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Chapter 563: Chapter 563: The Furious Bai Ying
Bai Ying walked towards that door and discovered there really was someone inside, a little boy who was so skinny he could not possibly be any skinnier.
The door was only cracked open slightly, and the boy looked at her timidly.
"You want this?"
Bai Ying asked.
Hush~
The little boy made a gesture for silence and then nodded vigorously.
Bai Ying looked at the pot-cleaning water she held in her hand, then at the scrawny little boy. The boy reached out with a small iron basin, his eyes filled with pleading.
Unable to bear it, Bai Ying still poured the pot-cleaning water for him. The boy’s hands shook as he held the basin, which was covered with black food residue that had stuck on, and which clearly hadn’t been washed for many days. In that moment she looked up, Bai Ying thought she saw a pair of feet stir in a corner of the room.
"That’s my sister, she’s sick,"
the little boy whispered as quietly as he could, appearing to be very afraid of someone on the other side of the wooden cabinet.
Wei Junhao saw Bai Ying coming over with a downcast expression, carrying the cleaned pots, and asked, "Xiao Bai Ying, what’s wrong?"
Bai Ying recounted what had just happened to Wei Junhao and the others.
She knew that in the apocalypse, there were such people everywhere. It was extremely hard for adults to survive, let alone children. She also knew she was powerless to do anything about such things, since she too was just a person who survived by using her special ability.
But she still wanted to feel sad for a little while; the little boy’s eyes were so pitiful.
"There are more people inside?"
Zheng Shu was somewhat surprised—weren’t all the people supposed to be sleeping on the large communal bed over there? How come there were two children here?
"Maybe that sister got sick?"
Bai Ying said uncertainly.
Regarding this matter, everyone just sighed quietly and planned to move on, until just as they were getting ready to rest, the smell of meat wafted from behind the wooden cabinet.
The smell of meat was rich, making even Xu Mingliang, who had already eaten his fill, stick his head out to take a look outside.
"Wow, they’re cooking meat over there. I’ve always said the villagers live so much better than us. Look at that big pot—full of meat,"
Xu Mingliang said enviously, licking his lips. He had sold pork for many years and had never smelled such appetizing meat.
"But it looks like there aren’t any living animals left in this village,"
Hang Wenshan remarked.
"That aroma—you can tell from the smell it’s not from domestic animals. They must have hunted something nearby, like a wild boar, or the like,"
Xu Mingliang shot a derisive look at Hang Wenshan. Talk about being clueless.
Hang Wenshan shrugged his shoulders and continued to lean against the wall to rest; they had all eaten their fill already, and now the smell of meat made him feel somewhat queasy.
The conversation between the two also reached Wei Junhao and Su Jin’s ears.
However, Su Jin acted as if she hadn’t heard it and said to Bai Ying, "Tonight, we three girls should sleep here. Qiqi’s space has foldable beds. I have opened up a separate spot here too."
Bai Ying quickly shifted her attention, following the direction of Su Jin’s gesture. She saw three small beds, already made up, arranged inside a low wooden cabinet. The cabinet was somewhat short but still completely blocked others’ line of sight.
"Alright, thank you, Su Jin. You all are so thoughtful. I had actually forgotten I’m a girl,"
Bai Ying praised the Heart Talk Team; when she had ventured out with her teammates before, she had always treated herself like one of the guys. She would often rest squeezed together with her mixed-gender teammates, never having imagined Su Jin would considerately leave a spot for her as well, which deeply touched her.
"Don’t mention it. Looking out for each other on the road is only natural,"
Su Jin said with a laugh.
Apart from Han Yue and Wei Junhao’s group who all had their own sleeping bags, Lu Hao, Lu Guanhai, and Lian Jiyue also slept on folding beds provided by Su Jin; the three men slept outside the low cabinets, thoroughly shielding Su Jin and the rest.
Outside the row of tall wooden cabinets, over forty people were enjoying their steaming meat chunk soup, eating with relish.
There were also some flour dumplings in the meat chunk soup that they hadn’t tasted in a long time, which were freshly made by Auntie Zhao at Brother Chen’s request.
"Mom, I’ve always missed the dumpling soup you used to make, it’s just as delicious as now,"
Zhao Hua praised his mother while eating.
With a bowl of enamel in her hands, Auntie Zhao watched her son eat deliciously, a rare loving smile spreading across her wrinkled face; she was the main cook, so she had just served Zhao Hua a few extra pieces of meat.
"Auntie Zhao, how much of our stock is left?"
Brother Chen also asked while eating.
"No more, no more, there will be nothing to eat tomorrow,"
Auntie Zhao replied, taking a sip of the oily meat soup.
"That girl still hasn’t died? She’s really hanging on,"
"Brother Chen, you see..."
A man behind Brother Chen asked in a low voice, but Brother Chen, deep in thought, didn’t answer.
"Also, those people who came to seek shelter today all seem to be extraordinary, I and Brother Chen saw that they have a box full of food,"
Another man said enviously.
Brother Chen glared at the man who had spoken, scolding in a low voice, "Shut up! You can tell those people are capable, definitely Advanced Special Ability Users. If you want to die, don’t drag us into it!"
He himself envied those people’s supplies, but each one of them was well-dressed, and even the women and children were fair and tender, indicating that their men protected them well.
And though these villagers also had Special Ability Users among them, the highest level was still Zhao Hua’s Level Three Speed Element, and he wasn’t willing to take the risk of grabbing supplies from those people.
"Brother Chen, we understand, I’m just envious, just saying, just saying,"
The man who had just spoken quickly apologized.
"Later, you all come with me to check on that young girl,"
Brother Chen said after finishing his last sip of meat soup.
By this time, the sky had completely darkened. Xiao Bai Ying had gone out of the low cabinet for a while and then came back, still muttering angrily.
"What’s wrong?"
Su Jin asked while she was making the bed.
Bai Ying wanted to vent to someone, so she told Su Jin about the sibling duo inside the wooden door.
"I just went to check on that little boy. Those people didn’t share any of the meat with the brother and sister at all. I was happy just now, thinking they also had food to eat. Moreover, the little boy said he and his sister don’t eat meat. How kind and sensible they are,"
Su Jin had previously learned from Mao Qiqi about the two people in the room next door, but who would have thought they were two children?
"This kind of thing is very common, and we’re only staying here for one night. Getting into a quarrel with those people now won’t do any good, take this to them, this is about all the help we can give,"
Su Jin took out two steamed buns from her backpack and said to Bai Ying.
She could see Bai Ying’s anger and feared that without resolving this matter, Bai Ying would have trouble falling asleep tonight.
