"It's too dark, why don't we wait until daytime?"
"It is already daytime now!"
Shen Bing also knew that what Lu Zhe said made sense, but she just couldn't let Lu Zhe go out there alone.
"I'll go with you if you need to go."
Ning Shu said: "That's not okay, you're a national treasure now, let me go instead."
Qian Qian said: "The class monitor is still on her period, so let me go with Lu Zhe, and we can get more stuff too."
Lu Zhe understood they would not feel assured about letting him go out alone.
Might as well go together then, so they can watch out for each other.
"Alright, Qian Qian can come. But it's very cold outside, wear a couple more layers of clothes. Let's also make some raincoats."
"Okay!"
Qian Qian put on a vest and Ning Shu's coat on top.
Lu Zhe used banana leaves to make two simple raincoats, and brought rope, a knife and Ning Shu's backpack before leaving the cave with Qian Qian.
As expected, it was raining much lighter outside now.
According to the meteorological standards, it could only be considered moderate rain now.
There were deep pools of water in some places, and shallow ones in others, but even the shallowest barely covered their ankles.
"Where should we go?"
"I want to get some lemons first for battery reserves, then find some bananas and banana hearts as staple foods, and finally chop some bamboo so we can make tables, chairs and hammocks when we get back."
"Okay!" Qian Qian looked around and said: "But I can't see which way we should go in the dark!"
"I remember the general direction. Let's go this way. Step where I step, okay?"
Qian Qian blushed. "What if I get pregnant like that?"
"Is that even possible?"
"I read in the class monitor's phone earlier that a woman got pregnant just from stepping in a man's footprint."
"That's a myth about Fuxi and Nüwa's parents!"
"I see!"
Qian Qian carefully stepped in Lu Zhe's footprints as she followed behind him.
After half an hour, they arrived at the lemon trees.
The terrain here was somewhat low-lying, with lots of accumulated rainwater. It was neither deep nor shallow - Lu Zhe estimated it would nearly reach his chest.
In the darkness, they could vaguely see many lemons floating in the water. After this storm, there were not many left on the trees.
Lu Zhe happily said: "Fortunately we came at this time. After soaking for two days they'd definitely all be rotten."
"Do we have to swim over there?"
"I can, but can you?"
"I can do it too!"
Could she really?
She'd be completely drenched!
His physique could handle it no problem, but Qian Qian would lose heat quickly.
The system had already provided a solution!
Lu Zhe seemed to smell that familiar scent again.
"Come here, Qian Qian!" Lu Zhe said, hanging the backpack on Qian Qian's chest, "Just pick them and put them in here later."
"Huh?" Before Qian Qian understood what was happening, Lu Zhe lifted her up onto his shoulders, just like when he had picked up Guo Er that time.
"This way you won't get wet."
Qian Qian shyly bit her lip. "I still might..."
"But at least it'll be much better."
After thinking for a bit, Qian Qian asked: "Will there be snakes in the water?"
"Possibly, but they generally won't attack us because they're busy trying to escape too."
As he spoke, Lu Zhe brought Qian Qian into the water with him.
"Oh!" Reassured, Qian Qian started picking up lemons one by one and putting them in the bag.
Suddenly she picked up a heavy one. At first the girl was delighted, thinking it might still be attached to a branch, but when she lifted it out of the water, it turned out to be long and slender instead.
Next, this thing wrapped itself around Qian Qian's arm, and she felt a creepy squirming sensation in her palm.
A snake!
It really was a snake!
"Ah..." Qian Qian let out a scream.
Then Lu Zhe felt a warm sensation on his back.
It actually felt rather comfortable for a moment.
But there was no time to think about that. He quickly steadied Qian Qian and got the snake off her.
"Don't worry, it's a king ratsnake - not venomous! But could you explain why my back feels a little warm?"
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry..." Qian Qian kept apologizing. Lu Zhe could imagine how red her face must be.
"I'll wash it for you when we get back..."
Lu Zhe sighed. What a thing to happen! But when he thought about it, Qian Qian was voted the cutest girl in school, so maybe it wasn't so hard to accept after all.
As Lu Zhe twisted the snake, he said: "But you were amazing to catch a king ratsnake with your bare hands. You can brag about it to the others for a long time when we get back."
"That was...an accident."
Lu Zhe knotted it into a coil, stuffed it in a plastic bag and tightened the opening: "This is great. We can eat it when we get back. Pack it properly!"
Qian Qian carefully pinched the plastic bag and put it in the backpack.
The two picked some more lemons until both their backpacks were halfway full.
"Let's go find more stuff!"
Soon they arrived at the banana grove. They didn't need to pick them - lots of bananas were already floating on the water after the downpour. Finally they went to the bamboo forest.
After chopping some more bamboo, their mission would be accomplished.
But as soon as they reached the bamboo forest, they heard "gu gu" sounds.
Squeals! Pig squeals!
And there was clearly more than one!
Wild boars!
There were wild boars!
Lu Zhe knew it was very dangerous to encounter wild boars in the wilderness. Old hunters even said boars were second only to bears in terms of danger, and even more perilous than tigers!
Sometimes running into boars could be more hazardous than tigers!
Why?
Because tigers were relatively timid by comparison and wouldn't take risks hunting outside their normal prey. Fire one shot and the tiger would be frightened enough to turn tail and vanish instantly.
Of course, man-eating tigers were an exception. Having tasted the tender, salty human meat, tigers would fall deeply in love with that flavor and might risk attacking again.
But wild boars were different. They didn't attack humans to eat them, but due to innate territorial awareness and aggressiveness. They would charge simply to fight you!
Could bullets penetrate them?
Their skin was too thick and tough, and hunters' guns might not be able to shoot through. And you couldn't run away either, because that would arouse its predatory instincts to chase you down relentlessly. Crucially, wild pigs could run extremely fast, too fast for any human to shake off!
So throughout history, many more hunters had been killed by wild pigs than tigers!
But things should also be examined from both sides!
There were different types of wild pigs.
Some big, some small.
The little wild pigs living on the outskirts of cities, even when fully grown, might only weigh 30-40 jin, around the size of a small water tank. That sort could be caught and taken home to improve their diet.
But what about the ones now?
The most aggressive wild boars usually acted alone, while group-living ones tended to be quite timid.
The little ones were more likely!
He added 10 potential to his perception stat!
Focusing his senses, his vision ahead gradually became clearer in the darkness, though he couldn't smell any boar scent with his nose.
The heavy rain had washed away the boars' smell, but at the same time also concealed his and Qian Qian's scents from them.
Lu Zhe decided to try capturing one to take back if possible.
And just as Lu Zhe was sneaking glimpses of the wild boars with Qian Qian in the dark night, something happened back in the cave too. Shen Bing's lower abdomen suddenly throbbed with intense pain, making her break out in a cold sweat.
The three girls anxiously poured her more hot water and applied hot compresses to her belly, but the pain still could not be alleviated.
Then suddenly, a gush of bloody discharge came out.
lity and could only live as an ordinary mortal. He only wished to live a peaceful life. Yet he didn't know— The dog he adopted, because it ate his food, became a legendary demon king. The kitchen knife he casually forged became a peerless divine weapon, causing numerous experts to fight desperately for it. The young disciple he took in became an immortal lord that led an era, due to cultivating the techniques Ye Feng taught him. Even the skeletons he looked down on the most were ominous demon kings that suppressed countless worlds. Many years later, looking at the void shattered with a punch, Ye Feng murmured to himself: It turns out the peerless kings were myself all along...
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?"
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!
