"Sizzle..."
A stench of burnt odor diffused!
Lu Zhe realized for the first time that a dancing crocodile could be so shocking!
Twisting, tumbling, dust flying, stones splashing everywhere!
Thick smoke billowed from its giant, gaping jaws, like the fire-breathing dragons in ancient Greek mythology!
The girls shrieked and scattered to run away.
Lu Zhe was also scared and hugged Ning Shu behind a tree, couldn't help but exclaim: "So scary!"
Next, the crocodile thrashed and rolled, smashing fences and stone walls, scaring Haian Yongqiang to run very far away, with milk spilling all over the ground.
But luckily, the crocodile's stamina was limited!
It couldn’t keep up the intense tumbling for long. Soon, it lay there motionless, with vicious tears brimming in its eyes, still spewing horrible gray smoke from its mouth!
It looked at Lu Zhe with absolute composure!
Lu Zhe took off his belt, cautiously moved closer, looped it around the crocodile's mouth and pulled it tight!
At this moment, Lu Zhe finally breathed a sigh of relief and sat down.
"Safe now..."
He looked up at the tree house: "Qianqian?"
Lin Qianqian shyly peeked out her head: "Here!"
Seeing Lu Zhe had tied up the crocodile's mouth, Shen Bing also came over and angrily gave it a kick: "This guy almost ate the two of us in the middle of the night."
Jiang Yao wondered: "Did it come for the eggs?"
Lu Zhe nodded: "It's possible. It didn't find anything at the monkeys' place, so it came here instead. Luckily it's too big to climb trees, otherwise you girls would’ve been in danger."
Everyone was still unsettled from the shock.
Shen Bing asked: "What happened to Little Ning's leg?"
"She was stung by jellyfish, but luckily it was treated promptly."
Qianqian gently caressed Ning Shu's leg, murmuring: "Lu Zhe must have been worried sick!"
Tang Xiaoguo said helplessly: "You must have been worried sick too!"
"Yeah! By the way, did you two have any troubles, Guo’er and Yao’er?"
"We're fine!"
After some small talk, Lu Zhe said: "I'm starving, do we have anything to eat?"
Shen Bing took out some boiled crocodile eggs, a bottle of lemon juice, a jar of pickled fishy vegetables. They sat next to the crocodile and ate while chatting.
Shen Bing got to the point: "Did you encounter any dangers at sea this time?"
Lu Zhe said: "We didn't really run into trouble at sea, but there were quite a few dangers on that island."
Qianqian said: "Jellyfish?"
Jiang Yao frowned: "Aside from jellyfish, there were also snakes. The place was basically a snake's nest, full of them everywhere!"
As Jiang Yao spoke, she felt uneasy all over.
Tang Xiaoguo said: "I guess there were ten trillion!"
Shen Bing was surprised: "Exaggerating much? Was there even space to stand?"
Tang Xiaoguo nodded solemnly.
Lu Zhe said: "Don't listen to Guo’er’s nonsense, nowhere near that many. You won't step on them if you're careful enough!"
Shen Bing asked: "So was that why you couldn't send Morse code signals?"
Lu Zhe nodded: “Yeah, I could have gone to the beach to send signals at night, but I had to perform surgery on the monitor lizard, so it took up time."
“So you were the one who set off the fireworks?”
Lu Zhe nodded: “That’s right, used up all the nitrate I brought.”
Lin Qianqian nodded: “But it was worth it. You don’t know, last night when we didn’t get any messages from you, Bing and I almost went crazy.”
Shen Bing also said: “That’s right! Once contact was lost, it felt like my heart was hollowed out. You can’t imagine, at that time I thought, if I could trade all the supplies on the island for a sign that you guys were alive, I would do so without any hesitation!"
"Yeah, we're all deeply concerned about each other. Losing contact all of a sudden really could drive someone crazy."
As Lu Zhe spoke, he stuffed a whole crocodile egg into his mouth and chomped.
The girls also resonated deeply with this feeling.
Shen Bing thought for a moment: "So you really didn't run into any trouble at all at sea?"
Jiang Yao said: “Perhaps the sharks were all dormant. Other than slightly higher temperatures, the journey went very smoothly! The shark repellent we prepared with such effort didn’t even come in handy.”
After pondering for a bit, Shen Bing summarized: “So this time, you didn't encounter problems at sea during the journey itself, yet trouble occurred at both the campsite and destination.”
The group looked at each other: “That’s indeed the case!”
Next came the question: This time it was the crocodile that launched a sneak attack. If invaders come again while Shen Bing’s team is away searching the plane wreckage, would they remain so lucky?
Crocodiles, monitor lizards, wild boars, monkeys, or even giant pythons could invade human territory. When that happens, how should they respond?
Ning Shu sighed: “So when we actually go to the plane, security measures at camp must be stringent!”
Seeing the crocodile lying there, Tang Xiaoguo worried: “But how could any security measures stop something so huge barging right in? They’d all be screwed!”
“Unless...” Jiang Yao thought for a moment: “Lu Zhe’s here!”
Indeed, after days together, everyone understood that as long as Lu Zhe’s around, all dangers and difficulties could be resolved!
Ning Shu marveled: “Is this the power of masculinity?”
“Indeed!”
Shen Bing nodded: “Although there’s only one man Lu Zhe on the team, males have a much greater deterrent effect against invaders in nature than females! So we’re usually quite safe with Lu Zhe around. Without him, danger comes along.”
Catching a whiff of Lu Zhe’s scent, Tang Xiaoguo came up with a peculiar idea: “So this is the smell of masculinity? We can try some camphor?”
Shen Bing said: “That works for repelling bugs alright, but has no use scaring away lizards and crocs!”
Qianqian conceived an even stranger idea: “We can save some of Lu Zhe’s bodily fluids and toss it over when dangerous things come, to scare them away!”
Lu Zhe said helplessly: “Chili pepper spray would be more intimidating! Besides, don't invaders still come even when I'm here?”
The girls nodded.
Shen Bing said: “Let's think, are there any other solutions? Otherwise we’d have to give up.”
Lu Zhe pondered: “There are two other options! First, after El Niño passes and spring water cools down, whoever stays behind can hide out at the volcano base for a few days until the seafaring group returns.
Second, if we want to catch ocean currents and monsoons when traveling, all six of us embark together. It may be somewhat troublesome, but we live and die as one family.”
The girls looked at each other!
Qianqian gently brushed back her bangs, and slowly said: “To be honest! When contact was lost, I really felt like I’d lost the whole world!
My most caring boyfriend and girlfriends all gone missing, I don’t know if I could handle experiencing that feeling again without going mad.”
Her words were sincere and touching, even the crocodile lying there shed a moved tear.
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.
lity and could only live as an ordinary mortal. He only wished to live a peaceful life. Yet he didn't know— The dog he adopted, because it ate his food, became a legendary demon king. The kitchen knife he casually forged became a peerless divine weapon, causing numerous experts to fight desperately for it. The young disciple he took in became an immortal lord that led an era, due to cultivating the techniques Ye Feng taught him. Even the skeletons he looked down on the most were ominous demon kings that suppressed countless worlds. Many years later, looking at the void shattered with a punch, Ye Feng murmured to himself: It turns out the peerless kings were myself all along...
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!
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?!”
