Reborn One Week Before the Apocalypse

Chapter 428: Chapter 418: The Nanny’s Words

Actually, to a certain extent, what Zhang Laohu said wasn’t wrong.

Tang Mo thought so too. ’The fog appeared in the middle of the night. The property management staff would have long been off duty. How could several of them have happened to still be there?’

’There are over 200 homeowners here, so how has not a single person suspected this?’

[Tao Jiayun]: It’s really no wonder people in our community look down on you. It’s not shameful to be uncultured, but to be uncultured and self-righteous is just shameless of you.

[Zhang Laohu]: Oh? Too embarrassed to admit your own stupidity now that it’s been exposed?

[Tao Jiayun]: The property management center in this community has always been staffed 24/7. It’s not just this community—any place that’s even remotely habitable is like this. Have you been living in a pigsty all these years?

Zhang Laohu: ...

Tang Mo: ...

’Damn, just damn. That was a collateral attack. He didn’t just insult Zhang Laohu; Tang Mo got caught in the crossfire.’

Tao Jiayun was probably just fed up with Zhang Laohu. Since he was so incredibly rich, his idea of a ”habitable” place was completely different from an ordinary person’s.

Tang Mo had lived an ordinary life growing up. After her father’s death, she had even fallen on hard times for a while and had never really lived in a nice house.

However, Tang Mo, the one supposedly living in a pigsty, felt no resentment whatsoever. In fact, she wanted to give Tao Jiayun a round of applause. ’Well said,’ she thought.

Zhang Laohu was clearly seething with shame and anger, but he couldn’t immediately think of a good way to retaliate, so he remained silent for a long time.

While he was silent, the homeowners in the group pressed their advantage and continued their verbal assault.

Everyone knew they would never get that food back, but they were all stewing in frustration and had to vent whenever they got the chance.

Even Zhang Laohu probably hadn’t expected that when it came to a verbal beatdown, these so-called ”high-class” people were no less vicious than Widow Zhang from his village...

’Every single one of them had such strong fighting power, it was as if they’d attended a training school. Are people who are quick learners also better at cussing people out?’

Zhang Laohu felt even more resentful.

Of course, they had all been civilized people once. But everyone has a breaking point. Now that their lives were on the line, who cared about being civilized or decent? To hell with all of that.

That was probably what ”unleashing one’s true nature” was all about.

After getting chewed out for a while, Zhang Laohu pulled a few of his cronies into the chat, attempting to put up a fight.

Unfortunately, the men just repeated the same few vulgar phrases over and over. In contrast, the women and aunties in the group had elevated cursing to an art form. It would be a shame if they didn’t enter a national cursing competition.

The two sides battled fiercely for half an hour, and in the end, Zhang Laohu and his men were defeated.

Soon, his side of the chat went silent again.

Tang Mo had been observing the battle. She watched very carefully as Zhang Laohu later pulled four more people into the group. Considering how enraged he was, it wasn’t hard to guess that there were a total of five people on his side, including himself.

In her past life, the homeowners never came face-to-face with the people hiding in the property management center, so even Xu Yin never knew exactly how many of them there were.

’Know thy enemy and know thyself, and you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles.’

Of course, in this world, Tang Mo possessed powerful spiritual power, giving her a crushing advantage over anyone.

Soon, Zhang Laohu pulled another person into the group.

’What? More accomplices?’

Tang Mo clicked on the new person’s profile. It was a woman, and she didn’t look young.

[Flowers Along the Way]: What’s this?

The woman who had just been added clearly didn’t understand the situation. She had been engrossed in watching her TV drama, so why was she suddenly in a group chat?

[Wen Qianli]: It’s you?! Where are you hiding? Bring the food back! I treated you so well, buying you clothes and cosmetics, and this is how you treat me?

The moment Wen Qianli spoke, everyone in the group knew who this was. It was the nanny she had mentioned before, the one who had run off with all the food! ℯℯ𝑙.

You had to hand it to Zhang Laohu, he was truly vicious. It wasn’t enough to defeat them; he had to crush their spirits. Since he couldn’t win the argument himself, he pulled in the nanny. Watching them tear into each other was much more entertaining than being on the receiving end of the abuse.

Every homeowner here who hired a live-in nanny was required to leave the nanny’s information and contact details with the property management office.

So it was naturally easy for Zhang Laohu to find this nanny’s information.

Still, Zhang Laohu was an interesting one. He had already scammed them out of their things and gotten his revenge, but he still hadn’t disbanded the group.

He probably found it amusing to watch all these people he could never normally touch get scammed by him in one fell swoop. Seeing them get hysterical must have been quite the spectacle for him.

Most of the homeowners hadn’t left the group either. For one, they were all trapped in their homes, and this group was the fastest way to find out what was happening in the community. The members were mostly neighbors, and they had already gotten used to exchanging information here daily.

For another, Zhang Laohu was still in the group, and they hadn’t yet seen him forced to give back what he’d taken.

Even though they knew it was unlikely, they just couldn’t accept it. Even if all they could do was stay in the group and curse him one more time, it might make them feel a little better.

After seeing her former employer’s message and scrolling through the group’s chat history, the nanny now understood exactly what was going on.

Perhaps people of the same ilk really did think the same way. The nanny didn’t leave the group. Instead, she seemed to feel that getting into the homeowners’ group was a glorious and joyful occasion.

She felt no shame at all about being exposed in front of everyone.

[Flowers Along the Way]: So what? When disaster strikes, it’s every man for himself, and I’m just an employee. Everyone wants to survive. Besides, I’m the one who bought all that stuff, so it was only right for me to take it.

”How shameless can you get? I can’t believe someone this shameless exists in the world.”

”Exactly! She used her employer’s money to buy the groceries and has the nerve to call them her own. Does she think she owns the whole world?”

”No wonder Zhang Laohu pulled her in. They’re two of a kind. Aren’t they a couple or something?”

The aunties in the group hadn’t gotten their fill of cursing yet. Now that a new target had appeared, they naturally opened fire with everything they had.

[Wen Qianli]: Have you no conscience? I paid you the most! I treated you the best! Aren’t you afraid of karma?

[Flowers Along the Way]: Hmph. So you paid me a good salary? It wasn’t your money anyway. Aren’t you just some rich guy’s mistress? You had his kid and then he dumped you without even sparing the child a single glance. When you get down to it, we’re two sides of the same coin. Don’t act like you’re so high and mighty.

The nanny’s words contained a shocking amount of information, and the group chat once again fell silent.

In this case, silence spoke louder than words. No one knew what to say to ease the awkwardness. Even the aunties who had been firing on all cylinders just a moment ago went quiet.