The Otherworldly Adventures of a Super Naive Girl

401: You Have a Hole in Your Brain

“That’s right! We barely have anything left to eat! If we don’t find food soon, we’re going to starve!”

A group of seven or so people had formed a temporary team to search for the ancient city after being transported into the desert together.

Between the low rations and constant moving, the group looked quite haggard.

“Stop talking! There’s a group of people over there.
Let’s go ask if they have any food.
If they do, let’s buy some from them.
That should help with our emergency.” Someone in the group became excited upon noticing people in the distance.

“Stop joking! Buy food?! In this desert? You think there’d be someone foolish enough to sell us food they’d need themselves.
I think it’ll be better if we just take it from them.
The seven of us are all masters.
Their party has a bunch of women with low strength.
It should be easy for us to grab something.” The guy sneered, speaking his thoughts out loud.

The other guys in the group thought about it.
The odds of someone willing to sell them anything was low, might as well just take what they could instead of wasting time talking about buying.

And so the group of seven big men plotted how to go about it.
Who would have thought what they wanted to steal wasn’t some rare artifact or amazing equipment, but ordinary everyday food?

Ming Xi and the others were unaware they were turning into big fat sheep in the eyes of some.
Whether it was Zi Cheng of Feng Wu, both were used to carry lots of food on them, so although they had not found any clues about the city, no one in their group were worried about going hungry.

Zi Cheng was in the food business, so it was no surprise.
Feng Wu was a glutton and used to being fed; in regards to food stores, she was even more flush than Zi Cheng.

The group of people who weren’t worried about food finally came upon the group of people who were starving.

“Stop! Hand over your food!” A big man with a sword nearly half the size of an adult person appeared near Ming Xi.
He stood majestically, until a gust of wind blew by and lifted his long hair up to reveal a haggard face full of stubble.

“Yeah! Hand all your food over to us!”

“Hand everything over! Or else we’ll kill all of you!”

One by one, seven men in nontraditional clothes lined up in front of Ming’s Xi’s group.
They appeared with various weapons in hand, some carried swords, some carried whips, while others wielded magic wands.
They were an unwashed group with oily hair and sour bodies.
Their stomachs were empty and growling.
Really, they looked a mess.

Ming Xi and company: . . . 

Were these guys joking? Who were they trying to rob looking as emaciated and hungry as they were?

Although Ailuna sympathized with them, she never thought about giving them her food.
They were in a desert.
Without food, she would starve, and she did not want to starve.

Many of the others had the same thoughts.
There were so many in the group, and yet no one spoke up; no one was willing to help a bunch of funny looking strangers.

“One hundred gold for a bag of food, two hundred gold for a bag of water, if you are interested in trading.”

Feng Wu hadn’t felt any killing intent from the funny-looking guys, so she decided she would sell to them if they wanted to buy.
Of course she was charging a hundred times more than outside.

“Buy, buy, buy! We have money, we’re wealthy!” The seven goofballs were so excited they tossed their weapons down.
They only had a packet of food left per person.
Two more days and they would have starved to death!

Feng Wu, the girl who was willing to sell food was like a goddess to them.
Although this goddess charged a lot, they were willing to pay.
They had originally planned on stealing food in order to survive, but they weren’t actually going to kill anyone.

They never expected to be so lucky.
They hadn’t even begun their robbery proper and these well-meaning people were already offering to sell them food.
There were many good people in the world.
Their faith was restored.

They were afraid Feng Wu would change her mind, so they hurriedly took out their money to trade for the food.

Feng Wu had a lot of food and water, after all her biggest hobby was collecting food.

“No! I don’t agree with you selling food to them! The food is for our team.
If you sell them, what about the rest of us?!” Mayleen glared at Feng Wu.
The accusation in her eyes seemed to say Feng Wu was doing something incredibly wrong.

The seven hungry men glared at Mayleen.
Where did this annoying woman come from? Don’t you know tigers will teach you a lesson if you snatch food from their mouths?

“This is mine.” Feng Wu looked back at Mayleen seriously.
She refused to say her things were now communal team property.

“You are a member of the team! The things in your possession belong to the team! You have no right to sell them!”

Feng Wu blinked at the strange theory.

Ailuna and the others behind Mayleen felt really uncomfortable.
They didn’t agree with Feng Wu selling her food, but they certainly didn’t have the audacity to mouth off with such a bizarre theory.

Feng Wu stared seriously at Mayleen for a while before solemnly declaring, “There’s a hole in your head.”

“Pfft!” The others couldn’t contain their laughter, especially the seven hungry men who had been interrupted by Mayleen and nearly had their food taken away.
They had a lot of resentment toward her.

“Ahahaha. . .  this is the first time I’ve ever heard such a bizarre theory.”