Chapter 5 Section 5

After almost a night of sleepless nights, morning finally ushered in.Ya also curled up in a corner of the gymnasium, wrapping all the newspapers she picked up around her body, but the cold floor could not stop her body temperature from being deprived. Although my mind was clear, I was unable to get up.Hunger is at its limit.The people around were pretty much the same, only a few people got up.What made them move at the same time was the terrifying aftershock.As soon as the floor shook, people immediately stood up screaming, and the cries of children also reached Yaya's ears. I haven't had any water or rice for a whole day, but I still have the urge to urinate.Ya also left the gymnasium, and there were still people around the fire outside.After peeing in the old place, Ya also decided to go home, wanting to get some change of clothes and food.

Walking to the road, looking around, he gasped, realizing again that the destruction of the entire city was not a nightmare, but a real fact: houses reduced to rubble; telephone poles crooked, wires hanging ; The middle of the building was broken, and countless glass shards were scattered on the road; burnt black buildings abound. A helicopter was flying overhead, and Ya also guessed it was from the TV station.They are broadcasting the captured video with the excited commentary of the announcer all over the country.The audience will be surprised, worried, and sympathetic after watching it, and finally feel grateful that this kind of thing didn't happen to them.

It's quite a distance from home.Ya also wore slippers that did not follow her feet, and moved her steps silently.No matter where you go, you will see collapsed houses, and sometimes people can be seen, some are crying, some are calling the names of their family members, and it seems that some people are buried alive in the rubble. I walked to the small shopping street, but it was beyond recognition.Almost all the shops collapsed, and the signboards fell to the ground, making it impossible to tell what shop it was. Only one store had its shutter door open.It's a pharmacy, and it's dimly lit.When I got closer, I saw that the glass door had fallen off.Ya also called out cautiously: "Is anyone there?"

No one answered.He paid attention to the bottom of his feet and walked in.There was a smell of medicine in the room, maybe a medicine bottle was broken.Looking around the store, there are almost no products left, and there are barely some oral medicines.Many people were injured. It is estimated that the medicine for treating trauma was sold out yesterday, and daily necessities such as paper towels, toilet paper, toothbrushes must have been sold out, and the small refrigerator that used to store oral liquid was empty. "Is anyone there?" He yelled again, but still no one answered, it seems that the shopkeeper also went to seek refuge.There were two packs of tissues in the corner that looked like gifts, Ya also picked them up and stuffed them into his pocket before walking out of the pharmacy.

Ya Ye had just walked a few steps when her right wrist was suddenly grabbed.Looking back, a fat man in his forties with a golf club in his hand was staring at him viciously.Behind the man was a man about his age with a metal bat. "What were you doing in that store?" asked the man with the cue, his eyes piercing behind his glasses. "Nothing. I thought it was selling something, so I went in and took a look." "Did you put something in your pocket? I saw it." Although a little annoyed, Ya also took out the tissue in his pocket.The two looked at each other. "If you don't believe me, you can search your body." Ya also raised her hands.

The man nodded rather displeased. "Looks like we made a mistake, sorry. Don't blame us, a lot has happened since last night." "It seems that someone took advantage of the chaos to steal." Ya Ye said. "It's too much. The police don't care, we can only protect ourselves. This gentleman, I was really rude just now, I'm sorry." Ya shook her head too.Can't blame them. "Bad guys not only steal but also rape women." The two didn't show surprise.The man with the club nodded sullenly. "Has anyone you know ever had this happen to you?"

"Fortunately, it failed." "That's good. I heard that two people were raped last night, and they were all targeted when they went to the bathroom. Women can't pee standing up, so they can only go to places where no one is around." "Even if you call the police, the police won't care. Criminals know this, so they do whatever they want." The man with the metal bat pouted. Ya also walked through the shopping street, and walked forward, and everywhere I saw people taking things from the damaged houses.He thought, even if he took other people's things like this, as long as there were no special circumstances, he probably wouldn't be arrested.No wonder people hang around looking for opportunities to steal.But he thought about it again, what qualifications did he have to blame those who took advantage of the earthquake to commit crimes?I killed someone myself!

Finally almost home.There was black smoke all around, it was estimated that there was another fire just now.It seems that the fire brigade did not come, and it must have been left to burn again. The factory is still as it was last seen yesterday.The wall collapsed, only the steel pillars barely stood, and the processing equipment was buried by the fallen roof fragments.The main house has completely collapsed.The place where my father's coffin was placed was a jumble of rubble, a hill of broken timber and broken walls. Ya also moved the rubble blocking the door, first found a pair of dusty but unbroken sneakers, replaced the slippers with them, and started the next task.

He was trying to clean up the rubble near the kitchen when he suddenly found that the downed refrigerator was completely exposed, so he stopped what he was doing—this was not the case yesterday. He reacted immediately and quickly opened the refrigerator door.As expected, there was nothing left of the food inside, only condiments and deodorant.Gone are the frozen meals, sausages, cheeses, canned beer and unfinished oolong tea, not even prunes and pickles.No need to think about the reason, it must have been stolen by hungry people.Ya also began to curse her own stupidity. She thought that there were no valuable things in the house, so she could rest assured, but in a certain sense, there were things more important than money in the house.

His whole body was as heavy as lead, and he even lost the strength to stand up, and he crouched on the ground slumped.There is a plastic wrap wrapped with sausages in front of me, which was bought a few days ago and placed in the refrigerator. Ya Ye's limbs were weak, and she was about to hug her head, when she suddenly felt someone coming, and when she looked up, Xin Hai Mei Dong was standing in front of her.Yaya almost fell on her back because she was too surprised. "If you don't mind, please eat this." She stretched out her hands, her expression still so stiff. She held a rice ball wrapped in plastic wrap in her hand.