Wen Qizhou's thoughts coincided with hers.
But if you want to take advantage of the situation, you must push a suitable person out and let the other party get close successfully without showing any intention.
"We can use Yao Chengwei as bait." He stroked Chi Yue's long hair: "He is single and seems easy to deceive."
Chi Yue also thinks it is feasible.
They waited for the people outside the door to leave and called Yuan Chuan next door to 2603 to discuss the matter.
"What?! You want me to seduce you?" Yao Chengwei got up and crossed his arms, pretending to be panicked when an innocent man was about to be bullied.
"..." Everyone was speechless.
Yuan Chuan was so disgusted that he raised his fist and hit him on the shoulder: "You're going to do this!"
After being beaten, Yao Chengwei returned to normal in a second. He smiled, turned around and asked, "Brother Zhou, how does she look?"
"It should be the type you like."
"Then I do!"
"You look like a dog." Zhao Peng looked at his virtue and couldn't bear to look at it: "Do you think this is a wedding oath? You are still willing."
"Are you jealous?"
"I'm jealous as hell." He hurriedly approached Sun Rui, fearing that Yao Chengwei would dig a hole for him.
Fortunately, Yao Chengwei still regarded him as a brother and did not say any nonsense. He was focused on the object of his seduction.
Yao Chengwei became serious: "She is putting so much effort into this, are there many people behind her? We have to be careful."
"Yeah." Chi Yue talked to them about the more detailed plan, and then told him: "Don't act too deliberately."
"I know." Joking aside, he was still extremely serious about business matters.
Sun Rui said uncertainly: "Could she be with the three people who came to rob our house before, right?"
"It's not impossible."
"If it's like what you said, I will definitely crush those turtles to ashes!" When he thought about the lost materials, Yao Chengwei was extremely angry and put down his water glass.
"Bang──"
A deafening explosion suddenly came.
The shock wave caused by the explosion hit the glass window at supersonic speed, causing the entire window to shake.
Wen Qizhou's expression became serious, and he subconsciously protected Chi Yue's head, holding her in his arms.
Chi Yue, who was so frightened that her heartbeat slowed down, leaned close to his chest and slowly recovered: "What exploded?"
"Probably the gas tank."
"Damn!" Zhao Peng hugged the frightened Sun Rui and was also frightened by the explosion: "I thought someone dropped a bomb."
"How is that possible?" Yuan Chuan followed the sound and looked at the building opposite, his face suddenly turned ugly: "The opposite side is burning."
A fire broke out on the 29th floor where the explosion occurred.
Thick smoke engulfed the wall damaged by the shock wave, and you could vaguely see the sandstone falling into pieces.
They watched the fire spread to the upper floors and listened to the terrified and desperate screams of others. They knew that without rain or rescue, the fire would only stop when the burning materials were exhausted.
Chi Yue seemed to be able to see through the thick smoke the figures struggling and fleeing crazily with their backs to the fire.
She turned her head away and stopped looking.
"Can they still escape?" Yao Chengwei frowned, as if he wanted a different answer than the one he already knew.
The living room fell into a long silence.
No one spoke, but the words "It's as difficult as climbing to the sky" lingered in their ears.
"I'm going home first." Yuan Chuan thought about his wife and son. He had no intention of paying attention to the outside world and just wanted to be with them.
Chi Yue and Wen Qizhou didn't stay much.
They clasped their fingers and faced the hot wind surging in the corridor, walked straight to the door of their home, closed the door that could isolate all sounds, and washed themselves in the bathroom as usual.
When they fell into a deep sleep, the screams in the building opposite were so faint that they could no longer be heard. The raging fire also burned all the combustibles above the thirty-first floor in the second half of the night.
The wind extinguished the last fire, leaving behind dark walls and unrecognizable houses, proving that it had been there before.
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"The temperature has dropped to 49 degrees." Chi Yue looked up at the building opposite while holding a thermometer to measure by the window.
It is said that there were four people on the 29th floor before the explosion, while there were 12 people on the 30th to 33rd floors that were affected.
Some residents went upstairs to check after the fire was extinguished and found only 10 burnt bodies, while the remaining six people were missing.
She looked away: "I guess it will rain in the next two days." Unfortunately, the residents who died tragically could no longer be seen.
Wen Qizhou stroked the top of her hair.
He said with a gentle voice: "Didn't you want to collect a few cars before? Let's go out tonight before it rains?"
"Okay." They were worried that they didn't have enough funds before, so they didn't buy too many cars, so they just wanted to buy them for zero yuan at the right time.
The coming heavy rain will flood all low-rise buildings, making it difficult for all shops facing the street to escape.
If you want to get the car by then, it will be difficult to add it.
So they had to get it done as soon as possible, and while it was getting dark that night, they drove the scooter to the car dealership next to the Second Ring Road.
"Qizhou, you choose." Chi Yue looked at the row of off-road and commercial vehicles in front of her, and she really couldn't tell which one was better.
Wen Qizhou quickly picked out three vehicles.
He found the keys to three cars on the counter, inserted them into the ignition switches one by one, and asked Chi Yue to put them away.
"There is a maintenance shop next door." He took Chi Yue's hand and walked outside: "Let's go over and collect a few barrels of engine oil."
Chi Yue kept up with him.
They collected all the oil, antifreeze, spark plugs, brake fluid and other things needed to maintain the car at the repair shop, as well as several different types of tires.
Then I went to the cycling shop diagonally opposite to choose from a dozen straddle motorcycles, electric bikes and mountain bikes.
After getting rid of the transportation tools, Chi Yue tidied up the space with consciousness, raised her eyes and asked him: "Do we want to collect something else?"
"Let's take a look on the way home." Wen Qizhou drove for a while and stopped at the corner: "Throw away the garbage first."
Her space can only absorb food scraps and animal feces, and they have to throw out the rest of the household garbage.
When they go out alone, they throw garbage into the drop-off station in different places.
It's the same this time.
After Chi Yue threw away the garbage, he asked him to drive. On the way back, he looked for practical shops and collected some other items.
For example, wading supplies from equipment stores, remaining gasoline and diesel from gas stations, and mountaineering equipment from outdoor sports stores.
Another example is the cigarettes and wine in the tobacco and liquor store, the comprehensive collection of books in the library, and the tools and batteries in the hardware store.
It can be said to be a full harvest.
"I'm so hungry." Chi Yue, sitting in the passenger seat, covered her growling stomach: "Qizhou, do you want to eat?"
"What to eat?"
"Spicy hotpot? Or barbecue?"
"I choose Malatang." Seeing how greedy she was, Wen Qizhou immediately increased the speed of the car and drove to the community along the way he came.
"Pap-ta-ta-ta-"
The strong wind carried large raindrops, which suddenly hit the roof and windshield of their car.
Looking at the menacing rain, Chi Yue sat upright in an instant and asked him to step on the accelerator to the bottom and rush to the bottom of Building 2.
"It's raining! It's really raining!" People who had not yet slept opened the windows that had been closed for a long time and shouted loudly.
Residents either cried with joy, vented their emotions in the face of the rain, or hurriedly found buckets to catch the rainwater.
No one pays attention to them.
Wen Qizhou led Chi Yue and ran towards the corridor. He carefully discovered that not only were there more cockroaches and rats, but there were also snakes hanging on the railings.
He pulled Chi Yue to a position against the wall, avoiding the black snake that stuck its head out and spit out messages, and went upstairs without stopping.
"How long will it rain?" When he got home, he looked through the window at the silver lightning flashing across the sky without opening the window.
"It will probably last until the end of November."
"That's two months away."
"Yes." Chi Yue handed him a towel and asked him to wipe his hair before going back to the bedroom for a midnight snack.
It was almost two o'clock in the morning. She was afraid that eating too much would be detrimental to digestion, so she took out a smaller portion.
They listened to the sound of rain and slowly ate the bowl of spicy hotpot on the table, feeling comfortable and relaxed.
After filling her stomach, Wen Qizhou told her about the snakes she saw in the corridor: "It's raining so heavily now. I guess more reptiles will crawl into residential buildings."
He was right. Chi Yue had indeed seen snakes, toads, frogs, geckos and other reptiles in the corridor in her previous life.
She swallowed the last quail egg and said, "Our floor is fine. Most of them will settle down below the 15th floor."
In other words, the area below the 15th floor is the hardest hit area.
Floors 1-6 are flooded, while floors 7-15 are their paradise. Just thinking about the scene of a group of snakes, insects, rats and ants gathering in the corridor to play gives me goosebumps.
Hearing Qizhou also frowned.
He took out a paper towel and wiped the oil stains on Chi Yue's lips: "Then it will be troublesome if he gets bitten."
Even if the biting animal is not venomous, a deep wound may require tetanus.
Otherwise, it is extremely easy to get infected.
"Aunt Yuan was bitten to death by a snake." Chi Yue leaned on his shoulder, not quite remembering where the snake came from.
"Then I'll remind them tomorrow." He hugged Chi Yue's waist and suddenly asked, "I remember you met Brother Yuan in Lincheng? Why didn't you go together then?"
"Sister Hui wanted to find her parents, so they went to Yidong first." Yidong is almost two hundred kilometers away from Sui City.
"Did you finally find it?"
"No."
Since leaving Lincheng, Chi Yue has never seen Yuan Chuan's family of four again, and it is not clear how long they survived.
Hearing Qizhou sighed.
Partings and separations are common in the last days. Even if they wanted to help Yuan Chuan, they could not stop them from going to Yidong.
In the future, it will only depend on their luck.
