"Thirty, fifty, twenty, sixty..."
Halfway up a small mountain, Xiao Feng was counting the debt notes in his hand, grinning from ear to ear.
In just over an hour, the transaction amount had reached nearly five million, which made all his efforts worthwhile.
"If I had known, I wouldn't have tied those people up. They were all potential clients," Xiao Feng said regretfully.
But thinking about it carefully, even if he had sold things then, he didn't have enough supplies.
Besides, regretting is useless anyway, and the current situation isn't bad!
After a bit of self-consolation, Xiao Feng raised his wrist and glanced at the watch showing the remaining number of people. Nearly forty people had been eliminated, bringing him one step closer to initiating his self-detonation plan.
Of course, Xiao Feng was now thinking that real self-detonation would be a huge loss. Why not stick it out to the end?
The mont this thought appeared, he forcibly dismissed it.
At most, he'll stick it out until only eleven people are left, and then imdiately self-detonate to end this project.
If he actually wins, what would he do about the extra points for himself?
At this mont, a "gurgling" sound ca from his side.
Xiao Feng furrowed his brow slightly; this sound seed a bit familiar...
Soon after, Xiao Feng figured out what the "gurgling" sound was.
A little girl's stomach often made this sound half an hour before eating.
In other words...
Soone... no, a client was nearby?
Realizing this, Xiao Feng imdiately stood up and shouted toward the sound's origin, "Co out!"
After a while, there was no response besides the sound of the wind.
Xiao Feng sneered coldly, "If you don't co out, I'll throw a grenade.
I'll count three, two, one. Believe it or not!
Three... two..."
"Gurgling."
There was finally a response, but it was still the sound of a hungry stomach.
Xiao Feng furrowed his brow even tighter. Could it be that he misjudged?
Could it be that it wasn't a person, but a toad next to him?
Carrying doubts and caution, Xiao Feng climbed a bit higher and looked down.
He saw a thin figure hugging their knees, curled up and shivering in a "circular space."
It had to be said, this place was indeed well hidden; from the top of the mountain, it was out of sight.
And usually, no one pays attention to places like this halfway up the mountain.
"You chose a really nice spot here," Xiao Feng couldn't help but chuckle.
As soon as he spoke, the frail person curled below abruptly looked up.
Their features were well-defined, with a pair of phoenix eyes filled with fear, a small cherry mouth, fair skin, a long ponytail, and neat bangs draping over willow-like eyebrows, exuding a delicate temperant.
Xiao Feng was montarily stunned but quickly regained composure and said sternly, "Don't act rashly, or I'll shoot, got it?"
"Mm." The woman nodded, clenching her fists, at a loss for what to do.
Xiao Feng jumped into the circular space and imdiately pinned the woman to the ground, reaching for her lower back.
That's where the grenades were usually kept.
For safety, Xiao Feng would always choose to search there first.
Because at such close range, he was confident the other party couldn't shoot, but if a grenade was pulled, there wouldn't be enough ti to escape.
In this project, grenades had far more impact than in real life.
In real life, even if you're within the blast radius, as long as you're not too close and handle it properly, you'd usually only suffer minor injuries, not fatal ones.
But in this project, if a grenade is pulled and you don't escape the range in ti, it counts as "blasted to death," a desperate weapon of sorts.
In fact, of the nearly forty people eliminated, several were because they opted for "mutual destruction."
However, this ti when he reached out, it was different from usual...
"Hmm?"
Xiao Feng questioned, "Where's your grenade?"
The woman seed to have just realized and quickly moved aside, trying to distance herself from Xiao Feng, and said tremblingly, "Soone... soone took it."
"Taken?" A look of obvious doubt appeared in Xiao Feng's eyes. He didn't believe anyone else had such a "good" heart to only take supplies and not eliminate people.
"Who took it?" Xiao Feng asked again.
The woman took a deep breath and replied, "Those seventeen core mbers."
Xiao Feng couldn't help but be more puzzled. Were Gong Kaishan and his group participating in the assessnt just to snatch other mbers' items?
For now, Xiao Feng suppressed this question and looked at the na tag on the woman's chest: Gu Shi.
At the sight of those two characters, he was taken aback, and a bold thought popped into his mind.
Which was: Could this beautiful woman in her early twenties, Gu Shi, be sohow related to Gu Shi?
Both had the surna Gu; one was nad Gu Shi, the other Gu Shi. It was suspicious no matter how you thought about it.
At this mont, Gu Shi stared at Xiao Feng, who was intensely watching her, feeling inexplicably anxious. She pursed her lips and said, "Don't do anything reckless; there are drones watching from above."
But despite her words, Gu Shi spoke without much confidence.
Because the number of drones was limited, it's impossible for everyone to have one hovering above, monitoring one-on-one.
If by chance there's none above her, wouldn't that an...
At the thought of this, the rosy color instantly drained from Gu Shi's fair face, leaving her pale.
Xiao Feng snapped back to reality, realizing she had misunderstood sothing.
But it didn't matter; the most crucial thing now was to figure out if there was a connection between Gu Shi and Gu Shi.
Decision made, Xiao Feng coughed twice and asked, "Cough, you're hungry, right?"
"Mm." Gu Shi nodded slightly, the pale beauty of her cheeks tinged with blush.
If her stomach hadn't growled, she wouldn't have been found.
Xiao Feng placed his backpack on the ground and unzipped it.
Gu Shi's eyes lit up at once: bread, milk, sausages, compressed biscuits—anything available in this project was all in the backpack before her.
Xiao Feng opened a pack of bread and handed over a slice. "Here, have so bread first."
"Thank you!" Gu Shi expressed thanks, took the bread, and took a big bite, gnawing off more than half at once. Then, realizing how improper such eating was, she chewed slowly and deliberately.
Having eaten one piece of bread, Gu Shi glanced at the packaging with many pieces left, pressed her lips together, clearly unsatisfied, yet refrained from asking for more.
Xiao Feng handed another slice to her, casually asking, "Was everything you had taken?"
"Mm."
Gu Shi nodded, perhaps due to the saying "you speak more kindly when fed," she started talking more, saying, "I don't know what happened; those seventeen people surrounded as soon as we t.
Then, when they saw my na tag, they only took my things and didn't eliminate .
I think their task is probably to take our belongings."
Finishing her story, she glanced at the full backpack, sowhat suspicious of where all this stuff ca from.
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