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"No! If we are to eat, it can only be ice pops." Yun Xiao said with a laugh, "I can condense moisture from the air into ice, but I can’t extract water from the air. Also, the more humid the air, the stronger my Special Ability becomes."

"So, if you were to make an ice pop right now, would it taste like seawater or freshwater?" Gu Xiaoxi’s eyes lit up as she looked at her. As long as Yun Xiao could make ice pops, their water problem would be solved.

"Let me try!" Yun Xiao quickly concentrated her power and controlled the moisture around her. Soon enough, she had formed about twenty ice blocks.

Gu Xiaoxi grabbed a piece and put it in her mouth, relishing the cold sweet taste. "Not bad, this must be the moisture from the air."

"Local freezing is fairly easy for me, but my Ice Needles are even more powerful.

Within a range of three hundred meters, I can take down enemies at will, of course, they must not be too powerful.

If I encounter someone like Gao Si who can teleport, it is hard for me to hit them, as I lose in terms of speed," Yun Xiao said.

Her Special Ability required time to prepare within a certain range; freezing took at least three to ten seconds.

Therefore, there were some flaws in terms of attack speed.

But she had diligently learned many fighting techniques to make up for some of the shortcomings of her abilities.

"So, you still need to practice diligently," Gu Xiaoxi said. Cultivation could make one stronger and stronger, and Special Abilities were the same—the more one practiced, the more powerful they became. By training for a long time and discovering one’s own weaknesses, they could compensate for those weaknesses and become more invincible.

"Yes!" Yun Xiao nodded solemnly. And this was indeed a great opportunity to train.

Now that she had eaten, she also needed to practice diligently.

"Then I will deliver food to them. You keep practicing your Ice Control here. There’s plenty of seawater, but be careful of the instructor catching people," Gu Xiaoxi patted Yun Xiao on the shoulder, then carried a bag of fish and headed toward the cave up the mountain.

When she got back, the people in the cave were butchering snake meat.

In the face of hunger and the most abundant food on the island—snakes—they had to endure, close their eyes, and force themselves to eat, despite feeling nauseated.

From afar, Gu Xiaoxi saw everyone’s complex expressions and couldn’t help but smile. The environment that enables a person to grow is that of a realization just before death. And it was this realization that had forged their fearless spirit.

"Thump!" Gu Xiaoxi threw a bag full of fish in front of everyone. Those who were eating snake meat immediately widened their eyes in surprise.

Oh my god!

They finally saw something that could be called food.

Song Jingyi immediately opened the bag and looked at the fresh fish inside, feeling overwhelmed. Slices of raw fish would certainly taste better than snake meat.

Gu Xiaoxi used a dagger to slice open the big fish and distributed the meat to everyone.

At that moment, everyone looked at her with gratefulness in their eyes.

Gu Xiaoxi was simply the lifesaver of the team—finding shelter when it rained and bringing food when they were hungry.

Zhao Zilong and Shao Changfeng couldn’t help but admire her. They had scoured the forest and only caught a few snakes, originally feeling proud. But now, seeing a big bag of fish, that touch of pride instantly vanished.

This Gu Xiaoxi always made them feel utterly useless.

She was truly admirable!

"Next time you go fishing in the sea, count me in!" Yi Chentian said with a laugh.

But Gu Xiaoxi simply beamed at everyone, "No need. You’d disturb me.

Now that we have food, you can’t just sit around.

Use the time to train more. And don’t stay in one place for too long; it’s easy to get caught.

If anyone needs food, you can find me by the coast. I can’t stick with you anymore. Keep up the good work, everyone!"

Song Jingyi and Qin Chu exchanged glances, understanding her meaning, then decided, "After we eat, we’ll go up to the top of the mountain to check out the terrain.

I’ll contact you if there’s anything. We still have to use this place as our contact point.

After all, if it rains, we’ll need to take shelter here. "

"Right, you make a good point." Zhao Zilong and Shao Changfeng also decided to enter the woods to begin their own training.

Tang Yisheng looked at Gu Xiaoxi for a long while before speaking, "I’d better stick with you! I’m a good swimmer, and I also have something to talk to you about."

Gu Xiaoxi didn’t reject him. Leaving the food with everyone, she then left with Tang Yisheng.

Yi Chentian and Zhong Ming also left quietly.

As they walked, Gu Xiaoxi turned to Tang Yisheng, "What did you want to talk to me about?"

"I know your relationship with your superior officer. It’s natural that I’d take extra care of you. After all, you’re a girl," said Tang Yisheng seriously.

Gu Xiaoxi narrowed her eyes and scrutinized him, speaking sternly, "I don’t need your care."

Tang Yisheng was speechless. "Really not necessary?"

Gu Xiaoxi strode forward, not intending to answer his question, but suddenly remembering something, she stopped and turned back to look at him, asking curiously, "What’s your Special Ability?"

She remembered Quan Shaoqing saying that he had three subordinates with Special Abilities, secretly hidden within the army. Last time Quan Shaoqing sent Tang Yisheng to protect her, that meant he was one of them. Only, she had always been unaware of what Tang Yisheng’s Special Ability was.

"Fire!" Tang Yisheng revealed without hiding.

"..." Gu Xiaoxi lowered her head and pondered for a moment, her big eyes flashing with a hint of cunning. Perhaps the nature of a foodie had been stirred, instinctively, she thought of grilled fish! Therefore, she said with a smile, "Okay then! You’re coming with me."

By the seaside, Gu Xiaoxi and Yun Xiao were skewering fish meat on sticks, then continuously urging Tang Yisheng to make fire.

The man who had always prided himself on his Special Ability was suddenly in tears—never had he known that his fire could be used in such a way. It felt like he had wasted the first twenty years of his life.

Not until two fish were cooked did Tang Yisheng, utterly exhausted, flop on the rock unable to get up.

Gu Xiaoxi and Yun Xiao, however...

"The taste’s not bad, just lacking some seasoning," Gu Xiaoxi commented as she ate the hot, fragrant fish, unable to help herself.

Yun Xiao thought it was already very delicious, happily gnawing on the fish, while the two military dogs beside him had long been drooling with craving.

For the first time, Tang Yisheng felt what it was like to be drained of energy by women.

While they enjoyed the delicious grilled fish, he was so tired he could hardly catch his breath.

And so the days passed, and six days went by.

Some were laughing, some were mourning! During this time, a group of people, unable to bear not bathing, hunger, loneliness, and pain, chose to give up on the sixth day and left.

Song Jingyi established their base on the mountaintop, keeping an eye on the instructors’ movements at all times.

Gu Xiaoxi had been catching fish, practicing assassin techniques underwater, killing fish from the sight of any to selectively killing big ones. Eventually, she could control three daggers and instantly kill a fish that weighed more than ten pounds.

Moreover, her limit for free-diving increased from two hundred meters to three hundred meters.

Yun Xiao’s large-scale Ice Control Technique also gradually improved, expanding from a few dozen square meters on the sea surface to over twenty square meters, and the trigger time for Ice Control reduced from thirty seconds to ten seconds. It can be said that this was a rapid improvement.

And Tang Yisheng, the man being squeezed dry!

His Fire Ability, under the coercion of Gu Xiaoxi and Yun Xiao to output for long periods, had grown in a few days from maintaining for six seconds every three seconds to sustaining output for ten seconds every second. This left him surprised, pleased, and helpless.

He had not expected that prolonged training and consumption wouldn’t deplete his Special Ability but had instead made it stronger.

One could say that this trio was the most jovial team in the squad now.

Using ice and fire, they successfully made food that allowed them to keep their Physical Strength up, ready to face the enemy at any moment.

Though Song Jingyi and Qin Chu were very tired, their strong will made them more steadfast in their training. They wouldn’t give up and were determined to hold on until the end.

And Shao Changfeng and Zhao Zilong, using their Inner Strength to constantly resist the cold, mapped every spot on the island during those five days and found a cave to shelter and bananas and coconuts sufficient to feed everyone for a week.

Yi Chentian, along with Zhong Ming, gathered all the remaining personnel, then allocated and encouraged them, urging everyone to hold on.

By the seventh day, only a little over eighty people remained on the island.

Out of the previous hundred and twenty, a third had left.

On the morning of the eighth day, Sun Ru led six instructors and six people called from the military, all fully armed, leaping from the cruise ship onto the shore.

They began their final round of capture and confrontation.

The moment they made a move, Song Jingyi from her vantage point on the mountaintop spotted something amiss.