"Humph! We..." Kory suddenly realized sothing and imdiately shut his mouth, saying, "We’re not telling you!"
"We took a risk and went to the warehouse under the mall yesterday. There were no zombies down there, so we brought back so food. But our manpower was limited, so we only carried a little. There’s still plenty left down there, so don’t worry. The food there is enough to last us a long ti."
Yasin smiled and added.
"What? You went to the warehouse downstairs? And there are no zombies there?" Francis’s eyes glead with excitent. "That’s great! How did you get down there?"
"We climbed down through the freight elevator shaft, which leads directly to the warehouse on the lowest level. There are so zombies there, but it’s relatively safe. If you’re careful, there shouldn’t be any danger."
Yasin smiled and said, "When we run out of food here, I can take you all there once. But you must be careful. Although there aren’t many zombies, if you attract their attention, it could still be very dangerous."
"Master! You can’t trust them! You... why did you tell them everything?" Kory looked at Yasin in surprise, tugging at his sleeve and whispering worriedly into his ear.
"It’s fine. Since Susan and Francis have joined us, and Sophia has agreed to let them stay, they’re now part of our group. We shouldn’t hide things from them. Besides, we can’t keep it a secret anyway."
Yasin deliberately acted magnanimous, waving his hand dismissively.
"What do you think, Sophia? If you trust them, then we should trust them too." Yasin’s openness instead made Sophia feel sowhat uneasy.
Although she had agreed to take in Susan and Francis out of montary soft-heartedness, she wasn’t stupid. She still harbored so wariness toward them.
Having been betrayed once, Sophia didn’t want to be betrayed a second ti. That would make her look especially foolish.
Only Clarissa, who had been coldly watching Susan the whole ti, curled her lips into a faint sneer. The sharp-witted Clarissa sensed a hint of conspiracy in Yasin’s words.
"Susan, Francis, since you’ve chosen to join us, the food in the warehouse is also yours. So, I hope you can keep it a secret for us."
Sophia looked at the two of them sincerely.
"Of course! Absolutely!" Susan and Francis imdiately assured her, though a strange glint flickered in their eyes.
"The food we brought up yesterday is almost gone. Now that there are two more people, the remaining food isn’t enough to feed all of us. So, we need to go back to the warehouse before Blake and the others find out and bring up more food."
Yasin smiled faintly at Susan and Francis, pretending to be troubled as he said, "To carry more food this ti, we’ll need more people to go. But since there are zombies down there, accidents could happen at any mont. So, this ti, we’ll go by voluntary participation. Those willing to co with can join, and those who don’t want to go can stay here and guard our shelter."
"I’ll go." Clarissa was the first to step forward without hesitation, standing behind Yasin and smirking at Susan and Francis.
"I’ll go too."
" too."
Kory and Paul quickly followed, standing firmly behind Yasin.
"This ti, we’re going too!" Elena and Kiara stubbornly stepped forward and said, "We can’t always rely on everyone else to take care of us. We want to use our own hands to find food too!"
Sophia gave Yasin a strange look but still walked to his side and said, "Of course I’m going too."
Sophia had already sensed sothing unusual from Yasin’s反常 behavior, but she still didn’t understand what his purpose was.
"Mrs. Susan, Mr. Francis, what about you?" Yasin smiled at the two of them, his eyes carrying a hint of subtle mockery.
"We... we..." Francis’s previously radiant face instantly turned pale, and he pitifully held his waist, saying, "Such a dangerous task... if an old man like goes, wouldn’t I just hold everyone back? I’d better stay here and guard the place for everyone..."
"I... I won’t go either... Look... I’m seriously injured... Sending a wounded person into danger... Surely everyone would feel bad too, right? Sophia?"
Susan awkwardly smiled at Sophia, her face showing a pleading expression of fear.
Sophia’s expression grew increasingly gloomy. Seeing Susan and Francis’s disgusting behavior, her last bit of pity was finally worn away.
"Those two are really shaless enough!"
Clarissa smiled sarcastically and said, "You want us to take the risk and find food for you to eat, while you just sit here safely and wait, enjoying the fruits of our labor, right? Susan, weren’t you just picky earlier, complaining that cold-water instant noodles were disgusting? There’s plenty of good food downstairs. If you have the ability, go get it yourself!"
"I... I’m injured, aren’t I? I’m covered in the sll of blood. If I go with you, I’ll just drag you down. Besides, soone needs to guard this place. staying here is also contributing to the group..."
Susan retorted defiantly, hands on her hips.
"Alright, I said earlier that this is all voluntary. Since Mrs. Susan and Mr. Francis have decided to stay behind and guard the place, then the rest of us will go."
Yasin raised his hand to stop Kory and Clarissa, who were clearly indignant and about to curse, then smiled at Susan and Francis and said, "Then we’ll leave this place to you. There’s still so food left inside. You must guard it well and make sure Blake and his gang don’t discover this place."
"Good! That’s only natural! Don’t worry, with us here, nothing will go wrong!"
Francis thumped his chest and vowed confidently, "This old man will risk his life to protect our food!"
"Sophia, you must be careful when you go downstairs! I’ll be waiting here for you to co back."
Susan imdiately walked up to Sophia, putting on the tone of a close friend, and held her hand as she carefully advised her.
To soone who didn’t know better, Susan’s affectionate deanor might have made it seem like she and Sophia were the closest of sisters.
"Alright, it’s getting late. Let’s go! This place is in Susan and Francis’s hands now." Yasin picked up his sword and was the first to walk out the door.
Watching as Yasin and Sophia left with Kory and Clarissa and the others, Susan’s face imdiately curled into a smug sneer.
anwhile, Francis beside her seed sowhat hesitant.
Only after Yasin and the others had completely disappeared outside did Susan finally laugh gleefully and say, "These idiots actually managed to find the underground warehouse! This ti, we’ve made a huge contribution! As long as we report this to Blake in ti, we’ll be the big heroes! From then on, we’ll have all the food we want and the status we deserve..."
Susan was still lost in her delusion of becoming the top dog.
Francis, however, looked conflicted and said, "Do you still believe what Blake and his people say? In my opinion, we’d be better off sticking with Sophia and the others. After all, these fools are easy to fool. We can just freeload here, eat and drink without any danger. Isn’t that better than following Blake?"
"Foolish!"
Susan, while stuffing the remaining half-box of instant noodles and bottled water from the room into a bag, angrily scolded, "This mall is only so big. None of us can leave. This place is our only shelter for survival. Right now, Blake’s group has guns. What do Sophia and the others have? At most, that guy has a sword. How could a few useless losers like them possibly stand a chance against Blake? Where could they even hide? The only reason Blake is keeping them around is to use them to take risks and find food. Now that they’ve found food and we know their secret, this is our chance to make a contribution! As long as we accomplish this, Blake will definitely treat us well from now on! We’ll live like royalty here! But if we betray Blake and side with that stupid woman Sophia, what do you think will happen to us when Blake cos down to settle the score? Have you thought about that?!"
Hearing this, Francis shuddered all over.
A sly glint flashed in his fox-like eyes as he glanced toward the storeroom inside the shop and said, "Then we’ll do as you say and go tell Blake about this imdiately. But before that, we should also keep a backup plan."
As he spoke, Francis rubbed his hands together and walked toward the inner storeroom, whispering to Susan, "Earlier, I saw that Paul guy secretly hiding sothing. I bet they’ve stashed extra supplies."
"Oh? You an...?" Susan’s eyes lit up, and she hurriedly rushed into the small storeroom inside the shop to rummage around.
"Amazing! So much food and water! We’ve hit the jackpot this ti!"
Susan excitedly pulled out two large bags of food and two crates of bottled water, nearly beside herself with joy.
"With this much food, if we take it up and hand it over to Blake, he’ll at least reward us with half!"
"Foolish!" Francis hissed at Susan in a low voice. "This food is our lifeline for the future. How can we just hand it it over?!"
Francis picked up a bag of food, looked around cautiously, and whispered to Susan, "We should secretly hide this food sowhere else!"
"You an..." Susan imdiately understood, a knowing expression crossing her face.
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