Chapter 10 Lack of Resources
Originally, I thought that these two girls could relieve the stress of my mood when they came here. Who knew, one of the two girls was particularly talkative and had a bad temper. But it is not difficult to see that this girl comes from a superior family. You can tell this from her
It can be seen from his clothes that his sense of superiority is naturally higher than that of ordinary people. His figure is not bad, and it conforms to public aesthetics... No, what am I thinking?
Listen, she started yelling again.
"I don't want to live with two dirty children. Why is the environment in this ghost place so bad? Where is the community management? Do you know what my dad does? Tell your stewards to come out." She faced outside the door.
The management aunt shouted loudly that people in other dormitories dared not speak out.
"Keep your voice down, auntie," Lao Liu complained while lying on the bed.
"Huh? Who are you"?
Lao Liu put his head under the pillow, raised his middle finger and replied: "Don't worry about who I am for now, it's better to worry about your mouth."
"Did I offend you with what I said? Is it your turn to take care of what I want to say?"
Lao Liu still kept talking with his head stuffed and his middle finger in his mouth, "Then keep your voice down, people are still sleeping, you know it's disturbing the people."
"I don't want to stay here, but you are all dirty, just like homeless people on the street. If you don't feel comfortable, you can go somewhere else."
“If you don’t want to stay, leave, turn left when you go out”!
"Damn thing..."! The woman spat out in anger.
When Lao Liu heard this, he sat up from the bed and replied in the same tone: "Why are you talking so loudly? Then you go find the property management"!
The girl stared at Old Liu for a few seconds, then her voice was too high, and she replied: "I'm giving you shame, you are shameless, aren't you? You really take yourself seriously, stop pretending to be awesome here"!
"Hey, can you have a better attitude? You are a son of a bitch but not a mother." Old Liu spat back angrily, and his angry saliva splashed onto the head of my bed...
"How dare you come here to find cards with me? What's my attitude and what's yours? How did I offend you? Huh?"
"I'm really impressed by you. You keep saying hello to me every day. If you don't want to live here, just get out and don't disturb the people, okay?"
The two of them were arguing fiercely. It was a showdown between the real oral pioneers and the unabashed superior party. I originally wanted to say something to hold back the quarrel, but my reason made me calm down. This bitch is really
He is not easy to mess with. If Lao Liu's temper had been worse, the two of them might have come to blows.
But the other girl was different. She looked unusually quiet, probably because she was afraid of strangers. Her clothes were very ordinary, her hair was cut short, and she had a large bang in front of her forehead, which looked particularly like the leaves on an orange.
Her eyes were fixed on the spot where the two were arguing, her brows furrowed, and she seemed very nervous.
"Are you here because of the lack of food like us?" I took the lead in breaking the awkward silence and asked her.
"Well, probably...", she replied in a low voice: "I just came to this place out of necessity."
"Now that's why everyone is here..." I agreed.
The girl's eyes were still downcast, as if she didn't want to talk to me yet.
I rolled my eyes and changed the topic to other places, "That friend of yours, um, don't you think it's a bit... noisy?"
"I don't know her," the orange-headed girl said in a low voice.
I turned my eyes to the grumpy old lady and said casually: "Ah haha, it turns out you don't know each other. I thought she was with you."
Lao Liu smiled contemptuously, which aroused the second hatred of the wealthy woman.
"We really don't know each other," the orange-leaf-headed girl raised her voice and spoke to me in a wary tone. However, she deliberately emphasized the word "we".
…
"Uh, uh, I think it's necessary to provide the lady with some private space, right?" I felt an indescribable embarrassment filling the air, so I reminded Lao Liu.
"Ah, that's right..." He jumped off the bed, passed directly past the two girls, and walked straight to the door of the room.
At the same time, I politely closed the dormitory door outside.
"Why are there two girls here? Aren't men and women living separately? What the hell is going on here?" Lao Liu unscrewed his kettle in the corridor and took a sip of beer. Then he vented to me immediately
In response to his dissatisfaction, especially with the irritable girl, he criticized me even more jealously.
"I said, why are you competing with a girl? Just let her say whatever she likes. It's all just arrogance!"
"Who gives this woman such a sense of superiority? If I didn't mess with her on purpose, if she keeps arguing, we won't be able to sleep tonight!"
"I can't handle it. I can only say that the person who arranged it like this is out of his mind." I replied abruptly.
"Maybe everyone comes here just for food. This is nonsense. If the rice jar and refrigerator at home are a little bigger, maybe we can survive for a few more days. I wouldn't want to live here.
"."
I nodded. My thoughts were not on the two women at all. Instead, I was more focused on the food.
"Do you think these people have large-scale private collection of resources?" Old Liu held his chin and spat out this sentence unintentionally.
"How do I know? Look at these people. They are all virtuous. Damn it." I replied dissatisfiedly, "If they don't hide anything secretly, that would be fine. Just look at the management of this place. Sooner or later it will be."
Something went wrong”!
"Management? Damn it, everyone wears the hat of management and is extremely arrogant, but those people have never done any substantive work at all"! Old Liu screwed on the kettle lid and swallowed again
Drooling, he added: "Let's not be so honest. When we see an opportunity, we will steal if we can, fill our pockets, and then we will escape"!
"Okay, but we don't have backpacks"!
"Backpack? Oh my god! How many days can a backpack last for you? Do you have any brains?" Lao Liu knocked on my forehead.
"What the hell? Do you have any other good ways to get food?" I asked him straight to the point.
"Oh, I don't know." Lao Liu lowered his tone, put his left arm around my shoulder, looked around again, then leaned close to my ear and said to me: "Come on, young man, you
Did you see those several trucks? Did you see them?"
He pointed to several trucks carrying food and water on the right side of the hall. The rows of trucks ranged from big to small, and they were probably transported here in batches. However, there were not many people in charge.
"Hmm, relief food for the people." I smiled.
"Oh, man, they will think that we will stay in the warm nest like babies, and then wait for the mother bird to come back with a little bit of food every day to provide us with food and clothing. Come on, I am not a good boy.
And as far as I know, neither are you”! He looked at me with a wicked smile.
"A tiny bit"? I made a "tiny bit" shape with my index finger and thumb, grabbed the air and shook it in front of Lao Liu.
"Hmm, just a little bit"! He replied with a smile.
"Okay, okay"! I put everything down again, surveyed the area, then breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "What are you going to do?"
He clenched his fists excitedly and grinned his teeth. "This is already very clear, brother, you see. They will only distribute food in the morning, noon and evening, and the rest of the time will be spent on transportation. As long as we...
…Sneak in secretly and take advantage of the opening…”.
"I'm sorry to interrupt you, but how are we going to move the contents of that big box?"
"Oh, Old Han..."! He smiled and said to me: "This is a good question. You might as well use your brain to think about how we can sneak into the truck group."
"I think we can understand ourselves as one of them."
"Then"? He asked with a smile.
"Pretending to be volunteers, we took advantage of the gap and sneaked into the truck, and then..."
"Go on"? He laughed even harder.
"We move the boxes with food into the hall and pretend to distribute them to civilians. When they are not paying attention, you move the boxes with accommodation supplies. Then I pour half of the food in the food boxes into it, and you use the accommodation supplies.
Cover them up. Let’s go back and forth for a few rounds..."
"Don't we have something to eat?" I added at last.
Old Liu clenched his hands into fists and said with an excited smile: "Damn, that's right, little clever guy"!
Lao Liu and I happily high-fived each other and shouted "yes" like a child!
"Why are you making such a fuss! If you keep making any noise, get out of here!" the management lady roared downstairs.
Lao Liu and I calmed down and returned to the dormitory silently. But when I pulled the door handle and was about to open the door, I found that the door was locked.
"Sisters, open the door." Old Liu gently knocked on the door and pressed the doorknob that was locked inside.
"Change your clothes, don't fuck!" The voice of the grumpy old lady came from the room.
"Tsk..."
Lao Liu and I smiled bitterly, squatted in front of the door, looked at the empty night, and sighed helplessly.
On the fifth day, I had already begun to hear about people starving to death. Civilian deaths began to appear one after another in the city, but at least I didn't witness it with my own eyes, and I don't know whether the news was true or false, or whether it was
Those people were so hungry that they wanted to find a reason to ask the government to arrange food distribution as soon as possible. But now the situation is getting increasingly tense. Lao Liu and I can only get a piece of bread every day, and there is no even mineral water.
There is simply no way to go on like this.
"I'm starving to death...Why is this like this? Is this city so poor that people have no food to eat?"
The person who spoke was the irritable old lady from before. She was still unwilling to reveal her name to us, nor was she willing to talk to us about other things. She didn't want to even think about it. At this moment, she was lying on the bed feebly.
He looked half-dead.
"This is not the way to go. Sooner or later we will starve to death!" Old Liu took a sip of beer and put the water bottle back in his bag. "It's time," he said.
"If you don't take action, others will take action. It's better to strike first." I encouraged Lao Liu to say.
"Hey, what's wrong with this world? We've fallen into petty theft." Old Liu helplessly looked at the people coming and going downstairs, feeling inexplicably uncomfortable in his heart.
"Don't blame anyone. It's better to be a little selfish before the situation gets that bad."
I took out my red volunteer hat, patted the dust on it, and Lao Liu and I walked towards the hall without looking back.
At this time, people waiting to eat were crowded in the hall, and many people were hungry and tightened their belts. Lao Liu and I immediately separated because we didn’t want to waste too much time. Soon, Lao Liu dressed up as a volunteer
I began to pretend to serve the citizens in a decent manner. I successfully blended into the truck team, learned about the transportation work with other volunteers, and then began to move food boxes piecemeal, such as compressing
Biscuits, bread, cans, self-heating foods, etc.
So, under the cover of the crowd, during meal time at 12 noon, I pretended to distribute food to everyone. At the same time, I handed over the goods to Old Liu at the joint, but only a small amount of food was poured out each time. This time I was very puzzled, because
I never considered that food would be used up so quickly, and that we could only steal so little if we wanted to.
I went back and forth to help distribute more than ten boxes, which was exhausting and used up more than half of my energy. But the benefit was that I could get a reward from the community service center: a bag of self-heating rice. Although the amount was not much, it was enough for me to eat.
Already.
At the same time, I also learned that the refugee center no longer accepted citizens in need of help because the entrance inside had reached its peak, and food consumption was four times as high as before. Soon, the food delivered by trucks was no longer enough to last for a day.
In other words, I have been busy all day today and can only get a small part of the food. The community will no longer provide food to the citizens starting tomorrow.
After returning home, I reported the matter to Lao Liu, and he just shook his head, his eyes full of confusion.
In the dormitory, I distributed some food to the girl Ju Yetou and the grumpy old sister. Taking this opportunity, I also learned about the life experience of the girl Ju Yetou. It was she who took the initiative to chat with me and Lao Liu. I learned from her
I learned that her name is Zhang Ying and she is a poor household in the city (although I don’t really believe it). Her parents also passed away a long time ago. She dropped out of school and worked in a hotel in the city center. She is a standard poverty alleviation target. To be honest, I also
I quite sympathized with her, and after a day of getting to know each other, it was easier for her to chat with us.
I discovered that we are all the same kind of people...
At noon, I gave some biscuits and candies to Zhang Ying and Lao Liu. Just when I was about to take the food and hand it to the grumpy old lady, an accident happened.
"Ahem..."
We looked at the bed of the grumpy old lady in surprise, and we were shocked to find that she was holding her stomach and coughing up blood like crazy. I also heard that many people had this situation today, some people coughed up blood, and some
The person was unconscious and had a fever and headache. It sounded quite miserable.
"What's going on?" I quickly went up to see what was going on, and saw her face pale, lying on her side on the bed, looking very weak. I just wanted to touch her forehead with the back of my hand, but she stopped me.
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She used all her arm strength to throw my hand away, and reluctantly enunciated: "Don't touch me..."
The three of us looked at her. Although we sympathized with her, there was nothing we could do.
"Should you call the doctor? She seems to have a fever." Zhang Ying frowned and said.
"It's useless. There are no medical supplies in this city, and many resources are almost exhausted. And the current doctors and nurses..." Old Liu stopped mid-sentence, paused, and continued to add: "They
I also got a similar disease."
"God, then... isn't it terrible? Why is this situation happening? I haven't eaten yet, I'm sick, and I don't have any medicine?" I still probably don't know the situation because I don't know much about the situation in the city. Now
The people had nothing to eat and were sick, and the government agencies were nowhere to be seen.
"It's been five days of lockdown. These five days are almost the limit..." Lao Liu's tone dropped.
"How about we try to steal some more?" I suggested.
"It's useless...the medicines, pharmacies, and clinics here are all gone. The supplies are really at the bottom. Where can you steal them?" Old Liu shook his head and sighed again.
"What about other urban areas?" I asked.
"It's been blocked by armed police and police. Now we can only allow transport trucks and the like to come in and out. We can't get out."
"Fuck! What kind of nonsense is this? Are we just waiting here?"
"I don't know what to do. I can only wait now..." Old Liu reluctantly tore open the package of dry food and chewed the food in his hands.
The current situation is getting worse and worse. Although Lao Liu and I can survive these days with a small amount of stolen food, what about other people? They have no food security at all. Even if they do, they still live under the oppression of the disease.
Among them, Lao Liu and I are already very lucky, but this is not a reason for us to sit around and do nothing.
So, we spent another night in panic. On the sixth day, I realized that things had begun to become irreversible. Whether it was the government, the community service center, or the entire city.
In the halls and dormitories, many people were unconscious one after another, and in some places there were even small-scale deaths of civilians. I looked at everything that was happening in front of me in surprise, but there was nothing I could do. People were dying one after another.
, but the whole world just watched helplessly. There is no way to save everyone here.
An inexplicable sense of fear spread among the crowd.
Time will not stop passing me, but the dead will.
At noon on the sixth day, the food in the community had been completely consumed, and the refugee center had stopped providing food and water to the citizens. Soon, the death toll gradually increased. There were three main causes of death, one was due to excessive hunger, and the other was
It's because of severe lack of water. The other... is that inexplicable disease. Patients with this disease first cough, then cough violently, and after a while they will cough up blood, accompanied by fever. Among the states of this disease
Next, their appetite will become higher than before. This is one of the reasons why food consumption will increase.
What happened in the past two days is enough to scare me.
On the night of the sixth day, the death toll increased, and corpses began to pile up in the dormitory. The bodies of the dead began to be burned in the square outside the hall, and the fire and pungent smell surrounded the entire refugee center. My mood began to change.
Depressed, although Lao Liu, Zhang Ying, and I can protect our health and food sources, if this continues we will also fall to the level of those dead people.
And what I don’t know yet is that many people in Nancheng District and surrounding areas have died due to the above reasons, including most of the armed police forces and police, as well as most doctors and ambulance personnel. Therefore, many people do not know
Yes, this city will soon become a city of disorder, with no government management, no survivors, and no resources.
"No, we can't go on like this. The bodies in the next room have already started to be cleaned up! We need to evacuate this place!" Old Liu said to us righteously.
Zhang Ying put her right hand on the hot forehead of the grumpy old sister and said worriedly: "But... where can we go?"
"Compared to here, I think it would be better for us to find a way to evacuate Nancheng District and try our luck elsewhere. There will always be a place with food and water." I answered calmly while holding my chin and leaning on the bed.
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"Indeed, it is not a long-term solution here. Maybe some citizens outside will survive like this." Old Liu snapped his fingers, then turned around to pack the things and food in his satchel.
"Get ready to go, time is very important to us...", I said calmly.
"But! What to do with her? We can't leave her here alone..." Zhang Ying raised her head, raised her tone, and looked at me with embarrassment.
I looked at her, at the irritable girl lying on the bed dying. At this time, she was speechless in pain, her lips were purple, and her body was sweating...
"This...we...", I choked, not knowing what to do.
"We can't take her away," Old Liu said helplessly, "We know this better than anyone else..."
"But..." Zhang Ying wanted to fight for something more, but after thinking about it, she stopped talking and lowered her head.
"Buy some time..." Lao Liu left these words and walked toward the hall. I glanced at the dying girl, silently crossed myself on my chest, and then followed
Go to Lao Liu.
Chapter completed!