Natural Disaster: I Started By Hoarding Tens Of Billions Of Supplies - Chapter 95

Chapter 95: Residents Returning From Rescue Centers
After hearing Shi Xuan’s answer, Long Yu’s eyes flickered for a second. He lowered his eyes and hid his emotions from his friends.

Jia Xiang looked at Long Yu and asked, “Captain, will you inform Commander Xu about our choice?”

Long Yu looked at her and said, “Yes. We need to let him know our decisions so he won’t pin his hopes on us and can find others to help him.”

After discussing for a while, Long Yu returned to his apartment and wrote a letter to Xu Qipeng. He sealed the letter, put on his raincoat, and took off on his motorboat.

In the evening, as soon as Yao Ran finished her daily training, there was a loud noise downstairs. Just as she was about to go and take a look, the sound got louder and louder.

After coming out of the apartment, she saw Huang Zhihui leaning against the metal door. Yao Ran raised her eyebrows slightly and asked, “Zhihui, what are you doing there?”

Huang Zhihui turned around and saw her. She waved to Yao Ran and smiled, “Elder Sister Yao Ran, are you also coming out because of the commotion?”

Yao Ran nodded and walked to her. The two of them leaned against the metal door, listening to the conversation downstairs.

It appears that people are returning from rescue centers. These people wanted to camp on the corridor, but the original residents on the high floors disagreed.

As floodwaters continue to rise, rescue centers are becoming more crowded day after day.

People don’t eat well or sleep well and are very tired because they need to be constantly on guard against theft. No one can endure such a tiring life for a long time.

After considering the pros and cons, these people decided to return home. Living in the corridor is several times better than living in a small place in a rescue center where they can’t even stretch their legs while sleeping.

However, no matter how they begged, the original residents disagreed to let them stay in the corridor.

It’s hard enough for them to live decently in this damp weather, heavy rain, and lack of supplies, but now they have to deal with these people living in the corridors. They just can’t accept it!

These people do everything outside the door every day, including eating, drinking, and defecating, which is very frustrating for the original residents. Moreover, because supplies were scarce, the original residents couldn’t relax and felt that these people would rob them of their supplies.

How can they live in peace with these people living outside their door? What if they were killed while sleeping at night?

Just thinking about it makes the original residents shudder in fear.

After all, just two days ago, Lu Hong and his teammates were robbed at night. No one knew who the robbers were, and no one could get the supplies back.

After that day, many robberies occurred, and everyone became more wary of strangers and no longer helped others easily.

No residents were willing to accommodate those who had just returned, so they were forced to seek help from floor to floor. Soon, they arrived at the 18th floor and saw a metal door installed on the stairs to the 19th floor.

These people said nothing and went to find the people who lived on the 18th floor. When the middle-aged woman living in unit 1803 heard their request, she put one hand on her hip and pointed toward the stairs with the other.

“We can’t accommodate you here. The people living on the 19th and 20th floors have a lot of supplies. You should go to them instead of begging us who have nothing to eat.”

After hearing her words, everyone’s eyes lit up. Thanking the middle-aged woman, they hurried to knock on the metal door blocking the stairs toward the 19th floor.

Seeing this, the woman snorted coldly and said with obvious jealousy in her voice, “I would like to see if you can still be arrogant after today. Humph!”

Listening to the knock on the metal door, Huang Zhihui looked at Yao Ran and said, “It seems that the woman living in unit 1803 deliberately led these people to trouble us. Elder Sister Yao Ran, what should we do now?”

Yao Ran smiled at her and calmly said, “We can just refuse them.”

As she spoke, a desperate voice came from the other side of the metal door. Although they knew that the people living on the 20th floor were ruthless, they could only grit their teeth and try their luck.

The man leading the group looked at his thin wife and son. After thinking about it for a few seconds, he clenched his hands and kneeled decisively on the cold floor.

He banged his head on the floor and sincerely said, “Please let us stay by the rooftop door. We promise not to disturb you.”

When the others saw him kneeling on the ground, they quickly knelt down and begged.

“Please give us a way to survive.”

“We promise not to cause trouble or disturb anyone living on the 19th and 20th floors.”

Yao Ran wouldn’t let them live on the 19th or 20th floor. These people had just returned from a rescue center, and no one knew what they had gone through there. She doesn’t want to test people’s hearts, nor does she want to invite wolves into her home.

Yao Ran looked at the people kneeling outside and said calmly, “It’s useless for you to beg me.”

As soon as she finished speaking, a sarcastic female voice suddenly sounded from the corridor, “How could it be useless?”

When Yao Ran heard the familiar and annoying voice, she looked toward the corridor on the 18th floor and saw the middle-aged woman living in unit 1803.

The woman put her hands on her hips and said, “All of you just came back, so you may not know this. This morning, the soldiers came to distribute supplies to us. Each household registration can only receive one pack of supplies.”