DF Chapter 57

Chapter 57 She turned her head and looked at her companions.

Chapter 57 She turned her head and looked at her companions.

When they found Tawana, she was in the coconut grove, knocking down coconuts to eat. Her dark brown hair provided an excellent camouflage effect in the coconut grove where the trunks were also dark brown, which allowed her to use her sickle to knock down one after another with great peace of mind, until Song Ji’an and the others pinned her to the ground.

“What are you doing?” Tawana was obviously struggling on the ground, but Sheng Jia and Song Ji’an’s suppression techniques were extremely skilled, making her struggle like a turtle turned on its back.

“Looks like we found her one step ahead of Dongzhen.” Meng Yeran had a lollipop found in the castle kitchen in her mouth, bent down and rubbed Tawana’s fair face with both hands a few times. “Tawana, you only have two choices now, first, help us find clues, second, be locked up by us somewhere and not see the light of day for three days.”

“Ladies, isn’t this a bit too much?” Tawana stopped struggling and negotiated vaguely, “Why should I suffer for your game? If I leak the game secrets, Ms. Serena will be angry with me.”

“Also, just talk, can you please stop rubbing my face all the time?”

Meng Yeran laughed, “No.”

Although Tawana is Russian, she doesn’t have the stereotypical Russian coldness and chiseled face. On the contrary, she has a round face with some flesh on her jaw, which feels very good. Meng Yeran has liked to tease her for the past few years.

“Okay, okay,” Tawana continued, “but I still can’t accept your request.”

“Serena didn’t say you can’t participate in our game, did she?” Song Ji’an suddenly said, “Isn’t the reason she left you and Sister Zhou on the island to tacitly allow you to be one of the NPCs from whom we can get help?”

“Besides, Sister Tawana, you don’t have a choice. You and Sister Zhou are the only ones on the island who know Serena’s arrangements best. Since we’ve come to find you, Dongzhen and the others must have gone to look for Sister Zhou’s whereabouts. If you don’t help us, then we can only choose to lock you up somewhere, and Dongzhen and the others can’t get the information we can’t get.”

Tawana was silent for a moment. Sheng Jia and Song Ji’an exchanged glances and began to take out ropes from their bags with great understanding. She immediately said with discernment, “Okay, okay, I promise you.”

Only then did Meng Yeran release her hand that was rubbing her. She picked up the four coconuts that Tawana had just knocked down from the ground, tapped the tops of the coconuts a few times with great skill, and then opened them all. She politely handed them to Tawana, “Sister, drink quickly, drink up and get to work. You need to know how much effort we spent to find you, we will definitely not let you escape easily.”

“Is this the future capitalist?” Tawana muttered and took the coconut. Meng Yeran opened the coconut extremely well, with almost no broken edges. This was something she taught Meng Yeran when she came here before.

“Why didn’t Dongzhen come to find Tawana?” They chatted while Tawana drank the coconut juice.

“Is it that easy to find me?” Tawana expressed her dissatisfaction.

“Yes, much easier.” Song Ji’an explained to her, “Sister Zhou’s thinking is much more meticulous than yours. Just like you only realized now that you can become an NPC, she probably knew about it a long time ago, so she hardly left any traces on the road.”

“But there are many more traces of you.” She pointed to the leaves on the ground, “You like to drink coconut with wine, you never miss it every day, and you don’t like to drink mixed drinks, you prefer freshly picked coconuts, and you have a fixed time every day, we came here to find you at this time, it’s easy.”

“Dongzhen probably thinks it’s too low to come find you and there is no challenge,” Meng Yeran snorted, “According to Auntie Serena’s personality, the clues will definitely not be evenly distributed. The information you and Sister Zhou have must be very different. It’s very in line with her character to choose to go directly to Sister Zhou.”

“She always likes choices that are more challenging and have higher returns.”

Tawana was slightly stunned, then touched her chin and realized that they were indeed right.

After the group rested, Tawana exported a picture from her phone, which had six location points on the island, which were the locations she knew that had clues.

This required walking around most of Ansdert Island, and without transportation and only relying on foot, it would take at least three hours, and that was just walking time, not including decryption time.

“The best way should be to split up,” Sheng Jia said slowly, staring at the map, “We can group the six points in pairs. There is still one hour before twelve o’clock, enough for us to go to the nearest four points in advance, and then come back to meet up.”

After twelve o’clock, it meant that they would be in danger and could be eliminated by Dongzhen and the others at any time, so it was best to stay together.

So this time the action time was only one hour.

The final decision was that Sheng Jia and Tawana would be in a group and go east, while Meng Yeran and Song Ji’an would be in a group and go west.

The group did what they said. Sheng Jia ate a few coconuts and walked to the other side with Tawana.

The east side of the island was a dense forest. This was probably the only area with tropical plants besides the coconut grove. It was arranged by Serena to resemble a real tropical rainforest. There might even be small pets she introduced—a few beautiful pythons. Usually, they were well-fed and generally would not attack humans.

Song Ji’an and Meng Yeran had both gone in to play before, and the golden pythons inside were extremely beautiful.

Tawana had no burden traveling with Sheng Jia. She could even occasionally introduce her to the variety of each tree inside after entering the dense forest.

The two quickly found the first clue under a towering tree covered with moss.

The small note was placed between the vines. Sheng Jia’s fingertips touched the soft and moist moss plants. When she pulled out the card, there was even a small snail on it.

But the card was of excellent quality. Even if it was treated like this, it was still very strong, and even the words were not blurred. The waterproof material kept the black and gold writing on it clear.

It was an invitation.

But this time the name under the invitation was different from the name shown on Meng Yeran’s ticket—Dream.

Dream come true.

This invitation detailed how Serena invited Dream from across the distant ocean to her island. Dream was originally an excellent researcher. Serena invited her not only out of the friendship she had during her past studies abroad, but more so in the hopes that she could come to Ansdert Island to set up a scientific laboratory to study the volcano on the island, because a volcanic eruption was imminent, and she wanted to save the things on the island, so she needed to study a way to stop the volcanic eruption.

Sheng Jia put the card in her pocket. It was only twenty-eight minutes past. They were about fifteen minutes away from the next location. With Tawana’s help, she was confident that she could get the thing within twenty minutes and return the same way.

That coconut grove would become their base for the next day.

“If we go a little further, we should be able to see Ms. Serena’s little pets,” Tawana reminded her carefully, “Ms. Sheng Jia, if you’re afraid, I can help you cover your eyes.”

“Is that so?” Sheng Jia smiled, “But I’m not afraid.”

As they were talking, two golden giant pythons nearly three meters long suddenly appeared in front of them, hanging on the tree. They were completely different from the surrounding green vines, and could be seen clearly even in the dark. Their huge heads were facing Sheng Jia, hissing and spitting out their tongues.

“These are Ying and Shuo.” Tawana introduced, “The two most outstanding snake kings in this jungle, loyal to guarding this jungle, but they are very friendly.”

As she spoke, she raised her hand and touched the tongues of the two snakes. The two snakes were obviously no longer vigilant because they smelled a familiar scent. Their bodies were still wrapped around the branches, but their tails were drooping. They would even sway twice when Tawana brushed their tails away.

Sheng Jia followed her through this territory ruled by golden pythons and quickly reached the second clue hiding point. It was not far from the end of the jungle, and the ground was full of winding, huge tree roots. The two walked a little staggeringly.

This clue was placed in the center of the tree, without any concealment, it was so obvious.

Sheng Jia glanced at the watch on her hand, the time was already 11:52, much later than she thought.

“Hurry up, we’re running out of time,” Tawana also noticed this and quickly urged, “Let’s go back quickly after we take it down.”

But Sheng Jia didn’t move. She maintained the posture of looking up at the tree and said slowly, “After taking it down, will I still have a life to go back?”

“What are you talking about?” Tawana was slightly stunned.

“Actually, I’m a little curious, how did that Miss Dongzhen persuade you to fabricate clues to delay us?” Sheng Jia smiled, “She came out so long before us, and it was so easy to find you, we don’t really believe that she didn’t find you, time is our biggest weakness.”

“So when you appeared in front of us, we didn’t really trust you.”

After saying that, she took out a walkie-talkie from her hand and said in a low voice to the opposite side, “Song Ji’an, Meng Yeran, where can you hide people here, have you seen it clearly?”

There was no response from the walkie-talkie, but soon, some subtle noises came from the darkness. Then, Song Ji’an and Meng Yeran dragged a person out from behind the woods.

A flash of color flashed in Tawana’s eyes. She rubbed her chin and asked, “If you don’t trust me, why did you come with me?”

“Because this is a complete resource replacement,” Sheng Jia looked at Martha who was being dragged out, “If Miss Dongzhen found you first, then she must have gotten the drawings from you a long time ago. Song Ji’an and Meng Yeran can know your location, then Dongzhen and Julia must also know, this is the premise. If she had gotten the drawings a long time ago, then how could she leave us with the correct clues? She is an excellent mystery writer, and layout and storytelling are her talent.”

“But just like we are not sure whether all of this will really happen, and we must personally follow you to try it out, Dongzhen and Julia can’t be sure whether we will be fooled, so they need to leave people behind. Six locations, to get the highest efficiency before twelve o’clock, and ensure safety, grouping in pairs is the optimal solution, and no matter who is grouped with you, they will probably take the more complicated route of this jungle, and your task is to bring this person here.” Sheng Jia continued, “Martha, is Dongzhen and Julia’s pawn. If they can kill one of our members this time, then they will earn it. If they can’t kill them and are killed instead, it doesn’t matter, as long as she doesn’t go back tonight, then Dongzhen and the others will be able to deduce what state we are in here.”

“Because according to the current situation, Dongzhen and Julia should have collected more than 50% of the clues, as long as they can survive the next day and night, this game will be a certain win for them.”

“For us, the game has actually just begun,” Sheng Jia slowly walked forward and tiptoed to take the clues from the tree, “Because our purpose has also been achieved.”

She turned her head and looked at her companions.

Meng Yeran was giving her a thumbs up to show her admiration, while Song Ji’an was checking her paintball gun.

After listening to her analysis, Tawana shook her head helplessly, “I thought my acting was very good, Miss Martha, I’m sorry.”

Even though Martha was tied to the ground, she smiled at her generously, “It’s not your fault, they are always so clever that I am amazed.”

“Just like the walkie-talkie they captured after we and Julia were left in the castle, from the moment we left the castle, they probably already knew, but as long as we want to leave, we have to break that walkie-talkie.”

“And this Miss Sheng Jia is right, I was indeed a pawn from the beginning, my task was to kill the people who came here with all my strength. If I didn’t succeed in killing them, then my death would also become a signal to them.”

For hiders, the more people there are, the bigger the target. It is not so easy to be found by three people hiding on the island.

The three silver needles on Song Ji’an’s watch came together. She glanced at it and reminded, “It’s twelve o’clock.”

Then, without any hesitation, she pressed her gun. With a puff, blue smoke lit up on Martha’s body.

This meant that she was already dead.

And Sheng Jia and the others’ purpose was also achieved, without spending a single soldier, they eliminated one of the opponent’s people.

The clock of twelve o’clock has struck, and they ended the night of being led by the nose by Dongzhen. Now, the prey is Dongzhen and Julia.

From the beginning, Sheng Jia and the others did not intend to find clues themselves. It was their style to wait for Dongzhen and the others to find them and then grab them.