94: Chapter 94 But no matter how easy it is for her, it's not worth my life.

Standing on the edge of the crowd, Wang Lan instinctively clenched the hem of her clothes.

Her eyes widened, and her breathing rhythm was somewhat chaotic.

She knew her husband best—dull, obedient, simply a tool that moved wherever it was pointed.

Normally, he rarely even raised his voice in objection at home; today's stunt completely fell outside the scope of her instructions.

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This viciousness, as if he literally wanted to beat someone to death, was nothing like the Chen Jian in the company who was called a kept man.

Desperate situations could completely wipe away a person's bottom line, swapping out their personality along with it.

Wang Lan stared at Chen Jian's back, beginning to reassess her husband's level of danger in her heart.

After delivering those three kicks, Chen Jian's chest heaved violently.

He panted heavily, his eyes locked onto Lin Fan a dozen meters away.

Lin Fan still stood in place, his hands hanging by his sides, expressionless.

He wasn't impulsive, nor was he violently angry; not even his standing posture shifted by the slightest bit.

This uncommonly abnormal calmness made the muscles at the corner of Chen Jian's eyes twitch involuntarily.

He thought those few kicks of his could force out Lin Fan's bottom line and see this man looking flustered and exasperated or compromised.

But he saw nothing at all.

"Really don't care?" Chen Jian sneered aloud, turning his head to sweep his gaze across the surrounding piles of reefs.

He bent down, dug his hands into a reef weighing over a dozen catties, and used the strength of both arms to raise it high above his head.

"Since you think exchanging for her is a loss," the veins on Chen Jian's forehead bulged, "then I'll finish her off right here, sparing her from continuing to suffer."

As his voice fell, the muscles in his arms tightened, and he made a move to violently smash the boulder down onto Song Ya's head.

Several male employees standing nearby instinctively stepped back half a step, and Su Qingxue was so frightened that she directly closed her eyes, letting out a short, sharp scream.

Wang Qiang swallowed a mouthful of saliva, staring fixedly at the stone in Chen Jian's hand; at this minute, his hair stood on end towards Chen Jian.

Song Ya didn't close her eyes; she was already in too much pain to even muster the strength to move her neck.

Using the last of her peripheral vision, she looked at Lin Fan's figure, feeling somewhat relieved—at least she hadn't implicated him.

"Wait a minute."

Chen Jian's hands, holding the stone high, paused.

Hovering mid-air, he turned his head to look at the owner of the voice.

A smug arc was tugged from the corner of his mouth; he had won the gamble.

"Half of the supplies, I'll give them." Lin Fan looked at Chen Jian.

These few short words instantly quieted the group of hungry wolves on the beach who had previously had green eyes and were ready to eat people at any moment.

Following closely was a burst of heavily suppressed, coarse panting.

Liu Gang shoved away Wang Qiang who was blocking in front, stepped forward two steps, and planted a foot on Song Ya's shoulder to prevent her from struggling. He parted his cracked mouth, "Kid, wouldn't it have been over if you'd been this straightforward earlier? Hurry up and go up to move the supplies down."

"Liu Gang, do you have no brain?" Chen Jian interrupted Liu Gang's words, "If he goes up to move them alone, if he hides the good things deep inside the Karst Cave, we won't be able to see them at all down here."

Chen Jian turned to face the starving male employees and raised his voice: "Brothers, if we want to eat and drink our fill, we have to go up and get it ourselves! All the men go up and move down the half that belongs to us."

"Right! We'll go up and get it ourselves!" Wang Qiang immediately chimed in, "Lin Fan, you must go with us and tell Zhang Tao and the others not to release the stones."

"Heh."

A sneer full of mockery interrupted this group's revelry.

"All the men go up?" Lin Fan raised his head, his gaze locking directly onto Chen Jian, "Chen Jian, are you a moron, or do you think I look like a moron?"

Chen Jian's expression sank: "What do you mean?"

"How big is the Karst Cave up there? I piled the supplies inside, and the place where you can step is only about twenty square meters."

"You want me to let a dozen or so of you swarm up there? Is that exchanging supplies for a person, or are you asking me to hand the Karst Cave directly over to you?"

Lin Fan took two steps forward, closing in on the crowd.

The thick stench of blood on his body and his undisguised murderous aura made Liu Gang and Wang Qiang, standing at the very front, instinctively step back half a step.

"The reason I dared to come down alone and stand here talking nonsense with you is because I know what you're made of."

"You've been starving for three or four days, taking a little distilled water every day and chewing raw hermit crabs to sustain your lives. Your physical strength right now is barely better than being paralyzed. If I couldn't beat you and really wanted to run, you bunch of weaklings wouldn't even be able to touch my heels."

Lin Fan swept his gaze over this group of sallow and emaciated male employees.

"But once we enter the Karst Cave, the situation is different. It's a dead end, with only one path down the mountain. A dozen grown men blocking the cave entrance—even if it's a bunch of dying sick ghosts swarming up, I couldn't handle it. I only have a knife and a shovel in my hand. I don't have the ability to slit the throats of twelve or thirteen people in an instant."

"Letting all of you in would be inviting wolves into the house, using my life to fill the gap."

"I said just now, she's a handy tool, and I'm willing to give some things to protect her. But no matter how handy she is, she isn't worth my life."

Chen Jian stared fixedly at Lin Fan. Lin Fan's words indeed made sense. Although he didn't know why Lin Fan cared so much about Song Ya, he was clear that no matter how much Lin Fan cared about Song Ya, he wouldn't use his own life as a gamble.

Lin Fan gave his ultimatum, "If you want the stuff, you can only send three people to go up with me. Besides me, Zhou Kai and Zhang Tao are up there. The three of you go up, and our numbers will be about the same. To show my sincerity, I'm willing to let you move a trip of supplies first, then you return Song Ya to me, and then go back up to move the remaining supplies."

Lin Fan glanced at Song Ya lying on the sandy ground.

"If you guys don't agree, then this deal is void. You can pick up the rock right now and smash her head to pieces. If I say another half a word, I'll write my name backwards."

After finishing, Lin Fan directly turned around, leaving his back to this group of people.

He strode forward, walking toward the slope leading to the top of the cliff. Without a trace of hesitation, his footsteps were so steady it made people despair.

Chen Jian couldn't make up his mind for a moment...