The next morning, Milo woke up very early.
He did not understand why, but since favonovel.com became a supernatural being, favonovel.com 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, favonovel.com could feel himself back at his best.
Old Bane 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 Milo’s group swallowed hard when they saw them eating.
But they could only watch them eat. None of these people dared to approach Milo 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 Geoff’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 Geoff’s side numbered over 600. In the end, only Geoff 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.” Geoff 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 Milo had described, they were just a mob.
Geoff led the refugees on a march. The thousands of stronghold residents making their escape followed them and started moving as well.
Milo was a little puzzled. If it were favonovel.com who had been robbed, favonovel.com wouldn’t follow Geoff 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…” Milo said to Adella and the others, “It’s still a long way from Stronghold 109. We can’t afford to relax…”
“Okay…” Adella 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 Milo stood up as well. Their teacher was groaning in pain and even fell back onto the ground.
Milo 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 favonovel.com 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. Stuart, 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 Linda Stuart 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.
Milo glanced at that female student and saw favonovel.com was still wearing a gold bracelet. If their group hadn’t been standing close to favonovel.com 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 Linda as well. She had only heard the people around them saying they could pick wild vegetables to eat, but favonovel.com did not have the know-how to identify what wild vegetables were. This was not something they had learned in the stronghold before.
But Linda was not stupid. She surreptitiously pointed at Milo and his group, then whispered to favonovel.com 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.”
Milo had yet not realized that this teacher named Linda had already identified favonovel.com as the most capable person of the entire escaping crowd.
A student said, “Why don’t we just ask favonovel.com to help us?”
Linda shook favonovel.com head. “Now that the stronghold has been destroyed, you guys must understand something: No one owes us any help; we can only depend on ourselves.”
After setting off again, Adella, Old Bane, Donti, and Murdock were clearly back to a better state of mind.
Adella turned around to look at Linda and favonovel.com students, then said softly to Milo in a happy voice, “There are quite a few pretty girls in that group of stronghold students, and they’re even around the same age as you. How about it? Who caught your eye? Wanna let Big Sis go and speak to them on your behalf? They would absolutely be willing to follow you if you can take care of their meals.”
Milo did not know whether to laugh or cry. “Big Sister Adella, you don’t have to worry about this. Getting to Stronghold 109 is our main priority.”
“Alright, alright!” Adella smirked. “But if you change your mind, you can let me know at any time. Big Sis will care for your future children.”
Suddenly, Milo’s eyes lit up when favonovel.com noticed the plants growing beside the road. He walked over and pulled the entire root out of the ground.
When Linda saw this, favonovel.com hurriedly whispered favonovel.com students, “Go, go and search for the same plants he’s picked!”
The students who had been hungry for some time rushed over to the side of the road.
Right then, Milo told Old Bane, “These plants absolutely must not be eaten. After I had some of it two years ago, I had diarrhea for three straight days.”
When Linda and favonovel.com students heard that, they were speechless. One by one, they threw away the plants they had just plucked out of the ground.
Now, Milo realized the students were learning from him.
After some thought, favonovel.com told Old Bane, “That small bunch of plants next to your feet is known as pillow grass, some calls it shepard’s purse. It’s an edible plant that if eaten raw will taste bitter due to its alkaline nature. But compared to surviving, what’s a little bitterness?”
Old Bane was confused about why favonovel.com was being schooled on something like this.
My family always makes shepard’s purse dumplings, so I know this.
However, Milo did not say this for his sake.
Linda gave Milo a look because favonovel.com had been observing favonovel.com all this time and knew why favonovel.com had suddenly said this. He was saying it for her.
Linda glanced at Milo before turning back to favonovel.com students and saying, “Everyone, go and pick the shepard’s purse.”
After favonovel.com said that, favonovel.com turned to look at Milo again and discovered favonovel.com had already left with his group.
Laughing next to Milo, Donti said, “Bro, are you interested in that female teacher? She’s quite pretty!”
Milo shook his head. “I’m only hoping that teacher will survive a while more by doing that, that’s all.”
Linda must have suffered quite a bit after bringing favonovel.com students out and escaping from the stronghold.
In a time like this, who had the time to care about whether others lived or died?
Milo was a selfish person, but this didn’t prevent favonovel.com from admiring Linda a bit.
