352: Chapter 352 Melodrama

She knew she could not beat the man in front of her; the dodging movements he made on the platform during the day were so fast that even a sniper probably could not capture his trajectory.

Tonight, catching a swiftly shot fine needle between two fingers in such a short time—such reaction speed probably already exceeded the physiological limits humans should have.

Continuing to fight would mean no chance of winning, and keeping up the entanglement would undoubtedly lead to death.

Without waiting for Lin Fan to speak, Xu Zhixia stuffed the pot-ash pill used for scaring people back into her first-aid kit.

She stood up and retreated to Su Qingxue's side.

"Let him go." The woman with the high ponytail spoke, her tone lacking the initial sense of superiority, "We mean no harm."

Zhou Kai still had one hand pressed on the short-haired woman's shoulder. Hearing this, he spat on the ground, "You two crawled up in the dark in the middle of the night, brandished knives and needles, and even scratched my thighs black and blue. You call this meaning no harm?"

"Your big talk is even more ridiculous than the bragging I used to do when drinking at the KTV."

"She is simple-minded and usually doesn't know her own strength when she strikes, but you guys had the ability to defend against it."

"Besides, if she hadn't gone to grab you there, you probably would have torn her apart by now."

"And you think you're in the right?"

The woman ignored Zhou Kai's protest and looked at Lin Fan, "Big brother, we really aren't after your lives."

"Kaizi, let her go." Lin Fan spoke.

"Brother Fan..."

"She is no longer a threat, let her go!"

"Fine." Zhou Kai withdrew his hand, stepped back two steps, and casually tugged at his waistband.

He glanced with lingering fear at the short-haired woman who had just climbed up from the ground.

The short-haired woman leaned against the stone wall, coughed twice, and dark red blood overflowed from the corner of her mouth.

"Spill it." Lin Fan looked at the high-ponytail woman, "Running all the way into a dead man's Deserted Island, what do you want?"

"Saving someone."

"Saving someone?" Lin Fan twitched the corner of his mouth, "Sneaking into my territory in the middle of the night, holding a knife to my minesweeper, and telling me you're saving someone?"

Yang Ningcong, cowering in the corner, had just caught his breath. Hearing the three words "minesweeper," he failed to catch his breath smoothly and started coughing violently.

He clutched his neck, his eyes vicious, "Lin Fan! Your uncle!"

"I am the dignified heir of the Yang Group, yet you treat me like a rat clearing mines!"

"And you even said it out publicly, one day I will make you die."

"Brother Fan, I am the only son of the Yang Family after all, can you give me some..."

Zhou Kai turned his head, baring his mouth missing three front teeth, and cursed, "Shut your trap! When the knife was at your neck just now, you cried more miserably than Widow Wang in the village next to mine."

"Talk any more nonsense, and I'll throw you down to feed that group of foreigners."

"I heard foreigners like men the most..." Yang Ningcong's lips trembled twice, but he ultimately didn't retort.

Lin Fan looked at the high-ponytail woman, "Continue."

The woman took a deep breath and helped up the short-haired woman on the ground, "Her name is Wu Hui, and my name is Xiao Qian. We were both abandoned by our parents when we were little."

"It was an old scavenger who pulled us back from the brink of freezing to death. We called him Uncle Zhang."

"Uncle Zhang ate moldy steamed buns himself, and sold the scrap cardboard he picked up to exchange for clean milk powder to feed us."

Zhou Kai lowered his head to glance at Wu Hui. Wu Hui gritted her teeth, her eye sockets turning red as she stared fixedly at the ground.

"Biological sisters?" Zhou Kai couldn't help asking.

"No." Xiao Qian shook her head, "Uncle Zhang picked us up at different garbage stations in the city, but in this world, Uncle Zhang is our only family."

Lin Fan walked over to the campfire and leaned in, "Get to the point."

Xiao Qian swallowed a mouthful of saliva, "Six years ago, Uncle Zhang collapsed."

"Multiple organ failure. The doctor said we needed to transplant organs, and the cost was an astronomical figure. We were just ordinary people; washing dishes and handing out flyers—the meager money we earned wasn't even enough to pay for a single day's bed fee in the intensive care unit."

She rolled up the sleeves of her black combat uniform, revealing a ferocious scar on her forearm that extended from her wrist to her elbow.

"We couldn't make fast money domestically, so we went abroad and trained at a base for a year first."

"Then we went to become mercenaries."

Xiao Qian lowered her sleeve, "Killing, escorting, seizing territory—as long as they paid, we took any job."

"After rolling through a hail of bullets for five years, we earned enough money, and the numbers in the medical account could afford the best organ sources."

Xu Zhixia stood in the back, her brow furrowing.

As a professional doctor, she understood the perils of multiple organ failure. Even with money, one might not necessarily wait for a suitable match.

"But the money was only useful for a while." Xiao Qian's voice lowered, "The doctor issued an ultimatum; Uncle Zhang's bodily functions completely collapsed. Even if there was a match, he wouldn't survive the operating table. Modern medicine sentenced him to death."

"Then what did you run onto this Deserted Island for?" Zhou Kai scratched his messy hair, "Besides beasts and monsters, what's in this crappy place that can cure illnesses?"

Xiao Qian raised her head, staring intently at Lin Fan, "A month ago, a video leaked on the dark web, which was footage of you dodging sniper bullets. Along with it came a set of gene catalysis data."

"Rumor has it that something exists on this island that can cause human bodily functions to leap by a hundred times or more, and can even bring the dead back to life."

"Uncle Zhang's body has reached its limit; this is our only hope."

"He is a good person. Besides us, he also adopted several other children."

"So." Lin Fan crossed his arms, looking down at her, "You set your sights on her?"

Lin Fan's gaze cast toward Su Qingxue.

Su Qingxue sat on the dry grass by the stone wall. Hearing this, her hands instinctively protected her bulging lower abdomen, and her face turned somewhat pale.

Xiao Qian also looked at Su Qingxue, "I won't kill her! I promise you!"

She explained, "Although we are mercenaries, we don't harm our own countrymen, nor would we be so cruel as to cut a baby out alive."

"I've inquired about it. The blood of individuals with a Superpower contains an extremely high concentration of active catalytic factors."

Xiao Qian looked at Lin Fan again, "Since the child in her belly possesses that power, as the mother, her blood must also have the same components."

"I want blood, just blood."

"If drawing blood doesn't work, I can wait—wait for her to give birth to the child..."

Xiao Qian gritted her teeth, "Give me the placenta. If Uncle Zhang eats that, he will definitely live."

Zhou Kai widened his yellow-green vertical pupils, his jaw almost dropping to the ground.

He turned his head to look at Lin Fan, then at Xiao Qian, "Big sister, do you think this is taking traditional Chinese medicine to nourish the body? You want the placenta? That's Ziheche!"

Yang Ningcong let out a sneer from the corner, "A bunch of lunatics, really treating this place like a Xianxia world where eating a placenta lets you ascend to immortality in broad daylight?"

Lin Fan ignored the reactions of others.

He stared into Xiao Qian's eyes. Another melodrama...