277: Chapter 277 Dr. Xu's Gameplay is Too High-Level

Xu Zhixia's voice drifted over from downstream, "You better not peek..."

Lin Fan quickly withdrew his gaze, "Who's peeking?"

"Then your bottle is completely full and overflowing, yet you're still holding it down."

Lin Fan took a glance; the bottle was indeed full.

This time, he turned his entire body toward the upstream direction, turning his back to Xu Zhixia, with only the stream water and pebbles in front of him.

He pressed the fourth bottle into the water, and bubbles started bubbling out again—then the fifth one.

Then his peripheral vision drifted again.

Xu Zhixia picked up the long-sleeved shirt outside and wrung it dry, lifting both arms over her head.

This posture stretched the lines of her entire upper body to maximum tension.

The soaked tank top couldn't hide anything under the sunlight, and the outline beneath the fabric was even clearer than in the memory of his palm just now.

Her waistline tapered upward, abruptly expanding at her chest, followed by her fair wrists, and her long legs faintly visible in the water.

Lin Fan's throat tightened.

He lowered his head to glance at the water surface; there was something in the water.

Red liquid was dripping down drop by drop, landing on the edge of the bottle opening, spreading into a small circle on the water surface, and being scattered by the stream.

Lin Fan was startled. No way, right?

He raised his hand to wipe under his nose, and it really was his own nosebleed.

He froze for two seconds, lowering his head to look at that smear of color on his finger.

In his twenty-four years of life, the number of times he had a nosebleed could be counted on one hand, and the last time was in the fifth grade of primary school when he was hit on the bridge of the nose by his deskmate's pencil case.

Today was different; nobody hit him, it was purely a betrayal at a physiological level.

Lin Fan wiped the nosebleed away with the back of his hand, and his peripheral vision sneaked another glance downstream like a thief.

Xu Zhixia draped the long-sleeved shirt over a rock on the bank, bent over to cup water from the stream, and washed her face.

Her bending motion was quite large, and the hem of her tank top rolled up a section from her waist, revealing a small patch of skin on her lower back.

Water droplets hung on it, refracting fragmented light.

Lin Fan dragged his line of sight back and took a deep breath.

He was no Monk Tang.

Monk Tang at least had Buddhist precepts restraining him and the Buddha watching from the heavens.

He had nothing.

Moreover, he seriously doubted that even if Monk Tang were sitting in his position, facing Xu Zhixia's set of maneuvers, his ten lifetimes of cultivation would have been ruined on the spot.

Ever since entering the woods, this woman's series of maneuvers had been both slick and high-end.

Loosening her buttons was her, tripping was her, pressing close to say her legs were numb was also her.

Now she was openly bathing downstream from him; her mouth said not to look, but her body language spelled out "feel free to look."

Liu Feifei's kind of seduction was shoving food directly into your mouth, so crude that it made one nauseous.

Xu Zhixia's kind was placing the dishes in a glass showcase, with the lighting set up nicely and the position chosen well, telling you that looking at the menu was enough without needing to order.

How the fuck could you resist not ordering?

The more Lin Fan thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong.

Xu Zhixia had said it herself in the woods just now: her parents kept forcing her to sleep with Yang Ningcong.

She would rather stay on the Deserted Island than go back and be a tool.

Then what was she plotting by pulling these tricks on him right now?

The answer was practically jumping out.

Superpower.

After Su Qingxue became pregnant, she gained the ability to materialize objects out of thin air.

Xu Zhixia had witnessed this entire matter with her own eyes.

If getting pregnant could trigger an ability, then as long as Xu Zhixia carried his child, she might also acquire some kind of Superpower.

On this deadly island, a Superpower was the strongest trump card for survival.

She was more rational than Su Qingxue and more sophisticated than Liu Feifei, so she wouldn't directly drop her pants to make a statement like Liu Feifei did.

She was using the method of boiling a frog in warm water.

Bit by bit testing your bottom line, step by step shortening the distance between you two.

Once you couldn't hold back anymore and actively approached her, she could still take a step back and say, "You were the one who made the first move."

Lin Fan wiped the nosebleed again, leaving an extra red mark on the back of his hand.

Su Qingxue had just gotten pregnant for a little over a month, and he turned around to hook up with her best friend by the small river.

If word got out, he, Lin Fan, would be too much of a scumbag. Putting everything else aside, at the very least he had to wait until Su Qingxue's situation stabilized before talking.

He reached out to pluck a leaf from the side of the stream, rolled it into a strip to plug his nostrils, and continued to fill water with his head down.

This time he wouldn't look, he really wouldn't look.

"Ah..."

Xu Zhixia's voice pierced the quietness of the stream valley.

Lin Fan threw away the bottle in his hand and turned his head.

The scene downstream made his eyes widen by half.

Xu Zhixia sprang out of the water, failing to even stand steady on the pebbles beneath her feet, splashing water high up.

Her soaked tank top had been taken off at some point and draped over the sandy soil on the bank, leaving her in only a light-colored undergarment.

The wet fabric wrapped tightly around her, leaving her figure fully exposed to view.

Xu Zhixia stepped barefoot on the stones and rushed toward Lin Fan's side at a very fast speed, completely unlike the person who had just claimed her legs were numb.

Rushing in front of him in two or three strides, she crashed right into his arms.

Two soft mounds pressed against his chest through a thin layer of wet fabric, and the warmth seeped through the material.

Lin Fan's body instinctively tightened, but before he could make any reaction, Xu Zhixia spoke.

"Lin Fan, there's blood in the water."

"It washed down from upstream, Lin Fan, did you see it?"

The messy images in Lin Fan's brain instantly evaporated.

"Lin Fan, do you think... could that monster have dragged Anan here to skin and debone her?"

"Lin Fan, what if that monster comes to eat me later? I'm scared..."

Xu Zhixia's breath hit his Adam's apple, carrying the coolness of the stream water.

Seeing that Lin Fan didn't speak, she raised her head to look at his face, and her line of sight suddenly stopped.

"Eh? What's wrong with your nose?"

Lin Fan's nostrils were still plugged with that ball rolled from a leaf, and the edges of the leaf had been stained dark red by blood.

Xu Zhixia's eyeballs moved from the leaf strip to Lin Fan's eyes, and then back again.

"Could this blood be yours?"

When Xu Zhixia said this, that leaf strip in Lin Fan's nostril was still dripping red, and the answer went without saying.

She was still wet, less than half a step away from him, and she raised her hand to touch his nose.

Lin Fan reacted quickly and stepped back directly.

"Don't move."

Xu Zhixia's hand stopped in mid-air.

Water was still dripping from her body, the stones under her feet were wet, and she wasn't standing very steadily overall.

Lin Fan reached out and pushed against her shoulder, shoving her back halfway toward the bank.

"Dr. Xu, you should put your clothes on first."

Xu Zhixia was pushed back two steps, her lower back hitting a rock, and she stabilized herself only after propping herself up with her elbows. "What's wrong?"