Ning Shu opened her eyes wide: “Lu Zhe, you are quite ruthless! Did you add devil chili peppers?”
“Yes!”
Lu Zhe nodded: “But my purpose in doing this was to make it afraid of the food we have touched, so that it won't casually take our things again! Compared to direct confrontation, this is a more humane method.”
"Hmm, strangely pleasant! You are too kind!"
The monkey was burned by the spicy chili peppers. Finally, it couldn't stand it anymore and fell off the tree!
At this moment, it seemed to no longer care about life and death, it just wanted Lu Zhe to end its suffering.
"It looks very painful! Is it really okay for us to do this?"
Lu Zhe nodded: "Well, this is also to save it! Do you know? Many people from animal protection associations who rescue wild animals will beat and roughly chase away the wild animals afterwards! The purpose is to make them not believe in humans, so that they can avoid hunters and survive better."
"So it should thank you!"
"It doesn't need to thank me, because I have another thing to ask it!"
"Ask it to do what?"
"Can it help us get those crocodile eggs?!"
"You want to take crocodile eggs?"
"They sell online for 30 yuan each. I estimate that nest would be worth over a thousand yuan."
Speaking, Lu Zhe tied up the screaming monkey.
Then he brought it near the crocodile that was guarding its nest.
The crocodile was still lying next to its nest, guarding the eggs.
Lu Zhe tied the monkey to a tree, then ran away!
The screams of the monkey were sharp and piercing. The noise irritated the crocodile. It crawled over to take a look and saw a screaming monkey.
Usually it couldn't catch something like this. But today it just appeared right in front of it!
How could it let this chance go?
At that moment, the crocodile's eyes lit up. It felt like God had ordered it takeout.
Then, it happily crawled towards the monkey!
And at that moment, Lu Zhe and Ning Shu took a small basket and rushed over quickly. In a flash, they put all thirty-plus crocodile eggs in the basket.
Then they nodded at each other and ran away!
A few minutes later, the monkey's cries stopped. After the crocodile was full, it lazily crawled back to its nest, only to find that the nest was completely empty.
The children were gone.
Looking around, there was no trace left behind.
In an instant, it seemed to understand something.
Beneath its calm expression, anger was brewing. Then it walked in the direction of the monkey’s territory.
Lu Zhe, on the other hand, had picked a whole basket of crocodile eggs. They were a little bigger than chicken eggs, with rough shells, thirty-six in total. His survival skill point increased by 1!
It was quite a good harvest!
He picked one up happily and said, "What do you call this? Repair the plank road quietly while planning to cross the Chen River by stealth! Having some military strategy is very useful in the survival process!"
Ning Shu nodded: "Wasting a monkey every time! Won't these eggs go bad?"
"Well, if left outside casually, they would either rot or hatch in a few days. We have to eat them quickly!"
Lu Zhe took the eggs back to the camp.
"Let's boil some, fry others in oil, and pickle ones we can’t finish eating!"
"Can crocodile eggs be pickled?"
"I've never heard of anyone pickling them before!"
"We can be the first. Later when we get noddy eggs or jungle fowl eggs we can pickle them too!"
Soon, the boiled eggs were ready.
Peeling one, there was relatively little egg white and the egg yolk was slightly smaller than a chicken egg, whitish in color.
Eating it, it was a bit dry and stuffy, but the texture was really like a chicken egg.
The fried crocodile eggs with lemon grass also had a very unique aroma. Eating them was not much different than eating fried chicken eggs!
Being able to eat fried eggs on a deserted island was not easy at all.
Even Qian Qian ate one without throwing up!
In the afternoon, Lu Zhe started making the bamboo raft again.
The main structure of the bamboo was finished, and a lot of banana bark rope was collected.
Next, Lu Zhe wanted to increase the buoyancy of the raft, so that it could maintain sufficient buoyancy even when loaded with cargo.
The first thing he thought of was bottles.
But after all there were only two or three hundred bottles. Deducting the ones used to store fresh water, there were scarcely any left.
He had to think of another way!
August 17th, the 69th day stranded on the deserted island. Lu Zhe spent the day at camp with Qian Qian weaving bamboo sails!
August 18th, the 70th day stranded on the deserted island. Lu Zhe killed the second sheep, continued improving the bamboo raft, and made ten oars!
In addition to one for each person, there were four spare oars!
August 19th, the 71st day stranded on the deserted island. Lu Zhe built a removable sunshade and a small bamboo canopy of about four square meters!
It would allow everyone to row under the shade and reduce physical exertion.
For the canopy, Lu Zhe used bottle air conditioning!
The specific method was to install bottles with the bottoms cut off on one wall of the canopy, with the cut side facing out and the bottle openings facing in!
If wind blew in, it would be compressed and accelerate airflow, lowering the temperature inside the canopy.
Sprinkling some water on the ground would make the cooling effect even better!
At this point, the roughly 7-meter long, 3-meter wide raft with masts, sails, and canopy was basically finished.
Was it ready to launch?
Not yet!
Lu Zhe decided to test it in water somewhere first!
Only after confirming there was no danger could they set sail!
Ning Shu's phone album contained a lot of photos of the deserted island.
Lu Zhe quickly flipped to the aerial view photo of the island, taken when he and Tang Xiaoguo and Ning Shu climbed to the top of the mountain.
It proved very useful at this time!
Lu Zhe carefully searched the beach photos and soon found a few scattered small islands one or two miles offshore of Crescent Moon Bay.
"I think we should test sail first. The goal is those few small islands over there. We can explore them and confirm the safety and reliability of the bamboo raft! Only if the raft performs well can we truly set sail!"
Shen Bing nodded: "I agree with Lu Zhe's plan, but Lu Zhe, you're not going alone right!"
"Of course not. My suggestion is to split into two groups, one group stays at camp, one group sets sail tomorrow to test the reliability of the bamboo raft!"
Ning Shu said, "Then the question is, who stays at camp and who goes with Lu Zhe?"
Jiang Yao said, "First of all, it's best if Qian Qian doesn't go. She should recuperate at camp!"
Shen Bing thought for a moment: "This time I can accompany Qian Qian. Next time when you go to the plane, I'll go with you guys!"
Tang Xiaoguo said, "It’s Sunday tomorrow anyway. Why don't the four of us go together!"
Lu Zhe thought about it. The camp had the necessary defenses and sufficient supplies. Plus Shen Bing who had some survival experience and the relatively reliable Qian Qian. Even without him, there shouldn't be any major issues at camp!
The three girls Ning Shu, Jiang Yao and Tang Xiaoguo were already bored to death and couldn’t wait to find something new!
Lu Zhe nodded, "Okay then, let’s rest early today. Tomorrow morning let’s set off with food supplies. Our destination is the island group to the southeast!"
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!
ts me of treason?" "Correct. The host must return to the capital and gradually build up influence." "Wait—I have half a million soldiers, and you want me to go back to the capital to 'build influence'?" "Host, you are currently the Northern Garrison General, loyal to the Great Xia Dynasty." "Of course I am loyal to Great Xia! Absolutely loyal!" "But you keep referring to yourself as 'We'..." "Never mind the details! Summon all the regional commanders and military officers! We suspect treacherous officials are manipulating the court! They shall march with Us to the capital and purge the corrupt!" "......"
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.
he colors of other people’s emotions. Light red meant anxiety. Gray meant exhaustion. Orange meant excitement. Yellow... meant repression. At the same time, he could gain unlimited control over one of those colors. Pale cyan: relaxation. Using this ability, he started offering “two-yuan hugs,” spending an afternoon exchanging emotional-color experiences with others. Then came his final female customer of the day— a girl whose emotional color was pure black... —— A week later, Xu Chuan had become skilled at using pale cyan—Relaxation—treating it like a bottle of menthol balm whenever he needed it. That was when he discovered he had unlocked another unlimited emotional color: Purple, the color of fear. So these emotional colors refresh every week? Fine, I take it back—I’ll never call you useless again... —— Much later, after Xu Chuan had accumulated countless emotional abilities, one night, he suddenly found himself inside someone else’s dream. There, he could use the emotional colors he possessed to paint. And in her dream, he painted her a shower of pink shooting stars, spreading across the depths of the night sky...
