72: Chapter 72 The House Was Robbed

"System?" Zhang Tao's face clearly expressed, "Are you bullshitting me right now?"

"Brother Fan, if you say your life is good and your luck is tough, I believe it. But you saying you have a system..." Zhang Tao grinned with a chuckle, "Don't novels only have systems after transmigrating? If you had a system, would you be taking a three-thousand base salary at Shengtang Group and letting people treat you like a grandson?"

Lin Fan glanced at him and didn't reply anymore.

Some words, once spoken, are just jokes.

Believe it or not, it didn't matter. Anyway, not a single crab that needed to be found was missing.

Explaining a golden finger to these two bottom-tier beasts of burden? Purely a waste of saliva.

"Cut the crap, fasten the lid tightly, lift it up, and let's go back."

"Hey, got it, Brother Fan."

...

The scorching sun gradually rose, and the coolness brought by the sea breeze was quickly evaporated by the high temperature.

Chen Jian squatted beside that sand pit.

On the transparent plastic sheet, a few tiny water droplets had just condensed.

The water droplets slowly slid down the arc of the inverted cone into the plastic bottle at the bottom.

It was still a far cry from being able to quench thirst.

Surrounded by a circle of male employees whose eyes were glowing green from hunger, they stared fixedly at those few drops of water, their Adam's apples rolling wildly.

Ma Liang was holding two marine fish in his hand that he didn't know how long had been dead.

"Brother Liang, can this thing be eaten?" An employee covered his nose and retreated.

"As long as it doesn't kill you by eating it, it's fine!" Ma Liang's eyes were red as he removed the internal organs, then strung the dead fish on a branch and grilled it next to the fire pit.

Scorched by the high temperature, the stench of rot mixed with the smell of scorched protein permeated around the rock crevices.

It smelled disgusting, but for people who had been starving for days and nights, this smell drilled straight into the seams of their bones.

Ma Liang couldn't wait for it to be fully cooked; the moment the fish skin turned slightly charred and black, he ripped it off and shoved it directly into his mouth to chew.

Just at this moment, a male employee responsible for keeping watch at the edge of the rocks came running back rolling and crawling.

"Engineer Chen! Engineer Chen!" The watchman said in a hurried tone, "Lin Fan has gone down!"

Chen Jian abruptly raised his head and pushed up the glasses on the bridge of his nose.

"Lin Fan took Zhang Tao and Xiaozhou to the reef area in the southeast direction! They walked very far, at least taking more than half an hour!"

The people around grilling dead fish instantly stopped their movements.

Chen Jian stood up and patted the sand and soil off his hands.

He turned his head and looked at the steep slope with a drop of more than ten meters.

What he was waiting for was right now.

"Everyone." Chen Jian looked around at the group of male employees whose eyes were glowing green from hunger, "Lin Fan's lair is currently weakly defended."

"Up there, there are only a few women and two male employees who usually can't even carry heavy objects."

"Up there, there are dozens of boxes of nongfu spring, self-heating hot pots, biscuits, and a windproof Karst Cave."

"As long as we rush up now and occupy the cliff-top platform, those things will all be ours."

"Furthermore, as long as we occupy the cliff-top platform, it is equivalent to occupying the absolute commanding height. No matter how good Lin Fan is at fighting, he only has a knife in his hand. In front of a steep slope with a drop of more than ten meters, he is simply a living target."

Chen Jian bent down to pick up a stone and weighed it in his hand.

"If he dares to climb up, we will smash him to death with stones. How he treated us last night is how we will return it to him today."

More than a dozen male employees snatched up the thick wooden sticks and stones on the ground, fierce light gleaming in the depths of their eyes.

Starving to death was death, and being smashed to death was also death. Might as well give it a fight, snatch the supplies, and occupy the high ground.

Wang Qiang had been cowering in the corner. Hearing Chen Jian's plan, he felt this was a good opportunity to make a comeback.

As long as he led the team to rush up and seize the supplies, he would still be the highest leader of this team.

"Good!" Wang Qiang jumped out, waving a wooden stick in his hand, "Chen Jian is right! Let's rush up right now! Wash away last night's shame! Everyone follow me up, and if anything happens, I'll take the blame!"

He tried to re-establish the majesty of a supervisor.

Chen Jian turned his head and looked at him coldly.

"Supervisor Wang, you'll take the blame?" Chen Jian unmercifully punctured him, "You said the same thing last night. In the end, you ran faster than anyone else, trampling Old Chen to death and breaking Liu Hui's leg."

Wang Qiang's face flushed red as he pointed at Chen Jian's nose, "Stop your fucking nonsense! I am the supervisor, it's not your turn to give orders here!"

Chen Jian didn't buy his act at all. He stepped forward, directly closing in on Wang Qiang.

"Wang Qiang, if you dare to shout out loud one more time and lure the women above down to report the news, I guarantee you won't live past noon today."

Chen Jian's tone was extremely plain, yet it exuded a bone-chilling ruthlessness.

Wang Qiang was suppressed by this aura and instinctively took half a step back. He turned his head to look at the others.

No one spoke up to help him. Ma Liang even spat a mouthful of bloody spit onto the ground, his gaze full of disdain.

They had now been completely subdued by Chen Jian.

"Ma Liang, you take the lead and pick twelve men who are the most nimble and have the best physical strength."

"The rest of the people stay below to guard the water pit and take care of the wounded."

Twelve male employees quickly stepped forward.

They held the most handy weapons in their hands, their eyes fanatical.

As long as they went up, they could have a full meal.

"Everyone move lightly and make no sound. After going up, knock the men unconscious and tie them up directly, and control the women. Move quickly."

...

The sun rose higher and higher, and the temperature began to soar.

Zhang Tao and Xiaozhou each carried one side of the plastic box, walking on the beach strewn with rocks.

The two of them were panting heavily from exhaustion, their sweat soaking their tattered shirts.

But they simply couldn't stop.

The "rustling" sound of the green crabs crawling in the box was the most powerful stimulant.

"Brother Fan." Zhang Tao swallowed his saliva, his voice floating, "These dozens of big fat crabs, how are we going to eat them at noon?"

Xiaozhou chimed in eagerly, "Steamed! It definitely has to be steamed! For these wild seafood items, steaming can best retain the umami flavor! That crab roe, one bite down, and your mouth is full of oil!"

Zhang Tao shook his head repeatedly, "What the hell do you know! Steaming is too bland! We have the soup base for a self-heating hot pot! Let's just make spicy stir-fried crabs! Melt that beef tallow hot pot base, cut the crabs in half, throw them in, and stir-fry them fiercely! That smell, even if immortals came, they would be drooling so much they couldn't stand still!"

The two argued endlessly over how to eat them, becoming more and more excited as they talked. The sense of hunger was temporarily suppressed by this fantasy of food.

Lin Fan walked at the very front.

He didn't care about steaming or stir-frying; he only cared about how miserably those dozens of people upstairs would die.

The three of them bypassed a dense Mangrove Forest and walked to a bush two hundred meters away from the cliff-top slope.

The terrain here was slightly higher, just enough to see the full view of the cliff-top platform.

Zhang Tao habitually raised his head and glanced in the direction of the Karst Cave.

The next second.

The smile on Zhang Tao's face instantly froze, and the strength in his hands instantly vanished.

"Bang!"

The heavy plastic storage box crashed heavily onto the ground. Several large green crabs were startled and scurried wildly inside the box.

"What the fuck are you doing! Did your hand slip?" Xiaozhou's tiger's mouth went numb from the shock, and he cursed angrily.

Zhang Tao ignored him, raised his right hand, and pointed in the direction of the slope.

His voice was shrill, carrying a distorted crying tone.

"Fan... Brother Fan! It's over!"

Xiaozhou looked over along the line of sight, and his legs instantly went soft.

"The base has been raided! They sneaked up!"

"It's over! Completely over! That bastard Chen Jian led people to cut off our retreat!"

Zhang Tao was so anxious he spun around in place, tears almost falling out.

If he had known this would be the outcome, he should have killed Lin Fan last night and defected to Wang Qiang and the others.