As soon as these words were spoken, Leng Qingqiu's gaze shifted, filled with a complex expression. Through Lu Yu's words, she now had a rough understanding of Lu Yu's days on the deserted island.

If you want to eat, you have to participate in the combat, otherwise, you will starve to death. This means that if Lu Yu wanted to avoid starving to death on the island, he had to engage in at least one battle every day.

Moreover, in each battle, one side must die to end it. This indicates that Lu Yu must kill one person every day to obtain food and survive!

However, the food obtained from just one battle a day is only enough to stave off hunger. Fighting is a highly physically demanding activity, and the food is merely sufficient to curb hunger, nowhere near enough. Over time, physical strength gradually dwindles, and running out of strength in a fight means being beaten to death!

So, if Lu Yu wanted to survive, he had to secure better food every day to ensure he had the strength to face the battles of the next day!

Upon thinking this, Leng Qingqiu was shocked.

Because this system, though seemingly crude, was tightly intertwined. To survive, one must fight, but to survive in a fight, one must replenish ample strength, and to replenish that strength, one must obtain better food, which can only be gained through combat!

Such battling has formed a cycle—fight or die!

And according to Lu Yu, steak is the best food in the prison. The fact that he could eat steak every day was enough to show that Lu Yu had to kill a lot of people daily!

Now, Leng Qingqiu understood. She understood why Lu Yu's strikes were swift and deadly, and why he could kill without batting an eye!

It turns out that Lu Yu's skills and his indifferent killing manner were acquired from the brutal fights in the cages of Paradise Island!

Hiss!

As she thought of this, Leng Qingqiu took a deep breath, calming her shocked heart before speaking with a deep tone: "Did you also learn your skills from the fighting?"

"That's right,"

Hearing Leng Qingqiu's words, Lu Yu nodded and said, "You have to understand, because of limited stamina, you absolutely cannot use too much strength in combat. Therefore, I always pursue the simplest and quickest method to kill the enemy, preserving more stamina to face the next day's fight."

In his words, Lu Yu's voice carried a bit of depth and coldness, giving off an immensely weathered impression at first glance.

He still remembers vividly the scene and feeling of his first kill in the cage!

The fear and dread after executing someone profoundly unsettled the then immature Lu Yu.

But at the time, Lu Yu understood that if he didn't continue to kill, he would starve to death on Paradise Island.

Once dead, the blood feud of his parents would naturally go unavenged.

Under the influence of this mindset, Lu Yu harbored only one belief at the time—to survive, no matter what, to survive!

That sense of despair was something only Lu Yu himself knew.

Without the strong support of his vengeful thoughts, Lu Yu would have long perished in that dark, nightless cage!

And it is under this mindset that Lu Yu fought and killed in the dark, endless cage, slowly transforming his clumsy combat skills into immense strength, reaching a point of striking like lightning, killing in one blow!

He also transformed from the fearful, innocent young man into the none blinking, fear-inducing Prisoner No. 32!

"And then? What happened afterward?"

Upon hearing up to this point, Leng Qingqiu continued to ask, her voice low but with a tinge of suppression.

Now, merely from Lu Yu's narrative, Leng Qingqiu could feel that breath-stopping despair surging toward her!

To know that living like a beast, in constant killing, is a feeling she, a pampered, highly sought-after heiress, could never comprehend!

"Afterward?"

Hearing Leng Qingqiu's words, Lu Yu slightly smiled, continuing on as if telling a story: "I fought in the dark, endless cage for a whole year, later, because all the prisoners feared fighting me, they directly released me from the cage, having no choice, I became one of them, supervising the laborers on the surface!"

At this, Lu Yu suddenly smiled, revealing a trace of recollection on his face: "However, interestingly enough, the person who betrayed me ended up under my jurisdiction!"

In his words, Lu Yu's mouth slightly lifted, revealing a trace of a cruel smile, as if recalling something intriguing.

Upon hearing this, Leng Qingqiu was slightly startled. Even she hadn't expected that the person who betrayed Lu Yu would land in Lu Yu's hands.

"Did you... kill him?"

Looking at Lu Yu's cruel smile, Leng Qingqiu spoke, her words carrying a hint of inquiry.

After all, based on everything Lu Yu had said earlier, with Lu Yu's skills, killing the person who betrayed him would truly be a piece of cake!

"I didn't kill him, but I didn't spare him either,"

Upon hearing Leng Qingqiu's words, Lu Yu spoke calmly: "You have to know, there are many ways to exact revenge, killing is the most uninteresting one."

Pausing briefly, Lu Yu continued, "I was in charge of supervising the laborers on the surface, so naturally, I arranged his workload"

In his words, Lu Yu's expression revealed traces of coldness.

Upon hearing Lu Yu's words, Leng Qingqiu's heart slightly stirred. Looking at Lu Yu in front of her, she spoke, "What did you do to him then?"

"Simply, I just arranged for him to do ten times the workload of others. If he couldn't finish, he wasn't allowed to eat or rest."

Speaking, Lu Yu's voice was low, revealing traces of recollection: "You have to know, the laborers' workload is extremely arduous, ten times the workload is something one person simply cannot handle!"

"So he..."

Upon hearing this, Leng Qingqiu fully comprehended now, realizing the man's fate completely.

A laborer's workload is already extremely strenuous; ten times the workload, with no rest if unfinished, such a method leads to only one outcome!

"Work to death!"

Upon hearing Leng Qingqiu's words, Lu Yu replied calmly, his words giving off an extreme indifference, as if talking about something unrelated to himself!