July 6th, the 27th day stranded on the deserted island, the 3rd day of continuous heavy rain!
The sky remains pitch black throughout the day.
Lu Zhe once again took the opportunity when the rain lightened up a bit to go search for sugarcane, but after searching for half a day, he did not find any sugarcane, only managing to chop some bamboo.
This made him realize that while the island has abundant resources, only bananas and bamboo have larger quantities, useful plants like sweet potatoes and sugarcane only exist in very scarce numbers.
He spent the rest of his time digging holes, trying his best to expand the living space inside.
Their meals remained the same - eating bananas, making porridge with semolina, and roast pork.
They want to eat the most perishable parts as soon as possible, while smoking the rest to preserve it.
July 7th, the 28th day, the 4th day of heavy rain.
The dark skies continue!
Lu Zhe led everyone to continue expanding the interior space of the small cave, to alleviate the oppressive mood.
Shen Bing found some spare time and made four leg bones, two quite large, and the other two even bigger!
She then spent two hours sewing a cloth bag with the leftover earrings from Guo'er, and taught some girls a strange game they used to play as children, even inviting Lu Zhe to join.
Lu Zhe also had some impression, but remembering that girls used to play with lamb bones instead of wild boar and bear bones.
Lu Zhe was not that into it, but was very popular among the girls, who played enthusiastically for two hours.
Who would have thought such a boring game could bring so much comfort and joy to everyone.
That day, Lu Zhe and the others expanded the cave to three times its original size.
He understood that digging further may affect the structural stability of the cave, and there was no need to expand more for their purposes anyway.
July 8th, the 29th day stranded on the deserted island, the 5th day of continuous rain.
The heavy rain persisted, the dark skies remained.
That day, they finally got to eat wild boar meat.
At the same time, they realized one thing:
Wild boar meat is not as tasty as domestic pig, but still much better than bear meat.
After the girls cleaned up the small cave, Lu Zhe started to further improve their quality of life!
He used bamboo to build tables and chairs.
The survival handbook had complete instructions, but actually building them was not as easy as described.
Lu Zhe spent a whole day before successfully building one square table.
Finally, their food no longer needed to be placed on the ground.
The girls also built some bamboo items!
For example, Ning Shu made lots of bamboo chopsticks, Shen Bing made six bamboo spoons, Lin Qianqian made bamboo cups, Jiang Yao made bamboo toothpicks, and Tang Xiaoguo made a bamboo dragonfly.
Although the items built by the girls were simple, 80% of them helped improve their quality of life to some degree, and Lu Zhe gave his full approval.
On that day, they successfully conducted the fruit battery experiment for the second time, managing to charge the phone battery up to 25%!
They flipped through the photo album twice, made seven SOS calls, and received a response once.
The response was lightning!
Accompanied by a loud bang, the lightning struck a tree 20 meters right above the cave entrance, splitting that tree into a piece of art.
From then on everyone decided to stop making useless calls.
July 9th, the 30th day stranded on the deserted island, the 6th day of heavy rain!
That day, although the torrential rain continued to fall, the wind stopped and the sky finally brightened.
Although the sun was still hidden, the increased visibility brought comfort to their souls.
Lin Qianqian sighed "Finally, we can see into the distance..."
Tang Xiaoguo asked "When will this heavy rain ever stop?!"
Ning Shu calmly replied "It will stop when it's time."
Jiang Yao echoed "Yes, just like we will be hungry when it's time."
Shen Bing asked Lu Zhe: "Lu Zhe, do you know when it will stop?"
Lu Zhe shook his head.
With cold and warm currents alternating over this area, the weather is too volatile for him to predict.
The five girls stood at the cave entrance for a long while, just looking.
Shen Bing asked again: "Lu Zhe, what are your plans when the rain stops?"
Lu Zhe thought for a bit: "We can continue staying here for a while first, then think of a way to climb to the mountain peak!"
Jiang Yao asked: "We have ample fresh water here now, why still need to climb the mountain?"
"To observe! Based on what we currently know, saying we understand 10% of this island is an overstatement. To thoroughly understand the place we live, we need to observe from different angles and think from different dimensions!"
Ning Shu nodded: "What Lu Zhe said makes sense. I've read about some survival masters entering jungles barehanded, they dare to skip bringing anything, except salt."
"Should still have some ways right?"
"You can obtain potassium salts and small amounts of sodium chloride from wood ash and grass ash. Building a dry toilet allows feces to generate nitrate salts on the stone walls, but long term consumption can be detrimental to health. Simply speaking of edibility, it's not as good as directly licking sweat or urine for the salts."
"What an interesting method!"
"Qianqian, it's not interesting, it's dreadful."
"Besides, things we can salvage here like plastic bottles, bags, torn clothes, slippers, cans etc are all everyday items we won't be able to find."
The girls looked at one another, all nodding in agreement.
What Lu Zhe said made complete sense. They were already running out of bottles, and had used up most of the collected torn clothes and plastic bags. Other than that one Japanese soldier, they couldn't find any usable supplies at all.
If only they could catch another Japanese...
"So next time, will we stay near the sea side again?"
Lu Zhe thought for a bit: "Ideally some place that combines both, like tunnels or proper shelters dug on the mountain ridges not far from the sea. But no need to rush, we can take it slowly."
Shen Bing was puzzled: "Since we will be leaving eventually, why still put in so much effort to expand the cave and build furniture?"
Lu Zhe smiled: "Who said we can only own one property? Even after we move, this place can still be kept as a supply station and backup shelter, for storing some supplies and sealing up the entrance. Next time we come to collect things, we can immediately move in and live here."
Ning Shu nodded: "So becoming a landlord in future? Not bad not bad!"
Shen Bing agreed: "I think that method is feasible too!"
Tang Xiaoguo waved her fists excitedly "Something to look forward to!"
"Let's make a few more portable bamboo baskets today and just wait here until the rain stops."
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!
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."
e bizarre and supernatural had descended. The previous emperor was a thoroughgoing tyrant; no longer satisfied with human women, he had set his sights on a stunningly beautiful supernatural entity. He met his end in his bedchamber, drained of all his vital essence. As the legitimate eldest son and crown prince, Wang Hao was thus hastily enthroned, becoming the young emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. No sooner had he awakened the "Imperial Sign-In Intelligence System" than he was assassinated by a Son of Destiny—a classic villain's opening. The Great Zhou, ravaged by the former emperor's excesses, was in national decline. The great families within its borders harbored their own treacherous schemes, martial sects began to defy the imperial court's decrees, and border armies, their pay and provisions in arrears, grumbled incessantly against the central government. Fortunately, the central capital was still held secure by the half-million Imperial Guards and fifty thousand Imperial Forest Army who obeyed the court's orders, along with the royal family's hidden reserves of power, barely managing to suppress the realm. As the Great Zhou's finances worsened and supernatural activities grew ever more frequent, the court sat atop a volcano. Ambitious plotters everywhere dreamed of overthrowing the dynasty, and even some reclusive ancient powers emerged, attempting to sway the tides of the world. At the first grand court assembly, the civil and military officials nearly came to blows, fighting tooth and nail over the allocation of fifty million taels of silver from the summer tax revenues. The spectacle opened Wang Hao's eyes—the Great Zhou's bureaucracy was not only corrupt but also martially proficient, a cabinet of all-rounders. Some officials even had the audacity to suggest the emperor release funds from the imperial privy purse to address the emergency. Wang Hao suddenly felt weary. Let it all burn.
