"Come, come, we have fire..."
Ning Shu moved the bonfire in front of Lu Zhe and Tang Xiaoguo and began adding firewood.
Lu Zhe praised: "Good job, squad leader!"
Ning Shu smiled proudly: "Pretty awesome, right?"
"Have some water first."
Ning Shu wiped away her sweat and drank half a bottle of water in big gulps.
It was also at this time that Lu Zhe noticed some blood stains smeared on the water bottle, probably from Ning Shu's scraped palms after all that friction from the bow drill.
She rested for a while to catch her breath, then picked up a type 30 commando dagger: "You guys wait here, I need to chop some more firewood, or we won't have enough for the night."
Lu Zhe knew how tiring using a bow drill was, when he tried it himself for the first time his arms nearly broke off, even though the wood in the woods was a little better. Ning Shu's stamina was pretty much depleted.
"Xiaoguo is feeling a little better now, squad leader should rest first, leave the rest to me."
Tang Xiaoguo also saw the toll Ning Shu's fire starting took on her, and said: "Squad leader, keep me company..."
Ning Shu really had no energy left, so she nodded: "Alright then, Lu Zhe, be careful!"
"Remember, don't move, but stay awake. Shout if you need anything, I won't go far."
Ning Shu gave an "OK" hand sign: "Got it."
Lu Zhe took the type 30 commando dagger and searched around nearby, collecting a large bundle of firewood rather quickly, as there were many trees in the woods.
It was also at this time that he took a quick look around the cliff top.
He realized the terrain here was completely different from the foot of the mountain!
The ground was strewn with rocks that had tumbled down from the mountainside, fallen leaves, and wild ferns. The trees were gnarled and the bushes thorny.
If the foot of the mountain was like a tropical rainforest, this was more like a subtropical woodland.
As night fell, the sea breeze howled through the woods like ghosts.
Suddenly, a distant beastly "whoop..." cried out, sending chills down their spines.
Lu Zhe hurried back with an armful of branches.
Ning Shu said: "Lu Zhe, did you hear that, what was it?"
Tang Xiaoguo asserted: "I suspect goblins?"
"Certainly not."
Lu Zhe put down the firewood: "It was likely some kind of feline, but don't worry, felines on this island won't be very large. Plus we have fire, it won't risk attacking us."
He then smiled: "Even if it comes, it'll just provide us some extra protein."
Lu Zhe's confidence reassured the girls. What's a little cat to a man who could take down a giant bear?
Next, Lu Zhe placed a tuft of Selaginella moellendorffii in the fire to roast.
"Your hands are scraped up right?"
Ning Shu pursed her lips: "No big deal..."
"The ash from this plant can treat wounds, I'll apply some later."
"It's really called 'back from the dead' grass?"
"That's just a common name, the scientific name is Selaginella moellendorffii, it grows on cliffs and is found in temperate regions, but also in tropical places like the Philippines. It has some medicinal value, it can stop bleeding."
"I see..."
Soon, Lu Zhe took out the cooled medicinal ash, grabbed Ning Shu's hand!
Indeed her palms had several scrapes, feeling a little distressed.
He rinsed it clean with water, sprinkled on the ash. With no extra cloth, he ripped some strips off his tank top to wrap her hands.
"What's the plan going forward?"
"The wind is quite strong near the cliff, the woods are dangerous, we need some kind of shelter to make it through the night. We can figure things out tomorrow."
Ning Shu said: "When I was making the hand drill earlier I also surveyed the area. The branches here are too flimsy, either too thin or too short, or not hard enough. Barely enough for firewood, but won't work for building a shelter."
Lu Zhe nodded, he knew Ning Shu was right. The trees here grew too gnarled, hard to find suitable branches for building shelter.
Lu Zhe thought for a moment: "Then we won't use branches. There are plenty of rocks here, we can use those and leaves!"
He looked at the darkening sky: "Let's gather some rocks while we can still see, we'll build a semicircular wall here to block the wind."
"Sounds good, be careful."
Lu Zhe searched around for rocks nearby, while Ning Shu slowly constructed the wall. After half an hour, most of the nearby rocks were picked clean, and they built a one meter high semi-circular stone wall, just big enough for the three to huddle inside.
There were still gaps, but no matter!
They hacked off some branches and leaves to pile against the back of the wall, blocking much more wind.
After a period of busy work, another half hour went by, and the sky was now completely dark.
The woods seemed increasingly eerie.
Finally settled in.
"How are you holding up, Xiaoguo?"
"I'm okay, just some tightness in my chest, feeling a little fatigued."
"Whatever you do, don't sleep, I'm telling you."
"Then we gotta do something to keep alert!"
"No, you can't move around."
"So no sleep, no movement?"
"That's right."
"Then we can only play snake."
"Hold on, let's take stock of our supplies first, and plan our next steps."
"That works too."
"My backpack is here. For tools we only have the commando dagger.
Left the machete and other gear for Sister Bing and them.
Considering we may have to spend the night out, brought the aluminum lunchboxes too, inside is some pork jerky, banana jerky, and bamboo shoots, so food shouldn't be a worry. Should we eat something now?"
Tang Xiaoguo shook her head: "I can't eat."
Ning Shu said: "I'll have some jerky."
"We have three bottles of drinking water left. It just rained, shouldn't be hard to find fresh water in the woods, so water is covered.
As for salt intake.
The pork contains some salt, so a couple days without shouldn't be an issue, but lack of salt long term will cause problems.
Then there's the cell phone.
Not sure if remaining battery will last til morning on standby, but we have the charger cable, maybe we can find a fruit to charge with.
We also have some rope, two plastic bags, matches, bamboo skewers and other supplies.
For survival purposes we should be good."
Ning Shu nodded: "Better off than when we first landed on the island."
Lu Zhe thought for a moment: "Given Xiaoguo's condition, she probably can't get down the mountain tomorrow. We'll use this as base camp tomorrow, explore the woods a bit, and when Xiaoguo fully recovers we can climb to the highest point of the peak.
Ning Shu said: "If we don't head back for a few days, won't Sister Bing and them worry?"
"No, try to see it from their perspective. If you were Sister Bing or Qian Qian, and I didn't come back from the cliff on time, what would you do?"
The girls thought about it. Ning Shu considered: "Would be very worried, go wait by the cliff and call out for you."
"Might blow a whistle too."
"Right, if we hear them shouting or whistling, we'll know they've come, and can update them on our situation and next steps, so they won't fret."
s + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
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e school belle recognized by the whole school, a genius girl from the kendo club. She also has a hidden identity, the youngest legendary demon hunter. Chen Shuo just transmigrated and found himself turned into a weak, helpless little vampire. He was caught by Su Xiyen and taken home at the very beginning. Since then, Chen Shuo's life creed only had two items. "First, classmate Su Xiyen is always right." "Second, if classmate Su Xiyen is wrong, please refer back to item one." Many years later, Chen Shuo, who had turned back into a human, led a pair of twins to appear in front of all the vampires to share the secret of how he turned back into a human. "It's simple, I tricked a female demon hunter into becoming my wife!"
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
