Desert Island Survival: A Hundredfold Improvement After Having a Baby?

Wang Qiang remained silent.

He was only wearing a short-sleeved shirt, and he was already feeling the chill.

He turned to look at Su Qingxue, who was in the deepest part of the room.

Su Qingxue was also cold.

Her swimsuit offered no protection from the wind at all.

She could only hug herself and huddle in the innermost corner of the rock wall.

"President Su..." Old Li began, his voice trembling slightly, broken by the wind, "This weather... it really looks like it's going to pour... can the rescue helicopter fly in this kind of weather?"

When this question was raised, the crevice in the rock fell into a deathly silence.

Only the whistling of the wind could be heard.

Can helicopters fly?

Those present were all business elites; who hadn't seen the news? In extreme thunderstorms, not to mention helicopters, even commercial airliners would be grounded.

Su Qingxue's face turned pale instantly.

But she gritted her teeth, her voice still cold and hard: "Sheng Tang's satellite positioning is military-grade. If helicopters can't do it, there are ships. As long as the positioning is still available, they will definitely come."

She was reassuring her employees, but also hypnotizing herself.

The temperature has dropped to around 15 degrees Celsius.

For modern people who are used to air-conditioned rooms and only wear summer clothes, the perceived temperature, coupled with the strong wind, is already approaching ten degrees Celsius.

Just then, a warm feeling, along with the smell of burning firewood, wafted into everyone's nostrils.

Everyone turned their heads at the same time.

Chen Jian sat in the outermost corner of the rock crevice.

A gust of wind blew, and a pile of flames rose in front of him, the orange-red light illuminating half of his face and warming the air within three meters around him.

Chen Jian reached his hand into the fire and turned it over to warm himself.

Wang Qiang's eyes widened.

He instinctively took a step forward, his body's craving for heat overwhelming everything else.

Chen Jian did not look up.

He simply poked at the fire with the thick wooden stick.

"Slap slap."

The sparks exploded.

"Boom..."

A deafening clap of thunder exploded overhead, and the entire mountain trembled slightly.

This also made Wang Qiang stop what he was doing.

Immediately afterwards, large raindrops began to fall.

It's not raining, it's that the sky is leaking.

A fierce wind, accompanied by torrential rain, swept across the entire island in an instant.

The temperature plummeted below ten degrees!

Although the rock crevice has a roof, it can block the rainwater from falling directly down.

But it couldn't stop the water mist blown in by the strong wind, nor could it stop the rapidly descending cold.

The icy mist sprayed onto everyone, instantly making their clothes wet and cold.

Body temperature was being frantically deprived.

"Ahhh!" Liu Feifei screamed, shivering from the cold.

"President Su! When will the rescue arrive?!" Zhao Na completely broke down; she had never seen anything like this in her life.

Su Qingxue did not answer.

Looking at the dark rain outside, she had no idea when the rescue would come. Perhaps, just as Lin Fan had said, the rescue wouldn't arrive.

Just when everyone's psychological defenses were about to crumble.

Liu Feifei, who had been staring at the sea, suddenly stood up.

She rushed to the edge of the crevice without hesitation, pointing into the dark depths of the storm outside, her voice sharp and distorted.

"Look! What's that?!"

Everyone suddenly looked up and followed her finger.

On the pitch-black sea.

Deep in the midst of the raging storm.

A red light appeared.

Everyone huddled at the edge of the crevice, staring intently at the faint red light on the dark sea surface.

"Is that a boat?"

"Is it a rescue team?"

"It's a boat! It really is a boat!" Wang Qiang jumped up, pointing at the sea and shouting, "Rescue team! President Su's satellite phone worked! The rescue team is here to pick us up!"

Zhao Na was so excited that she jumped up and down on the spot, hugging her female colleague next to her while crying and laughing.

Liu Feifei clasped her hands together and kept saying thank you to God.

The desperate man grasped at a straw, and the atmosphere in the crevice was instantly ignited.

The cold seemed to be dispelled by this fervor.

Su Qingxue stood up, leaning against the stone wall. She walked to the front, the wind blowing her hair wildly and the rain hitting her face, but she was oblivious.

She stared at the red light, and her back, which had been tense all day, finally relaxed completely.

She won.

Once she's on the helicopter back in Jiangcheng, she remains the high and mighty president of the Shengtang Group.

Lin Fan and Song Ya, these lowly scoundrels on the island who dared to defy her, she would make them pay a heavy price.

"Hold on, everyone!" Su Qingxue raised her voice, adopting the intensity of a mobilization meeting. "The rescue is just around the corner! Take off your bright-colored clothes, wave your hands vigorously! Shout it out!"

Everyone responded immediately, and Wang Qiang took off his shirt and danced wildly in the wind and rain, shirtless.

"Hi~ Here! We're here!"

"President Su is here..."

The cries for help from dozens of people merged together.

Chen Jian also got up and looked outside.

Has the rescue team really arrived?

The red light on the sea surface flickered twice.

The crowd shouted even louder, and Wang Qiang's voice became hoarse.

then.

The red light went out without warning.

There was no transition, no sound.

It was like the power supply being cut off directly.

The sea was plunged back into pure darkness.

The cries for help abruptly stopped.

Only the roar of the wind and rain outside could be heard from the crevice in the rock.

"How...how did it disappear?" Zhao Na was stunned, and the leaf in her hand fell to the ground.

Wang Qiang lay on the rock, staring wide-eyed, trying to find a glimmer of light in the darkness.

No, there's nothing at all.

"It's probably blocked by the waves... Yes, the waves must be too big!" Wang Qiang reassured himself, then turned to Su Qingxue, "President Su, don't you think so?"

Su Qingxue bit her lip tightly, staring intently at the sea, without saying a word.

One minute passed, five minutes passed, and ten minutes passed.

The red light never came on again.

After hope is completely crushed, what follows is despair and cold magnified many times over.

The temperature had dropped to single digits, and a strong wind, mixed with icy water vapor, kept pouring into the cracks in the rocks.

"It's so cold..." Liu Feifei squatted on the ground, hugging her knees and shivering.

The frenzy she had just experienced had exhausted her last bit of strength, and now the chill penetrated her thin swimsuit, turning her lips a bluish-black.

Wang Qiang was shirtless, his teeth chattering from the cold.

He quickly put his soaked shirt back on, but it was no use.

Everyone was trembling.

The fire on Chen Jian's side became the only heat source in the crevice of the rock.

The orange-red flames flickered, radiating an enticing warmth.

Wang Qiang turned his head and looked at Chen Jian, who was holding a tree branch and slowly poking at the charcoal fire.

The firelight warmed his face.

Wang Qiang swallowed hard, took a stiff step, and walked towards the fire.

"Brother Qiang," Chen Jian raised his eyelids, his voice flat, "Have you forgotten what I just said?"

Wang Qiang stopped in his tracks. He looked at the thick wooden stick next to Chen Jian, and then at the warm fire.

"Chen Jian, everyone here, including your wife, are colleagues. Why do you have to be so ruthless?" Wang Qiang's voice trembled.

Chen Jian laughed, glanced at Wang Lan, and then said, "I've set the rules: three kowtows and one million. If you miss one, you'll be freezing over there."

……

Halfway up the mountain, there is a karst cave.

Lin Fan leaned against the fire, toying with a tactical straight knife in his hand.

The gold indicator on my retina has just faded.

He had just seen the red light on the sea as well.

That wasn't a rescue team at all, but...