After the two chatted with Yu Yanqun for a while, they learned that after Cheng Yun and the three people on the 11th floor were arrested last time, their home was found to be empty, and they could not repay the stolen food.
After deliberation, the residents decided to punish the residents by cleaning up the corridors and garbage. In addition, they had to collect rainwater for the families that had been robbed. In just a few days, they were so tired that they were sluggish.
Originally, the three of them were still working yesterday, but as soon as the weather cleared today, they quickly packed their belongings and left without turning around. Some residents even saw the three of them fleeing to Building 6.
Chen Yuanyuan didn't care about the life or death of the three of them. It was a good thing to leave Building 2 after learning of the potential danger, but she didn't expect that they would defect to Building 6, which had been asking them for supplies.
This made Chen Yuanyuan even more curious about Building No. 6, why they had been forced to let Cheng Yun and his party voluntarily surrender.
After the two said goodbye to Yu Yanqun and Chu Junyi, they went downstairs one after another. Along the way, they heard residents sharing the open space in the community and many people setting up street stalls in the stairwell. Chen Yuanyuan decided to go shopping at the street stalls.
After walking out of Building 2, I happened to see five tall men walking out of Building 6 carrying several cardboard boxes. Each of them had a dark red cloth tied to their arm.
Chen Yuanyuan looked at the five people with dull expressions. There were residents along the road who recognized them but didn't say a word to say hello. This made people curious about what happened in Building 6. She planned to see if she could get some information in the market later.
Chen Yuanyuan and Zhang Linlin walked to the street stalls in the center of the community and suddenly saw a total of thirty or forty stalls, like a small market.
Prices outside the community have soared, and supplies are limited. Many citizens are either short of cash in the morning or unable to make it to the market, so they come to the market to try their luck as soon as they finish their meal.
Most of the stalls also focus on cash transactions, but there are also many stalls that also accept barter transactions.
Chen Yuanyuan and Zhang Linlin visited several stalls. The supplies were mainly daily necessities. Occasionally there were one or two instant noodles and self-heating hot pot. However, after asking about the price, it turned out to be several hundred yuan. The price was really shockingly expensive.
Zhang Linlin was at a stall choosing some children's headwear, while Chen Yuanyuan was at a lame old man's stall, looking at some old people's homemade mouse traps.
"Come and see, there is dried meat here. It's only two kilograms of rice for one kilogram of dried meat. You can try it!"
"Really, I haven't eaten meat in a long time."
Chen Yuanyuan heard the conversation between two aunts passing by and looked in the direction they were walking. She saw many people surrounding the stall of the two men in Building 6.
Now those who have meat left over to sell are either wealthy families or
Chen Yuanyuan was about to take a look when the lame man at the stall stopped him.
"Girl, I don't want to eat this meat." said the lame old man.
"Uncle, why can't you eat it?" Chen Yuanyuan guessed it as soon as she heard what the uncle said, and asked pretending to be ignorant.
"This meat, anyway, don't eat it just for the sake of your appetite. You don't even know what kind of meat is in your stomach." Seeing Chen Yuanyuan's ignorant look, the uncle couldn't bear to tell her the truth.
"It can't be human flesh, right?" Chen Yuanyuan asked tentatively.
"Shu! Keep your voice down." The uncle looked around nervously.
"Uncle, tell me what you know." Seeing that the uncle didn't want to say more, Chen Yuanyuan reached into her backpack and took out a box of cigarettes from the space.
"Then let me clean up the stall first." The uncle was about to clean up the stall.
"It's okay, I'll ask my friend to show you the stall." After saying that, Chen Yuanyuan called Zhang Linlin over.
The lame old man took Chen Yuanyuan to a corner, looked around nervously, lit a cigarette and told Chen Yuanyuan what he had observed.
The lame old man originally worked in the crematorium. Seeing that the reward for helping today was quite generous, he responded to the call and became a helper. He spent the whole morning outside the garbage room helping to burn corpses.
In other buildings, three or four people carried the wrapped bodies with wooden boards, but in Building 6, people carried them one by one in woven bags, which seemed quite easy.
I was busy and didn't pay much attention at first, thinking it was the body of a child, which was why it was so light. But after I put it in the fire and burned it, I saw that the woven bag was full of bones and some internal organs, not even a whole body.
"Anyway, if you don't mention pigs, cattle and sheep, people will believe whatever they make up." The lame old man shook his head and said.
"Do you still know about Building 6?" Chen Yuanyuan asked.
"Well," the lame old man raised his eyebrows and looked at Chen Yuanyuan's bag.
"It's the last pack, tell me quickly." Chen Yuanyuan took out another pack of cigarettes from the bag.
"There is a sect now organized in Building 6, called the Sun Eclipse Sect. You can see that they have a blood-stained cloth tied on their hands. They belong to them." The lame old man lit up another cigarette and continued.
"Everyone who has survived in Building 6 has been brainwashed now. I heard that the mastermind is involved in pyramid schemes or telecom fraud. He talks in one way and many people who have been excluded from other floors have joined them." The lame man After that, he started smoking happily.
"No more?" Chen Yuanyuan said displeasedly, reaching out to grab the cigarette from the uncle.
"No, no, no, no. Also, let me tell you a secret." The lame old man said quickly, fearing that Chen Yuanyuan would take back the cigarette.
"Say." Chen Yuanyuan looked at the uncle displeased, trying to fool her with just a few words.
"There is a man with a disfigured face in the garbage room. He is Xiao He, the former building director of Building 6. I don't know how he survived in the garbage dump. He hid when others asked him. You can go find him. Ask him about Building No. 6." The lame old man said and ran back to the stall.
Chen Yuanyuan returned to the stall and saw that Zhang Linlin had sold a few goods for the old man. Thinking that he had just taken two packs of cigarettes, she took a few rat traps from the lame old man as wages.
It didn't matter to the lame old man, two packs of cigarettes were enough to cover the whole stall. After Zhang Linlin said goodbye to the old man, she took Chen Yuanyuan and continued to wander around the market.
Chen Yuanyuan was not interested in the items in the market, but Zhang Linlin was very happy to buy them. She negotiated hard with the stall owners and bought a lot of small jewelry and children's products after going around.
Zhang Linlin mostly buys non-daily necessities with cash, carrying large and small bags in both hands.
Chen Yuanyuan realized that someone was staring at the two of them, so she told Zhang Linlin that she would go to the underground garage to carry the rice she bought this morning upstairs.
Zhang Linlin originally wanted to ask Chen Yuanyuan when she bought the rice. Besides, didn't the car have space?
But when he caught Chen Yuanyuan's eyes, he immediately raised his voice and followed him obediently, holding one or two bags.
(End of chapter)
