Chapter 282: The Market (2)

"Husband, will you eat something?"

A woman who looked to be only in her thirties walked up to Zheng Xinghuai with a bowl of instant noodles and looked at him with concern.

The family had been hiding here for more than four months, and the water and electricity had long been cut off, and if the gas canister had not happened to be replaced some time ago, it would have become a little difficult to even make a fire and cook rice.

Even the water for instant noodles is the last bucket of pure water in the family.

In fact, the water had run out long ago, and if someone hadn't brought a few cans of bottled water just before the disaster, I am afraid that the family would have died of thirst due to lack of water.

But even so, it is far from meeting the needs of their family of three.

Even though it was already very economical, a few buckets of water were still being consumed at a rate visible to the naked eye, and at the same time, the voices that could be heard at the door at first suddenly disappeared one day, and finally became the non-stop roar downstairs day and night.

They knew that the person next door was dead, and that the next person to die might be one of them.

Once they have eaten all the food stored at home and drunk the water in the bucket, death is already close to them.

Zheng Xinghuai looked at his wife and daughter's chapped lips, and listened to the roar of the asthma patient next door, and suddenly a bold idea came to his mind!

He couldn't watch his wife and daughter starve to death and die of thirst.

If he has to die, then he should die, Zheng Xinghuai looked at the roof of the building and thought of an idea.

Most of the buildings outside Market Street are also relatively old, and the government's plans at that time were far from reaching this area, so most of the houses were built by themselves.

At first, they were all one-story bungalows, but as time went on, self-built buildings such as small western-style buildings on the second floor became popular, and every family began to follow suit.

But this is not a country after all, the place is small, and there is no separate yard on both sides, so the roofs above are completely next to each other.

When everyone started to build the second and third floors, the roofs of each house were almost completely connected, and even in the summer, people would spread tables directly on the roof and call the neighbors to come and play cards.

Zheng Xinghuai's house is also a two-story building, and the next few families are almost all of the same design.

These low-rise buildings resemble tofu blocks huddled together, with negligible gaps separated by silk threads.

The distance between each other is actually only those two walls.

The family living next door to Zheng Xinghuai also opened a shop, the first floor is a barber shop, the second floor is where the family lives, and the stairs lead to the rooftop, where the somewhat obese woman can often be seen drying clothes on weekdays.

The door was gently pushed open, and Zheng Xinghuai walked out with a pair of iron tongs more than 20 centimeters long and a flannel glove on his waist.

The place in front of him is the rooftop of his house, on which there are several pots of green plants growing extraordinarily luxuriantly, and tender green shoots can be seen everywhere.

Almost all the neighbors who come and go on weekdays are only separated by a wall at this time, and you only need to lift your legs and jump directly to go there.

Zheng Xinghuai glanced back at the woman with pleading in his eyes, the reluctance on his face gradually dissolved, and finally turned into a resolute one, turning his head and walking towards the rooftop next door.

The woman's name is Jiang Jingfeng, and when he was twenty-five years old, he met her at the age of nineteen, and the two fell in love with each other and finally came together and had a well-behaved daughter, Zheng Mengqi.

In the year I met him, Jiang Jingfeng was already a well-known beauty in that place, and now even if she is over thirty years old, she is still plump and has a mature charm, and almost everyone who lives around knows that there is a beautiful proprietress in this grocery store, and even her business is much better.

And the fourteen-year-old daughter has completely inherited her mother's excellent genes, although she is young, she is slim, and she is well-behaved and sensible on weekdays, so she is very favored by Zheng Xinghuai.

Everything was beautiful, but when that day came, everything changed.

A customer with a bloody face walked into the door, and the kind-hearted Jiang Jingfeng was about to step forward to ask if the guest needed help, but was pulled behind by Zheng Xinghuai, who noticed that something was wrong.

The man's face was covered in blood and looked very terrifying, but Jiang Jingfeng, who was pulled behind him by Zheng Xinghuai, took a closer look and found that there was no wound on his face at all, but blood kept flowing out of his mouth and nose, and at first glance it looked like he had just been beaten.

At this time, a woman happened to take something from the shelf to pay the bill, and as soon as she walked to the counter, she heard a strange roar.

Then I saw that the person directly pressed the woman down on the counter, no matter how she struggled and shouted, she didn't let go, just when Zheng Xinghuai and Jiang Jingfeng wanted to call the police, they saw that the person actually bit directly on the white and tender neck of the woman below, and the artery was instantly ripped open and the blood splashed onto the counter and the person!

The two of them were already stunned, they didn't understand what was going on with this person, he actually killed people in such a strange way in broad daylight!

But Zheng Xinghuai quickly reacted, no matter what reason this person killed, he would not let go of himself and his wife who witnessed everything, so he directly picked up the wooden bench on the ground and smashed it on the man's head!

Anyway, the surveillance in his store also filmed him killing people! At best, he is a legitimate defense!

He was in the prime of life, and he often moved goods on weekdays, so he was considered to be strong and strong, and this smash subconsciously exerted all the strength of his body, and suddenly saw that the person's body was pressed against the woman and did not move!

And the woman who was bitten open on the neck struggled at this time and gradually became weaker, and finally stopped completely.

Outside, I don't know when all kinds of panicked voices and car horns have sounded, and the two just wanted to call the police, but they found several figures running towards their house, but the running posture was swaying left and right, and it looked like they would fall down at any time.

Something is wrong, there must be something going on outside!

Zheng Xinghuai immediately made a decision, and pulled down the roller shutter door, and then heard something hit the door, and the violent slapping sound rang endlessly, making the heartbeats of the two of them begin to beat violently with the knock.

At this moment, the woman, who had lost her breath and no longer moved, suddenly began to twitch her limbs again.

"Husband, she seems to be saved!"

Seeing this, Jiang Jingfeng hurriedly wanted to step forward to check, but was stopped by Zheng Xinghuai, and looked at the woman who was obviously dead just now with vigilant eyes.

Her neck was still bleeding, like a ruptured water pipe.

But the woman convulsed for a long time, and actually slowly pushed away the corpse that was pressing on her, and then actually stood up from the counter, her eyes were white, and her pupils looked completely gone!

Monster!

This was Zheng Xinghuai's first impression when he saw her, and before he could open his mouth to ask the beauty, are you okay, he saw that the woman actually opened her mouth and pounced directly on the two!

Her entire face was covered in her own blood, and she looked exactly like the man she had just seen!

"Uhhhh