Chapter 131 - Foolishness 5.

"Listen carefully. My supplies are mine. I bought them before all this because I had the sense to prepare. You want to survive? Then go find your own way to survive. If you come here again, I will not be as patient." One of the men who had once shouted the most loudly was now trembling with both anger and fear, but even that did not stop him from trying one last ugly line. "You think you can act so proud just because you are strong? Women like you are always like this until a real man teaches you a lesson." Bai Li looked at him very slowly. Then she walked up and slapped him hard enough to make his head turn. The room went still. The slap was not brutal in a bloody sense, but it was humiliating. It was quick, sharp, and clean, and the silence that came after it was worse than any wound. "Say that again," Bai Li said softly. He did not. He could not. The words had already died in his throat.