The Great Flood of the End of Time: Female Neighbor Comes to Borrow Food

Chapter 85: Selling Buns is Obstructed

Seeing Zhao Kai's grateful expression, Liang Yuan just smiled and asked, "How is Lao Ma recovering?"

"The wound has scabbed over and I can get out of bed and walk now."

Zhao Kai said with emotion: "Fortunately, there is medicine, there is no infection, and there is no shortage of food recently, otherwise it would be terrible."

Liang Yuan nodded and said, "I'm afraid it's not just because of the medicine. He ate the mutant fish, and there must be mutant genes in his body. Although the mutant ability has not yet awakened, the mutant energy is estimated to invisibly improve everyone's physical fitness and resistance."

"Your arm may not even take a hundred days to recover."

Zhao Kai couldn't help but smile when he heard this: "I hope so, Brother Liang, if I awaken my mutant ability, will I become a lunatic like Wang Yanmei?"

Liang Yuan was stunned, then looked at him and said solemnly: "Don't try it lightly. We don't know the flaws of mutant awakening yet. Even if you really want to awaken your mutant ability, you must call me or Ding Yan."

"Well, thank you, Brother Liang."

"Why are you saying all this? By the way, tell Brother Cai later that when he has time, he can go fishing and get some mutant fish, mutant crabs, conchs, shells, etc. He can then exchange them for food from me."

"it is good."

The two men talked for a few words, and Liang Yuan asked him to pay attention to whether there were any corridors on the floors that had been pried open. If found, they should be blocked immediately and it would be best if the culprit could be found.

He also stipulated that only those who came in from the corridor on the 32nd floor could come to him to exchange food.

Anyone who dares to open the security doors of other corridor floors without permission and come up from other floors will not be allowed to leave and may even be expelled and blacklisted.

This two-pronged approach can at least ensure that one unit forms an independent space and is not connected to other floors, to prevent mutant creatures or criminals from coming in and causing security problems.

After watching Song Wen, Liu Danian and Hu Weimin leave, Liang Yuan did not go back, but went downstairs to collect materials for making a raft.

With the system inventory, he didn't need to bring up the supplies one by one to collect them. He could just put them directly into the inventory.

This saves a lot of manpower.

Liang Yuan was busy collecting materials for making a raft. After Cai Zhi got the news, he immediately went downstairs to help. He took on the job of patrolling the floors and helped Liang Yuan carry some materials.

Song Wen and the other two crossed the corridor on the 32nd floor and arrived at Unit 2.

The corridor of Unit 2 was filled with filth, feces, urine, blood, and everything else.

There were mold stains on the walls, garbage in the corners, and black ash from cooking. It was a mess.

The three of them explored carefully. The corridor was very quiet and there were not many people.

It seemed that everyone was hiding at home, and even the corridor was empty.

It seems that influenced by the rumors about Wang Yanmei's evil spirit, many people were scared and moved to Unit 3.

There are not many people still staying in Unit 2. Basically, they are reluctant to leave their own homes, but don’t want to live in the corridor.

Song Wen had cut her hair short, put on an electric bike helmet, and wore a men's jacket with plastic sheets inside for protection.

She had seen Liang Yuan fully armed before, so she followed suit and took this kind of protection.

Liang Yuan has started this trend in the building. Basically, now when you go out, everyone you see will wear an electric bike helmet.

"There's no one outside. Let's try knocking on the door."

Hu Weimin walked around and didn't see anyone else. He didn't want to go to Unit 3 for the time being, so he suggested knocking on the door to ask.

Liu Danian nodded: "Knock on the door. I'm afraid there are too many people in unit three, and it's a mixed crowd. I won't go in for the time being."

"it is good."

Without saying a word, Hu Weimin immediately chose the one at 3203 and knocked on the door.

There seemed to be a sound inside, but no one dared to respond.

He knew there were people inside, probably guarding against the three of them.

He immediately took the initiative to say, "Hello, is anyone there? We are not bad people, we are the owners of a unit, and we want to come over to ask if there is anyone who needs to exchange supplies."

After waiting for a while, there was still no movement inside.

Hu Weimin couldn't help but say, "We have food here. If you want to exchange it for fish, any fish is fine. You can take a look. We are really exchanging supplies, not looking for trouble."

As he said that, he took a step back, took out a bun from his bag, and said, "Look, this is a meat bun. My wife just made it. It's still hot. It uses fish meat. I only need to exchange four pieces of fish for one bun."

"Is anyone there? The number of buns is limited. If you don't change, I'll go to the next store."

"You should know how precious flour is right now. You can't even eat noodles, let alone steamed buns."

“Can you hear me?”

He spoke a few more words, but still no one responded.

Hu Weimin frowned and turned to look at room 3204 opposite.

Unit 01 is the same as Unit 02, with one elevator and two households. The household numbers of Unit 03 end with 04 or , while those of Unit end with or .

"Knock knock knock, is anyone there? We are here to exchange supplies."

"Exchange of supplies?"

As soon as I knocked on the door, a suspicious voice came from inside, and it seemed to be a man.

Then another voice was heard: "Brother Li, who is it?"

"There are three people outside, saying they want to exchange supplies."

"Exchange supplies? Interesting, let's take a look."

"They have weapons."

"What are you afraid of? We have four people. Bring your best weapons."

Several people's voices were heard one after another. Hu Weimin's face changed slightly. He immediately stepped back and exchanged glances with Liu Danian.

"Xiao Song, go and open the corridor door. If anything goes wrong, run to Unit 1 and ask Mr. Liang for help." Liu Danian said quickly in a low voice.

Song Wen's face turned pale with nervousness. She nodded quickly and walked a few steps towards the corridor.

At this time, the door of Room 3204 opened, and two burly men walked out.

The two men were strong and sturdy, both about 1.8 meters tall, and each held a knife in his hand.

Two shorter men came out from behind, one of them had a bandage on his head, looking like he was injured.

The leading man, who had a green dragon tattooed on his left shoulder, first glanced at Hu Weimin and Liu Danian, his eyes flickered slightly, and he grinned and asked, "Exchange supplies? What supplies do you have?"

Hu Weimin glanced at them with some fear, and said calmly: "Baozi, we have buns, fresh out of the pot, still hot."

The leading man glared at the words and said, "Baozi? Where is it? Let me see."

Hu Weimin hesitated for a moment and asked, "We only trade for fish, shells, crabs, conchs and other aquatic products, and they must be alive."

"One steamed bun, four fish, or ten conches, or two crabs, do you have any?"

Instead of taking out the buns, he asked first.

The man narrowed his eyes and said, "Are you here to exchange for supplies or to steal food? If we exchange like this, are we going to starve?"

Hu Weimin said quickly: "The buns are made of flour and filled with fish meat. You can catch those fish downstairs. You won't lose out."

"Brother Li?"

Another bearded man nearby shouted and winked.

Liu Danian immediately thought that something was wrong, and pulled Hu Weimin up, saying, "Run!"

The two turned around and ran at the same time. Seeing this, Song Wen threw a bottle without saying a word and shouted, "Help!"

She turned around and ran towards Unit 1.

The bearded man and the tattooed man immediately ran after him.

At the same time, the other two people behind him also ran out and chased after him.

In just a few steps, the few of them instantly crossed the corridor and ran to the door of a unit.

In unit one, Zhao Kai was sitting at the door of the corridor, with a short-haired girl next to him.

"Dad, Uncle Hu, come here quickly!"

It was Liu Feifei. It turned out that she was worried about them, so she followed them secretly.

Seeing that something had happened, he immediately shouted anxiously.

Zhao Kai stood up and said, "Don't panic."

He first let Song Wen and the other two come over, then, holding a dagger in his hand, he stared coldly at the three people who were running towards him.

"stop!"

He shouted coldly. Although he was alone, his aura was not to be underestimated.

After all, he has killed people and seen blood, so his courage is naturally different from that of ordinary people. Especially now that Liang Yuan and others are behind him, he is even more confident.

Seeing this, the tattooed man cursed, "Fuck you, get out of here!"

He stepped forward and kicked directly at Zhao Kai.

Zhao Kai immediately took a step back and made way, while at the same time slashing the dagger fiercely.

Oh!

Suddenly, the sharp dagger tore the opponent's trouser leg.

The tattooed man was shocked. He didn't expect that the boy with his arm hanging was so fierce and skillful.

He immediately shouted, "Lao Meng, Xiao Qiu, Four Eyes, come together and kill this one first."

He shouted loudly, and the others rushed up immediately.

At this moment, the door of Room 3202 suddenly opened, and an agile figure flashed out.

Before the tattooed man could react, he was punched hard.

A burst of fragrant wind flashed by, and with a bang, he felt a black screen in front of his eyes, and a sharp pain came over him. He flew backwards in an instant.

"Brother Li!"

The bearded man was startled and screamed immediately, but before he could react, the man kicked him again.

But I saw that the whip leg was slender, with a faint halo on the edge.

Bang!
The kick instantly hit the bearded man's chest, and the bearded man felt like he was hit hard!
He crashed directly into the aisle door beside him, and with a scream, blood spurted out and he collapsed to the ground.

On the corridor, the bespectacled man and the gauze man who had just come over to provide support were stunned where they were.

His fierce face turned into a daze in an instant and he looked at the scene in disbelief.

"you--"

"Brother Li, Brother Meng..."

Ding Yan sneered. She was wearing a back bra, a pair of sneakers on her curvy figure, and she strode over and stepped on the head of Li Ge who had just woken up.

He held a sharpened steel bar against Li Ge's temple and asked, "Do you want to die?"

Li Ge's whole body trembled suddenly, and fear came like a wave.

He begged for mercy in fear: "Mercy, mercy, I...I don't dare anymore..."

Ding Yan sneered: "Listen carefully, Unit 1 is ours now. Anyone who dares to cause trouble in Unit 1 will have their necks washed!"

"My name is Ding Yan, and my boss is Liang Yuan. Starting today, everyone who wants to enter Unit 1 must go through the corridor on the 32nd floor."

"We have already sealed off all the corridors on the other floors. If you dare to break in without permission, don't blame us for being ruthless!"

"roll!"

She kicked Li Ge in the chest with such great force that Li Ge rolled on the ground for several times, and his bones were almost broken in pain.

But this Brother Li was quite courageous. He just groaned in pain, sweating all over his forehead, but didn't even cry out in pain.

After taking a deep breath, he suppressed the urge to vomit blood, lowered his head and staggered away.

The other three people, except Lao Meng who fainted, quickly supported Li Ge and ran back to Unit 2.

Ding Yan glanced at Lao Meng and sneered, "Zhao Kai, check to see if he's dead. If he's dead, throw him down the stairs and don't leave him here to get in the way."

Zhao Kai walked over, gave Ding Yan a thumbs up, and whispered, "Sister Ding, you are awesome!"

Ding Yan sneered and just clapped her hands.

Lao Meng on the ground suddenly opened his eyes and begged for mercy: "I'm not dead, not dead, beauty, spare me, beauty, spare me."

Zhao Kai stepped forward, tapped his face with the dagger, and asked, "Did you hear what Sister Ding said just now?"

"Hear...I heard it, I heard it."

"Go back and tell everyone that if you don't follow the rules, Sister Ding will kill people."

"Okay...Okay, I'll tell you when I get back and notify the others when I get back."

"roll."

"thanks, thanks……"

The bearded man, Lao Meng, hurriedly got up, covered his chest and staggered back to Unit 2.

Zhao Kai turned his head to look at Ding Yan and said with a smile: "Sister Ding, it's done."

Ding Yan said, "I'll give you my crossbow later. Liang Yuan asked you to stay here, so how can you do it without some long-range weapons?"

Zhao Kai scratched his head and said with some envy: "If I had your ability, Sister Ding, what other weapons would I need?"

Ding Yan smiled and said, "Envy? I'd risk my life for it."

After she finished speaking, she glanced at Song Wen and the other two and said, "Why are you guys going over there instead of staying in unit one?"

The three of them looked at each other with bitter faces.

I thought I could start a small business and make some money.

I didn't expect that I almost lost my life.

The world has really changed. If you don’t have a strong enough fist, don’t even think about going out.

Song Wen's mouth was bitter, and she could only confess, "I...we wanted to go out and exchange some supplies, but we didn't expect..."

Having said that, she could only confess her middleman plan.

Hu Weimin and Liu Danian could not hide the truth and could only reveal their plan to sell buns.

After hearing this, Ding Yan couldn't help but be surprised.

She looked the three of them up and down, and said in amazement: "You guys are quite smart. Haha, let's wait for Liang Yuan to come back and see how he handles this matter. By the way, let me see your bun."

Hu Weimin didn't dare to refuse and immediately took out a bun.

Ding Yan picked up the bun, took a bite, and her eyes immediately lit up.

"Tsk tsk, it's really delicious, much better than instant noodles."

She finished a bun in no time and asked, "How many do you have left?"

Hu Weimin smiled bitterly, not daring to not answer: "There are four more."

"Well, give me all the buns. I won't take advantage of you. I don't want to trade with fish. I'll trade with you for flour."

"Don't worry, I won't force you to buy or sell. Just name your price. How much flour do you need for four buns?"

Her words immediately shocked Hu Weimin.

Obviously, he didn't expect that Ding Yan, who was so powerful, would not eat and take it for free, but would exchange flour for his buns.

For a moment, he even suspected that Ding Yan was testing him.

He said in panic: "No, no, if you like it, I'll give it to you to eat..."

Ding Yan raised her eyebrows and said, "What do you mean? Do you think I'm one of Liu Erlong's people? I said I won't take your buns for free, so I won't take them for free. Wait!"

She immediately turned around and went back to 3202.

Hu Weimin panicked and looked at Zhao Kai quickly: "Brother Zhao, look, this...what's going on? Did I say anything wrong?"

Zhao Kai glanced at him and said, "You think Sister Ding is one of those bandits like Liu Erlong. Of course she's unhappy. We are not Liu Erlong's people. Brother Liang didn't kill Liu Erlong to rob us."

"What we want is a stable and safe environment and we don't want to see those beastly acts again."

"Don't treat us as Liu Erlong's gang anymore. Just obey whatever Sister Ding tells you to do."

Hu Weimin stood there in a daze. From the great flood at the end of the world to now, he had seen too much bullying.

Liu Erlong's gang are capable of all kinds of evil. He has seen the security guards, who were originally harmless, turn into vicious beasts, and he has also seen the property managers, who used to nod and smile at him, turn into bastards who commit robbery and murder.

He understood then that the world was different now. When facing these people, he had to either resist, obey them, or hide.

He didn't dare to resist, nor did he want to be obedient and join the ranks of these beasts, so he could only stay away.

But today, someone who could have ridden on his head and pissed on him actually told him that he wanted to maintain order and stability.

This really surprised him, and also made him feel a little excited.

"Mr. Liang and his group seem...really different."

Just as she was thinking, Ding Yan came out of the room again, holding a small bag of flour in her hand, and said, "Liang Yuan gave you five fish for one cup of flour. I don't know how much flour you need for one bun, but I know you exchanged four cups of flour from Liang Yuan."

"Here is the amount of eight cups of flour. Take a look. It's worth a few buns."

As she said that, she stuffed the flour directly into Hu Weimin's hand.

Hu Weimin shuddered, his face full of excitement!
Four measuring cups of flour can make more than thirty buns.

With eight cups of flour, wouldn't it mean more than sixty buns can be made?

What a good man!
Miss Ding is really a good person.

He was so moved that he quickly opened his backpack and said, "Miss Ding, here are five buns, Lao Liu, Lao Liu!"

Liu Danian also reacted and quickly took out the buns in his arms and said, "Miss Ding, I also have five buns here. We'll give them all to you."

Ding Yan frowned and scolded: "Eight cups of flour can be exchanged for ten buns?"

Hu Weimin quickly explained: "No, no, we dare not hide it from you. In fact, we made more than 30 buns with the four cups of flour."

Ding Yan was surprised: "Can you do so much?"

Hu Weimin was embarrassed and said, "I added a little more leavening agent."

Ding Yan suddenly realized that the thing was very effective in making dough. She did not refuse and put away the ten buns, saying, "Okay, ten buns then. Just make sure you don't suffer any loss."

"Xiao Zhao, call Liang Yuan to eat buns together tonight."

"And you guys, if you have any problems, just knock on my door and come to me. If you encounter someone who dares to steal your things again, I will help you out."

Ding Yan said something to Hu Weimin and the others, then turned around and went back to her room.

After a while, the cheerful laughter of Aunt Li, Cai Yao, Wu Qian and others could be heard.

Zhao Kai smiled, glanced at a few people, and said, "See, Sister Ding is not a bad person, and neither are we. Okay, go do what you need to do."

Hu Weimin and Liu Danian looked at each other, thanked him happily, and then quickly went home to get the buns.

With Ding Yan's words, they became bolder and decided to attack again.

After all, buns cannot be kept overnight, otherwise they will be difficult to preserve.

It is more cost-effective to replace it with live fish.

Among everyone present, Song Wen was the only one who looked frustrated. She hadn't even exchanged a single bag of snacks yet.

(End of this chapter)