NOVEL NEXT Chapter 98 - 98 Don't Mess with the Crazy Critic
Chapter 98: Chapter 98 Don’t Mess with the Crazy Critic
“Exactly, neighbors should help each other. You guys clearly got so much stuff, why not share some with us!!”
“Ha! Let me tell you the truth, someone has already reported to the officials today about Jiang Yan illegally possessing firearms!! Do you also want to shelter a criminal?!”
“Either let us move to the 32nd floor! Or lend us the dinghy! Or give us half of the supplies you’ve found these past few days!
Don’t think we didn’t see, your dinghy came back fully loaded with supplies these past few days!”
“Exactly! We must get half! Otherwise, we’ll come up and take it by force!”
“Ye Qing, Sun Jingtao, I know you two have some skills. But now, counting everyone, you only have three people, and that armed demoness isn’t here, so I advise you to be sensible!”
The people upstairs were talking all at once. Their words lacked logical coherence and sounded increasingly fierce.
Jiang Yan paused her steps.
She turned sideways to glance upward, only to see a dense crowd brandishing weapons, blocking the stairway just under the fire door of the 32nd floor.
Most of them were holding lifebuoys and such, probably gathered from the few remaining buildings.
The fire door on the 32nd floor was half open, letting in some dim light.
Ye Qing and Sun Jingtao stood at the door, weapons in hand.
Though outnumbered, their erect figures dominated the advantageous position, exuding an impassable aura.
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“You say someone has a gun just because? That’s funny! Which of your eyes saw it?!” Diverting the topic from the supplies was Su Dai.
Her voice sounded unusually angry.
Jiang Yan didn’t see her but guessed she must be standing behind Sun Jingtao and Ye Qing.
“I, we all saw it!” Someone pointed at several others around him.
“Exactly, we are all eyewitnesses!!” The group nodded unanimously.
Su Dai looked at these unreasonable people, her face flushed with anger:
“Zhang Dan, how can you be so heartless and shameless? Besides, Jiang Yan clearly helped you find out the truth. How could you twist the facts now?!”
Those people weren’t even present when Liu Dahong and his group were dealt with that day!
“People are dead, what use is the truth now! We don’t care, stop changing the subject! Either give us supplies! Or still, give us supplies!” Zhang Dan, leading the group and buoyed by their superior numbers, sounded particularly aggressive.
Su Dai’s voice rose sharply, “You keep talking about the officials, the officials, and now you dare to rob openly, aren’t you afraid of official repercussions tomorrow?”
“Ha! It’s you who are selfish first! Besides, who can prove we are the ones who robbed?!”
Su Dai tried to speak again but was stopped by Ye Qing raising his hand.
Ye Qing’s cold gaze swept over the crowd, finally resting on Zhang Dan’s face as he slowly said:
“Want supplies? If you are disabled, I don’t mind sharing a bit.”
As he finished, a hint of murderous intent appeared in his eyes.
“You little brat, threatening us with hardly any fuzz on your lip? Damn—ow!”
“Thud!”
The dull sound of a blunt object striking a skull was followed by warm red liquid splattering all around.
No one in the hallway expected him to suddenly strike like that; everyone splashed with blood reflexively stepped back, pupils constricted.
They were all from different buildings.
In the past few days, there had been some talks about what happened on the 32nd floor of Building A.
However, after several rounds of rumors, Jiang Yan had been envisioned by others in those buildings as a deranged person who started shooting people after her mother’s tragic death.
Don’t mess with a lunatic.
Especially, don’t mess with an armed lunatic; that became everyone’s consensus.
As for Ye Qing and Sun Jingtao, one was a veteran and the other a college student currently enrolled—both seemed decent, alleviating some fears.
Also, they were numerically superior.
“I’ll fight you!” Zhang Dan wiped the blood flowing down his forehead and rushed forward with the axe in his hand.
“Thump!”
Ye Qing swiftly kicked him fiercely in the chest.
Others quickly reached out to support Zhang Dan, but when they felt fresh blood on their hands, they instinctively recoiled.
Standing unsteadily on the stairs already, Zhang Dan’s body, driven by inertia, plunged downward.
“Crack!”
His head, already fractured, hit the stairs heavily. His eyes bulged, his mouth twisted, and he was dead in a second.
“Holy shit, you dare to kill someone in broad daylight!!”
“See how the officials will deal with you tomorrow!!”
“…”
People hesitantly stepped down a few stairs, not wanting to lose face completely, yet continued to argue.
“We’re tired of talking to you! If you have any ill intentions towards the 32nd floor, just come!” Sun Jingtao stepped forward.
“Right! If one comes, we knock one down! If a bunch comes, we knock a bunch down!!” Su Dai, standing behind him, swung her iron hammer.
Ye Qing glanced at the crowd remaining in place and coldly said, “Aren’t you going to leave?”
“You—”
Someone wanted to retort, but was clearly intimidated by his gaze, choking the words back.
Some, already demoralized, were about to leave, but someone stopped them.
“We can’t go! If we leave, Zhang Dan’s body will be disposed of by them! We must stay here!”
“Right! Let’s wait here until the official ship arrives!”
“Yes, whoever leaves today is a coward!”
“I don’t believe it. Can’t we just stand in the hallway? He can’t come down and kill us all!” someone said, already sitting down on the stairs.
Seeing this, others also sat down.
Standing on the 30th floor, Jiang Yan craned her neck upward, feeling a neck strain.
After thinking momentarily, she put away her flashlight and slowly carried the dinghy up the stairs.
The relatively silent crowd naturally heard footsteps echoing from below.
A few people cautiously peeked their heads out.
The stairway was dimly lit, and relatively, they were in the light while Jiang Yan was in the darkness.
For several seconds, they only saw a figure carrying a boat upwards.
“Looks like there’s a boat!” someone remarked softly in surprise.
Everyone’s eyes suddenly lit up, and they stood up, rubbing their hands eagerly.
But when they recognized Jiang Yan carrying the dinghy around the corner, the glint in their eyes extinguished.
They didn’t know Jiang Yan personally, but had heard of her and guessed she was likely the one.
Not to mention anything else, just the feat of carrying a dinghy from the 16th to the 32nd floor wasn’t something an ordinary person could do.
A group instinctively stepped aside, clearing a narrow passage for her.
“Jiang Yan!”
Su Dai and the others naturally saw Jiang Yan, their eyes brightening.