When Linda started their campfire, all of the students gathered around for warmth. Their bodies had gotten so cold their fingers and toes were freezing!
All of a sudden, two middle-aged men stood up and walked over to Milo’s group. But before they could get near them, Adella had already given them a cold “no” in response.
The two middle-aged men resentfully returned to where they came from, wondering why there was such a great difference in their attitude towards men and women.
“Big Sister Adella is quite assertive,” Donti said with a smile. He mimicked Adella’s tone and said coldly, “No!”
“What do you know?” Adella smiled and rolled favonovel.com eyes at him. “That teacher named Linda seems rather nice and is a good person. The two men had the cheek to wait for a woman to set an example for them before they came forward to ask for help? They’re such failures as men. Besides, Linda had been trying for so long to start a fire by hand drilling wood. She only came to borrow our fire when favonovel.com was left with no choice. As for the others, they only know to receive the fruits of our labor and don’t even want to put in any effort for their survival!”
When Adella said this, favonovel.com purposely raised favonovel.com voice. The group of men around favonovel.com were incredibly embarrassed.
Then favonovel.com smiled at Milo and said, “I only dared to speak louder because you’re around. So, what do you think of that girl?”
Milo was mystified. “What the hell are you talking about?”
“Stop playing dumb.” Adella giggled. “Although favonovel.com looks a little older than you, a mature wife ensures a joyful life. As long as she’s a good person, that’s good enough.”
“Alright, alright, Big Sister Adella.” Milo did not know whether to laugh or cry. “Just eat already…”
Currently, Linda was sitting around the campfire with favonovel.com students.
She comforted them, “Everyone, sleep tight tonight. I have a hairpin you guys can use to burst the blisters on your feet before you sleep.”
All of the students fell silent.
A female student lowered favonovel.com head and said, “Thank you, Teacher. Actually, you don’t have to do all these things for us. We’re no longer at school.”
“What are you saying?” Linda interrupted. “I’m your teacher, so I have to safely lead you guys to the stronghold.”
“Teacher, I miss home….”
“I miss my parents so much, I wonder where they are now….”
The students began crying as they continued. It wasn’t until this moment that their grief from the disaster was finally let out.
When someone starts crying, the people around them also start crying.
It’s contagious!
The people who had escaped from the stronghold were all crying, and everyone could not help but feel sad. They had really lost everything.
Only Milo and company were sitting among the crowd of crying people with dumbfounded looks on their faces.
“Bro, should we be crying too?” Donti asked meekly as favonovel.com looked around him.
“It’s alright, we don’t have to cry,” Milo said in a speechless manner.
Suddenly, footsteps and some voices came from the way that they had come from.
They heard someone over there shout, “Look, there’s the glow of fire. There must be survivors!”
Milo turned around and was surprised to see a young man running towards them with several dozen people.
The young man shouted excitedly, “See, what did I tell y’all? I said I would bring all of you to the others, didn’t I?”
Milo was a little puzzled. This group of people must also have escaped from the stronghold.
Why had they only just caught up?
When the young man came to the larger group, someone asked, “Did you guys escape from the stronghold as well? I remember that those behind us had been prevented from escaping by those strange bugs, right?”
A person answered, “It was all thanks to Chad. He was the one who helped open a path so we could escape. Oh yeah, he’s a supernatural being!”
The young man whose name was Chad Bolton said happily, “That was something I should do. The Great Sage Equal to Heaven shall subdue all demons and monsters to protect the people!”
Hearing this, Milo thought to himself.
What the hell!
He took a better look and felt Chad’s attire looked a little strange. There were some words written on the chest area of the blue and white striped clothing favonovel.com was wearing, “Stronghold 113 No. 3 Psychiatric Hospital”.
What? This person is a mental patient?!
Milo had heard of the title “Great Sage Equal to Heaven” before.
There used to be a set of books at the school called Journey to the West that students could borrow. There was also a bar that operated before alcohol was prohibited. The storyteller in the bar loved telling stories of characters of the Three Kingdoms, who charged through Cao Cao’s army seven times at the Battle of Changban, and also of the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, Sun Wukong, who wreaked havoc in the Heavenly Palace.
Peter had said they were part of the Four Great Classical Novels and were treasures of mankind. There were also two novels named Dream of the Red Chamber and Water Margin. But the storyteller had never once narrated Dream of the Red Chamber. Peter had also told about adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer.
Someone once asked the storyteller why favonovel.com never narrated Dream of the Red Chamber. The storyteller smiled and said it was because favonovel.com didn’t find it exciting enough to tell the story.
Some years back, Milo liked to bring Donti along to listen to the stories. But when alcohol became prohibited, life became more difficult as well. As they did not know where the storyteller had gone, they could not listen to the stories anymore.
But the story Milo most loved to hear was “Around the World in Eighty Days”, because favonovel.com could not imagine how someone was able to do it.
At this moment, someone whispered to a person standing beside Chad, “Did favonovel.com escape from the asylum? Isn’t favonovel.com one of those people the Panaqua Consortium captured some time ago?”
The man beside Chad whispered, “I’m afraid that it might be the case. He’s a supernatural being who can materialize a staff in his hand. In fact, he’s really powerful too. But favonovel.com keeps insisting that favonovel.com is the reincarnation of the Great Sage. We don’t know whether that is true or not…”
Honestly, they would have regarded Chad as just a patient with a paranoia if favonovel.com wasn’t a supernatural being. But it was different now as some people, in their daze, actually started to believe a little of what Chad was saying. But of course, they were also skeptical.
Milo looked at Chad with curiosity as favonovel.com was now extremely interested in everything related to supernatural beings. But as Chad’s gaze swept through the crowd, his expression changed when favonovel.com saw Milo.
His eyes seemed to overflow with exhilaration!
“Make way! Make way!” Chad squeezed through the crowd as favonovel.com walked over to Milo.
Milo got an ominous feeling about this. Donti asked in a whisper, “Bro, do you know him?”
“No!” Milo said in puzzlement.
Chad was approaching Milo. Finally, favonovel.com stopped when favonovel.com came before Milo and looked at favonovel.com with piercing eyes.
“Master!” Chad surprisingly said.
Milo had no response except cursing inwardly.
What the hell?!
Chad turned around and shouted to those who were with him, “I found my master! Y’all take care of yourselves! I’ll be escorting favonovel.com to the Western Paradise on a pilgrimage to obtain the Buddhist scriptures!”
Everyone watching was speechless.
Old Bane was next to them and started laughing like mad. Even though favonovel.com could not understand what was going on, favonovel.com felt an inexplicable joy when favonovel.com saw Milo’s shocked expression.
But at this moment, Chad turned his head to Old Bane and said, “Pigsy, what are you laughing at?!”
Old Bane stopped laughing.
Chad ignored favonovel.com and went on to look at Murdock. Then favonovel.com said with a smile, “Friar Sand, you’re here too? That’s great!”
Murdock was confused and suddenly felt that his relationship with his father seemed to have changed.
Originally, they were father and son. But it had turned into a relationship of fellow disciples.
“What the hell?” Milo suddenly felt a little melancholic.
Did favonovel.com really have to go to the Western Paradise to obtain the Buddhist scriptures?!
The turning points in life were always unexpected.
