Liu Tiantian's remarks were immediately met with ridicule from a group of male property owners.
"In this darned doomsday, who's still pampering you little fairies?"
"Hehe, do you truly think highly of yourself?"
"Risking our lives to protect you, are you worthy?"
Uncle You, who was criticized, was left speechless.
He couldn't comprehend why, despite his good intentions for everyone, they all had such attitudes.
Being a man of few words, he decided not to speak any further.
Observing the lively chat within the group, Zhang Yi found it rather entertaining, treating it like a joke.
After all, entertainment options were limited nowadays!
In summary, he had one conclusion.
The majority of the people in this owners' group were deserving of their imminent demise.
The verbal battle in the chat group grew increasingly intense.
Perhaps due to pent-up frustration, everyone found an outlet for release, unleashing all their bottled-up emotions.
The chat group was filled with malicious and filthy language, unbearable to the ears.
To the point that they forgot the original purpose of creating the group.
Zhang Yi placed his phone aside and entered the kitchen.
Although there were many ready-made meals in the dimensional space, occasionally, he enjoyed cooking to savor life.
Fetching fresh ingredients from the dimensional space, the potatoes, scallions, and garlic seemed as if just unearthed from the soil.
The beef brisket was also incredibly tender, with a tempting, fresh red hue.
Walmart truly lived up to its reputation as the world's top supermarket brand; the quality of the selected goods was beyond reproach.
Zhang Yi simmered a pot of potato and beef brisket stew, and following the method for clay pot chicken, he attached some buns to the side of the pot.
Once stewed, the buns absorbed the broth, becoming exceptionally delicious.
Picking up his phone, he noticed new messages from Fang Yuqing and Lin Caining.
This time, the messages carried tones of desperate pleading.
Fang Yuqing and Lin Caining were crying intensely, evidently frightened by Chen Zhenghao's murderous actions.
These two delicate flowers were not equipped to resist evildoers.
Hence, they were highly likely to become the targets of Chen Zhenghao's next onslaught.
Especially after witnessing the sturdy anti-theft door in Zhang Yi's home, they saw it as a secure haven and desired to move in.
"Zhang Yi, no matter our past conflicts, you must have loved me at some point, right?"
"You can't just watch me die, can you?"
"I know you seem tough on the surface, but your heart is soft. Please, save me!"
Lin Caining, even more shameless than Fang Yuqing, had no limits.
"Zhang Yi, I don't want to die. If you let me stay in your home, I'll do anything! Just don't let me die at the hands of those people."
Zhang Yi could feel their inner fear.
Honestly, if Zhang Yi's house wasn't reinforced at this moment, living in a cold and food-deprived environment, his despair wouldn't be much less than these two.
But would he pity these two women?
Haha, certainly not!
After all, the current scenario was what he most eagerly wanted to see.
The more desperate they became, the more excited Zhang Yi felt.
He remained silent, just leisurely sending a video to them.
In the video, there was a large pot of potato and beef brisket stew in front of Zhang Yi, and a fireplace burning brightly not far away.
The atmosphere in the room was warm and peaceful, a stark contrast to the swirling snow and howling northern wind outside.
For the two women at this moment, it was undoubtedly a tremendous stimulus.
After all, they couldn't even guarantee if they could survive, let alone having a full meal.
The two of them continued with a barrage of pleas in the subsequent messages, requesting Zhang Yi to allow them to live together in his room.
Zhang Yi chose to ignore them.
No promises, no refusals.
He just wanted to leave them a glimmer of hope, making them painfully aware that hope was faint, yet they still had to come and grovel before him.
The day passed in such a dull manner.
After Chen Zhenghao and his group seized a certain amount of supplies, they wouldn't be in a hurry to strike again.
They understood that if they went too far, it would unite all the property owners against them.
Gather, pacify, and then strike; that was the most reasonable approach.
However, that night, through surveillance, Zhang Yi sensed some unusual movements from Chen Zhenghao's group.
During the night, the entire Tianhai City was without power, and only Zhang Yi's house was illuminated, but the residents of the same unit didn't notice.
Zhang Yi saw several of Chen Zhenghao's henchmen carrying two corpses out of the door.
Zhang Yi carefully observed and found those two people somewhat familiar.
The reason he remembered them so clearly was that he knew almost all the property owners in the entire unit building.
But the appearances of these two didn't seem to belong to their unit.
Therefore, they must have been among the lackeys Chen Zhenghao had called over when it first started snowing.
After a moment of contemplation, Zhang Yi quickly figured out what was going on.
When Chen Zhenghao and his group attacked Zhang Yi's home that day, they were repelled by Zhang Yi with a large water pipe.
And in this extreme cold of minus sixty or seventy degrees, this was exceptionally lethal.
Therefore, these two people should have frozen to death.
Colds, fevers caused by low temperatures—if there was no comfortable environment and treatment with drugs like ibuprofen, death wasn't surprising.
Otherwise, why was the average lifespan so short in ancient times?
Both corpses were stripped of all clothing and thrown into the stairwell.
Frowning, Zhang Yi initially couldn't understand the purpose of their actions.
If they merely wanted to dispose of the bodies, they could directly throw them out of the window, and the heavy snow would bury everything.
Why throw them at the door?
However, as his thoughts shifted, Zhang Yi suddenly had a terrifying idea, causing his pupils to slightly contract!
Did Chen Zhenghao leave behind these corpses as... reserve food?
This thought made Zhang Yi's body hairs stand on end, sending shivers down his spine.
But this explanation was indeed the most rational.
In the extreme cold, the world became a massive refrigerator, eliminating concerns about food spoilage.
Modern interpretations of the apocalypse were often drawn from films with apocalyptic themes.
And eating human flesh was not a rare occurrence in those themes.
In the recorded history of humanity, during times of great disaster, there were horrifying accounts of cannibalism, such as the consumption of rice and human flesh.
Perhaps the peaceful years had caused some people to forget the written history documented in black and white.
Until the arrival of the apocalypse.
Zhang Yi took a deep breath, and his rapidly beating heart quickly calmed down.
Compared to ordinary people, he accepted this reality faster.
After all, he had experienced an apocalypse before and had been eaten by others.
He knew that when resources were exhausted, due to hunger, humans could resort to any cruel behavior, devouring anything edible.
"Chen Zhenghao, truly a ruthless
person!"
Even though Zhang Yi didn't like that gangster, he couldn't help but marvel.
Many people understood the principle.
But someone who could consider their brothers' corpses as reserve food before the food ran out was on the verge of losing humanity.