After finalizing the next plan, the moods of the three settled down a lot.
Let's find something to do!
Can't just lean here, otherwise it's easy to get sleepy.
And at this time, the long-lost system sent him a task prompt again...
Lu Zhe thought that after the initial period, the system would generally not issue some weird tasks anymore.
Because the host has adapted to island life, he can fully obtain potential points by finding supplies, making tools, helping companions, and so on.
In the jungle, getting fresh water is not too difficult, the difficult thing is getting salt.
After losing salt, the body will become weak and resistance will also decrease.
Currently, the most sensible method is to lick your skin to get salt.
Humans are sometimes strange. Do dogs really like to lick your hands and toes as a friendly gesture?
In fact, more often the reason is that they want to get your salt.
Not only dogs, cows and sheep sometimes also lick people's wrists to get salt.
People who have just bathed have not much salt on their skin surface, but after doing physical work and sweating, there will be a lot of salt attached to the human body surface.
Unlike the salt in urine, this has very low urea and can be ingested directly.
"You can lick your own skin to get salt. Ed Stafford did this when he lacked salt on the Eurōlaks Island!"
The two girls licked their wrists: "It's salty."
At this time, Ning Shu discovered two green dots shooting towards the camp from a distant tree.
"Hey hey hey, stop first!"
"What's wrong?"
"Look over there?"
Lu Zhe and Tang Xiaoguo looked over together.
Tang Xiaoguo also saw the two dots: "Wow, it really is a goblin!"
Lu Zhe's eyes, however, clearly saw the ambusher opposite them. It was less than a meter long, covered in beautiful spots, and was crouching in a tree, gazing at them.
This was a clouded leopard, a feline found in tropical and subtropical forests, whose range also includes the Himalayas.
Although ferocious and capable of capturing prey much larger than itself, it is timid.
Its main food consists of civets, pheasants and monkeys. It will not easily attack humans, especially with a campfire. So even being watched by it, the safety factor was still quite high.
Lu Zhe judged that it was probably the smell of the cooked meat in the lunchbox that attracted this greedy cat.
He wanted to reassure the two female classmates so they wouldn't be afraid.
But then he thought, with no danger at all, people can easily get sleepy. Occasional tense emotions are not necessarily a bad thing!
"What is that thing!"
Lu Zhe's expression became solemn: "It's a clouded leopard."
"A leopard?"
"The clouded leopard is a clouded leopard. It's neither a leopard nor a cat."
"Does it eat people?"
Lu Zhe solemnly told a lie: "It...likes to eat people the most!"
"Ah? It's looking at us, is it going to eat us!"
But to make this lie more believable, Lu Zhe added: "It's looking for a chance! It sleeps during the day and goes out at night, waiting for us to fall asleep so it can attack us."
The two girls were instantly frightened wide awake.
"What should we do?"
"It's staring at us, we should stare back at it and see who lasts longer."
"Okay!"
With this stimulant, Lu Zhe felt at ease.
But now, as the temperature kept dropping, they had to consider further modifications to the camp.
Tang Xiaoguo said: "Don't you feel like it's getting colder and colder, maybe because it's staring at us?"
Ning Shu lamented: "No way, isn't it because of the altitude and different air pressure?"
"A few dozen meters of altitude does not make much difference in air pressure."
Lu Zhe thought for a moment: "I guess it should be that the sea surface was heated by the sun during the day, so it can still emit some heat at night. The vegetation on the island is also relatively lush, which can block some sea breeze and prevent the temperature from dropping rapidly. So places at lower altitudes are warmer."
"What should we do then?"
"Have you all read the textbook story from childhood, Master of the Big Forest?"
The two girls nodded.
"You two keep an eye on that clouded leopard. Let's use the old hunter's method to keep warm!"
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!
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.
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.
't think I'm that capable, I'm just trying my best to stay alive. I've been kind all my life, never did anything bad, yet worldly suffering spared me not one bit. The human world is a nice place, but I won't come back in my next life. A kind young man, who wanted to just get by singing, but through repeated deceits and betrayals, has gone down an irredeemable path.
