Order Crumbles!

Michelle was quick and skilled. Soon, she finished making two meat dishes and two vegetable dishes, steamed a pot of steaming hot rice, and made a tomato and egg soup. Before, to keep Mike Peterson tied down, she had put a lot of effort into learning cooking skills. While using psychological manipulation tactics to undermine Mike Peterson's confidence, she would also do nice things for him from time to time, carefully looking after Mike Peterson's diet, shaping her the persona of a virtuous wife and good mother. Coupled with tears, acting charming, and her exquisite features, this whole set of little tricks trained him to be completely obedient. Unfortunately, this whole set was completely ineffective on Jake.

Just then, a woman's scream came from Building A across the way: "What are you doing!"

The three of them got up and looked out the window. On the 30th floor of Building A, a young man and woman wearing matching pajamas were forced step by step onto the balcony by four strong men holding knives. The young woman screamed in terror:

"This is my home, get out!"

The leader was a strong man with blond hair. He said something with a sinister smile. The young woman immediately shouted loudly towards outside the balcony: "Help! Help! Call the police! They're going to..."

Blondie reached out and grabbed the woman's hair, held her down and slapped her, shouting sternly: "You damned bitch, stop playing hard to get!"

The young man saw his girlfriend getting beaten and stepped forward angrily. Blondie didn't hesitate and stabbed with the knife.

Stab!

The knife handle sank into the young man's abdomen. The man looked at him in surprise. "Look at what?!" The three strong men swarmed him, laughing wildly.

Stab! Stab!

The young man silently fell into a pool of blood. The young woman was scared crazy: "You're murderers! You killed him..."

"Hahaha!" Blondie said with a sinister smile: "Killing people? Who gives a damn! Brothers, throw him downstairs for me, don't let him be an eyesore here!"

The three men lifted the young man's corpse, threw it off the balcony, and it disappeared into the red fog. A few seconds later, a muffled thud echoed up!

The young woman rushed to the railing and cried out mournfully with a sob: "Mike! Mike!"

"Bitch, get inside and entertain us!" One strong man grabbed her hair, the woman struggled wildly. "Help! Help..."

The three strong men together, they forcefully dragged the woman into the apartment. Soon, the woman's screams and the men's wild laughter came out.

Many survivors in Building C witnessed this scene from their balconies. Blondie brandished a machete, shouting wildly at the people in Building C: "What the hell are you looking at! Keep looking and I'll kill you!"

The timid ones didn't dare cause trouble and quickly pulled their curtains shut. The braver ones didn't curse back either. They just watched Blondie silently, feeling very suppressed. Order was beginning to collapse.

...

Olivia and Michelle's faces were pale; they were terrified.

Jake said calmly: "Let's eat."

The two women didn't dare look anymore and quickly returned to the dinner table. Jake took a bite of the steak, his eyes instantly lit up: "Good skills! You're in charge of cooking from now on."

Michelle smiled apologetically: "As long as you enjoy the food, Jake." She felt a sigh of relief. Her status was finally somewhat stable.

Michelle glanced at Olivia smugly. Bitch! Olivia cursed inwardly, but couldn't help but worry. Michelle knows how to cook, what can I do?

Jake saw the hidden rivalry between the two women. But he didn't care. Women could have their little drama; as long as it didn't affect his enjoyment. Besides, competition encourages initiative, right?

Jake intentionally provoked Olivia, taking out an Enlightenment Fruit and giving it to Michelle: "Reward for you."

Michelle was curious: "Jake, what is this?"

Jake said casually: "Ability fruit. Eating it grants an ability."

An ability fruit! Michelle's eyes lit up. Jake actually had ability fruits. It seemed like he had many; otherwise, he wouldn't casually give her one.

Olivia watched Michelle jealously, growing increasingly nervous. She had to act. There will definitely be more and more vixen-like women around Jake. Where will I fit in?

Michelle quickly swallowed it whole. Soon, she noticed a change in her vision.

"Jake, why do all three of us have light around us? And yours is so bright, but ours is very dim?" If the light around Jake was a 100W light bulb, the light around the two women was just a candle.

Jake simply explained: "The brightness of the light basically represents the target's combat power."

Michelle asked again, curious: "Why is the light on your body yellow, but the light on Olivia's body is faint red?"

Jake looked at the two women with a mischievous glint in his eyes and said with a smile: "The light is divided into three colors: green represents friendliness, yellow represents neutral, and red represents hostility."

"Let me remind you of something: I also have perception ability. If anyone dares to show hostility towards me, I will kill them. So, even if you're just faking it, you need to act friendly! Otherwise... chuckles sinisterly... I guarantee you'll die horribly."

The two women were startled and dared not have any other thoughts. Michelle glanced at the red light on Olivia again. Red represents hostility? Humph! Bitch.

Olivia also glared at Michelle.

Jake took out his phone: "Smile."

The two women quickly put on sweet smiles. Jake took photos of the women and the food, and sent a message in the group chat:

Room and board included: [@everyone, recruiting beauties, includes full food and lodging. Those willing, private message me, first send an unfiltered full-body selfie.]

...

Sophia lay weakly on the bed. From yesterday until now, she had only eaten half a ham sausage. So hungry... Ethan had gone out with her gold ring to see if he could exchange it for some food. Sophia felt like she was about to starve to death, utterly unable to bear it. She thought for a moment, suddenly sat up, and rummaged through the closet for a belt: This is cowhide! It should be edible!

She looked at the hard belt with burning eyes. This belt was one she had forced Jake to buy for her. Reportedly imported calfskin, costing 1800 of the old currency. Now, in Sophia's eyes, it was entirely a piece of food. She used a knife to cut the belt into small sections, about 1 cm (approx. 0.4 inches), and boiled them.

Soon, a pungent foul smell came from the pot, and the water turned red, like brown sugar water. Sophia looked at the belt sections in the pot. Could this stuff be eaten? She was too hungry to bear it and could only brace herself, pick out a piece, and try to bite it. The belt felt like plastic in her mouth, and had a sour foul smell. Sophia didn't want to eat it, but hunger made her overcome everything.

She tried hard to bite for a while, finally biting the belt section into crumbs, swallowing it with difficulty. Ough~ The strange taste made Sophia feel nauseous repeatedly. She ate a few more pieces but couldn't swallow them. Her stomach felt rough and uncomfortable, and she didn't dare eat more. She could only lie back on the bed like a corpse. After eating a little something, she wasn't in so much pain.

Sophia recovered a bit of energy and picked up her phone to scroll. As soon as she opened it, she saw the photos Jake sent. Two big beauties, plus snowflake-like steaks, oily braised pork, stir-fried green vegetables, stir-fried cauliflower, even the steaming hot rice emitted tempting colors. Sophia watched, drooling, going crazy with anger: "Damned bitches! You're eating my stuff! That's mine!"

She began to regret it. If she hadn't broken up with Jake, she would be enjoying these things now. She felt for the first time that she had missed out on something important. But everyone says, 'The first thing you do after securing your future is cut off the one you love.' I didn't do anything wrong! Isn't this what any normal woman would do? Why is Jake so angry?!

Sophia suppressed her anger, staring fixedly at the meat in the photos. She wished she could replace those two women.

Click. The apartment door opened. Ethan was back. As soon as he saw the pot, he said angrily: "Sis! You were secretly eating behind my back!"