Jiangnan Yan looked at the mature woman who had spoken and nodded seriously. "Yes, Teacher Bai is right. Xu Wanting and I are very close friends, but we still need to be careful."
"And it's a long walk from the teaching building to the dormitory. There might be mutant monsters in the black fog downstairs, so we need to watch out."
"We can find some weapons to take with us, just in case."
"Exactly! We girls are delicate, after all. We're not strong like those lousy men!"
The girl, who weighed over 160 pounds, nodded emphatically and complained indignantly:
"Those lousy men are always talking about 'ladies first' and saying they'll protect women and children in a disaster. But now that the apocalypse is here, not one man has come to protect us!"
"A bunch of scumbags!"
"Honestly, I don't think men should even exist! We girls would definitely be happier without them..."
As the girl kept ranting, Jiangnan Yan and Teacher Bai exchanged a glance and smiled helplessly, but neither joined in.
They didn't like men either, but they had never wished men out of existence.
Their dislike came down to their own preferences. It had nothing to do with whether men should exist.
The three gathered their things, carefully opened the door, and stepped out.
Survivors were hiding in many of the other classrooms too.
Hearing footsteps in the corridor, they poked their heads out one after another.
When they saw the beautiful women, quite a few male survivors' eyes lit up.
Rescue still hadn't arrived. Calls to the police wouldn't go through, and their food and water had run out long ago. By now, most of the survivors were on the verge of breaking down.
They faced a moral choice: go out to look for food or steal it from someone else.
But most of them clearly didn't dare go outside.
Most of those who had left the building over the past two days had died in the black fog.
The few who came back were badly shaken, as though they had seen some terrifying monster!
Even fewer returned alive with food and water...
When there wasn't enough food and water to meet everyone's basic needs, unrest began.
And with no sign of the authorities,
dark impulses began to take root in some people.
If nobody cares when people die, nobody's going to care if I do something bad!
Students with malicious intentions began targeting the girls, and some even resorted to force.
Without moral or legal restraints, there was no telling how low people would sink.
Shen Yi, for instance, had used supplies to take girls in.
But compared with the killers and rapists, he still had some limits...
Some survivors with no such limits secretly followed Jiangnan Yan and the others.
Jiangnan Yan: "We've left the classroom and are heading toward the dormitory."
Jiangnan Yan: "Is there any danger near the dormitory building?"
Little Bunny Obedient: "No. I've been in and out several times. There's no danger inside the dormitory building, but I don't know about farther away."
Jiangnan Yan: "All right."
Little Bunny Obedient: "I'm on the sixth floor. Come straight up when you get here."
Jiangnan Yan: "OK."
After replying to Jiangnan Yan, Xu Wanting felt a twinge of guilt.
How could there be no danger outside the dormitory building?
She had seen a man-eating Mutant Dog with her own eyes!
But to lure Jiangnan Yan over, she had no choice but to keep repeating what Shen Yi had told her to say.
If Jiangnan Yan was unlucky enough to run into that Mutant Dog, Xu Wanting couldn't be blamed...
She had only said there was no danger inside the dormitory building. She hadn't said anything about outside.
"Good. Keep in touch with your friends. For every friend you get to come over, I'll reward you with two roast chickens. But they have to be girls, and they can't be ugly," Shen Yi said with satisfaction.
"Okay!"
Xu Wanting's eyes lit up.
The roast chicken smelled so good!
But she only ever got Shen Yi's leftovers. There was never enough, and she couldn't even eat her fill.
If bringing over one friend could earn her two delicious roast chickens, it was absolutely worth it!
She couldn't refuse Shen Yi's demands anyway, so why not get something out of it?
Two roast chickens would let her eat comfortably for two or three days!
With that, Xu Wanting picked up her phone and started calling the other friends who hadn't replied to her messages on WeChat.
Shen Yi watched Xu Wanting bustling about, unsurprised.
This was one reason he controlled the supplies.
Only if Xu Wanting remained hungry would she be motivated to work and do as she was told.
If she had more food than she needed, she certainly wouldn't be this eager.
She might even
try to play games with him again, like she had last night!
She had wanted to wring him dry and stop him from chatting with other women, or even having any contact with them!
What a joke!
Does she think we're dating? Does she want to control who I can see?
She really thinks too highly of herself!
There was no way Shen Yi would give up unlocking the system's supplies for the sake of one woman.
So he had punished Xu Wanting for overstepping, leaving her with nothing but the bones he had gnawed that morning.
Meat or any other food? Forget it!
Shen Yi had added quite a few more contacts that day.
He wanted to find as many girls who met the system's criteria as possible before the internet and power went out.
Judging by the situation, neither was likely to last much longer.
After all, with no one maintaining the power generation equipment during the apocalypse, something was bound to go wrong.
With all kinds of mutated plants and animals causing trouble as well, the odds were even higher.
Frankly, Shen Yi was surprised the internet and electricity had lasted six days.
Perhaps that was why the survivors still believed the authorities would come to rescue them.
Academic Advisor Wang Jiaxing: "@Shen Yi, are you there? Could you reply?"
Academic Advisor Wang Jiaxing: "Shen Yi, I know you can see my messages. Everyone in our class needs your help right now. I saw the messages you posted in several groups, so you must have plenty of food and water, right? Could you spare some for your classmates and teachers?"
Academic Advisor Wang Jiaxing: "Of course, we're not asking you to help for free. I can personally pay you five hundred yuan for it. You have plenty of food and water anyway, so sell some to your teacher! You'll make money and do something good for the community at the same time!"
Campus Heartthrob Lin Yu: "@Shen Yi, our advisor is right. Help us out, Shen Yi. We're all classmates. Not helping other people is one thing, but refusing to help your own classmates is just stingy!"
Qin Haoran: "+1. I'm willing to pay five hundred yuan too. Shen Yi, if you have extra water, sell us a few bottles."
Jin Rui: "@Shen Yi, say something! I know you're online!"
Wang Lili: "Um, I saw Shen Yi's message in another group too. Since you're willing to take girls in, Shen Yi, you must be a kind person. Could you help us?"
Ma Hong: "I remember Shen Yi was always nice. Surely he wouldn't just stand by and let people die..."
Teacher Qi (Associate Professor): "Shen Yi doesn't talk much, but he really is a good kid."
These were messages in the class group chat.
Shen Yi had only opened it because people kept tagging him.
He found that his academic advisor had tagged him out of nowhere, asking to buy food and water. Then all the students had started tagging him too, holding out their hands for supplies as though they'd planned it together.
Their attempt to guilt him into helping made Shen Yi laugh.
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