83: Chapter 83 What's the point of keeping a few ungrateful snakes?

"It's wild bananas, you idiot." Lin Fan walked forward, pulled out his dagger, aimed at the main trunk of a banana tree laden with fruits, and slashed down with one swift motion.

With a "click," dozens of fully ripened bananas crashed heavily onto the leaf-covered ground.

Lily pounced on them directly, completely ignoring the mud on the ground, and with trembling hands, peeled a banana and shoved the whole thing into her mouth.

The wild bananas weren't big, but the flesh was soft, sticky, and sweet. That long-lost feeling of fullness and sweetness rushed straight to her brain.

"Delicious! So delicious!" Xiao Qin also peeled one and devoured it ravenously.

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For people like them who had been starving for days and had only been allotted a few mouthfuls of instant noodles, this was simply an absolute delicacy.

"Bag them up." Lin Fan didn't eat any, but instructed them instead, "The men carry the banana trees, and the women pack the bananas."

The water content inside a single banana tree was even more than what Chen Jian and the others collected from dozens of distilled water devices.

Although the few of them wouldn't be able to eat it, bringing it back to Zhang Tao and Zhou Kai seemed like a good choice.

The women immediately got to work, frantically stuffing the bananas on the ground into woven bags.

They laughed as they stuffed.

Being able to find such a large patch of food made them feel that this trip was totally worth it.

At least they wouldn't be woken up by hunger tonight.

In just half an hour, their woven bags were already half full.

"Brother Fan, you're amazing! To think there are so many good things in this forest!" Lily took the opportunity to flatter him.

Lin Fan ignored her and looked ahead.

[Fifty meters straight ahead, downwind.]

[A dead roe deer has been found, time of death: two days.]

[Cause of death: Bitten to death by a large animal on the island; it wasn't eaten because a giant python appeared.]

[The meat is not rotten and is safe for consumption.]

Meat.

Absolute high-grade protein.

Lin Fan tightened his grip on the wooden stick in his hand and quickened his pace.

Passing through a patch of waist-high bushes, a strong smell of blood hit them face-to-face.

In a dirt pit lay a mutated roe deer comparable in size to an adult calf.

Its neck was almost completely bitten off, and its fur was covered in dried blood, but otherwise, its body parts were intact and undamaged.

"Holy shit."

Lily and the other two following behind simultaneously drew a sharp breath.

Immediately afterward, extreme ecstasy surged onto their faces.

"Meat! It's meat!"

Xiao Qin was so excited she almost jumped up, her voice even cracking.

"This must be over a hundred catties! This is too exaggerated!" Xiao Liu covered her mouth with both hands, greed flashing in her eyes.

"Brother Fan! If this meat is roasted... Goodness..." Lily swallowed her saliva and pressed her entire body directly against Lin Fan.

"Cut the crap, empty the woven bags, dismantle the legs, and find a way to carry the rest of the meat back." Lin Fan pulled out his military shovel and started cutting.

Just the moment he raised his shovel.

The light golden characters on his retina instantly turned blood red!

[Extreme danger warning!]

[100 meters due north, a large number of high-risk creature nests detected.]

[Creature type: Mutated red imported fire ant colony!]

[Characteristics: Affected by the magnetic field of the Devils Triangle, their size is magnified by three times, and their venom undergoes a qualitative change.]

[Fatal threat: After being bitten, the neurotoxin will induce acute anaphylactic shock within 10 seconds and cause respiratory failure and death within 3 minutes!]

Lin Fan slowly withdrew his gaze looking toward the north.

He turned his head to glance at Lily and Xiao Qin, who were squatting next to the roe deer with their hands covered in bloody mud.

Xiao Liu was wiping her hands with a banana leaf nearby, and the two male employees had already started discussing how many meals this roe deer would last.

Six people.

The six people who banded together last night to fabricate lies and nail Song Ya to the pillar of shame.

Song Ya helped them get biscuits to sustain their lives, and they turned around and pushed Song Ya out to be the scapegoat.

Song Ya spoke nicely for them in front of him, and their way of showing gratitude was to stab Song Ya in the back.

Lin Fan didn't care about good and evil.

Good and evil were things of a civilized society; on this island, he only cared about one metric—whether it was controllable or not.

Today they could sell out Song Ya, and tomorrow they could sell him out.

What's the point of keeping a few ungrateful snakes? To keep them for the New Year?

Xiao Qin and Xiao Liu went without saying.

Wall-riders didn't even have the backbone of wall-riders; at least wall-riders knew which way to fall, but these two couldn't even see the wind direction and purely followed whoever had the loudest voice.

Keeping such people by his side was no different from burying a ticking time bomb under his pillow.

As for those two male employees, cannon fodder was cannon fodder; they weren't even worthy of having him remember their names.

"Don't rush to cut it up yet."

"There are still good things ahead."

Lin Fan casually pointed a wooden stick toward the north.

"I glanced over when I passed by earlier. There is an open space over there with a large patch of red wild fruits fallen on the ground. They are bigger than a fist, fully ripe with no one picking them, and rotting all over the ground."

"Really?!"

Xiao Liu was the first to jump up, her eyes instantly lighting up.

Xiao Qin also rubbed her hands excitedly: "Where, where? Bigger than bananas?"

"Just walk straight north, about a hundred meters." Lin Fan crouched down, unhurriedly pulled out his military shovel, and began dealing with the roe deer's hind leg joints.

"You guys go over and pick them first, pack as much as you can. I'll dismantle the meat here, and we'll go back together after you finish packing."

His movements were steady, his tone casual, and his gaze was entirely on the roe deer.

Lily hesitated for half a second.

She subconsciously observed Lin Fan's expression, and it didn't look like he was lying.

Furthermore, the red wild fruits Lin Fan mentioned...

Bigger than a fist. If she led people there first and picked all the fruits, all the credit would go to her, and after going back...

Greed instantly overwhelmed all her alertness.

"Let's go!" Lily called out to the others, snatched an empty woven bag from the ground, threw it over her shoulder, "Let's hurry over, pick them up, and come back early to help Brother Fan carry the meat!"

Without even discussing it, the few of them plunged headfirst into the dense bushes to the north.

The footsteps rustled, going from near to far.

Lin Fan didn't raise his head.

Squatting beside the roe deer, hand raised and shovel falling, the sharp blade of the shovel precisely cut into the gap of the hind leg's ball-and-socket joint, completely separating the femoral head from the acetabulum.

Thirty meters.

The footsteps became faint.

Fifty meters.

The sound of bush branches being parted was already very soft.

Seventy meters.

Almost inaudible.

Lin Fan stopped the movement in his hands.

He slowly stood up, pulled out the shovel, and wiped the blood stains on the shovel blade twice against the rotting leaves.

Then, he took two steps back and leaned his back against a thick tropical tree.

Facing north.

Waiting.

Lily walked at the very front.

She parted the waist-deep bush branches, stepping on a layer of rotting leaves that felt abnormally soft, walking deeper and deeper.

The muggy air wrapped around her face like a soaked towel, and every breath was sticky.

"Why haven't we seen it yet?" Xiao Qin panted heavily behind, tripped by a low-hanging vine.

"Brother Fan said to walk straight north for a hundred meters, we've only walked halfway."

Lily lowered the branches, "Almost there, almost there."

The ground under her feet quietly changed without her realizing it.

The soft rotting leaf layer gradually thinned out, replaced by a fine, granular sandy soil.

Dry and loose, its color was a full two shades lighter than the surrounding brown dirt.

Faintly visible on the ground were some rice-grain-sized holes.

Densely packed.

It looked like someone had used an extremely fine nail to punch tens of thousands of holes on the soil surface.

Lily didn't notice.

All her attention was ahead. "Look!" Xiao Liu pointed at the gap in the bushes, "There seems to be something red ahead!"

Through the sparse leaf gaps, a large patch of red could indeed be seen spreading across the ground ahead.