The two of them walked through the dark passage of the hot spring water together, with their tight-fitting clothes sticking to their bodies. As they entered the cave, Lu Zhe pointed at the bottom and said:
"Xiaoguo, we can consider the bottom of this volcanic cave to be a planet. There are two pools of water in the north and south, a bit like the North and South poles - darker and relatively cooler. The east-west line is like the equator, which gets the most sunlight in the entire cave bottom. Our goal is to clear a piece of land there, about 100 square meters, to grow more delicate crops."
"Oh...strawberries, watermelons, passion fruit?"
"And that sweet potato vine. I still haven't found a second one on the island, it's a very important resource."
"It's been so long, won't it have died?!"
"Although it's a bit dried up, it probably hasn't. You have to understand, the first sweet potato vine that came to our country was woven into ropes brought back from the Philippines, which resolved a major famine during the Ming dynasty."
"Do we have to chop all of this 200 meter sunlight strip down?"
Lu Zhe shook his head: "There are also many important plants growing on this sunlight strip, we have to choose a place with fewer important plants that is also easy to chop down. First clear out about 100 square meters, then chop down all the nearby tall plants that block the sunlight, to ensure maximum sunlight every day. Once we've taken care of that, then we can consider everything else."
"That means chopping down so many trees, even more tiring than Bald Qiang!"
Lu Zhe put his arm around Tang Xiaoguo's shoulders: "Hehe, Bald Qiang only had two meddlesome bears, but I have a beautiful maiden accompanying me, so my motivation to work is different!"
Flattered by Lu Zhe's praise, Tang Xiaoguo smiled shyly: "Hey, can I ask, back in school, did you ever like me?"
"Not at all!" Lu Zhe shook his head frankly: "I feel that feelings need to be slowly nurtured. Only feelings that have undergone trials of separation and death are truly sincere, otherwise it's just child's play."
"I should be unhappy hearing you say that, but I just can't get mad. What should I do?"
"No no, you have to get mad! Angry Tang Xiaoguo is the most fun!" As he spoke, Lu Zhe stretched out his hand and squeezed her little mouth into a pig snout.
"Bad Lu Zhe, I'm going to bite you!"
"Alright, Xiaoguo, if nothing unexpected happens, we'll be spending the night here tonight. I'm about to start my arduous life of lumberjacking, everything else will have to rely on my beloved empress!"
"Fine...what should we eat in a bit? Oh right, Lu Zhe, what do you want to eat? I'll make it for you!"
"Dumplings with three delicacies filling plus western-style steak, best if there's also Australian lobster, with a couple bulbs of garlic. For drinks, kumis would be fine!"
"There's none of that stuff here!"
"That's why, the simpler the better, we're on a deserted island after all. As long as we can replenish protein and carbs, that's good enough. We should spend the rest of our energy making the temporary camp more comfortable!"
After circling around the volcanic bottom back and forth, Lu Zhe finally selected a location 20 meters southeast of the center.
Then he started chopping.
Tang Xiaoguo built a temporary shelter 20 meters south of this location.
This was the first time Tang Xiaoguo built a shelter alone. She didn't want to lose face, so she was inevitably a bit nervous.
What kind of shelter should she build?
The little girl was a bit stumped.
A hammock plus roof?
No way, tying on a roof means climbing trees, but she was too short and simply couldn't climb up.
Then...
Lay leaves directly on the ground?
Wouldn't that be cold?!
Just then, she heard a "swish swish" sound as a 10-meter tall tree came crashing down, scattering parrots in all directions.
Clearly chopped down by Lu Zhe.
Tang Xiaoguo was startled for a moment. She poked her head out to take a look, and saw a bird's nest fall out.
She walked over and picked up the bird's nest to examine it closely, when her eyes suddenly lit up.
In that moment, she had new inspiration for building the shelter.
grated, and just when he finally managed to get into an elite academy, he discovered that he actually had a system, and the way to earn rewards was extremely ridiculous. So for the sake of rewards, he had no choice but to start acting ridiculous as well. Su Cheng: "It's nothing but system quests after all." But later, what confused Su Cheng was that while he was already quite ridiculous, he never expected those serious characters to gradually become ridiculous too. And the way they looked at him became increasingly strange... (This synopsis doesn't do it justice, please read the full story)
e school belle recognized by the whole school, a genius girl from the kendo club. She also has a hidden identity, the youngest legendary demon hunter. Chen Shuo just transmigrated and found himself turned into a weak, helpless little vampire. He was caught by Su Xiyen and taken home at the very beginning. Since then, Chen Shuo's life creed only had two items. "First, classmate Su Xiyen is always right." "Second, if classmate Su Xiyen is wrong, please refer back to item one." Many years later, Chen Shuo, who had turned back into a human, led a pair of twins to appear in front of all the vampires to share the secret of how he turned back into a human. "It's simple, I tricked a female demon hunter into becoming my wife!"
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.
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.
