Chapter 207: The Secret Hidden on the Island

(Tragedy, after the contract for changing the book title was sent by express mail, I realized I forgot to sign it... I’m almost becoming neurotic, 555 need comfort... subscriptions, monthly pass, rewards, reminders for updates...)

Li Yan didn’t notice these people, partly because they had no intention of killing and were ordinary people; and partly because he never expected anyone to be here, hidden in the trees. The trees they hid in were either close or distant, but all were dense, so unless one stood below and looked up, they were generally obscured.

Because he didn’t notice these people and didn’t know their background, he pretended to be unconscious lying in the deep ditch. When the cover of grass on top of the trap was lifted, he heard all the conversations of the people above.

These senseless words made Li Yan very confused. Who were these people? From what they were saying, it seemed like they only wanted to steal some clothes? Yet it also seemed like they had some kind of hardship. What was going on here!

But now was not the time to think about this. Upon hearing someone suggest to old Kang to use a camera and phone, two people were already descending along the walls with small foot holes.

These were all colleagues from the company! Jiang Lele could also be considered an acquaintance and friend. Li Yan encountered them, how could he just ignore them? As for their purpose and background, it’s better to find out directly!

"Hehe, hehe..." The two were almost down, and one of them began to laugh softly.

"Be serious! Don’t think about nonsense when doing proper business!" the other despised.

"Hurry up! Don’t just focus on skimming, once you’re up..."

The person lying on the ground ready to assist reached out greedily, unable to stop them, could only urge them to quickly bring the person up, so they could pull them up and also seize some advantage. But before the words were finished, they saw an unconscious person stand up, and without clear notice, their two companions were already knocked out.

"Old Kang, old Kang..."

Two of them were eagerly lying on the ground waiting to assist, seeing this scene, one was speechless, the other barely managed to call ’old Kang’ twice. And old Kang, who was pondering the feasibility of someone else’s suggestion, quickly looked over when he heard the exclamation.

"What the..."

Before he could finish speaking, he had the answer. Someone from below used hands and feet, climbed quickly, and obviously wasn’t one of their companions.

"You, you... what do you want to do?" The two waiting to help were completely unresponsive, one was already stepped on by Li Yan, the other couldn’t get up in time, and could only stutter, rolling aside.

After Li Yan came up, he saw the situation above. Besides the two knocked out below, the two lying on the ground, there were two more standing. A total of six people, and it seemed they were likely hidden in the surrounding trees, he hadn’t noticed any earlier, making him feel a bit ashamed. His alertness seemed to have declined.

"Who are you?" He initially wanted to take them down first, but seeing their appearance, he didn’t feel it necessary to act since they really didn’t look like bad people. More like... savages!

Actually, it was inappropriate to describe them as savages since they could speak, and even spoke some dialect, definitely not local. And they were wearing clothes, although very thin and worn, with bodies dirty like the stereotypical homeless.

On Carefree Island, there certainly couldn’t be homeless randomly appearing, especially those who could climb trees and dig traps.

While Li Yan was questioning, the ones he stepped on and those who rolled away got up, and stood with old Kang and another.

"Sorry... we didn’t mean to hurt anyone... we only wanted some clothes to keep warm!" The speaker was presumably old Kang, though he no longer used dialect, but the language of Yun Country.

The other three were tightly observing Li Yan, seemingly wanting to overpower him, but were wary of his silent ability to knock out two of them and climb up even faster than them.

"Is that so? But your actions make me feel like you’re aiming to rob and kill." Li Yan sneered, "Believe it or not, I can make one call, and the resort will send security over to carry you all away!"

Upon hearing Li Yan’s words, they felt guilty, and the one who rolled away started contemplating escaping again.

Li Yan ignored those three, realizing from observation that among the four, only old Kang was relatively rational and insightful, the only one who could be reasoned with.

"If you planned to call for help, you would’ve done so already." Old Kang also fixed his gaze on Li Yan, not so panicked, instead analyzing, "When you realized the disappearance, you didn’t call for help immediately; after falling, you didn’t call for help either. So you won’t be calling now, you should just want to know what’s happening..."