As soon as she entered the stairwell, Tang Li felt that the atmosphere was wrong.
Although the floor of the stairwell was very damp, a smell of blood could also be detected.
And the crowd queuing today was not as noisy as last time, but very silent.
Everyone's expression was a little panicked. Even when they talked, they just whispered. Crying could still be vaguely heard from downstairs.
Tang Li didn't ask, but she guessed it was related to those burly men.
After all, they had killed everyone they encountered on the way after entering this building.
Because the weather was stuffy, many people had the habit of going out to cool off. The most popular places were the 8th and 9th floors, which were closer to the water.
From the water to Tang Li's home, along this route, those burly men would encounter many people.
Those burly men were not familiar with the situation of Tang Li's building, so they couldn't go directly to Tang Li's home. They would definitely inquire about the situation from the people they met along the way.
And these people, in order to save their lives, told the burly men that Tang Li was a girl living alone, and then they went directly to Tang Li's home.
But even after revealing what they knew, these people were still killed by the burly men, then thrown into the floodwaters to destroy the evidence.
It could be imagined that many people in the building had already been killed.
However, even though Tang Li guessed these things, she pretended not to know and quietly queued.
Because the floodwaters had risen again, the rescue team was distributing supplies on the 9th floor today.
When Tang Li arrived, the queue had already reached the 12th floor.
After Tang Li connected to the rescue team's Wi-Fi, she also received a safety message from Tang Guo.
Tang Guo said that she had taken the opened rice at home to exchange for water and food, but Tang Li's 100 jin of rice was still kept, and she had not lent water and food to others, so Tang Li could rest assured.
Actually, Tang Li was not worried about Tang Guo not having food, because Tang Li knew that her family had plenty of water and food.
What Tang Li worried about was that Tang Guo would lend water and food to others, causing her to have insufficient food, and also feared that others would rob her when they knew she had water and food.
Seeing that Tang Guo had taken her words to heart, Tang Li was relieved.
Putting away her phone, Tang Li was a little dazed.
She didn't know what her feelings were for Tang Guo, nor how she should interact with Tang Guo after the apocalypse.
Speaking of which, after her parents died, Tang Guo was the person who cared about her the most in this world.
In the past five years, she had also been taken care of by Tang Guo quite a bit.
But after surviving in the apocalypse for four difficult years, Tang Li was now unsure whether she should let Tang Guo fend for herself, or protect Tang Guo as family.
If she let Tang Guo fend for herself, she seemed unable to do it. Otherwise, she wouldn't have cleared out the supermarket to prevent Tang Guo from risking her life to snatch supplies from the supermarket.
If she were to protect Tang Guo as family, then she would definitely have to live with her. In that case, her spatial abilities, and even her rebirth, would be impossible to keep secret.
After the apocalypse, people's changes were often instantaneous.
Unless it was a critical moment of life and death, and one was so hungry that they wanted to swallow their own flesh and blood, no one knew whether the person in front of them was human or a devil.
Even the most optimistic and cheerful people in modern times, in the face of the apocalypse, with the collapse of social order, the distortion of human nature, and the overwhelming environment of despair and helplessness, could turn into man-eating demons for the sake of so-called "living."
As for stabbing people in the back and fratricide, those were common occurrences.
Although from her pre-apocalypse behavior, Tang Guo was a person of principle, no one knew if she would change after the apocalypse.
Tang Li had not yet figured out how to deal with Tang Guo.
But there was still some time before the collapse of social order, so Tang Li decided to take it one step at a time.
It mainly depended on Tang Guo's performance to make a decision.
"Everyone, keep your phones turned on and prepare a screenshot of your QR code in advance."
"For those whose phones are out of power and turned off, hurry up and get charging cables from us to charge and turn them on."
"Ensure that you can scan the QR code to receive supplies as soon as you reach the distribution point, so as not to waste time."
When Tang Li reached the 10th floor, a rescue worker carrying a mobile power bank full of charging cables came over and reminded those whose phones were out of power to charge them in advance.
Tang Li's phone had power, so she didn't charge it.
Tang Li noticed that the rescue team that came this time was not the same as the last time.
However, this was normal. After all, City A was very large, and the rescue teams needed to rescue day and night, so they had to rotate.
And upon reaching the 10th floor, the crying from downstairs became even clearer.