99: Chapter 99 Wang Lan, what are you doing causing trouble?

"Not enough... I want to eat more..." A female employee clutched her stomach.

The others also stood up with red eyes, "Engineer Chen! Is this all gone? Just this little bit of stuff?"

"Engineer Chen, there is still meat here, why don't we eat these right now!"

Chen Jian finished eating his own flatbread and felt his physical strength recover a little.

He looked at the few pounds of raw meat on the ground.

This was high-grade protein after all; he had to find an excuse to secretly hide it away himself and then eat it slowly.

After all, everyone trusted him now, and whatever he said went.

"All this meat is protein, let's keep it to eat tonight; right now the priority is to get the other supplies first."

Right at this moment, Liu Gang took a step forward.

"Chen Jian." Liu Gang said loudly, "Lin Fan has spoken, if you want to get the remaining half of the supplies, you must hand over Song Ya. Up there are stacked boxes of ham sausages, self-heating rice, and quite a few boxes of instant noodles like this!"

This sentence directly detonated the crowd.

"Send her up! What are you waiting for!" Someone screamed, "Song Ya was his person to begin with, it is only natural for her to go exchange for food!"

"Right! Wake her up and escort her up!"

In the face of extreme greed, people's brains instantly dropped to zero.

Chen Jian glanced at Song Ya, who was lying unconscious in the distance.

Leaving this woman here was no use anyway; unless it was an absolute last resort, no one wanted to eat their own kind.

Right now, trading Song Ya for food was the best choice.

"Alright." Chen Jian nodded and waved a male employee over, "Go, get some seawater to splash that woman awake, and then the three of you take her up."

Chen Jian's brain wasn't very functional to begin with, and the only reason he could get others to listen to him was entirely thanks to his wife.

He wasn't even as smart as the others, so under the temptation of food, he didn't think twice.

"Wait a moment."

A female voice suddenly interrupted Chen Jian's deployment.

The beach instantly fell silent. Everyone turned to look.

Wang Lan was wearing a wrinkled professional suit, her hair coiled up at the back of her head with a branch. Although she was similarly sallow and emaciated, her eyes exuded a calmness that was completely out of place with the fanaticism on the beach.

Wang Lan, Chen Jian's legal wife.

After seeing Chen Jian's madness, she suddenly figured things out clearly.

Even if she offended Su Qingxue, she could no longer let Chen Jian be the person in charge.

If Chen Jian turned against her and stopped listening to her, she might end up being killed by Chen Jian in the end.

Only by letting everyone see her value could she survive.

Seeing Wang Lan walk out, Chen Jian subconsciously stopped speaking, his eyes filled with anger.

Wang Lan did not look at Chen Jian, but walked straight up to the pile of supply packaging bags, lowered her head to take a look, and then raised her head, locking her gaze onto Wang Qiang and Liu Gang.

"We absolutely cannot release Song Ya first."

"Wang Lan, what kind of trouble are you stirring up!" Wang Qiang felt guilty and immediately raised his voice, "If we don't release Song Ya, who is going to get the remaining supplies up there? How is that bastard Lin Fan going to hand them over."

Wang Lan sneered, took a step forward, and her gaze swept across the faces of the three men.

"What kind of person is Lin Fan? He occupies a natural stronghold up there, and he has so many supplies in his hands that they could crush someone to death. Would he hand over half of his net worth for a woman who only knows how to do manual labor?"

Wang Lan pointed at the empty boxes on the ground.

"Since he doesn't care about Song Ya, why would he give this first batch of sincerity?"

Zhao Hai also spoke up.

"Everyone think carefully, if Lin Fan really wanted to exchange people, he could easily have let us escort Song Ya to the hillside, delivering the person and receiving the goods with one hand. Why did he specifically have the three of them bring a little bit down first?"

Everyone was stunned, their originally heated brains doused with a basin of cold water by Wang Lan's words.

Yeah, why?

"The only explanation is—" Wang Lan's eyes turned completely cold as she stared at Wang Qiang's stomach, "Lin Fan never intended to give a second batch at all. The little bit of things he gave is not sincerity, but bait."

Wang Lan closed in on Wang Qiang, "Supervisor Wang, up there, apart from making you move things, didn't Lin Fan do anything else? For example... letting you eat your fill?"

"Bullshit!" Wang Qiang instantly bristled, his face turning red with anger, "If we had eaten it, could we still bring it down to share with you all?"

Liu Gang was also anxious, clenching his fists as he stepped forward: "Stinking bitch, if you talk nonsense again, I'll slap you along with her!"

"Feeling guilty?" Wang Lan did not back down; she knew this kind of guilty reaction all too well.

As an accountant, she could tell who was embezzling just by looking at the account books, and seeing the current state of these three men, she knew there was definitely something fishy about them.

"If you guys hogged the food all to yourselves up there, and Lin Fan also instigated you to alienate yourselves from the people on the beach. You brought this half-assed batch of supplies down just to win our trust and then take Song Ya up."

"And Lin Fan promised you that as long as the three of you take Song Ya up, the other half of the supplies up there will be yours."

"He also told you that three mouths consume supplies definitely slower than over twenty mouths."

"The three of you, don't fall for it."

"As long as you take Song Ya up, in that place up there, Lin Fan has a knife, and taking care of you will only be a matter of seconds."

Wang Lan's analysis was extremely precise.

For a moment, everyone's gazes became suspicious and uncertain.

The crowd that had originally been impatient to trade Song Ya for food also stopped their movements.

If they really sent Song Ya up, they would lose all their chips, facing not only Lin Fan's blockade but also the trio who might have already defected, and Chen Jian would immediately become the target of public criticism.

"Wang Lan is right." Chen Jian immediately changed his stance and shouted loudly, "Lin Fan is playing tricks! Song Ya must not leave the beach even half a step! Get the rope and tie her to the tree trunk! As long as she is still in our hands, Lin Fan won't dare to act rashly!"

Wang Qiang and Liu Gang exchanged glances. A fierce glint flashed in the depths of Liu Gang's eyes.

Lin Fan had calculated the first step and the second step, but he probably hadn't calculated that there was still someone with a brain like Wang Lan on the beach.

On the towering Karst Cave platform.

The sea breeze blew fiercely.

Zhou Kai stood at the edge, carefully sticking out half his head, taking in everything happening on the beach below.

He couldn't hear what they were arguing about below, but he could clearly see that Song Ya was tied back up, and the crowd began to experience internal strife, pointing fingers at each other and pushing constantly.

Zhou Kai took a deep breath and turned to look at Lin Fan, who was sitting by the campfire whittling wooden strips.

"Brother Fan." Zhou Kai swallowed his saliva, finally unable to hold back the question in his heart, "How come they seem to be arguing down there? And they tied Song Ya back up again. Just now... what kind of idea did you give those three, Wang Qiang?"