Chapter 30: Dealing with the Chaos
While Su Ning was helping the surrounding residents catch insects, she suddenly heard Su Zonggang’s angry voice.
Turning around, Su Ning saw her uncle’s family looking utterly disheveled.
She completely ignored Su Zonggang’s words.
Li Yun was even more furious when Su Ning didn’t respond to them.
“An elder is talking to you! What kind of attitude is this from a junior?”
Su Ning halted her steps, turned around, and stared straight at Li Yun.
“Elder? You’ve got some nerve calling yourself that. Have you ever seen an ‘elder’ ransack a junior’s house like a bandit and take away all their money and supplies right after the junior’s parents passed away? You call that being an elder?”
Startled by Su Ning’s piercing gaze, Li Yun took a few steps back. Being treated this way by a younger person made her even more furious, so she grabbed Su Zonggang beside her, signaling him to speak.
Su Zonggang was shameless.
“Su Ning, what you said isn’t right. You’re just one person, and my family has four. As relatives, we didn’t take much – each person only needs a little. We were worried others might covet your supplies, so we took them for safekeeping. This is mutual support. We were helping you by taking your stuff. You really are an ungrateful child.”
People around who were catching bugs and watching the scene gasped.
“Wow, so mutual support means making an orphan give up all her survival supplies to help a family of four? Incredible. A living saint, right here.”
“Oh my god, isn’t this just robbing an orphan blind?”
“Seriously, disasters may be merciless, but people should show compassion. Anyone who helps build the shelter won’t starve – there’s always aid. But this family? Disgusting. That poor girl has the worst kind of relatives.”
Su Ning grew more and more disgusted by their shamelessness. She wanted to get rid of them entirely, but there were too many people around.
“You already robbed me of everything I had. Now that you found out I have a job and dorm in the shelter, you want to take that too?”
Behind her, Su Xin’s eyes flickered with jealousy when he heard about the job in the shelter. If not for Su Ning’s talent, that job would’ve gone to him, thanks to his parents’ connections.
If Su Ning had known what he was thinking, she would’ve simply said: shameless.
Meanwhile, Su Keke, standing beside Su Xin, was full of envy that Su Ning could live safely inside a shelter.
Su Ning didn’t want to listen to their nonsense anymore. Since they dared to show up in front of her again, she wasn’t going to miss this chance to get revenge.
After the apocalypse began, Su Ning had learned a lesson: be ruthless. It was the only way to survive.
She thought back to how, just after her parents died, these people had barged into her house. She had vowed then to make them pay.
With so many bystanders, she couldn’t eliminate them outright—but she could teach them a lesson.
Su Ning quietly summoned two Emerald Bees from her storage space. Thanks to the number of flying insects around, no one really noticed the two thumb-sized bees.
The bees flew directly at Li Yun and Su Zonggang and stung them.
“Ahh!”
Both of them screamed and collapsed to the ground.
Su Xin and Su Keke jumped in fright, and the surrounding crowd was startled by the sudden chaos.
Su Xin thought, This wasn’t part of the plan. Why are Mom and Dad down? Are they trying to guilt-trip Su Ning now?
Su Keke, on the other hand, noticed something was off. Her parents were beginning to convulse.
“Dad? Mom? What’s happening to you?”
Su Ning watched coldly. The Emerald Bees were venomous—though not lethal in small doses, they could paralyze someone for a while.
Of course, if stung too many times, the paralysis could become fatal.
Su Ning turned and left.
But Su Zonggang’s eyes were filled with fear. He had seen a ruthless glint in Su Ning’s eyes, and he suspected she was behind this. After all, many people were awakening strange abilities since the dungeons appeared.
More and more people were mysteriously dying without any clear cause. Su Zonggang was terrified that Su Ning had some deadly, undisclosed power.
He weakly gestured for Su Xin and Su Keke to carry him and Li Yun away.
“Boss, did you see how she did that?”
Ma Feng’s eyes sparkled as he watched Su Ning walk away.
But the man he called “boss” was busy watching the increasingly dense swarm of flying insects and didn’t respond.
“What are you thinking about every day? We came to the Sixth Shelter, and you’re staring at other women?”
A short-haired girl smacked Ma Feng on the head, stopping him from talking about Su Ning in front of their leader. She then cautiously checked to see if the leader had been watching Su Ning too.
She only relaxed when she saw him still observing the environment.
Gu Cheng’an spoke calmly, “Pack up. We’re heading into the Sixth Shelter to negotiate about the planting soil trade.”
“Hopefully, nothing will interfere with this cooperation between the two shelters.”
When it came to serious matters, the group instantly sobered up.
Su Ning returned to the shelter and entered her private planting zone.
She fed the insects she had caught to the giant carnivorous flowers.
She definitely wouldn’t eat insect biscuits herself.
“Still, I shouldn’t stand out too much,” she muttered, exchanging for a few anyway.
Looking at her flourishing crops, Su Ning felt content.
She thought this life would gradually improve.
But then—suddenly—trouble struck.
Gunfire erupted outside the shelter while Su Ning was working.
“What’s going on?! Why are there gunshots?” Jiang Nana exclaimed in shock.
Su Ning shook her head.
Before long, she found out what had happened.
Half an hour earlier, a group of refugees from another area had arrived outside the Sixth Shelter.
“We don’t want insect biscuits! If the Sixth Shelter can grow crops, why should we eat that stuff?!”
They began protesting, joined by some of the local residents.
Liu Jianjun’s face darkened.
“Who leaked the information about the planting soil? Only high-level shelter officials should’ve known. And who organized all these people?”
He didn’t believe this was spontaneous. Someone was clearly stirring up trouble, trying to plunge the shelter into chaos.
“We don’t know either.”
Once the idea of growing food spread, no one wanted to eat insect cakes anymore.
But no one realized: food crops don’t grow overnight.
A small incident quickly escalated into a riot.
Some people joined simply because they hadn’t been admitted into the shelter yet.
“We want to live in the shelter! We want food!”
Suddenly, someone shouted from the crowd, and the rest joined in.
“Is someone trying to sabotage us?”
Did they think this was the way to break into the shelter and get food?
The shelter was just about to be completed. Anyone causing trouble now could ruin everything.
The unexpected gunfire sparked a full-blown riot.
Many people with special abilities charged toward the shelter’s gates.
Some of the smarter ones realized they were being used—criminals were trying to seize the shelter using the chaos as cover.
But the Sixth Shelter’s armed forces weren’t just for show.
They launched a direct military crackdown.
Su Ning was left stunned after hearing everything.
“How do you even know all this?” she asked.
Jiang Nana lifted her chin proudly.
“My dad has some influence in the shelter.”
Then she sighed.
“After this, the Sixth Shelter might have to admit refugees earlier than expected, becoming the second fully habitable shelter. I just hope what happened at the Third Shelter doesn’t happen again here.”
(End of Chapter)
