92: Chapter 92 Are you hallucinating from hunger?

The sea breeze, mixed with a fishy stench, swept across the beach.

Liu Gang's fingers tightly gripped Song Ya's throat.

If he used just a bit more force, this woman's windpipe would be crushed.

"You must be Lin Fan, right?" Liu Gang narrowed his eyes, sizing up the man a few steps away.

This kid carried the smell of blood on his body, his trouser legs were stained with thick mud, and he was holding a dagger that gleamed with a cold light.

"Throw away the knife," Liu Gang commanded.

Song Ya's face had already turned flushed from suffocation.

She struggled to kick the sandy ground with her feet, her vision blurred by tears.

Hearing Liu Gang's words, she struggled desperately, squeezing out a broken sound from her throat.

"Don't… don't listen to him! Lin Fan… you go…"

Song Ya knew all too well what kind of scum these people were.

If Lin Fan didn't have a weapon in his hand, he would definitely be beaten to death alive next.

They had been starving for too many days; right now, they were just a group of monsters in human skin.

Lin Fan stood in place; he didn't move, and the knife in his hand was also gripped steadily.

Throwing away the knife? Giving up weapons in a lawless place was no different from voluntarily washing one's neck and waiting for death.

He glanced at Liu Gang, and then looked at Wang Qiang, Chen Jian, and the others who were cowering in the back, not daring to make a sound.

"I can exchange supplies for her."

As soon as these words came out, the eyes of the dozen or so people on the beach all lit up.

Supplies!

Over the past few days, they had gnawed on raw crabs and licked oysters in the cracks of rocks, their stomachs hurting as if they had swallowed razor blades.

Hearing these two words now was more stimulating than hearing anything else.

Liu Gang's hand paused on Song Ya's neck.

He originally just wanted to find a woman to vent his frustrations on; he hadn't expected that this woman could actually be exchanged for supplies!

He looked Lin Fan up and down.

Liu Gang was not stupid. On this damn island where even a sip of fresh water was hard to find, supplies were more expensive than life itself.

Lin Fan was actually willing to take things more precious than life to exchange for a woman.

What did this indicate? This woman's weight in this kid's heart was definitely not light. Since it wasn't light, the price had to be quoted high.

"Supplies for a person?" Liu Gang sneered twice, increasing the strength under his hand a bit more, causing Song Ya to frown tightly in pain. "Alright, Lin Fan, you lucky bastard, with a top-notch woman like this, whoever has her wouldn't be willing to let go."

He stretched out his free hand and made a gesture.

"Bring out half of the water and food you have up there, and I'll let her go. How about it, we can make a deal, right?"

Half of the supplies.

This number made the breathing of Wang Qiang and the others grow heavy.

If Lin Fan really took out half of the supplies, they wouldn't have to wait for death on the beach.

Chen Jian stood in a corner and pushed up his glasses.

He secretly calculated how much power distribution he would be able to claim next if they really got the supplies.

Su Qingxue stood further away, watching Lin Fan.

She wanted to know whether this man, who had always been cold-blooded and cruel, would compromise for Song Ya.

Hearing the condition of "half of the supplies," Lin Fan laughed.

He casually rubbed the dagger in his hand against his clothes a couple of times with light movements, completely lacking the sense of urgency of being blackmailed.

"Liu Gang, right?" Lin Fan called out the other person's name, "Are you hallucinating from hunger?"

Liu Gang's expression sank.

Lin Fan put away his smile, his gaze sweeping back and forth between Song Ya and Liu Gang.

"Do you really think she is that important to me?"

Lin Fan pointed at Song Ya. "Just a woman, do you think I care about her, which is why I'm trading supplies for her? Then you think too highly of her, and you think too highly of yourself."

Liu Gang tightened his grip on Song Ya's hand: "Stop fucking playing dumb! If you don't care about her, why did you run down here? Do you take me for a three-year-old kid?"

"I came down simply because I thought it would be quite troublesome to be missing a handy tool."

Lin Fan's tone was very bland, "These past few days, she helped me watch the fire, helped me keep an eye on the water, and whatever I told her to do, she did. I didn't have to guard against her stabbing me in the back. If it were you guys…"

Lin Fan glanced at Wang Qiang and Chen Jian, "Even if you gave them to me for free, I wouldn't dare use them."

He took a step forward.

"Her biggest advantage is that she is obedient, simple-minded, and easy to manipulate. On this Deserted Island, such a person is just right to be a beast of burden doing odd jobs. The reason I'm willing to offer some things to protect her is because re-taming an obedient beast of burden takes too much time."

"That's all."

These words were extremely hurtful.

Song Ya, who was being choked by the neck, saw the light in her eyes dim.

Although she had long known that her only use to Lin Fan was obedience, having it stripped bare and spoken of in front of so many people still chilled her to the bone.

But strangely, she felt no resentment; instead, she faintly felt that only this way would Lin Fan not be manipulated by these people.

After listening, the flesh on Liu Gang's face twitched a couple of times.

"Stop talking nonsense!" Liu Gang roared impatiently, "Even if she's just someone who does chores, you still have to bring half of the supplies today to ransom her!"

"Half?"

Lin Fan shook his head and tucked the knife back into his waist.

He crossed his arms in front of his chest, making a posture of completely giving up negotiations.

"You're out of your mind."

He looked at Liu Gang coldly.

"The supplies I have up there are enough for me to live comfortably for several months. Now, for a dispensable tool, you want me to take out half? Am I out of my mind or filled with water?"

"Originally, I was thinking of bringing you some freshly hunted roe deer meat and a few bottles of mineral water, but since you don't care for the meat and have your eyes set on the big share I have up there, this deal can't go through."

Roe deer meat?!

An uproar broke out among the crowd.

Wang Qiang's eyes went straight: "Meat? You managed to hunt meat?"

Chen Jian's expression also changed; everyone knew what meat meant.

High-grade fats and proteins were more valuable than gold on this island.

Lin Fan ignored them, turned around directly, with his back to Liu Gang, and waved his hand.

"Now I don't want to give you meat, nor do I want to give you water. Do whatever you want with her; if you want to sleep with her, go right ahead. Anyway, I still have two people up there."

He strode forward and walked towards the direction of the cliff without even turning his head back once.

This time, it was Liu Gang's turn to be dumbfounded.

Song Ya in his hands suddenly became a hot potato.

If Lin Fan walked back, not only would they fail to get the meat or water, but they would also have to continue gnawing on dry hermit crab shells on this beach.

Once people saw hope, it was absolutely impossible for them to give it up.

Besides, could sleeping with a woman fill one's stomach? No!

"Stop right there!"

Liu Gang panicked and shouted at Lin Fan's back.

Lin Fan stopped in his tracks without turning around.

"What? Do you find her bones too bony and don't want her anymore?"

"You fucking…" Liu Gang cursed angrily. Having roamed society for so many years, he had truly never seen such a completely unyielding and stubborn tough guy.

The crowd began to whisper among themselves.

Wang Qiang worried that Liu Gang would be provoked by Lin Fan into making some wrong decisions, so he lowered his voice and said, "Old Liu… we are about to starve to death… that's meat, how about… trading for some meat instead?"

He was simply too hungry; when couldn't a woman be played with? Besides, Su Qingxue wouldn't let him touch Song Ya anyway.

For Wang Qiang, trading for supplies was the most cost-effective option, and that surge of evil fire from earlier had been poured over by the three words "roe deer meat," turning entirely into sour water in his stomach.