Anxiety in the Night

To conserve food, they didn't engage in much activity in the evening and quickly retreated into the tents to rest.

Initially, Luo Jun wanted to assign people for night watch, but none of these women were professionals, and with limited firearms, Luo Jun didn't feel it was safe to have those women stand guard with guns.

Luo Jun lay inside the tent, listening to the sounds of insects chirping in the forest. He was usually unaffected by it, but he couldn't fall asleep.

He felt uneasy.

There was one question he couldn't figure out: why, during the window period, his country could enter this place, but why didn't they send a large number of soldiers and supplies?

Why did they have to leave after twenty days?

This question seemed unimportant, but the more Luo Jun thought about it, the more uneasy he became.

Because he couldn't understand it, he felt afraid.

Seeing Luo Jun tossing and turning, unable to sleep, Lorna thought Luo Jun was in a bad mood, so she reached out and embraced him, skillfully exploring his abs.

"Why don't I help you relax?" Lorna whispered in Luo Jun's ear. Indeed, Luo Jun couldn't sleep at the moment, which was quite rare.

This restlessness and unease felt like a wild animal sensing an impending disaster.

Seeing that Luo Jun didn't refuse, Lorna's body moved downwards.

Soon, Luo Jun felt the tickling sensation of Lorna's hair on his abdomen.

Under Lorna's gentle touch, Luo Jun's mind gradually emptied.

After some time, Luo Jun finally cleared his worries and slowly fell asleep, but he had a nightmare.

It woke him up in the middle of the night.

"Damn it..."

Luo Jun woke up, finding himself drenched in cold sweat. He reached out and touched the faces of the three sleeping women beside him.

Luo Jun checked his watch; it was 3 AM.

He took out a cigar and went outside the tent to smoke, reigniting the campfire.

Warming himself by the fire, he looked at the pitch-black forest around them.

The sound of insects in the forest had disappeared, making Luo Jun very uneasy. He gripped his pistol and carefully moved to a tree behind the tent.

But he didn't see anything.

For safety, he didn't return to the campfire but began patrolling the perimeter.

When he returned to the campfire, the sound of insects had resumed, though not as crisp as the summer insects. At least there was some insect noise, which made Luo Jun feel a little more at ease.

He rarely felt as agitated as he did today.

Only when there were unresolved issues, yet the days passed uneventfully, did this contradictory atmosphere make the cells in his body, always ready for battle, become restless.

He knew he wouldn't be able to sleep tonight, so he decided to build some abatis after daybreak and postpone the shelters.

Although the abatis could only stop some wild animals, it would be completely ineffective against intelligent beings.

And what Luo Jun was most worried about was the latter. He didn't know how big this island was or if there were other people here.

Plus, Li Shi had previously said she heard people talking near the cave, though she might have been hallucinating. But it was also possible it was real!

If it was real, then the reason those people didn't capture Li Shi was likely because they wanted to catch a bigger fish!

After all, if they were humans, or a very old tribe, or even earlier survivors, it's entirely possible that they knew how to scout and were waiting for the right moment to ambush.

And that's not even the most terrifying part. What's most terrifying for Luo Jun, keeping him awake, was the question of why they had to leave after twenty days.

Was it really impossible to station a large number of troops on the island?

Was it really because there was a virus on the island?

But if it was just a virus, the Americans could have easily established a virus research facility on this island instead of acting like they were avoiding some kind of ghost.

And Jones left with the coordinates of the island's metal, would Smith and the others really wait six months before taking action?

Wasn't he afraid someone else would get there first?

That doesn't make sense!

So Luo Jun came to the conclusion that during those six months, the island would be in an extremely dangerous environment, one that could lead to extremely serious problems.

That's why they had to limit their stay to only twenty days before leaving.

And that large-scale danger would occur on a certain day or month during those six months.

At least, Jones and his team had already been on the island for two months, but nothing strange or dangerous had happened yet. So in the next six months, some kind of unpredictable, large-scale crisis would definitely occur...

Thinking about this, Luo Jun's body was covered in goosebumps. He had to prepare for the worst, figuring out how to avoid this crisis that could erupt at any time!

The greatest fear is the unknown, and the lack of information about this island was Luo Jun's biggest headache.

Luo Jun smoked his cigar, quietly waiting for dawn. Time seemed to pass particularly slowly. Around 5 AM, Luo Jun returned to the tent to rest for a while since there would be a lot of work during the day.

As soon as he entered, he saw that Li Shi had come to sleep beside him. Had this girl gotten up in the middle of the night?

But Luo Jun didn't care much about that anymore and just lay down.

Half-awake, Li Shi embraced Luo Jun, her warm hands exploring his abs.

Luo Jun reached down, taking her little hand and placing it on his chest instead.

In the darkness, Li Shi's little mouth pouted unhappily, and she didn't dare make any other moves.

Luo Jun slept for over an hour before waking up and gathering a few of the slightly stronger women, instructing them to take axes into the woods and chop down some straight, calf-thick trees to bring back. Each piece had to be about one and a half meters long.

After giving the instructions, the women were quite enthusiastic, as if performing well could make a strong man like Luo Jun look at them a little more.

At this moment, the captain walked over.

"One and a half meter wooden poles can't make any shelters, can they?" the captain asked.

"I forgot to tell you, today I've decided to make some abatis first, like those things in medieval times outside city walls to prevent knights from charging into the city," Luo Jun explained using terminology they were familiar with.

"Did you sense something?" the captain asked.

Luo Jun shook his head. "I don't know how to put it, but right now I feel very unsafe. Today, besides making the abatis, we'll also set up some things around the perimeter that will trigger an alarm, so if anything approaches us at night, we'll know right away. I'll need the women's help for this."

"What can they help with?" the captain asked curiously.

"I need them to gather some tough tree bark, then I'll teach them how to weave ropes. With ropes, we can set up the warning devices."

The captain listened to Luo Jun's words and nodded repeatedly, because these were things that ordinary people like him couldn't even think of, while Luo Jun and Jones had an extraordinary sense of danger.

Following him was probably the right move.

Luo Jun headed towards the area where he sensed something abnormal last night, intending to investigate if something had really approached them and scouted their situation.

If it was true, there would definitely be traces left on the ground.