Chapter 7 Finally in the past 2/5
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One of the watchmen was hitting the poor man, and maybe because he didn’t want this “botanist” to slacked off later due to his wounds, he was not hitting him too hard. Although the one being hit was screaming his lungs out with every hit the watchman landed.
Donovan didn’t plan on intervening, doing so now would screw his escape plan. He simply took the opportunity to hide more food into his cape. As long as a [ninja ghost] used [attachment], it could fold, extend, and twist in any way it wanted. Donovan took advantage of it and used it as his storage.
“You should be grateful we are protecting a bunch of weaklings like you,” The man said those words spitefully and left. None of the botanists there paid him any heed and kept on doing their job.
They were feeling the same way as this man, but they couldn’t be as foolish. A beating by one of the watchmen could easily kill them. Life was a precious thing they couldn´t afford to lose.
After a long day of work, the satisfied Donovan headed to his house. This time, when he reached the door, he noticed the annoying neighbor who complained about noise all the time, was the same man who got a beating that evening!
When he realized who Donovan was, he slowly approached him, “wanna scape?” This old man was fixedly staring at Donovan, his contorted face demonstrated the anger he was feeling “You wanna escape don’t you? I saw you hiding food!”.
Donovan felt conflicted, he wasn’t a saint and he was not planning on helping any other than the girl. He didn’t know what to do.
“No, you must have seen wrong.”
“If you don’t take me with you, I’ll tell the watchmen.”
Donovan sighed after hearing that, this old man was serious. If he didn’t comply, the plan would have to be put off. “Alright, be ready by 20 o’clock. We are leaving tomorrow.” Donovan said that with a straight face. He had a bad feeling about this. Why would the man think he wanted to scape just by seeing stealing food? It was too late anyway. He had already confirmed the man’s assumption.
Donovan got into the house a laid down. He had a very simple plan for the next day. He would simply place the [protector] inside one of the huts near one of the gates and scape walking through the door.
He had a plan B which required the help of [Ninja ghost]. They would take turns to wear it, walked out of the gate, and then threw it over the wall. Charikleia would be last in this case, since she couldn't throw the toy that far.
Donovan had planned it like that because he was still unaware of the capabilities of his toys. If only he had known that Ghost and all of his toys could find him wherever he was, he would have made Charikleia wait outside the village from the beginning! He was just staying for a little while to collect provisions and gather information.
The next day Donovan woke up early and went to his neighbor's house. He didn't even know his name! he wanted to take this opportunity to learn about the time he went missing and why everything changed abruptly.
Donovan knocked on the door and immediately after an annoyed voice was heard. "Don't you know how early it is? Scram!".
"It's me, we have to talk about today's plans..."
"am I your girlfriend? go find someone else to..." That detestable man went wild spouting bad words at Donovan.
Out of patience, Donovan shouted, "If you want to stay in this shithole so be it!" he was about to leave when the man suddenly opened the door.
He wanted to keep on arguing until he recognized the young man in front, "oh, it's you. come in". The man did as if nothing had happened, and welcomed Donovan in his house.
His house was just as Donovan's but with a proper bed.
They sat on the floor and Donovan started talking about the plan, but before that the had to introduce themselves.
"I'm Donovan"
"Cuervo"
After the introductions, the talk went on like this. Cuervo plainly nodded about the plan and then Donovan asked about the world. To his surprise, Cuervo told him that the apocalypse started 4 years ago. after some weeks, some people started to get stronger and faster. These people became the leaders of refugee camps, but not long after, these self-proclaimed "rulers" appeared and created their own camps of refugees. At first, all humans fought together, but later enhancers and evolvers confronted each other for territory and resources.
"Enhancers? Evolvers? what do you mean?"
"Have you been living under a rock? they..." Cuervo was about to continue, but he unexpectedly stoped and shooked his head, "It's getting late, we'll talk after we scape". With that, they both stood up and headed towards the plantation. Their last day of forced labor was today.
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Titos could hear a rumbling sound coming out of her sister's belly "You should eat something". He clearly didn't understand the situation they were at that moment.
"Titos, we have nothing..."
"You can have some of that cake you gave us" After the partial resurrection of Titos, his common sense seemed notably lower than in his previous life.
Charikleaia shooked her head three times and hugged her legs. They were in a dark and small place with little to no light, but shimmers shone through the small gaps all around them.
She was trying to sleep until the night came, that way she wouldn't feel the hunger.
"Why didn't that guy tell you where he was staying?"
"I told him-" after she said that the grumbling of her belly interrupted her.
Titos couldn't hold it anymore and expanded to the size of an adult. They were hiding under a big basket, but after Titos did that it broke in pieces.
"Let's get some food!"
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