[1] Apocalypse: Third Rebirth

Chapter 97: Stupid Honeybear

What the fuck! Why should I be punished for something this guy said?!? How the Hell was that fair?!? The worst thing that I could possibly think of was having to give up my supplies, but I didn't think that counted as a 'mafia-style' punishment.

Cutting off a finger? Nope, wrong criminal organization.

I was having an inner panic attack at what Liu Wei was expecting from me. I opened my mouth to say something sinister like 'the head of the woman beside you', but what came out was: "Half of your supplies."

I froze in embarrassment and wanted the ground to completely swallow me up when Wu Long looked up at me in complete disbelief. Even Liu Wei froze for a second before I heard him chuckling. Even the stoic Chen Zi Han let out a snort of disbelief when he heard what I said.

I wanted to backtrack and pretend that I didn't just say that, but that would be worse than keeping with my decision, so I kept my mouth shut and simply raised an eyebrow like I meant to say that this whole time.

Sure, let's go with that.

"Well, that is the worst punishment imaginable when it comes to you. I am pretty sure you think dying is preferred to giving up supplies," laughed Liu Wei, giving me a look that may or may not have melted me a bit. But let's be perfectly clear, I was pissed at the man and no puppy dog eyes or... whatever his eyes were right now... would get me out of my mood. Probably.

"Death is easy, living without supplies is not," I said as if it was obvious. And to me, it was. Not to mention you didn't need supplies once you died... unless you were me and had a habit of coming back from the dead. Then having a previous stockpile would be amazing!

Wu Long frantically started nodding his head, most likely scared that I would change my mind and offer up a worse price for insulting one of the largest syndicates in Country K. He quickly motioned for the remaining 5 guys that were still standing to put all of their supplies in front of me.

Looking down at the 4 boxes of crackers, a box of instant noodles, 5 boxes of chocolate chip cookies, and 3 bottles of water, I was stunned. Was this all that they had?

I had completely forgotten how hard it was to get your hands on supplies, let alone make off with them without being a space user. Technically this would have been a fantastic day's haul for me before.

Looking down at the meager offerings, I grabbed one of the boxes of chocolate chip cookies and opened them. Taking the first one out of the package, I looked at Wu Long in front of me. "Well?" I asked him, wondering what was taking him so long to grab the remaining food. Clearly, this was why he wasn't doing such a great job of getting supplies even though they knew about the warehouse secret of grocery stores.

Wu Long looked at me blankly and then at Liu Wei. "She is waiting for you to grab the rest. She took her price."

"Chocolate chip cookies?" Wu Long asked, stunned. Liu Wei nodded his head.

"Never underestimate the magic a box of chocolate chip cookies can work on a pissed-off woman," said Liu Wei sagely.

"This is stopping me from being pissed off at him. You are an entirely different story... and you don't have the magic of a box of chocolate chip cookies," I said as I crunched on yet another cookie. I could practically feel the sugar melting into my bloodstream making me happy.

Hearing what I had said, Liu Wei quickly snatched up another box of cookies from the pile that Wu Long had yet to take back and offered them to me. I rolled my eyes. It didn't count if he didn't get me the cookies himself. Those were still Wu Long's cookies so even if I took them, it would count towards him and not Liu Wei.