Donna felt something was wrong when she saw this, so she picked up the remaining apples, took Nini and prepared to leave.
However, at this moment, the child suddenly fell straight onto the deck with a clang.
The woman who was howling nearby saw this and reacted immediately. She rushed to the shore without paying any attention to the eyes staring at her in the alley.
She rushed straight to Donna, who was closest to her, snatched the two apples with her big hands full of dirt under her nails, and ran back to the deck.
"Stop right there!! You fucking stand still! Do you hear me?!"
Completely ignoring the fat sheriff's shouting, the woman took a few big bites of the apple and chewed it hard, then pried open her child's mouth and passed the apple crumbs in his mouth to him.
"Son of a bitch, I'm the fucking sheriff now! How dare you disobey me!" the fat man said as he raised his gun and aimed at her head.
The man next to him opened his arms, blocked his wife, and cried anxiously: "Your Excellency Sheriff, please spare us! We haven't eaten a decent meal for several days! My child fainted from hunger."
When the fat man heard him call himself "Your Excellency the Sheriff", a hint of delight appeared on his face, but he quickly retracted it.
"Hey~ You're smart. I'm telling you, it's forbidden to steal things in the area I'm in charge of. Do you hear me? If anyone doesn't obey, I'll shoot him. I'm the sheriff now!"
Dongna walked to the fat man with an anxious look on her face and said to him, "Officer, we can't just let this go. She stole my things. I know she's suffered, but she should at least pay some compensation, right?"
The fat man, with a look of annoyance, reached out and took an apple from Dongna's arms, and then pushed her away. "Go away, don't delay my investigation of the case."
He took a bite of the apple in his hand and asked the captain's man, "Where are you from?"
The man carefully glanced at the woman who was still feeding her son, and quickly replied, "Our family is from Mochen Island."
"Mochen Island? Why don't you stay on your own island instead of running around?"
Upon hearing this, the man's emotions suddenly broke down and he said in a breakdown: "I can't stay here. Too many people were killed by the light in the sky. It was fine in the first few days, but then they started to rot, and then a murderous plague appeared on the island, and the remaining people are almost dead..."
Hearing the human tragedy in his words, the eyes of those who were selling or buying things in the alley suddenly became very dim, and the alley seemed quiet.
In order to prevent spore powder, most people on the island were wrapped tightly, so there were still quite a few survivors. Most of the deaths were caused by the collapse of the Crown of the World.
But not every island is as lucky as the crown of the world. There have been cases where entire islands were completely wiped out. I had only heard about it before, but I didn’t expect to encounter the real deal this time.
"Can you imagine? The entire dock is full of rotting corpses, and the stinking corpse water is flowing everywhere! The whole island is filled with the stench of corpses!!"
"Why is it so hard to live! What did we do wrong? That deadly light in the sky would do this to us!" At this point, the man crawled on the deck and cried loudly.
"I remember there were millions of people on Mochen Island, right? They all died in an instant. It's really tragic." The fat sheriff sighed, then threw the apple core in his hand into his mouth, chewed it, and swallowed it.
He pointed his fat finger in the direction of the dock and said, "Forget it, stop crying. I won't punish you. Our boss said that the island is short of people right now. If you go to the dock to register, they will give you a job and food to keep you alive."
Hope suddenly lit up in the man's eyes. He thanked the fat man repeatedly with gratitude, then used his last bit of strength to sail away.
As the small fishing boat slowly moved towards the nearby dock, the alley returned to its peaceful state, and they each went about their own business.
"This family is lucky. At least they escaped from such a horrible place. It would be tragic if the whole island was wiped out."
"I'll tell you more than that. My brother works at the telegraph office. I heard that this kind of situation where an entire island is wiped out is not an isolated case. With the help of the Shining God, basically any island with living people can receive the seeds. If even a telegraph tower hasn't been built yet, then it's estimated that there are no living people left."
"Once this death ray came out, everything came out. I also heard that there were many living people on an island in the East China Sea, but then something in the sea came ashore and ate all the remaining people."
"Well, the dead are all dead, and the living are not much better. Did you hear that more than a dozen people jumped into the sea at the dock yesterday? Some even jumped with their children in their arms. They were the only ones left in the family."
"Sometimes, I really don't know whether it's better to live or die. My husband was killed by the dead. If I didn't have two children to raise, I would have wanted to die too."
"Don't think too much. Buy me a picture of the shining god and put it in your room. Pray to her and she will bless you."
Listening to their conversation, Nini's eyes turned red and she felt upset. She turned her head and saw her mother cursing something viciously in a low voice.
I don't know whether she was scolding the fat sheriff or the family who just stole her apple.
She gently tugged at her sleeves. "Mom, they are so pitiful..."
"Who isn't pitiful on the sea right now? Can being pitiful mean you can steal other people's things?"
After Donna finished speaking, she took the remaining two apples and took her daughter to the other side of the alley to continue selling them.
It was not until the evening that the remaining two apples were finally exchanged by a crew member for three bags of biscuit crumbs. Donna didn't care about the biscuit crumbs as long as she could eat them.
When the mother and daughter arrived at their own small room in the dock area, Donna quickly drew the curtains and closed the door.
Boil a pot of water, put the crushed biscuits in, add some dried fish and kelp, and a pot of delicious porridge is ready.
The two of them licked the pots and pans happily until they were clean. It was a blessing for the world champion to be able to eat his fill.
Dongna looked at her daughter in front of her and suddenly felt extremely aggrieved when she thought of what happened during the day.
"I'm sorry, daughter. If I could help you find a new father, maybe no one would bully us so casually, but no one likes me."
Nini wiped the tears from her mother's face distressedly with her hands, "Mom, don't cry, it's okay, we don't need the new dad's protection, we still want Shanshan, Shanshan will protect us."
Donna sniffed and showed a helpless smile on her face, "Yes, the Shining God will protect us. Come, take out your painting and let's pray to the Shining God. Shining is a good god and a god who brings hope."
Thanks to 3swuwang for the 5000 reward!
(End of this chapter)