After a long silence, Shi Yuhuai stood up holding his empty stomach and made a decision.

"I’m not going to look for clues with you guys first."

Cheng Zhirang: "...Are you going to find Mu Qiu?"

Shi Yuhuai nodded solemnly.

Currently, only Mu Qiu and her group have food. Everyone else has either daily necessities or instant noodles, which can’t be eaten right now.

He has two packs of crunchy noodles, but without water, they’d only make him thirstier and give him a stomachache.

And there’s a better option, who wants to settle for less? Now, aside from snatching from Mu Qiu, there’s no other thought in his mind.

This somewhat aggressive idea received everyone’s approval.

Cheng Zhirang vacillated between "secretly providing food" and "letting them stretch their devilish hands towards Mu Qiu", and finally tacitly agreed to their proposal.

Forget it. With her style, whatever she had in her pocket should be almost gone by now, and even if they snatched, they’d get nothing.

And besides, he kind of wanted to see her now.

So, the decision was made hastily. A group of people quickly searched for some convenience store clues and then decisively switched direction to ambush Mu Qiu.

At this moment, Mu Qiu was still unaware that she was about to be surrounded. She and Zhao Yu were leisurely eating the leftover snacks in their pockets, sharing a bottle of electrolyte water, and occasionally stopping to rummage through the nearby shop.

In short, they were quite leisurely.

And the road they were on, by coincidence, was leading to the school.

They were on their way to school to find Guo Yin, guessing that Cheng Zhirang and his group would stay at the museum for a long time, which would raise suspicions, and then Cheng Zhirang might bring them to the school to look for clues about Guo Yin’s disappearance as a pretense, so they deliberately slowed down.

Unexpectedly, they still couldn’t avoid it, and the two groups ran into each other outside the school.

Encountering at the bare school gate, Mu Qiu had no place to hide, directly surrounded by a swarm of people, scaring her and Zhao Yu out of their wits.

"What are you doing?! What are you doing?!"

"This is a monster massacre game, not a kin massacre one!"

"Why are you grabbing my backpack?! There’s only a pack of tissues inside!"

"My peanuts! What are you doing?! Sister Guan Yu, why are you touching my pants?!!!"

Guan Yu and Shu Ran acted as the main force, circling around Mu Qiu and Zhao Yu, feeling them up, while the surrounding male guests had no way to get involved, and could only cheer them on.

Of course, Shi Yuhuai wasn’t satisfied with just this. Taking advantage of his height, he directly reached out to pull open Mu Qiu’s glaring Ultraman backpack, disregarding Mu Qiu’s struggle, and pulled out a pack of... dried seaweed???

Shi Yuhuai glared deeply at this pack of dried seaweed in his hand, turning it over and over, and confirmed that it really was just a pack of dried seaweed.

Useless.

He stuffed the dried seaweed back and continued to rummage. Apart from this pack of dried seaweed, there really was nothing else inside.

He withdrew his hand and stared at Mu Qiu’s pants again.

By now, Chen Yi, who had been watching, was getting jumpy: "...Don’t do it, that’s a female guest!"

And her actual boyfriend was right there watching!

Shi Yuhuai: "I didn’t plan to touch."

After saying this, he told Shu Ran, "Shu Ran, her first pouch must have something."

Shu Ran immediately reached for Mu Qiu’s first pocket.

Sure enough, pulled out from inside... a handful of peanuts.

Mu Qiu was still a bit dumbfounded, just busy grabbing her pants and fiercely resisting.

"Sister Shu Ran! That’s my last bit of peanuts!!!"

"Hey hey hey! Sister Guan Yu, leave Zhao Yu alone! I’ll sue you for harassment!"

"Sister Shu Ran, I beg you, your manicure is poking my thigh! We really have nothing left to eat!"

"Be careful, I’ll use a detector to resist! It’s a big one, there could be bloodshed!"

"Ow! My peanuts!!! Stop pulling! Stop pulling! My pants are about to fall!"

The four female guests huddled together, surrounded by the male guests watching the chaos. Especially Li Yang and Chu Qiu, who were watching like village grandpas and grandmas, engrossed.

Cheng Zhirang, standing the farthest away, looked at the chaotic crowd inside and couldn’t help smiling.

But hearing Mu Qiu complain about being poked in the thigh, he still stepped forward to caution Shu Ran and Guan Yu, "Okay, she probably has nothing left to snatch."

Only then did Shu Ran and Guan Yu reluctantly let go of Mu Qiu and Zhao Yu, standing up straight and examining their "spoils of war".

The two unfortunate people in the middle, pulling up their waistbands, glared at them with accusation.

"This is too much! Too, too much!!!"

Luckily, she hid the card for 049 elsewhere and ate most of the things, otherwise! It would be like locusts swarming!

Shu Ran examined the things she snatched, becoming more and more disdainful, and rolled her eyes at her, saying:

"After all that, you only have this bit of peanuts and a sausage left? Oh, and one pitifully tiny jelly."

Guan Yu also sighed, "Weren’t the things you found plenty? Why is there only half a loaf of sliced bread left?"

"You still have the nerve to complain?!" Mu Qiu tugged her work pants up briskly, eyes almost spitting fire,

"You came up and snatched my stuff, getting handsy, and now you’re complaining?! Why don’t you both give me my stuff back!"

That sausage was what she planned to eat last! Once she found a place to boil water, adding a sausage to the instant noodles, how delightful that would be.

Now everything was ruined by them!

Guan Yu directly took out that half slice of bread and took a bite: "Forget it, people almost starving to death can’t be picky."

Shu Ran wanted to follow suit but, having manicured nails, how could she peel the sausage on camera? Moreover, there were several burning gazes from behind fixed on the little in her hands.

She had no choice but to hand the sausage to Shi Yuhuai, then held the handful of peanuts, distributing them to the others.

Leaving herself with one little jelly.

Each time the peanuts were distributed to someone, it pained Mu Qiu a bit more.

"Give me back my peanuts!!!"

Cheng Zhirang, trying not to laugh, handed back the peanuts he got to her.

Mu Qiu pursed her lips, glanced up at him, and whispered, "You can keep it."

Then turned to the others, her voice raising more than an octave: "Do you have any conscience?! Snatching even these few peanuts! Robbers! You’re just robbers!"

Cheng Zhirang, on hearing her "you can keep it", had a slightly complex expression, feeling a smidge guilty.

But if he spoke up, Shen Zhousong would be exposed...

Mu Qiu didn’t know his thoughts, nor did she know he already had a snack stash, with more snacks than he could eat.

So she was still thinking he was quite pitiable, and she should’ve saved a small loaf from Li Yang for him earlier.

Nevertheless, scolding achieved nothing, and the hungry group gobbled up everything they’d snatched from her. Shi Yuhuai even considered eating that pack of dried seaweed.

"Why are you carrying a pack of dried seaweed?"

"...You don’t plan on eating dried seaweed as is, do you?! Find something to boil water and water first, making seaweed soup to share a bit would be better, wouldn’t it?!"