Melody Summers arrived at the secondary bedroom and found several people in a standoff.
On one side was a young woman in a black down jacket, brandishing a steel pipe. She yelled at the group in front of her, "Stay back! I’ll hit anyone who comes closer!"
Her voice trembled slightly, betraying her fear.
Facing her were three men and a woman. Melody Summers froze for a second when she saw them—the man and woman were none other than the bizarre couple, Chloe Sharp and Frank York, whom she had just run into on the 15th floor!
Melody Summers didn’t recognize the other two men. One had long hair, and the other wore glasses.
The man with glasses sneered contemptuously. "You? A lone woman thinks she can take on the four of us? Haha, believe it or not, a little girl like you... I could knock you flat with a single punch!"
The long-haired man also scoffed. "You’d better just hand over the dog obediently," he said to the girl with the pipe. "Or don’t blame us for what happens next!"
Only then did Melody Summers notice a white dog at the feet of the girl with the steel pipe.
The dog was pure white with pointed, erect ears and a sharp muzzle. It looked like a small fox, but was a size larger.
It was trembling, huddled by the girl’s feet. Seemingly sensing the tense, confrontational atmosphere, it didn’t dare to move a muscle.
The girl with the pipe protectively shielded her little white dog and snarled at the group, "In your dreams! I will never give you Snowball!"
Hearing this, Frank York shook his head in disapproval. In an exasperated tone, he said to the girl, "In times like these, people are freezing and starving to death. How can you still keep a dog? Isn’t that a waste of resources? How can you be so selfish?"
The man with glasses on the other side smirked. "That’s right, little girl. You can’t be so selfish! Instead of wasting supplies on an animal, you should just slaughter it so we can all have some meat!"
He couldn’t help but swallow as he spoke, his eyes glinting greedily behind his glasses.
The girl spat in the man’s direction. She gripped her steel pipe tightly and retorted, "You’re the animals! I’m using my own supplies to feed Snowball. It’s none of your business! What right do you have to meddle?!"
Just then, Chloe Sharp, who had been standing to the side, suddenly spoke up. "Miss, that’s not right. How could you bring a dog in here? We’re all human; none of us want to live with an animal! Besides, who knows if your dog has some contagious disease? What if it bites someone..."
Then, Chloe Sharp’s tone shifted, and she said with a smile, "How about this, miss... why don’t you just release the dog into the wild? Otherwise, we’ll have to report the situation to the emergency management office and have you both thrown out, you know~"
Hearing Chloe Sharp say this, the corner of Melody Summers’s eye twitched involuntarily.
’Release the dog into the wild?’
’The nerve of her to even suggest that!’
The girl across from them shook her head violently. She bent down, scooped up the little white dog, and held it tightly in her arms.
Then she looked up at Chloe Sharp and said in a heavy voice, "No! I won’t be separated from my dog! You don’t have to kick me out. I’ll leave on my own!"
"You think Snowball is dirty, and you’re afraid he’ll bite. Fine, I’ll go! I won’t be an eyesore here. I’ll take Snowball and go back home. That should be good enough for you, right?!"


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