160: Chapter 160 Guess if Lin Fan Will Keep You?

Zhang Tao's hand had just pressed onto Wang Lan's shoulder when she violently shrugged it off.

"Is there anything else in your brain besides that stuff in your pants?"

Wang Lan kept her voice very low, afraid that people over by the cave entrance would hear, but every word was bitten out hard.

Zhang Tao was thrown back half a step.

He was stunned for a moment, and then his swollen, bruised face slowly twisted into a ferocious expression.

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"What am I thinking?"

He reached out to touch his bleeding gum where a tooth was missing, felt a handful of blood, and his anger flared up again.

"I was chased by a wild boar during the day, beaten like a dog by Zhou Kai, and looked at like trash by Lin Fan. Now even you dare to boss me around?"

Wang Lan stared at him, "If you still want to live, tie your belt."

"Live?"

Zhang Tao gave a smile that tugged at his wounds, the pain making his face twitch.

"If it weren't for me back then, Lin Fan would have already sent you off to meet your great-grandmother."

"The reason you can still stand here and talk to me about living is because I took a fancy to this body of yours."

As he spoke, he lunged forward again.

Wang Lan dodged to the side, her back hitting a low tree.

The branches brushed against her arm, leaving several red marks.

Zhang Tao grabbed her collar and dragged her behind the scattered rocks.

"Aren't you good at fortune-telling? Calculate how many minutes I can last this time."

Wang Lan raised her leg and kicked his lower abdomen.

Zhang Tao bent over in pain, but his hand didn't let go.

He had suffered too much humiliation today, and his whole body was like a punctured stinky water bag, all the rotten stuff inside gushing out.

He didn't want Wang Lan.

He wanted to find someone weaker than himself and trample them down.

To prove that he hadn't rotted completely.

Wang Lan's shoulders were pressed against the tree trunk by him, the rough bark scraping her back painfully.

"Zhang Tao."

Wang Lan raised her hand to press against his chin, her voice squeezed out from between her teeth.

"If you really want to die, go ahead and continue."

Zhang Tao panted heavily, his hand still tugging at her clothes.

"Don't try to scare me."

"I'm not scaring you," Wang Lan looked at him, "Lin Fan has already grown suspicious."

Zhang Tao's movements paused for a second.

Taking advantage of this pause, Wang Lan wriggled out from under his arm and pulled her collar back with a counter-hand motion.

She retreated two steps and straightened her pulled-askew clothes.

Her wrists were trembling.

Not out of fear, but suppressing a fire.

She had had enough, acting for a whole month with this idiot Zhang Tao.

If he could satisfy her, fine, but this idiot was even worse than Chen Jian; Chen Jian could at least last seven or eight minutes.

Zhang Tao, whether due to malnutrition or other reasons, every time she just got into the mood, this five-second man Zhang Tao would already be finished.

Zhang Tao licked his broken lips, "Are you trying to use Lin Fan to suppress me again?"

"I am telling you, don't use your entire brain on what's in your pants."

Wang Lan bent down to pick up the firewood on the ground and threw it into the rattan basket.

"During the day, you almost blurted it out. When he asked what meritorious service you performed, did you really think he didn't understand?"

Zhang Tao's Adam's apple bobbed.

From the cave entrance came the sound of Zhou Kai chopping meat.

Thud, thud.

Listening to it made Zhang Tao's stomach tighten.

During the day, he had been stepped on and beaten into the mud by Zhou Kai, and his ribs still hurt.

That pain wasn't just physical; it felt more like someone pressing his face into the mud, letting everyone see clearly what kind of trash he was.

Especially Song Ya.

Liu Feifei.

And Su Qingxue.

Those women back at the company, even if they looked down on him, wouldn't have watched him make a fool of himself so blatantly.

But today was different.

He had become the monkey on the tree.

"If he really suspected something, why did he let me come out just now?" Zhang Tao stubbornly defended himself.

Wang Lan sneered, "Because the supplies are not enough yet; there is firewood to collect and water to carry, so you are still useful."

Zhang Tao's face twitched.

"What about after the supplies are gathered?"

Wang Lan pushed her words further down.

"When there is water, the meat is smoked, and the order in the cave is stabilized, do you guess whether Lin Fan will still keep you around?"

Zhang Tao opened his mouth, but no words came out.

He wanted to retort.

But he couldn't retort.

A person like Lin Fan wouldn't soften his heart just because he kowtowed and admitted his mistake.

Even less would he let today's matter slide just because of a few flattery remarks.

The reason Zhang Tao could live until now wasn't because Lin Fan was magnanimous.

It was because he could still carry things.

Once they didn't lack people to carry things, he would be the most obnoxious piece of mud in the team.

Wang Lan looked at him and smiled, "Since Lin Fan has grown suspicious, the plan must be brought forward."

Hearing these words, Zhang Tao felt his scalp go numb.

"Brought forward? Are you crazy?"

He glanced toward the cave entrance and lowered his voice.

"Didn't you see today? Zhou Kai was almost gored to death by a wild boar, yet he could still crawl up and stab it with a knife. That bastard is like a mad dog right now. Lin Fan even saved his life. If you move against him now, aren't you asking for death?"

Wang Lan stuffed the last few pieces of firewood into the rattan basket and looked up at him.

"You were beaten like this by him, and you're just going to endure it?"

Zhang Tao's expression was ugly.

"I was..."

"What were you?"

Wang Lan interrupted him, "You and Zhou Kai were in the same batch of people who defected to Lin Fan. Who was nobler than who before? In the company, he was just so-so, but what about now?"

She tilted her chin toward the direction of the cave entrance.

"Lin Fan saved him, shared meat with him, and gave him a knife to use. And you? You even have to look at Zhou Kai's expression just to get beaten."

Zhang Tao clenched his teeth until it hurt.

Missing a tooth, it leaked air when he bit down.

It was even more frustrating.

Wang Lan continued to rub salt into his wounds.

"Look again, however much Zhou Kai eats, you eat that much. In the future, Zhou Kai will be Lin Fan's lackey, and you will be Zhou Kai's lackey."

"And later on, if he tells you to let me be played by him once, you can only smile and say 'Brother Kai is wise'."

"Shut up!"

Zhang Tao let out a low roar.

Wang Lan didn't shut up.

"Zhang Tao, it's not me forcing you."

Wang Lan took a step forward and stared at his face.

"It's Zhou Kai forcing you. It's Lin Fan forcing you. Can't you see clearly yet?"

Zhang Tao's chest heaved violently.

He thought of Zhou Kai's kick.

He thought of the blood dripping from that black dagger.

He thought of Lin Fan lowering his eyes and saying, "Whether to kill or to keep, make up your own mind."

That sentence made him feel even worse than Zhou Kai's fists.

Because from that moment on, his life was no longer in his own hands.

Nor was it even in Lin Fan's hands.

Instead, it was casually tossed by Lin Fan to Zhou Kai.

Seeing that her words had taken effect, Wang Lan continued to up the ante.

"Everything about surviving is a gamble."

Wang Lan looked at him, "If you don't gamble, you can just wait for the day Zhou Kai breaks your leg with a single word, or when that giant snake has no food in the future, you'll be brutally used as a sacrifice."

Zhang Tao stopped talking.

The sea breeze blew up from below the slope, rustling the leaves wildly.

In the darkness, his swollen face looked very ugly.

He was scared.

Afraid of Lin Fan, afraid of Zhou Kai, and afraid that he would have no way out if he really made a move.

But he was even more afraid of living like this forever.

Being beaten, being scolded, being treated like livestock, and still having to put on a flattering smile.

Wang Lan hoisted the rattan basket onto her back.

"If you want to continue being a coward, just pretend I said nothing. When we go back, collect firewood properly and carry meat properly. If Zhou Kai tells you to kneel, you better kneel prettily."