At around four o'clock in the morning the next day, before the sun came up, Chen Yuanyuan was woken up by a loud noise.
After waking up, Chen Yuanyuan immediately got up and carried her out of the room. After checking around to make sure there was nothing wrong in the house, she walked back to the room.
I opened the curtains and looked out of the window. Under the dim street lights, I saw a woman lying motionless on the ground in the grass of Building 6 opposite.
Someone jumped off the building.
Although Chen Yuanyuan had long been accustomed to seeing life and death, she was still stunned for a moment after seeing the sight of brains exploding all over the floor, and then she instantly felt awake.
He kept wondering about the situation in Building 6. If there was a problem in Building 6, Chi Yu would be most likely to be affected by Building 5 and Building 2 next to him.
Unfortunately, the current information is too scarce, and nothing can be inferred by blind guessing.
After Chen Yuanyuan closed the curtains again, she took out a pack of milk in the space, and then lay on the bed and watched real-time news about the weather on her mobile phone.
Natural disasters and man-made disasters are always interrelated. In addition to some reports about the weather, the rest of the news also included some gossipy rumors about murders on the Internet.
The quality of this week's press releases has dropped a lot. Chen Yuanyuan also understands that reporters can't go out now, and the police don't have the manpower to deal with many small cases. It's good to be able to collect small news.
After watching the news, Chen Yuanyuan got up and went to the bathroom to brush her teeth and wash her face. At dawn, she received a message from Chu Man.
[Chu Man: Yuanyuan, did you hear anyone jumping from Building 6 in the early hours of this morning? 】
[Circle plus 100 million points: Well, I was also woken up this morning. 】
[Chu Man: I have heard a lot of gossip from my mother. Is it convenient for you to talk to me now? 】
[Circle adds 100 million points: Why don't you come up and sit down later, and I'll call them both over to gossip. 】
[Chu Man: OK, I'll be back in fifteen minutes. 】
After Chen Yuanyuan called Zhang Linlin and He Yuehua to come over to 1203, she simply cooked four hard-boiled eggs with cup noodles and four cups of instant soy milk powder, and ate and chatted when they came over.
Chu Man arrived at 1203 on time. Although there was not much difference after not seeing Chu Man for a few days, his face was pale and much more haggard than before.
"I made some simple breakfast, come and eat." Chen Yuanyuan said.
"This is so rich! But I have nothing to exchange... do you want skin care products?" Chu Man knew that supplies were in short supply and the family's cash had long been exhausted, so now she could only barter.
Chu Man's eyes widened when he saw boiled eggs. There was less and less meat at home, and most of the time, lard was mixed with white rice.
"Eat, this is the news fee for you." Chen Yuanyuan said knowing that Chu Man was not someone who took advantage.
Chu Man swallowed his saliva and was reluctant to eat the hard-boiled eggs, so he slowly ate the instant noodles in small bites, wishing he could divide them into ten meals.
"Yuanyuan, we are here!" Zhang Linlin pushed open Chen Yuanyuan's cracked door and entered the house with He Yuehua.
"Come and have breakfast." Chen Yuanyuan shouted.
The four of them sat around the dining table to have breakfast. Chu Man drank all the soup after finishing the noodles.
"Chu Man, do you know what happened on the sixth floor? What happened to the person who jumped from the building today?"
"What! Jump off the building?" He Yuehua's eyes widened in surprise.
"Someone jumped from the building opposite in No. 6. You probably can't see it from the direction of your home." Chu Man's family, like He Yuehua's family, belongs to Room 02, so she hasn't seen the scene either.
"Didn't you hear any noise this morning?" Chen Yuanyuan asked.
"Ah? No, what's the noise?" Zhang Linlin slept like a dead pig at night, and the strong wind did not affect her sleep quality at all.
"Let's go take a look?" He Yuehua said.
"It's a little bloody, aren't you afraid?" Chen Yuanyuan said, remembering the scene this morning.
"Don't be afraid anymore." He Yuehua said with firm eyes.
Chen Yuanyuan didn't stop her. It would be a good thing for Zhang Linlin and He Yuehua to adapt as soon as possible, so he took them to the room window to check.
The three of them glanced outside and happened to see two people pulling the body away.
But the strange thing is that there is not a single family member at the scene, and no one is even peeking out of the windows in Building 6. All the windows are dark and unoccupied.
"Do you want to call the police?" Zhang Linlin asked.
"It's useless. A lot of things have happened in the community during this period. There have been break-ins and robberies, and some people have committed suicide. The police were able to come and take a look last week, but now no one even answers 999." Chu Man shook his head and said.
Seeing that there was nothing interesting to see, the four of them returned to the living room and sat down.
"I usually look across the street when I have free time at home. Building No. 6 was quite lively before, but why did it become like a dead building in just one day?" Zhang Linlin's home faces the same direction as Chen Yuanyuan, and she usually looks out the window. The scenery relieves boredom.
"I feel something is not right in Building 6 across the street. Chu Man, please tell me the news you received." Chen Yuanyuan said.
"The person who jumped down today is Zhu Xiaofeng, the wife of Xiao He, the director of Building 6. She is five months pregnant." Chu Man said.
"Depression? Still?" He Yuehua asked.
"It can't be depression. My mother said that Zhu Xiaofeng has a very optimistic personality. In addition, it took two years to conceive this child, so she cherishes it very much." Chu Man thought for a while and continued.
“Last night in the Property Owners Committee group, all the people in Building 6 also left the group, and all the phones were turned off..."
Chu Man heard from her mother Yu Yanqun that after the first theft incident last week, Xiao He, the head of the sixth floor, collected donated materials in Building 6 and gave them to families who lacked materials. He also counted the number of people in each household to facilitate resource allocation.
When he was inspecting the building, he found that the two households in Building 6, 1203 and 1204, had a total of more than 20 people, and no one was seen going out before he died, and he never knew what he was doing.
Xiao He speculated that the group on the twelfth floor was a fraud gang. Although there was no substantial evidence, he peeked outside the door and saw the phone calls in the house, and he guessed a thing or two.
There is no way to call the police now, and the special weather is now. Although the fraud group is hateful, it still costs more than 20 lives, so I plan to make plans later.
He never expected that that group of people would go even further. After Xiao He acquiesced to their existence, he actually occupied the remaining two households on the twelfth floor for more comfort.
What is outrageous is that not only did they rob houses and food, they also violated the women of two households in public. The two tied male householders, Xin Yan, were tortured to death by the gang after witnessing the whole process.
Just the day before yesterday, Xiao He said in the group that he would unite to subdue the people in the fraud group and hoped that other buildings would help provide some strong men, but there was no news.
"Do you think the building manager is also dead?" Zhang Linlin asked.
"I don't know, but I heard from my mother that Xiao He works for a security company. I heard that he has good skills and will run away even if he can't be beaten, right?" Chu Man said.
"You all should pay more attention to the doors and windows these days. During this special period, in addition to thefts starting to occur, we also have to keep an eye on Building 6 opposite." Chen Yuanyuan spent the first two years of her life in an apartment. At that time, the residents were denser than in Jinxiu Garden. Many murders have also occurred, and I hope that some tragedies can be avoided in this life.
