Abnormal survival in the end times

Chapter 42 Sowing discord
Bai Li and Qiqi squatted in the corridor outside their house, pretending not to hear the noise coming from Room 402.

She cooked the mutton porridge and came back home, and asked Qiqi to put a pot of water outside to boil.

Because the fire was strong enough, the water was boiled soon.

"Hello, Mama Chichi."

Bai Li took down the kettle and was cleaning up the iron triangle stool and the remaining unburned wood when the door of Room 602 opened and Wenwen's father came down from the sixth floor with a thermos in his hand.

"Mother Qiqi, can you give me a cup of hot water?"

When he said this, his face was a little unnatural, and at the same time a little apologetic, "I know I should give you something in exchange, but someone came into my house and took all the things. So."

Since she had taken a bucket of water from his house before, Bai Li did not refuse his request. She picked up the kettle and poured him a full cup.

“Thank you, thank you, thank you very much!”

Wenwen's father was so grateful that he kept thanking her.

He hesitated before leaving, and then asked, "Qiqi's mother, please tell me, do you know my wife and my daughter?"

Bai Li looked up at him, bewildered.

Wenwen's father saw her expression and sighed, "It seems that you don't know, then who broke the lock of my house, do you know?"

Bai Li shook her head, "I don't know."

How could he not know when the distance was so close?
Seeing that Wenwen's father didn't want to say more, he didn't ask any more questions and turned to go upstairs.

Just as he left, before he even entered the house, the grandfather from 402 on the fourth floor climbed up and said to Bai Li with a smile on his face, "Qiqi's mother, my grandson is hungry. Give me a bowl of the meat you just cooked. We are all neighbors, and we should help each other. What's more, he is just a child. You can't bear to let him starve, right?"

As he spoke, he handed the bowl in his hand towards her.

Bai Li seemed to have neither heard nor seen anything, and did not even glance at him. She lowered her head and continued to pick up the wood and iron stools on the ground.

After moving everything and the kettle back home, he slammed the door shut.

402 Grandpa’s face turned pale, and he opened his mouth to curse, but just as he was about to open his mouth, the door suddenly opened again.

He saw the woman from 501 standing inside the door holding a knife in her hand, looking at him coldly, "If you dare to curse me, I'll chop off your head, believe it or not."

402 Grandpa turned around and went downstairs at an unprecedented speed, and soon there was a slam of a door closing downstairs.

Bai Li curled her lips in disdain, closed the door and went home to have breakfast.

But after a while, she heard deliberately light footsteps passing by her door and going straight up to the sixth floor.

Then the door to the sixth floor was pushed open, and a female voice shouted, "Who are you?"

Then the door was closed and she could no longer hear what was being said inside.

Bai Li lowered her eyes with contempt and continued to drink her porridge.

But she was a little confused. In the past, it was always the grandmother who took the lead in seeking a bargain. Why did it become the grandfather today?
It seems that the grandma hasn't shown up since she was cooking in the corridor yesterday. Strange, this is not her style, right?

What Bai Li didn't know was that ever since she witnessed the mother and son being inexplicably burned to death at her doorstep the day before yesterday, the grandmother in Room 402 now avoids her house like the plague and doesn't dare to get close to it at all.

That's why she would rather scold her daughter-in-law and ask her to come, or ask the old man to come, while she herself would never show up.

Sixth floor.

After the grandfather of 402 pushed open the door of 602, he ignored the roar of the strange woman, closed the door and said to Wenwen's father, "I know who broke the door lock of your house. It was the woman on the fifth floor, 501. She and the women on the second floor, 201 and 401, broke open your door. They also killed your wife and daughter, and took away all your belongings and divided them up."

When listening to the first part, Wenwen's father showed a surprised expression on his face, but when he heard the later part about killing his wife and daughter, his expression faded and returned to his normal state.

After Grandpa 402 finished speaking, he nodded, his tone quite calm, "Okay, I understand."

understood?
What do you mean? Do you look like you know the truth?

The old man's eyes widened as he emphasized, "Wenwen's father, did you understand what I said? I said, your wife, your daughter, your door, and your things were all done by that woman in 501. You don't know how arrogant she has been these past few days, chopping everywhere with a knife."

"Well, I know. If you have nothing else to say, please go back."

Wenwen's father opened the door with a sullen face, asked the cursing grandfather from Room 402 to leave, then closed the door and moved a coffee table to block the door.

"Brother Yunze, you don't believe what this old man says? Why?" the woman standing aside asked curiously.

While sorting out the snacks he found in his daughter's room, Wenwen's father said, "The father of the kid in 501 downstairs is a soldier. As a military family member, do you think he would do something like breaking down doors and stealing things?"

"It's hard to say. After all, it's the end of the world. We can't use the standards and status of the past to measure a person."

Wenwen's father still shook his head, "No, although I don't have much contact with Qiqi's mother, I can tell from her personality that she is not that kind of person. What's more..."

He turned his head and looked towards the master bedroom. The sadness in his eyes did not seem fake. "It would be fine if he didn't mention the death of my wife and daughter. But he did, and it was obvious that he wanted to use me. I just asked for hot water, and they gave it to me. He held a bowl to ask for food, but they didn't give it to him. Then he turned around and came to my house and said something like this. Isn't it obvious what his purpose is?"

After all, he has been working in society for more than ten years. How could he not see through such a simple trick?
When the woman heard Li Yunze mention his dead wife and daughter, a hint of guilt flashed in her eyes, but it was only a hint, nothing more.

With red eyes, she whispered, "It's all my fault. If you, brother Yunze, hadn't delayed saving me and returned home earlier, maybe you could have saved sister-in-law and Wenwen. And Haohao, it's me who caused your family to be destroyed."

Rarely, this time Li Yunze did not speak to comfort her immediately, but stared at the door of the master bedroom in a daze.

Before bringing Yilan back, he had imagined how his wife would make trouble with him when she saw Bo Yilan, and he also thought about whether she might turn into a zombie, but he never thought that she would die in front of him in this way.

And his two children.
Li Yunze regretted that he did not choose to go home immediately when the disaster struck, but chose to find Bo Yilan.

Bai Li ignored the old man in Room 402's provocation and continued packing her luggage after finishing her breakfast.

Although she couldn't take away all the clothes and quilts for the four seasons, she had to take at least half of them. She would write the remaining half on a note and let Jiang Minglang take it.

She was busy in the bedroom, Qiqi was on the balcony observing the outside with binoculars, Xiaowu was running around with a piece of green ivy in his mouth, and he got entangled in the ivy and rolled on the ground.

Bai Li looked up at the vines wrapped around Xiao Wu's waist, and suddenly an idea came to her mind.
(End of this chapter)