Lin Man came out of the cave, took the package made of the clothes she had just hidden, and put it all into a sack. She spent more than an hour alone and quietly reached the slope of the plantation. Seeing that her soil was still spread there and basking in the morning sun, she felt relieved.
The next step is to wait.
Lin Man looked at the rising sun on the top of the mountain, then looked at her watch. It was a little past eight. She wished it would be three or four in the afternoon.
Now she finally had time to pay attention to the changes in her body.
She still had a slight fever and was still hungry. She had no idea how the bowl of pancake soup she had just eaten had been digested. Her heart was beating very fast and she felt panicky. She didn't know if it was because of hunger or if this was how it was supposed to be during the awakening stage of superpowers.
Its strength is slightly greater than before, but only to a limited extent. Its vision, hearing, and smell are more sensitive than before. Apart from that, it does not spit fire or emit electricity, nor does it have any intention of flying or transforming.
Lin Man scratched her head. When would her special ability awaken?
With nothing to do and being very hungry, she thought that eating early or late would be the same, so she simply found a secret place, took the casserole out of the sack, untied the sheets and cloth strips layer by layer, and opened the lid. Even though it was cold, it still smelled delicious.
She ate slowly, taking a full half hour until she had eaten everything, chewing and swallowing every bone. She tore off a small piece of multi-grain bread and wiped the bottom of the pot clean, making it look as if it had been washed. Then she packed up the clay pot and buried it in the ground.
She left the sack behind this time, without a backpack. She still wrapped the multi-grain cakes in her clothes and placed them in the sack. She drank the first of two bottles of mineral water, tore off the paper label, and then stomped on and squeezed the bottle, grinding it on the ground until it became dirty and worn. Only then did she stop.
This looks like an old bottle.
She poured the mineral water from another bottle into this bottle and tortured the other bottle in the same way.
The last one was a kitchen knife, stained with blood and with a bent blade.
Lin Man had used many tools, but she had never used a knife seriously. Knives were so rare, and she had no way to get them. To get a tool that resembled a knife, she tossed around broken porcelain, steel, glass, broken utility knife blades, razor blades, and even found a stone and polished it for over half a month to make a stone knife.
And today, she finally has a real knife.
She looked at the kitchen knife, which was as wide as her palm, with some fondness. She didn't care whether the knife had been used to cut vegetables or kill people in the past.
She found a suitable stone, sprinkled some water on it, and began to sharpen the knife.
It took more than an hour to grind the blade until it was sharp and gleaming.
With this knife that seemed to have been reborn, Lin Man wanted to cut a piece of wood, but he couldn't find any branches or anything like that nearby. He had no choice but to walk into the plantation and finally found a tattered table. The only remaining leg of the table was quite hard, so Lin Man cut it off, sharpened one end, and removed a splinter.
She tried using the wooden spike to attack and it felt quite effective.
Gurgle——
Gurgle gurgle——
Lin Man touched his stomach helplessly and felt hungry again.
She looked at the time. It was half past ten and the sunlight was getting stronger. She planned to turn over the soil on the slope.
Suddenly, there were noisy footsteps and shouting outside the plantation. Lin Man was startled and hid quickly.
One group fled hurriedly into a warehouse on the plantation that had once stored grain, followed closely by another group.
"Zheng Gang, get the hell out here!" The group of people behind chased him to the warehouse, but couldn't get in. They struggled to smash the iron door with sticks and machetes, or kicked it.
Actually, it couldn't be considered an iron door. It was broken in many places and was made of wooden boards. The wooden boards were almost rotten due to being exposed to the sun and rain for a long time, and they would crack if hit.
Lin Man was hiding in the distance and couldn't see the situation, but she knew the name Zheng Gang, the one who was called Brother Gang.
"Zheng Gang, we're all going to die, let's have some fun together before we die. Hand over the women and food, and we'll let you go!"
After hearing this, Lin Man frowned, thought for a moment, quietly climbed onto the roof and looked towards the warehouse.
I could just see the scene in front of the warehouse gate. There were seven or eight young men. Okay, not strong, but they were all adult men.
She has good eyesight and her gaze stays fixed on a person.
She had no impression of the man, but she did remember the injuries on his face. His right ear and right face were swollen badly, with a purple-red bruise clearly visible on it.
Is this the guy who attacked her before, was knocked away by her, and broke the wooden door of the Wu family?
This man looked like a monkey, with half of his face so swollen that he couldn't be seen in public, but he didn't seem to care at all. His face was full of crazy and disgusting lust. He licked his lips, tiptoed, and looked into the warehouse through a torn hole.
So the reason why he attacked me before was also... Lin Man felt a sense of disgust in his heart.
Those people threw stones, sand, and burning grass balls into the hole in the gate, and hit it with sticks, swearing all the time and making a fuss. Some people even brought big stones to smash the door, looking like desperate criminals who were going to burn, kill and loot.
Lin Man even knew some of them. They were the most honest and silent people in normal times. She could never imagine that these people had such a side and would do such things.
Lin Man was shocked and also saw the situation in the warehouse through the holes in the door. He couldn't see how many people were there, but most of them were women, the elderly, and a few children.
Lin Man made the decision without hesitation.
It just so happened that the roof where she was lying had a lot of gray broken tiles. She found a few pieces of suitable size and placed them beside her. Then she picked up one, weighed it, and threw it out with all her strength.
call out--
There was a fierce and even sharp sound of breaking through the air. The big guy who picked up another stone and was about to smash it against the door turned his head subconsciously. The next moment, he felt a pain in his neck and fell out. He also threw the big stone in his hand and hit one of his accomplices.
"Ah--" The unlucky guy whose foot was hit screamed in pain while holding his foot, but the one who threw the stone couldn't even scream. A piece of gray broken tile pierced his neck, and he immediately started bleeding profusely.
Lin Man didn't expect that he could shoot so accurately. Seeing that everyone was looking over here, he quickly lay down and hid.
But then she thought, why hide? I've already smashed it, so the important thing is to smash a few more before they react.
So she got up again, grabbed another fragment, and threw it out without much aim.
A guy who was looking for the source of the tiles was shot in the head and fell to the ground with a thud.
“The person is there!”
They found Lin Man.
Lin Man threw out another one calmly.
Her eyes were full of excitement, and she realized that she had underestimated her own strength.
One man was shot in the chest and fell.
This is the third person, and including the one whose leg was hit, there are four of them.
There are four left.
Lin Man threw out another piece.
This time the target reacted more quickly and dodged to the side.
Seeing that the tile was about to fall, Lin Man's heart tightened. It hit!
Then the tile that was about to miss suddenly seemed to turn a small angle, and the sharp edge cut the target's face.
Lin Man was stunned.
She, she wasn't seeing things, right?
From such a distance and at such a high speed, I must be dizzy, right? Could something I had already thrown suddenly turn around?
She stared blankly at her hands, while over there in the warehouse, the people inside seized the opportunity, opened the door, and several people rushed out and started beating those outside frantically.
There were both men and women rushing out, with weapons in their hands, be it sticks, stools, or stones picked up from the ground, shouting and fighting without thinking. When Lin Man looked over again, there was already a melee.
The guy whose face was cut by the tile saw that something was wrong and ran away in panic with blood all over his face.
When Lin Man saw that he was running towards the slope, he slid down from the corner of the wall without thinking and started chasing him.
The guy ran very fast, and Lin Man chased him for two hundred meters before catching up. Seeing that he was about to go up the slope, on the other side of the slope was his precious soil. Lin Man grabbed the wooden thorn he had just sharpened, raised his hand to throw it, paused, turned it over, with the blunt end facing forward, and threw it out like a javelin.
There was a dull thud, hitting the back of the person's head.
The man was about to cross the slope when he fell to the ground and rolled down the slope, failing at his goal.
"Hu——Hu——" Lin Man felt like he had experienced a life-and-death race. He supported himself on his knees to take two breaths, walked over and turned the man over with his feet. The man was still breathing.
"Where can I run to?" She was scared to death.
She heard footsteps behind her and turned around to see that it was Brother Gang, who was walking towards her step by step with a crutch, one leg and one crutch, and he was walking steadily. He must have been chasing Lin Man just now.
Can you actually run like this?
"Brother Gang." Lin Man shouted.
Zheng Gang looked at the man on the ground, then at Lin Man: "Your name is Lin Man, right? Thank you so much for what you did just now."
Lin Man curled his lips: "Brother Gang, do you know me?"
She and Zheng Gang had never met before, except for that time when they went to fetch water. She didn't expect that he knew her name.
Zheng Gang said, "Who in the base doesn't know you?"
Lin Man was a little surprised. What did that mean? She wasn't a celebrity.
At this time, two tall, thin men in their thirties, heavily wounded, ran over and said, "Brother Gang, those people have been arrested."
"Tie this up too and take it back," said Zheng Gang.
Lin Man stood aside and watched their movements, watching them drag the person away like a dead pig, thinking to himself, "Go faster, the farther the better."
Not wanting to be named: "Lin Man, come too."
Lin Man looked at Zheng Gang and wanted to refuse, but after thinking it over, he agreed: "Okay."
When they returned to the warehouse, the eight villains were all tied up. No one knew where these people got the straw ropes from, but they were tied up tightly.
Lin Man also saw the people in the warehouse clearly. There were about twenty of them in total. Except for Zheng Gang and the two tall and thin men, most of them were the elderly, the weak, women and children.
No wonder he was chased and beaten.
They found several roast potatoes on the eight people, the kind that were burnt black and deformed, but still had some edible bits inside. Zheng Gang gave two to Lin Man. Lin Man was practically starving, but she looked at the emaciated people around her, their eyes glued to the roast potatoes. How could she possibly compete with them for food?
"No need, you guys eat it." Lin Man said.
Zheng Gang stuffed the potato into her hand and said, "If you don't want to eat it, leave it for your mother. You have done us a great favor, and we have no way to repay you."
These words were a bit harsh, and Lin Man felt a little uncomfortable. She had never been treated with words like "great favor" and "repay".
She was always silent in front of strangers and was not used to talking too much with people she was not familiar with, so she stopped pushing it and took the two potatoes.
"Where is your mother?" Zheng Gang asked.
"Before dawn this morning, that guy, the one with the swollen face, and a few other people blocked my door. I beat them away and fled with my mom." Lin Man didn't hide anything. "What's the situation at the base now?"
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