Ning Shu took the notebook and looked at it in disbelief, "Wow, you actually drew a map of Southeast Asia and the Pacific Ocean from memory!"
Jiang Yao was also surprised, "Xiao Zhe, I didn't know you had this kind of ability!"
Tang Xiaoguo was very indifferent, "What's so difficult about this, just scribbling randomly, I can do it too!"
Jiang Yao laughed, "Fruit, you probably drew that on the bedsheet!"
Lin Qianqian carefully distinguished, "The geographical locations and surrounding countries are all drawn very accurately! Lu Zhe, how did you do it?"
Lu Zhe of course would not tell them that this was copied from the map provided by the system in his mind.
"I was quite interested in geography in high school!"
Ning Shu thought for a moment, "This latitude should be between 15 and 30 degrees, further south than the Philippines!"
Jiang Yao said, "Then with the latitude, how do we calculate the longitude?"
"Simple!" Lu Zhe drew another vertical line on the map, "Based on the flight path between Pudong Airport and Kingsford Smith Airport, if we draw a line connecting them and intersect it with the latitude, we can figure out our approximate location!"
As he spoke, he drew a small circle at the intersection of the two lines.
"Congratulations, host, for accurately judging the approximate location, +1 potential point!"
Sure enough!
The four girls looked at it, "Where is this?"
"To the west is the Philippines, to the east is Palau and Micronesia, to the south is Indonesia, and to the northeast are the Mariana Islands."
Jiang Yao said, "So the black box really could have fallen into the Mariana Trench!"
Ning Shu asked, "Then which country's territory does it specifically belong to?"
Lu Zhe shook his head, "Unclear, most likely in international waters, but we can be sure that it is definitely not within China's jurisdiction."
Hearing this news, the girls were extremely disappointed!
Tang Xiaoguo sighed, "No wonder the rescue uncles didn't find us, turns out we got stranded out here!"
"Yeah! Based on the edge of this circle, we could be over 800 km away from any country."
Tang Xiaoguo thought for a moment, "800 km? Doesn't seem that far!"
Lu Zhe nodded, "Right, it's not far, about the same as the distance from our capital to Seoul!"
The numbers didn't make much of an impression on the girls, but as soon as a place name was mentioned, the sense of distance immediately came through!
Their little faces turned ghastly pale, "So terrible??"
"There's one more thing I don't understand!" Lin Qianqian thought for a moment, "Since we're in the tropics, it shouldn't be so cold even at night!"
Lu Zhe nodded, "Normally it shouldn't be very cold, but if at the confluence of cold and warm currents, this situation can occur!"
Jiang Yao was curious, "There are cold currents in the tropics too?"
"Of course there are!"
Lu Zhe nodded, "I'm guessing it's where the southbound Kuril Cold Current reaching the Philippines splits into two, and a small branch of cold current flows here, converging with the north equatorial warm current to form the phenomenon of large day-night temperature differences!"
Hearing Lu Zhe's explanation, Lin Qianqian suddenly understood, "I remember now, I read about it in world geography, the Galapagos Islands off South America are like this, where the southbound Peru Cold Current converges with the northbound Equatorial Warm Current, causing huge day-night temperature differences on those islands in the tropics, with both tropical jungles and penguin habitats!"
Jiang Yao exclaimed, "Penguins? Isn't that too exaggerated?"
Lu Zhe nodded, "Compared to the Galapagos Islands, the warm current here is stronger and the cold current weaker, so it's not as cold, but compared to other tropical islands, the day-night temperature difference here is still too big."
Lu Zhe figured out where he was stranded and got a reward from the system!
But he couldn't feel happy at all.
Just as the girls were worried,
Not being in China's territory meant that the country's search and rescue teams would need to go through complicated procedures and restrictions to enter territorial waters, greatly reducing the chances of being found!
Moreover, in this vast expanse of ocean, there were nearly a thousand large and small islands!
They didn't even know which island they were on themselves, so even if the rescue team had all the procedures in order,
Could they search every small island?
Tang Xiaoguo said in a crying tone, "So...we won't be found after all...right..."
Lu Zhe comforted, "Where there are people, there is hope. Don't lose heart everyone! We can send information to the rescue team through our own methods!"
The four girls looked at each other, all with confused expressions!
Jiang Yao asked, "We know, but how do we do it specifically?"
"The most primitive method!"
Lu Zhe shook a bottle, "Let's make message bottles!"
"Message bottles??"
The four girls looked at each other again, all with sudden realization:
"That's right, we can pick up lots of trash bottles on the beach!"
"We also have notebooks to write notes and put in them!"
"More importantly, we can mark our approximate location on them!"
"So it can increase the chances of being found!"
"What a great idea, how did I not think of that!"
"Xiao Zhe, you're so smart!"
Facing the girls' praise, Lu Zhe nodded deeply in agreement.
For message bottles, the most important thing was the bottle!
It had to be sturdy, sealed well, so it could drift across the ocean and reach land!
Since they also needed bottles for survival, and they didn't have too many bottles on hand now, in the end they set aside three relatively clean ones!
Lin Qianqian copied the map Lu Zhe drew three times, and marked their estimated crash site with an SOS symbol!
She also wrote down their number of people, names, and other important stranded information in Chinese and English! When the notes were written, Lin Qianqian handed them to Lu Zhe, "Help me take a look, anything else that needs to be marked?"
Lu Zhe looked them over. Lin Qianqian had already written very detailed information, but there was still one important piece missing: "Qianqian, add one more piece of information: today is June 10th, the sun set at 6:30 last night, and rose at 5:45 this morning!"
"With the date and the precise times of sunrise and sunset!" Lin Qianqian nodded, "This information will be more helpful for the rescue team to accurately determine our location!"
Lu Zhe nodded, "That's right!"
Lin Qianqian added the times of sunrise and sunset according to what Lu Zhe said in all three notes!
"Then...should we throw the message bottles now?"
"It's high tide now, if we throw them out they'll just wash back in! Let's wait until low tide, then throw them! Of course, they could still wash back in, but there's also a chance they'll enter the ocean currents and drift to some part of the world!"
Lin Qianqian nodded, "Okay, got it!"
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.
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
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!
rowess are unmatched, commanding a million-strong army! Yet, the Emperor wants to depose him for the sake of a false prince? Hold on, are you throwing me into some female-oriented romance plot? How can I tolerate this? With a grand wave of his hand—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! Slander the Emperor? Very well, all of you shall die! ... The False Prince: "Although I am not the biological son, Father and Mother love me more. The throne should be mine!" The Female Lead: "Qin Xiao, you are the Emperor, and I am a commoner. If you wish to marry me, you must abdicate. Otherwise, you will never have me!" The Empress: "After we divorce, you must give me half the empire!" The Transmigrator Consort: "You worthless Emperor, why should I kneel to you? All men are equal—I advise you to be kind!" The Great General: "The enemy general is my childhood sweetheart. For her sake, I willingly abandon the frontier defenses!" The Retired Emperor: "Although Yu'er was adopted, I prefer him. Qin Xiao, you should abdicate and let him become Emperor!" ... Very well! So this is how you want to play? Facing this twisted world of female-oriented tropes, Qin Xiao grins and raises his hand to unleash—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! I am the Emperor. Why would I bother reasoning with you? Seal the gates! Leave none alive!
