Book 296 Human Nature, Collapse
Trapped in a shopping mall building that had collapsed into a secret room, Mr. Zhou got a useful message after calling his girlfriend for help.
"There are already construction vehicles to dig to save people, and they don't seem to dare to dig, probably because they are afraid that there will be aftershocks from the earthquake just now, and they seem to be waiting for someone. I guess you'll have to wait inside for a while. ”
Zhou Shu is a little troubled now, he is surrounded by a group of young people playing parkour, on the grounds that he saved their friends.
The girl who was rescued, or the girl who wanted to save Zhou Shu, but was almost stoned to death was named 'L Diandian', which is obviously a screen name.
There were exactly a dozen of them, twelve of them, and they were all together to hide from those horrible retards who had gone crazy to loot the mall's goods.
Although before the disaster, it is understandable to use the supplies in the mall. For example, if you are trapped and thirsty to death, and there is only a vending machine with no electricity in front of you, then if you go and smash it to make a bottle of Coke, no one will morally accuse you.
Fortunately, the first floor of the mall is divided into three main areas, one of which is the international famous store pù, such as the Hermès store, which sells everything from perfume wallets to Miss Hermès mugs. Then there's the women-oriented personal care area, which sells things that are rubbed on people's faces and hair. Finally, there are the counters for digital products such as mobile phones and video cameras.
Now, except for a fast-food restaurant around the corner that has been robbed of a full table, chair and bench, the hardest hit is the digital area.
There are the most things, and it is not as efficient as the silk scarf wallet, which is not afraid of bumps, a large number of people are competing for me to carefully put the small mobile phone into the bag that was just snatched, and the mobile phone is gone, grab the tablet and camera, generally speaking, the highest value of the laptop is not welcomed because of the volume problem. It is a dead stock in the eyes of the robbers.
It can be seen that although this place has been affected by the disaster, the 'victims' are still quite rational and steady.
Mr. Zhou was sitting in the corner with the gang of parkour guys, and there were some uncles and aunts who came to the mall for a walk, and they were using their elderly mobile phones to hold their families safe. These people are very afraid of the group of people who show their ugly side out of order, although the parkour boys are dressed up very well and have all kinds of strange hairstyles. But he is more afraid than the old man.
l nodded and thanked Zhou Shu with a nod of his head, and Master Zhou didn't know why she was so serious and polite, so he dealt with her, threw a candy that strengthened his vision into his mouth, and watched the chaotic guys relieve their boredom.
Visual enhancement is not as simple as treating myopia, and it can also allow consumers to see through the darkness in a certain way.
Zhou Shu felt that if there was electricity and light at this moment, these people would definitely not do this, at least not do it. Now in the middle of the night, the lights are blind, and people are using their mobile phones for lighting. I lowered my head and couldn't even see whether my shoelaces were open or not.
It is this kind of indoor light, which is a little brighter than reaching out to the fingers, that allows people to expose their true nature in the dark, and also have the ability to commit crimes.
Master Zhou was very worried at this time, he wanted to go to the second floor alone to see if there was a place to go out, but it was even more chaotic over there, and he didn't want to cause trouble. The earthquake had just broken the stairs and escalators, blocking the people upstairs. There is a gold jewelry area on the second floor, which is much noisier than the first floor. After eating the candy, he also saw someone being pushed downstairs alive, and he would definitely not fall to his death. But the man seemed to have a lot of looted gold on him, and as soon as he fell, a group of people on the first floor rushed from him.
"I should have been trampled to death......"
Zhou Shu sighed, causing the parkour girl to nod and twist her head in the direction Zhou Shu was looking, and she could only see a mass of people messing around the broken staircase.
Dotting his eyes, he said strangely: "There's nothing to grab there, what are they doing?"
Zhou Shu answered the question and said: "There is a guy with gold who fell from the second floor. You should know that the second floor sells gold, and then that's it. "He didn't say that guy was pushed down, he didn't want to portray human nature too ugly.
After saying this, Zhou Shu saw L's eyes widen in horror, as if he had thought of something terrible, and grabbed several male partners and Zhou Shu beside him. The pigeon flapped its wings and shook its arms and said anxiously: "Oops, there are so many people on the first floor, the little things in the store are not enough for them to grab for long, and there are smart people who know that they can't take them out even if they grab them." So...... So ......"
The meaning of the little classmates was already very clear, Zhou Shu frowned and said, "You won't be afraid that they will come to rob you, right?" He didn't believe that these people would be so crazy, but looking at the appearance of this little girl, she was quite cute, and there was a great possibility of being robbed by the mob.
His eldest master read it in the Book of Callings, and he was now used to reading people, especially girls.
Although Zhou Shu didn't believe that those things would come and attack people, after saying this, their friends and a few old people sitting nearby immediately panicked, and their eyes became even more frightened when they looked at the group of people in the distance.
Suddenly, there was a 'bang' behind him, and it was crisp, not like a falling rock on a roof. A group of people looked in the direction of the sound, and a hunched old man trembled and struck the ground with his cane.
"What it looks like!
The old man repeated the phrase, the meaning of which was unclear, and then staggered towards the opposite underground exit, where he came out of the other underneath exit behind him.
Master Zhou is very capable of the logistics team of the rookie board game store, and I believe that since they chose to blow up all the exits to trap that monster, they naturally won't let go of the underground passage, so Zhou Shu didn't bother to look for those exits that couldn't be stored at all.
The old man just now naturally didn't know about this kind of thing, and was walking alone through the rioting crowd.
Zhou Shu didn't have the heart to persuade him to give up, the old man was that stubborn, it was impossible to listen to his own words lightly, and he would never give up without personally confirming it, and if he said it himself, he would be scolded for something like 'young people are not promising', and the gains outweigh the losses.
Even if the old man was trampled to death by the crowd, he probably didn't bother to care about it now. As a murderer, he no longer realized the weight of life.
To the surprise of Master Zhou. The parkour girl and a few of her friends ran to the old man, persuading him not to run around and to wait for help.
The old man didn't listen at all as Zhou Shu expected, and reprimanded his classmates, but the content of the reprimand was a little different from what he had guessed. The old man was on crutches, tears streaming down his wrinkles. He kept hitting the ground with his staff, pointing bitterly at the group of people who were beating and fighting with each other in the distance.
"You told me to sit and wait for help, I can't wait. I can't stand people like that, like that! If you find the door and leave, these people will get better, better. ”
The old man spoke a little excitedly, with a typical old man's tone, and liked to repeat the endings.
A few young people, you look at me, I look at you. Then they discussed it together for a while, and decided to accompany the old man to find the exit.
Zhou Shu also wanted to help when he saw it, he felt that these people were not bad, quite kind, and he was afraid that they would encounter something that they were worried about. But when he looked around, the old people who were sitting together were visibly more uneasy when they saw a group of young people leaving.
They were very worried that it would become a reality when they heard the words of their classmates, and these old people had hoped to be protected by these young people, but they all went to find an exit.
No way. Zhou Shu stood up and took off his shirt, deliberately tensing the muscles on his body. The bent over kicking leg did warm-up exercises, looking like he wanted to dry the fight. He did this because he wanted to have a little trust with these old men, and with his current image as a muscular man, he still felt very secure.
Zhou Shu was ready to leave here early at first, but now he wants to take care of the old people as much as possible. He assumed the posture of a guard, exuding an air of inaccessibility. The effect is very good, and the old people are much more relieved.
On the side of Wu Lami and Lu Jinxiang, Zhou Shu asked them to find a place to sit for a while, there should be a cake shop opposite the mall, and he asked the two girls to drink apple tea or something. Don't worry too much about yourself. If Lu Jinxiang wants to go home, he can leave first, don't be embarrassed.
The two girls saw that the construction truck was doing nothing outside the mall, and the police and firefighters seemed to have received instructions and were waiting for the leader and the local news to start broadcasting at half past seven, ready to launch a rescue under the guidance of the camera and the leader.
Both of them are smart people, and they know that they can't rush this kind of thing, so they really go to the cake shop opposite the door to drink tea, and Ula Mystery treats them.
As soon as their pot of orange-red tea with apple peels wafting on it arrived, the table rumbled and trembled.
"It's an aftershock...... Lu Jinxiang grabbed the teapot and teacup with his hand, and then frowned at the sound of crackling dishes falling to the ground in the store.
Urami sighed, "We won't be here for long, and it is estimated that the owner of the store will close early, or he won't even be able to earn back the money for dishes." ”
Outside the mall, some firefighters who climbed onto the building like ants and were searching for ways to enter were shaken off by the shock. They were surprised, they had never heard of such a neat collapse, all the doors and windows were sealed, and even the underground passages and parking lots could not be entered, and the underground store was estimated to have become a live burial site.
They don't want to do anything here, but the engineering truck is not in their hands, but fortunately, the TV broadcast truck has arrived, the equipment is being debugged, and the leaders' cars have been parked nearby for a long time, and it is estimated that it will be on the news soon.
In the mall, the aftershocks caused several more ceilings to fall, and it was photographed on a group of men scrambling for cosmetics. The valuable items on the first floor had already been looted by them, and they hadn't grabbed enough, so they turned to these feminine products.
Zhou Shu now feels more and more that the words of the little girl are going to come true, the cosmetics area belongs to the most vulnerable part of the building, and the large ceiling just now slapped five or six people into meat puree, although he can't see the scene clearly, but it is estimated that it is quite disgusting. In such a situation, I am afraid that no one will go there to grab something, and if they have not had enough, they will soon turn their attention to the old men and women who cowered and leaned against the wall.
Most of the women in the mall didn't join in the robbery because they were afraid of these crazy men. Their fear was right, Zhou Shu saw that this group of people had gathered into gang-like things in just half an hour after the disaster, and there was a man commanding more than two dozen people, putting boxes of tablets in the pockets of the robbed clothes, and then each of them put on seven or eight pieces of clothing, wanting to take things out in this way.
I'm afraid these people will soon find out that this is futile, and they should soon find out. It's much simpler to grab cash directly.
Zhou Shu underestimated their IQ, and in the corners he couldn't see, there had already been several murders. Several shopkeepers and stall owners were being forced and beaten to open the safe deposit box in the store, and the cash register had already been smashed. The shopkeeper, who refused to open the safe for money, was beaten to death under the 'excitement of the crowd'.
You rich people. At this time, I still want to die for money, and I deserve to die!
This is the logic of the murderer.
Most of the staff and owners of the brand store are women, and they have also been sexually assaulted by different people, some of whom have been killed in the process of resisting, and some of whom have not thought of committing suicide after the fact.
Violence is a highly contagious emotion, and Zhou Shu has read the famous clockwork orange, and he has also read a communication paper on violence written by his tutor on this book in college, and he understands this deeply. Everyone has violence, the difference is whether the love has been activated or not. In today's situation. If you don't want to be the victim of violence, then it's obviously a 'good idea' to take the initiative to commit violence against others.
Since it is currently after the Spring Festival, there are a lot of people who come to the mall to hang out, there are nearly 1,000 people on the first floor, and more than 700 people are smashed. Zhou Shu felt that at this time, the people outside the mall would never have imagined that the interior they wanted to rescue would be such a situation.
He had clearly underestimated the energy of communication now.
The OB truck outside the mall has been commissioned, and the director is talking to someone on the phone.
That person is a relevant person of the TV station, and he has been reporting the internal situation of his TV station since the accident in the mall. The director of the station and the director of the news program had mixed feelings after hearing about the looting incident that occurred inside the mall.
Naturally, the director does not want this kind of thing to be spread to society by his own media. If it forms a topic, this kind of negative energy will make him miserable. As a media person, the choreographer wants to hype it up. But just think about it, everyone is an adult, and he still knows what to do and what not to do.
Therefore, this TV station comrade who was affected by the disaster is currently making a confession, preparing to say something in the rescue program that will be broadcast live: "The situation of the victims is stable, and the number of casualties is extremely small." Old and young help each other' and stuff like that.
He didn't lie, there were really not many dead people he saw on the first floor, only five or six people were killed, and only one or two committed suicide, and he pretended not to see when he was killed by falling rocks. Compared to the base of a thousand people. Not much, indeed.
The situation of the victims is basically stable, yes, they can still rationally grab those high-value things, and they are still far from going crazy.
As for the old and the young helping each other, of course, the weak always like to get together in a bunch, and there is nothing wrong with this statement.
The radio station member spoke for too long, only to find out that his phone was about to run out of battery before the show began.
"What should I do, director, the phone just prompted that the battery is low, and it's about to turn off. ”
The choreographer scolded him for being mentally retarded, "Won't you borrow someone else's mobile phone to use it?"
"yes. The man hurriedly praised the director's wit, and then looked for someone who could borrow the phone.
He gathered beside Zhou Shu with the old people and was protected by him. He thought that Zhou Shu had brought the elders of the family here, so he was guarding a group of people here.
This person didn't want to make trouble, so he didn't go to deal with Zhou Shu, and borrowed a phone from a mother-in-law with a scare. He didn't want to be so ugly, the key was that it was too hard to talk to the elderly, and she refused to borrow the deposit for the mother-in-law's phone.
Zhou Shu noticed this guy, and even more noticed the group of people behind him. The gang were carrying large and small paper bags containing souvenirs they had just snatched, led by a young man in a crooked baseball cap, estimated to be under twenty years old. After the things in the mall were carved up, they were still unsatisfied, and they all wanted to take some money out of other people's pockets, and these old people naturally became the best targets for bullying.
The baseball caps have been hanging around here for five minutes, and Zhou Shu has been scaring them with Mr. Bodybuilder's PSS, trying to make them sanity. If the gang were really looking for trouble, he wouldn't mind breaking two or three of their legs.
The staff member of the TV station was rejected when he answered the phone with his mother-in-law, and he took out his wallet and grabbed a few thousand yuan as a deposit for his mother-in-law, saying that he was just borrowing your 120 yuan old man's machine to make a phone call, not trying to steal from you.
The mother-in-law was a little reasonable, and felt that she was dizzy and couldn't see whether the real money or fake money in her hand was too dizzy, so she didn't agree.
Although the TV station almost snatched his mother-in-law's phone in the end, he was half a violent person, but the thickness of his wallet was seen by the baseball cap group, which made them show greedy eyes. The young man's eyes and head were much better than those of his mother-in-law, and he immediately decided to make this man his brother's first target.
The live news broadcast began, and after the host completed a few minutes of opening remarks, the heroic posture of the leaders appeared in the picture, and after a few minutes, the leaders were tired of standing, and the picture was cut to the front-line reporters by the host.
The reporter was holding a mobile phone and explained to the audience in front of the television: "Another reporter from this station was trapped in the mall at the time of the accident, so what is the situation inside the mall now? How many people are injured, and whether the people affected by the disaster are safe? Let this colleague of mine answer the question for you." (To be continued......)