A Snake Transmigrated as a Scum A (GL) - Chapter 23.2
Fu Man didn’t think there was anything wrong with what she said, “At first, she didn’t want to tell me, but then she asked me to guess, and I figured it out myself.”
“Ensure accuracy.”
“Only two people left, let’s see tonight.”
“……Are you feeling any better?”
She spoke several sentences in a row without getting a response. Since the person was leaning against her chest, Fu Man couldn’t see her face clearly, so she reached out to touch her forehead.
Unexpectedly, before I even got close, it was knocked away.
Immediately after, Li Yingxue moved away from her and went to another place, looking at her with a complex expression.
“I’m fine.” The tone was distant and defensive.
Fu Man sat at the entrance of the tent, her legs clad in combat boots propped outside the door, tilting her head to look at Li Yingxue inside the tent.
My hand is still a bit numb.
She really has a lot of strength.
“It’s fine, just take a good rest. I’ll go check why no one is at the director’s team.”
Fu Man stood up and walked towards the director’s crew’s equipment. She couldn’t quite understand these complex things, so she walked to the cave entrance to gaze at the forest below and the distant coastline.
Suddenly, I noticed a few figures moving along the shore. Upon closer inspection, I saw it was some crew members and the director.
Perhaps because she was close to the main recording equipment, as soon as Fu Man turned on the microphone, she was connected to the director’s team.
“Fu Man?” The director turned around in surprise by the seaside, looking towards the direction of the crevice cave, “Are you in the cave now? Have you seen Li Yingxue? She got lost this afternoon.”
Fu Man replied to him, “Li Yingxue is with me right now.”
The director sighed in relief, “As long as no one is missing or injured, let’s head back now.”
After confirming that everyone was safe, the director waved his hand towards the cave, signaling them, “Go back first, everyone is fine.”
The crew member worriedly asked, “What about the ship?”
Director: “What’s the big deal? The boat is broken, so what? Just have someone bring a new one from the city.”
The crew member thought for a moment and realized that they had food, communication equipment, and the internet. They couldn’t possibly be stranded on the island. They could just have someone send a new boat over.
There are only three days left for the variety show, and the response has been great, with its popularity soaring.
So everyone turned back the way they came.
The evening glow on the horizon is fading, and the dim nightfall is rising.
Before long, the director’s team returned. The other group members also came back one after another.
Fu Man returned to the front of the tent and reminded her, “Li Yingxue, they’re all back.”
Li Yingxue came out from inside, her face somewhat pale, but at least there wasn’t too much suggestive redness.
She gave Fu Man a glance, and said “Got it.”
Tang Youyi and Di Youyi returned one after the other. Seeing Fu Man and Li Yingxue together, they asked a few questions and finally felt relieved. Upon seeing the wild boar at their feet, they were both surprised and delighted.
“Is this what you brought back?”
Fu Man signaled for them to look at Li Yingxue: “It’s the captain.”
Di You directly leaped and hugged Li Yingxue: “Captain! I knew it! I knew you would definitely catch it!”
“I ran into Tang Youyi on the way, and she even tried to persuade me not to get my hopes up. She’s totally underestimating the captain!”
Li Yingxue was suddenly hugged by someone, and her pale face barely managed to show a polite smile. “It’s just a bit of good luck.”
Just as I was about to push Di You away, I couldn’t.
Fu Man stood beside her, directly grabbing Di You’s arm and pulling her out. “Alright, it’s getting late. Go deal with this wild boar.”
Di You still wanted to hug again, but her arm was held by someone, and she couldn’t move. She cast a lingering glance at Fu Man, catching sight of the white jacket she was wearing, her brows furrowing tightly. Then she quickly glanced over Li Yingxue, who was wearing a black jacket.
She blurted out: “Why did you change your jacket?”
As soon as these words were spoken, both fell silent.
Tang Youyi’s gaze also wandered between the two, recalling how Fu Man had abandoned her in the middle of the afternoon, not knowing where she had gone, and now she was alone in the cave with Li Yingxue…
An idea popped up.
Fu Man and Li Yingxue can’t possibly be together all afternoon, right?
What did they do together?
“Captain… Fu Man, were you two together all afternoon?” Tang Youyi asked in a low voice. She still couldn’t understand why Fu Man had suddenly left.
Li Yingxue lowered her eyes, unsure of how to explain.
She was careless and forgot to change back into her jacket.
Fu Man glanced at her and lazily said, “This afternoon, I was indeed with the captain. She wasn’t feeling well, so I lent her my jacket. Is there a problem?”
Di You, upon hearing this, worriedly said, “Where do you feel uncomfortable? How could you feel uncomfortable?”
Fu Man casually replied, “She was too fierce in hunting the wild boar and got tired from running.”
She added, “The captain is fine, you guys go deal with that pig.”
Di You was pushed by someone to deal with the wild boar, but she still had doubts in her heart.
The captain running after wild boars is too tiring, and exchanging jacket with them has nothing to do with it?
After sending those two away, Fu Man turned back, raised an eyebrow at Li Yingxue, and walked towards the extinguished campfire.
Li Yingxue stood in place, looking down at the jacket she was wearing.
“……”
Fu Man stacked some matches, took out the matchbox, and noticed Li Yingxue sitting across from her. She asked, “Didn’t you say you would teach me? It’s been a few days already.”
A few days ago, when she started a fire, Li Yingxue completely forgot to teach herself.
Upon hearing this, Li Yingxue looked at her with a complicated expression and said, “Didn’t you understand?”
Although it was either her or Tang Youyi who started the fire in the past few times, wasn’t Fu Man also standing by watching when the fire was lit?
Fu Man bluntly said, “I don’t understand.”
“……”
The matchsticks formed a circle with three thick logs, leaving one side open towards the cave entrance. Fu Man and Li Yingxue each sat on one log.
Perhaps out of gratitude for saving her in the afternoon, Li Yingxue stood up, walked around the pile of matches, stopped at the point where the two pieces of wood were connected, and sat down at the end of the middle piece closest to Fuman.
“Watch it.”
Fu Man stared at her fair hand as she took the matchbox from her hand and pulled out a matchstick from inside.
Next, with a gentle stroke on the striking surface on the side of the matchbox, the matchstick ignited.
This series of movements flows effortlessly, embodying a beauty of simplicity and lightness.
Especially those long, slender fingers, the matchsticks danced and twirled in her hands.
The flames danced at the tip of the matchstick, and also in Li Yingxue’s pair of cold and stunning jade-like eyes, shimmering like flecks of gold.
Li Yingxue’s eyelids lifted, her cold gaze sweeping over Fu Man’s dark, glossy eyes that glimmered with a faint green hue, and then she spoke camly, “Did you understand?”
Fu Man and she locked eyes deeply, and after a few seconds, she withdrew her gaze from Li Yingxue’s face, letting it fall onto her hands, skillfully and calmly taking the matchbox from her fingertips.
“Got it.”