August 21, the 73rd day stranded on the deserted island!
On this day, Lu Zhe was going to take a bamboo raft with three companions and head east, reaching Satellite Island No.1 which was 1 nautical mile away.
During this time, he wanted to test the sturdiness and reliability of the bamboo raft, test shark defense methods, and calculate ocean currents and wind directions in order to accurately locate the sunken plane!
Before departure, Lu Zhe and the three girls moved some food, fresh water and tools onto the bamboo raft and tied them down with ropes!
In addition to paddles, the tools included aluminum lunch boxes, water bottles, fish spears, bows and arrows, ropes, and Swiss army knives.
Lu Zhe also made life jackets out of foam, so that if anyone accidentally fell into the water, they could easily float up.
The rest, like machetes, axes, slingshots, and steel helmets, were left to Shen Bing and Qian Qian in case anything happened at the camp.
Although the bamboo raft didn't look very good, its functionality and sturdiness were much better than the previous one.
Tang Xiaoguo also made a skull and crossbones flag out of torn cloth and tied it to the mast with two bone sticks.
Lu Zhe frowned, "Sis, are you trying to be a pirate?"
Tang Xiaoguo stood with her hands on her hips and looked smug, "People need dreams. Who knows, we might discover Roger's treasure one day!"
Jiang Yao said leisurely, "Aren't you afraid of picking up cursed treasure? It's the 21st century. As a pirate, looking for treasure is not as realistic as hijacking a destroyer!"
Shen Bing and Qian Qian burst out laughing.
Lu Zhe looked at the bamboo raft, "At least it's a proper ship now. Let's give it a name to wish ourselves a successful journey!"
Tang Xiaoguo said, "The Black Pearl? The Titanic?"
Jiang Yao said, "The Golden Melisande? The Sunny?"
Lu Zhe shook his head, "Not only are the names clichéd, the implications aren't great either!"
Ning Shu suddenly got excited and punched the air, "How about calling it Shark Repeller, so that wherever the bamboo raft goes, sharks will avoid it?"
"Class monitor, just be silly on your own, don't drag us into your silliness!"
"No way?"
Everyone shook their heads together.
Lin Qianqian thought for a while, "How about Friendship?"
"That sounds too weird!" Shen Bing thought for a while, "How about Albatross?"
Lu Zhe helplessly said, "Only Shen Bing's makes a little sense. Let's go with Albatross!"
Lu Zhe wrote the words "Albatross" on the mast with charcoal!
Then he said to Shen Bing and Qian Qian, "This time, we'll be back in one day if it's quick, or two days if it's slow. After making sure the bamboo raft is reliable, we can look for the plane."
Shen Bing nodded, "OK, you guys be very careful!"
Qian Qian shyly held out a small square cloth. Lu Zhe recognized this "cloth"!
"Qian Qian, what are you doing?"
"I don't know why I'm doing this either, but my intuition tells me it's the right thing to do."
Lu Zhe was a little speechless.
But after hesitating for a while, he decided not to hurt Qian Qian's kind heart.
He tucked the cloth into his pocket.
"Alright, if we get to the island across, remember to contact us with Morse code at night."
After that, Lu Zhe kissed Shen Bing and Qian Qian on the cheek, then turned around to the bamboo raft.
"Take care everyone!"
"Definitely!"
"See you when we get back..."
The companions bid their reluctant goodbyes as Lu Zhe pushed the bamboo raft away!
At this time, the southwest monsoon was still blocked by the ridge of the small island, so they had to manually paddle and row to maintain momentum!
After traveling over 100 meters, the girls' arms started aching!
No wonder, the bamboo raft was much bigger and heavier than before, so rowing required a lot more effort.
Fortunately at this time, the ribbons on the back of Jiang Yao's sailor uniform started fluttering slightly.
"There's wind!"
As soon as there was wind, even if it was weak, Lu Zhe immediately hoisted the bamboo sail, adjusted the angle, and sailed on.
The journey went surprisingly smooth!
No waves, no sharks, no whirlpools!
After sailing at sea for two hours, they successfully arrived at their destination.
It was a barren small island. Lu Zhe named it Satellite Island No.1!
A rough estimate showed that this island had an altitude of less than 200 meters and an area of 0.6-0.7 square kilometers, about the size of 90 football fields.
The top was covered with vegetation, mostly mosses and shrubs, with relatively few deciduous trees.
Compared to the volcanic island...
The size said it all, the resources definitely weren't as abundant as the volcanic island.
But there might be some products of special value.
"Let's go take a look around?"
"Of course, who goes sightseeing without going into the shops?"
"Yeah, it's rare for us to come here, we can't just leave without looking around!"
...
Lu Zhe jumped ashore and tied the bamboo raft up.
The girls started curiously observing like tourists who had arrived at a new attraction.
Jiang Yao took notes on Qian Qian's behalf.
Ning Shu quickly took a few photos with her phone.
Meanwhile, Tang Xiaoguo used a small rock to carve "Tang Xiaoguo was here!" on the rock Lu Zhe had tied the bamboo raft to.
After looking around, Lu Zhe saw a lot of scattered garbage on the ground that was worth collecting.
They combed the coast of the island in the morning to collect anything of value. In the afternoon they would go into the woods.
Around 3 pm they would return to Volcano Island, spending a fulfilling day.
That was the plan, and at first everything went according to it. In the morning, they picked up a lot of supplies along the way. Most were bottles, torn clothes and other household garbage. The only fresh find was a beach volleyball that Jiang Yao picked up.
Another new entertainment for the deserted island!
After having lamb jerky and seafood soup for lunch, they entered the woods in the afternoon.
With vegetation, edible stuff was relatively scarce. They searched for a long time but didn't find many useful items. The island's produce was far less abundant than Volcano Island!
Not completely nothing though!
If they had to name one thing, it would be snakes!
Not long after entering the woods, Lu Zhe saw a cobra crawling on a tree branch ahead of them. He immediately grabbed the snake and threw it far away.
After walking a few steps, they encountered a viper lying on the ground.
Jiang Yao almost stepped on it.
Lu Zhe chopped its head off.
Three minutes later, they met a king cobra!
Although the girls felt creeped out, with Lu Zhe there they weren't actually scared!
But the deeper they went, the more snakes there were. All kinds of colorful ones, ones they could name, ones they couldn't, and even new species that Lu Zhe's system couldn't identify. They all appeared on this island.
Ning Shu was frightened, "I say, have we arrived at Snake Island?"
Jiang Yao shivered, "I want to go back!"
Tang Xiaoguo also agreed, "This place is so creepy!"
Lu Zhe also felt there were too many snakes on this island.
Not to mention the girls, even he felt quite uncomfortable seeing so many snakes.
"The snake density here is indeed a bit high, and the proportion of venomous ones is quite large. Anyway, we've collected everything we need to, let's head back now."
Heading back was all well and good, but on the way back there were even more snakes than on the way in.
"Everyone be very careful, don't provoke them."
"Got it..."
The girls stuck close to Lu Zhe as they came to the bamboo raft.
In an instant, they were all dumbfounded.
The bamboo raft, the mast, the deck, all had piles upon piles of snakes on them!
That's right, this tiny bamboo raft, in the space of an afternoon, had attracted so many uninvited guests.
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?!”
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
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.
