"That's a secret."
Xia Ping smiled faintly. He'd exchanged Hate Points through the system for all this food, and it had been incredibly cheap: just one Hate Point per serving.
Of course, he didn't need to explain any of that.
"A secret?" Jiang Yaru and Zhu Erqin were both intensely curious. They couldn't figure out how this guy had managed to bring food down from the ship with security so strict.
Xia Ping nodded. "That's right. It's a secret. But if you don't want to eat, I won't force you."
"I'll eat."
At that, Jiang Yaru and Zhu Erqin replied at once. Their stomachs had been growling for ages. They didn't care how Xia Ping had gotten the food—as long as they could fill their bellies first.
They immediately picked up the food and started eating. Xia Ping grabbed a leg of lamb and tore into it, too.
The people from Zhengde Middle School quickly noticed what Xia Ping and the others were doing.
One student exclaimed, "Look! That bastard just pulled a pile of food out of his bag! My god, there's lamb, beef, ham, pizza, hamburgers—and would you look at that, they've even got drinks! Did they come here on a picnic?"
His face turned green with envy and jealousy.
"That's impossible!"
Another student shouted, "The captain said we weren't allowed to bring any food off the ship! A few students tried to sneak some out earlier, but the teachers caught them on the spot and gave them a thorough beating."
"On top of that, they used laser scanners when we left the ship. There's no way to hide food on your person. How on earth did that kid get food off the ship?"
He stared at Xia Ping and the others eating, completely baffled.
"Do you really