"Don't rush me, let me get my thoughts straight first," Du Chen prepared himself emotionally before speaking again:
"After the Overlord left, although we were a bit out of control, we thought it would probably take a long time for it to come back. By then, the rescue Vanguard would likely have arrived, so we calmed down a bit and decided to ration our food and wait for rescue right where we were...
"But we didn't expect...
"The first to find us were the monkeys...
"In fact, we had encountered the monkeys here before, in two groups, one in the east and one in the west, each about fifty in size. They were really annoying, always stealing our stuff, and it took a lot of effort to chase them away.
"But this time was different... This time the monkeys had f***ing human faces... and they were our faces...
"Who the hell can deal with that... We were so scared we just ran for it...