Finally, after much deliberation, Wang Ping and I decided to take these foreigners and Lin Xubo to find their lost companions.
I am not a kind person, but this matter concerns the safety of all of us.
After all, on this deserted island, we have no relatives, no friends, and although we don't speak the same language and are of different races, we are all alien species from outside.
At least in the eyes of those indigenous people, we are no different.
They can attack us and these foreigners at the same time, so it's inevitable that other things will happen.
Perhaps Yang Rui is right about something he said: only when we unite can we unleash greater power and continue to survive here.
These foreigners were clearly starving. We gave them the dried meat we brought, and after they carefully finished it, they picked some wild vegetables nearby to fill their stomachs.
Fortunately, under Xiao Qiang's guidance, we learned about many strange and unusual vegetables and herbs.
Besides collecting vines, it wouldn't hurt to bring some food back with us this time.
These foreigners were quite surprised. It was only then that I realized that besides mushrooms and fish and shrimp that could be caught from the sea, they could eat nothing else.
They were pitiful, stranded on a deserted island for so long, eating those fishy and smelly sea fish every day; just thinking about it makes one nauseous.
Thinking about it this way, our lives are actually much better than theirs.
At the very least, Xiao Qiang knows a lot of wild vegetables and can make a lot of medicine. Although these herbs are not as fast-acting as Western medicine, they are mild and can achieve the same effect.
In addition, I had lived in the military for so many years and had a lot of survival experience, so we were able to survive on this deserted island until now, with fruit and mutton to eat. Our lives were much smoother than theirs.
Seeing them like this, I felt they were both ridiculous and pathetic.
If they had known they would end up like this when they were stranded on the deserted island, and had traveled thousands of miles to come here to beg for peace with smiles on their faces, would they not have been so tough and arrogant back then?
After we finished eating, I sat down by the tree and looked at Lin Xubo.
"Tell me, how exactly did you get separated? Do you have a specific route? Which way did they start? If you have no clue, where are we supposed to look for them on such a big island? So you have to tell us where you separated, why you separated from them, how many people were there, and what equipment they were carrying."
This time, Lin Xubo learned his lesson and answered all my questions.
The attack on their camp by the indigenous people that night was so sudden.
Because they were sleeping and weren't keeping watch at all.
At night, I suddenly smelled something burning, along with the loud shouts and yells outside, which were quite jarring.
Lin Xubo was the first to wake up. The moment he woke up, he noticed something was wrong outside. He then kicked the foreigner who was closest to him awake.
Upon learning of the situation outside, the foreigners immediately woke everyone up. They took their weapons and ammunition to the cabin, intending to engage in a life-or-death struggle with the indigenous people.
But before they could even start fighting, things had already changed.
These indigenous people first yelled at Lin Xubo and his group, their shouts intimidating.
Lin Xubo and the group of foreigners had just woken up from a fright, so they were all a bit dazed.
At this moment, one of the indigenous people started talking to Lin Xubo and his group in a loud, incoherent way, seemingly trying to communicate with them.
But who knows what kind of weird language they were speaking? Lin Xubo and the others couldn't understand it at all.
After arguing for a while, the indigenous people, clearly impatient, pulled out some powder from their pockets and threw it at them.
Then they threw another fireball, and this time, the fire around them became even more severe.
Because that powder can make the flames shoot up instantly.
Two foreigners nearly had their buttocks burned through, and they both fled in panic. They fired a few shots, but it did not stop the indigenous people from continuing to attack them.
Lin Xubo sensed something was wrong, and that a protracted battle was clearly not in their favor, so he immediately told the group to split up and run away.
Because only when they run separately will their goals not be the same.
These indigenous people wouldn't chase and beat them relentlessly.
Moreover, even if one group is killed after they are separated, at least another group can still survive.
After a brief and quick exchange, they decided to have Lin Xubo and his group attract attention.
But to everyone's surprise, after Lin Xubo and his group ran away, the local people didn't chase after them as they had planned. Instead, they went after the other group of foreigners.
They quickly disappeared from sight, and after careful consideration, Lin Xubo and his group decided to find a place to hide first, since their chances of survival were slim if they went back to help.
So for safety reasons, they initially planned to come to our camp for our help, but that night they were too flustered, and in order to avoid being discovered by the indigenous people, they didn't even dare to light torches, and they wandered into this forest and got lost.
All night long, they endured the dampness of the earth and the pounding of dew, but they gritted their teeth and dared not utter a sound.
We originally planned to go out and look again in the morning, but before they could even get some rest, we had already found this place.
After listening to their words and watching Lin Xubo recount everything in seemingly meticulous detail, I still felt that something was strange about the matter.
Based on my understanding of Lin Xubo, how could someone as cowardly as him allow himself to attract attacks from those indigenous people?
His idea of splitting into two groups to leave was simply to leave himself a way out.
Of course, I didn't want to say these things to these foreigners, and even if I did, they probably wouldn't be able to react by now.
"Then you all got separated, so which way did the remaining people run off to?"
"At the time, we were at the seaside camp. They ran east, while we ran north. The south side was all sea, and we didn't know what dangers might be in the sea. We thought that the indigenous people's home was in these woods. We thought that if we ran into the woods, they would definitely chase after us. But who knew they would do the opposite? That's how it all happened. When do you think we can go find them?"
I looked at Lin Xubo and then at the foreigners around us: "So, you said you guessed before that these natives wanted something from you. Now you can tell me what you were wrong about, right?"
When Lin Xubo heard my question, he was speechless for a moment, but he quickly nodded very seriously, putting on a mysterious expression: "I guess they want to get women!"
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