The Guide to the End of the World: Four Sentinels Compete for Favor

Having not showered for over a week, both of them smelled bad, especially Qiu Fei, who hadn't even brushed his teeth.

Qiu Fei leaned over to talk, and Prince Tang covered his nose with some disgust: "Don't get so close, you're almost choking."

Qiu Fei held back his anger and said, "What time is it? You still care about this."

Prince Tang covered his nose and asked in a muffled voice, "Do you have something to tell me?"

Qiu Fei whispered, "Aren't you familiar with the landlady? Can you go talk to her and borrow some food?"

"Don't bring it into the house. Hide it somewhere. Just take care of us."

Prince Tang frowned and said, "Why don't you bring it into the house? Brother Shi said that we should put all the things together and whoever hides it will be kicked out. Are you trying to harm me?"

Qiu Fei glared at him in dismay: "There are more than 20 mouths to feed here, and we don't know when the flood will recede. Even if you have a lot of face, the landlord can't lend you so much food."

"Think about it, you might have been able to lend a little, but because you asked for too much, people simply refused to lend you money. Isn't that a waste?"

"That's not necessarily true. I think the eldest sister is a very nice person."

"And maybe the rain will stop tomorrow and the flood will recede the day after tomorrow." Prince Tang said nonchalantly.

Qiu Fei was really annoyed with him, but he was counting on him to borrow grain, so he had to coax him in a gentle voice: "Well, you go borrow first, and if you borrow a lot, you can share it with everyone. If you borrow less, we can keep it for ourselves."

Prince Tang shrugged and suddenly shouted, "Brother Shi, Qiu Fei told me to - um -"

Qiu Fei covered Prince Tang's mouth with his hand and said to Shi Bin, who had just returned from patrol, with a smile: "It's okay, it's okay. We were just joking."

Shi Bin knew that he must have been holding his fart, but there were too many things to do and he didn't have the energy to care.

He waved his hand, and Prince Tang broke free from Qiu Fei's grip and came closer with a smile: "Old Shi, what instructions do you have?"

"The water is still half a meter away from reaching the third floor. It's not a good idea to waste time like this. I plan to go to the nearby mall to see if I can find some food."

Prince Tang's eyes widened: "How are you going?"

"Xiao Chi and I will build a raft. If we can't come back, you go and ask Miss Ai for help. She should be able to take you in if you want to come alone." Shi Bin said in a low voice.

Prince Tang said hesitantly, "Building a raft, are you kidding? This is a flood."

Shi Bin also knew that this was unreliable, but there was really no other way. People must eat. These two buildings stood alone in the flood. Where could he get food?

I can't ask Ai Wanxin for help, right? We don't know when the flood will recede, and everyone's food reserves are very precious. People have offered their houses and food, and we have met by chance, and we have done our best.

"Don't worry about it. We have a way." Shi Bin said coldly with a sullen face.

Prince Tang curled his lips and said, "There is a way, there is a way. Anyone who believes it is an idiot."

They got down to work right away. Shi Bin and Huang Xiaochi called a few young people and took down all the doors in the house.

One of the doors was split in half, and the bed sheet was torn into long strips. The two halves were tied horizontally to a wooden door to form a tic-tac-toe pattern.

At that time, someone grabbed a box of drinks, drank them all, and saved the bottles.

He screwed the bottles together, stuffed them into the legs of two pairs of trousers and tied them up to make two simple life buoys.

Finally, they picked up two wooden boards to serve as oars, and the group carried the raft downstairs in a mighty procession.

Prince Tang deliberately fell behind, and while no one was paying attention, he ran through the fifth-floor corridor and headed straight for Ai Wanxin's house.

"Sister! Big sister! Help! Something terrible has happened!" Prince Tang shouted through the steel door.

Ai Wanxin came out helplessly and said in a low voice: "What happened?"

"Sister, Lao Shi and the others are going out to find food. With such a heavy flood, aren't they courting death?" Prince Tang was really anxious, and his voice was trembling.

"You are really looking for death. So what do you mean by telling me this?" Ai Wanxin said coldly.

"Sister, can you lend us some more rations so that Lao Shi and the others don't have to take risks?" Prince Tang said bluntly.

Ai Wanxin let out a breath of foul air: "The supplies I gave you are enough to feed ten people for two months. How many people are there in your house? How come they are gone in just one week?"

"Sister, there are more than 20 of us, and it's not just a week, we have been trapped here for fourteen days." Prince Tang defended.

"Did I agree to let so many people live in my house? There are so many of you, and you didn't bring any food. How would you survive without me?" Ai Wanxin asked sternly.

There is no shortage of food in her space, but she doesn't want to be taken advantage of.

In the end times, everyone is pitiful and lives in danger at any time. If she had compassion on everyone, they would be like Prince Tang, who would come to her when they encountered problems, instead of thinking about whether they could bear the consequences before taking these people in.

"Sister, are we just going to watch them starve and freeze outside? Please be kind and help us one more time."

Ai Wanxin was too lazy to pay attention to him and went back to her room.

Just because she has the ability doesn't mean she has the responsibility. Who is she kidnapping?

Prince Tang howled for a while, but seeing no movement behind the steel plate, he walked down dejectedly.

Suddenly, someone called him from behind: "Hey, wait a minute."

Prince Tang thought that the landlady had softened her heart, and turned around in surprise, only to see a fair and tender baby face appear behind the steel plate, looking at him with sympathy.

Prince Tang ran back to the door, a little unsure: "Is it my eldest sister?"

Pei Momo pursed her lips and shook her head. She whispered, "Don't you have anything to eat?"

Prince Tang nodded and said, "We are running out of food. Lao Shi, a very good brother, wants to take people out to find food, but the flood outside is so severe that they may not come back."

Pei Momo bit her lip, turned her head and glanced in the direction of Ai Wanxin's door, and whispered, "The food is all at Sister Ai's house, I can't get it, but I can say that I'm very hungry recently and ask my brother to bring more every day."

"You come secretly every night, and I'll keep it for you."

Prince Tang pouted and said with tears in his eyes: "You are so kind, I...but we have many people."

Pei Momo lowered her head in frustration: "I don't dare to ask Sister Ai for help, she is a bit fierce."

"She is quite fierce, a tigress..." Prince Tang complained in a low voice.

The two were at a loss of what to do when suddenly they heard cheers and the sound of doors slamming downstairs.

Pei Momo blinked in confusion, and Prince Tang immediately said, "I'll go take a look!"

After saying that, he ran downstairs in two steps.

I had only run two floors when I bumped into someone who was also running downstairs.

"Uncle, what are you doing?" Prince Tang asked the uncle who came out from the 7th floor as he walked downstairs.

The uncle didn’t hide it from him: “The drone is dropping supplies, go quickly!”

Prince Tang was overjoyed and ran straight to the third floor, but was blocked by people who came to pick up the supplies.

Prince Tang crouched down and moved forward like a slippery loach.

Finally, he saw Shi Bin climbing back out of the window on the third floor corridor, and he choked up and called out, "Old Shi!"

Shi Bin handed a box of supplies wrapped in brown paper to the people around him and looked at Prince Tang strangely: "Where is the mourning? Come and help!"

"Hey!" Prince Tang responded loudly, squeezing forward and helping to carry the supplies with a silly smile on his face.

Thanks to this batch of supplies, the residents of the two buildings finally survived another ten days safely.

Hope was burning in everyone's hearts. The country had not given up on them. The rain was visibly getting lighter, and normal life was about to resume!

Only Ai Wan's expression became increasingly solemn, and the final mutation was about to come.