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

"Should the people eat first, or the dogs?" Lin Fan continued to ask.

Song Ya blinked and actually started thinking about it seriously.

"Our family..." she tilted her head, her tone tinged with nostalgia, "we had a mongrel dog named DouDou."

"Every time we eat, we always eat first, and then we give the leftover rice mixed with some vegetable soup to DouDou at the very end."

As she spoke, a faint smile unconsciously appeared on her lips.

"My mom always says, 'A person is a person, and a dog is a dog; the rules can't be broken.' Once, when no one was looking, DouDou jumped onto the dining table and stole a chicken leg. My dad chased him with a slipper for three whole blocks..."

"Then why don't you hurry up and eat?"

Lin Fan interrupted her family anecdotes by nodding his chin towards the pot.

"The dog will come up and try to steal the food soon."

Song Ya's smile froze for half a second.

She turned her head and glanced at Zhang Tao and Xiao Zhou, who were squatting in the distance, and then at Lily and the others standing next to the pile of supplies.

She got it.

The "dogs" Lin Fan was referring to were them.

The air was silent for two seconds.

Song Ya lowered her head, reached into the pot, picked up a crab, and placed it on the stone slab in front of her.

But she didn't break it open to eat.

She hesitated for a moment, then looked up at Lin Fan.

"Lin Fan".

"Um."

"I think you shouldn't call them that."

Lin Fan didn't stop what he was doing; he used the tip of his knife to pick out the meat from the crab legs and put it in his mouth.

Song Ya bit her lip, as if organizing her thoughts.

"Zhang Tao and the others... were a great help last night."

"When Wang Qiang led his men to rush up, if they hadn't been throwing stones down, we wouldn't have been able to hold this platform at all."

Song Ya looked intently at Lin Fan's profile.

"They were risking their lives too. You promised to give them instant noodles, and they did. One thing at a time, you can't... you can't call them dogs to their faces."

"We're all colleagues at Shengtang. Zhang Tao even helped me out back in the company. He's not a bad person, just timid; he'll side with whoever's stronger..."

"So he's a dog."

Lin Fan swallowed the crab meat in his mouth and took a sip of mineral water.

"Wag your tail at whoever gives you a bone, what else is that but a dog?"

You can insult people, but you can't be this shameless.

Normally, if someone dared to insult him like that to his face, he would have punched them long ago.

But now, he didn't dare utter a single word and could only lower his head even further.

Song Ya was speechless.

She opened her mouth, wanting to refute, but couldn't find the right words.

After a long pause, she spoke again, "That's not fair." Song Ya frowned. "In this kind of environment, fear is instinctive, and the desire to survive is also instinctive. Not everyone can be like you..."

She paused for a moment, carefully choosing her words.

"Be fearless like you."

"I'm scared too," Lin Fan said, biting into the last crab leg. "I'm afraid I'll starve to death."

"So I went to catch crabs instead of sitting still and waiting for someone to feed me."

Lin Fan handed Song Ya a blue crab, "Eat it quickly, it'll be fishy when it gets cold."

He didn't care about Song Ya's words; reality would teach her a lesson later anyway.

Song Ya didn't answer; she bit her lower lip and twisted the hem of her clothes with her fingers.

In her logic, everyone is supposed to survive together on this island.

Only sincerity can win sincerity.

If people are only bound by fear, they will do anything when pushed to the limit.

"Lin Fan, you're right. It's a dog's instinct to follow whoever is afraid of death."

"But Zhang Tao and the others went crabbing with you today. They carried the box all the way back. Xiao Zhou's hand was pinched by a crab and bled, but he didn't even frown and just kept working."

"You tell them to move stones, and they do; you tell them to smash people, and they do; you tell them to carry crabs, and they do."

Even if you didn't achieve great things, you still put in a lot of effort, right?

Zhang Tao, who was standing three meters away, immediately teared up when he heard these words.

In his life, he had been called an idiot by Wang Qiang at the company, ignored by Su Qingxue, and mocked by Zhao Na for wearing cheap clothes.

No woman has ever said a good word about him to the boss.

Song Ya's words were even warmer than the birthday red envelope his mother gave him.

Song Ya didn't stop. "Look at what you're saying!"

"Only fit for manual labor? Dogs? They are living, breathing human beings. You can distrust them, you can be wary of them, but you can't insult them to their face like this."

"People are all made of flesh and blood. If you trample on people to death, it will eventually come back to haunt you."

Lin Fan stopped all his movements.

Zhang Tao didn't dare to breathe loudly; he could feel the temperature in the air dropping.

"Song Ya".

Lin Fan raised his head.

His tone didn't rise; in fact, it was even flatter than before.

But this calm is more terrifying than rage.

Do you think you're exceptionally kind?

Song Ya's body stiffened slightly.

"Do you think that in this desolate place, as long as everyone holds hands and connects with each other, we can all sing 'Unity is Strength' and wait for rescue to arrive?"

Song Ya opened her mouth, but no words came out.

"Last night."

"Wang Qiang led more than twenty men to rush up and try to smash my head. Chen Jian brought twelve men to raid my house this morning."

"Do you think that after they rush up to you, they'll sit down and have a calm conversation about how everyone has a heart?"

"The first thing they did when they rushed at me was to stab me to death. The second thing they did was pin you women to the ground."

"Guess what the third thing is?"

Song Ya's face turned pale.

"Distribute the supplies. All the food and water here, including the crab you ate for lunch today, are gone."

"Then you can roll back down into that crevice and live a life even worse than theirs."

Song Ya's eyes instantly reddened, and her fingers gripped her pants tightly at her knees.

"I didn't say we shouldn't be wary of them... I just felt..."

"What do you think?" Lin Fan interrupted her. "Great Holy Mother Song, what do you think?"

"You were helping Zhang Tao move printing papers at the company, and Zhang Tao turned around and told Zhao Na in the break room that you were a simp. Did you know that?"