Let's Get Busy

Lin Qianqian nodded her head and urged, "Lu Zhe, be careful!"

"Everyone should also be careful. Class monitor, wear Tang Xiaoguo's watch. Let's gather here at 12 noon!" Ning Shu said.

"Okay, 12 noon, everyone must come back to me safe and sound!"

"OK!"

Everyone split up and took action!

Lu Zhe looked around for a while but didn't find any herbs, so he carried a stone axe and went to the banana fiber trees!

To be precise, it was a clump of trees!

Each long leaf could pull out hundreds of fibers and twist out dozens of fine ropes. After clearing out the tissues and drying them, twisting them together would make banana fiber ropes comparable to nylon ropes!

Without much effort, Lu Zhe chopped down this clump of banana trees!

Then he pulled out some fibers and tied the banana fiber trees top, middle and bottom with three ropes!

He carried it on his shoulder and took it back to the camp!

Jiang Yao sympathetically wiped Lu Zhe's sweat: "You worked hard, little Zhe!"

Lu Zhe nodded: "It's nothing! When separating the ropes, it's best to wrap your hands with rags to avoid getting injured and stinging!"

"Got it!" Jiang Yao wrapped her hands in rags and seriously started pulling the ropes!

Seeing everyone working together in harmony, with the four girls all playing an indispensable role in the team, Lu Zhe felt very gratified!

He also felt full of motivation!

He added the remaining 7 potential points all to strength, making his strength reach 35 points!

Then he went into the woods and turned on woodchopping mode!

He came to the forest, needing to find young trees the thickness of the girls' calves, then chop them down with a stone axe, and chop off the branches to turn them into log sections!

It was tedious and tiring work!

He couldn't let the girls do it. They might not even be able to swing the stone axe. Even his original self would be tired like a dog after chopping three to five trees!

But now, with 3.5 times more strength than before, it was much easier for him to pick up the axe. Doing this was much easier now!

In the morning, he chopped down thirteen 5-meter long log sections!

Then he carried them one by one back to the camp!

Jiang Yao and Tang Xiaoguo stared dumbfounded!

"Wow, deskmate, what have you been eating to grow up with such great strength?"

Tang Xiaoguo nodded: "You belong to the elephants, haha!"

Lu Zhe threw down the last one, wiped some sweat, and said, "No, I belong to Tang Xiaoguo!"

"You were praising him, yet he made fun of you instead!"

"Whether it was mocking or not, can you not sit with your legs apart when working!"

"What's wrong?"

"Sister, you're wearing my shorts! Don't you know you're exposing everything?!"

Tang Xiaoguo looked down, "Oh my gosh!"

She hurriedly changed to a more ladylike posture!

Jiang Yao sighed leisurely, "Ah, I reminded you many times before, who knows if you're doing it intentionally or not!"

As she spoke, she shook her head and continued pulling ropes.

Tang Xiaoguo whispered, "Jiang Yao, you have no right to talk about me!"

Lu Zhe had no time to care about their petty thoughts: "By the way, has the class monitor and Qianqian come back?"

Jiang Yao said, "They came back three times in the morning, bringing quite a lot of stuff each time. Now...they should be back soon!"

Lu Zhe looked at his watch. It just turned 12 o'clock. He was worried if something might have happened, when he saw the two girls dragging a large piece of canvas back!

It turned out they had found a large piece of canvas somewhere and used it as a stretcher. On it were more than ten coconuts and mineral water bottles, as well as some garbage that had drifted onto the island!

Lu Zhe nodded: "Not bad! Whose idea was it?"

"I found the canvas. Qianqian thought of the idea!"

Lin Qianqian said, "It's so hot today. Without thinking of a way, we'd get heat stroke."

Ning Shu urged, "Oh don't talk anymore, hurry and open a coconut!"

The two girls were exhausted. They sat down in the shade, fanning their necks incessantly!

Their faces were flushed, drenched in sweat. Their beautiful hair was stuck to their foreheads. They kept gasping for breath!

It was a different kind of scenery!

Lu Zhe used the axe to chop open several coconuts, then poked coconut straws into them and distributed one to each person!

"Report your progress! I chopped down a banana fiber tree and thirteen log sections!"

Jiang Yao shook the ropes in her hand: "Forty-five hemp ropes!"

Tang Xiaoguo said, "Two bottles of smelly water from socks, and half a bottle of naturally distilled water! I'm currently cooking seafood soup!"

Lin Qianqian blushed, "Xiaoguo, can you not mention the socks?"

Xiaoguo nodded: "Got it!"

Ning Shu said, "We picked up thirty-five mineral water bottles, two pieces of torn clothes, three slippers, and a bed sheet sized torn canvas!"

Lin Qianqian added, "For food, there are twenty-one coconuts, thirty-seven scallops, one conch, two sea urchins! And some kelp!"

"Very good, everyone!"

Lu Zhe nodded, then looked at the blazing sun again: "The sunlight is too strong in the afternoon. Collecting work will consume more water than it's worth. After eating, let's rest for a while and do some simple work around the camp. When the sun is less hot we can do more strenuous work!"

Ning Shu fully agreed: "Yeah, I didn't feel that tired the first time coming back, but the last time I almost felt like I was going to be sunburned to death!"

Unintentionally, she scratched her butt again.

Lin Qianqian also said, "I feel like I've never exercised this much before... Can I have another coconut?"

Lu Zhe chopped open a few more coconuts with his axe and distributed another one to each person.

After eating lunch, everyone hid under the shelter to escape the heat and chatted casually!

Ning Shu's rash downstairs hadn't gone away yet. When she had nothing to do she would go to the woods to scratch her itch. Tang Xiaoguo was very puzzled and muttered to herself, "Is the class monitor having frequent urination?"

Jiang Yao seemed to understand and said, "You're a girl yet you don't understand. The class monitor must have come on her period!"

"Oh!" Tang Xiaoguo nodded, "That makes sense!"

Lu Zhe rested for a while and felt his strength recovering again!

Still better to find something to do!

The wood right now was not enough. A raft made of thirteen pieces of wood could only support one person!

In order to make the raft sturdy, stable, and safely bear the weight of five people, more wood was still needed!

And the suitable small trees around the camp had almost all been chopped down by him!

So he considered going deeper into the forest to look for more woods or bamboo forests!

"Everyone stay at the camp. I'm going into the woods to take a look!"

"Going alone again?"

Lu Zhe looked around, "There's no suitable wood nearby. I want to build a bamboo raft so I still need to find other woods!"

"No, it's too dangerous to go into the woods alone. If you must go, then I'll go with you!"

As Ning Shu spoke, that annoying itchiness came again!

"You...wait for me..." She grabbed another tissue and ran into the small woods to scratch her itch!

Tang Xiaoguo worried, "At this rate, the tissues will run out pretty quick."

Lin Qianqian said, "Lu Zhe, the class monitor doesn't seem to be in good condition. I'll go with you!"

Lu Zhe waved his hand, "No need, I can go by myself!"

"No, you can't act alone when going deep into the woods!" Ning Shu's voice came from behind the big tree!

Lin Qianqian picked up her notebook, "Lu Zhe, don't worry. I won't drag you down. Also, I want to learn some survival skills from you and contribute more to my companions!"