"Throw the pottery and stone tools down the well. They will sink to the bottom and the water won't wash them away. Bring all the other tools with you!"
"Bring as much food and clothes as you can to keep warm."
"And tools, bear skins... Don't worry about the shelter!"
Lu Zhe realized most things had already been packed by the few girls.
No one brought those quirky pieces of pottery.
It seemed after living in the wilderness these days, they knew what was more important to them.
After getting ready, Lu Zhe grabbed the three heaviest packages with one hand and held Shen Bing's hand with the other.
The four girls felt somewhat puzzled.
Why hold the hand of an older sister instead of one of the four cute girls of similar age?
His taste seemed off!
"What are you still waiting for, let's go!"
"Oh, okay..."
The four knew it was an emergency. No time to sulk. They hurriedly held each other's hands and followed behind.
The rain grew heavier!
Just now, they were only drenched. But now they were almost completely soaked. It could almost be called a downpour.
Everyone's clothes stuck to their bodies, their hair plastered to their scalps. They staggered with every step, looking wretched beyond words!
And as the rain grew heavier, everything around turned misty white with decreasing visibility.
If someone fell behind, they might never find the team again.
Lu Zhe quickly stopped and gathered everyone together. He put down the packages and tied the middle of the three ropes into a tight knot, leaving six ends.
Lu Zhe picked up one end of the rope and shouted, "Everyone, hold one end of the rope and tie it around your arm. See?"
Even at such close range, Lu Zhe had to gesture wildly while yelling at the top of his lungs for them to understand.
If he only spoke, his voice would be instantly drowned out by the roaring rain!
Luckily, the five girls understood. They all nodded and tied one end of the rope around their arms!
This way, even if someone fell, their companions could immediately pull them up.
The heavy rain had washed some slippers away. They had to walk barefoot. No matter, they could just walk barefoot.
Their drenched clothes clung to them, revealing sights usually unseen. No matter, Lu Zhe had no time to appreciate the scene.
He needed to determine direction in the misty, rain-drenched world relying on memory alone!
If they wandered much longer, even if no one became hypothermic, they might still get swept away by a flash flood caused by the downpour.
And judging from the girls' miserable shivering, hypothermia didn't seem far off either.
Luckily after half an hour in the torrential rain, Lu Zhe finally found the bear cave!
By now, the rain rushing down the mountain had turned the cave entrance into a water curtain cave.
They had to break through the water curtain to get inside the cave.
Whether the lingering bear smell inside had dissipated mattered little now.
As long as no bear hid inside.
Lu Zhe led the girls under the "water curtain cave".
Since the cave mouth loomed four to five meters above the ground, they needn't worry about flooding even in this heavy rain.
Getting inside would just take some effort.
They had to face the water flow, climb up the rocks on the side, then have their companions outside push them in.
Lu Zhe first threw the packages in from the side.
No items came back out.
"Guo Er, you first... Which one is Guo Er?"
With hair plastered over their faces, ordinary people might identify companions by their clothes. But Lu Zhe had a better method.
The one with the smallest chest must be the right one!
Lu Zhe pulled her to the rock on the side, picked her up, lifted her high, then supported her butt with his head while grabbing her ankles to boost her up.
She finally crawled up with great difficulty.
She cried out happily, "I'm up!"
With the first one up, the rest became easy.
Lu Zhe gave them a boost from below while Guo Er pulled from above. Soon all the girls successfully entered the cave.
Only Lu Zhe remained. He focused his mind and leapt up toward the mouth against the water flow. Grabbing the edge of the cave mouth, just as he tried to push up into a graceful leap, the girls didn't give him a chance. They dragged at his clothes, arms and hair, grabbing him every which way until he was heaved unceremoniously up too.
His attempt at coolness ended in slight embarrassment, but his heart still felt warm.
At a time like this, them not bothering to grab you would be true failure!
"No one missing, right?"
"One, two, three, four, five, six, seven... Seven, no one missing!"
"Wait?"
"Seven?"
"Why is there one more?"
Everyone looked deeper into the cave together.
There sat an additional figure at the very back!
"Ah, a ghost..."
The girls hugged each other in fear!
Lu Zhe peered closely. "I'll be damned, it really is?"
On closer inspection, he breathed a sigh of relief. "What ghost! It's just a monkey taking shelter from the rain!"
Ning Shu cried out, "Why does it have that thing growing on its face?"
"Is that right?"
Lu Zhe walked over to take a better look. This monkey had a long, fleshy strip hanging from its face. Seeing it unexpectedly like that, it could easily lead to strange ideas.
Right then, the monkey blinked its eyes in confusion at the people suddenly intruding.
Ning Shu pointed at the monkey's nose and shrieked, "Ah! It got hard!"
Lu Zhe remained perfectly calm. "Don't worry. It's a proboscis monkey. That's its nose. When faced with human invaders, it gets angry and its nose will swell up while letting out low roars. Actually this kind of monkey is much more docile than macaques."
"Why isn't it roaring then?"
"I reckon it's scared of our greater numbers, fear outweighing its anger!"
"What should we do about this guy?"
Lu Zhe thought that of almost all edible animals in the world, he wouldn't mind eating any, save primates.
Unless facing imminent starvation, he was unwilling to dissect monkeys for food.
No time to reason with it!
Lu Zhe grabbed its four limbs and picked it up. The monkey struggled violently to no avail against Lu Zhe's strength. He swung it twice at the cave mouth. "Off you go!"
With a swoosh, the pitiful proboscis monkey sailed far into the pouring rain.
Soon disappearing without a trace.
Good, now the cave fully belonged to humankind.
Although they successfully entered the cave, the situation still seemed dire.
The drenched clothes and ongoing chill caused violent shivering among the girls!
Lu Zhe particularly worried about the pregnant Shen Bing and menstruating Ning Shu.
With no fire or easy means of starting one, maintaining body heat became imperative.
Currently, only one method existed for that.
Lu Zhe spoke gravely, "Although hard to accept, you must now take off your wet clothes and huddle together! Remember to apply herbal paste, there might be fleas and lice here."
The girls gave a collective "Mm".
Their gazes turned as one toward Lin Qianqian.
Lin Qianqian understood everyone's concern and said with blushing face, "I'll control myself."
On further thought, propriety mattered little now to the rest too.
They all took off their outerwear, leaving only the innermost layer.
Although still damp and uncomfortable, it was already much better with no other choice.
Just then, Lu Zhe noticed the remaining bear fur.
Having Malayan bear genes, the fur stuck together in stacks about 1.8 meters tall, roughly a queen-sized blanket for a 1.8 meters tall bear.
These past days, the girls had cleaned all blood and fat from under the fur. Being soft and dense with rich oils, the rain hadn't soaked the fur one bit despite the downpour.
Lu Zhe spread out the huge fur hide and actually wrapped up all five huddled girls!
Although still shivering, their situation already showed marked improvement against hypothermia.
ions, keeping it grounded and realistic】 After quitting his job, office worker Su Yang accidentally binds with the "Enjoy Life System." As the name suggests, simply by indulging in life's pleasures, he can earn random rewards from the system—no need to spend money on beautiful women or grovel before anyone. Just enjoy, and the money follows, making it all about effortless fun. The system comes with a scanning feature, allowing him to establish a favorability bond with women rated 85 points or above. Every 20-point increase in favorability unlocks additional rewards. After suffering through over twenty years of hardship, Su Yang trembles with excitement, his dull eyes suddenly gleaming with newfound hope. "Enjoy life? How hard could that be?"
] This is a dark fantasy-themed dating simulation game. The main gameplay involves containing various monster girls and investigating the truth of a world shrouded in mist alongside your companions. However, due to his love for the dark and bizarre atmosphere, Luo Wei ended up turning a dating game into a detective mystery game. Women? Women only slow down his quickdraw! To Luo Wei, the female leads in the game are more like tools to perfectly clear levels and squeeze out rewards. For Luo Wei, flirting with every girl he meets and then discarding them is standard procedure. Worried about characters losing affection points? No need. With his maxed-out charm stat, Luo Wei is practically a "human incubus." A little psychological manipulation and those points come right back. It's a bit scummy, but the paper cutout heroines in the game won't actually come at him with real cleavers. However... Luo Wei has transmigrated. He's accidentally entered the second playthrough of this game. His past actions have caused all the girls to transform into terrifying yanderes. Due to the game's setting, most of the heroines he once contained are "troubled girls." Obsessive, twisted, mentally unstable, all aggressive yanderes... The type who will kill you if they can't have you... Luo Wei wants to cry but has no tears left. "I really just want to survive..." In short, this is a story of battling wits and engaging in a love-hate relationship with yanderes.
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?"
he colors of other people’s emotions. Light red meant anxiety. Gray meant exhaustion. Orange meant excitement. Yellow... meant repression. At the same time, he could gain unlimited control over one of those colors. Pale cyan: relaxation. Using this ability, he started offering “two-yuan hugs,” spending an afternoon exchanging emotional-color experiences with others. Then came his final female customer of the day— a girl whose emotional color was pure black... —— A week later, Xu Chuan had become skilled at using pale cyan—Relaxation—treating it like a bottle of menthol balm whenever he needed it. That was when he discovered he had unlocked another unlimited emotional color: Purple, the color of fear. So these emotional colors refresh every week? Fine, I take it back—I’ll never call you useless again... —— Much later, after Xu Chuan had accumulated countless emotional abilities, one night, he suddenly found himself inside someone else’s dream. There, he could use the emotional colors he possessed to paint. And in her dream, he painted her a shower of pink shooting stars, spreading across the depths of the night sky...
