294: Chapter 294 That Monster Looks Like a Person

Lin Fan looked at the woman in front of him.

What she said later made sense.

However, if his, Lin Fan's, child turned out to be a ghostly, inhuman monster, how could Su Qingxue go on living?

"Lin Fan!"

Just as Lin Fan was pondering, a sudden shout came from the Karst Cave, and the voice carried a hint of urgency.

It was Su Qingxue.

The two immediately turned around and walked back into the cave.

Su Qingxue sat down beside Song Ya.

Lin Fan strode over and stopped in front of her.

"What is it? Is your stomach uncomfortable?"

Su Qingxue shook her head, and the frequency of her chest rising and falling visibly accelerated.

"It is not my stomach."

She raised her face and looked straight at Lin Fan.

"It is that face."

"Last night, when it grabbed me and ran into the woods, for a split second, I was extremely close to it."

Su Qingxue swallowed a mouthful of saliva, seemingly trying hard to suppress a wave of physical nausea.

"I remember now."

"That monster... it looked a bit like a person."

As soon as these words were spoken, the two people in the Karst Cave who had just been discussing international trends instantly shut their mouths.

A name flashed through Lin Fan's mind, and he blurted it out.

"Wang Laoliu?"

Could Wang Laoliu, who jumped into the sea, not be dead? If the mutation factors on the island were violent enough, or if something in the sea could accelerate this alienation, the possibility of Wang Laoliu turning into a monster could not be ruled out.

Su Qingxue shook her head again, her tone very certain.

"It is definitely not him."

"I have seen Wang Laoliu; he has a huge frame and is covered in flab. Even if he became emaciated and mutated, the size of his bones is right there."

"But the thing that grabbed me yesterday had a very narrow torso and sloping shoulders."

Su Qingxue gestured in mid-air with her hand.

"With that kind of body shape, no matter how it was modified or mutated, it is impossible for a strong man's skeleton to shrink in size out of thin air."

Lin Fan lowered his brows.

Su Qingxue's logic was sound.

Skeletal structure is a hard indicator; mutation can change muscles and skin, but it is very difficult to shrink a one-meter-eighty strong man into a skinny monkey.

"Then who does it look like?" Lin Fan pressed on.

Su Qingxue closed her eyes, and after half a minute, she opened them again.

"I cannot remember the specific name."

"But the arrangement of those facial features, the height of the cheekbones, and the shape of the brow ridges... are very familiar."

"I have definitely seen that person, most likely before coming to the island or in the past few days right after coming to the island."

Lin Fan straightened his body.

Seen.

That meant that the gray monster had once genuinely been a living human.

It was one of the survivors washed up on this island.

Yang Ningcong gasped a cold breath in the corner, his entire body trembling like a sieve.

"People... it is really transformed from people... It is over... We are all going to turn into those ghostly things..."

Dr. Xu ignored Yang Ningcong's breakdown.

She took a step forward, "Since it was transformed from a person."

"That means it largely retains certain human habits."

"For example, it will have its own lair, or it will return to the place that modified it."

Lin Fan turned his head to look at her.

Xu Zhixia met his gaze and spoke the second half of the plan that she had not finished outside just now.

"Yang Ningcong said there are experimental ruins and alien texts on the island."

"Now that we are cowering in this cave, crashing around like blind men, we will only be passively beaten forever. Once the food runs out, Qingxue's belly grows bigger, and those monsters swarm up in groups, it will be a dead end."

Xu Zhixia looked around her.

"If we want to figure out the background of this island and find a way to survive, that monster is our only breakthrough point right now."

Zhou Kai leaned over leaning on a wooden stick, his face full of puzzlement.

"Dr. Xu, do you mean we should go wipe out its lair? But we do not even know where it is! The island is so big, where are we supposed to look?"

"We do not need to look for it."

Xu Zhixia spat out three words.

"Use a bait."

The air pressure in the Karst Cave suddenly dropped.

Xu Zhixia continued, "Lure it out."

"Lin Fan's speed can keep up with it. As long as it grabs the bait and runs back, Lin Fan can follow closely at a distance from behind and find its lair."

After Xu Zhixia finished speaking, everyone was left speechless.

Although the plan was good, who would be this bait?

The monster really grabs people for real. In case Lin Fan failed to keep up, or the monster went berserk midway and tore the person apart, the bait would just be a piece of meat delivered to its mouth.

Yang Ningcong directly scooted backward, his back pressing tightly against the stone wall, wishing he could embed himself into the cracks of the stone.

Liu Feifei was also trying her best to mask her presence.

Dr. Xu was a doctor, Su Qingxue was pregnant, and Song Ya was the first person to defect to Lin Fan.

Zhou Kai barely counted as combat power and was also Lin Fan's number one lackey; Lin Fan would not use him to fill the gap.

Who was left?

Liu Feifei? Or him, Yang Ningcong?

Everyone cast their gazes at Yang Ningcong.

Yang Ningcong looked at everyone's eyes; even a fool could understand what it meant.

His trump cards were all handed over, his secrets were all spit out, and now he was just a freeloading trash.

On this island, trash even breathing was wrong.

He suddenly sprang up from the ground, took two steps forward, and rushed directly in front of Lin Fan.

His two arms stretched straight forward, his wrists pressed together.

"Come on!" Yang Ningcong's voice carried a crying tone, "Tie me up!"

No one in the cave picked up the thread.

Yang Ningcong's chest heaved violently, and the veins on his neck bulged out one by one.

"What are you acting mute for? Isn't Xu Zhixia's plan tailor-made for me?"

"My background has been confessed, and I have no utilization value left."

"You bunch of people, aren't you just trying to kill the donkey after it finishes grinding the mill and burn the bridge after crossing the river?"

He shouted at the top of his lungs and wiped a tear with his hand, "Wuwu... This daddy is being tough for once today!"

"Anyway, on this lousy island, we will die sooner or later!"

"Being torn apart by that monster is still better than living in constant anxiety every day!"

Zhou Kai looked at Yang Ningcong. Although he had told him a lot about the lives of rich second-generation heirs just now...

And promised that if they could go back, he would take Zhou Kai to enjoy things a few times.

But he did not plead for him. He knew that Yang Ningcong going to be the bait would yield the maximum benefit and minimum risk.

He was the most perfect consumable; it would not be a pity if he died, and surviving would be a bonus.

Yang Ningcong took one last look at Lin Fan. Looking at Lin Fan's indifferent, deadpan expression, he fell into complete despair.

He turned his head, his gaze sweeping past Xu Zhixia, and locked firmly onto Su Qingxue.

"Qingxue," Yang Ningcong wiped away another tear, "If I kick the bucket here today..."

"If any of you can go back alive."

"Remember to make a trip to the Yang Family."

"Tell my dad and my mom that the main account is a total bust."

"While they can still move, hurry up and have another one."

"If they cannot give birth, go do IVF."

"Do not count on me anymore."

Su Qingxue's lips moved, but not half a word came out.

The last words of a wealthy young master contained no division of property, no grievances or hatreds.

There was only a remark about starting an alternative character, absurd yet somehow carrying a sense of desolation.

Looking at Yang Ningcong's cowardly look of being ready to face death, Song Ya felt a vortex of mixed emotions in her heart.

Once upon a time in civilized society, this person was high and mighty, supremely arrogant.

Now, he was not even as good as a dog.

Sunlight streamed in, hitting Yang Ningcong's body. At this moment, this rich second-generation heir seemed to be glowing.

"What are you spacing out for!"

A shrill scream broke the silence, and Liu Feifei jumped out, pointing at Zhou Kai.

"Zhou Kai, are you deaf?"

"Young Master Yang has already volunteered himself, what are you still standing there for?"

"Hurry up and tie him up with a rope!"

Liu Feifei was jumping up and down with anxiety; as long as Yang Ningcong was tied up, she would be safe...