Chapter 1167 - 15: Yoshikawa Feng’s Thoughts

On the Hua Association’s side.

Liu Yu watched Chen Wen win a complete victory and take all the spoils, and he was genuinely happy for him.

Lying on the sofa, Liu Yu was already yawning nonstop.

He’d stayed up all night as well, and now he was exhausted.

"Sigh, Chen Wen’s luck this time is kind of bad but also kind of good."

Liu Yu put down his phone and started reviewing for Chen Wen: "Not only did he run into Musa, that top-tier mole, but those four people themselves weren’t very united to begin with. If it had been a single, cohesive team, it wouldn’t have been that easy."

Liu Yu shook his head, but no matter what, Chen Wen had broken the deadlock.

After breaking the deadlock, what came next would depend on how he stored food, stockpiled water, and got through this round of the Heat Extreme Challenge.

Of course, Liu Yu still felt very at ease about Chen Wen.

He felt that Chen Wen should be able to complete the Heat Extreme Challenge relatively easily.

Liu Yu was in a good mood, but naturally there were others who were in a terrible mood.

On Mexico’s side.

Even though Darren had just come over to freeload a slot, no matter how you looked at it, the guy was nominally a member of the Mexico Association.

Seeing Darren heavily injured and even eliminated on the very first night.

The president of the Mexico Association could only shake his head.

"I already told him not to actively provoke Chen Wen, but Darren just wouldn’t listen. Now look, he’s been eliminated. Maybe this will finally make him behave."

The Mexico president sighed, and in his heart he was weighing whether he should instruct the other four that if they ran into Chen Wen, they should steer clear.

If it really didn’t work out, they could also learn from Musa. The Mexico president actually quite appreciated Musa’s performance.

...

On South Africa’s side.

Watching his painstakingly trained captain get directly eliminated without much room to resist.

The president was truly furious.

Back in the day, he’d been beaten badly by Liu Yu. Now the player he’d trained was even more helpless when facing Liu Yu’s protégé, which made his chest ache with anger.

"What a useless piece of trash!"

The South Africa president cursed, his gaze burning with anger: "I stayed up this late watching, and this is the result? Trash among trash!"

After venting for a while, he weakly shook his head again.

Chen Wen’s performance was definitely even more outrageous than Liu Yu’s back in the day!

So curses aside, the South Africa president really had no solution.

...

On Chad’s side.

This president was relatively fine.

After all, Musa had gotten away in one piece, and he never expected that guy, who’d been brought in just to make up the numbers, to actually play any role.

At the same time, Musa’s existence also made this president realize that within his own team, Adam, his protégé, would surely have to go all-out against Chen Wen, but if the others could hitch a ride on Chen Wen’s big ship, that wouldn’t be bad either.

...

Back to Chen Wen.

He boldly lay down and started resting.

Using the camel as a pillow, he wasn’t afraid of the desert’s nighttime chill.

And with Insect Repellent constantly activated, the poisonous insects around didn’t dare come close.

Chen Wen actually managed to get a rare good night’s sleep.

But it was a completely different story for Yoshikawa Feng in the sand dunes.

He didn’t dare sleep at all!

On one hand, there were too many poisonous insects around, so he had to stay extremely cautious; on the other hand, Yoshikawa Feng was also afraid that Chen Wen would come chasing after him.

This psychological pressure made it impossible for him to close his eyes.

And as for how he was supposed to survive from here on out, that sense of uncertainty was like a tightening band clamped around his head, throwing his mind into chaos.

So Yoshikawa Feng simply stood up and started thinking about his next move.

He calculated for a long time and came to two conclusions—run and steal!

Run, naturally, meant running away from Chen Wen, the farther the better.

But there was still the same problem: with no water and no food, even if he ran, he wouldn’t get very far.

So he decided to steal!

"Yesterday, for the surprise attack on us, Chen Wen definitely didn’t rest much. Right now he probably won’t sleep too deeply either, so I can wait for the break of dawn, when he’s at his most relaxed, and then return to the oasis!"

Yoshikawa Feng’s eyes gleamed slyly as he carefully analyzed: "The traps I set up yesterday should have some harvest. After I get back to the oasis, I can take the traps and whatever prey they caught with me!"

"And I can also sneak over to the water source and fill my water bags, though I’ll have to watch out for Chen Wen!"

"What will Chen Wen do tomorrow? I feel like he’s definitely going to hunt. There’s almost no food left at the camp, so he’ll absolutely leave camp to hunt, and that’s my chance!"

"I can lie in ambush around the camp and, when Chen Wen goes out to hunt, steal some supplies, like taking two or three water bags. That way the road ahead will be much easier!"

"This plan... should work!"

After a round of analysis, Yoshikawa Feng slapped his thigh: "Let’s do it!"

He’d settled on his next plan and was ready to put it into action.

...

Time ticked by second by second, and soon it was the latter half of the night.

Sleeping on top of the camel, Chen Wen suddenly sneezed and sat up.

"Ha~ah!"

After a huge yawn, Chen Wen couldn’t help but squint his eyes and glance around.

"Why is it still dark?"

Chen Wen scratched his head. In his impression, it felt like he’d been sleeping for a long time.

But now it seemed like it was still pre-dawn.

After thinking for a moment, Chen Wen realized that he’d rested quite a while on the sand dunes yesterday, so he wasn’t that sleepy, which was why he’d woken up early.

"Forget it, I can’t get back to sleep anyway, might as well get up and check out the surroundings."

Chen Wen stopped thinking about it and sat up directly.

The camel sensed his movement and stood up as well.

Chen Wen patted the camel’s body, smoothed down its fur, and said, "Go on, eat whatever you want. This whole oasis is mine now!"

The camel couldn’t understand his words, but it still slowly walked to the side, planning to grab a bite.

The camel’s weight and diet meant that they had to spend a huge amount of time each day just eating.

After the camel left, Chen Wen rekindled a fire on the basis of the camp’s old bonfire, then went to the water and washed the stew pot he was carrying with clean water. Finally, he filled it with clear, cool spring water and set it over the fire.

"Once this pot of water is boiled, I can let it cool and pour it into the water bags."

Chen Wen thought as he planned out his morning: "Since I got an extra pot earlier, I can look for some edible plants later and cook them together with Long Pod Yellow Hemp in the pot."

"If I’m lucky enough to find some animals, I can just boil them directly, or roast them. I didn’t bring any salt myself this time, but among the supplies I captured there’s a bag of salt, so I don’t need to be too stingy."

After mapping out his morning operations, Chen Wen picked up his spear and prepared to walk into the oasis to have a look.

And just as Chen Wen set off.

Outside the oasis.

Having stayed up all night, Yoshikawa Feng saw the first light appear in the eastern sky and immediately sprang into action, reaching the edge of the oasis with plans to slip inside and check things out.

He silently prayed that Chen Wen wouldn’t get up, then dove headfirst into the oasis.