Chapter 14 The Truth of the Matter

Late, 7:20 PM, on the Dolphin cruise ship.

A heavy, eerie atmosphere descended upon the monitoring room.

"Just who is that?" One of the staff members frowned at the screen and muttered, "Do we have a cameraman named Kevin in our crew?"

"Impossible…" another replied. "I've been with the crew since the first season, and I've never seen such a person…"

"Then who is he?" Someone else chimed in.

"You're asking me… who should I ask?"

Similar conversations rose and fell, but frankly… they were all useless…

"Alright!" Finally, the head director, who wasn't completely deaf yet, shouted loudly, silencing the room. "Can someone explain to me… why… there's a man, carrying a camera, on this deserted island that was supposed to be sealed off?"

He spoke with a distinct cadence, his tone forceful and resonant.

The result of his words was… complete silence.

About five seconds later, the director sighed and broke the silence again. "Well… at least you could check the recordings outside the cave and in the surrounding areas to see where he came from, right?"

He scolded his sluggish subordinates as if they were children.

"Quick! What are you waiting for?" After a few seconds, the first person to react shouted, "Immediately check the footage from all cameras in Zone J from the last ten minutes!"

Although the person who shouted wasn't an important figure, everyone followed his instructions.

Of course… their actions were ultimately futile. Kevin was, after all, a summoned creature. His "relatively reasonable" entrance was only for Feng Bujue's benefit. Outside of Brother Jue's line of sight, who knew where he came from…

…

At the same time, inside the cave…

"Ha! Hahahaha…" Feng Bujue picked up his scattered belongings one by one, laughing triumphantly. "Ah~ hahaha… ah~ hahahaha…" He chuckled lewdly… err… I mean… smugly, every time he picked something up.

"Cough… let… cough… me go!" Luo Han hadn't given up struggling. Even though her neck was being choked, preventing her from exerting strength, she tried her best to attack Kevin with her hands.

However… her punches and tugs were like scratching an itch to Kevin, completely harmless.

"Give up, you're wasting your energy." Feng Bujue put the marijuana, handcuffs, and handcuff keys back into his pockets one by one. Then, holding the military shovel in his left hand and the pistol in his right, he suppressed his laughter and began to speak normally. "Even if you exhaust yourself… Kevin won't feel a thing."

"Actually, it hurts quite a bit." At this moment, Kevin suddenly turned to look at Brother Jue and said something…

"Holy moly!" Feng Bujue exclaimed in surprise when he heard the voice.

Brother Jue never expected Kevin's voice to be so shrill and comically strange, sounding like a squeaky rubber duck.

"Ha… cough cough… hahahaha…" Even Luo Han, who was pinned to the ground, started laughing, which shows how startling Kevin's voice was.

However, Kevin didn't seem to mind at all, maintaining a nonchalant expression.

"Alright, let's get down to business." Feng Bujue quickly regained his composure, although there was a hint of awkwardness in his calm. "Kevin, let her go."

Upon receiving the command, Kevin obeyed without hesitation.

Luo Han sat up, rubbed her neck, and glared at Brother Jue with hostile eyes. However… her gaze was now devoid of confidence, and there was even a hint of fear hidden within it.

"Don't worry, Miss Luo Han, I'm not like you." Feng Bujue waved the gun in his hand and said coldly, "I'm very familiar with this thing. I guarantee I won't hit your vital points, and I won't kill you."

"Stop the nonsense, what do you want?" Luo Han asked impatiently.

"I'll give you one minute to hand over everything you have on you." Feng Bujue replied. His thinking was the opposite of Luo Han's… Luo Han made Brother Jue slowly take things out because she was afraid that he would suddenly resist violently. Brother Jue wanted Luo Han to hurry up because he wasn't afraid that Luo Han would resist at all.

"Hmph… what if I don't give it to you?" Luo Han snorted coldly.

"Good question." Feng Bujue responded, then winked at Kevin. "Kevin, break her kneecaps, and search her."

"You…" Luo Han only managed to utter this one syllable. Half a second later, her kneecaps were shattered…

What shattered her kneecaps wasn't anything else but the camera that Kevin was carrying on his right shoulder (he had been carrying the camera on his shoulder the entire time, even when he was pinning Luo Han to the ground with one hand, he didn't put it down).

"Ah—" Luo Han screamed heart-wrenchingly. The pain contorted her face, and her body instinctively curled up.

However, Kevin didn't care. He wouldn't stop until he had carried out Brother Jue's order. The next second, he grabbed Luo Han's shoulder, flipped her over so that her back was facing up, and then he began to search for items.

Luo Han didn't have any place to hide anything on her body. The rain-soaked clothes revealed the contours of her body completely, so her items were undoubtedly in the pockets of those hot pants.

A few seconds later, Kevin successfully found her only two items: a small plastic bag containing marijuana, and a compass.

"See, I gave you a chance, but you didn't cherish it." Feng Bujue said.

"You bastard! Scumbag!" Luo Han cursed, tears streaming down her face from the pain and regret.

"Hmm… the ravings of a loser are always so delightful." Feng Bujue replied to the abuse with a pleasant expression. At the same time, he tucked the military shovel under his arm, freed a hand, and took the items that Kevin handed over.

After examining the two items in front of his eyes for a while (this process took about two minutes), Brother Jue sneered, "Hmph… it seems you've already eliminated 'someone', haven't you?"

"Mind your own business!" Luo Han roared back. At this point, her severe pain had subsided somewhat. Although it still hurt a lot, the pain was within a tolerable range if she didn't move around too much.

"Heh… even if you don't tell me, I can figure it out myself…" Feng Bujue glanced at the marijuana in his hand and smiled, "First of all, you don't seem to be affected by withdrawal symptoms at all, which indicates that you've already used at least one joint. But… there are still three joints in this bag."

"So what?" Luo Han replied rudely. "I successfully found multiple stashes of marijuana, is that not allowed?"

"That's impossible." Feng Bujue retorted decisively. "The first stash is a special case, it was intentionally arranged by the production team for us to find. But the rest of them… I'm afraid they won't be so simple." He looked at Luo Han and shook his head. "You yourself said that you're not competing for 'survival and challenge', so why would you go looking for stashes…"

As Brother Jue spoke, he weighed the compass in his hand and opened its cover. "And look at this compass… heh… the needle inside is completely off, the zeroing operation hasn't even been done properly." He raised his eyes to look at Luo Han. "Obviously, this was caused by someone who doesn't know how to use it."

"Hmph… how do you know I don't know how to use it?" Luo Han stubbornly argued.

"Do you?" Feng Bujue asked with a smile. "Then could you please explain to me, what is the 'intersection resection method'?"

"Fuck you!" That was Luo Han's answer.

"Hahaha…" Brother Jue laughed a few times and continued, "Alright, back to the topic… why would someone who doesn't know how to use a compass be carrying a compass?" He paused for two seconds and answered himself, "Combining the amount of marijuana you have, it's not hard to guess… you've already robbed one of the contestants. Moreover, this happened early in the game, when the other person had just found the stash of marijuana."

At this point, Brother Jue stuffed the marijuana and compass into his pockets and picked up the military shovel again. "I think… after finding your own marijuana stash, you immediately deduced that the other contestants' initial situations were the same as yours. So, you quickly moved in an arc along the outer edge of the island, trying to do some robbing. As a result, you actually found someone – someone who received a compass as an initial item." Brother Jue raised his head and licked his lips. "Who could it be…"

His mind worked at lightning speed, filtering through the ten contestants in three seconds using the process of elimination: Besides Luo Han herself and Stephen Carbon, who I'm playing… the first one that can be eliminated is Bu Bo, his initial item was a weapon, and his strategy is similar to Luo Han's, so it wouldn't be him; and O'Bama and Ysster Gu were eliminated by me, so they can also be ruled out. Then the remaining people who could have been robbed by Luo Han are… Gai Mao, Ba Feite, Luosi Chai'erde, and Lie Nong.

Luo Han is still young, and her physical fitness is definitely not bad. Her speed in finding the initial stash must be above average. Subtract the time she spent traveling… then… the person she robbed must be very slow. Only in this way would the robbed person be at their stash, and before they could even use the marijuana, be robbed by her.

"Hmm… it really is Ba Feite?" After thinking for a while, Feng Bujue muttered this sentence softly, seemingly unintentionally.

Luo Han's eyes changed visibly when she heard this.

This detail, naturally, could not escape Brother Jue's lewd… err… sharp eyes.

"Ha! It really is Ba Feite." Feng Bujue laughed.

Luo Han said in a deep voice, "How would you know…"

"Actually, I was just guessing." Feng Bujue replied, "But your reaction confirmed that it was him."

That… was a bit of a stretch.

Brother Jue's reasoning couldn't possibly be "just guessing." The main reason he said this was because he didn't want to reveal too much information.

In fact, Feng Bujue ultimately narrowed the target down to two people, one was Ba Feite, and the other was Luosi Chai'erde. These two… due to their age and build, would inevitably be slower than the other contestants. And they both seemed like the kind of people who would choose a compass as their initial item, therefore… they were the most likely victims of Luo Han's robbery.

"Hmph… alright, it doesn't matter if I tell you." Luo Han replied, "Yes, this afternoon, I robbed Ba Feite of his marijuana and compass, forced him to smash his own kneecaps with a rock, and then he quit the game." She tilted her head, "Originally, you would have suffered the same fate, Mr. Carbon…" She glanced at Kevin, "Until your helper came to spoil things."

"I see…" Feng Bujue nodded and thought, "In other words… my opponents… there are still five people left."

For some reason, at this moment… a faint sense of unease sprouted in Brother Jue's heart.

"Something's not right…" He pursed his lips and frowned in thought, "This script seems to have a difficult double main quest – [Survive on Cannabis Island for seventy-two hours] and [Complete at least six challenges given by the production team], but… the elimination speed seems to be a little too fast… according to this situation, a survivor could be determined in less than twenty-four hours…"

Thinking of this, Feng Bujue was suddenly shocked. He suddenly realized… the "real difficulty" of this nightmare script.