Although Lu Zhe had been trying to distract himself all along, attempting to avoid this from happening. But he was after all not a saint free of desires. When the emotions came, that feeling deep down still needed an outlet!
The waves lapped at the beach, the chirping of unnamed insects in the bushes, and the rustling sound of the banyan trees. Shen Bing bit down on a towel, afraid that her voice might wake up Ning Shu and the others, sweat streamed down from her perfect waistline, exceptionally charming...
Two hours later, Lu Zhe lay on the beach, letting the waves wash over his body.
Shen Bing sat beside him:
"I'll say, you're quite capable!"
Lu Zhe panted: "Let me put it this way, if my grades weren't so good, I would have gone into arts or sports."
Shen Bing tied up her hair with a rubber band, smiled charmingly: "What's wrong? Not afraid anymore?"
"Afraid! But there are some things that you eventually have to face right? I've also opened up my mind, keeping watch over you few young beauties, even if I recited the entire Great Compassion Mantra it would be useless!"
Shen Bing chuckled, looking up at the starry sky and waves, murmuring: "Actually I feel the same! Without having gone through it, I thought I could be free of desires and worldly temptations, but after experiencing it, I realised I'm just a commoner unable to resist the lure of the mundane world."
Lu Zhe nodded: "I understand, long live!"
The two bumped fists tacitly.
He got up and went to the cooler to take out two bottles of water, handing one to Shen Bing: "Sweated quite a bit huh, have some water!" By now the water temperature had indeed become much cooler.
Shen Bing took a sip and nodded approvingly: "You even remembered to take water, not bad! I heard from my married seniors that many men just roll over and sleep after they are done."
"That's because..." Lu Zhe thought for a moment: "My love for you is true!"
Shen Bing felt quite touched inside: "Alright, enough nonsense, hurry up and sleep, we still have to go into the jungle tomorrow!"
"Mm, give me your hand..."
"What for?"
"Feels more assured holding it while sleeping!"
Shen Bing smiled and put her hand into Lu Zhe's palm.
And so, the two fell asleep hand in hand.
At the crack of dawn, they were jolted awake by the girls' screams!
The two beautiful young ladies Qian Qian and Jiang Yao stared at the flowers on top of cow dung, their bewildered big eyes seeming to no longer believe in this ridiculous world!
"How could this be..."
"Did the flowers finally decide to elope with the cow dung they loved deeply, abandoning their warm residence?"
Next was Tang Xiaoguo.
The sustained high temperatures had killed off the few small fish she was keeping.
"What happened last night that made you collectively commit suicide?"
Lu Zhe consoled: "Don't fuss, there was too little oxygen left in the cans, and the excessive heat accelerated oxygen consumption, that's why they died. But don't worry, when we find an aquarium in the future with an oxygen filtration pump, you can properly raise fish then!"
"Is it possible to find something like that?" Tang Xiaoguo pondered: "Use a bin?"
"No, we need that to store water!"
Jiang Yao protested: "Then what about our flowers? Why were they stuck in cow dung?"
Shen Bing said: "That was done to allow them and us to live better lives, come look at this!"
The few girls saw the flower pots on the ground covered by wet towels, they lifted the towels curiously, feeling a stream of cool air rushing out!
The girls were shocked again: "What kind of high tech is this??"
"It's not any high tech, just a cooler made from soil."
Sure enough, after one night, although it was still over thirty degrees Celsius outside, the temperature inside the soil cooler was only around twenty degrees.
"Too amazing!"
"Who made this?"
"Lu Zhe and I did!"
In that instant, all the girls felt somewhat ashamed and guilty!
So that was why!
It turns out it was because of this!
Thinking back by comparison, whenever it was their shift, they would only fool around clinging onto Lu Zhe doing intimate things!
And now looking at Sis Bing!
From the start of her shift she had been busy thinking of ways to improve everyone's lives, making four soil coolers, she must have been exhausted throughout the night!
Sneaking another peek at Sis Bing, her slightly dishevelled hair, and those weary, fatigued eyes, it seemed like she really didn't sleep well!
The few girls felt heartache and guilt.
Ning Shu plucked up her courage and said considerately: "Sis Bing, why don't you take a break, I'll cover your shift for you today, don't worry, I won't charge overtime!"
Tang Xiaoguo muttered: "Sis Bing, don't trust that sly monitor!"
Shen Bing smiled: "It's nothing, I can manage! Let's eat something and discuss what we need to do today! Lu Zhe, share that idea of yours with everyone too!"
Lu Zhe nodded: "Mm!"
"What's the matter, so mysterious?"
"Our next plan!"
The few girls looked at one another: "Wasn't it to continue developing our home?"
Lu Zhe nodded: "We must develop our home, and developing our home encompasses more than just shelter and planting and raising livestock! It also includes comprehensively enhancing our standards of clothing, food, housing and transport. Take a look at what we are all wearing now!"
The girls sized each other up. After two months of surviving, all their clothes were already tattered beyond recognition. Occasionally they would find some clothes but those had been soaked in salt water for so long they were all brittle and rotten, tearing with the slightest inattention.
Now they truly looked no different from beggars.
"I'm thinking, look for an opportunity to make a trip to the plane and bring back some supplies!"
They did jokingly talk about doing this before, but everyone knew how enormously difficult it was to go to the plane wreck, so no one took it to heart.
But this time Lu Zhe spoke very seriously, clearly not joking at all.
"Too dangerous!"
"That's right, our lives now are totally self-sufficient, no need to take risks."
"Sharks, heat, and fresh water..." Ning Shu said worriedly: "Lu Zhe, have you forgotten how we escaped onto this island in the first place?"
Lu Zhe nodded: "Exactly because I remember clearly, so I know, although this is tremendously difficult, it is not necessarily impossible!"
The girls raised their heads, as Lu Zhe began laying out his thoughts!
"We landed on Volcano Island from the southwest of the small island, so the approximate direction of the plane should be southwest of Volcano Island."
"We know the approximate direction...but the most crucial problems are still unsolved!"
"Listen to the rest of what I have to say!" Lu Zhe drew on the ground with a stick:
"Due to the El Nino phenomenon, huge amounts of seawater along with the north and south equatorial warm current flowed into Southeast Asia, converging into the Kuroshio Current flowing north from the south, covering up that small branch of southbound Oyashio Current! But our winds here are still the southwest monsoon due to the planetary rotation! Do you understand what this means?"
The girls shook their heads blankly.
Shen Bing pondered: "Let me guess, does it mean we could build a bamboo raft, and make a large sail. Going there we can rely on the wind force against the ocean current to reach our destination! Coming back we can take down the sail and go with the ocean current to return to Volcano Island?"
Lu Zhe snapped his fingers: "Bullseye!"
. As long as he maintains the villain image and follows the plot to the grand finale, he can obtain generous rewards and return to the real world. So Gu Chen'an entered the role and began to act as a scumbag villain, but who would have expected that the female leads could hear his inner thoughts. Miss Su from the Su family was shocked: "I originally thought Gu Chen'an was a scumbag, but I didn't expect he turned out to be a gentleman! What? You said I have to call off the engagement? I definitely won't, I'll piss you off!" Bai Yuan Tian was dumbfounded: "Young Master Gu is usually unreasonable and a complete brat, but he actually calls me little sweetie in his heart? What, Young Master Gu even said he likes me?" As the female leads' images collapsed more and more, the plot also collapsed with it. Gu Chen'an looked at all this chaos. "Ladies, don't aggro me, if you keep this up the male lead really will stab me, I still need to survive to the grand finale!"
y came from. The chests contained supplies, currency, class-change scrolls, skills, talents… and even godhood! The laws of the world were completely rewritten. This became a world where everyone gambled with their fate! Some people, despite having nothing, opened a divine artifact and rose to the top, eventually ruling the world. Others went bankrupt, opened nothing but worthless junk, and leaped from skyscrapers in despair. Lin Ye arrived in this world from another reality, utterly bewildered. “What is going on? Why is everyone a gambling addict?!” “Opening chests? No way. I refuse to gamble. I’ll start with myself!” Until— On his first chest, he obtained a Mythic Talent: Void Incarnation! He could become completely intangible, pass through all things, and reduce everything to nothingness! … On his fiftieth chest, he obtained a Mythic Weapon: Blade of Karma! With a single slash, karma shattered, twisting the universe and overturning the myriad phenomena of creation! … On his ninety-ninth chest, he obtained a Mythic Divine Treasure: Primordial Purple Energy! It could split open the heavens and earth, create all things, and evolve countless worlds with a single thought! Lin Ye: “Now that I think about it… shouldn’t someone have told me that every chest is guaranteed to contain something Mythic?!”
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!
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.
