The gentle flowing water warmed him!
Like it was filled with the warmth of tender love, washing away the filth and blood from his wounds.
Half a minute later, a notification sounded in Lu Zhe's mind again!
Quest 2 complete, +1 potential point!
Keep adding to Constitution!
Next was suturing the wound!
He had wanted to look for army ants, but ants were more suitable for clamping strip-like lacerations. These bite marks were round holes and not suitable. He had to use traditional suturing methods!
He suddenly thought of Tang Xiaoguo's earrings. Each earring had a sharp, pointy hook that would work perfectly as a suturing needle.
What about thread?
Lin Qianqian's long hair would be the best material!
"Xiaoguo, do you still have your earrings?"
"Oh yeah, I still have them! What do you need them for?"
"Don't ask, hurry and take them out!"
Tang Xiaoguo obediently found her earrings and handed them over.
Lu Zhe took one and bit off the decoration with his teeth, leaving only the metal hook needle. "Qianqian, come over!"
"Oh..."
Lin Qianqian walked over in a daze. Lu Zhe tugged at one of her hair strands and Lin Qianqian yelped in fright.
Next, she watched as Lu Zhe tied her hair strand to the hook needle.
Then, under the dumbfounded stares of the five girls, Lu Zhe started suturing his own wounds!
Strangely, the originally tough wound edges easily allowed the hook needle to pierce through, as if they were fabric.
The girls all watched in shock.
In the moonlight, they could only see a delicate, blood-soaked young man dripping sweat as he gave himself sutures using his teeth and left hand.
Shen Bing had wanted to help since she had learned first aid and suturing during her police academy internship. But with the sun already set, she couldn't see the wound clearly at all. Her arms were also trembling from exerting too much force while drilling wood for fire.
She would be of no help at all in this situation!
"This kid is too fierce..."
"Is he not in pain?"
"Lu Zhe, do you...need help?"
"I need help!"
Lu Zhe said clearly, "Find that lighter and try to pick out the flint, then use the rusted parts of the knife to scrape it! I need to burn some palm sheath ash!"
Palm ash was a decent hemostatic agent in the wild, able to stop external and internal bleeding.
Also, they might still be attacked by beasts of prey in the deep night jungle!
Just that one bear had been so difficult to deal with. If another bear came...
She didn't dare imagine it!
But that flint...
After so long, could it still be used?
Shen Bing hurried to rummage through the suitcase and took out the lighter!
It was a Zippo-style kerosene lighter. Both American and Japanese soldiers had been equipped with them during WWII.
Because of its age, the outside had completely rusted over and could not be used at all!
Shen Bing smashed it open with a rock and found a flint-like object inside!
But...
It had been too long. When she picked it up, it crumbled into hard little pieces!
There was still a way!
She carefully placed the ash-like crumbs on the edge of a rock. She put some pre-prepared dry tinder on the ground.
Pressing the paratrooper knife against the shards, she steadied it with her foot and suddenly yanked the knife sharply!
"Ca-cha..."
The knife scraping against the flint and rock produced a shower of sparks that fell onto the dry leaves and tinder below.
Shen Bing quickly grabbed the burning tinder and blew on it, causing the sparks to ignite into a flame!
Shen Bing gave a wry smile.
She had wasted an entire afternoon trying to start a fire with the bow drill and failed. Yet with just a simple prompt from Lu Zhe, he had easily accomplished it.
It was too frustrating!
No time to think too much about it. She hurriedly stoked the fire and added more firewood while starting to burn the palm sheaths.
After a while, Lu Zhe had also finished suturing his wounds.
Because he couldn't use his right hand, the stitch spacing was uneven. But it was still much better than expected!
The palm ash had also cooled down somewhat.
Lu Zhe sprinkled a bit of palm ash over the sutures, then looked for something to bandage it.
He didn't need to ask. The girls had long prepared some sanitary pads and cloth strips!
It was the last pad that Jiang Yao and Tang Xiaoguo had been reluctant to use.
Currently, it was the cleanest material available.
Jiang Yao used the absorbent side of the pad to cover the wound, then Lin Qianqian brought over some dried cloth strips to tightly tie around it. The wound treatment was complete.
Lu Zhe gained all the potential points.
All added to Constitution!
And at this moment, another notification sounded in his mind: "Congratulations, host! Your Constitution has reached 60. Wound recovery speed is 6 times that of an ordinary person. Scar recovery is 6 times that of an ordinary person!"
That meant if such an injury would take an ordinary person one month to recover from, he would only need 5 days!
If an ordinary person would be left with a scar, he would only have one-sixth of the scar.
Moreover, having a few scars from slaying a bear was pretty cool!
Even now, as Lu Zhe swung his arm around, it only felt like two mosquito bites on his arm.
Jiang Yao said worriedly, "Don't move around. You have to properly recuperate from your injuries."
Lu Zhe sighed, "I'm afraid that's not possible."
"Why not?"
Lu Zhe pointed at the big bear lying on the ground, "Can you guys handle that?"
Only then did they remember there was still a dead big bear sprawled in the camp.
"Ah right, what should we do about that?"
"Should we move to a different campsite?"
"We just got this place set up nicely. It'd be a waste to move after one day's work!"
"Besides, it's too late now!"
"Then we can only move it away. I don't want to sleep in the same camp as a corpse."
"It's so heavy, how do we carry it away?"
"Speaking of, what kind of bear is this..."
"Look at its tongue lolling out, wow, it's so long. What's it used for?!"
Lu Zhe felt the big bear with his left hand. Information appeared in his mind!
Lu Zhe contemplated, "The appearance resembles a Malayan bear, but Malayan bears are small bears. The largest Malayan bear is only around 150 pounds! Yet this one is easily over 200 pounds in weight with the build of a black bear!"
Ning Shu imagined a bizarre scenario and came up with a strange viewpoint, "Tsk...So which one do you think cheated - did the black bear fool around, or did the Malayan bear have an affair?"
Tang Xiaoguo exclaimed in admiration, "As expected of our resident pervert!"
But Lu Zhe said, "What the monitor said actually makes a lot of sense. This thing is likely a hybrid between a Malayan bear and black bear."
Shen Bing wondered, "Can bears of different species intermingle?"
Lu Zhe explained, "Most bear species don't have reproductive isolation. Despite the huge size differences, they can still produce offspring, like dogs."
"Huh?" Tang Xiaoguo imagined a Tibetan mastiff riding a Pomeranian, then the Pomeranian's belly swelling with 5-6 Tibetan mastiff babies. She couldn't help but shudder, "That's too scary!"
Jiang Yao frowned, "I'm guessing the Malayan bear must have been the father, since it also has the name 'sun bear'!"
Lin Qianqian nodded, "Mm, that would lower the risk for the mama bear during birth."
Ning Shu mused, "Then wouldn't the risk for the papa bear increase? Hey, don't you think with such a big size difference...the mama bear might have eaten her husband like a praying mantis?"
Jiang Yao frowned, "It's not some cheap cucumber to be used up and eaten. That would be too wasteful!"
Lu Zhe was speechless!
"Can we focus on proper matters and not go on and on about these kinds of questions?"
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!
] [Lone Wolf, No Male Gaze] [Protagonist is pursued early on; extreme protagonist-stans, stay away!] The "Carnival Paradise" descends and slowly devours the real world in the form of a game. By chance, Zhu Yan awakens the talent [Roleplay], becoming one of the first beta players. He thought he could develop safely, but after clearing the first instance, he is branded by humanity as the chief culprit behind the game's spread—a traitorous villain. A villain? Who would ever... become one! He'll be the villain! From then on, Zhu Yan is not only a player but also a lackey for the Carnival Paradise. Between the straight path and the crooked path, he chooses the con. With his left hand, he dons the villain's mantle, staging scenes within instances, infuriating players who decry him as a despicable traitor, all while the game happily promotes him. With his right hand, he joins the non-human organization "Fangcun Mountain," which opposes the Carnival Paradise, transforming into a mysterious player who slaughters game bosses, earning cheers of "Long live the expert!" from fellow players. Gradually, Zhu Yan rises to become an S-rank human player in Fangcun Mountain's archives, while also being the Carnival Paradise's certified top game Boss. But when the final war erupts and both major factions place their hopes in him— Players tag his various aliases: "Experts, this offensive depends on you." The Carnival Paradise's supreme Boss throws an arm around his neck: "Bro, you're the iron, I'm the steel; you can't let me down again!"
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.
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!
