354: Chapter 354 Can you handle it?

"He's alive, sure." Zhou Kai scratched his messy hair again. "I just don't know what your Uncle Zhang will turn into after eating it. What if he turns into a three-meter-tall old werewolf, or a giant wild boar? Can you handle that?"

Xiao Qian didn't laugh. Her gaze shifted from Zhou Kai back to Lin Fan's face.

"Why are you telling us this?"

"Because only when you know the truth will you realize that staring at her is meaningless."

Lin Fan nodded his chin toward Su Qingxue. "Even if you drained all her blood, your Uncle Zhang wouldn't be cured."

"The truly useful things are at the Island Center, and they have nothing to do with us."

Xiao Qian was silent for a long time.

"The Island Center." Xiao Qian repeated, "What is it actually like?"

"I don't know." Lin Fan told the truth, "I haven't been inside yet."

Xiao Qian's brows knitted together. "You have a Superpower and you still don't dare go in?"

"It's not that I don't dare."

"It's just that the timing isn't right."

Wu Hui tugged at Xiao Qian's sleeve and whispered a few words in her ear.

After listening, Xiao Qian's expression changed several times.

"What you said is true?" Xiao Qian looked at Lin Fan.

"Whether it's true or fake isn't up to me alone; it's something you need to confirm yourselves," Lin Fan said.

"When you sneaked onto the island during the day, that group of monsters was snatching women on the beach. You know very well whose command they are following."

"Those things are organized and disciplined, and when they capture women, they take them deep into the island."

Lin Fan turned his head to look at the corner, where Yang Ningcong was cowering.

"Use your brains." Lin Fan pointed at Yang Ningcong. "If drinking a mouthful of a pregnant woman's blood could stimulate abilities and grant a long life, such a pie falling from the sky, would he just sit back and watch?"

"The young master of the Yang Group has lived in luxury since childhood and cherishes his life the most."

"If he could become a Superman just by biting Su Qingxue a few times, would he obediently let me hold him hostage as a mine detector? Would he let a crappy knife held to his neck by you make him cry for his parents and wet his pants?"

Yang Ningcong's Adam's apple bobbed. He opened his mouth in an attempt to refute, but upon meeting Lin Fan's murderous gaze, he swallowed the words back down.

He lowered his head again, burying his face in his knees and playing dead.

Xiao Qian looked over following Lin Fan's finger. That cowardly appearance indeed did not look like a Superpower user hiding trump cards.

Her gaze shifted away, landing on Su Qingxue, who was sitting in the shadow of the stone wall.

Su Qingxue's face was pale, her hands tightly protecting her bulging abdomen, her entire back pressed against the stone wall.

The physical burden brought by pregnancy had exhausted her stamina. The subsided gunfire and slaughter below, coupled with the female mercenary's threat to draw blood and perform a caesarean section, had stretched her nerves to the limit.

"If it really is as the voice on the island said, then why don't the rest of us women drink her blood?"

Lin Fan continued, "If a little blood could really give people Superpowers, I think whoever becomes the boss of this Karst Cave would choose to let the rest of people gain Superpowers. Wouldn't that be a better way to resist those monsters?"

"Miss Xiao, I can responsibly tell you that I have already tried it. Drinking blood is useless; what is truly useful is getting those potions."

"If you want to live a long life, go to the Island Center and find those people." Lin Fan withdrew his hand. "I've said all I can, you choose for yourselves. Stay here and fight to the death with me, or go look for the real stuff."

Xiao Qian stared at Lin Fan for a moment, then helped Wu Hui up.

Wu Hui clutched her chest. The kick Lin Fan had given her earlier had hurt her quite badly, and her legs were trembling as she stood up.

"Sister Qian..." Wu Hui called out in a low voice.

"Let's go." Xiao Qian supported Wu Hui's shoulders and moved toward the cave entrance.

The two walked to the edge of the cave entrance and peered down.

On the beach below, Hall's men had lit several bonfires, and sentries patrolled the area with guns.

Going straight down would undoubtedly make them live targets, so the two could only climb upward.

The dark figures plunged into the night, completely out of sight from the Karst Cave.

Lin Fan stood in place without moving, his Triple Enhancement hearing fully activated.

All the movements were magnified several times in his ears.

"Sister Qian, do you believe what that man said?"

"Fifty-fifty."

"The logic of what he said holds up."

"If that pregnant woman's blood could really mutate people, and these people have been guarding each other every day, why did only he and that wolf grow stronger?"

"That rich second-generation guy surnamed Yang is a coward who clings to life and fears death. If he knew that drinking blood could make him stronger, he probably wouldn't look like this."

Wu Hui stopped walking, her breathing heavier, "Then what if he's lying..."

"Ahui, no matter what, there are only two possibilities."

"Either this blood has fatal side effects that they dare not touch, or the one called Su Qingxue is an ordinary pregnant woman through and through."

Xiao Qian let out a breath, "No matter which situation it is, fighting to the death halfway up the mountain won't do us any good. The group of people below are staring at this place, and they have many people and guns. We have to get ahead of them and go to the Island Center to scout it out."

Wu Hui nodded.

They hadn't gone far when their path was blocked by a fallen tree. The trunk had been torn apart, showing the sheer magnitude of the force.

"Was this caused by the group of monsters that man mentioned?" Wu Hui asked.

Xiao Qian stood up, her expression solemn, "During the day on the beach, I used a military knife to slice open a half-orc's belly. The muscle density was ridiculously high; I had to use all my strength just to cut through the muscle layer. The Island Center is full of monsters like this..."

"If you're scared..."

"Sister Qian, what are you saying! If we die, we die together."

"Uncle Zhang is still waiting for us. Even if there's hell ahead, we have to charge through it."

The sound of the two people's footsteps sounded again, moving toward the dense forest deep inside the island.

Gradually, the sound of military boots stepping on dead leaves was drowned out by the chirping of nocturnal insects, and not a trace of it could be heard anymore.

Lin Fan opened his eyes and turned back to walk.

He had just taken two steps.

"Slap!"

A crisp sound of a slap rang out abruptly in the corner of the Karst Cave.

Zhou Kai shook his wrists, his yellowish-green slit pupils gleaming with a fierce light in the dark. "Surname Yang, where are you looking with your dog eyes?"

Yang Ningcong was slapped so hard that his whole body toppled to the side, his head hitting the stone wall with a dull thud.

Clutching the back of his head, he grimaced as he climbed up, the panic deep in his eyes completely unhideable.

Just now, he was indeed peeking at Su Qingxue.

The female mercenary's words lingered in his head, refusing to go away.

Tang Monk's flesh, eternal life, Superpowers—he stared at Su Qingxue's bulging belly, and a thought popped into his head.

If he took advantage of someone's lack of preparation to get some blood to drink, he could also dodge bullets like Lin Fan, and grind all these bumpkins stepping on his head under his feet.

By then, he, Young Master Yang, would still be that high-and-mighty Young Master Yang!

As a result, just as this thought popped up and before he had time to savor it, it was shattered by a slap from Zhou Kai.

All of this was seen by Zhou Kai.

"Who was peeking at her!" Yang Ningcong shouted in defense, his body desperately squeezing into a rock cleft. "Zhou Kai, don't make false accusations. What kind of women hasn't Yang Ningcong seen? Would I want one who's been messed with by others?"

Zhou Kai stepped forward, reached out his arm, and grabbed Yang Ningcong by the collar. "Do you think I'm blind? Your eyeballs were almost glued to President Su's belly! Your drool was about to drip onto the ground!"

"I didn't!" Yang Ningcong's feet left the ground as he kicked wildly, his hands trying to pry open Zhou Kai's fingers, but they didn't budge at all. "I was thinking about those two women just now!"

"Especially the one named Xiao Qian, she looks so attractive, with such a fine figure, and the inside of the island is full of monsters."

"And there's also a Suit Man who runs so fast you can't even see his shadow. For these two women to charge in single-handedly, they're definitely going on a one-way trip and won't come back. They probably won't even have bone scraps left!"

Seeing that Zhou Kai wouldn't let go, he could only look at Lin Fan. "Brother Fan, I'm really not lying to you! Although those two chicks have some skills, running into those kinds of perverts is purely serving themselves up as food!"

"I genuinely feel it's a pity for them, isn't this wasting a heavenly gift! You too, knowing full well that they were going to their deaths, yet you didn't let me and Xiaokai have some fun..."