Rebirth: I Will Win Chapter 60 - 60 48 Self-Defense Forces

??60: Chapter 48: Self-Defense Forces

60: Chapter 48: Self-Defense Forces

After everyone was stunned for a while, Gu Yanzhi dropped another bombshell.

“Also, don’t forget, Uncle Zhang has already noticed that a lot of elderly people have disappeared from the streets.”

“Yanzhi, are you saying…”

“I’m not sure, but I can’t rule out the possibility.”

Gu Yanzhi was actually certain; she had experienced this shock in her past life.

By the later stages, it had beco the norm.

So people couldn’t bring themselves to harm their own families, so they heartlessly traded them for supplies.

Others directly swapped with different families.

Gu Yanzhi had seen such scenes with her own eyes.

In her past life, it happened earlier, a big pot hung over a fire containing various shapes of at chunks, emitting a putrid yet strangely aromatic scent.

Those who had more spices used them liberally to cover up the stench, while those with less only added a pinch of salt, or even nothing at all.

A group of people, close to starving mad, didn’t mind the scalding heat and began grabbing the at before it was fully cooked.

She vividly rembered, in her past life, she was taken out by Mr.

Yan and witnessed this scene, and she vomited so severely that it was disorienting.

He kindly offered a slice to Gu Yanzhi; upon hearing this, how could she not know what that unidentified at was?

Moreover, what Mr.

Yan ate couldn’t have been the rotten-slling kind that had been dead for many days outside; Gu Yanzhi suspected it was likely freshly killed.

Feeling nauseous again, Gu Yanzhi couldn’t help but curse at the hypocritical and ruthless monster in front of her.

This also led her to successfully provoke Mr.

Yan’s disgust, and he sent her back to Gu Qiang.

After returning, for a while, her als consisted entirely of that kind of at.

Gu Yanzhi had to pretend to comply, hiding the at and pretending to eat it before she was given sothing normal.

Later on, Gu Yanzhi was always anxious at als, fearing she might accidentally consu it.

Gu Yanzhi also realized that those who ate and those who didn’t were destined to be two groups, unable to coexist.

Those who ate only forced those who didn’t to either join them or beco food, believing that the abstainers inherently despised them.

The mories that surfaced made Gu Yanzhi feel queasy.

She clenched her thigh tightly to prevent herself from vomiting on the spot.

Song Zhao quickly handed over his thermos, filled with hawthorn juice, originally prepared for Gu Yanlin to help soothe the feeling of vomiting.

Anticipating that today’s eting might not be too friendly, he had intentionally prepared two cups.

“Seal up all the uninhabited windows.”

Recently, Gu Yanzhi and Song Zhao had indeed noticed that the windows outside appeared to have been tampered with, although the building materials used were of the highest quality, so they hadn’t been pried open yet.

Initially, Gu Yanzhi thought it was just so people desperately searching for food, trying to sneak in to find so.

But linking it with this incident made her thoughts not so simple.

One must know, there were three elderly people and two children in their building, likely a pri target for the bad elents.

“How are we supposed to seal them, if we can’t find materials right now?” Liu Sisi said anxiously.

Her family and Xiao Lin’s were the most at risk in this building, having both elderly and children.

“Go to the office building, look for construction materials like sheet tal, wooden boards, anything goes.

If all else fails, smash the office building walls and bring back so bricks.”

“We don’t need cent with this weather; just splash so water, and it’ll freeze solid against the wall in no ti.”

Uncle Zhuang, with his construction background, ca up with this idea on the spot.

“However, we’d better also seal up the windows we’re using; you never know how depraved these people can be,” Uncle Zhuang continued to suggest.

Covering the windows would worsen the lighting inside, but it would save a lot of trouble.

“Let’s all take a few days off and get the walls fixed first,” Uncle Zhang finally decided.

The next day, everyone in Building 10 got busily to work.

Besides the first day when fifteen people acted together to gather materials and smash walls.

For the next two days, the fifteen split into two groups: one was in charge of building walls at ho, the other handled material transport.

Three elderly people were responsible for logistics, arranging everything systematically.

The activity on Building 10’s side quickly caught the attention of others.

When asked, everyone simply said it was for safety.

Nowadays, rescue supplies were dwindling, and a few robberies had already occurred outside.

Although the rescue teams suppressed them promptly, this explanation wouldn’t raise any suspicion.

In just three days, everyone had finished retrofitting.

They sealed up everything that could be sealed.

Uncle Zhang’s family even moved from the 13th to a vacant apartnt on the 14th floor, previously inhabited by Squad 532.

They sealed all windows below the 13th floor, leaving only one window for everyone to use for entry and egress.

Gu Yanzhi provided the materials to add a security window to this particular window, not allowing for external access.

Every ti soone entered or exited, soone inside had to help open and close it.

Though inconvenient, it was safe.

To allow for light, the windows in everyone’s apartnts were sealed with thick blocks of ice prepared a day in advance, which could be quickly secured to the window fras with a splash of water.

So of the ice blocks, which didn’t freeze solidly, still held fast once set; even smashing would require significant effort to break them.

From the 10th to the 16th floor, they blocked every possible gap.

Floors 17 and 18 did not require this as Gu Yanzhi had already modified the windows during renovations.

Lastly, everyone pooled materials together, clumsily constructing a new door for the building, installed at the stairwell on the 13th floor.

Beyond this, Building 10 also established a self-defense force.

Their housing complex’s small population didn’t suit having one or two people per household participate.

After discussion, thirteen people, two per night, stayed on the 13th floor, stationed to patrol and ready to sound the alarm at the first sign of trouble.

The thirteen did not include Gu Yanlin and Zhuang Nanyang; both were military n not often ho and had limited leave, so they weren’t counted.

The alarm was also provided by Gu Yanzhi; they had tested it once, and it was loud enough to wake everyone in the building.

Plus, it was battery-operated with a long standby ti— a single size-five battery could last a year.

Each night, two of the thirteen, typically by household, paired up; Sister Li and Xiao Lin ford one unit, and in the end, Uncle Zhang, with his family being the largest and most disadvantaged, volunteered to take two night shifts, one with his wife and one with his daughter.

Given that Uncle Zhang’s family bore the brunt, everyone chipped in so supplies as compensation.