Others try to survive on an island, I try to survive on a raft?

Chapter 158 I Can Be a Maid

Chen Yao trembled slightly, and just as she was about to say something, she heard Mu Qing below say, "Yao Yao, believe me, Sister Mu has never harmed you, and she won't harm you this time either. Don't think too much, come down with me first."

Chen Yao bit her lip, took a deep breath, and pushed those vicious curses to the back of her mind, quickening her descent.

Two minutes later, the two landed on the ground.

Chen Yao followed behind Mu Qing with her head down, her former high spirits as a discipline committee member long gone.

But that's normal. No matter what, she's just a young girl who hasn't been in society yet. She hasn't seen much of the dangers of society, let alone the cruelty of the wilderness.

Mu Qing gently patted her shoulder and led Chen Yao forward.

The area below the cliff was filled with various foul odors, including the smell of human blood and the entrails of sea monsters, making the two of them very uncomfortable.

Not far away, Zhou Ping and Sun Daqing were struggling to wrap several thick steel cables around the huge steel and wood tree trunk.

Sun Daqing was hanging a huge iron hook on a tree branch when he turned around and bumped right into Mu Qing and Chen Yao, who were covered in mud.

"Whoa!"

Sun Daqing was startled, nearly hitting his foot with the iron hook in his hand: "Isn't that...that guy? Why are you all down here?"

Mu Qing ignored Sun Daqing's fuss and looked up at the Ark not far away.

At the edge of the deck, Su Jin stood below the eaves, looking down at them with an expressionless face.

There was neither welcome nor shooing them away; it was as if they were watching two stray cats that had just climbed ashore.

Suddenly, he smiled and said, "It's not so unexpected. It's a bad thing that your power has been usurped, but it's also a good thing. At least it saved your life."

Seeing that this man seemed to know everything, Mu Qing's pupils couldn't help but shrink.

Her face darkened. "You guessed it all? Captain, you're really something!" she said.

She clenched her fist, then let it sag limply. She stared intently at Su Jin: "Then Captain must have guessed what we're planning. Can we board the ship?"

"Yes, but there are conditions," Su Jin said calmly. "According to the rules I set before, if you want to board the ship, then..."

"I handed over everything I owned."

"Everything here includes the technology you possess; after all, my ship doesn't keep idle people."

Before, Mu Qing might not have thought of it that way, but after hearing what Zhao Dezhu and the others said, she was unconsciously led astray.

The lewd laughter of Zhao Dezhu and his gang still seemed to echo in his ears; words like "foot-washing maid," "bed-climbing maid," and "female servant" swarmed around like flies that he couldn't shake off.

She bit her lower lip hard until a metallic taste filled her mouth.

They have no bargaining power now, their lives are in the other party's hands, and pretending to be high-minded at this time is just courting death.

"it is good."

Mu Qing took a deep breath, as if she had used all her strength to utter the word.

She took a sudden step forward, shielding the trembling Chen Yao completely behind her, and looked directly at Su Jin: "I can be a maid, do laundry, cook, serve tea and water, you can make me do whatever you want, but I have only one request—"

Her voice trembled slightly, but her tone remained firm: "Don't touch Yao Yao. She's still young, not an adult yet, and doesn't understand anything. If you have a problem, come at me."

Hearing this, Chen Yao behind her turned pale with fright, clutching Mu Qing's wet clothes tightly with both hands, shrinking herself even smaller.

In the end, he only dared to peek out from under Mu Qing's arm with terrified eyes, secretly glancing at the terrifying captain.

Su Jin was stunned for a moment, then burst out laughing.

He glanced around, then reached out and pulled Lin Xuan and Li Yuanyuan, who were watching the scene unfold, under his arm, one on each side, as if showing off: "Maids? I certainly don't lack them. Look at all these maids running around on the ship, which one of them isn't someone I can order around for fun?"

Lin Xuan rolled her eyes when she was suddenly pulled close. Although she didn't say anything, she didn't resist either, clearly having long been used to this informal way of getting along.

On the other hand, Li Yuanyuan was unhappy. She struggled to peek her head out from under Su Jin's arm, tidying her messed-up bangs as she protested in a low voice, "Hey, Brother Su, explain yourself! Who's the maid? I'm a proper top-level chef!"

"Even if she's a maid—even if she's a high-ranking maid in charge of the ship's meals, she wouldn't bring you water to wash your feet!"

She meant to elevate her own status with those words, but the more she tried to explain, the worse it got.

In Mu Qing's eyes, this simply confirmed Zhao Dezhu and the others' guesses: this ship really was a large harem!

These girls seem to be doing well, but they are clearly already—

Mu Qing's heart sank to the bottom. Looking at Su Jin's smiling face, she felt that he was even more unfathomable.

This man actually justified keeping his mistress so confidently that even the seemingly arrogant young girl was brainwashed into becoming a high-class maid.

Looking at Mu Qing's tragic expression, Su Jin knew that this was a huge misunderstanding.

He released the two girls, placed his hands on the railing, and his joking expression disappeared: "Alright, stop with your fantasies. Everything I said refers to your labor and skills. My ship doesn't support idlers or pretty faces."

"Hurry up, getting on the ship is no problem. I do value your leadership skills, but you need to report your talents first."

He raised his hand, signaling Mu Qing not to waste time.

Upon hearing these words, Mu Qing's expression immediately turned strange, but she quickly realized what was happening and breathed a sigh of relief.

She had previously guessed that this was at least a relatively disciplined fleet, otherwise the transaction would not have been relatively normal.

That's why she chose to bring Chen Yao with her to join the fleet.

Putting aside the question of whether or not they should work as maids, this ship has a much brighter future and more prospects than staying on this island.

In any case, they will be better off when the cold wave arrives, at least in terms of heating, than staying in a cold cave.

Secondly, this man named Su Jin has been deliberately collecting steel and wood, a rare material that she has never seen before.

In response, she had to admit that the other party was very farsighted and had a superior leadership ability than her.

There's even a wild theory that if all the women on the ship were this man's maids, it would further demonstrate his capabilities.

In other words, the more tyrannical the man, the better they will receive.

The reason her side fell apart might be that she wasn't ruthless enough, or rather, she didn't have the power to be a female tyrant.

For a fleeting moment, she truly wished she could become this man's maid, the kind of cute cat maid, so that she and Chen Yao could survive.

Mu Qing shook her head; she must have been stunned by the rain to think that way.

She took a deep breath, raised her head, and said, "My talent is Lava Hand."