The people who are currently occupying the Grand Hotel are either those who booked rooms for vacation or only fled here the day Typhoon Yagi made landfall.
Gu Lin and Ke Xin were part of the first type and those tattooed men were the latter.
The hotel owner was indebted to the villagers for contributing to the profits and kindly let them occupy temporarily the hotel’s vacant rooms until the storm passed.
In exchange, they helped the staffs moved the things inside the hotel’s warehouse and promised to keep the hotel clean.
The villagers packed emergency food like dried fish, dried lotus, grains, clothing, and water which they shared with the tourists and staffs.
But those tattooed men had appeared out of nowhere, threatened the staffs and looted all the supplies from the villagers, the warehouse and from the vacationers.
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To worsen it, one of these foul men was in a possession of a firearm.
Some of the villagers had tried to resist and were mercilessly killed, including the child’s parents.
The villagers fear for their safety could only give up and complied.
Nanzhi now understand why those villagers reacted that way when they saw the Lin Weihao, particularly the guns they hold.
Hungry, wet, and cold, the villagers huddled in their rooms and most of them died from starvation, wound infections trying to scavenge for food, from food poisoning, diarrhea, and from fighting.
Feng Ran’s face was dark as the bottom as the pot, "Those guys are so evil! I hoped the heavens struck them with thunder!"
Lin Weihao turned to Nanzhi. Her face was indifferent as usual but for the short time they interacted, he knew she doesn’t appear to as different.
There were clanking sounds of pounding metals. Nanzhi shifted her gaze to the direction of the villagers’ camp.
The female child heard the sounds too and explained, "Aunties and Uncles are probably working. Those ugly men ordered us to make a large boat and if we don’t finish it by tomorrow, they’ll harm the children."
Feng Ran was flabbergasted, "They gone too far!"
Nanzhi was silent but her face was shrouded with dark clouds.
"A’ze!"
The female child heard her name being called. She stood up and looked at the direction of the entrance.
Her aunt saw her niece with the strangers and became anxious. "What are you doing there?! Come here quickly!"
A’ze quickly ran to her Aunt but not before thanking their group for the meal.
"Are you crazy? They would have killed you and turned into a soup! Do you want that?"
"But they just gave me food…"
"Don’t speak anymore!"
The child’s aunt dragged her back to the camp.
Feng Ran rubbed his face. "Ey? Compared to those tattooed men, we’re better-looking. I’m not a cannibal. Auntie is clearly judgemental."
Nanzhi listened to Feng Ran. What the child’s aunt said was right.
You can never know if the stranger has ill intention or not and being a cannibal doesn’t mean you can’t have a handsome face.
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