The tall and thin man suddenly turned around and knelt down towards Lu Ye with a plop, not caring about the cold water, his voice filled with tears.
"Brother Lu! Brother Lu! We were wrong! We were really wrong! We are not in the same group as him! We will kick him into the sea right now! Please have mercy on us and spare our lives!"
Another companion also knelt down and kowtowed repeatedly.
"Yes, yes, yes! Kick him down! We'll do whatever you say! All we ask is that you give us a chance to live!"
Watching the final chapter of the farce on the sampan, Lu Ye slowly retracted the whaling hook, and the sharp barb flashed a terrifying cold light under the light of the torch.
"No need." Lu Ye waved his hand, his voice as cold as ice.
"Killing people doesn't make my hands dirty. If you want to survive, it's easy. Hand over all the supplies you have and get out."
Liu Chenggong collapsed on the sampan. When he heard this, the last glimmer of hope in his heart was shattered.
If he had known this would happen, he would not have been so obsessed as to steal things, let alone run away!
Now, not only has he been deserted by his friends and family, but he can’t even keep the last bit of belongings he had collected with great difficulty.
The two companions also looked pained and complaining.
Trembling, they pulled out the few things they had from their arms - two small bags of unknown seeds wrapped in waterproof bags, and a bottle of cheap hair spray with only half of it left.
This is all they have gained in the past few days.
"That's...that's all..." The tall and thin man raised the things above his head tremblingly, fearing that Lu Ye would not be satisfied.
Lu Ye glanced at the pitiful supplies without any expression.
With a slight flick of the whale hook, the rope on the hook accurately wrapped around the two bags of seeds and hairspray, and then with a sudden pull, the things were rolled back.
"Very good." Lu Ye weighed the things in his hand and threw them to Su Baiyue behind him.
"Now, get out of here. Before I change my mind."
The two men got up in a hurry as if they had been pardoned. Without even looking at Liu Chenggong, they paddled desperately with the simple wooden oars in their hands, driving the small sampan with a hole in it that was constantly taking in water, and fled in panic.
Watching the small sampan that could capsize at any time disappear in the wind, waves and night, Shen Shu breathed a long sigh of relief, feeling that the depression in her chest was swept away.
"It's so satisfying!" She snorted softly, her tone filled with undisguised joy.
Su Baiyue also nodded slightly and agreed in a low voice.
"Lu Ye, you've been kind to them. At least, you didn't eliminate them right here."
In this cruel game, elimination often means death.
Lu Ye waved his hand noncommittally and put away the whaling hook.
He ignored the sighs of Shen Shu and Su Baiyue, but turned around and picked up the military telescope that he had just put aside, and carefully observed the sea area to the south.
Only after the small sampan completely disappeared from his sight did he put down the telescope and give instructions to Su Baiyue.
"Su Baiyue, put up the sails, we are ready to set off."
Su Baiyue was stunned: "Now? Where to?" Although the wind and waves were smaller than before, sailing at night was still dangerous.
Lu Ye pointed to the south, a meaningful smile on his face.
“There are good things in the south.”
He paused, then added with a certainty, "I just scanned the area with my telescope and vaguely saw several airdrop boxes floating in the southern sea area. We need to hurry now, while the storm has just passed and the others haven't reacted yet."
"Airdrop box?" A hint of surprise flashed in Su Baiyue's eyes.
Airdrop box? Su Baiyue frowned slightly, a hint of disbelief flashing across her eyes.
She had been rummaging around in this ghost place for two days. Every wooden box that came by was like looking for a needle in a haystack. It took her a lot of effort to get one, and the contents were often unsatisfactory.
As for the grand sight of "several" airdrop boxes piled together as Lu Ye mentioned, she had never heard of it before and it was simply unbelievable.
The doubts in his heart grew like seaweed, but Su Baiyue did not express them out loud.
After experiencing the farce caused by Liu Chenggong and his gang just now, she had a subtle respect for Lu Ye's judgment.
Although this man is young, he acts with a reassuring decisiveness.
She walked silently to the side of the boat and began to skillfully adjust the ropes, raising the simple sail again.
The sails fluttered, the speedboat changed direction, broke through the rippling night, and sped towards the south where Lu Ye pointed.
The speed of the speedboat was quite impressive after the upgrade. Not long after, an area of sea with floating objects appeared in front of the three people.
With the firelight coming through the window of the wooden house and the faint light of the stars and the moon in the night sky, I could see more than a dozen boxes of different sizes gently rising and falling with the waves.
Lu Ye's eyes were sharp and he quickly scanned the area.
"Hmm?" He uttered a light huh.
These boxes are... different.
A small number of them, about three or four, looked exactly the same as the boxes he had used to get the novice gift pack through the "Courier" system before, with a simple wooden structure.
However, more boxes, which occupied the vast majority, had all kinds of strange patterns on their surfaces that had never been seen before. Some were spiral-shaped, some were covered with diamond-shaped grids, and some even had a faint metallic luster, which looked quite strange in the dim light.
"Let's do it." Lu Ye gave the order directly without much explanation.
"Chen Shu, Su Baiyue, use your grappling hooks to only retrieve those plain wooden boxes without any patterns. Don't touch any of the others!"
"Why?" Shen Shu almost blurted out.
She frowned and her eyes wandered back and forth over the boxes with strange patterns.
"Shouldn't the system deploy as many supply crates as possible? Surviving at sea, any bit of resources can mean the difference between life and death. Besides... the delivery rate of ordinary crates has always been very low. Why should we give up on those that look more special?"
She felt that Lu Ye's decision was somewhat arbitrary.
Lu Ye glanced at her sideways, his tone calm but with unquestionable certainty.
"intuition."
"Intuition?" Shen Shu was stunned, obviously dissatisfied with the answer.
How can such a choice concerning survival be made based on vague intuition?
But looking at Lu Ye's deep and calm eyes, she finally pursed her lips, suppressed the rest of her words, picked up the grappling hook, and aimed at an ordinary wooden box.
Forget it, just listen to him.
Su Baiyue, who was standing by, carefully controlled the hook to hook towards another ordinary wooden box, and he was also muttering in his heart.
What a pity... There are so many boxes right in front of me, but I can only pick those "ordinary goods".
Even if Lu Ye was lucky, blessed with some hidden identity as a "lucky guy," the supplies he received were real. This act of actively giving up most of the potential gains was unwise no matter how you looked at it. He was simply like a prodigal.
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