Isn't That Body Figure a Little too Perfect?
After they searched through a dozen shipping containers, their group finally had some results. They found a small size shipping container filled with canned Starbucks coffee and another filled with Swiss chocolates. Though it wasn’t a staple food, it was still a pleasant surprise for Lin Sanjiu and the others whose basic requirement for food was just calories.
The crates filled with coffee and chocolate were dragged out and stacked properly by the Beret Men. They actually took up quite a large area. Lin Sanjiu leaned on a few crates and drank a few large mouthfuls of warm coffee before she let out a sigh as she felt her dehydrated body being revitalized.
"This is too sweet." B.Rabbit puckered his furry face as he licked some chocolate, unwillingly. "My previous owner once said that rabbits should not eat sweet things."
The chocolate had long melted under the heat, but they did not go bad and seemed edible. The only problem was that they all had to be careful when they were eating them. Once they removed the paper packaging, they had to quickly collect the chocolate goo with their mouths, so that it doesn’t drip all over their hands.
In contrast, Hu Changzai was beaming. He opened his fifth packet of chocolate and poured the melted chocolate into his mouth, commenting, "Wow. I’ve eaten this brand of chocolate once, but it was too expensive, so I couldn’t bring myself to buy it… sigh… It still tastes so good even if it is in this melted form."
Hai Tianqing gave him a sidelong glance before opening a can of coffee.
About ten Beret Men were surrounding the four of them in a circle. Surrounded by a group of people with the same smiles, Lin Sanjiu wondered how Hu Changzai and B.Rabbit still had the mood to eat — she gave them an expression of not knowing whether to laugh or cry.
"Huh?" she muttered as her eyes paused on what she noticed.
"What’s wrong?" Hai Tianqing was keen about such things despite his size.
"Look over there." Everyone turned to where she pointed, somewhere in the distance. "Do you see people there?"
Somewhere in the far distance, they saw a row of little black dots moving. If it hadn’t been for their enhanced eyesight, they wouldn’t have been able to spot those people.
"I think so…" B.Rabbit squinted while he wiped off the chocolate on his fur. "There seem to be quite a few people, at least ten, I suppose," he murmured.
[Are they survivors? Did they come to the customs also hoping to look for food? If it was so, perhaps we could seek help from them and get away from these Beret Men—] Her raised hopes were quickly erased by the Beret Man leader: "Some of you should go over and see if they’re heading this way."
With that, five other Beret Men turned and left. The three humans and one rabbit exchanged glances as their faces turned somber.
[It’s stressful enough that these ten Beret Men are following us. If more of their colleagues come over, the possibility of escaping would become slimmer...] B.Rabbit thought about it, and his eyes flashed with determination. He pressed his earrings and said, "With some of them guarding the crates, and some others checking out that commotion, there are only four of them here now. If we fight them one-on-one, we might have a chance of winning…"
"No. Those guarding the crates are nearby, they will quickly notice if something is amiss," Hai Tianqing replied quietly, "if they turn on us, I don’t have the confidence to dodge an attack from that weapon."
"And if those people over there really belong to their group, we might find ourselves between a rock and a hard place," Lin Sanjiu added, feeling that the plan was too risky.
B.Rabbit sighed when he heard their replies, he lowered his head and continued licking his chocolate miserably.
The group of people they saw in the distance moved very quickly. It only took them a little time to reach the place where Lin Sanjiu and her companions were. The four of them looked up at the same time observing the people who were approaching.
Lin Sanjiu had never seen women with such perfect figures. She concluded that it was probably because they were of mixed-ancestry just like the Beret Men. The woman leading the troupe had a round, small head and a classic oval face. Her neck was long, and her hourglass figure with her slender limbs made her appear graceful and light-footed. Lin Sanjiu had seen many models in her life, but the proportion and body frame of the woman seemed as though she was exquisitely-crafted, the contours of her body flowed so perfectly that she couldn’t spot a single flaw. This was enough to make any woman feel inferior.
The amazing thing was that it was not only one woman that had this perfect figure. Just like how the Beret Men had captured them, the leading woman and a dozen of women with the same perfect figures were surrounding five Posthumans of varied looks and stature.
All the women wore blue wigs, carried the same weapon that the Beret Men had, and they were all pointing their weapons at the five people surrounded by them.
When a teenager — about fifteen or sixteen in school uniform — saw Lin Sanjiu and her companions, he asked woefully, "What do you want from us? Why did you catch us here?"
Lin Sanjiu was stunned for a moment before she suddenly realized that the teenager must have mistaken them for the hidden masterminds when he saw them sitting on the ground casually eating and drinking.
"We are also captives… Huh?" Lin Sanjiu was surprised when she saw the Posthuman at the back of the group. "Tie Dao[1]? You managed to escape?"
When Lin Sanjiu said that, Hai Tianqing, Hu Changzai, and B.Rabbit turned to look at him at the same time. Tie Dao shot Lin Sanjiu a glare and turned pale instantly. He turned to the other, nodding in acknowledgment and forced a smile, "Hi… hi. Are you fine?"
B.Rabbit scoffed as if a bit of that arrogance he had as an Executive in Oasis returned, "I’m NOT fine. I don’t like being watched by those people, and I don’t know what they want!"
The Blue-Haired Women shoved the five new people and forced them to sit down with Lin Sanjiu’s group.
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