Jiang Yao put her palms together and said piously, "May the heavens bless us and let the rescue team find our message in a bottle!"
Tang Xiaoguo said, "Does that really work?"
Jiang Yao replied, "Trying is better than doing nothing!"
Tang Xiaoguo also put her palms together piously and started praying as well.
Lu Zhe was not interested in idle chatter with them. He asked Lin Qianqian, "By the way, Qianqian, how much water did you distill just now?"
Lin Qianqian shook the bottle, "It's about 300 milliliters now. Thick salt frost has formed in the can, and it's a bit tricky to scrape it off, otherwise I could have boiled some more!"
Lu Zhe nodded, "Not bad. I'll make a few more natural stills with a knife later. I estimate we can distill another 100-200 milliliters of fresh water per day! We can cook soup tonight."
Lin Qianqian said happily, "I'm really looking forward to it!"
After finishing her prayers to Guanyin, Tang Xiaoguo clutched her stomach and said with a pout, "I'm hungry again. What should we eat now?"
Ning Shu sighed, "We've finished all that little food. Why don't we all drink some more coconut juice?"
"But I'm mainly hungry, not that thirsty!"
Lu Zhe thought for a moment, "Let's eat some coconut meat and spicy strips first to fill our stomachs. I'll go look for some food in the woods later!"
"Coconut meat? How do you open it?"
Lu Zhe smiled and picked up the stone axe, "Don't forget, we have tools now!"
As he spoke, he swung the axe down!
A coconut that had been drunk dry instantly split open with a large gap!
Lu Zhe reached out and pried, there was a "ka" sound, and he actually pried the coconut open raw!
The white, shiny coconut meat was exposed, looking very sweet and delicious!
"The axe is really useful!"
"I really can't tell, Lu Zhe is so strong!"
"A share for everyone!"
The girls each tore off a piece and started eating.
Sweet, crispy, juicy, eating such a fruit on a deserted island was simply delightful!
Lu Zhe said, "Not only can coconut meat be eaten raw, cooked is easier for the body to absorb, and less likely to cause diarrhea!"
As he spoke, he split open another coconut, using a rock as a chopping board, and cut the coconut meat into strips with a small round knife, placing them on the rocks by the fire!
After a short while, they were baked dry and hardened, becoming dried coconut meat strips!
Dipped in some chili oil from the spicy strip bag, they tasted crispy and flaky when chewed, somewhat similar to french fries!
Lu Zhe opened a few more coconuts, drank the juice and ate the meat. With some food in their stomachs, the feeling of hunger was much reduced!
Counting from when they woke up, it had been a full 24 hours!
Lu Zhe saw that the beach was too hot for scavenging.
He decided to search around the camp for now and throw the message in a bottle later when it was cooler.
He walked in a circle around the campsite and found a small pile of black beans under some bushes!
Picking up one and squeezing it open with his fingers gave off a faint fishy smell.
A prompt sounded in his mind: "Ding, congratulations host for discovering healthy rat droppings!"
Wait, this stuff was actually rat shit?
Well, it would be abnormal if there weren't rats on the island!
Lu Zhe also knew that while rats represented viruses and diseases in cities, not all rats were like that!
There weren't many disease-carrying rats on deserted islands. In the wild, they were even a delicacy on the menu for survivors!
They could provide calories and amino acids beneficial for digestion!
In order to gain potential points, and also to improve the taste, it was necessary to catch and eat some rats!
But having only come across rat droppings without even seeing a rat, how could he catch them?
Smoking them out of their burrows?
That would only startle the rats without knowing how many crafty holes there were!
Ah, snakes?
Thinking of that snake reminded him of the snake entrails in the bottle!
Suddenly, he thought of a way!
He remembered the old saying: A snake eats mice for half a year, mice eat snakes for half a year!
That is to say, snakes catch mice in summer, and when snakes hibernate in winter, mice will treat them as canned food once discovered!
The two complemented and countered each other, both liking to eat the other, and both were delicacies on the other's menu.
Using these snake entrails as bait would definitely attract mice to eat, then traps could be set to catch them, perfect!
So how to make traps?
Lu Zhe opened the survival manual and found instructions on making traps with springs!
First, he needed very thin and flexible rope, Ning Shu's pencil case had a small bundle of rubber bands, he took three, which could substitute for rope with some sticks!
Make a noose knot, tie it to the end of a stick.
Then, insert a flexible stick into the ground, and prop up a small stick segment on a rock as the trigger!
Next, just spread the snake entrails on the ground as bait!
As soon as a scavenging hungry rodent passed by here, touching the stick or trigger, the stick would immediately spring up, the noose tightening around the mouse's leg or tail!
After Lu Zhe tested the trap twice and confirmed it worked, he went elsewhere to make more traps!
Lu Zhe spent over half an hour and made three mouse traps!
He gained another potential point.
He couldn't just sit around waiting for mice to take the bait. Lu Zhe decided he should do something else!
Last night Tang Xiaoguo nearly froze sleeping on the sandy beach. It was time to build a proper shelter!
He took the stone axe and went into the woods to look for suitable small trees to build a shelter!
The woods were overgrown with weeds, unknown bugs crawling about the bushes, quite nauseating!
Lu Zhe carefully shooed them away!
There was a wide variety of plants here, but suitable wood was not easy to find!
But with the stone axe, once he found appropriate trees it became much easier to chop them down!
He spent two hours chopping down seven trunks about three meters long and wrist thick!
Then he carried them back to the campsite.
Just then, he heard a whistle from the camp!
"Something's up!"
He quickly put down the logs and ran to the camp, only to see the girls all waving him over excitedly!
"Lu Zhe, come and see!"
His first thought was the rescue team had come?
But looking towards the sea there was nothing!
Turning back, Ning Shu and Lin Qianqian were each holding a bunch of green "bananas", excitement written all over their faces!
They found bananas?
Bananas were high calorie fruits, rich in carbohydrates and vitamins!
In some cases they could even substitute for staple foods!
This was something worth getting excited about!
Lu Zhe walked over, "Where did you find them?"
"Just over there in the woods!"
Lu Zhe was surprised, "What were you doing poking around the bushes?"
Ning Shu punched him, "Men! Always joking around. I took Qianqian to pee, alright?"
"Joking around? Is there? Right, how was it? Find any seeds?"
"Is seeds all you have in your mind? Can't you think smaller? Isn't there something more important here?"
"Bananas?"
"These are plantains, smaller versions of bananas!" Ning Shu explained knowledgeably, then broke one off for Lu Zhe, "Try it!"
pression Bureau] Transported to a fantasy world overrun by demons and monsters, Gu Qingfeng becomes a jailer in the Demon Suppression Prison of the Great Yan Dynasty's Demon Suppression Bureau. From this point on, bizarre cases frequently occur in the Demon Suppression Prison, once known as hell on earth and infamous for its gloomy, terrifying atmosphere! Why do the demons and monsters in the prison wail miserably every night? Why has the corpse demon, capable of transforming into various beauties, donned black stockings and switched careers to become a foot massage therapist? Why has the eye demon, expert in soul-snatching and illusions, turned into a VR headset? Why is the fox spirit performing otaku dances? Are all these occurrences a twisted expression of demonic nature, or a descent into moral depravity? After peeling away layer upon layer of mystery, all clues ultimately point to a jailer named Gu Qingfeng. Gu Qingfeng: "Hehehe... My dear demons and monsters, whose card shall we flip today?"
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!
e, Immortal Body, Transmigration, System, Progression Fantasy, Academy Setting, Third-Person Perspective. Alternate Title: Transmigrating into a High Martial World and Reading Live Comments. Bad news: I transmigrated. This is a terrifying high-martial world, and my original, pathetically weak body fell into a coma and never woke up. Good news: I got a Popularity Points system upon arrival. I can see live comments and even create an unkillable alternate identity. Starting out, the alternate identity has all stats at 1. The system tells me that to grow stronger, I must participate in the plot, gain popularity points to allocate stats and grow stronger, and ultimately awaken my original body. And so, carrying my original body on my back, I officially entered Huaqing Academy, where the story's protagonist resides. From that moment on, Chen Guan kicked the original plot to pieces. Live Comments: [Doesn't anyone find this mysterious coffin guy creepy? He can summon indescribable grey misty hands.] [Is this guy a hero or a villain? What kind of onion became a spirit?] [By the way, does anyone know who's in the coffin? Shouldn't the debt for saving his life be repaid by now?] [According to unofficial histories, the person in the coffin was Chen Guan's first love. Their love was once passionate and earth-shattering, but they were separated by life and death due to worldly circumstances. What a star-crossed pair.] ... Years later, the world knew of a demon god born from a coffin, shrouded in grey mist, impossible to gaze upon directly. His foremost divine emissary often wielded a scythe, reaping lives like the god of death. As war approached, facing former friends and a boundless sea of enemies, Chen Guan merely raised his scythe. "Would you like to dance as well?"
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.
