When these people left the supermarket and headed toward the villa in a grand procession, they ran into another group going in the same direction.
A tall student kindly warned them, "Friends, don't bother going. A little thief named Xia Ping cleared out all the food in that supermarket ages ago. Even if you go now, it'll do you no good. You won't find so much as a crumb."
"What?!"
The student across from him was just as shocked. "No way. That bastard Xia Ping cleared out the supermarket in your Seventh District too? He didn't leave any food at all?!"
The participants from the Eighth District were immediately dismayed. Looking at the students, they asked, "Judging by the way you're talking, you aren't from the Eighth District, are you? That Xia Ping went after you too?!"
"Of course not. We're from the Seventh District."
The student said, "A little thief cleared out all the food in our district, leaving every one of us hungry. We had no choice but to come to the Eighth District and give that bastard Xia Ping a piece of our minds."
"We traveled a long way, carefully avoiding the district's beasts. Even so, several people were seriously injured and eliminated before we finally made it here."
Grief showed on their faces. If they hadn't been hungry, with their strength cut in half, they wouldn't have been so easily bullied by the beasts, and several of them wouldn't have been seriously injured and eliminated.
"Did you come here because you saw the note the supermarket left behind?" the tall student asked curiously.
The students from the Seventh District nodded. "That's right. You can imagine how brazen that little thief is. He stole all the food in the supermarket, then actually left a note saying he