Chapter 23: Adding fuel to the fire

Liang Yu saw Li Dama’s question, knowing she was anxious, so he pulled up the surveillance footage from his doorway and began to watch.

By this time, all the chili powder had fallen to the ground, looking like a fiery red carpet, and Liang Yu could feel the spiciness of the cayenne pepper even through the screen.

The reason he didn’t use the legendary Reaper Devil Pepper was mainly because he was afraid of killing people, and letting them die now would be too easy for them.

Then Liang Yu zoomed in on the footage significantly, only to find that they were still breathing; they had probably just fainted.

So he zoomed out, took a screenshot, sent it to the group, and @ed Li Dama.

1001 Liang Yu: “Young people nowadays really have good physiques. In such cold weather, they just collapse and sleep in front of someone else’s door. I can’t help but admire them.”

“I can only say I’ve been defeated, after all, I can’t just collapse and sleep in front of someone else’s door.”

At this moment, hurried footsteps came from the hallway.

All the residents from the 10th to 16th floors heard it, and they all knew it was Li Dama going down to Liang Yu’s apartment on the tenth floor to find her son.

Li Dama saw it wasn’t Chen Qing, so she didn’t abruptly stop at the hallway entrance, but walked in slowly, and after descending the stairs, she rushed in frantically.

On the way, she even stirred up a lot of chili powder from the ground.

Li Dama endured the discomfort in her body, looked at the four people covered in chili powder, and dragging one person with each hand, pulled them into the hallway.

More than ten minutes later, Li Dama finally dragged the four people into the hallway.

Then, a violent cough attacked her, and she instinctively covered her mouth with her hand.

At once, all the skin that came into contact with her palm developed a burning sensation.

Li Dama quickly released her hand, and in the cold temperature, the burning sensation did not flare up again.

At this moment, Li Dama didn’t care about anything else and used her unwashed hands to pinch the philtrum of each person.

Through this method, the four people were actually awakened by Li Dama.

The first thing the four did upon waking was cough violently, especially their lungs. Due to inhaling a lot of chili powder, the burning and stinging sensation inside their bodies was at its peak.

Inside the body, unlike outside, they couldn’t directly contact the cold air, and they didn’t dare to drink ice-cold water, so they could only endure it.

It was then that Wu Chusheng noticed Li Dama.

“Mom, why are you here?”

Li Dama looked at her son, who seemed fine, and didn’t say much.

“Can you still walk? If you can, let’s go back first.”

Wu Chusheng nodded, then looked at his three subordinates.

“Brother Wu, we’re fine, cough cough!”

“It’s just the chili powder making us a bit uncomfortable, cough cough!”

“Brother Wu, you and Li Dama go back first, cough cough! We’ll go to 1002 to get the supplies and then come.”

Li Dama looked at the three subordinates in this state and asked,

“Are there many things? If not too many, you all go back and rest first; I can go get them alone.”

The few of them didn’t think much of it. The subordinate told Li Dama about the marked boxes of supplies and their location, then followed the other three upstairs.

At this moment, Liang Yu’s surveillance camera was still on, and he clearly heard what Li Dama and the subordinate said.

A bold idea appeared in his mind.

He quickly pulled up the owner list in the main group and looked through it one by one.

He focused his attention on Zhang Bolang, who lived in 801.

He had heard of this person; many years ago, he was sentenced to more than ten years of prison reform for involuntary manslaughter.

He was released approximately last month.

Currently, he was living at his brother Zhang Bohai’s home, the owner of 801.

Liang Yu felt that at this time, the other party would definitely be very interested in food. As for the source, Liang Yu smiled; the other side was not a law-abiding citizen at all, would they care about such things?

So Liang Yu found Zhang Bohai’s phone number in the contact list and used his wristband’s virtual call function to call Zhang Bohai.

This had an advantage: the other party wouldn’t know who you were and couldn’t call you back; their phone would only display a jumble of characters.

Soon, the other party’s phone was dialed, but the next second, it was directly rejected.

Liang Yu was not discouraged; after all, if he were in their shoes, he might not answer either.

So he bombarded them with calls, one after another, until the other party, unable to bear it, finally answered.

A voice suppressing anger came from the other end of the phone.

“Who are you!! You’d better have a good reason to call me!!”

Liang Yu did not announce his name; instead, he directly stated his idea.

“Right now, in 1002, Li Caihua is moving a box of supplies to the sixteenth floor. You probably have less than 10 minutes.”

“She’s alone now. If you want food, you can go find her.”

“If you don’t go, I hope you won’t regret it.”

After Liang Yu finished speaking, without waiting for the other party’s reply or reaction, he directly hung up the phone.

Then he leisurely lay on the rocking chair, watching the surveillance, holding a happy drink in one hand and a snack with foreign names he couldn’t pronounce in the other, and began to eat.

On the other side, Zhang Bohai was eating biscuits with his younger brother, Zhang Bolang. Zhang Bohai had the speakerphone on during the call, so his brother Zhang Bolang heard everything clearly.

At this moment, the two brothers were discussing this matter.

The cautious Zhang Bohai felt this was a trap, but Zhang Bolang disagreed.

“Brother, we should just go. Whether it’s a trap or not, we don’t have much food left.”

“If it’s a trap, it shouldn’t be difficult for the two of us to retreat safely, but if this is true, then we’ll probably have food for a while.”

Zhang Bohai listened to his brother Zhang Bolang’s words; he also knew this was the case, but his only fear now was the sudden arrival of officials.

While Zhang Bohai was hesitating, a sentence from Zhang Bolang enlightened him.

“Brother, what are you still hesitating about? Wu Chusheng and them even dared to openly kill people. We’re just going to snatch supplies, and besides, these weren’t theirs to begin with. Even if the public security bureau comes, we’re not afraid, after all, they killed people first.”

“And since order has started to become chaotic, I estimate there won’t be many official people in our city, otherwise they would have appeared long ago.”

It was this last sentence that made Zhang Bohai see the current situation clearly.

He waved his hand.

“Let’s go, take the hunting shotguns, and the two of us will go.”

“According to what the person on the phone said, Li Caihua should still be walking upstairs now.”

So the two brothers took two shotguns and some bullets and hurried upstairs.

On the way, Zhang Bohai also instructed Zhang Bolang.

“Little brother, don’t shoot indiscriminately later. Although we have guns, we don’t have many bullets. Don’t waste them unless absolutely necessary.”

“If Li Caihua dares to resist, just pick up the gun and scare her. I know this person; she’s someone who bullies the weak and fears the strong.”