The Beginning of Natural Disaster, I Won by Hoarding Tens of Billions of Supplies

Chapter 292: Arrival Of Eternal Night

Before, they used to mock the residents of buildings 49 and 50 for being overly worried, but now they were incredibly envious. With three-meter-high stone walls, topped with electrified fences, it looked extremely secure. 

Immediately, many people approached Qin Chuan, wanting to get construction materials for building walls. 

To their surprise, Qin Chuan changed his usual tone, “I’m really sorry, but any building materials that could be found have long been taken by the authorities to build the new city. I simply don’t have access to such resources. Why don’t you try other places?” 

He wasn’t foolish; if every household built impregnable fortress, what would they do when the rioters indiscriminately attacked? 

Besides, he wasn’t lying; with the increasing population of Fengchen, construction materials were indeed becoming more harder to find. 

… 

Jiang Ning woke up in the morning feeling groggy and she noticed that her limbs were getting colder. 

She casually pulled the blanket over herself, only to find it still chilly. 

Jiang Ning turned on the bedside lamp and realized it was already nine in the morning. 

Dazed, she felt the room was darker than usual. She reached out to draw the curtains, only to find it pitch black outside. 

Jiang Ning was stunned; the eternal night had arrived. 

It was two months early. 

Huo Yishen woke up beside her, “What’s wrong?” 

The cold weather made it hard to wake up, and after a night of deep conversation, both had overslept. 

“Eternal night has come.” 

Taking out the thermometer, the indoor temperature had already dropped to zero degrees. 

The house had insulation during renovation, but it was estimated to be minus twenty degrees outside. 

Huo Yishen quickly got up and went to Doudou’s room to add more blankets. 

“Brother, why is it so dark outside?” 

Huo Yishen turned on the light, “Don’t be afraid, it’s the eternal night.” 

Doudou was wearing thermal clothing; it was only her hands and feet that felt cold. “Will Brother Xiao Mu and the others freeze?” 

Huo Yishen was taken aback, “You care a lot about Xiao Mu?” 

Doudou pondered for a moment, “He’s very nice to me and obediently helps me with chores. What if he gets sick from the cold?” 

“You can contact him through the walkie-talkie.” 

Doudou put on her socks and immediately fetched the walkie-talkie. 

Huo Yishen put on his clothes and, as per the community agreement. He turned on the second-floor balcony lights to dispel some of the darkness in front of the villa. 

Carrying a flashlight, he went to the backyard to check on the poultry. 

The animals, accustomed to bright days, now found themselves in pitch darkness, their biological clocks disrupted, leaving them uneasy as they huddled together. 

The greenhouse wasn’t as warm as the rooms, and the poultry were trembling with cold. 

Huo Yishen turned on the lights and spread the prepared straw in the greenhouse. 

Jiang Ning followed, sensing the chill, she retrieved several wooden boards from storage to add thickness to the glass. 

As for the vegetables in the planting shed, they were all brought into the space and stored there; it wouldn’t be too late to take them out when needed. 

After finishing in the backyard, the two went to the rooftop to deal with the herbs they were growing. 

Standing on the rooftop, they could hear the roaring sound of engines, and gradually, the lights of the villas came on one by one. 

The lights didn’t illuminate much; in the eternal night where you couldn’t see your fingers, they seemed extremely dim and small. 

Security guards were still patrolling, and flashlights occasionally lit up the road. 

There was a knock on the door, and it was Yang Jie and a few others, all from the Aoyuan community. 

“Sister Jiang, we’re leaving.” 

Yang Jie didn’t expect the eternal night to come so soon; they had to hurry home. 

Jiang Ning frowned slightly, “Did you find replacements for yourselves?” 

“Captain Gang said they found replacements.” 

“Alright, listen to Captain He and hurry home, go back in groups, and be careful on the way.” 

Yang Jie nodded, looking hesitant to speak. 

Jiang Ning didn’t understand, “What’s wrong?” 

Yang Jie pulled her aside, lowering his voice, “Sister Jiang, I don’t know if I’m being paranoid, but I always feel like Captain He and the others in the security team seem to…” 

He didn’t know how to say it; he felt excluded during this period. Whenever he got close to Captain He and his group, they would huddle together and chat, but then disperse quickly when they saw him. 

Of course, small groups can form cliques. 

There wasn’t much of an issue before; the security captain even treated them well, but his attitude had changed 180 degrees recently. 

However, while Yang Jie and the others wanted to resign, the approval was delayed for a long time, and when interviewing new recruits, they were being very picky. Yet suddenly today, they were approved. 

After listening, Jiang Ning took a while before speaking, “People leave, things change. Isn’t it always like this? Don’t overthink it, just get your salary and provisions and go home quickly.” 

“Sister Jiang, you and Instructor Huo should also be careful. We’re leaving.” 

After seeing them off, Jiang Ning’s face immediately darkened. 

She put up some warm reminders and then electrified the stainless steel gate and the electric fence. Afterward, she locked the heavy wooden door with five bolts. 

Back inside, Doudou had already prepared breakfast. 

Seeing her serious expression, Huo Yishen asked, “What’s wrong?” 

Jiang Ning recounted Yang Jie’s suspicions, “The sudden arrival of eternal night. Logically, to ensure the security of the community, the security captain shouldn’t be letting people go at this time.” 

“You’re worried that the security team has other intentions?” 

Jiang Ning pondered for a moment, “If it were you, would you do something like this?” 

It wasn’t her being paranoid; it was that people’s hearts were inscrutable. 

She had seen it more than once; the younger generations of rich families often spoke arrogantly to the security team. Many of them didn’t follow the entry and exit rules, and when the security enforced the regulations, they were insulted, sometimes even slapped. 

To speak harshly, in the apocalypse, who was nobler than whom? If it weren’t for earning their provisions, who would tolerate having their dignity trampled upon? 

She remembered the conflict when a young master spat at the security guard. Even though the security captain came to mediate, the young master slapped him and called him a watch dog. 

Once or twice might have been forgivable, but in the past year, not only were there several conflicts, but even the servants of wealthy families would boss them around, asking them to do dirty and tiring work. 

And there were even more outrageous cases, like calling them over just to take out the trash or demanding them to walk their pets. 

With such disparity in status and a wide gap in social standing, yet the security captain was always diplomatic, smiling even when faced with difficulties. 

After being in such an environment for a long time, could their mental state really be unaffected? 

If there was a chance for them to rise up… 

Naturally, all of this remained within Jiang Ning’s speculation, with a hint of suspicion lingering about potential malicious intent. 

Huo Yishen spoke up, “We have no evidence. What if they have no ill intentions, and even if we speak out, no one will believe us.” 

Compared to the security, those people were even more guarded against Building 50. 

Jiang Ning agreed, “Regardless of others, let’s take care of ourselves first.” 

However, she still reminded Qin Chuan not to open the door easily during eternal night, even if it was someone they knew well. 

Jiang Ning said bluntly, “Don’t ask me to open the door either; I absolutely won’t do it.” 

Qin Chuan chuckled, “I was going to invite you all over to play mahjong. If I had known, I would have built a gate in the courtyard, and our two families could come and go freely.” 

They were all smart people; they knew where to draw the line. 

Used to seeing sunlight every day, the dog was already not used to the darkness, feeling a bit restless and pacing around from time to time. 

With the arrival of eternal night, it felt like the world suddenly pressed the pause button. 

Villas, buildings, factories, roads, survivors, crops… 

Everything was engulfed in darkness. 

And humans, faced with the unknown in the darkness, had an innate fear. 

Natural light and artificial light both illuminated, yet the distinction between them felt as vast as the contrast between heaven and earth. 

When sunlight poured in, pulling back the curtains would reveal everything. But artificial light couldn’t do the same; when you pulled back the curtains, there could be a grimacing face or a knife-wielding villain outside the window.