Apocalypse: After Being Reborn, I Stocked Up on All Supplies

Chapter 125: Chapter 125: I’ll Go with You

Jiang Yan said “thank you” and reached out to take it.

This was her first time eating fried rice porridge.

It looked ordinary, but it was fragrant, sweet, soft, and sticky, with a hint of grain aroma.

The working people truly are the wisest.

“Su Dai, you’re amazing. To be able to make such delicious food from such ordinary ingredients,” Jiang Yan sincerely praised her.

“Cough, it’s all in the technique of the pot,” Su Dai laughed somewhat embarrassedly upon hearing her idol’s praise.

Initially, every time she met Jiang Yan, her eyes would sparkle like stars.

But lately, those stars had almost entirely vanished.

Instead, a barely detectable worry had taken their place.

“By the way, Jiang Yan, after breakfast and a rest, would you like to join us for some exercise?” Su Dai asked, scooping up a spoonful of porridge into her mouth.

Jiang Yan then learned that for some time now, Su Dai and her two companions had been doing physical training indoors every day.

Sun Jingtao had been slowly teaching them some grappling techniques he had learned in the military.

Ye Qing had also learned a bit in the past and had even undergone semi-closed militarized training for six months during his school days, so he was quite proficient.

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Because he was relatively weak as a child, his parents had sent him to learn Sanda and Taekwondo starting from fourth or fifth grade in elementary.

Later, he developed a deep interest in Taekwondo and continued advancing, eventually reaching about a black belt level.

His parents, both being police detectives, though not involved in narcotics, still dealt with various criminals in their daily work.

Thus, they naturally hoped he would have some ability to protect himself.

Besides, being from a family of police officers and willing to delve deeply into the subject, he had learned many things that were beyond the understanding of average people.

After hearing Su Dai’s words, Jiang Yan gained a bit more understanding of everyone’s backgrounds.

Her trust in them also subtly increased.

However, she wasn’t very keen on training with them.

After all, she had the most advanced holographic projection training system, which was far more impressive than just punching and kicking here.

But she didn’t outright refuse, “Not today, maybe in a little while.”

“Oh, right, your relatives are still here,” Su Dai suddenly realized.

Jiang Yan gave an awkward smile.

Although she had declined Su Dai’s invitation, she still came to respect the others somewhat more.

In the current environment, there were countless people who simply gave up, slogged through, and waited for death.

All perseverance and discipline came from oneself.

But she firmly believed that those who prepared early and took precautions were the ones who would have a greater chance of surviving future dangers.

Su Dai suddenly recalled something she had seen recently, “Oh, by the way, Jiang Yan, the people who moved into 3202 and near the elevator are new, from another building I think. You saw them when you came out earlier, right?”

“En,” Jiang Yan nodded.

With the opposite buildings almost completely flooded by now, it was inevitable for others to move up.

They couldn’t really go down and invite people up, but they also wouldn’t drive them away.

Just go with the flow.

However, Ma Longbiao and his group might not be something they could just ignore anymore.

Thinking of this, Jiang Yan said, “I suddenly remembered something, Wen Wanli had many fresh cuts and cigarette burns on her, I suspect she might have been assaulted. It might be Ma Longbiao’s doing.”

Wen Wanli and Wang Jin were a couple.

If something had indeed happened, it wouldn’t just leave a scent of fluids.

Besides, it was quite risky to commit such acts during her obvious first trimester.

Unless he’s a brute.

But most likely he’s not.

Of course, one shouldn’t disregard the possibility of a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

“Pfft—” Jiang Yan’s sudden words almost made Su Dai spit out her porridge.

She covered her mouth in embarrassment.

It was rather unseemly.

“She is a bit strange, goes down every afternoon, then comes up carrying some supplies,” Ye Qing frowned.

Although they stayed at home, they weren’t completely ignorant of outside affairs.

Jiang Yan glanced at them and continued, “Also, Zhou Wei’s son, he must have been coerced by their group too. When I asked if his son was in the compound, he said, ‘Maybe, maybe not.’ But he avoided the topic, probably afraid of Ma Longbiao’s group.”

Ye Qing straightforwardly said, “So, Zhou Wei knows something and deliberately showed that in front of you.”

“I’m saying, they moved up from the 18th floor, but actually everyone from below the 29th floor has been controlled by Ma Longbiao’s group, which is weird.

Normally, they would be sent out to gather supplies or fish for leeches, but they seem quite comfortable,” Su Dai felt like she understood something more now.

Insiders are confused, but outsiders see clear.

You wouldn’t think it, but casual chats like these often reveal significant clues.

“There’s something dubious when there’s abnormal behavior, and this group is definitely scheming something,” Sun Jingtao said as he clenched his fists and stood up.

He walked to the floor-to-ceiling window, furrowing his brows while rapidly theorizing in his mind.

Clearly, they came prepared.

Otherwise, they wouldn’t feel the real intention of their opponents as a frog boiled in slowly warming water only now.

But no matter how strong and prepared that group was,

it was still only about a dozen or twenty people.

Even if, as Tian Jiliang said, they used coercion and inducements to subdue families one by one,

controlling so many people in the community would still take some time.

Yet in such a short period, so much had spiraled out of control, which was truly bizarre.

Unless—

Sun Jingtao’s eyebrows tightened, then a light sparked in his eyes:

“This Ma Longbiao, he might have a powerful backer. Shallow Bay here might just be a chess piece in this backer’s larger scheme.”

“They might even have firearms,” Jiang Yan thought, which somewhat coincided with his.

Su Dai was startled, “It can’t be, right? If he had them, wouldn’t he have been swaggering around after they took their Fish Shooting Guns from us?”

“Honey, you forgot, many people went out to search for supplies when the rain stopped a few days ago. Perhaps, they got weapons from a police station,” Wang Jin said.

Su Dai: “…”

“I’m going to go downstairs and snoop around,” Jiang Yan said, after drinking the last spoonful of fried rice porridge, offhandedly.

If there had been no storm, or if the storm had stopped when it reached the 20th floor like in her previous life,

she could have just left this place.

But now, many things had changed.

The future was full of uncertainties.

She had to respond to every change with constancy.

Therefore, the safe house at 3201 was undeniable in its importance.

Naturally, she couldn’t just sit and wait for doom.

Considering that in a few days, they could be knocking on her door.

Ye Qing looked at her and said, “I’ll go with you.”