Chapter 298 A unique way of using curses
Construction work at the campsite still went on. Yan Liuyuan and the others who had been carrying logs during the day returned to the barracks exhausted again.
After several of the students that went to work returned, the first thing they did was to check how well they could control the nanomachines. As a matter of fact, physical exercise could really raise their synchronization rate. It might not be possible to see it after one or two days of exercise, but now that a week had passed, the difference was much more obvious.
And in just a week, their bodies had gotten much stronger as well.
Yan Liuyuan said while lying in the barracks, “Bro, although physical exercise can help us raise our synchronization rates, there’s simply too much work for us to perform. It won’t be good if we break down from fatigue either, so please help us think of a solution. The potatoes from the field ran out yesterday Meanwhile, the grains the Yang Consortium have provided are only enough to cook a very thin porridge. If we don’t have enough food, it’s gonna be really dangerous for us.
The rations at the refugee camp were provided by the Yang Consortium. But how kind could the Yang Consortium be? It was enough that they allowed everyone here to cook their own porridge.
Fortunately, they had discovered a potato field a while ago, or the majority of the escapees would have already died of hunger.
But now, the potato field had also been fully harvested, as there were several thousand people in this refugee camp. All it took was two days for them to clear out an entire potato field. Many of the escapees started starving again yesterday.
Ren Xiaosu gave it some thought and said, “When you get to the construction site tomorrow, curse Li Qingzheng to get hit in the face by squirrel shit.”
Yan Liuyuan was taken aback. “Bro, what’s the point?”
“Then follow the squirrel and empty its nest out. I believe that will be enough for us to eat for a while.” Ren Xiaosu patiently guided Yan Liuyuan on how to phrase his curses. “Remember, this curse of yours will definitely have backlash, so there will be two squirrels. You can empty the nest of two squirrels.”
Yan Liuyuan went out to the site to work the next day feeling skeptical. But after he made the curse, a squirrel really shat onto Li Qingzheng’s head two hours later.
Then another squirrel’s feces dropped down towards Yan Liuyuan, but he managed to dodge it.
Li Qingzheng swore at the tree trunk while Yan Liuyuan activated his nanomachines and chased after the squirrels.
When he located the two squirrels’ nests, he knew they wouldn’t have it too difficult for the next two days. Squirrels stored a large amount of food for winter.
In the wilderness, plants and animals were all evolving. Gifts from nature often surpassed what humans were capable of imagining. With luck, one could even find peanuts that grew as long as two adult fingers.
Yan Liuyuan even wanted to catch the squirrel as well, but it got away as he was too inexperienced at hunting.
He took his jacket off and bundled up the dry fruit and carried it back to the construction site.
A woman immediately came over and said, “Handsome young man, can you share some of it with me? Let me have some to eat and I’ll do whatever you want me to.” She leaned towards Yan Liuyuan as she spoke.
However, Yan Liuyuan avoided her advances. Yan Liuyuan said coldly, “You’ll do whatever I want?”
The woman smiled. “Of course!”
“Alright then,” Yan Liuyuan said. “Go and carry the wooden logs for us. When you carry them back to the campsite, register it under Wang Yuchi’s name. After that, you can come back here to collect the peanuts.”
The woman was confused.
At this moment, Yan Liuyuan said loudly, “Whoever helps us carry one log can collect five large peanuts from me! There’s limited stocks, so first come, first served!”
This was the plan Ren Xiaosu thought up for them. Since the workload was too great, they should let others do the work for them.
At times like this, the escapees would do anything just to have something to eat.
In this wilderness, whoever had food could do as they pleased.
But Ren Xiaosu specifically instructed that they were only allowed to reduce their workloads and could not take the opportunity to slack off. It might be possible that all of them would need to depend on the nanomachines in the future, so increasing their synchronization rates was a very important task.
As a result, Yan Liuyuan strictly implemented Ren Xiaosu’s orders. Xiaoyu was smiling from nearby. “You two brothers still have the best solutions.”
Ever since Ren Xiaosu regained consciousness, everyone’s lives got better again. This was probably why a head of the family needed to exist.
Meanwhile, Yan Liuyuan had helped Ren Xiaosu endure through the most difficult days when he was unconscious.
Only under great pressure would there be growth.
Some people came over to Yan Liuyuan and tried to pull a fast one on him for some peanuts. But for a person as clever as Yan Liuyuan, how could he possibly get tricked so easily?
Some people came over and tried to snatch the peanuts from Yan Liuyuan only to find out that although Yan Liuyuan looked rather young, he could get extremely ruthless, and no one could beat him!
Anyone who tried to steal his food would be left lying on the ground for a long time. These people probably had the Yang Consortium’s troops to thank for their supervision. Otherwise, they would probably have died.
Every night, Yan Liuyuan would go back to seek advice from Ren Xiaosu on how to curse his teammates the following day.
Ren Xiaosu also patiently guided him. “Just curse Li Qingzheng to trip over some radish leaves while walking.”
“You can curse Li Qingzheng to get hit on the head by wild dates falling from trees while peeing.”
“Curse Li Qingzheng to...”
In any case, nobody lacked food to eat since Ren Xiaosu regained consciousness.
Moreover, their heavy workload problem was also dealt with. The laborious work they did had now become a way for them to train their bodies. They no longer needed to toil away to complete their quota.
However, while the girls did not have to work as hard anymore, the students insisted on not reducing their work. They felt they might be able to increase their willpower by pushing themselves to a certain extent.
The refugee campsite was being constructed very fast. Several dozen barracks would get built in the matter of a day, and it was also during this process that the escapees started forming cliques.
After all, were several dozen barracks enough for all of them to live in? There were still many more of them who could not be housed.
Ren Xiaosu’s group had kicked off the practice of calling dibs on moving into the barracks. After the first barrack was completed, the rest of the barracks that were finished would go to those who were more ruthless and had more power.
The reinforced troops would watch from the sidelines as two groups of escapees started fighting. They would even start betting among themselves on which side would end up getting the barracks.
For a while, these reinforced troops found a new source of entertainment.
After all, if the escapees started fighting among themselves, they wouldn’t have the energy to cause any more trouble, and that was something the Yang Consortium’s soldiers felt was good.
Yan Liuyuan said to Ren Xiaosu, “The escapees are now split between several groups of people. One group consists of those who are more ruthless, so they managed to gain a foothold rather quickly and the other escapees are all afraid of them. Another group consists of those who were former officials in the stronghold. Many of the escapees think that as long as they support them, they’ll stand to gain something once the Li Consortium comes back into power. The last group is made up of normal refugees who are just honest people sticking together for their own safety.”
Ren Xiaosu thought for a moment and said, “There’s no need to be afraid of them, but don’t go around picking on them either.”
Yan Liuyuan mumbled quietly, “They’re all from the stronghold, so why can’t we pick on... Alright, alright, I’ll keep that in mind.”