Chapter Twenty-Four: Struggling Men, Broken Hearts

Dongguo, Dongshan Special Zone. Cataclysmic Day: 24. The form of the Dongshan District is very severe, and the populous Dongshan Special District includes two populous cities: Penang and Tsing Gang. Qinggang has experienced at least three tsunamis, large and small, and almost the entire urban area has been submerged. The vast majority of people died in the tsunami at the beginning of the catastrophe, and when the tide receded and corpses littered, Qinggang became a dead port.

Before the tsunami hit, only a few people were informed in advance and evacuated from Tsing Harbour to nearby Penang, which is on higher ground. At the beginning, Penang had already built a huge ring city. Those important family members worth billions lived in the Ringtown. Qinggang was abandoned as a foreign trade port because of its special geographical location, surrounded by the sea on three sides, high mountains in the east, although Qinggang is adjacent to Penang, it is a small port at a low altitude, on the day of the tsunami, many people saw a huge wall of water in the far light pounced under the dark clouds, and destroyed Qinggang in an instant.

These people are extremely glad that they are standing in Bencheng and looking at the sea, not in Qinggang, because the terrain of Bincheng is limited, and 10 million people is the limit capacity, so if Qinggang evacuates the population, all the population will flock to Penang, and the population will skyrocket to 18 million, so Qinggang finally only issued less than 800,000 places at the top level, which were occupied by political dignitaries and businessmen.

The remaining 7.6 million people in Qinggang were stranded here and could not be evacuated. Ordinary people who don't know the truth still innocently live on this abandoned island until... The last image most of them saw in their lives was that the sea and the sky capsized, the huge waves like mountains rushed towards Qinggang, and the ocean-going ships docked on the seashore were thrown into the sky like matchboxes, smashing heavily into the high-rise buildings. Those who lived east of Qinggang desperately climbed the highlands of Qinggang - Daoqingshan.

Of the 7.2 million thousand, fewer than 100,000 climbed the tsunami-thwarted island. People looked at the ruined Qinggang with trepidation. Looking at this once prosperous import and export sea city, but now it is immersed in the sea water, only part of the roofs of high-rise buildings are still exposed on the water, accompanied by the ups and downs of the sea water, like a drowning person calling for help.

The tide has receded, the city has long been in ruins, but people dare not easily return to Qinggang City, because too many people have died, this place has become the spread of the epidemic, the decay of the corpses, so that the whole Qinggang has become a stinking sky, people do not know if there is a tsunami coming, no one dares to return to the city to live. Together with the 100,000 people who had fled, the indigenous people of Aoyama established their own temporary living quarters. For the vast majority of places, they are unfortunate and lucky. Because a few days before the catastrophe, black clouds covered the sky in Penang and drifted towards Qinggang. Tsing Harbour has been enveloped in Penang's lead cloud since that day.

Man is a strange creature, and the vast majority of people cannot live in groups, as if a dense population can make them feel more secure, as if the will of the majority is the right direction. However, there are always very few people who do not want to live in groups, and who prefer to fight alone rather than wait for death in the crowd. As a result, the ruins of Qinggang after the tsunami have become a paradise for a small number of people to explore.

Because after the tsunami flood receded, the resources of the whole city were still quite abundant for a small number of people, so these people collected materials and went to the settlement to exchange resources, and people called these people: gold diggers

Gold diggers can be a single person or a team of several people. But without exception, the group of gold diggers has certain advantages. Because almost every day, there will be people who die because of the gold rush in the ruins, and those who have low resistance and no skills have already been gradually eliminated in this tide of gold panning in ruins.

Haiqing is a gold digger in Qinggang, she used to have her own multinational trading company in Qinggang, where ocean trade was prosperous, and she was a typical strong woman before the disaster. A twenty-eight-year-old woman, but unlike most women, she falls in love and marries, before she succeeds, she always devotes herself to her work, always thinking that when her career is completed, she will postpone a good relationship for another two years. But as her career matures, she has fewer and fewer partners to choose from, and those who pursue her can't be seen, and what she wants, but she can't find it. In the end, she would rather vent her extra energy at the gym in her spare time.

In the eyes of many people, she is a very tempting and dangerous woman, and the evaluation of the big guys is "difficult"... A week before the tsunami, a Penang nouveau riche came to his company and teased her with all kinds of excuses of cooperation, and she couldn't bear to beat the nouveau riche severely. The nouveau riche looked at her like a dead man when he left, and the toothless mouth that was bleeding and laughed hesitantly: "Tsk, it's a pity that this superb body is fed to the fish in the end... Hai Qingsheng was angry, he didn't hear anything outside the words at all, and thought that the other party was just taking advantage of him.

However, two or three nouveau riche came to his company one after another, and they all hinted to him that as long as they agreed to be her little wife, they could save his life. Although one of them did not do anything to her, after she refused, he said to her in the same way: "You know how many beautiful ladies knelt before me and begged me to take them in." I came to you to give you a long face, what are you pretending to be at this juncture? You don't know yet, do you? You're going to die here with this bunch of lowly people. Don't be embarrassed. I can assure you that if you don't say yes today, no one will ever take you in again. You're here to die. ”

Haiqing gradually turned from anger to uneasiness, and came to the door one after another, so that the strong woman heard the meaning, and recently she also faintly heard from the grapevine that Qinggang was about to fall, and now she still doesn't understand what's going on, she has been doing business for so many years in vain. After much inquiry, the day before the tsunami, she finally figured out what was going to happen, a terrible disaster was about to befall and Penang was ready for it, and everyone in Qinggang knew it.

She did not flee with her only son, but hurriedly convened the company's core team to hold an emergency meeting to take stock of the company's materials and want to gather as many people as possible, and the original plan was to rush to Bincheng. Just as I left, the tsunami warning came. It's too late to leave Penang. She had no choice but to send the convoy to the relatively close island of Aoyama.

The warning before the tsunami was very sudden, and most of the people in Qinggang had no time to react because the high-level officials had already fled, and by the time the whole city was urgently mobilized, the traffic in Qinggang had already fallen into semi-paralysis, and the roads out of the city had already been jammed with cars and people, and panic was spreading. Haiqing they can't even get out of Qinggang, at the moment of crisis, Haiqing immediately made a decision, pulled his own convoy to turn around and rushed to the island Qingshan, they just arrived at the mountainside, the sea water pounced, the convoy of a truck running behind the tail and a whole vehicle of materials were swept into the sea, and everyone climbed up the island Qingshan dangerously.

It's been just over a week on the island green mountain, the flood has not yet receded, and the situation is gradually chaotic, and at the beginning, everyone can still huddle together to keep warm and share food with each other. It all happened after the people spontaneously organized the order department, and with the confusion of the personnel, the shortage of food, all food and water had to be handed over, managed and distributed by several police officers and self-proclaimed cadres, who finally began to openly loot supplies from house to house in the name of the provisional government.

And the group of "right-hand men" under Haiqing chose to betray her mercilessly under the disadvantage of protecting food and being beaten by a fat beating. not only took her supplies and food to the management committee, but also turned around and came back to use this as a threat, asking Haiqing to be the mistress of a certain cadre. even promised her that as long as she was from the other party, she would still be their boss.

Hai Qingqi's face was pale, and she slapped the manager under him in disappointment. It's a pity that these people are no longer her subordinates, and after being beaten, someone actually tried to rape her. Haiqing desperately resisted Cang and finally escaped from their temporary settlement. She was alone, and she forcibly endured her nausea to wipe her handsome and beautiful face black and flowery with dirt, and found a few pieces of coarse cloth to wrap her Miaoman's figure bloated. quietly became a flowery-faced homeless man in the resettlement camp.

After the sea receded, she used to live a very difficult life for a period of time, there was no source of food, no source of clean water, every day at the island Qingshan water supply station to receive a little bit of water, people had to queue up to get water. At this time, people don't care what aborigines you are, and all refugees are rationed a little bit every day, whether they are rich or not, they have become the most useless people in the island and green mountains. Money can't buy anything anymore, and it's hard to wipe your ass.

By chance, Haiqing met a little girl who was about fifteen or sixteen years old, and she was still wearing a high school student's school uniform, which looked particularly conspicuous in the crowd. On this day, the girl was holding half a bottle of freshly made water that happened to be squeezed out and broken by the crowd. The little girl just squatted on the ground and cried quietly.

Maybe it's used to it, maybe this kind of thing happens every day, those men, women, and children are strong and strong, all of them are silent and numb and crowded forward, and no one looks back at her. The days of no water to drink all day are not good, Haiqing finally looked at Yu Xin and couldn't bear it, and after fetching water, she gave half of her water to the little girl.

Haiqing still remembers that the little girl's crying face was full of gratitude when she saw the water handed over by Haiqing. From that day on, the little girl always rushed to help Haiqing line up, and went to help Haiqing occupy a position to repay her very early every day.

The two have been dependent on each other since that day, and the simplicity of the girl made Haiqing, who was once disappointed in people, regain her trust in her and her yearning for her family. Although life is bitter at this time, the little girl looks thin and sweet, and when she and Haiqing chatted, she said that she was a student of Qinggang Middle School, the second grade this year. Because of playfulness, he climbed the island with his classmates, but he unexpectedly escaped the disaster. His parents were both seaside dock workers, and her parents were still working when the tsunami came.

She and her classmates looked at the ocean on the mountainside and knew that their family would not be spared, so her classmate chose to commit suicide by jumping off a cliff that night. And she thought about it, but she stood on the edge of the cliff for a long time, but she didn't dare to jump down. I can only follow the flow in the resettlement camp and rely on myself, trying my best to live every day, looking forward to the day when the rescue will come, as several people in the management committee said.

Hai Qing liked this girl very much, and she treated her like her own sister. Because she is as independent and brave as herself, her thin body always makes her see how stubborn she once was. Although sometimes he is also cowardly, this age is already precious, especially since there are no adults in the family. This made Haiqing, who had never been married, a mother, angry, and after witnessing the little girl being harassed by a group of hooligans, she was almost inseparable from this girl.

Until, one day, she went to line up to get food, but when she returned to the tent, the tent was cut with a knife, and the little girl who was supposed to be waiting here was gone. She anxiously rummaged through the settlement like crazy, and finally found it in an abandoned warehouse near the water station, a gang of hooligans broke into the house and robbed the girl away, and the only little food in the tent was saved by Haiqing and her with great difficulty, and the girl with a blue nose and swollen face who was beaten refused to let go, which angered this gang of gangsters, they not only robbed that little bit of food but also raped her in a beastly manner.

When she looked for the girl, her face was stained with tears, her body was bleeding, and she was trembling with her tattered clothes. Hai Qing endured her grief and indignation, took off her coat and put on her silently hugged the girl into her arms, letting the girl cry hysterically, just patting her back to comfort her.

The so-called disaster is not a single line, being raped is not the most unfortunate, in this disorderly island Qingshan, people go missing every day, there are various accidents every day, the girl's misfortune is due to the lack of hygiene, after the disaster, many people are afraid of getting sick, the little girl is unfortunately infected, with a high fever. There is not enough food, there is a lack of medicine. The little girl survived for a few days, staring and dying in her arms...

The moment this girl took her breath, Haiqing's heart was broken, and what made her desperate was not the betrayal of her cronies, not the suffering of hunger, and not the precarious life. It's just that she feels that people's hearts and justice have been taken away in this tsunami. All that is left is selfishness, self-desire, and endless strife. After the skin of human nature was ruthlessly torn off in this disaster, the faces that did not even want to dress up as hypocrisy were as bloody as the devil of the abyss.

She hugged the body of the little girl, closed the girl's eyes, and for the first time in her life, she cried heartbreakingly, in this cold last days, for insecure women, they can find someone who depends on each other like a sister, and they are warm to each other. made her feel that there was still hope, but this last hope was ruthlessly deprived, and the funny thing was that she didn't even know who to take revenge on.

She decided to leave, and one night she took advantage of the drunkenness of the thugs, slit the throats of the thugs with a utility knife she had picked up, and then went down the hill without looking back.

Haiqing stayed away from the crowd and never went to line up to get food again, she chose to go alone. That was the day when Haiqing, who was as gentle as a sister in front of girls, died, and a murderous Haiqing was reborn. In the circle of gold diggers, many people know that there is a lone woman who is crazy, and it is best not to mess with her.