Ten minutes later…

"Aha! Got it!" Feng Bujue excitedly shouted the moment he saw the firelight.

In these ten minutes, Brother Jue hadn't been idle for a moment. First, he wrung out his shirt (the system wouldn't let him take it off, so he could only wring it out while wearing it), then he felt his way into the depths of the cave, and luckily found a pile of relatively dry fallen leaves and vines (actually, anything dry and flammable would do, even animal carcasses). Then he carried the pile of stuff back to the cave entrance, and with the help of the back of his knife and a fire starter, he lit a fire on it.

"Well done, Mr. Tan (Carbon)." Upon seeing this, Luo Han, who was standing nearby, immediately showed a happy expression and praised him.

It has to be said that this was truly an ironic scene…

The contestants who came to participate in this show were all well-fed and wealthy in the outside world, but they all chose to seek pleasure through drugs.

And at this moment, in this wilderness, in the midst of thunder and rain, and in a state of hunger and cold, even a small fire was enough to make them cheer.

"Do you need to take off your clothes and dry them?" Feng Bujue put away his knife and asked.

"I'd like to," Luo Han replied, "but…" She pointed to the camera mounted high up, "…it's recording."

"I thought you wouldn't care about that," Feng Bujue shrugged.

"Hey! Acting is acting." Luo Han frowned slightly. "Just because I've shot a few revealing scenes doesn't mean I'm a pervert."

"Heh… I was just joking." Brother Jue smiled, changed from squatting to sitting, and began to untie his shoelaces (the system still allowed him to take off his shoes). "However, I think you should at least dry your feet, otherwise you might get 'trench foot'." He paused and, imitating the tone of GLaDOS, explained, "That will cause your feet to become congested and swollen, with blisters and blood blisters, leading to skin peeling… If you get an infection, you won't be able to walk, and it could even be life-threatening."

"Okay, thanks for your advice," Luo Han responded and also began to take off her shoes.

So far, Feng Bujue felt that his plan was going smoothly. The first step—"making the other party lower their guard"—had basically been completed.

In this not-so-long period, Brother Jue had unobtrusively created a relatively harmonious atmosphere; as if he and Luo Han were not competitors, but companions sheltering from the rain under the same roof (cave).

Of course, Brother Jue also understood that this sense of trust and security, generated by being in the "same situation," was essentially very fragile. As long as he made the slightest move, everything he had done before would vanish.

In addition, through observation, it could be found that… Luo Han had not completely let down her guard either. Even though she was quite polite on the surface, she still maintained a certain distance from Feng Bujue, and always faced him directly; her body was not completely relaxed, and her eyes were constantly glancing at Brother Jue, watching his movements.

In short… Brother Jue still needed a little patience if he wanted to take down the other party in one fell swoop without bloodshed.

If everything went smoothly, when Luo Han revealed an opening, she would become another Barack Obama…

…………

At the same time, on the Dolphin cruise ship, in the monitoring cabin.

"This is f***ing great." The director, Hai Mei Long, looked at a screen on the console and cursed with an unhappy expression. "We just handed the guy a knife with GPS, and the storm blocked the signal… This is really…" He then cursed with several more words starting with "f" and "s," the one starting with "f" was in the present continuous tense, and the one starting with "s" was in noun form…

Although he was cursing, his tone was still calm, and there was no hint of anger, but rather a hint of self-deprecation.

"Don't worry, Mr. Hai Mei Long," a staff member not far from him said, "Tan (Carbon) is still under our surveillance, isn't he?"

"Just call me James, kid," Hai Mei Long glanced at the other person and replied.

The staff member was indeed very young, and it was not inappropriate for Hai Mei Long to call him a kid.

"Okay, Hai Mei Long… uh… I mean, James."

"Heh…" Hai Mei Long shook his head with a smile, paused for two seconds, and continued, "Kid, conventional surveillance is not enough when dealing with people like Stephen Tan (Carbon)." He turned his gaze to the monitoring screen showing Brother Jue and Luo Han, "If he wants to, he can completely dismantle the camera in the cave, just like before. So… GPS is very important, that's our bottom…"

His words stopped there, and he didn't say the last word "card," because something else happened on the monitoring screen in front of him…

…………

At the same moment, in the cave.

Luo Han, sitting by the fire, was looking at Brother Jue with a smile, and in her hand, she had something extra—a pistol.

"Why do you have a gun…" Brother Jue, who had been forced back to the wall, did not show any panic, but in his heart he was roaring, "What the heck is going on!"

"Heh… of course I got it from Bell (according to the rules of the competition, each contestant can bring ten items to participate, but before they go to the island, the program team will confiscate all these items. When Bell appears in front of a contestant, the latter can collect one of the items they brought from him)." Luo Han smiled. "What did you get? That military shovel? Or that knife?" As she spoke, her eyes swept over the two props beside Brother Jue and on his waist. "Ah… actually, I'm not interested…" She tilted her head and flicked her hair. "Stephen, you're a smart person, you should understand… from the very beginning, my thinking was different from yours. As the old saying goes—men conquer the world, while women conquer men. Heh… while you people are focusing on things like 'survival, challenge,' I've already come up with a more brilliant plan…"

"Guarantee survival through plunder, and win by eliminating others…" Feng Bujue took over the other party's words.

"Heh… you're quite quick-witted," Luo Han responded with a smile. "It's a pity that you only realized it now, it's a bit late." At this point, her expression suddenly turned cold. "Alright, let's stop chatting here, now, take out everything on your body and put it on the ground, one by one."

"Don't you think this threat is ridiculous? You and I both know that you can't shoot me dead." Feng Bujue would not give in so easily, he would definitely try to talk his way out of it.

"Hmph… I certainly won't 'shoot you dead'…" Luo Han sneered, and slowly moved the muzzle down. "However… I can put a bullet in your knee."

"Hey… wait a minute…" Feng Bujue's cold sweat broke out at that moment. "Gunshot wounds are not a joke, even if they hit your arm or leg, you can still die…"

"Nonsense, of course I know that," Luo Han replied. "If I wasn't worried about accidentally killing you, I would have shot a long time ago… It's more convenient and safer for me to search your body after I take you down." She paused. "So, I advise you to do me a favor, and do yourself a favor… obediently hand over everything, and then pick up a rock and smash your own knee." Her tone sounded just like Brother Jue's a few hours ago. "That way, I can save a bullet, and you can withdraw from the competition with only a fractured injury."

Having said this, Luo Han suddenly raised the muzzle and aimed it at Brother Jue's face: "If you want to resist to the end, or naively think that I won't shoot…" She took a few steps back slightly, as if she was afraid of being splattered with blood, "I can't guarantee… where the bullet will finally hit."

"Damn it… the NPCs in this script are really all kinds of arrogant and domineering, all kinds of decisive in killing…" At this moment, Feng Bujue thought in his heart, "I might as well just force quit… Anyway, I've already obtained a legendary weapon, so it's not a wasted trip…"

Although this idea was quite correct, Brother Jue was ultimately a person who refused to admit defeat. He only took two seconds to sweep this thought out of his mind, and then said, "Okay, okay… don't shoot… I'll do it…" As he said that, Brother Jue took a few steps forward, away from the wall, and reached for the pocket behind his pants.

"Don't play tricks, take it slow…" Luo Han's eyes were fixed on Feng Bujue's every move. "We have plenty of time."

"I'll remind you… you pointing a gun at me like this is likely to attract…" When Feng Bujue said this, he looked up at the camera.

"You don't need to play these psychological tactics with me, Stephen," Luo Han interrupted Brother Jue and continued in a calm tone, "In this cave, you can call to heaven and earth, but no one will answer." She raised the gun in her hand, "The gun is in my hand, I can do whatever I want. Even if the program team feels that something is wrong… heh… in this kind of stormy weather, by the time they send someone over, it will be too late…"