Zhang Guangmu glanced at Chu Fan, who was being beaten outside, and figured the man could hold out for another half a minute. Bored, he looked for another topic.
"Brother, I still haven't repaid you for saving my life before."
That offhand remark from Zhang Guangmu instantly brought Li Xiaoxiao's favorability toward him, which had nearly fallen into the negatives, back up to normal.
"Brother?"
Li Xiaoxiao looked up blankly. Seeing the sincerity in Zhang Guangmu's eyes, he immediately felt a warm current in his heart.
I've finally met someone who isn't blind!
You give me a peach, and I'll give you a plum!
Having his identity as a man acknowledged, Li Xiaoxiao suddenly found Zhang Guangmu increasingly pleasing to the eye. No wonder he was Zhao Zhengrong's handpicked heir.
"Yeah, good brother. As long as I, Zhang Guangmu, have food to eat, you won't go hungry!"
As Zhang Guangmu spoke, his train of thought suddenly jumped. With a face full of curiosity, he asked, "By the way, I heard Chu Fan wanted to take you into his harem before. About that..."
Li Xiaoxiao cut off the shameless, lecherous remark with a cold face and a low voice. "It's true."
"After all, looking like this, I'm bound to attract a few crazed bees and fluttering butterflies. One more doesn't matter, and one less doesn't either. I'm used to it."
By the time they reached this point in the conversation, Chu Fan, whose clothes were perfectly intact and who showed no obvious injuries, was escorted back.
"This kid's a spineless coward. I hadn't even started applying pressure before he confessed!"
The staff member in charge of the interrogation pointed at Chu Fan and foolishly boasted to Li Xiaoxiao, "Our Boss Zhang has taken beatings that Chu Fan couldn't even endure a tenth of. He was already crying and begging for mercy!"
Li Xiaoxiao was speechless, not knowing how to respond.
Zhang Guangmu's eyelid twitched. He said irritably, "Get lost, get lost! Do you really think that's something worth bragging about?"
There was a reason some people could only play cannon fodder and minor goons!
He had only gotten lucky by ending up with such a broad-minded boss as Zhang Guangmu. If someone who cared about maintaining his dignity had been in charge, the death omen above this guy's head would probably already have started flashing.
As he spoke, Zhang Guangmu took an ordinary-looking plastic bag from the interrogator.
"Endless Food Bag..."
Zhang Guangmu toyed with the plastic bag and found that it was no different from the ones given out at supermarkets. Its only notable feature was that it was relatively sturdy and seemed impossible to tear by hand.
Of course, it was also possible that his strength was simply too low.
Zhang Guangmu looked at Chu Fan. "How do you use it?"
There was absolutely no such thing in the Real World.
The law of conservation of matter and energy alone wouldn't allow it to exist.
"As long as the owner of the Endless Food Bag... that is, me... drips a few drops of his own blood inside, it can produce enough food for one person to eat for an entire day."
Chu Fan had been beaten into submission. Wiping his tears with his sleeve, he explained, "If someone else drips blood into it without ownership, it can't produce food either. Only the 'host' can control it!"
"I lied earlier."
"I can't feed everyone at Changhe Camp."
"Unless I willingly give up my life and jump into the Endless Food Bag."
"Only then can it truly live up to its name and produce an endless supply of food."
At this point, Chu Fan instinctively covered his mouth. Coming back to his senses, he said resignedly, "There's no way I'd willingly die! Even if I jumped in, the Endless Food Bag would spit me back out!"
"However, Zhang Guangmu... Boss Zhang, I can transfer the 'ownership' of the Endless Food Bag to your Confidant."
"If we keep transferring its ownership and everyone lives frugally, we should all be able to survive."
After spending some time understanding the information about the Endless Food Bag, Zhang Guangmu's eyes lit up.
Although Director Qian was middle-aged and had repeatedly suffered failures while making films, the Endless Food Bag's appearance was very down-to-earth and highly memorable. It really had something going for it!
"Got it."
Zhang Guangmu tugged at the plastic bag in his hand. "So unless we can find someone willing to sacrifice themselves, we can only keep trading its ownership, taking turns bleeding to exchange for food."
"In that case, with Changhe Camp's relatively large population, it definitely can't support everyone."
"The so-called Endless Food Bag can only be a decoration until it encounters the 'right person.'"
As he spoke, Zhang Guangmu patted Chu Fan on the shoulder. "Bleeding every day to feed your underlings. No wonder you're so weak..."
"But fine, you wronged me, and I can let that go. With a powerful enemy at our doorstep, why did you start an internal fight?"
Chu Fan looked so aggrieved that he could have cried. "I had my reasons!"
"At the time, you were the only one who knew where I was."
"Because the information leaked, Boss Zhao hunted us down, and my wives died one after another. As a man, how could I stand that kind of humiliation? I was blinded by rage and lost my reason. I didn't think too much at the time and simply brought people over to take revenge."
At this point, Chu Fan turned his head toward Li Xiaoxiao. His tone was complicated as he said, "I had always treated him sincerely, yet he showed me no warmth at all. So I thought he was special, unlike other women."
Zhang Guangmu was speechless.
That actually sounds so logical!
Although he didn't understand what connection existed between Chu Fan's "because" and "therefore," he completely had no way to refute him!
Like a defeated stray dog, Chu Fan lowered his head and said dispiritedly, "Li Xiaoxiao believed from the very beginning that you weren't a traitor. He advised me several times not to attack Changhe Camp."
"I... I was a little jealous."
After saying that, Chu Fan's face reddened. He hurriedly continued, "The key is, before the Decisive Battle, he even wanted to seize power and take the throne!"
"Wouldn't any normal person think there was something wrong with him?"
"My overreaction was simply love turning into hatred..."
"Ah... Without the Endless Food Bag, I'm just a failure with no special skills. Besides, there's no point in saying any more."
After Chu Fan finished, not only Zhang Guangmu but even Li Xiaoxiao felt that his logic was coherent and that there was absolutely nothing wrong with his explanation... except that there absolutely was!
This willfully blind idiot couldn't even tell whether someone was a man or a woman!
"Idiot!"
Li Xiaoxiao clenched his fists until they crackled. Furious, he wished he could shoot Chu Fan in the head. "I'm seriously done with you!"
He had already explained it to Chu Fan personally ten thousand times, yet Chu Fan still insisted that he was a man disguised as a woman. He simply refused to listen to reason!
For someone like this not to lose was practically against the laws of heaven!
One word...
Deserved!
Zhang Guangmu gave Chu Fan a sympathetic look. "Don't wallow in self-pity. You still have your strengths."
"The person you like doesn't like you back. That just proves you have good taste."
As for Chu Fan, not only was Li Xiaoxiao impressed by him, Zhang Guangmu also felt a little admiration.
All he could say was that Chu Fan truly lived up to his background as a man who had made a career out of playing the Overbearing CEO. He had completely absorbed the line, You dare ignore me? Very good. Woman, you've successfully caught my attention, into his instincts. Even though this was an Apocalypse Film, he could still forcibly twist his personal storyline into the field he excelled at despite having a Script Hint.
From this perspective, Chu Fan's subconscious was indeed formidable, and he truly loved whatever line of work he was in.
What was professional dedication?
This was professional dedication!
Chu Fan sighed and resignedly reached a hand toward Zhang Guangmu, intending to transfer the ownership of the Endless Food Bag to him.
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