A Snake Transmigrated as a Scum A (GL) - Chapter 24.1
Fu Man leisurely returned to the cave and glanced at Li Yingxue, who was sitting silently by the extinguished fire pit.
By the time she walked over, Li Yingxue stood up again, crawled into the tent, clearly not wanting to see her anymore.
Fu Man glanced at her, not changing her expression or missing a heartbeat, and dropped her backpack.
“Today, I went out with the captain but didn’t find much, just a few big conchs. We’ll have to make do with that.”
Di You was still worrying about whether there was any food to eat today. Hearing her speak so casually, the corner of her mouth twitched, and she hurriedly went over to rummage through her backpack.
They really are three big conch shells!
“Sister Fu Man, you are simply my god!”
Di You looked at her with stars in her eyes, adoring her.
“God?”
When Fu Man heard this word, she suddenly remembered that she still had a grand undertaking yet to be completed.
I wonder how her underground palace construction is going.
However, this lousy variety show will end in two days.
“Yeah.”
Di You was about to nod vigorously when Fu Man immediately vetoed it, saying, “I’m not your god, don’t casually claim relatives.”
She has no human kin, and she certainly won’t protect humans.
“……” Di You was choked up, unable to speak for a long time. Finally, she reluctantly said, “Sister Fu Man, you’re really funny.”
Tang Youyi was smiling beside her, carrying the large conch to clean it.
Fu Man glanced at her clothes, which were still wet, the corners of her mouth curling up as she walked towards the tent.
“I’m going to change my clothes.”
Arrived at the front of the tent.
“Captain, I’m coming in.”
After speaking, Fu Man lifted the curtain and stepped inside, and sure enough, she saw Li Yingxue tidying up inside.
The other person heard the sound, turned around, and glanced at her.
Fu Man: “I’m all wet. Can you help me get some clothes from my bag?”
Li Yingxue didn’t say anything, but her gaze was fixed on a black backpack in the corner. She reached out, coldly unzipped it, took out a few pieces of clothing, and handed them to Fu Man.
Fu Man took it, glanced at it, and said, “Still missing the underwear.”
“……”
Li Yingxue shot her a cold glare, not helping her find the remaining underwear as she had hoped, but instead handed the backpack to Fu Man.
“Find it yourself.”
Fu Man looked at her for a while: “Are you shy? Aren’t we all women?”
“You have it, I have it too.”
As soon as the words were spoken, a sharp glare shot over.
“……” Alright.
Fu Man found her underwear, zipped it up, and threw the backpack at Li Yingxue’s feet. “Put it back for me, I’m going to take a shower.”
After Fu Man left, Li Yingxue frowned at her backpack, picked it up angrily, and threw it into the corner.
When Fu Man finished her shower and came back, she found Di You, Tang Youyi, and Li Yingxue sitting together with serious expressions.
“What’s wrong?”
Di You angrily said, “The matchbox is missing!”
Di You said, her anger boiling over as she glared at the people on Chu Xingchun’s side.
“The matchbox is our only tool for making fire, it was properly placed next to the wood, it hasn’t been lost for so many days, but today it just went missing. Who else could have taken it besides someone from Chu Xingchun?!”
Without the matchbox, it means they can’t start a fire, and they can’t even cook the conch!
Tang Youyi was actually suspicious too, but they had no evidence, especially in public, they couldn’t casually stir up conflict.
“Di You, let’s not make baseless accusations. Come over and help quickly.”
Fu Man followed her gaze and saw Li Yingxue fiddling with something, holding a sharpened wooden stick and continuously drilling and grinding against a wooden board with a small hollowed-out area.
Di You resentfully withdrew her gaze, moved closer, and helped look for easily ignitable tinder nearby.
Fu Man glanced over at the opposite side; that Chu Xingchun team actually had some success today, catching a fish.
According to Di You, that fish had actually jumped onto the shore itself when the water level rose, and couldn’t return, which is how it was picked up by Chu Xingchun’s team.
The other person used a flint to start a fire, and soon began roasting fish.
“What are you all doing?” Fu Man sat aside, watching Li Yingxue, Tang Youyi, and Di You busily working.
“Drill wood to make fire!” Di You looked at her with a very curious expression, “If you rub it to a certain extent, it will spark and catch fire.”
“Is that so… but why isn’t it burning yet?” Fu Man was a bit confused.
Di You was choked: “Of course it’s because you didn’t turn fast enough.”
Li Yingxue put down the wooden stick, let out a slight sigh of relief, and coldly glanced at Fu Man, who was still in a state of seeking knowledge.
Tang Youyi took the stick: “Captain, you must be tired. Let me give it a try.”
Ten minutes passed, but Tang Youyi still couldn’t get the wood to catch fire.
Everyone was somewhat discouraged.
Di You, dejected, tossed the wood shavings aside: “We can’t possibly not be able to start a fire.”
Tang Youyi felt heavy-hearted: “Let’s give it another try.”
On the opposite side, Li Shengkai, holding a flint, with a glint of shrewdness in his eyes, was about to get up and offer fire in exchange for some of the food in their hands.
Just as he was about to stand up, a voice sounded, causing him to stop again.
“Let me give it a try.”
Fu Man’s words made everyone look at her. She was puzzled and asked, “What’s wrong?”
Li Yingxue stood up with a headache and gave her seat to her.
Fu Man, somewhat curious, picked up the stick, crouched down halfway, clasped her hands together, and tried rubbing them together a couple of times.
“That’s how it is, right?” She suddenly lifted her eyelids and looked at Li Yingxue.
Due to just expending quite a bit of energy, Li Yingxue’s face looked somewhat pale at this moment.
“Less talk.”
“……”
Fu Man started working.
The wooden stick in her palm spun faster and faster, moving so quickly it seemed like it was on double speed.
Di You and Tang Youyi were left dumbfounded.
When the wooden stick spins, it even sweeps past the illusion.
Di You rubbed her eyes, thinking there was something wrong with them. How could it be so fast?!
It was still Tang Youyi who reacted quickly; upon seeing the smoke and sparks, she hurriedly twisted a small handful of flammable wood fibers and placed them on top.
A waft of burnt aroma spread through the air. Soon, sparks spread to the flammable wood shavings, forming flames. Tang Youyi added some sawdust, intensifying the fire.
“Got it! Got it!” Di You exclaimed joyfully.
This call made Li Yingxue, who had originally lost hope and was preparing to draw her bow, pause in her steps. She looked at the rising fire with a complex expression, then shifted her gaze to the woman.
In that woman’s eyes, there was even a clear sense of sudden realization.
It seems to be saying: So this is what it means to start a fire by rubbing sticks together.
Then, this sudden realization was instantly suppressed by her, and a look of calm and composed smugness replaced the expression on her face.
She looked over at me, her well-defined brow arching slightly, exuding a sense of straightforward and unrestrained heroism.
Li Yingxue rubbed her temples, sat down, and watched Tang Youyi prepare the conch.
I don’t want to pay attention to her subtle attempts to take credit.
The conch was placed in a metal basin, and as the water boiled, a steaming aroma of food wafted out.
It far surpassed the smell of the grilled fish next door.
Li Shengkai looked at the glowing red fire pit and the fragrant conch shells, then touched the flint again, his expression turning sullen as he abandoned the idea of going over to exchange food.
He didn’t expect that the woman could actually succeed in starting a fire by friction.
They just wasted their matchbox.
After eating the conch, the advanced rookie gift pack for today’s food search task was unfortunately intercepted by their team. The other two teams didn’t complete any of their tasks either.
It’s time for the lucky draw again.
Thinking about the drink gift pack from yesterday, Fu Man randomly picked one and opened it without any hope.
“What is it?” Di You eagerly awaited.
Fu Man took it out: “A bow and arrow.”
She was familiar with bows and arrows. On the Holy Spirit Continent, she had encountered humans who used bows to hunt, and even some who, not fearing death, tried to invade the Moon Lake realm.
Di You’s eyes lit up as soon as she heard about the bow and arrow, “Who can shoot? Who can shoot?”
Tang Youyi shook her head.
Li Yingxue didn’t say anything.
When Di You looked at Fu Man again, she saw that she had already drawn her bow and nocked an arrow, aiming at the high dome of the cavern.
With a lazy expression, as if testing the waters.
“Sister Fu Man, you can shoot arrows?” Di You’s gaze was just about to shift away from the pitch-black dome when, the next second, an arrow fell, shooting towards the Chu Xingchun team behind her with a fierce, wind-splitting force.
Whoosh——
The arrow almost grazed Li Shengkai’s forehead as it shot into the ground right in front of him.
Chu Xingchun and the others were startled.
Li Shengkai’s face turned even paler. As he saw the arrow in front of him, he became furious out of shame and turned to Fu Man, “Do you even know how to shoot a bow?!”
Fu Man walked over, pulled out the arrow in front of him, and seemed indifferent to his furious curses, looking at him with little expression.
“Sorry.” Fu Man didn’t seem to have any intention of apologizing, “I missed the shot.”
“Next time, I’ll be more punctual.” She smiled again.
“You—” Li Shengkai was about to scold her for not planning to apologize when his gaze suddenly met her abruptly indifferent eyes. He suddenly realized that what she meant by “missing the shot” couldn’t possibly be—
Li Shengkai immediately began to wonder if she knew something, if she knew it was him who threw the matchbox?
Impossible!
At that time, no one saw anything; how could this woman possibly know it was him who did it?
“Sister Fu Man!” Di You came over to support hee teammate, glaring at Li Shengkai, “What do you mean by ‘what’? Don’t think we don’t know, the matchbox was your doing!”
Di You was very certain that it was the Chu Xingchun teams doing, “We even gave you half of the place before!”
Li Shengkai was about to argue.
At this moment, Fu Man spoke up to persuade her: “Di You, don’t make baseless accusations. They can’t possibly resort to such petty tricks as hiding matchboxes.”
Once these words were spoken, Di You reluctantly refrained from getting angry out of respect for her.
Instead, Li Shengkai’s eyes widened in shock, a look of astonishment crossing his face. How did she know?!
Before he could figure it out, a meaningful glance casually swept over, and Li Shengkai instantly composed his expression, averting his gaze with a guilty conscience.
Fu Man sneered inwardly, did they really think she couldn’t see through such tactics?
Next to the campfire, there was the scent of Li Shengkai, but the sulfur smell on the matchstick was emanating from the ground, mingling with the scent of mud and water.
He buried the matchbox in a nearby damp spot.
But even if we know where the matchbox is, it probably won’t be usable once we dig it up.
“Still not back, you two?”
A cold voice interrupted Fu Man’s thoughts. Fu Man turned her head and saw Li Yingxue, standing before them with the authority of a captain, telling them to go back.
Di You shrank her neck and quickly headed towards her own base.
Only Fu Man walked by leisurely in front of Li Yingxue, her freshly washed black hair still exuding a faint dampness and fragrance, brushing past Li Yingxue’s nose like a gentle breeze.
Li Yingxue slightly furrowed her brows, breathing in the air scented with the woman’s hair fragrance, her expression unchanged.
A night with stars all over the sky.
A few people gradually entered the tent to prepare for rest.
Fu Man was the last to enter. Just as she was about to lie down, she suddenly caught sight of Li Yingxue beside her, unusually putting on her jacket and lying down without a pillow.
Fu Man, with a cold expression, twisted open the cap of the water bottle and took a sip.
Close the lid, lie down, and go to sleep.