Chapter 14 Deterrence

Jiang Xun pulled Jiang Mi behind him and stared at the middle-aged man with cold eyes, "What do you want to do?"

The middle-aged man got up from the ground while cursing. His greasy hair was messy and stuck to his forehead. He squinted his eyes and stared at Jiang Xun viciously. "You are the one who eats all the food, right? Why don't you share the extra food? You are such a selfish family. Don't you see how hard everyone is going through? Several people have died in the building, don't you know?!"

Jiang Xun looked at him coldly, keenly grasping the key point in his words, "Who told you that my family has extra food?"

"Who in this building doesn't know this?" The middle-aged man shook his head proudly and glanced at the people who were gradually gathering around him.

Those who can afford to buy a house in Moon Bay are people with some assets. In order to meet the requirements of quality life, they either hire a live-in nanny or buy fresh vegetables every day and rarely stockpile too much food at home.

Before the disaster, they were all dressed in bright and beautiful clothes and looked decent, but now they all looked dishevelled and haggard like refugees. When they heard that the residents of Room 2603 had stockpiled a lot of food, their eyes almost glowed green.

"That's right, we all know that you have so much food at home, what's wrong with sharing some with everyone?"

"Yes, we are all neighbors. Can you bear to see us starve to death?"

"Young man, do you have any conscience? The country has trained you, so how come you don't have any sense of public morality..."

"Stop talking nonsense and bring out the food!"

As everyone talked, they felt more and more that they were right, and the noise became louder and louder.

Jiang Mi stood out from behind Jiang Xun, his eyes swept across everyone's faces, finally landing on a few people at the edge who were sneaking around with their heads down, with a sneer on his face.

It's really restless.

She stopped listening to their nonsense and quickly pulled out a gun from her waist, pointing the muzzle of the gun directly at the middle-aged man who was leading the riot. "You answer whatever I ask. If you keep talking nonsense, I'll shoot you."

Instantly, the noisy corridor fell silent for a moment. The middle-aged man was startled by her, his fat body trembled twice, and he swallowed his saliva and said fiercely: "Damn it, you are scaring me with a toy gun..."

"boom!"

With a loud bang, the light on the top of the corridor was shattered, and the scattered glass fragments fell all over everyone, causing many people to scream.

Jiang Mi slowly turned the muzzle of the gun pointed at the corridor light towards the middle-aged man, tilted his head and smiled slightly, "It's not a toy gun. If you pull the trigger again, you will die."

The middle-aged man turned pale, his greasy face was covered with cold sweat, and his legs began to tremble. "You...you...you are hiding a firearm, you...you are breaking the law!"

He stammered as he said this, but the other people who gathered around him didn't dare to say a word. They could all see that the girl in front of them was not someone to be trifled with, and they might really shoot her.

In this peaceful era, there is no one who does not have a deep-seated reverence for guns.

"Then call the police to arrest me." Jiang Mi smiled, but his eyes were terribly cold. "I'll ask you one last time, who spread the news that there was food in my house?"

She has the answer in her heart, but the truth of some things needs more people to know.

The middle-aged man didn't dare to say anything more. He could only blink hard as the cold sweat flowed into his eyes. His face was distorted with fear. "I... I don't know... I heard..."

Just then, a voice suddenly emerged from the crowd, "It's her! I heard it from her!"

"I heard what she said too!"

"Yes, yes, yes! It's her!"

Amidst the chaos, someone was pushed to the door while shouting, "Let me go, let me go!"

Even though she lowered her head and covered her head with her hands, Jiang Mi still recognized her at a glance.

"She told us that you have a lot of food at home. She saw with her own eyes that your family bought a lot of food before the natural disaster! She asked us to come to your house to ask for it!"

"I didn't! It wasn't me! You've made a mistake! You're talking nonsense!" The woman denied it flatly, but Jiang Mi smiled and reached out to knock on the door, making a dull sound to stop everyone from making noise.

When everyone quieted down, Jiang Mi smiled and said, "Isn't this my aunt?"

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone's expressions began to become strange, and the way they looked at Jiang Lichun also became weird.

"Why, didn't my cousin, who had taken so much effort to snatch my fiancé away from you, take good care of you? Why is he still spreading rumors about my family?"

She dropped another depth charge, and everyone looked at Jiang Lichun with wide eyes.

"You're talking nonsense! Your cousin just wanted to help you, you..." Jiang Lichun gritted her teeth and wanted to argue angrily.

Jiang Mi's expression changed, and he looked at her coldly, "I don't want anyone to disturb me and my family anymore. If I hear you talking nonsense outside again, I will tear you apart alive!"

As she spoke, she leaned forward slightly and moved closer to Jiang Lichun, and whispered in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "Aunt, don't say that I, the junior, didn't warn you. If you provoke me again, I don't mind spreading the news and exchanging a pound of your meat for a pound of food, or, for your daughter's."

After saying that, he chuckled and looked at Jiang Lichun's pale face and frightened eyes. Jiang Mi smiled with satisfaction, waved the hand holding the gun at everyone, and said sweetly and playfully: "Well, let's stop here today, I wish you all peace."

After saying that, she closed the door. This time no one stopped her. They all watched her close the door.

The middle-aged man who led the riot finally breathed a sigh of relief, and then he became furious. He slapped Jiang Lichun and cursed: "Fuck you bitch, you dare to lie to me! I will beat you to death!"

While cursing, he grabbed Jiang Lichun's hair and dragged her away. The others just watched indifferently and no one stepped forward to stop him.

Jiang Lichun used everyone as guns and asked them to fight against 2603 who had guns. If they didn't kick him a few times, it would be a sign that they still had some moral bottom line, so it was impossible for them to stop it.

Jiang Lichun's screams gradually died down. Inside the house, Jiang Mi had already put away the gun. Opposite her sat Jiang's father and mother.

Mother Jiang looked a little dazed. She trembled for a long time before she asked lightly, "You... you really have a gun?"

"Mom, let me tell you. It's time for you to know the truth." Jiang Xun adjusted his glasses with a calm expression.

"The truth?" Jiang's mother had a complicated expression.

Half an hour later, Jiang's father hugged the confused Jiang's mother and tried to comfort her with soft words. Jiang Mi and Jiang Xun looked at each other and sighed helplessly.

Jiang Mi looked at her watch. It was almost eight o'clock in the evening. The tsunami had completely subsided. Looking out from her window, there were no buildings in sight except the endless water.

After all, the water level has now risen to nearly sixty meters, and everything below this height has been submerged.