112 Wild vegetables (1/2)

The next morning, Ren Xiaosu woke up very early. He did not understand why, but since he became a supernatural being, he felt more energetic than ever. It was like there was a fire burning nonstop inside his body. He had only slept for four hours last night. But after waking up, he could feel himself back at his best.

Wang Fugui took out his food and handed it to everyone. They were now sharing their food. No one hid anything from the others.

Seeing how the thousands of escapees were all going hungry without food, the escapees who were beside Ren Xiaosu's group swallowed hard when they saw them eating.

But they could only watch them eat. None of these people dared to approach Ren Xiaosu to ask for food. They were not dumb. They knew no one would possibly share their food at a time like this. Instead of being rejected, they might as well not ask.

Over at Wang Yiheng's side, they had looted a lot of food. But the problem for them was that most of those refugees had not brought any food with them either. And the number of these refugees on Wang Yiheng's side numbered over 600. In the end, only Wang Yiheng and a few dozen of his most trusted refugees managed to get anything to eat. The rest had to go hungry.

”We have to continue moving.” Wang Yiheng said with a sullen face, ”Those of you who haven't had anything to eat yet, don't worry. I believe there'll be food further ahead. From today onwards, we'll all eat wild vegetables and tree bark if we have to!”

The refugees who didn't have anything to eat yet were all complaining in their heads, 'Yeah, right, you're claiming you'll pick wild vegetables with us after eating a full meal? Where were you earlier?' However, they did not dare to speak out even if they were angry.

In reality, this group of refugees was not united. Just as Ren Xiaosu had described, they were just a mob.

Wang Yiheng led the refugees on a march. The thousands of stronghold residents making their escape followed them and started moving as well.

Ren Xiaosu was a little puzzled. If it were he who had been robbed, he wouldn't follow Wang Yiheng and those refugees even if it meant death. But these escaping stronghold residents were different in that they still had to follow the refugees even if they were robbed by them.

”Let's go.” Ren Xiaosu said to Xiaoyu and the others, ”It's still a long way from Stronghold 109. We can't afford to relax.”

”Mhm.” Xiaoyu nodded. The majority of the townspeople were mentally stronger than those who lived in the stronghold. Whatever suffering they were going through, they experienced it long ago.

The students behind Ren Xiaosu stood up as well. Their teacher was groaning in pain and even fell back onto the ground. Ren Xiaosu turned around to look and saw some of the female students wanting to help their teacher up. In the end, the female teacher slowly got up by herself. She said to her students, ”Your teacher is fine. You don't have to worry about me. We must not lose sight of the main group.”

A student said softly, ”Ms. Jiang Wu, I'm so hungry.”

They hadn't eaten for a full day, and after making such a lengthy escape, how could they not be hungry? Some of the students were even experiencing dizziness.

The female teacher named Jiang Wu was put into a difficult situation. She consoled, ”Let's keep moving forward. Who knows if we might find some food along the way. And there might be people from Stronghold 109 sent over to rescue us. If none of that works out, your teacher will pick some wild vegetables for us to eat.”

”Teacher, what do wild vegetables look like?” a female student asked.

Ren Xiaosu glanced at that female student and saw she was still wearing a gold bracelet. If their group hadn't been standing close to Ren Xiaosu last night, that gold bracelet would probably have been taken by the refugees.

These children had grown up in a world under the protection of the consortium all their lives. They did not even get the slightest whiff of the difficult environment the people living outside the stronghold had to go through, so of course they wouldn't know what wild vegetables looked like.

But this question stumped Jiang Wu as well. She had only heard the people around them saying they could pick wild vegetables to eat, but she did not have the know-how to identify what wild vegetables were. This was not something they had learned in the stronghold before.

But Jiang Wu was not stupid. She surreptitiously pointed at Ren Xiaosu and his group, then whispered to her students, ”See those people in front? You can see at a glance they're more capable than the others. Whatever plants they pick, we'll follow along and pick the same ones as them.”