The method was very simple!
Lu Zhe found a relatively straight stick among all the crooked branches and started whittling away the twigs. In a few moments he had whittled one end of the stick into a flat shovel.
A simple makeshift shovel was made.
He weighed it in his hand and found it satisfactory. He would have never imagined that even such a simple tool could add to his potential.
To utilize the Southeast Asian shovel pit technique, Lu Zhe prepared to dig a pit next to the campfire. He planned to burn the pit so the earth on the sides would dry and any bugs in the soil would be killed. Then he could pile dry leaves inside and have a simple heated pit.
But Lu Zhe had incorrectly judged the hardness of the topsoil.
It wasn't that he lacked the strength to dig it out, but rather his tool was not up to the task. After half an hour of effort, he had worn down three crooked sticks and broken two, but had only managed to dig a small hole in the ground.
Looking at the tiny pit, Lu Zhe grew worried.
There was no way a person could fit in there, maybe a cat or dog at best.
What should he do?
Aha, he had an idea!
If it couldn't be a heated pit, they could use it as a foot tub!
According to his plan, he would burn some twigs and leaves in the pit, then stamp out any embers and fill it with a big pile of dry leaves.
"Put your feet in everyone, once your feet are warm your whole body will be warm!"
The two girls nodded, took off their shoes and socks, and put their feet into the leaf-filled pit.
"Wow, it's so cozy!"
Ning Shu tilted her head and pondered, "I remember the hunters in the forest made a heated platform. What do we call ours?"
"The circumstances are different, the terrain is different, don't expect too much!" And with that, his potential points increased by 1!
Then he stretched out his arms, "Anyone want salt? I'm covered in salt too, feel free to take some to replenish electrolytes, we're all friends here so don't be shy."
Ning Shu frowned and waved her hand, "I'll pass, I'd rather get mine from my own skin."
The three of them sat there, chatting about horror films late into the night. Around three in the morning, Ning Shu could no longer stay awake and fell asleep leaning against a tree.
Tang Xiaoguo's eyes were also drooping, "Little Brother Zhe, do we really have to stay up so late? I feel like I'm not so bad off anymore."
Lu Zhe checked his watch, "Xiaoguo, it's been ten hours now, just hang in there a bit longer!"
"By the way, why is that goblin still here?"
"That's a clouded leopard, this is probably its territory."
"Brother Zhe, I need to pee..."
"I see!" Lu Zhe thought about waking Ning Shu to accompany Xiaoguo to the bathroom, but seeing her deep asleep, he couldn't bear to wake her.
Tang Xiaoguo brought her little mouth next to Lu Zhe's ear and whispered, "Brother Zhe...come with me!"
"Um..."
"Are you coming or not!"
"Well, coincidentally I need to go too." Lu Zhe helped Tang Xiaoguo up and they went behind a nearby tree, then he turned around to undo his belt.
"Little Brother Zhe, don't turn around, I'm scared if you're not watching me!"
"That doesn't seem right..."
Tang Xiaoguo pursed her lips and smiled, "What's wrong with it? It's so dark you can't see anything anyway."
Could Lu Zhe really not see anything?
In normal conditions he truly couldn't see a thing, but that was a different story when he focused his energy to utilize the sensory abilities granted by the System.
His far vision and night vision would be greatly enhanced.
"Let's play a game, what do you think?"
"What game?"
"Let's see who can pee the farthest!"
"Damn Xiaoguo, I'm begging you, you're one of the beloved concubines chosen by the Emperor, can't you act a little more like a goddess?"
Tang Xiaoguo tilted her head, "Then first admit defeat."
"Never!"
"Then let's compete!"
"Fine, you win!"
It only took Lu Zhe half a minute to realize his mistake.
He was lucky to be able to pee at all like this, not to mention the angle—he could go high but had no chance at distance!
Just what was he thinking, agreeing to compete at this sort of thing with a crazy girl like Xiaoguo?
Even if he won it would be nothing to brag about.
Moreover, he actually...
Lost!
"Hee hee, Brother Zhe lost to me!" The little girl was so smug she nearly got a nosebleed.
"You exploited a loophole. I'm clearly not in normal condition."
Tang Xiaoguo cocked her head, "Well I'm not either, I was just bitten by a poisonous snake you know, my body is weak and frail!"
Lu Zhe held up his fingers, "Humph! Xiaoguo if you keep this up I won't be so courteous!"
Tang Xiaoguo quickly made a shushing gesture, "Shh, you can take advantage of me if you want, but keep it down or Ning Shu will find out and that won't be good!"
Lu Zhe was speechless. If she flirted with him any more he really wouldn't be able to hold back.
Under normal circumstances he could ignore it.
But this really wasn't the time!
It would only accelerate his blood flow, completely unhelpful in fighting off the snake venom.
He made an effort to calm himself down, and asked Tang Xiaoguo to endure this final hour.
"Xiaoguo!" He put his hands on her shoulders,
"Listen, Brother Zhe is exhausted and can hardly stay awake. I'll leave the honorable yet grueling task of keeping watch to you. At four o'clock, wake me up!"
Since Tang Xiaoguo's watch was left back at camp, Lu Zhe put his own watch on her wrist.
Then he lay down next to Ning Shu and fell asleep.
"Hey! Making a sick person keep watch?"
Tang Xiaoguo sighed disappointedly and angrily kicked Lu Zhe's bottom with her little foot.
Seeing he didn't react, she hesitated, then took off his shoes and put his feet in the leaf-filled pit.
Tang Xiaoguo glanced at the two shining points flickering in the distance.
She shivered and hugged her shoulders tightly.
She checked herself—the wound on her chest had regained color, her body temperature was a bit high, but she felt like she was gradually recovering!
July 14th, their 35th day stranded on this deserted island!
After being bitten by a snake for the second time, Tang Xiaoguo had finally managed to survive 12 hours!
At four in the morning, she shook Lu Zhe awake, "It's time..."
Lu Zhe quickly rolled over and sat up, "Xiaoguo, great, you made it through!"
Ning Shu also rubbed her eyes and sat up, "You're okay now?"
Lu Zhe nodded, "Should be out of the woods now. But we have to be careful from now on and deal with poisonous snakes properly if we encounter them again."
"Xiaoguo, drink some water and get some rest!"
"Mm..." Tang Xiaoguo nodded absently, "Why does it smell like the herbal mosquito repellant?"
This sudden question left Lu Zhe a bit confused, but then he understood what Tang Xiaoguo meant.
"What did you do with that stuff?"
"Huh? I didn't lose it!"
"Then why did you eat it?"
"Was it poisonous?"
"No..."
"Was there salt in it?"
"A little..."
"Protein?"
"Yes..."
Tang Xiaoguo tilted her head, "Then why couldn't I eat it?"
Ning Shu listened in complete bewilderment. "What on earth are you two talking about?"
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!
lan, the Luo family, tracked him down - along with the babies in their arms. Mo Xuan stared pensively at the paternity test results from over a dozen top institutions, both domestic and international, showing a 99.99% match between himself and the two baby girls. At 23, Mo Xuan, a doctoral student, had become the father of two three-year-old children. The kicker? The mothers weren't even the same person! He gradually realized he was being lured step by step into an elaborate trap designed by these two yandere sisters. "Be good, little Xuan. Sister's life belongs to you entirely." "Brother, if you try to run away, I'll have no choice but to tie you up." Mo Xuan: "Do whatever you want, ladies. I give up."
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...
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.
