"Big Sis, let's go quickly!" Jackie Won urged his sister impatiently.

"Alright," Anna Karenina replied, her eyes filled with hope.

As she neared the prospect of finally getting food, her starving body unleashed unimaginable strength.

"Good thing I didn't bow down to James Lon!" she thought to herself, feeling relieved.

If she had compromised with James Lon earlier, she would still be figuring out how to get rid of him.

Hmph!

That kind of useless pauper, unwilling to improve himself, how could he ever deserve me?

I'm an apprentice judge, soon to be a senior judge!

With various thoughts in their minds, the siblings walked into Sam's Supermarket.

But the scene before them left them utterly hopeless.

Everywhere was chaos.

Everywhere was shouting and cursing.

Especially at the entrance to the underground supermarket, it was crowded with people. Some were entering, some exiting, but no one had even a scrap of food in their hands.

"Who the hell took all the food!"

...

"What's going on?" Their hearts sank, and they hurriedly followed the crowd inside the supermarket.

Passing through the stinking fresh food section, they arrived at the goods area.

In the darkness of the underground supermarket, the place was completely empty.

Only shadows flitted through the purple mist, flashlight beams scattered about.

Jackie Won instantly broke down:

"Where's the stuff? Why isn't there a single thing left?"

Anna Karenina had been forcing herself to hold it together, but now, faced with this crushing disappointment, she couldn't bear it anymore. She sat on the ground in despair:

"It's over... Everything's over!"

Jackie Won grabbed Anna Karenina's hair in anger and shook her violently:

"It's all your fault! If you hadn't been so slow, we would've gotten here earlier! Maybe we could've grabbed something! This is all your fault!"

Anna Karenina screamed in pain:

"What are you doing? Jackie! Let go of me!"

Their brawl didn't attract much attention—after all, people were fighting everywhere.

Not far away, two people suddenly started fighting over a backpack.

"What the hell are you doing? That's mine!"

"Shut up! This is my stuff. Try to take it, and you're dead!"

With a shlick, one of them pulled out a knife and stabbed the other to death.

The surrounding crowd erupted:

"Someone's been killed!"

"Murder!"

The killer, panicking, grabbed the backpack and quickly disappeared into the purple mist.

Jackie Won, terrified, stopped hitting his sister. After venting his anger, he calmed down a bit and helped Anna Karenina up.

"Are you insane?" Anna Karenina hit Jackie Won a few times. Since he was her brother, she couldn't do much else but scold him with a stern face:

"Let's go upstairs. There's a restaurant upstairs—maybe some food was left behind."

Jackie Won's eyes lit up:

"Yes, yes! You're right, Sis!"

He supported Anna Karenina and avoided the chaotic crowd as they headed to the escalator.

"Ella?"

"Anna Karenina?"

Ella, coming down the escalator, saw Anna Karenina and immediately thought of James Lon. Her eyes reddened with anger.

She spat bitterly:

"Your boyfriend killed someone!"

Ella only knew Anna Karenina casually and wasn't aware that she and James Lon had broken up.

"My boyfriend?" Anna Karenina froze for a moment before realizing, her eyes lighting up with joy:

"James Lon is here?"

Now that her hopes of getting food were dashed, she wanted to find James Lon again.

Ella was a bit taken aback but repeated with agitation:

"He killed someone! I'm going to call the police. He's done for!"

Anna Karenina was confused:

"What are you talking about? Who did he kill?"

Ella suddenly realized Anna Karenina wasn't with James Lon anymore.

James Lon looked healthy, with a flushed face, clearly not starving.

Meanwhile, Anna Karenina looked pale and weak, her hair a mess, and her body sluggish.

Ella decided to stir the pot:

"Good thing you don't know. James Lon is a murderer—and he took Elsa Thomas with him! A man like that isn't worth it."

Elsa Thomas! Anna Karenina immediately thought of her perfectly proportioned, plastic-surgery-enhanced "friend."

She instantly believed 90% of Ella's words.

She had known James Lon was always looking for women in their group chat.

Now she felt a surge of resentment.

That scumbag!

When I find him, I'll kick all those women out!

Anna Karenina wanted to ask Ella for more details, but Ella ignored her and continued downstairs.

She had only walked a few steps when a massive ginger cat leapt out of the purple mist and snatched Ella in its jaws!

Jackie Won and Anna Karenina felt as if a bucket of ice water had been dumped over their heads, chilling them to the bone.

"Meow~"

The ginger cat swallowed Ella in one gulp, its yellow, vertical pupils glaring coldly at the siblings.

For some reason, the cat didn't attack them. It jumped onto the escalator and disappeared into the purple mist.

Soon, the sounds of human screams echoed from below.

"The cat's here! Run!"

"Holy sh*t! What is that thing?!"

"Help! Help!"

Jackie Won and Anna Karenina felt as if they had been granted a reprieve from death.

Terrified out of their wits, they scrambled into a shop with a shattered glass door and hid inside, no longer caring about finding food.

...

James Lon walked toward Sunshine Gardens.

After a while, Elsa Thomas, trembling, asked in fear:

"James Lon, why didn't you save them?"

James Lon replied calmly:

"They're as good as dead. Those kinds of injuries can't be treated now."

Elsa bit her lip and stuck close to James Lon, not daring to stray far.

The surrounding purple mist reduced visibility to less than five meters.

After a while, they reached Sunshine Gardens.

James Lon scanned the area carefully.

The mutated frog wasn't in the swimming pool—its whereabouts unknown.

Remaining in a phased state, James Lon led Elsa Thomas into Building C and up to the 33rd floor.

Shirley Inr opened the door and saw Elsa Thomas.

"Another pretty slave girl," she thought to herself, sighing inwardly but keeping her face composed.

"Master, please come in."

"Mm." James Lon walked in nonchalantly.

Elsa Thomas felt a bit awkward but followed him inside.

Shirley Lnr smiled warmly and said,

"Are you the new sister? Hello, I'm Shirley Lnr."

Elsa Thomas hesitated and replied shyly,

"Hello. I'm Elsa Thomas."

Monroe Anne and Lily also came over to greet her politely.

Elsa Thomas felt awkward; she hadn't expected James Lon to have so many women in his home.

Monroe Anne went off to cook.

Shirley Lnr, while massaging James Lon's shoulders, spoke softly,

"Master, Elsa Thomas doesn't have a room to stay in."

Their home had three bedrooms and one living room. Shirley Lnr, Monroe Anne, and Lily each had a room, and it was already full.

James Lon said casually,

"Then stay next door."

He walked to a large hole in the wall and punched it a few times, boom, boom, boom, creating a door-sized opening.

Elsa Thomas and Lily, who hadn't been there long, were both stunned.

James Lon was unbelievably strong!

Elsa Thomas had seen James Lon kill people before, but even that hadn't been as shocking as what she was witnessing now.

Shirley Lnr and Monroe Anne, on the other hand, were unfazed.

Shirley Lnr looked at the two women with pride and said,

"You'll come to realize just how amazing Master is!"

Elsa Thomas thought to herself that maybe following a man like this wasn't such a bad idea.

James Lon led Elsa Thomas to the room next door. The room's decor was decent, though not as nice as Shirley Lnr's home.

"I'll need to go to a furniture store later to get some furniture," James Lon thought to himself. With a wave of his hand, a pile of brand-new luxury bedding appeared out of nowhere.

"Change it yourself," he said.

Elsa Thomas was dumbfounded.

"Bro...Brother, what is this...?"

James Lon replied calmly,

"A spatial backpack, filled with food. Stick with me, and you'll never go hungry."

Elsa Thomas was overjoyed.

"You have such an ability!"

Once again, she felt that following James Lon might not be such a bad choice...

...

[Ding! The divine return effect has been upgraded. You've unlocked the historical return feature: all supplies consumed by the slave girls since the arrival of the purple mist will now be fully refunded!]

The return effect could still be improved!

James Lon's eyes lit up.