"I've told you a long time ago, you have to accept your fate! You've been unlucky since you were a child. Stop daydreaming about standing out. It didn't work in the past, and it won't work for you now!"
"If it weren't for your parents dying early, leaving you with no one to rely on, I wouldn't have wanted to take you in. I'm just reluctantly doing it out of respect for your parents. You better learn to be grateful, you hear me?"
Siaomu said, deliberately igniting the flame in his palm, burning underneath the teapot, and pouring a cup of green tea for Alex.
"You haven't eaten for several days, right? Today, your big brother will treat you to a meal. In the future, if you want to eat or drink, follow me when we go out to find food. When you find something good, hand it over to me first, and I'll keep it for you. Understand?"
Alex's cousin, Siaomu, lectured Alex in a serious tone using the tone of an elder.
Alex sneered inwardly, unable to help shaking his head. Even in the midst of the apocalypse, his cousin still flaunted his superiority, bossing him around and bullying him.
Does he really think Alex is still the naive and inexperienced cousin from the past?
If anyone else dared to speak to him like this, Alex would have slaughtered them and used their remains for experiments. They're nothing more than a bunch of fools, not even worth being used as puppets.
In Alex's eyes, except for his cousin's wife who might qualify to be one of his slaves, everyone else here is not even worthy of being a puppet.
However, the person in front of him is his cousin, and they've helped him before. Alex doesn't want to be ruthless.
Another crucial point is that Alex, who's used to having his cousin and cousin's wife show off their superiority to him, now wants to return the favor and teach them a lesson!
Let them understand what is heaven and hell in the midst of the apocalypse!
This is called treating others as they treat you.
Soon, the people in the shelter gathered.
Hehehe!"
The three bachelors smirked and looked at Alex's cousin, saying lewdly, "Yeah, yeah! The three of us sharing one woman was already unevenly distributed. Now, with one more man, aren't you going to exhaust Lianxiang, sister?"
"Oh my god! You three bastards, how do you talk! I've almost been exhausted by you three. I'm not willing to add another one!" Siaomu's face suddenly darkened, feeling embarrassed in front of his cousin. With a wave of his hand, a flame appeared, and he angrily said, "Say that again?!"
"We'll say it again if we want to! Siaomu, all you know how to do is light a fire and cook. What else can you do? Others might fear you, but the three of us don't!" The leader among the three bachelors, a burly man, pulled out a knife and looked menacingly at Siaomu, saying, "Stop pretending to be the boss here, or we'll kill you now and have your wife!"
"Siaomu, stop pretending with us. If you have the guts, come and fight me one-on-one! Watch me kill you!" The other two bachelors also brandished weapons, looking fierce and arrogant.
"You!! You!! If it weren't for Siaomu killing the zombies in the neighborhood to save you, you guys would have died a long time ago! You ungrateful scoundrels!" Alex's cousin's wife protested with a flushed face.
These people had been disrespectful to her all along, and recently, it had escalated, with open harassment. Meanwhile, her man, Siaomu, despite always acting like the boss, was extremely wary of these three, not daring to confront them in any way. Although Siaomu had special abilities, weakness was unavoidable.
Siaomu was only arrogant and domineering in front of his own people; when facing tougher individuals, he turned into a shrinking violet. On the contrary, Alex's cousin's wife had a bit more backbone. She dared to stand up and argue with these people, even pulling out a knife on a few occasions.
"Tang Wanshow! When did it become a woman's turn to butt in when us men are talking? Damn it, do you need a good beating?"
"Is it that your man can't handle it, and you want us to straighten you out?"
Seeing Siaomu fuming but hesitant to act, the three bachelors became even more audacious. Others joined in with laughter, ready to witness the spectacle.
Several elderly men and women, who had previously been praising Siaomu, quickly changed their tune upon seeing the three bachelors gaining the upper hand. They eagerly started praising the bachelors instead:
"Da Liu is right. Siaomu, your cousin is a grown man with hands and feet. He should be self-sufficient in finding food. Now he's just freeloading off us, what kind of behavior is that?"
"Yeah, exactly! This isn't a shelter. If this kid wants to stay, he should contribute. Our shelter is the result of everyone's efforts, and he wants to benefit without lifting a finger? How is that fair?"