Rebirth: Exclusive Love in the End of the World-Chapter 73 - Teaching Sister

“Xiao Jian from nine to eleven,” Han Jiaojiao hesitated, then added, “Kerry takes the eleven to one shift, but he can’t sleep for a while, so he’s also keeping watch outside.”

Han Yi played with her hair without a word.

Han Jiaojiao couldn’t help but say, “Brother, Kerry has such a good heart.”

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“Hmm, what about it?”

Han Jiaojiao looked at the ceiling of the tent and thought for a while before speaking, “The friends he traveled with here thought he was infected with the virus, they abandoned him without a thought for his well-being, and they even took his luggage and valuables. Kerry ran into those people just now. They had nothing to eat, so Kerry gave them some food.”

After she finished speaking, fearing that Han Yi might be displeased, she quickly added, “Not much, just a few packs of instant noodles and a bucket of water.”

Han Yi couldn’t help but laugh, “Does brother look like someone who is so petty?”

Han Jiaojiao pursed her lips and smiled, “Of course, brother is not petty, it’s just that I was afraid you might think I was making decisions on my own…”

Han Yi neither agreed nor disagreed. He really didn’t like Han Jiaojiao making decisions or meeting people behind his back, but something like giving food away was hardly worth mentioning.

Han Jiaojiao expressed her melancholy thoughtfully, “He really does have a good heart. I might not have been able to do what he did. Brother, am I not good in this regard?… Could it be considered narrow-minded?”

Before Han Yi could answer, Han Jiaojiao sighed faintly while nestled in his arms, “…Sigh, I really have always wanted to change. Mom used to teach me that the last thing a girl should have is pettiness. You need to have an open heart to live happily.”

Han Yi thought about this and was reminded of his stepmother. She truly was a good mother.

“Jiaojiao, if you encountered such friends, wouldn’t you help them?”

“I suppose?…” Han Jiaojiao thought for a moment and said, “But I can’t pretend as if nothing had happened. Even if I gave them food, I would definitely do it with a stern face, and I might not be able to resist mocking them… Actually, I think this is quite bad. It won’t make them feel grateful, but instead, it could create resentment.”

Han Yi couldn’t help but laugh.

“But if someone has wronged you, aren’t you allowed to mock them a bit? If they hold a grudge against you just because of a few words you said, such people are probably accustomed to venting their misfortunes on others, and with or without your comments, it really makes no difference.”

Han Jiaojiao fell silent for a moment, then suddenly sat up, her eyes shining as she looked at Han Yi, “Brother, you’re absolutely right!”

Han Yi caressed her head, his voice gentle, “Auntie Bai is right too. Jiaojiao doesn’t need to concern herself with these trivial matters and people, nor should she humble herself to please anyone, understand?”

Han Jiaojiao put down the egg she was holding, excitedly hugged Han Yi’s waist, and nestled her face into his chest, overwhelmed with sweetness.

“With my brother here, who can make me feel aggrieved? Hehe…”

“What a good girl.”

The two of them huddled together and talked for a while, then squeezed into one quilt and went to bed early. Han Jiaojiao’s shift was to guard from five to seven in the morning, which meant getting up around four forty or fifty. Those guarding the latter half of the night, including Yan Xiao and Lu Changyuan, also went to bed early to seize the time to rest.

Unexpectedly, just after everyone had gone to bed, a dog’s barking erupted within the service area!

The barking clearly came from a small dog, sharp and piercing, exceptionally penetrating in the quiet of the night.

The crowd instantly became restless, and suppressed curses came from outside.

“Who still has a dog?!”

“Whose dog is this! Make it stop barking! Are they trying to get us all killed?!”

The small dog seemed to become even more frightened by the gathering crowd and began barking wildly.

Han Yi and Han Jiaojiao were immediately awoken, quickly dressed, and exited the tent to see Xiao Jian and Bai Kairui already among the crowd, apparently in a dispute with others.

In the center of the crowd, a young man in his twenties was crouched on the ground, clutching a Chihuahua dog tightly in his arms. The dog’s mouth was forcibly held shut by his hand, but a threatening low growl still seeped out of the Chihuahua’s throat.

Xiao Jian pointed a gun at the small dog, his expression uncompromising.

The young man kept his head down, his voice sounded as if he had been crying. “Please, don’t kill it, I won’t let it bark again, please!”

Seeing such a grown man cry like this, many people felt a stir of compassion.

Bai Kairui also showed a hint of reluctance on his face, but still spoke to persuade him, “You can’t watch it every second. Even if you stay up tonight, what about tomorrow night?”

Someone in the crowd also spoke up, “Young man, just put it out of its misery. Even if you get to a safe base, the base won’t allow pets either.”

Seeing his pleas ineffective, the young man shouted in despair and anger, “Don’t you have any humanity?! How can you bear to do this to something so small? Isn’t its life also a life? Are you so much more noble than it?!”

Han Jiaojiao, upon hearing this, couldn’t help but feel her eyes twitch. She didn’t know whether some lives were more precious than others, but in her eyes, sacrificing other species for survival in the face of danger was just common sense. Every species in nature does this; it may seem cruel, but is the law of nature wrong? Nature is just nature, indifferent to right or wrong – each choice leads to the loss of some lives and the birth of others.

Moreover… this young man probably didn’t know that even if he managed to safely bring the dog into the base, the pet’s likely fate would be as a meal for some people…

“I can’t believe it, dogs are our friends, and you actually want to kill this little creature,” an abrupt feminine voice rang out.

Han Jiaojiao looked up to see a tall foreign woman; two foreign men stood beside her, one of whom added in broken Chinese, “Such cruelty would never happen in our country.”

As they spoke, they didn’t forget to regard Bai Kairui and Xiao Jian with disdainful looks.