Chapter 88

The man didn’t get angry; he coughed and continued, "What’s the rush? I didn’t say I wouldn’t buy."

The young man was still fuming and sneered, "Don’t act like it’s too expensive. We braved the heavy snow, skiing dozens of miles from the forest to get here. Do you think it’s easy? If we’re not careful and get hurt, we have to treat ourselves. Without us, you wouldn’t even have food."

The man didn’t respond to his words but asked, "Can I pay by card?"

The young man with the ear piercing took over, drawing out his words, "Sure, our service is absolutely thorough. What do you want?"

The man thought for a moment and said, "I want two packs of instant noodles, two pieces of bread, and two bags of cookies."

The young man with the ear piercing grinned and said, "Two packs of instant noodles for four hundred, two pieces of bread for six hundred, two bags of cookies for eight hundred, a total of one thousand eight hundred. Thank you, sir." As he spoke, he extended his hand to ask the man for his bank card.

The man took out a card from his wallet and handed it over, then asked, "Do you have hot water?"

The young man in the blue down jacket had a cold expression and stiffly replied, "No," without any further indication.

The man was taken aback by this and then laughed, "I’ll pay for it."

"Keep your money, sir," the young man with the ear piercing replied with a grin, holding the man’s bank card and swiping it on the card reader. "Water is so heavy; we won’t carry it. Besides, even if we did, it’s so far and so cold. By the time we get there, the hot water would turn cold. Enough talk, enter your password..."

Han Ying saw that everyone else was buying things and said to Xu Mo, "Let’s buy some food too? I have an alcohol stove, an alcohol pot, and half a bottle of alcohol in my bag. We can cook instant noodles. One pack is enough for me, and two for you, is that enough?"

Without waiting for Xu Mo’s response, she said to the young men, "Could you please give us three packs of instant noodles?"

The long-haired young man took out three packs of instant noodles from his bag but didn’t hand them over, saying indifferently, "Six hundred."

The young man with the ear piercing glanced at Han Ying. He had heard what she said to Xu Mo and reminded her with a grin, "Is three packs enough? Your boyfriend gets two, and you get one. That’s one meal. By afternoon, we won’t come back." Clearly, he assumed they were a couple and wanted to sell more.

Han Ying was taken aback by this.

Xu Mo, however, interjected, "We don’t want it." He thought that on the way here, he had heard the calls of birds and animals in the forest. They could find food here. Even if they couldn’t find mountain chickens, wild rabbits, or deer, catching a few birds and roasting them would be better than eating this junk. Moreover, he wouldn’t be extorted by these kids.

With his current abilities, going without food for ten to fifteen days wasn’t a big deal, but Han Ying couldn’t endure it.

Han Ying, hearing Xu Mo’s words, couldn’t help but turn her head and look at him with doubt. Then, as if she thought of something, she smiled softly and said, "You don’t want to eat this food? I don’t want to either, but we can’t go without food. We’re trapped here, and we don’t know how long we’ll be stuck. There’s no other food, so we should just eat a little."

Xu Mo, hearing this, knew she had misunderstood him. In a few words, he couldn’t explain clearly, so he said, "Alright, we don’t want it."

Han Ying was extremely puzzled. She glanced at Xu Mo’s face but couldn’t figure out what he meant. Hearing his firm tone, she knew he had a plan and said, "Alright, I’ll listen to you. If you say no, then no."

She turned to the young men and said, "Sorry, we don’t want it."

The young man with the ear piercing still smiled, but the other two looked grim. The young man in the blue down jacket said coldly, "We’ve already taken them out. If you say you don’t want them, that’s fine. One pack is two hundred, two packs are six hundred. If you don’t want them, that’s half, three hundred."

Han Ying frowned but still smiled, "We don’t want them, so why should we pay?"

The long-haired young man threw the three packs of instant noodles back into his bag and said unreasonably, "You’ll pay. What can you do? Not paying? Xiao Liang, Xiao Lei, remember these two..." He pointed at Xu Mo and Han Ying, looking at the other two young men and continued, "We won’t sell them anything in the future. I want to see if we beg them to buy or they beg us to sell."

He then scanned the faces of the others in the room. The others didn’t want to cause trouble and turned their faces away when he looked at them. The young man gritted his teeth and shouted, "Whoever dares to buy for them or resell to them won’t get any food from us."

Han Ying, hearing his harsh words, felt uneasy. She thought, if only these three kids sell things here, it will be troublesome.

She couldn’t help but glance at Xu Mo.

Xu Mo, hearing the young man’s words, was furious and glared at him.

The young man screamed, suddenly covering his eyes and squatting down.

This sudden change shocked everyone. The other two young men, not knowing what happened, quickly supported him and asked, "Xiao Guang, what’s wrong?"

"My eyes hurt," Xiao Guang cried, still covering his eyes, but tears streamed out from between his fingers.

The young man in the blue down jacket was shocked, his face changing, and he asked anxiously, "What’s wrong with your eyes?"

Xiao Guang said, "I don’t know. Just now... just now... that person glared at me, and I felt a pain in my eyes, like... like being punched." He paused and then asked in a panic, "I feel a lot of water in my eyes. Is... is it bleeding?"

"No bleeding, just tears. Don’t worry. Who was it? Who glared at you?" The young man with the ear piercing replied, asking another question, but his eyes were fixed on Xu Mo, full of caution.

Xiao Guang, as the pain in his eyes subsided, rubbed his eyes and said, "It’s the person who didn’t buy our stuff, that man."

The other two, hearing this, immediately focused their eyes on Xu Mo.

The young man with the ear piercing, looking at Xu Mo, said with a fierce but weak voice, "What did you do to Xiao Guang?" but didn’t dare to get too close.

Xu Mo smiled and said, "I didn’t do anything. He said his eyes were punched, but I’ve been sitting here, not moving at all. You all saw that I didn’t move. How could I hit him? And if a glare could hurt someone, I’ve glared at you two so many times, why are you fine?"

The others, not knowing what happened, shook their heads after hearing their conversation. The idea of eyes hurting from a glare was too unbelievable, sounding more like a myth. No one in the room believed it.

Han Ying, who had spent more time with Xu Mo, knew him better than the others. The idea of eyes hurting from a glare was hard to believe, but happening to Xu Mo, it didn’t seem impossible.

Moreover, strange things had happened to him recently. When they first met, he was trapped underwater for a long time but didn’t drown. From fifty to sixty meters away, she and Geng Yanli whispered, and he could hear clearly.

He knocked the mutated beast off the cliff. When the beast pounced, it suddenly let out a scream in mid-air. She remembered clearly that the stick hadn’t hit the beast yet.

Since it screamed, it must have been attacked, but if it hadn’t been hit, where did the attack come from? Xu Mo had insisted on knocking it off the cliff. Now, thinking about it, his confidence must have been related to the beast’s scream.

Although she thought of this, she didn’t reveal it. Instead, she smiled at the three young men and said, "I’ve never heard of eyes hurting from a glare." Then she turned to Xiao Guang, "Hey! Did you stay up too late last night? If you don’t rest well, your eyes can hurt during the day."

Xiao Guang had already taken his hands off his eyes. Since he wasn’t really injured, after the pain subsided, there was no visible damage.

Han Ying looked at his eyes and smiled again, "Your eyes look fine, not like they’re injured. If you don’t believe me, let your friends check. If you were hit, your eyes would be red, but yours aren’t. You must have made a mistake."

The other two young men, hearing Han Ying’s words, quickly looked at Xiao Guang’s eyes. Seeing that they were normal except for some tear marks, they were skeptical.

The young man in the blue down jacket asked, puzzled, "Xiao Guang, did you make a mistake?"

Xiao Guang himself was confused and wasn’t sure if he was hurt by Xu Mo’s glare. Hearing Han Ying’s words, he became even more hesitant.

He had been planning to sell things in this cabin all night and hadn’t slept well. Looking at Han Ying, he thought it might be a coincidence. His eyes hurt because he didn’t sleep well, and it just happened when the man looked at him, so he got it wrong.

Thinking he made a mistake and had cried in front of everyone, he felt embarrassed. He ‘hmmphed’ and called to the other two, "Let’s go." He pushed open the door and walked out without looking back.

At this point, everyone except Xu Mo and Han Ying had already bought things. The other two young men agreed and quickly followed Xiao Guang out the door.