Chapter 478 Apology

"who--?"

The person came very fast. Almost as soon as she turned her head, her collar was grabbed fiercely and a sharp sound of wind came into her ears.

Snap——

Her face turned to the side uncontrollably.

Snap——

Turn left again.

"ah!"

She heard her companions screaming, and at the same time, her cheeks felt burning pain and numbness.

"Who dares to hit me?! Do you want to die?!" She heard her own hysterical roar like a broken gong.

She was hit so hard that she saw stars in front of her eyes and felt that the whole building was shaking. She felt dizzy and was about to fall out of the high railing. She had no time to open her eyes to see who had hit her.

Suddenly, a force came from her collar and she staggered.

"...What are you going to do?!"

In a panic, her waving right hand hit the railing and she held it tightly as if it were a life-saving straw, while shouting for help.

"Help! It's poisonous! Mr. Bin, come and save me!"

Then she suddenly remembered that Mr. Bin was still on the boat and she couldn't hear him from such a distance, so she called for help from her companions, but still got no response. Her heart skipped a beat and she panicked.

She knew her eyes were swollen like walnuts. She tried to open them a little and vaguely saw a very cold face.

"Let go, or I'll break your arm." The man's voice was unnaturally calm.

"Xia, Boss Xia, please spare me."

"I'll count to three—"

"No no, I let go woooo."

Xia Yan looked expressionlessly at the messy room and her companion standing among the scattered deformed pearls.

"You come down too."

The companion's voice trembled, "I know..."

The stairs were high and steep, and the iron sheets on each step were corroded and rusted, making a squeaking sound when walking on them.

Xia Yan held her hand tightly, pulled her down, and then pushed hard.

"Pick up all the hair you just threw away. If there's one missing, I'll use your hair as a replacement. You too."

The woman, her head swollen like a pig, lay in the puddle and cried bitterly.

"Picking up hair?! How can I possibly pick them all up? Why are you standing up for someone like that? If you let me go, I'll give you a crystal core! I'll give you supplies! I'll give you everything!!"

Xia Yan pursed his lips, looking very impatient. He grabbed her hair and forced her to raise her head. His other hand stroked her neck bit by bit, as if looking for the best place to twist it off.

"Because I don't treat you as a human being."

"Go pick it up."

"Wang Ying, stop making trouble. Boss Xia asked us to pick it up, so just pick it up." Her companion observed Xia Yan's expression fearfully.

Just like they don't take other people's lives seriously, there are also people who don't take their lives seriously. Please don't make things worse...

Wang Ying moved her pig-headed face and two lines of tears slid down from her eyes.

"...Help me up, I can't stand up."

Her companion helped her up, and the two of them walked to the bottom of the stilt house, step by step, searching in the cracks of the stones and in the rust for strands of hair that might have fallen there.

The island is not big, and anything unusual will spread to every corner in an instant.

In addition to the guests who came to watch the fun, there were also local residents who seemed to be wearing the same mask. One side stood on the dry land, and the other side stood in the gradually cooling sea water.

The farthest distance that waves can reach is the flow boundary between them.

Snap, Snap——

The stuttering resident held the upper body of the doll in his hand, staring at the plastic legs that were rolled up by the sea water with his gray eyes, and rushed forward desperately, stepping on the splashes.

She chased for a long distance, until the sea water was almost at her chest, and then she grabbed the leg that was drifting with the waves. She put the leg back and held it against her chest for a long time as if it had been lost and found again. When her hand, which was stroking gently, touched something upwards, she was stunned.

She held the tattered doll in front of her eyes, her stiff body standing there in the surging waves of the sea.

Xia Yan just felt sad. She looked away and forced herself not to look anymore.

After a long time, Wang Ying and her companions approached tremblingly, holding a few strands of hair in their hands. "We only found these few. The hair strands are too thin. If the wind blows them away, we don't know where they will fall."

Seeing that Xia Yan's expression was no longer as cold as before, his companions made a suggestion: "How about this, Boss Xia? When we get back, we can get together and prepare some more nice toys to give her as an apology. We'll also find a way to prepare some dolls. What do you think?"

"I, I don't want it."

A stuttering resident who had come ashore at some point limped over. In her arms lay a doll. The paint on its eyes and mouth had fallen off a lot, the plastic shell was yellow and stiff, and the homemade skirt was tattered.

Wang Ying turned around and saw her. Thinking that her current miserable state was all because of her and that all the guests were laughing at her, she became furious. "What else do you want?! I said I'd compensate you with a toy, but that broken doll in your hand is so worthless that no one wants it. Don't be so greedy!"

His companions were also a little dissatisfied. "That's enough. We are giving face to Boss Xia. Otherwise, who would care about you? You really can't tell the difference between the big and small ones."

The stuttering resident shrank back, his gray-black eyes staring at his windblown hair, and he stretched out his rough hands.

"Head, give me your hair."

"What are you—"

"Give her the hair." Xia Yan suddenly spoke.

The two dared not speak. They pinched the top of the hair with their fingers and stretched out their arms. "Here, take it. Don't touch my hand."

The stuttering resident took it, also holding it to his chest, fell down on the stairs, and tried to put his hair back.

"Boss Xia, is this okay? Can we leave now?" Wang Ying didn't dare to touch her swollen face, but the strange looks from others almost killed her. She couldn't wait to leave this embarrassing place.

"Did you bring the crystal cores? Take them all out."

Xia Yan wouldn't be so naive as to believe their lies about sending them back after they collected all the toys. This place is deep in the sea, so who would go to all the trouble to come here? This was just an excuse they made up.

“…I brought it.”

Their faces were stiff as they pulled out a small bag from their inner pockets. It wasn't very big, but they were reluctant to give it to the owner.

Xia Yan spread out his palms, his eyes unyielding.

After getting the small bag, Xia Yan untied the drawstring. Inside was full of level five crystal cores, roughly estimated to be about thirty or forty, enough for her to live for a long time.

"Very good, these crystal cores are my apology. You can leave now."

"Thank you, Xia - um -" Wang Ying, who had just smiled, suddenly looked painful and turned around with her body stiff.

Behind her, the stuttering resident's pupils trembled, and he looked like a madman. He suddenly pulled out the sharp knife he used to dig oysters and stabbed it again.

"Go to hell, I want you to die!"

With a puff, bright red liquid gushed out from the wound, and a few drops splashed on his companion's face.

"Ah! Amomum villosum!"