Lighting a campfire made the treehouse much warmer.

Xiao Qiang's stew, which contained herbs, left me feeling warm all over after drinking it.

Xiao Qiang even used hot water to wipe Xu Wei's body, and then gave Xu Wei some herbal soup made with water.

Xu Wei's complexion had improved considerably, but she remained lying motionless on the bed with her eyes closed.

"She's in a state of shock and fright right now, and she also has a high fever. I estimate she won't be very conscious for the next few days. We just need to take turns watching her, and when she wakes up, we'll give her some water. She should be fine in a couple of days."

Wang Xiaoxiao's face was also a little pale, but after eating, and with us all there, she seemed to feel much more at ease.

"I'll have to trouble Xiao Qiang with this matter, because I know nothing about these herbs."

Xiao Qiang nodded, then turned to look at me, giving me a reassuring look.

"Don't worry, now that we've ended up here, we're family. I will never let any of you get hurt. Sihai, if you're in charge of the outside, I'll take care of the inside. I believe that no matter how difficult things get, we can get through it."

I feel that Xiao Qiang has changed completely since she was stranded on this deserted island.

She wasn't as sharp or as aloof as before; she was more like a vibrant woman, which made her exceptionally attractive to me.

But there was no time for sweet nothings now. After finishing my meal, I closed all the windows and doors before looking at Liu Jiaojiao.

"They're all a bit tired, so I really need your help to keep an eye on them for a while. Don't let the fire in the stove get too hot, or they might get poisoned due to poor ventilation. Chen Jian and I are going to check on Bai Wei, we'll be back soon, don't worry."

Liu Jiaojiao nodded after hearing what I said: "Brother Sihai, I know you're angry, but what's done is done. It's raining so hard now, what can you do if you go over there? Besides, we're outnumbered and outgunned. If Bai Wei still wants to act all arrogant, what are our chances of winning?"

Hearing Liu Jiaojiao's words, Chen Jian snorted coldly: "Hmph, if he doesn't want to live a peaceful life, then we'll certainly have some trouble waiting for him. At worst, we'll fight to the death and exchange our lives. Let's see who the hell isn't afraid of death?"

Chen Jian's treehouse collapsed, and he must be feeling terrible. On top of that, Bai Wei and his gang bullied Wang Xiaoxiao and Liu Jiaojiao. If he doesn't vent his anger, he'll probably suffocate.

And I also feel that if Bai Wei and the others continue to harbor such resentment towards me, then I won't be able to live a good life.

"Don't worry, this matter will eventually get a perfect answer, and I will definitely get back what was taken from us."

Chen Jian nodded heavily after hearing what I said. Soon, Chen Jian and I braved the rain and left our treehouse, heading straight for Bai Wei's treehouse.

When we got to Uncle Bai Wei's door, we found that the door to their treehouse was tightly closed, and the house was quiet inside. We didn't know what they were doing.

Chen Jian and I knocked on the door twice, but there was no response from inside.

I was furious, knowing that Bai Wei and the others must be avoiding me.

"You stand back, or I'll fucking tear this wooden house down today, so none of them can live here!"

After I finished speaking, I kicked open their wooden door, and the door slammed against the stone with a thud.

Inside the room, there was indeed a group of people sitting in a circle, and in front of them was a clay basin with a campfire burning inside. Many of the colleagues were squatting around the campfire to keep warm.

Bai Wei sat at the very back, wearing a wolf skin.

I didn't see Wang Ping, but several of my female colleagues looked uneasy when they saw me rush in.

"Zhao Sihai, what are you doing? It's raining so hard outside, and now you've kicked down our door, leaving us nowhere to keep out the rain. Are you trying to kill us all?"

Bai Wei is truly a prime example of the villain accusing the victim first. He bullied Wang Xiaoxiao and the others, stealing food from us, and now that I've come to settle accounts with him, he can still stand here so righteously blaming me.

That's fucking amazing!

I stepped forward and kicked over the mud basin they were surrounding. The wolf skin Bai Wei was wearing was immediately covered in sparks. Bai Wei shouted and threw the wolf skin on the ground, then quickly stomped on it.

After stepping on it, he picked up the wolf pelt and examined it closely, then his expression turned even uglier.

"Zhao Sihai, what the hell are you doing?"

"Don't you know what's wrong with me? I came to find you, and you don't know why either? I just want to ask you, when we were stranded on this deserted island, didn't you say that we were all colleagues from the company and should work together?"

"But back then, in order to eliminate dissidents, you drove me out of the camp where I had already agreed to the treehouse, and you also drove away Wang Xiaoxiao and Xu Wei. You couldn't even tolerate Xiao Qiang. Now I've led you to a new mountaintop where you can stay, and I thought you had already reformed. But I didn't expect you to be even worse. What? When I went out to risk my life to get supplies for you, you were bullying my people like this behind my back. What were you thinking?"

One of my male colleagues turned pale when he heard me wailing like that.

"Brother Sihai, don't get agitated. That's not what we meant. We really did run out of food, so we wanted to go there and borrow some from Accountant Wang. Accountant Wang, he, he..."

"What? I don't believe Wang Xiaoxiao would just watch you starve to death. If we really had enough food, we would never have neglected you like this. But you took all the shellfish and the dried goods we had dried. Have you ever thought about what Wang Xiaoxiao and the others should have done? If we hadn't come back in the pouring rain today, would all the women with me have starved to death?"

Chen Jian glared menacingly at Bai Wei, saying, "Yeah, I knew all along that President Bai is a man who can't tolerate any wrongdoing. He's probably been planning how to get revenge on us for a while now that we're not here. He's not going to go around bullying women. Humph, I think that's all he's capable of."

Upon hearing Chen Jian's words, Bai Wei immediately spat at Chen Jian.

"This is a place, who the hell gives you the right to speak here?"

"Whether he has the right to speak or not is none of your business. Bai Wei, I'm telling you now, send all our food back to me right now. Not a single shellfish is missing. If you've already eaten it, then I'm sorry, but please, everyone go and retrieve it for me. Also, I need you to apologize to Wang Xiaoxiao and the others, or this isn't over."