Natural Disaster: I Started By Hoarding Tens Of Billions Of Supplies

Chapter 139: Guessing Lu Hong’s Intentions



Yao Ran added more coal to the coal stove and then took out a portion of beef stew with potato, a portion of stir-fried yam with fungus, a bowl of red date and lotus seed porridge, and a cup of warm soy milk from her space.

It's not easy to eat hot food at minus five degrees Celsius. In just a few minutes, the hot food turns cold and freezes.

Yao Ran looked at the frozen food, thought for a while, and then took out a few iron plates used to eat hot plate food from the space. The top of her electric heater could be used for cooking, so she poured frozen food into the iron plates and placed them on top of the electric heater and coal stove.

She waited a few minutes for the food to be warm enough to eat. Since food would freeze after leaving the heater or coal stove, Yao Ran decided to sit beside the heater. She then ate a steaming hot breakfast while watching the TV series she had downloaded before.

After watching an episode of the TV series and finishing her sumptuous breakfast, Yao Ran put away the dirty dishes in the space and washed them with her consciousness. Then, she boiled a bowl of medicine for Long Yu and poured it into a thermos bottle.

Before leaving the bedroom, she turned off the electric heater and coal stove, took the medicine, and left. The moment she walked out of the bedroom, Yao Ran felt a slight change in her constant temperature clothes.n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

Although the constant temperature of twenty-five degrees Celsius was not really working, wearing the clothes was still better than wearing ordinary winter clothes.

At least, the temperature she feels now is around twenty degrees Celsius. Compared with the sub-zero temperature, this constant temperature clothing is still very useful.

After leaving the apartment, Yao Ran knocked on Long Yu's door. She waited for a while before Long Yu opened the door. She saw that he was only wearing gloves and a coat and felt cold for him.

Yao Ran handed him the thermos bottle containing the medicine and said, "Drink this medicine after eating."

Long Yu took the thermos bottle and nodded, "Thank you."

Yao Ran tightened her coat, "Then I will go back first."

"Alright."

As soon as she took a step, she heard Quan Yuanwei's voice coming from downstairs.

"Brother Long, Miss Yao, are you there?"

Hearing his anxious voice, Yao Ran and Long Yu exchanged glances and then went to open the metal door. As soon as the door opened, Quan Yuanwei saw Long Yu and a ball of cotton next to him. Taking a closer look, it turned out to be Yao Ran.

He was speechless for a moment before asking, "Brother Long, Miss Yao, are you guys alright?"

Yao Ran nodded, and Long Yu asked, "Brother Quan, why are you here?"

Quan Yuanwei pointed downstairs with his thumb and replied in a low voice, "Lu Hong just took his people and patrolled the building."

"I heard that those who lived in the corridor were dead last night. When Lu Hong found them, they were all frozen stiff. Some are even naked and die with a smile on their faces."

Yao Ran knew that Quan Yuanwei would not brave the cold just to gossip with them, so she said, "Lu Hong is not a kind person. If he takes the initiative to check on the residents, there must be some benefits for him. Do you know what he wants by doing that?"

Hearing this, Quan Yuanwei explained, "Lu Hong bribed the people on the 18th floor to help them break open the door blocking the stairs to the 19th floor and said he wanted to check our situation."

"Lu Hong and his people were still waiting downstairs. I didn't want him to come in, so I pretended I didn't hear when he was calling me or my grandparents."

Listening to his explanation, Yao Ran chuckled, "He just wants to see if we are dead or not. If we die, Lu Hong will definitely bring his people to seize our place."

Quan Yuanwei agreed and added, "A Yun went to check the situation outside this morning and said that many people died last night, so Lu Hong and other building managers decided to join forces and patrolled the Ling Yuan apartment complex."

"They went from door to door to see if the owner was dead or not. If the owner died, they would loot the supplies and take away anything that could be used as firewood. A Yun also said that they had big plans and told us to be careful these days."

Yao Ran and Long Yu nodded and thanked Quan Yuanwei for sharing this information with them. Before leaving, Quan Yuanwei took out a thermos bottle and handed it to Yao Ran.

"I'm here to return this to you. Thank you, Miss Yao, for the ginger tea." He said sincerely. Without Yao Ran's ginger tea, his grandparents might have frozen to death last night. Fortunately, when he woke up from the cold and hurriedly went to check on his grandparents, he remembered that Huang Zhihui had brought ginger tea. Seeing that his grandparents were too cold to move, he quickly fed them ginger tea and finally saved their lives.

Thinking back to what happened last night, Quan Yuanwei's hands tremble, and his heart is filled with fear.

He is lucky to have the skills that Yao Ran and her friends need, which allows him to build connections with them. Otherwise, he would have lost his grandparents last night.

Not knowing what he was thinking, Yao Ran took the clean thermos bottle and calmly accepted his thanks.

After Quan Yuanwei returned the thermos, he reminded them once more to be careful with Lu Hong and then went home.

Long Yu locked the metal door and asked, "Yao Ran, what do you think of Lu Hong's intention to take the trouble to patrol the community?"