Chapter 394: Maybe There Was Never Any to Begin With

Jiang Hong and Hong Shuo, who were soaking in the water, both showed embarrassed expressions when they saw the two of them approaching.

“I’m sorry. It looks like there won’t be any fish for you to eat. I had planned to catch a fish and grill it for you to taste, but the fish here are as smart as people. We haven’t caught a single one,” Hong Shuo said, blushing, as he explained to Gu Weiwei, who was standing on the shore.

“Ah, are they really that hard to catch? If they’re difficult to catch, then forget it. Actually, it’s fine if I don’t eat fish. You two come back up,” Gu Weiwei said with a look of sympathy.

When Hong Shuo heard her thoughtful words, he felt even more guilty. He couldn’t even catch a fish for his partner. Thinking about it, he felt so useless as her partner.

Li Yiyi glanced at the fish in the small creek. The fish here were quite large, and the ones she could see were about a pound each, mostly carp.

“I have a way,” she said with a smile.

As soon as she finished speaking, she pulled out a small bottle from her backpack and quickly opened the cap. She took out five black pills and tossed them into the water.

“Wait a bit, and we’ll have fish to eat,” she said, smiling at the others.

Seeing how confident Li Yiyi was, Hong Shuo walked over to Jiang Hong. “Old Jiang, what did your wife just throw into the water?”

“I don’t know, but my wife always has her reasons when she throws things in. We just have to wait,” Jiang Hong said, looking at his wife standing on the shore with complete trust.

Seeing this, Hong Shuo had no choice but to obediently stay in the water.

A few minutes passed, and soon, the two men standing in the water noticed that the fish in the area seemed to have been electrified. One by one, they floated to the surface.

“These fish… they’re not running out of oxygen, are they? Why are they all popping up to the surface, belly-up?” Hong Shuo shouted in disbelief, his eyes wide open.

Jiang Hong looked at his wife on the shore, who was smiling. His intuition told him that everything happening now was related to the few pills his wife had tossed into the water.

“Have you ever seen so many fish popping up like this?” Jiang Hong clapped Hong Shuo on the back and asked with a smile.

Hong Shuo thought for a moment, then grinned and said, “Actually, I’ve never seen anything like this. But what’s going on? Could it be that the fish knew we wanted to eat them, so they’re coming up on their own to be eaten?”

His stupidity made Gu Weiwei on the shore unable to stand it anymore. “How can you be so dumb? They’re like this because of the pills that Sister Li just threw in the water.”

After hearing his partner’s urgent explanation, Hong Shuo quickly remembered that his sister-in-law had just tossed several black pills into the creek.

“So, can a few pills really make a dozen fish faint all at once?” he asked, then looked at Li Yiyi standing next to his partner with admiration.

At this moment, he couldn’t help but think that if this medicine were used on the battlefield to confuse the enemy, wouldn’t it knock out a whole bunch of them in no time?

“Don’t just look at the few pills I threw. They’re all high-concentration sedatives, so naturally, their effect is strong,” Li Yiyi explained with a smile.

“But you guys should hurry and catch them. The medicine works fast, but it also fades quickly. If we wait too long, these fish will wake up and swim away,” she reminded them with a smile.

Her reminder made Hong Shuo and Jiang Hong snap back to their senses. The two of them quickly called the other soldiers who were fishing upstream to help gather the fish.

By the time they finished, nearly twenty carp, each weighing about a pound, were stacked on the ground. Any fish that was smaller than a pound was returned to the creek.

Since they had already caught enough to eat, the smaller fish could just continue growing in the creek.

The researchers resting in the open area saw the soldiers bringing over so many fish, and each of them looked surprised.

“Where did all these fish come from? It looks like we’re in for a treat at lunch,” one of them said, happily noticing the fish in the soldiers’ hands.

“You can thank our sister Li Yiyi for this. If she hadn’t helped, none of us would have fish to eat,” one soldier said with a smile.

“Is Comrade Li Yiyi really that amazing? I didn’t expect a woman to be so powerful. Looks like we really have some talents in our team,” someone said happily.

So when Li Yiyi came over with Jiang Hong, she was immediately met with many thanks from the research team.

Soon, the fish were grilled, and the scent of grilled fish wafted through the mountain forest.

“If we’re grilling fish here, the smoke is going to rise. Won’t it alarm that group of R-country people who went in earlier?” Shen Zhou walked over to Jiang Hong and expressed his concern.

Jiang Hong smiled and patted his shoulder, saying, “Don’t worry. Maybe that group of R-country people has already gone down the mountain. Or maybe there are no such people here at all.”

Shen Zhou furrowed his brow at this, looking at Jiang Hong’s unreadable smile with curiosity. He asked again, “Comrade Jiang, what do you mean by that?”

“I’m not sure either, but soon enough, they’ll make us understand,” Jiang Hong said with a deep gaze, looking at the man standing near his wife, who was smiling coldly.

At that moment, not far away, Li Yiyi was hesitantly holding a grilled fish that Ye Fan had handed to her. “Comrade Ye, you grilled this fish. You should eat it. The one I’m grilling is almost ready.”

Ye Fan glanced at the fish she was holding, which was crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. It was clearly the kind that was delicious.

“Alright then. Compared to the one I grilled, which got a bit burnt, your fish looks better. I won’t be polite and will eat it first,” he said with a smile.

Li Yiyi smiled slightly after hearing his words, but anyone familiar with her could tell that her smile wasn’t very genuine.

However, he started eating the fish.

Li Yiyi just pursed her lips and continued watching her own fish grill.

“Yiyi, your fish smells so good,” Gu Weiwei, who didn’t know how to grill fish, said, taking in the scent of the grilled fish with a longing expression.

Li Yiyi looked at her with a smile, “It smells good, right? When it’s ready, I’ll grill one for you to try.”

“Thanks, Yiyi. Then I’ll share half of my biscuits with you,” Gu Weiwei said shyly.

Li Yiyi knew that the biscuits were her food for the mountain.

“Keep the biscuits for yourself. Don’t share them. Those biscuits are very precious here in the mountains,” Li Yiyi told her.