(A/N: Thank you for the Gachapon and Spacecraft ChibiWolf! (. ❛ ᴗ ❛.))
The gnawed corpses of An Bo, Brother He and the others were buried at the back of the Grand Hotel.
Gu Ling and Ke Xin after having failed to complete the mission were subject to rough treatment.
Their hatred towards Nanzhi intensified. They reckoned that she must have told that man something bad about them to get ignored by the man.
Their Boss named Qing Ren sent them to see what Nanzhi's group was up too. They suffered under the combination of the suffocating foul smell and the harsh sun rays.
The two couldn't understand why their boss wanted to go to the tourist hotel on the other side still flooded instead of going to the shelter.
The tourist hotel had a monitoring room and there was a radio inside. Gu Ling and Ke Xin had eavesdropped once and get to know about the shelter.
They wanted to go there too but it's more than two miles away and they were afraid of hardship. Thus, they stayed with the gang instead.
They had suggested to the Boss to head to the shelter too but the latter had said that the situation was worse there as people will have to share a room and base won't be able to feed all of the survivors on long term.
The Boss said the situation was much better here and the tourist hotel had restaurants and a big warehouse used to store frozen meat, dried jerky, and dried fruits. The boss was after it.
Driven by greed, they dropped the matter and never mention it again.
Gu Ling and Ke Xin went to see Nanzhi's camp but they found out the people were already gone!
The two returned to the Grand Hotel and the big boss threw a glass towards them. It shattered into numerous shards. Most of it flew toward towards the two. "What a group of useless people."
Gu Ling and Ke Xin lowered their head and trembled.
The two were only saved by the knock on the door.
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Before going to the camp, A'ze hid the supplies inside a tree hole forty meters away from the villager's camp before covering it with lotus leaves.
Arriving at the camp, A'ze was stopped at the entrance. "Where have you gone to, A'ze?"
Startled, A'ze looked at her aunt and her cousin.
"Mother, she probably went to find those suspicious people again." A thin young man with face full of freckles, wearing a clean white t-shirt and brown summer shirt with a pair of blue slippers and standing beside the middle-aged woman spoke. His brown eyes narrowed into slits like a snake, looking at the little A'ze.
His eyes examining her body as if he wanted to see if she had hid something good, unfortunately, he could not spot anything unusual.
"Didn't I tell you not to approach them?! When are you going to learn your lesson? If your Mother hadn't told me to look after you both, I would have left you to fend for yourself."
A'ze pressed her chapped lips together. She wanted to tell them that those people were kind, not as bad as they pictured them but her aunt only listened to her cousin, Jun.
"This should let you remember my words otherwise you'll run off to those people again!"
A hand slapped her in the buttocks, followed by another three hits. A'ze suppressed her crying. Whenever she did something wrong her aunt would use her heavy hand to punish her.
"Eh! Eh!" A thirteen-year old boy, twice bigger than A'ze appeared and stood in front of the little girl, stopping the middle-aged woman from delivering another strike.
A'ze turned her head and saw her brother went in front and shielded her from her Aunt's hands.
The woman became frustrated and smacked the brother of A'ze instead. Her temper was not very good today and these two disobedient children just made her mood worse.
"I'm teaching your sister a lesson! She always disregards my words and if I don't hit her, she will not engrave it in her mind!"
"Auntie, stop! Stop! I'm sorry! Please stop hitting Lan'gege!" A'ze could no longer restrain her cries after seeing her brother getting hurt in her place.
Her brother's forehead was soon red but A'lan seemed not to mind the pain and only bit his lips.
The other villagers were drained from last night and they also have themselves and their children to take care of. They only watched them before tearing their eyes away and resting near the bonfire where the women were preparing the meal for the day.
"You should have listened to Mother from the start!" Jun sneered. These two were in better situation before the typhoon because their father had been appointed as the village head. They get to live in the better house and eat more delicious food than him.
If A'ze's father hadn't saved the resort's manager before from drowning, his father would become the village instead.
That better life would have become his. But all of it doesn't matter to him now.
"That's enough!" Jun's father intervened because he was irritated by the crying noises. "I barely sleep from all the mosquitos and the noises from making the boat last night!"
Being scolded by her husband, Jun's Mother could no longer continue. She turned around but not before saying, "The food is not enough. Since you two had grown wings and thinks that you no longer need my care, then you better find your own food."
Jun also followed his Mother behind.
His father, assigned as the new village head spoke to his son, "Jun, those people listen to you more. Go and tell them that their boat is ready and asked them to fulfill their promise they made before."
Jun nodded.
Outside the villager's camp, A'ze couldn't help but cry as she hugged him. "Brother, I'm sorry."
A'Lan was deaf and couldn't speak. He used his hands to speak to his sister telling her to not cry anymore.
A'ze couldn't help but hug him tighter, guilt for putting him in harm's way.
A'Lan patted her head.