Chapter 22: Taking Action
A few days later, one morning, Xiao Mumu was sitting on the sofa, wrapped in a quilt, eating the Potato chips in her hand, while Su Qinghan was in the storeroom, it was unknown what she was doing.
“Sigh, the twenty-first floor is already flooded, I don't know how much longer we can hold on......”
The delicious Cucumber flavor Potato chips crunched in her mouth; in a short while, she had finished the entire bag of Potato chips.
Somehow, Su Qinghan had been treating her better and better recently, and she could eat her fill every day.
Just then, the door of Room 3006 was knocked, startling Xiao Mumu on the sofa so much that she jolted, hurriedly hid behind the sofa, and looked towards the main door in terror.
The knocking sound came continuously; each knock was like a drumbeat on her pounding heart.
Once, twice.
The sound grew louder and louder; this was no longer knocking, but pounding on the door!
A deep, resonant voice came from outside, entering Xiao Mumu's ears; she heard every word spoken clearly.
“Is anyone inside still alive?”
Xiao Mumu's worst fear had come true: the classic trope from novels, where in the apocalypse, detestable neighbors with no food come knocking to demand provisions.
“It seems the people inside are dead, should we just break the door down?”
“Alright.“
These words made Xiao Mumu's heart pound with fear.
“Break the door down? Wouldn't I be finished then? But then again......”
Xiao Mumu's gaze shifted from the main door to the storeroom door.
Su Qinghan was inside, and she had abilities!
Wouldn't dealing with these people be a piece of cake?
But despite such a big commotion just now, Su Qinghan actually didn't react at all.
“Big sister, if you don't come out, your home will be gone!”
The storeroom door remained tightly shut, with no sound coming from inside, as if......
“She couldn't have died inside, could she???”
Xiao Mumu's forehead began to sweat; she lifted her feet and trotted all the way to the storeroom door.
She reached out and knocked lightly on the door, but there was still no movement from inside.
“Master, bad people are trying to get in from outside!”
Xiao Mumu said in a low voice, receiving no response.
“I don't care anymore!”
Xiao Mumu steeled her heart, reached out and grabbed the doorknob, pressed down gently, and with a creak, the door opened.
Only, it was opened from the inside.
Su Qinghan stood at the storeroom entrance with a frosty expression, casually glanced at the trembling Xiao Mumu, and then looked at the main door which was being pounded loudly.
She unhesitatingly pushed Xiao Mumu aside and walked towards the main door.
With every step, Xiao Mumu felt the surrounding air grow colder, as if an invisible aura around Su Qinghan was constantly expanding.
Su Qinghan reached into her pocket, took out the key to the main door, inserted it into the keyhole, turned it gently, and the door opened.
Su Qinghan's face was so cold it could have formed a layer of ice.
She looked at the two people before her.
The person on the left wore a grey autumn/winter hoodie and blue jeans, had a pompadour hairstyle, and a jade pendant hanging around his neck; this attire made him look like a street hoodlum.
Only he wasn't as skinny as those hoodlums.
The other one could be seen at a glance to be this person's underling, with a fawning expression on his face.
Su Qinghan clicked her tongue, her eyes filled with disdain.
She really wanted to kill these two right now, but Su Qinghan still held back and didn't act.
After all, Su Qinghan wasn't too clear about what was happening now; if she didn't act, she feared there might be greater variables.
She said in a cold voice: “What are you doing at my home?”
Su Qinghan had no impression of these people from her previous life.
The man with the jade pendant around his neck, who was in the lead, said with a smile: “Beauty, can you give us some food?”
Su Qinghan finally understood; they were here to rob food.
She spoke faintly: “I don't have much food, you should go ask someone else.”
“Fuck！“ The man snorted lightly, the smile on his face, uglier than crying, disappeared, and he said angrily at once: “Don't you fucking push your luck when I'm being nice！”
The man reached out to grab Su Qinghan, but grabbed empty air.
Puchi!
Su Qinghan suddenly extended the hand she had in her pocket, and a small, gleaming knife appeared before the two men's eyes; the blade seemed to be stained with something red.
Just as the man was looking at the blade in confusion, the underling standing beside him cried out in terror: “Cheng... Brother Cheng, your hand!”
“My hand? What's wrong with my hand?” He looked at his hands in confusion, and suddenly his eyes widened like copper bells.
“Ah! My fucking hand!”
It was seen that one finger on the right hand of the man called Brother Cheng had disappeared, the cut was neat and uniform, and blood was streaming out.
Looking at the ground, there lay a severed index finger.
Fear instantly appeared in Brother Cheng's eyes; the feeling this woman before him gave him changed rapidly, from initial arrogance and disdain to current terror and trepidation.
Su Qinghan's knife-wielding motion was too fast; she had cut off his finger in the blink of an eye, giving him no time to feel the pain.
The two stood motionless at the door, afraid that if they made a move, it wouldn't be just a finger that would fall.
“Scram!” Su Qinghan said coldly in a low voice.
The two felt as if they had received a pardon.
Brother Cheng quickly picked up the severed finger from the ground and fled towards the stairwell, so fast that he feared Su Qinghan would regret it and not let him go if he were a step too slow.
Watching the two disappear into the stairwell, Su Qinghan put away her grim expression, turned and walked into the house, closed the door, and sat directly on the sofa.
Seeing this, Xiao Mumu finally dared to get up from beside the sofa and also sat in a position relatively far from Su Qinghan.
This was the first time she had seen Su Qinghan like this, and she couldn't help but feel a little scared.
Su Qinghan lowered her head in thought.
It wasn't that her saintly heart was overflowing and she wanted to let these two go; rather, she knew that these two definitely had someone backing them up.
By letting them go, she could make their backer appear later.
Otherwise, with just these good-for-nothings, she wouldn't even need to act herself; those people whose tempers had become explosive in this oppressive environment, one punch each would be enough.
The person backing them must have some means.
Su Qinghan wasn't foolish enough to go looking for them herself; after all, her current physical body could even be cut by a small knife, so what if she got stabbed in the back?
If she used her abilities to kill them one by one, without saying anything......
She couldn't possibly be so deranged as to kill everyone in the entire building, right?
Although Su Qinghan wasn't a good person, she wasn't an evil person who committed all kinds of atrocities either.
After some thought, it was still feasible to quietly wait for the fish to take the bait.
Su Qinghan turned her head and glanced at Xiao Mumu sitting in the corner, and couldn't help but chuckle: “What, scared after seeing me take action for the first time?”
Xiao Mumu nodded, not saying anything.
Su Qinghan's angry appearance just now was truly terrifying, like an evil spirit crawling out of hell...... a beautiful and captivating evil spirit.
“Don't worry, as long as you stay here and don't open the door, even bullets can't penetrate this door.”
“Here, by my side, you are absolutely safe.”
“No one can harm you, understand?”
Xiao Mumu nodded, shifting her body slightly closer to Su Qinghan.