196: Chapter 196 For the first time, she felt that civilized society was so close to her.

He paused for a moment.

"It is hidden in the interlayer of the third waterproof box, but there is a safe inside. Afraid that something might go wrong, I set it to my fingerprint. Only my fingerprint can open it."

The third box.

The folding knife, compass, waterproof matches, mountaineering rope, fleece jacket, and hand-crank flashlight were all in that box.

And now, those three boxes were all on the beach.

Lin Fan glanced outside.

On the beach, Wang Laoliu and the bodyguards had already used planks and canvas to build a simple windbreak shed, and those few women were placed under the shed.

Three military-green waterproof boxes were neatly stacked beside the shed.

Wang Laoliu was squatting in front of the third box.

The Karst Cave fell silent for a few seconds.

Su Qingxue walked out of the compartment, supporting herself against the stone wall, her face still pale.

She heard it.

PLB.

Personal locator beacon.

This term was very unfamiliar to ordinary people, but to someone like her who frequented overseas commercial routes year-round, it was not obscure.

Once that thing was activated, it was no longer shouting for help at the sky.

It directly smashed the coordinates into the international search and rescue system.

Liu Feifei reacted first.

Her eyes lit up instantly, and even forgetting the pain in her legs, she moved forward two steps.

"You mean... we can go back?"

No one answered.

She looked at Su Qingxue again.

"President Su, search and rescue forces will respond within twelve hours, right? Even if it's a bit late, twenty-four hours, forty-eight hours, they can always come, right?"

Liu Feifei had already stayed on this damn island for two months, so forty-eight hours was nothing to her.

Su Qingxue did not speak immediately.

She looked at the gray sky outside the cave entrance, her fingers slowly tightening.

From the time she landed on the island until now, it was the first time she felt civilized society was so close to her.

This time it was no longer an empty promise.

But she quickly looked at Lin Fan again.

Lin Fan did not smile. He stood at the cave entrance, his face devoid of any ease of "finally being able to go back".

The pistol was still at his waist.

The sniper rifle leaned against the stone wall.

Liu Feifei couldn't help saying, "Lin Fan, why aren't you reacting at all? Rescue is coming!"

Lin Fan glanced at her.

Liu Feifei quickly shut her mouth, and then muttered in a tone only she could hear, "That's right, tarnishing Su Qingxue's innocence and staying here to act as a mountain king is still better than going back to jail."

At this moment, Xu Zhixia stood up.

She wiped the blood off her hands on a rag and turned to walk towards the cave entrance.

Lin Fan stopped her.

"Where are you going?"

"Going down."

"What for?"

"Get medicine."

The answer was brief and without hesitation.

Liu Feifei was stunned for a moment, then spoke, "You heard we can go back, and you're in such a rush to go down?"

Xu Zhixia stopped in her tracks, turned her head, and glanced at Liu Feifei.

Liu Feifei was not scared by that look.

She leaned against the stone wall, crossed her arms over her chest, and her mouth turned down slightly.

"I'll say something unpleasant."

"When you first came up, Lin Fan searched your body, patting you from head to toe, and you didn't make a sound. If it were an ordinary woman, she would have scratched his face long ago. Not only did you not dodge, but you cooperated."

"I' rather--I'm not saying anything about you, but if you say you're going down purely to get medicine, I don't quite believe it."

Xu Zhixia stood in place, her facial expression unchanged.

Seeing that she didn't speak, Liu Feifei grew a bit bolder.

"What kind of people weren't on Yang Ningcong's ship? How long have you been there? A month? Two months? What the relationship between you, those bodyguards, and Yang Ningcong really is, who knows."

"You say you're a doctor, fine, I won't deny that you might really have a license. But do people with licenses have fewer hidden thoughts?"

She reached out and tapped her own temple.

"You medical students have minds as full of tricks as a needle's eye. You say you want to go down to get medicine now, but what is the situation below? Wang Laoliu and the three bodyguards are all on the beach. Once you go down, who knows what you will say to them?"

"If you turn around and sell out our headcount, location, and information, and bring them storming up, what will we do?"

"I'm not targeting you, I just purely feel that all you doctors wear white on the outside but are black inside..."

Slap.

The sound was very crisp.

It echoed around the Karst Cave.

Liu Feifei staggered back a step, the back of her head hitting the stone wall.

She held her left cheek, her mouth opening and closing, her eyeballs wide open.

Xu Zhixia's right hand was still suspended in mid-air, her palm open and fingers straight.

No one in the cave made a sound, and Song Ya stood frozen in place.

Yang Ningcong shrank his neck, and even Zhou Kai opened his eyes from a semi-comatose state.

Liu Feifei covered her face, and the patch of skin exposed between her fingers was already swollen.

"You hit me?"

Her voice squeezed out from her throat, sharp and thin.

"You actually hit me?"

Xu Zhixia looked at her.

"You can say that my failure to resist being searched was shameless, you can say that I am mixed up with those people on Yang Ningcong's ship, you can say I'm scheming, say I have motives, and say I'm not a good person."

"But don't make a mockery of my profession."

Liu Feifei's hands were shaking.

"What right do you have to hit people?"

"Just because of what you said just now."

Liu Feifei was choked with anger, her lips trembling twice without being able to say a word.

Xu Zhixia took half a step back, making way.

"You think there's a risk if I go down, fine."

She raised her hand and pointed towards the ramp.

"You go."

Liu Feifei didn't answer.

"The medicine box is right down there. You go and deal with them, negotiate, and bring the medicine up."

Xu Zhixia looked at her.

"You have no ulterior motives and have such a big picture perspective, then you go down."

Liu Feifei's mouth opened.

She turned her head and glanced at the cave entrance.

Outside the ramp, the wind was howling, and occasionally human voices coming from the beach could be heard.

Wang Laoliu was down below, and the bodyguards were down below. She didn't even dare to walk to the cave entrance to poke her head out.

Xu Zhixia waited for three seconds.

Liu Feifei didn't move.

"I knew it." Xu Zhixia withdrew her gaze.

Liu Feifei's face turned flush red, not because she was hit, but because she was left speechless.

She wanted to retort, wanted to find a reason, but couldn't find one.

She was clear about the situation below. If she were asked to go down, she couldn't even take a single step forward.

Song Ya stood next to Yang Ningcong, looked at Xu Zhixia, and then looked at Liu Feifei, hesitating whether to say something to ease the tension.

In the end, she didn't speak.

What should have been said, Xu Zhixia had already said, and what shouldn't have been said, Liu Feifei had already said. If she chimed in again, it would only make the situation harder to handle.

"Big star, let me tell you."

"When I studied medicine, the first class I took was not pharmacology, not anatomy, not physiology and biochemistry."

"It was a professor in his sixties, leaning on a cane as he walked into the lecture hall, and wrote a line of words on the blackboard..."