Chapter 51 p2
On the way back, Ji Yang’s direction was relatively smooth.
When she reached a deserted place, she put the three boatloads of goods into her space, untied the rope with her consciousness, and only left one assault boat and one rubber boat. She took them out and continued to tie them to the jet ski.
It wasn’t until she was almost at the border of Changnan City that she put the medicinal herbs on the assault boat and the rubber boat. To prevent the dirty water splashed by the jet ski from touching the medicinal herbs, she had also specially wrapped them with a layer of plastic wrap.
It was simply the best of both worlds.
Her space had therefore increased by another one thousand four hundred square meters, reaching nine thousand five hundred and fifty square meters! It wasn’t at the maximum level, but it was no different from the maximum level. The jade that the Guo family and Xue Jianping had gotten, they hadn’t framed her. They were all of top-grade quality.
Compared to Changnan City, which might have already been stripped bare by her, the stock was still a little more than Changnan City. It was a pity that it was too troublesome to go out.
The increase in her space was an unexpected surprise. More importantly, the variety of fish, shrimp, crabs, eels, loaches, and freshwater shellfish was now abundant enough. By the way, the crayfish and hairy crabs that had once been popular on the summer dining tables of Hu City had also all been gotten.
Finally, she could take this trip out as an excuse to take out a portion of the medicinal herbs in her space.
After all, how could she not have some harvest after a long trip?
However, with so many medicinal herbs, it was not good for Ji Yang to go back directly. So, she went directly to the base. At about thirty kilometers, she began to encounter survivors one after another.
The weather was hot, and the survivors, regardless of gender, were basically wearing very little. The women were okay. Considering those who thought with their lower bodies, they were just wearing short-sleeved T-shirts and shorts. The men wished they could be naked. Most of them had also shaved their heads, revealing their thin and dark bodies. They were wearing straw hats and staring at the water surface. As soon as there was any movement, they would immediately cast their nets.
At twenty kilometers, the number of people in the nearby waters also increased.
Perhaps because the weather was hot now, and the water quality was worse, and the fish were fewer, they could only try their best to go a little further to fish.
With more people, there were many who liked to have crooked ideas. She had been a rich household from the very beginning, riding a jet ski, with two piles of goods tied behind her, and a plump and strong big dog tied to her chest. It was definitely valuable, so many greedy gazes were on Ji Yang.
The medicinal herbs could not get wet. Ji Yang did not want to bother. The survivors she would encounter further on would only be more, and it would be more troublesome. So, she simply stopped, took out her crossbow, and swung it a few times. Most of them would consciously retreat.
Only a few were unwilling and were using their walkie-talkies to call for people.
Ji Yang also took out her walkie-talkie and first tried to contact Xie Muzhi.
But after calling twice, there was no response.
He was probably busy. She turned to call Luo Laosan. This time, there was a response very quickly. Soon, the other side shouted, “Miss Ji, you’re finally back!!!”
Ji Yang didn’t know whether to laugh or cry at his excitement. “What? So excited?”
“Tsk, didn’t you say you would be back in a few days? It’s been ten days. The boss was so anxious that he wanted to go out and look for you,” Luo Laosan chuckled and also relaxed. “By the way, the boss just went to a meeting and didn’t bring his walkie-talkie. Is Miss Ji coming over here? Where are you? I’ll come and pick you up.”
Ji Yang had originally thought so, so she nodded. “Mm, I’m in the direction of the east gate of the base, about twenty kilometers away. Bring a few more people. I’ve gotten a batch of medicinal herbs.”
Luo Laosan was excited again. “Right away!”
After putting the walkie-talkie back in her bag, Ji Yang rubbed Xixi’s dog head. It was already four in the afternoon. The sun was not as hot as at noon, but it was still hot. A dog’s heat dissipation was not as good as a human’s, and it was already panting.
She protected the dog’s head and stuffed two ice cubes into its mouth.
Xixi’s tail immediately wagged, and it held the ice cubes in its mouth, its eyes squinted in pleasure.
A distance of twenty kilometers was not far, but it was not close either. The number of people gathered around Ji Yang was also increasing, but no one dared to really get close. They were just wandering around, as if they were assessing her combat power.
A crossbow was quite a deterrent, but you had to know how to use it.
One person, one dog. As long as they could get close quickly, it was not impossible to win.
Finally, a group of people’s helpers were the first to gather. A group of more than ten people, when they saw Ji Yang, their eyes immediately lit up. After a brief discussion, all of them got on two assault boats in batches. When the sound of the motor rang out, the two assault boats charged towards Ji Yang from two directions.
With one team in action, the others also exploded. They all tentatively wanted to go over and get a share of the pie.
But as the person being attacked, Ji Yang did not sit and wait to die. Instead, she quickly raised the crossbow in her hand, aimed it at them, and fired. The speed was so fast that the group of people did not even see the direction she was aiming at, and the arrow was already close.
“Pfft—”
The sound of the sharp arrow entering the body was very small, but when it reached the ears of their companions, it was so obvious. Almost immediately, the direction of the assault boat suddenly swayed and flew out of control.
“Ah! It hit?!”
“Holy crap!” one person exclaimed, “Brother Zhang! Are you okay?”
The person in the middle happened to be the one steering. The sharp pain made him suddenly lose his strength, and the direction swayed. The others quickly controlled the direction, and the other two pulled him away. They saw that there was an arrow with only the tail left in his chest!
Everyone was horrified.
This aim is too good, isn’t it?!
However, Ji Yang had not stopped. After hitting one, she immediately loaded another arrow and aimed at the person driving in the other direction. With the previous lesson, the person driving immediately had the hair on his whole body stand on end. He was the first to pull the person next to him to block.
“Pfft.”
Another sound.
“Ah!” the person screamed and clutched his stomach.
The person driving’s eyes widened in terror. He didn’t even think and turned the direction to run away. He didn’t care about the precious supplies, the fat big dog, or the beautiful woman. This was f*cking life-threatening!
She didn’t kill anyone else, just the person driving.
So ruthless!
After losing two in a row, the other scattered personnel who had rushed over also changed their expressions and quickly dodged to the side.
Especially some of the people who were driving were so scared that they directly let go and hid behind. “We’re going to die. I’m not driving! You guys come!”
Who would dare to drive?!
The survivor who was pushed to the front row: “!”
He was also scared, okay!
For a moment, the vacuum that had already existed around Ji Yang became even larger. They all wished they were eight hundred meters away from Ji Yang, running out of the range of the crossbow.
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When Luo Laosan and his men came over, this was the scene they saw.
Ji Yang was alone in the middle of the water, and there was not a single survivor in the surrounding area who dared to get close. As a result, many fish with a bursting sense of crisis all ran this way. The survivors were so greedy that they couldn’t help but look, but they didn’t dare to get close.
“Oh my, my sister, what have you done?” Luo Laosan teased with a smile.
Ji Yang: “I didn’t do anything. I just killed two people.”
Luo Laosan: …
The corners of his mouth twitched, but he quickly noticed the two piles of things piled up behind Ji Yang. He knew Ji Yang’s habit of always using burlap sacks to pack medicinal herbs. He directly gasped. “Holy crap, holy crap!!!”
The people who had come with him were also shocked. “Miss Ji, this… this can’t all be…”
Ji Yang smiled and nodded. “That’s right, it’s all of it. How about it? This trip wasn’t a loss, was it?”
“Not a loss!” the few of them said in unison.
How was this not a loss? With so many medicinal herbs, it was simply awesome. She had gotten so many in ten days.
Miss Ji is too awesome!
Everyone looked at her with admiration.
Thinking that the boss had complained that Miss Ji had said she would be back in a few days, but it had been ten days and there was still no sign of her, they secretly spat in their hearts. The boss is a love-struck fool and is really a drag.
Miss Ji has serious business to attend to!
The unknowingly Xie someone: …?
After marveling at the medicinal herbs, Luo Laosan and the others stared at Ji Yang’s jet ski, and their mouths watered again. Tsk, as expected of Miss Ji. All her equipment is luxurious.
A snowmobile in the extreme cold, a jet ski in the floods. When the extreme heat came, would there be a modified land motorcycle?
Seeing that the people had come, Ji Yang exchanged a few pleasantries and then couldn’t wait to ask if any of them knew how to drive a jet ski. When she found out that one person did, she immediately gave up her position and went to sit in the empty rubber boat.
Although the jet ski was fast, she had to drive it herself, which was still quite tiring.
Especially since she was also carrying a heavyweight cargo and was wearing a raincoat. She got on the rubber boat and was the first to take off her raincoat and hand it to the person driving the jet ski, telling him to be careful.
Xixi was also relieved and comfortably lay down in the boat, its tail rubbing against its owner.
Luo Laosan rubbed his hands in regret. He didn’t know how to drive a jet ski and could only look on with pitiful eyes. Then he instructed, “Be careful. Don’t capsize. With so many medicinal herbs, you can’t afford to pay for them even if you sell yourself!”
The person riding the jet ski nodded solemnly. “Brother, don’t worry!”
The survivors who had been paying attention from a distance, seeing this, completely lost hope. They all continued to fish with a heavy heart.
The fishing net in his hand moved. The person was overjoyed and quickly lifted the net. He was full of anticipation that it was a big fat fish. The number of fish he could catch now was getting smaller and smaller, and this fishing net had not felt such a big movement for a long time.
But just as he had lifted it, he found that there was only a small black fish the size of a palm in the net.
He was disappointed.
But he saw this black fish suddenly find a gap in the net and drill out. As soon as it was free, it immediately swung its tail and directly half-flew up and bit his face.
“Ah, ah, ah!” a sharp and tragic scream rang out. The man was so scared that he grabbed the fish with both hands and pulled hard. A piece of flesh was directly torn off, but the fish still had the strength to struggle, slipped from his hand, and fell into the water.
A touch of blood streaked across the turbid water surface and then quickly dispersed and disappeared.
Only the man on the boat, who had a piece of flesh bitten off and was covered in blood, was left, waving his hands, not daring to cover it. “It hurts! It hurts! It’s a piranha!”
The people around who had witnessed all of this were horrified and all moved away from this area.
There are piranhas here. There are definitely basically no ordinary fish!
Ji Yang hadn’t gone far. Hearing the noise over there, she was also surprised. “Piranhas?!”
They’re here so early?!
Luo Laosan nodded, looked at the water surface with some fear. “We found them the day before yesterday. A person thought it was an ordinary fish. He was a fisherman before and was very good at catching fish. After he had caught this fish, in a short while, the few fish that were originally in the bucket were all bitten until only their heads were left. The person was so angry that he lost his reason for a moment and reached in to catch it. As a result, a piece of flesh was bitten off his hand.”
“His family sent him to the hospital. Now the wound is severely infected. The piranha was also taken by the government for research. It was announced yesterday that this fish looks similar to a black fish, but its body is small, its teeth are sharp, and it only eats meat. It is very sensitive to the smell of blood, and its strength is also greater than an ordinary fish. Where it is, there are basically no ordinary fish. The survivors must be careful. The only good thing is that it can also be eaten, but it has a lot of bacteria, similar to a rat. It must be cooked for more than twenty minutes.”
A person next to him said, “Piranhas are really scary. Since this case, more than ten people had gone to the hospital that day because they were bitten by piranhas. After it was announced yesterday, there were fewer, but there were still a few. But even if they are careful, everyone has to continue to fish. If they are not careful, they will be like that person just now. What’s even more tragic is to fall into the water because of this. There is simply no time to save them, and they can be…”
The faces of the people who were speaking were all very ugly. There was really nothing easy under a natural disaster.
Life was also too fragile because of this. They were still lucky. As “daoye,” they didn’t have to go fishing themselves, but at this time, they were also a human community, so they naturally felt sad.
Ji Yang was also shocked.
She hadn’t heard this in Hu City. She didn’t know if it was because there were many fish and shrimp in Hu City, and the piranhas had enough to eat for the time being, so they had not been discovered by people, or if she had not noticed that it had already been announced.
But she remembered that it shouldn’t have been this early in her previous life.
At the very least, it had appeared two months later.
But at that time, when it had appeared, the number was already very large, so the survivors who were not clear at that time were very easily bitten when they were fishing. The piranhas grew in the dirty water. This bite, countless bacteria and viruses would attach to the wound, so many people had died. There were also some who had been bitten in a vital spot, had fallen into the water, and the blood had attracted a large number of piranhas to eat…
The only fortunate thing was that if it wasn’t meat, the piranhas didn’t like it and wouldn’t go and gnaw on all sorts of things, such as rubber boats. Otherwise, the survivors who had gone out might not have been able to come back.
This thing, piranhas… there was no way to deal with them. In her previous life, the government couldn’t deal with them either. They could only send people to catch them as much as possible. Even if their teeth were sharp, once they were caught, they would be immediately killed. It could also provide a little bit of food for the survivors. Besides that, there was no way to poison them. They could grow rapidly in such a harsh water quality that was comparable to poison. Their vitality was frighteningly tenacious.
She was immersed in her thoughts and did not notice that Luo Laosan and the others had stopped their crusade against the piranhas at some point.
After a while, she found that there was no sound, but what first attracted her attention was the increasingly close sound of an engine. After being robbed so much, she immediately looked over warily and saw an assault boat approaching quickly in the distance.
On the assault boat, a familiar figure was wearing a white shirt, without a tie, and the collar was open, revealing a rather fair and beautiful collarbone. Because he was driving at a high speed, his clothes were all puffed up, and the sweat had soaked his thin shirt, revealing the firm and strong muscles of his waist and abdomen.
Luo Laosan was winking at his brothers.
Look!
The boss is here in his flashy clothes!