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Zheng Weili listened for a while on the stairs in the morning. A few nights ago, there was a girl who lived alone on a lower floor. Not only was her door broken open in the middle of the night, but she was also bullied one after another.

With their faces covered, no one knows who they are. 

“You and Lu Yu should also pay attention. Our floor is no longer safe.” 

There was some commotion last night, and Jiang Ning wondered why Zheng Weili hadn’t noticed. But when she saw the marks on her neck, there was nothing more to ask. 

They overdid it and slept to death. 

With water, electricity, and gas all cut off and with no entertainment to pass the time. What else they can do but exercise? 

Natural disasters have been happening often recently and it’s hard for adults to stay safe. When a woman gets pregnant during such times, it becomes even more challenging.

Jiang Ning felt awkward. She was unsure on how to remind them, considering she had never eaten pork before.

Bringing it up was tough for her, so she had to ask indirectly, “Weili, isn’t your competition next month?”

“Yeah,” Zheng Weili said with a sigh. “This damn weather doesn’t seem to end anytime soon. It’s messing up with my training, so I can only practice blindly at home. Yesterday, I got an itchy hands and used Lu Yu as a punching bag.” 

She still dreamed of competing, so she must have some plans in place. She would take measures to remind the two of them when they fully accept the apocalypse.

As she returned to her room, Jiang Ning glanced at the tightly closed door of 1801. 

In the early night, before anyone could sneak up the stairs, Zheng Weili knocked on her door. 

When Jiang Ning opened the door, Zheng Weili was empty handed, while Lu Yu held a knife, and the door of 1801 opened at the same time. 

Facing the residents on the 18th floor who all showed up, the few people who picked the lock felt guilty at first, but then they became confident and threatened them with their evil words “Hand over the food obediently, or don’t blame us for being rude with our knives.” 

Jiang Ning said coldly, “Who said we have food?” 

“That’s nonsense. If you don’t have food, why are you barricading yourselves?” 

The leader waved the knife in his hand. “We’re all starving to death, and you’re shutting yourselves in. You guys are eating alone and ignoring whether we live or die. Who do you think you are? 

“Don’t talk nonsense. Hand over the stuff, or I’ll take your lives.” 

In fact, Jiang Ning only ate about eighty percent full at each meal, and her energy was spent on extensive training. She had no reason to avoid contact with these people, but everyone else looked pale from hunger.

Her energy is so obvious that she can’t hide it even if she wants to. 

These people are so hungry that they have lost their bottom line as human beings. Reasoning with them was like talking to a wall. 

Jiang Ning couldn’t be bothered with idle talk. “Fine, if you dare, come up and take it.” 

After saying this, she signaled to Zheng Weili. 

Even though there are only a few people knocking on the door, there are countless people hiding in the darkness. If they don’t kill the chickens today to scare the monkeys, they will keep coming in the future.

Zheng Weili received the signal and instinctively shielded Lu Yu behind her. 

Seeing the arrogance of the 18th floor, they forcefully kicked open the stainless steel door and charged up with their knives raised. 

Jiang Ning sidestepped and slashed their leader. 

Having witnessed a mother and her two children jumping from a building with her own eyes, Zheng Weili was deeply depressed. Seeing these bastards, she had an itching to deal with them. She quickly dodged and delivered heavy blows to the man’s abdomen. 

The man rolled down the stairs and crashed heavily into the door, unable to move on the ground. 

1801 stood still and directly dislocated the man’s arm. 

For a moment, screams echoed on their floor, which was particularly eerie in the dark night. 

Jiang Ning slashed several times, making sure to avoid vital areas each time, but blood kept spurting out, staining the floor horrifyingly.

There were six attackers in total, three of them were slashed, another had his arm dislocated, and the others were barely alive from Zheng Weili’s beating. Lu Yu didn’t even get a chance to strike. 

Jiang Ning stood at the stairwell, holding the blood stained knife, and asked, “Do you want food, or do you want your lives?” 

The leader, clutching his bleeding arm, howled angrily, “You, it’s illegal for you to kill!”  

“Breaking the law?” 

Jiang Ning tore off their masks. She couldn’t name them, but she had crossed paths with some of them before. Two were even active members of the community. They usually live a glamorous lives, but now they were hiding their faces to commit crimes in times of disaster. 

She took out her phone and took pictures of them. “You can report it to the police. See who they will arrest when they arrive.” 

Unexpectedly, the residents of the 18th floor worked together. They didn’t even have the power to fight back. Faced with this situation, they had no choice but to give in. “We have no other choice. We’re forced to do this. You haven’t lost anything anyway. Can you let us go?”

They were so arrogant just now, but now they are kneeling on the ground and begging for mercy. 

If it had been only about Jiang Ning, it would be enough to kill him secretly. But today was a group effort with the intention of just warning them. 

She looked at 1801 and Zheng Weili, and neither of them objected. “You’re lucky today, but you may not be lucky next time. Get lost!” 

There was so much commotion that no one dared to open the door on any floor.

Jiang Ning and the others didn’t bother to clean the bloodstains on the floor. They just closed the door and went upstairs. 

Having witnessed the swift action of 1801, Lu Yu wanted to seize the opportunity to get to know his neighbor. “Hello, I’m Lu Yu. I just moved in a few days ago. You’re really skilled. What do you do?” 

Huo Yishen, with his poker face, didn’t answer until he reached the door. “Guess.” 

Lu Yu: “…” 

Zheng Weili saw through it and pulled her boyfriend away. “Let’s go back.” 

This person doesn’t seem to belong to any gang, and his identity probably isn’t simple. It’s risky to dig too deep; it could easily lead to trouble.

The warning effect was very good, and no one dared to knock on the stair door for several days. 

Jiang Ning had already opened the curtains early. The typhoon was still raging, roaring and slamming against the doors and windows, making it feel like the entire building was shaking. 

The typhoon had come early and had lasted for a full fifteen days, with no sign of disappearing. 

Their fears turned into reality. Not only had the natural disaster escalated, but it was also uncertain when it would end. 

But life had to go on, they had to take it one day at a time. 

Xiao Bai’s belly was noticeably bulging, and her appetite was surprisingly large. When Jiang Ning teased her with vegetables, she noticed bloodstains on the cardboard. 

Touching her belly, she could feel the rabbit’s discomfort and restlessness, as if it were about to give birth. 

A new life in the middle of the natural disaster. When it was raised to maturity, it could become spicy rabbit head, cold rabbit, braised rabbit, dry pot rabbit, or shredded rabbit salad. Just thinking about it made one’s mouth water. 

Soon, the first baby rabbit was born. 

It’s amazing, it looked only a few centimeters in size and it’s not much bigger than a mouse pup. 

When Doudou came over, Xiao Bai had already given birth to six babies. She secretly took out two wilted cabbage leaves and handed them to Doudou. “Xiao Bai has babies. Hurry up and feed her.” 

There was a total of ten baby rabbits, and a total of twelve mouths to feed, which made Jiang Ning worried on how to feed them all. 

Just eating feed is not enough, but with continuous rain for half a month. The balcony’s vegetables turned yellow due to lacked of sunlight.

If she hadn’t cheated and used the space, they would have withered a long time ago. 

The plants grown in the space were thriving and lush green, making Jiang Ning feel comfortable just by looking at them. This morning, she couldn’t resist plucking some chicken feather grass and washing it to make noodles.

The ones you grow yourself taste extremely delicious. 

Two saplings of fruit trees had also survived, especially the old persimmon tree, which had already sprouted. 

Jiang Ning told herself that everything was heading in the right direction. 

Taking care of the rabbits, exercising, reading, and sleeping in were all fulfilling activities. 

She developed a new habit of waking up and listening to the wind outside every morning. 

After listening for so long, she became somewhat of an expert. 

On the eighteenth day, the sound of the wind seemed a bit off.