Catastrophe.
After the sudden catastrophe, the earth was devastated, species mutated, food was scarce, the living environment was poor, the era was completely destroyed, and civilization was gone.
...
Three hundred kilometers away from the left side of the Ninth Special Administrative Region, in an anonymous street, a twenty-three year old youth, pursing his shirt, walked quickly with his head down.
The street was dilapidated and ugly, the underground sewage system had been completely paralyzed an unknown number of years ago, and an improvised outdoor toilet emitting a foul smell was connected to the rows of market houses. Lighting is rare throughout the area, and from time to time a group of people can be seen standing on the side of the road, but there are mostly women and fewer men.
The young man who was walking quickly and without looking down was named Qin Yu, who stood at a height of one meter eighty-two and had a strong body. He was unemployed today and was preparing to buy an official resident status in the Ninth Special Administrative Region to complete the first step of his plan.
Originally, Qin Yu was a sunny and handsome young man, but now he was dressed in a somewhat unkempt manner, with an unshaven beard, slightly long hair sticking to his face, and his clothes full of grease and stains, making him inconspicuous in the crowd.
Walking quickly, Qin Yu looked up at the intersection and prepared to return to his residence from the left side.
"Little brother, little brother ...!"
A crisp shout rang out as a woman wearing a somewhat white washed dress wrapped in a jacket lightly pulled Qin Yu at the side of the road.
Qin Yu froze for a moment and looked back, "What for?"
"Thirty dollars." The woman raised three slender fingers, looked back at the dilapidated market house behind her and whispered, "Let's go there."
"Heh, can't afford to play." Qin Yu smiled and took a step to continue walking.
"Wait." The woman reached out and tugged Qin Yu again, "Twenty-five, twenty-five okay?"
Qin Yu looked back at the woman and continued to shake his head after a long pause, "I don't have any money."
"Don't fancy me? There's someone else in the house."
"Really don't have any money." Qin Yu flung his arm, "Let go of me, I'm in a hurry to go home."
The woman bit her red lip, her small hand gripping Qin Yu tightly, and was silent for half a day before she added softly, "Two bowls of rice is fine, but it has to be in the amount of bowls I have."
Qin Yu frowned, "I said no, get lost!"
The woman still didn't let go of her hand, and looked back blearily at a group of seven or eight year old children next to the gatehouse and said, "... I have three children, and if I don't get any business tonight, I won't be able to feed them ... Little brother, do me a favor and help me out for once , a bowl of rice is fine, I will kneel down for you."
Qin Yu looked at the woman and said indifferently, "How many years has the world been like this? In such an environment, without the ability to feed, what are you giving birth to?"
The woman froze.
Qin Yu vigorously shrugged off his arm and pursed the bosom of his coat as he continued forward.
After standing in place for a long time, the woman flew back to the gatehouse, coming up for air, "That man has, he has. When I yanked him, I saw something in his coat pocket."
...
About half an hour later.
Qin Yu returned to a dilapidated six-story building and followed the old and dusty steps into the home he had placed himself in on the fifth floor.
Only Qin Yu and his friend Xiao Zhuang lived in this building, and many of the outer walls had collapsed, so in the past it would have been considered a dangerous building on the verge of demolition. But in this day and age, the meaning of home is limited to where you are, not where you live. Qin Yu chose this place because it didn't have electric lights or a water source, and he didn't need to bear any expensive living expenses.
The house was very simple, a bed, two broken cabinets, no entertainment facilities, the only military fan magazine that was torn up, the issue time on it was still 2019.
After entering the house, Qin Yu took off his dirty jacket, carried out a polished canvas bag from his arms, carefully came to the bedside, picked up a broken bowl, and started to serve tantalizing white rice out from it, and opened his mouth to shout, "Xiaozhuang, is the rice ready yet?"
"Not yet, I just came back too." After someone in the inner room responded, a young man of similar age to Qin Yu walked out, with dark skin and a tough face.
"Stomp!"
Just as Qin Yu was about to talk to Xiao Zhuang, deafening footsteps suddenly came from downstairs. He froze for a moment and immediately hid the bags and bowls in the cupboard, striding to the doorway that only had a worn wooden board door.
In less than ten seconds, seven or eight children under the age of ten, leading dozens of men and women, appeared in the stairwell.
The stairs were outdoors, with cracked cement and aging iron railings, and with so many people rushing up at once, and at such a rapid pace, the broken building seemed to be shaking for a while.
Qin Yu immediately reached out and shouted, "Don ... t go up so violently, damn, the stairs are going to collapse."
"Uncle, hungry."
"Uncle, I want to eat ...."
"...!"
The children took a small bowl each and stood on the stairs, looking at Qin Yu in a dirty way.
"Uncle is also hungry, did you have dinner at your house, did not eat we a piece ah?" Qin Yu smiled back playfully.
The children were innocent in their eyes and simple in their thinking, but the adults behind them were ripping off the most basic human disguises. One burly man with a shaved bald head was the first to shout, "Take the grain, you can't get off without it."
"I don't have any food," returned Qin Yu, waving his hand, "I really don't have any. We are all starving ghosts in this waiting planning area, it's not easy for all of us, if I really have it, I won't say that I will protect you, at least I will give ... it to you."
"Less nonsense, see you put food." The strong man continued to shout, "Hurry up, take it and we will go, not much, just take half."
"No."
Qin Yu shook his head.
"Go into his house." The strong man shouted with a thick voice.
"Uncle, I want food."
"Give me food."
"...!"
The crowd swarmed up, and the stairs hanging outside the building shook once again, seemingly threatening to collapse at any moment.
Qin Yu looked at the crowds, all of a sudden red eyes, right leg raised, right hand in the dirty pants leg yanked out a dagger, pointing to the crowd shouted: "Damn, bullying old man is a lone wolf ah? Who the hell is afraid of death here? I've got the food, so I'll give you the dagger if I break it."
The crowd briefly froze for a moment, and the burly man indifferently shouted, "The children are in front, you stab all the children to death first."
"I fucking ...!" Qin Yu was momentarily speechless.
"Go into the house and get the grain." The strong man waved his hand and roared again.
As the words fell, the people on the steps swarmed forward, and the children instantly gathered around, tugging at Qin Yu and shouting, "Uncle, give me food."
"Uncle, I haven't eaten for days."
"Get lost, all of you!"
Qin Yu took the dagger and hopelessly shouted at the children, "Otherwise I really stabbed it, I stabbed ... it."
Inside the house, Xiao Zhuang saw the conflict at the door, immediately stepped forward to stop Qin Yu and shouted at the crowd, "Don't be impulsive, have a good conversation."
The children were so hungry that they weren't afraid of anything, and only pestered Qin Yu, while the adults at the back had already squeezed up through the gap.
Qin Yu, a strong man, took a step sideways and got stuck in the doorway, roaring with his eyes, "I only live for myself, don't force me!"
The crowd rushed towards the door in a frenzy, paying no attention to Qin Yu's words.
Qin Yu had been yanked by the low-sized children, toward the side of the doorway, but there was no way for him to do a real stabbing, so he could only struggle his body and prepare to deal with the adults coming up.
"Uncle, just give me a bowl of rice ...."
"Scram!"
A child in his teens, when he made a strong tug on Qin Yu, the latter violently flung his arm and prepared to break free, but he didn't expect the child to headbutt the onrushing crowd, and then, with unsteady footsteps, he fell out of the gap in the iron fence on his back.
"Ah!!!"
A child's terrified scream flooded out, echoing for a long time.
"Boom!"
The sound of a body hitting the ground followed closely by the sound of a body hitting the ground flooded downstairs.
Qin Yu and Xiao Zhuang were confused, gasping for breath as they looked towards the iron railing, a bit at a loss for words.
The crowd was quiet and the stairs returned to smoothness.
"Kid, that kid fell." Xiao Zhuang was the first to yell urgently.
Dozens of people craned their heads toward the stairs, their expressions wooden and and silent for less than two seconds before they collectively craned their heads again. The child's mother, on the other hand, froze for a long time before rushing downstairs with an ow.
Qin Yu froze.
"Food."
"The child has fallen, and he definitely won't be allowed to leave without food."
"Rob him."
"...!"
The shouts shook the sky and the momentum was so strong that none of the rest of the crowd turned around to look at the child who had fallen downstairs, but continued to huddle in one piece to rush inside.
Xiao Zhuang stood in the doorway, staring at the crowd of people who crowded over, his heart is very clear, if he does not make some blood today, then he will definitely have to fight for his life, so he licked his lips and shouted, "OK, you guys bull B, I admit that I am a wimp, and the old man admits ... that I will get it for you. "
Qin Yu sniffed immediately clutched Xiao Zhuang's arm and ordered in a low voice: "Can't give, can't give at all."
Xiao Zhuang looked at the crowed crowd outside the door and responded with glaring eyes, "The grain has leaked, and without giving a little sweetness, this group of people certainly can not go."
"You will be in more trouble if you give a sweetener." Qin Yu responded in a very serious tone, "I'd rather fight for my life than let go."
"Bullshit!" Xiao Zhuang didn't see things the same way as Qin Yu, he insisted, "You're the only one of us who has a hand in this, but there are so many people out there, are you sure you can suppress them? If you can't, we'll be robbed. They are already red-eyed, can't you see that?"
"Just listen to me and be done with it, I'll go back and get the ringer."
"Xiao Yu, can't you see? The child fell and they didn t even leave, these people have no sense ... anymore." Xiao Zhuang tugged Qin Yu's arm away and responded in a low voice, "We have enough to eat, and what should be exchanged for money has also been exchanged for money, giving them a bowl of rice is not a big loss for us, so I don't want to gamble with my life. I have a share of the grain, and I have the right to decide what to do with him."
Qin Yu was speechless when he heard this.
Xiao Zhuang squares his position, glaring at the lead burly man and yelling, "Staying in the planning area is also a way to survive in the planning area, take the rice, stop making trouble and get the hell out of here!"
"Can't starve, surely roll right away." The leading strong man nodded his head.
Xiao Zhuang sniffed and retreated, stepped back to the house to fetch a large bowl of rice, banged on the ground: "Get lost."
Dozens of people looked at the rice on the ground, their eyes all glowing with greed, but none of them took the initiative to go forward to take it.
The lead burly man was silent for a few seconds, reached out and drew down the cloth bag tied around his waist and poured the rice in with a single gulp.
"Get lost!" Xiao Zhuang drove away with an impatient face.
The crowd stood in the doorway without moving, the lead strong man sizing up the duo, his forehead sweating as he tied the rice around his waist, and did not leave immediately.
"I'm telling you to leave, can't you understand?" Xiao Zhuang frowned and repelled again.
After a moment of silence, no one in the crowd knew who shouted, "Fuck, he can give us a bowl of rice, there's at least a big bag of rice!"
"Give more, there are too many people, these won't be enough to eat at all."
"Give the rice."
"Otherwise go in and grab it, what's the nonsense."
"...!"
Shouting, shouting and cursing once again spread throughout the six storey small building, and this time someone in the crowd secretly took out a knife, a murder weapon, and looked at Xiao Zhuang with a gloomy gaze, and his expression was completely ungrateful ...
The leading strong man spread out his palms, the words said in a low voice: "You also see, these people are hungry and crazy, I simply can not suppress, or you take out the rice bag, we split half of it."
"You guys fucking ...!" Xiao Zhuang got anxious and also took out a knife from his arms.
"What are you doing, want to put up a fight?"
"Afraid of you? I'm starving to death, but I'm still afraid of moving knives and guns?"
"...!"
The crowd was not afraid of Xiao Zhuang at all, taking steps to follow the strong man and rushed towards the house.
Xiao Zhuang was confused, standing in place already at a loss for words. At this moment, he wanted to make a move, but he didn't have the confidence to be able to deal with these grain robbers who were going crazy in front of him; but if he didn't make a move, it was obvious that he would not be able to protect his own things.
"Crunch, crunch!"
Right at this moment, Qin Yu yanked out a twenty-centimeter-long, three-barrel, rotary-loading, large-caliber pistol from the cabinet, turned the holster and loaded it at the first opportunity.
The crowd instinctively stopped in their tracks after seeing the gun.
Qin Yu pulled out a large bag of grain from the cupboard with no expression on his face and threw it on the floor, shouting, "The grain is all here, if you want to eat it, you can come up and get it."
The crowd was silent.
"Who are you scaring?" The lead burly man with red eyes slapped and hollered, "No food is a death, are we still afraid of you with a broken gun?"
Qin Yu looked at the other with a crooked neck, his left hand pointed at the grain bag and shouted, "The grain is right here, you can take it with your long hand, you come up here?!"
The lead burly man only hesitated for half a second before turning around and shouting, "There are so many of us, and he only has one gun, I don't believe he can kill them all."
After saying that, the lead burly man took a step forward and reached out to grab the grain bag.
"Hyper!"
The gun went off and the gears turned.
The leading burly man flew out half a meter away before his blood spilled on the floor and a large hole was blasted out of his chest.
Qin Yu held the gun in his right hand and shouted with an expression without any ripples, "Without food to eat, you guys might be starved to death in a few days. But right now, whoever reaches out for it first, I'll fuck him up first with one shot."
When the crowd heard this, they all looked at each other without saying a word.
"I still have two rounds of bullets, will you guys take them?" Qin Yu suddenly asked in a stormy voice.
The crowd fell back two steps at the sound.
Qin Yu stepped forward, bent down and untied the grain bag that the strong man had tied around his waist, and shouted in a small voice, "Xiao Zhuang, take the stuff, let's go."
Xiao Zhuang immediately went back to the house at the sound of his voice.
Qin Yu held his gun in his right hand and shouted, "Yard two rows, make way for me."
The crowd didn't move.
Qin Yu raised his hand and aimed his gun at the nearest person and yelled, "Make way or not?"
That person hesitated for half a second and immediately made way, at which point the rest of the people followed suit and made way down the stairs.
Five minutes later, Qin Yu walked downstairs and saw the mother bawling as she held her child who had been injured by the fall.
Qin Yu was silent for a few seconds, reached over and threw the rice he had just given to the strong man and said, "They will be coming down soon, so hide the grain."
The mother froze and immediately took the grain bag and responded, "Thank you, thank you, I will kowtow to you, there is no need to die if there is grain ...."
Qin Yu led Xiao Zhuang and quickly disappeared into the dark night.
...
Inside the troop camp on the left side of the waiting planning area, a black man showed his big white teeth and asked in fluent Chinese, "There were shots fired inside just now, should I go take a look?"
"Look at a ghost Oh, here every day in the robbery of food, are dead, the troops of the car they dare to ambush, we count how old ah ...?" Inside the house, an old gun smoking poor quality dry cigarettes, lazily lying on the worn wooden bed responded.