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When Xie Tianlang waded back through the water with Gou Fugui, the three people who had tried to rob Gou Fugui were already in the infirmary.

The sight of those three when they returned to the gymnasium was so miserable that it shocked both the guards and the people living in the front rows of the gym. As a result, when Gou Fugui and Xie Tianlang arrived, they were met with many strange and wary gazes.

Both Xie Tianlang, the wolf, and Fugui, the beauty, were highly perceptive individuals—especially now that Fugui was in his “honey badger mode,” radiating an aggressive buff.

So, when people looked their way, even though Fugui was utterly exhausted, he still glared fiercely with furrowed brows, his expression menacing. “What the hell are you staring at? Never seen a badass like me before?!”

Anyone who met the fierce gaze of “Honey Badger Fugui” reacted like a startled rabbit, immediately looking away. Even the doorman’s face changed, his expression turning quite complicated as he looked at Fugui.

Gou Fugui, caught up in his irritation, didn’t notice much, but the ever-observant Xie Tianlang quickly picked up on the odd atmosphere.

Under normal circumstances, even if Gou Fugui glared and acted aggressive, people wouldn’t back down so quickly—especially considering his strikingly handsome face. It was as if they had already decided he was a ruthless and untouchable force.

Realizing this, Xie Tianlang turned to the doorman, who still looked conflicted, and said, “I ran into three people trying to rob him on the way. He fought back hard and got injured. Where’s the infirmary?”

After Xie Tianlang said this, the doorman’s expression changed once again. “He was the one who got robbed?! But the three of them said he was the one who robbed them! They even said he took their suitcase.”

A mocking look appeared on Xie Tianlang’s face, while the irritable beauty, Gou Fugui, became even more furious. “What kind of joke is that? I robbed them? Are they richer than me? Better at fishing, swimming, or even better-looking than me?!”

“Also, are you blind? I don’t believe nobody saw them rummaging through my tent. There’s still a lot of food I worked hard to fish out yesterday in there!”

With Gou Fugui’s roar, the doorman quickly realized. No matter how you looked at it, Gou Fugui had no reason to rob others. On the contrary, he had too many things, and being alone made it easy for others to target him.

The others who had been eavesdropping in the gymnasium also started to come to the same realization, their expressions turning grim. At that moment, Jin Mantang, in a voice neither too loud nor too soft, added:

“Tsk, tsk, tsk. Three people trying to rob one, and they couldn’t even get it done. Then they turn around and bite back—I’ve never seen such a vicious bunch.”

“Once they’re after you, you’re in for trouble. Better watch out.”

Everyone’s faces grew even darker at this.

At that moment, three tall staff members in security uniforms walked over from the other side. They first glanced at Xie Tianlang, then at Gou Fugui, who had blood seeping from his left arm and looked quite disheveled, and asked them to come to the infirmary.

After all, this was a serious incident—practically life-threatening. They had to get to the bottom of it.

In the infirmary, Gou Fugui finally saw the three idiots who had tried to rob him and witnessed their pathetic attempts at twisting the truth and playing the victim.

The tall guy whose neck had been clawed open by Gou Fugui had already been bandaged, and the bleeding had stopped. But due to excessive blood loss—and the fact that the claw had nearly nicked his artery—he was now lying feverish and half-conscious on the hospital bed.

The bearded man had his face wrapped in layers of gauze, and his knife wounds had been treated. He now looked like a poorly wrapped, low-quality mummy.

The short, fat one was still as pale as a ghost, his body hunched over in pain. When he saw Gou Fugui enter, he instinctively curled up even more and even took a step back. Clearly, that one ruthless kick from “Raging Fugui” hadn’t just inflicted serious physical damage—it had also left deep psychological trauma.

“Administrator, you have to stand up for us!” the bearded man wailed. “We finally managed to retrieve a suitcase of our belongings, but we were robbed on the way back! Just look at how badly we’ve been injured by him! This guy is a complete lunatic!”

“You see his hair? It’s that ridiculous black mixed with white! Who knows, maybe he’s even got tattoos! People like him are dangerous—he cannot be allowed to stay! He’s a menace!”

Raging Fugui nearly jumped up to cuss them out—or even beat them up again.

But he knew that in moments like this, he had to hold himself back. Only by staying calm could he keep surviving.

He clenched his fists and forced himself to control his temper, though his sharp gaze was still terrifying. “Shut the hell up with your nonsense! I’ve only got two things to say!”

“Check the surveillance footage—did you, or did you not, rummage through my tent?”

“And that suitcase—do you dare write down exactly what was in it, word for word, together with me?!”

As soon as the fuming Fugui threw those words out, the sniveling, tear-streaked short fatty and the bearded man who had been trying so hard to play the victim both froze.

Even if they were idiots, they knew there was no way to argue their way out of this. And the three security guards, upon seeing their reaction, immediately understood who was lying.

That night, the safe zone publicly condemned such malicious acts of robbery and ransacking other people’s tents. A formal announcement was made, stating that the three offenders had been punished accordingly.

The announcement also emphasized that if anyone else engaged in similar actions that disrupted public safety and order, they would face severe punishment. In serious cases, they would be expelled from the safe zone, and all their belongings would be confiscated.

The public reprimand was repeated five times to ensure that every single person taking refuge in the gymnasium heard and understood its contents.

This clearly had a deterrent effect. At the very least, for the next few days, there were significantly fewer people who disregarded others, shouted unnecessarily, or stirred up trouble.

Even in the midst of a disaster, order hadn’t completely collapsed. People couldn’t afford to abandon self-discipline.

Gou Fugui, supported by Xie Tianlang, made his way back to his tent. He could tell that Xie Tianlang was somewhat concerned about his suddenly whitened hair and the sudden lengthening of his fingernails.

However, the wolfman never asked a single question about it. He only inquired about how Gou Fugui was feeling and whether he needed any help.

Such a considerate attitude was rare, and even the rage-buffed human-shaped honey badger Fugui couldn’t find an excuse to lash out at him. Instead, his impression of Xie Tianlang actually improved a little. In the end, Gou Fugui just shook his head, muttered a quick “thanks,” and let him go.

By the next morning, thanks to his +20% self-healing buff, most of his injuries had already recovered. Even the deep knife wound on his left arm had started to scab over.

Looking at his arm, Gou Fugui mentally ruffled the head of the honey badger he had once filmed. Truly the king of combat—undefeated among creatures of the same size!

With just this self-healing ability alone, he could survive many life-threatening situations. Not to mention, honey badgers were tough, durable, and resistant to poison.

Absolutely the ultimate doomsday survival pet.

However, now it was time to deactivate the honey badger bloodline buff and switch to the sea otter buff. The honey badger was great at fighting, tanking, and surviving, but as a creature native to the African continent, it wasn’t exactly the best swimmer.

So, when he stepped out of his tent the next morning, his hair had once again transformed—now back to a sleek, dense, jet-black ponytail.

This marked the fifth day since he had arrived at the gymnasium. That meant only two days left until the “seven-day tsunami storm” deadline mentioned in the gym’s safety zone announcement.

But while searching for supplies that day, Gou Fugui looked at the floodwaters, which were nearly reaching the gymnasium’s entrance, and then at the sky, which had remained dark and overcast for days.

His heart grew heavy.

This didn’t look like the kind of situation that would clear up in just two days.

He mentally prepared for the worst.

And things really did take a turn for the worse—

On the fifth day, Gou Fugui found a well-sealed emergency medical kit and carefully stored it in his small personal storage space, which was only about the size of three basketballs. The medical kit alone took up one full basketball’s worth of space.

Then, considering that his honey badger mode could rapidly recover stamina by consuming honey, he decided to ditch the chocolates, candies, and concentrated milk he had previously stored and filled the second basketball’s worth of space with twelve bottles of high-end honey from different brands.

He could only pray that all of them were real honey and not cheap glucose syrup imitations.

Otherwise, if he downed a bottle expecting a stamina boost, only to realize it was fake—he’d be restoring absolutely nothing.

Gou Fugui had one last basketball-sized space left, which he filled with water bottles and compressed biscuits. He wanted to pack more delicious food, but his beginner-level sea otter space was just too small—he could only store the most essential supplies.

On the sixth day, he swam far and wide, eventually finding a small, out-of-the-way watersports shop that still had two bundled-up inflatable kayaks.

Treating them like precious treasure, he wrapped them in two waterproof bags. Then, thinking ahead, he hid one of the kayaks inside a flooded bookstore near the gymnasium—just in case.

He needed a backup plan.

Then, finally, the seventh day arrived.

Everyone in the gym looked up at the sky with hope in their eyes, waiting for the sun—something they hadn’t seen in a whole week—to finally break through the clouds.

But by morning, their hopes were crushed.

By noon, the rain still hadn’t stopped.

By afternoon, it seemed to have lightened just a little—enough that even the doorman looked visibly excited and expectant.

But by the seventh night, the rain still hadn’t stopped.

The entire gymnasium fell into a heavy silence, a depressing, suffocating atmosphere settling over the crowd. Some people couldn’t handle the mounting pressure anymore and snapped, growing angry and irritable.

“Why hasn’t the rain stopped?! Didn’t they say it would stop today?!”

“It’s so damp in here! My children has rashes all over their body!”

“Can we even keep staying here? If the rain never stops, is Nanhai City just going to be swallowed up by the ocean?!”

People were already anxious—this only made things worse.

And this unease kept building over the following days, reaching its peak on the thirteenth day, when the seawater officially flooded the entrance.

“Fuck!! How the hell are we supposed to live like this?! Are you guys seriously planning to just sit here and wait to die?!”

“Where’s the person in charge?! Say something! Has the government even given any updates about the situation here?! If the rain isn’t stopping, why hasn’t anyone sent rescue boats?!”

“Yeah! The country can’t just abandon us, right?! The rain’s not only not stopping—it’s getting even heavier! You need to come up with a plan!”

By the morning of the thirteenth day, the tents on the first floor were already flooded, and the people there were furious.

Meanwhile, Gou Fugui simply let out a long sigh as he stared at his soaked mattress and drenched sleeping bag.

This place really isn’t going to hold up anymore.

After hours of furious arguments inside the gymnasium, the loudspeakers finally crackled to life.

[Attention, all refugees in the gymnasium! By order of higher authorities, eighteen large passenger and cargo ships will arrive at the eastern, southern, and northern ports of Nanhai City in three hours to evacuate flood survivors. Upon hearing this announcement, please pack your belongings immediately and head to the nearest port—Nanhai North Port!]

The moment the announcement ended, the entire gymnasium erupted into chaos.

People scrambled madly, frantically packing their belongings, shoving supplies into bags, and rushing toward the exits.

Author’s note:

Badger Fugui: To those who kept saying lions, tigers, or elephants were better… Hah! Try shrinking them down and making them fight me!

Orchid Mantis: Oh? Now you’ve got my attention.

Mantis Shrimp: You say that, and now I’m wide awake too!

Flea: Well, in that case, I—

Beauty Fugui: SCRAM! There are NO fleas here! Absolutely NOT! Ugly things, BEGONE!!