Jiang Yao said, "Forget it, I won't go and cause trouble for everyone. I'll stay in the camp and tend the fire!"
Tang Xiaoguo had originally wanted to go, but when she heard what Jiang Yao said, she also said, "Then I won't go either. I'll continue distilling fresh water!"
Lu Zhe nodded, "There doesn't need to be too many people to go salvaging. Someone should stay back to take care of the two patients. I can go by myself today!"
"No!" Ning Shu shook her head, "Although you're a boy, going alone could still be dangerous! Or...why don't I go with you!"
"Okay, let me get ready first."
"What else is there to prepare?"
Lu Zhe placed the dried, distilled salt on the rocks and crushed it into a fine powder, then put the salt powder into a bottle.
"You'll see in a bit!"
Lu Zhe and Ning Shu walked side by side on the beach in the evening dusk, watching the sunset dye the sea surface red, and stretch their shadows long.
This put Ning Shu in a bit of a good mood, and she suddenly had the urge to hold the hand of the boy in front of her!
But soon, she shook her head.
She silently told herself:
What am I thinking about!
How can I be thinking about such silly things when we're trying to survive?
I'm the class leader, I can't be as boy crazy as Yao Yao and Guo Er!
But as she glanced at Lu Zhe from the side, she felt that the boy in front of her was handsome and refined. The more she looked, the better looking he became!
It seems Guo Er does have good taste after all.
If not for his slight perverted tendencies, he really could make for a good boyfriend!
Clearly, both Yao Yao and Guo Er are interested in him, so who does he prefer?
Or if he doesn't like either of them, could it be he likes someone else?
Shallowly, or perhaps...me?
Why not just ask him, if he had to choose one of us four girls to be his girlfriend, who would he pick?
"Hey...Lu Zhe!" Ning Shu hesitantly asked.
"What's up?"
"I want to ask you a question..."
Lu Zhe nodded, and earnestly said, "I know what you want to ask!"
Ning Shu's face turned a little red, "Then...would you mind telling me the answer?"
"Of course!"
"Okay, go ahead then."
Lu Zhe seriously said, "Watch closely!"
As he spoke, he pointed at a small hole in the sandy ground, "It's right here!"
Then he poured the crushed salt into the hole. Soon, a razor clam poked its head out!
Lu Zhe quickly grabbed it and slowly pulled it out, then waved it in front of Ning Shu, explaining, "See? This salt powder is used to catch these!"
Ning Shu gaped, the corner of her eye twitching, "This guy...thought I wanted to ask what the salt powder was used for?"
"Not every small hole will have razor clams. Some have sea snails, some hermit crabs, but they won't come out on their own. We have to dig them out!"
As Lu Zhe spoke, he dug and dug in another hole where no creature had emerged. Soon he dug out a sea snail.
He waved it and said, "Look!"
Ning Shu took it and looked it over. This sea snail was as big as a baby's fist, the biggest one they had caught since being stranded on this deserted island!
The milky white meat kept shrinking back into its shell, squirting out mouthfuls of seawater.
"Quite impressive!"
Lu Zhe nodded, "The class leader really gets it. They only think about silly things!"
Ning Shu smiled awkwardly. Just one minute ago, she had wanted to ask Lu Zhe a very silly question!
Given the circumstances, she'd better not ask anymore!
The two walked about two kilometers, picking up quite a few empty bottles, broken swimsuits, old slippers, plastic bags and other useful items along the way!
Lu Zhe also found a pile of seaweed with over twenty large and small scallops clinging to it!
In total, they had caught five razor clams, over twenty scallops, two sea snails, and a few sea stars!
Ning Shu wondered, "Sea stars can be eaten too?"
Lu Zhe nodded, "Of course!"
"Why didn't you say so earlier!"
Ning Shu immediately grabbed a plastic bag, ready to go pick sea stars all over the beach!
"Hey..."
Lu Zhe hurriedly stopped her, "You can't just casually pick sea stars!"
"Why not?"
"Only the females can be eaten!"
"How do you tell the males from the females?"
Lu Zhe picked up a sea star and pointed at the center of its underside, "Look at its mouth, the female is orange, the male white! And not all females can be eaten either, only those in breeding season, so you have to find heavy females!"
Ning Shu looked at the squirming, flower-like mouth, and her whole body felt uncomfortable.
They flipped over fifty to sixty sea stars before finding three suitable ones!
"It's really not that easy!"
Ning Shu grabbed her waist as she stood up. Just then, she spotted something unusual!
"A boat...a boat!"
When Lu Zhe heard her say there was a boat, he immediately rushed to the shore!
Far in the distance, a faint shadow seemed to linger out on the sea!
But they couldn't make out what it was!
Ning Shu desperately shouted at the top of her lungs!
Lu Zhe also shouted a few times, but soon realized something was off.
"Stop shouting, they can't hear us from that far away!"
"What do we do? We don't have any fire either?"
"Wait here, I'll climb a tree to take a look!"
Lu Zhe looked left and right, but there were no suitable trees to climb.
Left with no choice, he directly lifted Ning Shu, "Stand on my shoulders!"
"Oh...okay!"
Ning Shu acrobatically stood unsteadily on Lu Zhe's shoulders, while he held her ankles to help her keep balance!
Ning Shu shaded her eyes, squinting towards that area.
But at that very moment, the sun had already set behind the other side of the island!
The distance instantly became dark and murky, and they could no longer make out any clear features!
Ning Shu anxiously cried out, "How could the sun set at this time!"
Lu Zhe set her down, "The sun hasn't actually set below the horizon yet. We've turned to the other side of the small island, and are blocked by the high ground of the island!"
"Lu Zhe, was that a boat or not?"
Lu Zhe shook his head and honestly said, "To tell the truth, I don't know either!"
"What do we do now?"
"Two options, either wait here, or head back to camp."
"If we wait here, won't we freeze to death at night?"
Lu Zhe nodded.
Ning Shu went on,
"If we go back to camp...and miss getting rescued this time, we might lose our chance forever."
Lu Zhe nodded again, "However, we can make a distress signal here, then use small rocks to spell out our names, to show there are people here! We'll come back and check tomorrow!"
"Good idea! Hurry up then!"
The two put down everything in their hands and hurriedly gathered rocks to build markers!
After over half an hour of busy work, they finally finished a smaller "SOS" landmark!
They also used small rocks to spell out: "5 people on island, please rescue!"
Ning Shu looked at these words:
"It's getting darker and darker. Even if a ship passes by here, they may not be able to find us!"
"Rescue boats usually don't search at night! This should do. Let's head back!"
Only then did the two pick up their things and start walking back!
But just then!
Lu Zhe noticed that the shadow seemed to flicker!
end. Thus one must continue to cultivate, and become a saint or great emperor, in order to prolong one's life. Chen Xia, however, completely reversed this. Since his transmigration, he has gained immortality, and also a system that awards him with attribute points for every year he lives. Thus between the myriad worlds, the legend of an unparalleled senior appeared. "A gentleman takes revenge; it is never too late even after ten thousand years." "When you were at your peak I yielded, now in your old age I shall trample on you." - Chen Xia
grated, and just when he finally managed to get into an elite academy, he discovered that he actually had a system, and the way to earn rewards was extremely ridiculous. So for the sake of rewards, he had no choice but to start acting ridiculous as well. Su Cheng: "It's nothing but system quests after all." But later, what confused Su Cheng was that while he was already quite ridiculous, he never expected those serious characters to gradually become ridiculous too. And the way they looked at him became increasingly strange... (This synopsis doesn't do it justice, please read the full story)
esick Sect? Well, at least it's considered a respectable orthodox sect. Wait a minute— What kind of vibe are you all giving off? Shouldn’t this be a love-struck, romance-obsessed sect? Why does everyone here sound more like demonic cultivators? "Master, today he’s getting married. This disciple wishes to descend the mountain and crash the wedding, then toy with him to death right in front of his wife..." "Elder, I only got into your sect through connections, so why won’t you teach me anything?" "Because I also became an elder through connections." Thankfully, Su Ji was just an outer sect labor disciple. Surely, nothing too crazy would— "Junior Brother, you’ve broken through to Qi Refining. Once you sever your useless spiritual root, you can officially become an outer sect disciple." "The Great Dao is merciless. Don’t let a worthless spiritual root waste your essence and spirit, hindering your cultivation." Is this really the Lovesick Sect? ... Three years later, Su Ji sat in the seat of the Lovesick Sect’s sect master, sighing with emotion. His rise to this position all started when his junior sister adamantly insisted on preserving his "spiritual root." "Mmm... Senior Brother, what’s our relationship now?" "Stop talking. Keep going." "By the way, that newly promoted top-tier sect—didn’t they come to buy our Love Beans?" "One top-grade spirit stone per Love Bean—is that really so expensive?" "I suspect they’ve eaten too many Love Beans." "Now they’re lovesick." Well, this really is the Lovesick Sect after all.
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
