The next day, I finally got up to work at home after a long absence. There was some light outside the window, but the sun still hadn't come out, it was just drizzling rain instead of the heavy rain of the past few days.

Sure enough, the two ancestors caught a cold as expected, and both of them even had a high fever at the same time.

One big and one small lying side by side on the master bed, with fever patches on their heads, the scene was a bit funny.

I busily took care of them, making them take medicine and forcing them to drink hot water non-stop.

"Sis...can we stop drinking hot water now? After the zombie outbreak, this is the first time I feel like throwing up from drinking water." Jiayang weakly protested from the bed.

I shot him a look, he immediately closed his mouth obediently, and with a pained expression, he drank the fifth cup of hot water in his hand.

Suddenly, I seemed to hear some commotion outside.

I thought it was probably Niko running around in the living room knocking something over again, but when I walked out, I found Niko feeling unwell because of a cold, lying in his little nest with his eyes squinted, while Xiaogu was standing by the TV charging.

I tilted my head in confusion, thinking I must have misheard, and was about to go back to the room to continue taking care of them when the strange sound reappeared. This time I clearly heard it coming from the balcony.

The balcony door was blocked by heavy blackout cloth, preventing me from directly seeing what was happening outside. So I cautiously approached the side of the blackout cloth, lifted a corner of it slightly.

---A burly man was using pliers to cut the iron wire mesh outside my balcony. The man had a fierce appearance, with a long scar over his left eye, which was somewhat chilling to look at.

I was taken aback, and the man also noticed me sharply, quickly propping up the iron wire mesh with one hand, and pulling out a gun from his waist with the other hand, shooting towards me, his eyes full of killing intent.

The bullet didn't hit me because I had replaced all the glass in my house with bulletproof reinforced glass, leaving only a small dent on the glass where the bullet struck. When he realized the bullet couldn't penetrate the glass in my house, he cursed under his breath, and his movements to dismantle the iron wire mesh became even faster, even starting to shoot directly, attempting to forcibly remove it.

His actions frightened me, causing me to drop the blackout cloth, my legs weakened and I sat down on the ground, continuously shouting Lin Yan's name.

Lin Yan and Jiayang also ran out of the room upon hearing the commotion, and I pointed tremblingly at the balcony, saying, "There's a man outside...he's tearing down our iron wire mesh, and he has a gun!"

Lin Yan ran into the room and also came out with a gun, opened the blackout cloth and pointed the gun at the man outside the window.

Upon seeing this, the man outside stopped his actions, showing a bit of unwillingness in his eyes, then swiftly climbed up along the rope, revealing that the man was strapped with a safety rope, obviously climbing down from upstairs.

After the man disappeared from sight, Lin Yan put down the gun in his hand, and hugged me in his arms to comfort me as I sat on the ground.

"Where did you get the gun from?" I asked calmly.

"It's fake." Lin Yan handed me the gun, "A colleague's child brought this toy gun when they came to play at our house last year, and forgot to take it back when they left. I also forgot to return it. Just remembered this incident now. I used it to scare him."

"Jiayang, do you know the residents on the 25th floor?" Lin Yan turned to Jiayang, who was also a bit shaken.

Jiayang thought carefully and replied, "I don't know, but I've seen them a few times when I got off the elevator. Because I live on the 24th floor, there's only one household on the 25th floor. Sometimes when the elevator comes down from the 25th floor, I see a very luxurious middle-aged woman, sometimes with a little girl. Sometimes I also see a man with them, but he is a portly man in a suit. I have never seen this man before."

When the real estate was first released, Lin Yan and I also looked at the top-floor unit on the 25th floor. The one on the 25th floor was a large duplex, and the most expensive unit in each building was the top-floor duplex, which was way beyond our budget. So the people living on the top floor were either rich or influential, and the man who had just appeared did not seem like someone who cared much about his quality of life. It's not that I judge people by their appearance, but the man gave me the impression that he was someone who lived by the edge.

Because just now I noticed that besides the areas covered by his clothes, his exposed skin had many scars, new and old scars intertwined. Even for me, a nurse who had dealt with many injuries from fights in the hospital, it was disturbing to look at. His shooting was particularly decisive, and his movements were very skillful.

"So perhaps...he climbed down from the lower floors to the 26th-floor rooftop garden and then descended from there?" I speculated.

"Forget it, it's not important where he came from at this point. What's important is that he will definitely come down again. Just now, when we opened the blackout cloth, we exposed the fact that we still have electricity here, and it won't be difficult for him to figure out that we have supplies. At a time like this, those who dare to do such things are only after our resources. When people are at the end of their rope, they can do anything. We can't let our guard down," Lin Yan said as he picked up some tools and headed towards the balcony.

"Jiayang, come help me reinforce these iron wire meshes."

After reinforcing the balcony, Jiayang installed a detection system for Xiaogu, positioning him at the edge of the balcony so that he would immediately sound an alarm if any thermal imaging other than the three of us and Niko was detected. But for caution's sake, the two of them discussed taking turns to keep watch.

"But there's a very fatal problem. We don't have guns or any weapons, and that person does." I said worriedly.

So the three of us fell into contemplation again.

Until Niko suddenly jumped onto my lap, and my hand placed on my lap was unexpectedly shocked by the static electricity produced by Niko's cat hair, which made me retract my hand in surprise and sparked an idea in my mind.

"What if...we electrify the outer iron wire mesh?"

Lin Yan and Jiayang exchanged a glance, "Great idea!"

They immediately got to work again, busily working until late at night.

If the iron wire mesh was electrified, that person with malicious intent would likely be electrocuted if he came down again and tried to dismantle the mesh. I asked for their opinions, and Lin Yan's statement resonated with me.

"If he shows no mercy toward us, we won't show him any mercy. If he wants to kill us, then he can't blame us for not giving him an easy way out."

Jiayang also agreed, "Sis, there are too many bad people in the world, you're too kind. Moreover, it's the apocalypse now, being too kind could cost you your life."

I looked out into the thick night outside, hoping that he would retreat and not come back to disturb us again.