get it!”
Ji Yang: “…”
Luo Laosan scratched his head with a dry laugh. In fact, the original words were: It’s not easy to find a rich sucker with supplies. We have to get her good things quickly. When she reacts and doesn’t want jade anymore, we’ll be heartbroken.
Ji Yang, who knew what kind of person the leader of this group was, didn’t believe these words at all. Isn’t it just because he saw that she liked it and wanted to get the supplies in her hand as much as possible?
It doesn’t matter. She was quite happy to be this sucker.
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After chatting for a few sentences, the two of them said goodbye.
Ji Yang got on her snowmobile and was about to leave.
Before she had gone a few steps, she was targeted by a group of people passing by. Then, a slightly familiar voice sounded, “Hey, stop. How much for this car?!”
Ji Yang didn’t intend to pay attention.
But there were many people at the exchange point, and she was not driving fast. So, when this group of people saw that she didn’t stop, they were directly ordered to rush over and block her way.
Ji Yang laughed in anger and braked.
The dog sitting behind her clung to her shoulder, staring at this group of people, eager to make a move.
The thick clothes, hat, and scarf blocked their faces, so Ji Yang didn’t recognize them. But she always felt that the voice was very familiar, so she specifically looked for the person who had just spoken. She saw the person come over from the side, and a spoiled voice complained, “Why did you keep running when I told you to stop? Didn’t you hear me?!”
Ji Yang stared at the figure for two seconds and suddenly realized.
Her long-lost illegitimate daughter of old man Ji.
Ji Siyue.
Looking at the people around her, a few tall men, they looked like security guards.
Has she made a fortune?
That’s not right. In her memory from her previous life, because old man Ji’s company was not in manufacturing, it had evaporated the fastest after the disaster. At least when she had met Ji Siyue during the extreme heat later, she was about the same as herself.
Ji Yang didn’t say anything and just looked at her quietly.
She saw Ji Siyue sizing up her snowmobile, seeming to nod in satisfaction, and then said, “One hundred jin of grain, sell this car to me.”
Ji Yang: ?
She was silent for a moment and asked very sincerely, “Do you think I’m a sucker?”
Ji Siyue was annoyed. “What’s the big deal? It’s just a broken car. It needs gas. How much gas can you have? When it runs out, it will just be a piece of scrap metal. You might as well sell it to me. At most, I’ll add another fifty jin of grain. If you don’t sell it, you’ll regret it.”
Ji Yang laughed out loud. “Ji Siyue, if you’re sick in the head, go get it treated!”
Ji Siyue was furious and was about to curse when she suddenly realized something. She took off her goggles in surprise. Her eyes were briefly unaccustomed to the cold air. She looked at the person in front of her carefully, her voice almost breaking. “Ji Yang? How is it you? How can you have this kind of car?!”
Ji Yang looked at her coldly. “You can have so many bodyguards, why can’t I have a car?”
Ji Siyue was first puzzled, then as if she had suddenly understood something, she said with some sympathy, “You’re jealous of me.”
Ji Yang: …
Ji Siyue took her silence as a tacit agreement, and her expression became arrogant. “You regret it now, don’t you? You didn’t come over on New Year’s Eve, and then you encountered the disaster. You were so proud before, and now…” she snorted, “all that money has gone down the drain. It must be quite painful, right? If you kneel down and apologize to me now, I can take you back to see Dad and give you something to eat.”
Ji Yang was speechless. Should she say that she hated her so much that she was still willing to give her something to eat at this time, just to humiliate her, or should she say that she was a good person, and even when facing someone she hated, she didn’t want her to fend for herself?
She shook her head. “Thank you, no need. Please move aside. I’m going back.”
Ji Siyue frowned, as if she didn’t understand why she was unwilling. She took two steps forward and grabbed the handlebars, saying, “Ji Yang, why are you so stubborn? The person you rely on only gave you a motorcycle. You have to go out and earn supplies yourself every day in the freezing cold. Now, as long as you apologize, you don’t have to go through all this trouble. Isn’t that good?”
“No, because I bought this car myself,” Ji Yang looked at her and said, word by word, through her goggles, “I bought it for fun before the snow disaster. It was just delivered by air when the heavy snow came. With this car, I’m living quite well. As for you, Ji Siyue, do you think I don’t know how capable that old man is? He doesn’t even have any supplies at home. Where would he get the resources to hire bodyguards for you and feed you?”
Ji Siyue seemed to have been thought that she could guess this. Her pupils shrank, and she looked at her with shock and shame, about to refute.
“Alright, I’m going back to rest,” Ji Yang didn’t give her a chance to speak and directly pulled Ji Siyue away.
She was strong, and Ji Siyue was a spoiled young lady who didn’t exercise. She was directly pulled and stumbled, falling on her butt on the slippery ice.
Ji Yang twisted the throttle hard. The roaring sound rang out, and she directly turned and left.
The two bodyguards at the very edge, seeing her swift and fearless momentum, as if she wasn’t afraid of crashing and dying, quickly dodged. As a result, before Ji Siyue could get up from the ice and snow, she could only inhale a mouthful of exhaust fumes and said angrily, “Ji Yang, you stop right there!”
Hearing this, Ji Yang twisted the throttle even harder. The car quickly left the exchange point, went around one alley after another, and shook Ji Siyue off. Only then did she slowly let out a breath of turbid air.
In her previous life, he had sold her. In this life, without her, he had sold Ji Siyue. And he had always said that he loved this daughter the most.
Old man Ji was indeed a selfish bastard.
Grandpa and Grandma were clearly very good people. How could they have given birth to such a son?
She couldn’t figure it out.
She really couldn’t figure it out.
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There were many things she couldn’t figure out, and Ji Yang never dwelled on them.
Under the natural disaster, she was single-mindedly focused on how to live a better life.
After another half a month, the news of the base’s opening was finally widely announced.
However, only a small portion of the move-in quotas were opened for the first time.
The news spread throughout Changnan City in a short period of time. On Ji Yang’s side, it was Jiang Jing and Li Yi who came to her door to tell her.
Some were excited, some were terrified.
With a base, it meant that the country was backing them, and safety was greatly improved. It also meant that the country might think that the natural disaster would not end in a short time, and the establishment of the base was to deal with the various situations that would follow. For many people who had worked hard for half their lives to buy a house, a car, start a company, and have their own careers, it was a heavy blow.
And the vast majority of ordinary survivors were this kind of people. This news was a heavy blow to them. Some who couldn’t bear the blow directly jumped off a building.
The freezing rain had added a layer of crystal clear and hard ice to this world. When they jumped off a building, they almost directly bloomed into a crimson flower after landing, and then immediately died, without any buffer.
On the day the news came, there were screams, wails, and… the sound of heavy objects falling one after another.
There were several cases in Jiafu Community.
Ji Yang had also personally seen one. He had jumped straight down in front of her. His wife and children couldn’t hold him back. In their grief, his wife also jumped down, leaving only a half-grown child crying helplessly on the rooftop, who was then coaxed down by a kind person.
But in any case, the appearance of the base was still more beneficial.
Apart from those who couldn’t bear it, the other survivors were all happy.
Even those who were not yet qualified to enter the base were also thinking of ways to move.
This first wave of move-ins was naturally for those with abilities.
They would give the base supplies in exchange for move-in quotas. The base could support more ordinary survivors, and those with abilities could also have a safe place to stay.
Hearing this news, Ji Yang knew that business was coming. She rode a snowmobile and used a rope to pull two more to the exchange point to find Luo Laosan. It was the reminder that Ji Siyue had given her last time. Now, the rich had to move, and with so many supplies, they would definitely need some reliable means of transportation.
Ordinary cars couldn’t be used. Polar-specific vehicles or modified vehicles were more expensive, and only the government and top-tier rich could afford them. And the quantity was limited. Her snowmobile, wouldn’t it have customers?
When Ji Yang had bought this, she had bought ten at once, for fear that the weather would be too cold and the cars would easily break down, so she needed a replacement. But now she found that the quality of these things was quite good, so she could sell a few.
She specifically emphasized, “I only want top-grade jadeite, the kind like imperial green. I don’t want the cheap ones. It would be best if it’s unpolished raw stone. I’ve been learning to carve recently since I have nothing to do, and I’ve run out of things to carve.”
Luo Laosan wiped his sweat. As expected of a rich person. He habitually complained, “…your requirements are too high! What if I can’t exchange them?”
Ji Yang: “It’s fine. I’ll take them back.”
Luo Laosan immediately said, “Don’t worry, I, Luo Laosan, will risk my life to exchange them for you!”