Reborn in the end of the world, I scavenged in the empty city and bought for free

Liu Feng was very surprised by the appearance of Zhang Ran and Xiao Mo. The two had been missing for at least one month. Since they took a speedboat to F1 for the owners' meeting during the rainstorm, they had not come back to report any information. Later, due to the rising water level, Liu Feng was busy mediating various materials and conflicts with the owners, so he could only focus on buildings A1 and A2. The nearest building B had to be handed over to Zhang Xiaofen and Xu Hong.

Therefore, Building F and Building D, which are farther apart, are basically out of touch, and there is no news coming out of these two buildings. Liu Feng guessed that maybe, as Zhang Xiaofen said, Zhang Ran went to live with her aunt in Building F.

Zhang Ran and Xiao Mo seemed like different people, especially Zhang Ran, who was introverted and gentle before. Now there was a layer of indifference in his eyes. Even when facing Liu Feng, he was no longer shy and stuttering as before. Instead, his tone was indifferent. Xiao Mo, who was always extroverted, was also silent. A long scar appeared on the corner of his eye, making him look even more gloomy and dull.

He only said that he and Zhang Ran had to stay in F1 temporarily to do the comfort work in order to ease the owners' excitement because of the riot in Building F1 after the heavy rain. It was only after seeing the abnormal weather during this period that they thought about coming back to report on their work.

Liu Feng was skeptical about this, but seeing that the two men looked tired, he decided not to ask any more questions. He asked Xu Hong to set aside a separate space in a corner of the living room, letting Xiao Mo and Xiao Li squeeze in the living room temporarily, while Xu Hong and Zhang Ran stayed in the same room.

Zhang Xiaofen's family originally lived on the 14th floor. The previous flood directly submerged her house. She arranged for her parents to live in the dining room here, and she shared a room with Xu Hong. Now that Zhang Ran is here, the room will become more crowded, and one more person means one more mouth to feed, and supplies will have to be redistributed. Thinking of this, Zhang Xiaofen's attitude towards Zhang Ran became even worse.

On the first day Zhang Ran moved in, Zhang Xiaofen started to make things difficult for him. Not only did she refuse to give up her big bed because of her age, she also let Zhang Ran sleep in the corner. People who didn't know would think that Zhang Xiaofen was the owner of the house.

As a result, Xu Hong was so angry that she insisted on taking out her own quilt to use as a cushion for Zhang Ran.

Zhang Xiaofen watched Xu Hong help Zhang Ran make the bed. She trimmed her nails and pouted, "We are under a lot of pressure now. There were originally seven people living in this three-bedroom, one-living room house, which was a bit of a stretch. Now there are two more people. Even my parents are not qualified to sleep in the bedroom. The old man is not in good health and has complained to me these days that he can't sleep well in the dining room."

Zhang Ran had very little luggage. Like Xiao Mo, she only carried a black backpack and two luggage bags filled with some compressed biscuits and instant noodles. The rest were just a few sets of clothes. However, there was a water shortage at the end of the world, and she and Xiao Mo hadn't had a real hot bath for a long time. Now her hair and body were greasy, and she could even smell a sour odor when she got closer.

Zhang Ran silently put his towel and a thin blanket aside, without any response to Zhang Xiaofen's cold words.

Xu Hong is seven or eight years older than Zhang Ran. She usually has a sharp tongue but a soft heart. After working with Zhang Ran for half a year, she thinks the girl is nice. Although she is introverted, she works hard. She also guessed that Zhang Ran might have experienced something during this period, but she didn't ask. Now she heard Zhang Xiaofen nagging and nagging, so she raised her head and glared at her, impatiently saying, "Sister Zhang, if you don't speak, no one will listen, but you are dumb. And, Zhang Ran was originally our employee. We agreed before that this apartment is only for our employees to work and live temporarily. You didn't tell us in advance when you brought your parents over. Now that Zhang Ran is here, you object? If it's me, your parents are the ones who have nothing to do with us here. Why didn't you let them leave?"

Zhang Xiaofen got angry when she heard this and rushed to Xu Hong. "How can you talk like that? My parents are so old. Why don't you just stay here and let them squeeze through the aisle with other people? You are so cruel. You think the elderly are useless and want them to die soon, right?"

Xu Hong was not a pushover either. She sneered and said bluntly, "I'm telling you, Zhang Xiaofen, stop using moral blackmail. What do you mean by I told them to die? They're not my parents. How can I support them? Besides, I see your parents have arms and legs and are in good health, but here they don't do any work except standing on the balcony watching the flood or running to the corridor to chat with people. Housework was previously done by Xiao Li alone. The two old people feel dizzy when they cook and light a fire. Why didn't they feel dizzy when they were eating? They even ate half a pot of porridge this morning. I don't think they are dizzy. They have a serious disease that makes them dizzy when they work!"

Zhang Xiaofen was so angry that she pointed her finger at Xu Hong, but in the end she couldn't achieve anything, after all, everything Xu Hong said made sense.

It can be said that Zhang Xiaofen has perfectly inherited her parents' lazy, greedy and cunning character. The three of them stay in the house every day doing nothing. Even if they go out to search for supplies, Zhang Xiaofen's family will make various excuses to shirk their responsibilities.

Liu Feng also talked to Zhang Xiaofen privately. Zhang Xiaofen behaved quite humble in front of Liu Feng and promised to correct her behavior every time. But in fact, within three days, this family would show their true colors again and cling to Liu Feng like leeches. The trouble was that he could not really kick Zhang Xiaofen out, otherwise, with Zhang Xiaofen's personality, she would cause more trouble in the future.

As soon as Zhang Xiaofen left, Xu Hong comforted Zhang Ran: "Don't pay attention to her. This house is not hers. If she provokes you again, you should learn from me and kill her directly."

Zhang Ran pulled the corners of his mouth and revealed a helpless smile, but then his eyes dimmed again. After making the mattress, he went to the living room with Xu Hong.

Liu Feng and Xiao Li were both shirtless. The temperature outside was as high as 46 or 47 degrees Celsius, and the indoor temperature was 35 degrees Celsius. Several people couldn't stand the heat. Liu Feng drank water and used a fan to cool down.

Xiao Li was silently carving wood nearby. During this period of time, he found a lot of old furniture and carved the wood into sharp arrow shapes. It turned out that he made a simple bow and arrow by himself. Some time ago, Xu Hong saw him try it out against a flood. It could shoot about seven or eight meters away, but the power was not that great. It was at most a means of self-protection. For this, Zhang Xiaofen laughed at him and said it was a waste of effort.

"This damn weather is terrible." Zhang Xiaofen was wearing a loose short-sleeved shirt, sweat seeping from her neck to her chest. She sat on the chair with her legs open, looking ungraceful. Her parents nodded and said, "It must be almost 50 degrees outside. Your mom and I are so hot that we can't stand it."

As soon as he finished speaking, a noisy sound came from outside the door.

Xu Hong frowned and said helplessly, "There must be a quarrel over there at the corridor. The weather has been hot recently and everyone's tempers have become more and more violent. Yesterday, people on the eleventh and twelfth floors even had a fight."

Zhang Xiaofen glanced at Zhang Ran and Xu Hong, and suddenly said in a sarcastic tone: "With two more people in the house, how can it not be hot? It's normal for some people to be angry. I'm angry now too."

Liu Feng said: "The sun is so strong, please don't go out for the time being, as it will easily cause heat stroke."

Xiao Li shook his head and smiled bitterly: "This morning, the owner of the seventh and eighth floors wanted to borrow a speedboat from us. We had to borrow it. Xiao Mo and I couldn't stop him."

"Are you crazy? Going out in this weather is simply seeking death." Liu Feng frowned and looked towards the balcony. The heat wave outside made the buildings not far away look distorted, and he felt very panicked.

It is true that some individual owners took advantage of the drop in the water level and had a fight with the property management in the morning, and finally managed to borrow a speedboat. Then six men and two women paddled out in a hurry, and even though it was hot, they could not control their desire to find supplies.

Liu Feng and Xiao Li put on their clothes and went out, saying that they were planning to hold an owners' meeting tonight and remind the owners in the corridor a few more times to try to stay out as little as possible in this weather.

There were few people coming to the meeting at night. A few candles were lit in the room, and the flickering shadows of the candles kept swaying in the hall.

There were only about twenty people this time. The others would rather stay in the house because the weather was so hot and the temperature dropped a few degrees at night.

A group of people who went out this morning suffered from heatstroke when they came back. If the property management hadn't asked someone to make a big pot of cooling tea, I'm afraid they would have continued to lie paralyzed.

Someone here asked about the current situation in the community. Zhang Ran and Xiao Mo were in charge of Building F and Building E during the heavy rain, so they were responsible for explaining the situation of these two buildings.

Zhang Ran looked at the owners below who were chatting in low voices or doing other things with impatient expressions. There was no light in his eyes and his voice was as mechanical as a robot.

"Since the heavy rain and flooding, everyone in Building F has moved to the high-rise corridors. The government sent people to provide assistance once before, and a group of elderly people and children have been taken away. The current situation is similar to that of Building A, and there has been no rioting for the time being."

"It seems that there was a break-in in Building D. Was there no break-in in Building F?"

Zhang Ran shook his head, his tone still calm: "No."

Someone else asked, "I heard that Building F received the most assistance, and more than half of the people went to the rescue center."

Zhang Ran nodded and did not deny it.

"Then, those floating corpses that rushed over from upstream weren't from Building F, right?"

Zhang Ran suddenly revealed an inexplicable smile, but the next moment he shook his head seriously, "No, Building F is safe now. You might be talking about someone who rushed into our neighborhood from outside."

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they heard this. If someone really died in the Zijing community, then the community would definitely no longer be safe.

Some people below began to whisper to each other.

"Doesn't that mean there are a lot of vacant houses in Building F?"

"Of course it is. It's much better than our Building A. It's also convenient to go out and search for supplies. It can save two or three hundred meters of distance."

"I've slept enough at the entrance of the corridor. If the water level is lower, I might as well go over there. It's better to stay indoors in such hot weather."

"Well, I'll go too. I'm single and I'll be fine with just a kitchen."

"Then I'll go too, with my parents."

While the discussion below was in full swing, Liu Feng was secretly thinking that if there were any vacant houses in Building F, he could send a group of people there to ease the pressure here.

Everyone was caught in an inexplicably relaxed atmosphere, and no one noticed that Zhang Ran, who was standing on the side, had increasingly cold eyes, with a mocking arc at the corner of his mouth.

Xiao Mo, who was beside Zhang Ran, clenched his fists and wanted to speak several times, but finally gave up the words that were stuck in his throat.

He looked at the excited people below and thought that life had hope, but the guilt in his heart was spreading infinitely.

Building F is not a peaceful haven. Perhaps what awaits them is only deep despair.