Chapter 47 p1
When she arrived back at the base, it was already two in the afternoon.
Ji Yang went directly to the place she was living on the fifth floor. The house had not been touched. The first thing she did when she got home was to release ice cubes and an air conditioning fan to cool down.
The air was exceptionally hot and humid.
She had come back from outside. Even though she was wearing a hat and a mask, she still felt that the skin under her thin clothes was burning from the sun.
She took out a thermometer and placed it in the living room for a few seconds. The temperature showed: thirty-seven degrees.
Ji Yang remembered that before she had come to Hu City, the temperature was only in the low thirties. It had only been a few days, and it was almost forty degrees.
Fortunately, before the official extreme heat began, the water would evaporate. Otherwise, it would really be boiling water and steam cooking a living person.
She first went back to her space to take a bath, then she went to see the fish and shrimp she had received today. Their condition was very good. She could no longer distinguish which ones were from yesterday and which ones were from today. They were all mixed together.
Now, the density of fish and shrimp in the pond was much greater than expected.
Fortunately, Ji Yang often threw in fish food, so the situation of them eating each other was still relatively rare. After observing for a while, when the small shrimp had reproduced a little more, she would reduce the number of feedings and strive to completely liberate herself!
All afternoon, she was just lying at home.
No, that’s not right. At least she had exercised for almost two hours, and the sweat was dripping on the ground before she stopped. The indoor temperature was maintained at over twenty degrees by the ice cubes and the air conditioning fan, which was still very comfortable.
After exercising, she slept even more soundly.
As usual, Xixi was on night watch. Ji Yang slept until past eight the next morning. When she woke up, she was covered in sweat again. She was so drowsy that the ice cubes had all melted into water, and she was too lazy to get up and add more ice, so the temperature had unknowingly risen to over thirty degrees.
She groggily ran to the bathroom. Just as she was about to wash her face with the stored water, she opened her eyes and saw a few coin-sized things around the water basin, and she was stunned.
The next second, these few things also noticed that something was wrong, quickly moved their antennae, and ran away.
Ji Yang: !!!
Damn it!
Cockroaches!!!
She had almost forgotten that this was not her safe little nest.
Once the temperature rose, and all sorts of things rotted, insects would appear, crawling into the room through all kinds of ventilation ducts.
This was still a small number.
After a while… there would really be no place to even put your feet!
Ji Yang remembered the insect tide she had experienced in her previous life, and her scalp went numb. Goosebumps rose all over her body. But this was just a temporary house she was living in, and she couldn’t just seal it with cement.
She quickly found a pile of insect-killing medicine in her space, put on a gas mask, and first sprayed the entire bathroom. If she couldn’t spray the corners, she would store the things in her static space.
This way, because the insects were alive, they would be directly repelled and fall to the ground, and she would immediately spray them frantically.
After dealing with the bathroom, Ji Yang went out and found that Xixi was not there. She hurried to the living room and saw Xixi sitting in the ice basin that had melted into water, panting, with several dead and flattened cockroaches next to it.
Ji Yang: …
After thinking for a moment, she put Xixi back into her space. A pet’s nose was more sensitive, and it was not suitable to live in a space full of disinfectant. Then, she put most of the things here into her space and began to spray with a bottle of insecticide in each hand.
She did not miss a single corner.
The ventilation ducts were sprayed several times.
Looking at the dead cockroaches, Ji Yang’s pounding heart finally calmed down a little. So disgusting!
It wasn’t fear, it was disgust.
Cockroaches were still okay. Rats were even more terrifying. Besides being disgusting, their attack power was not small. When a swarm of rats appeared, even a survivor who ran into them could be gnawed to the bone.
Besides that, there were also all kinds of multi-legged crawling insects and the like. Humid and stuffy places were their breeding grounds. If a person’s skin touched them, all kinds of festering symptoms would appear. If not treated in time, it would lead to infection, fever, and even death.
Now, everything was about to begin.
No, it should be said that it had already begun. The nightmarish days were coming.
Ji Yang had sprayed a little too much, and she was choked even with a gas mask on. She quickly went into the room in her space, and only then could she comfortably breathe a few mouthfuls of fresh air.
Forget it. I’ll just lie in my space for a day.
Today was the third day, the day to pay the ransom. If it went smoothly, after she had paid today, the government would deal with them at night, and she could leave tomorrow.
Her consciousness was busy in her space, planting vegetables, watering, observing the fish and shrimp, looking at the state of the bees, and finally… processing medicinal herbs.
Some of the water grass she had casually planted now seemed to have adapted to the new environment and was floating with the movement of the surroundings at the bottom of the water.
A water area of ten thousand square meters was not big, and it was not very small, but its depth was still very good. The deepest part was ten meters, and most places were five or six meters. There were also some edge areas that were a little shallower, two or three meters.
It was like a funnel shape and would not suddenly become deep.
This also meant that the living space for the fish and shrimp was also relatively larger.
After these few days, most of the previous shrimp eggs had hatched. When her consciousness swept over, it was easy to notice a pile of small shrimp, as small as fleas, swimming in large groups in the water.
If they accidentally ran into a fish, a large group would directly crash into the other party’s mouth.
Ji Yang had encountered this scene several times, and her heart ached. This was only the first wave of reproduction, and they hadn’t even really grown up!
So, she quickly went to feed them.
To let them eat their fill and no longer forage.
The bees were much better. There were no natural enemies in the sky. Under the sky, an unlucky one had landed on a blade of grass, just in a chicken coop, and was directly pecked by a half-grown chick.
Besides this tragic case, after a night of recuperation, the queen bee was visibly more energetic and would crawl around in the beehive.
Everything was thriving, which made people happy.
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On the other side
A group of people had prepared most of the grain that the kidnappers had requested and were ready to set off.
The government officials were disguised as ordinary people to escort the supplies.
The Qiao family and the Guo family only sent a few young and strong men to deal with it. The others were all anxiously hiding at home, waiting for news.
The two families had gathered a total of three thousand six hundred jin of grain, of which coarse grain accounted for two-thirds, as they had requested, and one-third was fine grain. This was already a lot of grain. Just the fifty-jin bags of rice and flour alone would be more than sixty bags. With a large volume, the number of bags would be even more.
In addition, there was a portion of the gasoline and diesel they wanted, some yacht accessories, and other miscellaneous things. There were not that many assault boats, so they could only use rubber boats for transportation. The assault boats pulled the goods, and with the people who were sent over, a long team was formed.
All the way, it attracted countless gasps.
In the base, everyone’s eyes were green, but they were still holding back.
When they were out of the base, the hair on the escorts’ bodies all stood on end. They stared intently at the surroundings, the knives in their hands ready to be swung out at any time.
They had a lot of people and were also fully prepared. The team was strict and did not leave a single gap. Some people had followed all the way, but they had not been able to find a breakthrough. Many people had given up, but there were still a small number of people who persisted in following, wanting to see what was going on.
This follow, and they had followed to the entrance of a community more than thirty kilometers outside the base.
The terrain of the community was not high, and it had already been submerged to the tenth floor. The community’s main gate and the like had long since disappeared, so a sign was hung between the first two buildings, with the words: [White Tiger Base]
At this time, in front of the two buildings, there were many people standing on a large bamboo raft. One person in the middle was sitting. Beside him, two young men were kneeling on the ground, their faces bruised and swollen, in a very sorry state. Behind them, there was also a person who was restraining the two of them with a rope to ensure that they could not run away.
Just as Xue Jianping and the others got close, they saw the scene here, and their whole person was horrified.
The two fathers who loved their children were so angry that their eyes were red. “We’ve been raising supplies for these three days. Why are you still hitting them!”
Lin Shubo’s eyes turned cold when he saw this. He got up and kicked one of them in the face. The two of them were in a sorry state and had their heads lowered. It was impossible to tell who was who. They were kicked forward and let out a muffled grunt, unable to move on the bamboo raft.
Seeing that the families of these two were about to jump up and down, his tone was cold. “I just want to hit them! You colluded with the government to harm my brother. If it weren’t for the yacht, these two would have been dead long ago!!!”
“What brother?” Xue Jianping was at a loss.
He subconsciously looked behind him, but the others also shook their heads, not knowing what he was talking about.
Lin Shubo cursed, “Still pretending with me?! Besides your government, who else could have so many bullets! Of the eighteen people who went out with him, most of them were shot in the head! My brother and a few others are missing. It must be that your government has captured them!”
Besides the government, who else could have this kind of aim?!
He had always been careful. He knew that although he had gotten a gun, he definitely couldn’t beat the government. He was afraid of attracting the government’s attention, so each time he only picked on the survivors who were easy to bully. So far, he had not really been targeted by the government.
His younger brother was willful, but he was also obedient. He also had a gun in his hand. At most, he would take people out to rob a few lone rich households for fun.
But yesterday, he had said that he had targeted a lone little beauty, and a rich one at that. She had given out points one after another. If he robbed her, he would definitely get a lot of good things.
At that time, he had felt that something was wrong and had told him not to go, but his younger brother had insisted that she was alone, and as long as he was well-ambushed, it would be very easy to deal with.
But he hadn’t come back all night!
This was impossible in the past.
No matter how playful his younger brother was, he would always remember to come back. The outside was too dangerous.
In the early morning, Lin Shubo had woken up and found that his younger brother had not yet returned. He had immediately sent many people out to look for him. Finally, this morning, he had found the bodies of those missing brothers, although it was only a portion, a dozen or so people.
They were all shot.
The surroundings were stained with blood. After a night of exposure in the wild, the corpses were all stinking. There were still a few people who had not been found, including his younger brother.
It could only be that the government had made a move. It was even possible that they had long since noticed them and wanted to make a move. It just so happened that they had run into this matter and had sent a female soldier to lure his younger brother, and then they had wiped them all out.
So his younger brother might still be alive.
He stared at the other party. “You tell me, should these two be buried with him?! Should they?! Where’s my brother? Where’s the yacht?! Do you really think I didn’t dare to kill people before?!”
“Calm down. We really don’t know about your brother. As for the yacht, this thing is precious, and we’re still going through the procedures. Don’t worry. Give us two more days, and we will definitely get the things! Definitely!” Xue Jianping and the others immediately spoke, for fear of angering him, their tone fawning and gentle.
The kidnappers were hiding in the crowd, and the hostages were right next to them. Even if there was a sniper, it was impossible to accurately kill all the threatening people. The hostages were still in danger, so there was no unusual movement. They were all trying their best to appease him.
The crowd was chattering. Lin Shubo listened with a gloomy expression. The body hiding in the crowd seemed to have relaxed a lot. Just as they had breathed a sigh of relief, they saw Lin Shubo suddenly smile. “Alright, then I’ll give you another chance. But this time, it’s you who have breached the contract, right? You have to pay a price.”
“Don’t!”
“We can give you more supplies!!!”
Xue Jianping and the others had a bad feeling and immediately spoke to stop him, but the next second, Lin Shubo had already taken out a dagger, one on each side.
“Ah!”
“Ah! Dad, save me! It hurts so much…”
A series of tragic screams rang out, but Lin Shubo showed a comfortable smile. He kicked away the broken and bloody fingers one by one and looked at the few people who had to be supported. “Who said I’m easy to talk to? I’ll give you two more days. In two days, I want the yacht, and I want the people. If my brother is gone, your two precious sons will each pay me half a life. That’s one life in total. It’s a good deal, right?”
Xue Jianping and the others nodded with pale faces. “Okay, okay, definitely!”
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