"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.
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
young master of the Shen family—a figure of immense power and wealth beyond measure—and awakened the "Destined Ultimate Villain System"! His starting scenario? Running into his icy fiancée who shows up with a mountain-descending divine doctor to break off their engagement. The divine doctor arrogantly taunts: "What does your Shen family have besides a bit of stinking money? You're not even worthy of tying Qingxue's shoelaces!" Shen Fei just smiled. He completely defied the usual script: "Fine, I agree to break off the engagement. Also, notify the finance department to withdraw all investments from the Su family." Minutes later, with its capital chain severed, the Su Group teetered on the brink of bankruptcy! The once aloof and proud ice queen CEO was thrown into utter panic. That very night, she went to Shen Fei's villa, casting aside all dignity to beg and plead desperately... From then on, in this world teeming with Sons of Destiny, Shen Fei embarked on a path of extreme dimensional suppression! A mountain-descending divine doctor? Peerless medical skills? Shen Fei: "Reporting you for practicing medicine without a license! I'll gladly take your ancient medicinal cauldron and twin sister assassins." The Crooked-Smiling Dragon King? Commanding a hundred thousand soldiers with a single order? Shen Fei: "Illegal assembly and suspected treason! Let a fleet of attack helicopters sanitize the area and teach you what the state apparatus really means!" A reborn tycoon? Knows all the golden opportunities of the next decade? Shen Fei: "A trillion in capital to reverse and pump the stock market, making you blow your margin and jump on the very first day of your rebirth!" What Chosen Ones? What bearers of Heavenly Fortune? In Shen Fei's eyes, they're all just chives (i.e., suckers/marks) waiting to be harvested! Shen Fei: "Sorry, but as the Destined Ultimate Villain, I don't play by the rules of honor. I only play the game of dimensional suppression."
ap a wealthy young lady? Or else I'll be eliminated by the system? Ye Feng, who awakened the Kidnapper System, originally wanted to live a peaceful life but never imagined he would become a kidnapper of young women. However, after some time, he discovered that all the girls the system ordered him to kidnap were far from ordinary. "Big brother Ye Feng~ You've kidnapped my heart, and now you're not allowed to leave me ever again~" "Ye Feng~ You kidnapped me back then, now it's my turn to capture you♡" "Little Feng, you're mine! You can only be mine!" "Ye Feng, none of them deserve you. Only I love you the most♡" ... This is madness, they've all gone mad! Wait, what? Why are all the girls I kidnapped yanderes?!
agon king storylines. At the start, I obtained the "Ultimate Lackey System" - the more I act as a lackey, the stronger I become. What else could I do? I chose to become the personal henchman of the ultimate villain, Su Muwan. I provoke all sorts of chosen ones, snatch away their opportunities, and commit every evil deed imaginable. You ask who's behind me? Hmph! You're not worthy of knowing my lady's name! ...... ....... I am Su Muwan, the eldest daughter of the Su family. Since childhood, I've possessed extraordinary talent in martial arts, which led to my arrogant and domineering personality in my past life. I was even foolish enough to repeatedly challenge those favored by heaven, ultimately resulting in a tragic death. In this life, I must behave and absolutely cannot walk the same path again!! However... SLAP!! "So you're the Dragon King, huh?!" When I saw my little lackey swagger over and viciously slap the Dragon King who was hiding his identity, I felt my heart sink. Su Muwan's suspended heart finally died as she watched Qin Luo, her utterly loyal lackey, standing before her. She fainted on the spot from shock. Heaven is determined to destroy me!! (Pure love 1v1, light-hearted, no angst, single female lead, villain, reincarnation, lackey)
