The paper books were not damp, which showed that this laptop bag was waterproof!
That meant the laptop might still be usable!
But what use would a laptop be for surviving in the wild?
Let's see if it works first before saying anything!
Lu Zhe heaved a sigh of relief and pressed the power button!
Two seconds later, the screen actually lit up!
The girls high-fived each other in celebration!
"We can play games now!"
"Only if there are offline games!"
"I wonder if there are any movies on it!"
"It would be best if there was a whole set of TV shows!"
"Hey, my beauties, be rational. We all watch things online now. Who would download movies onto their laptop! Even if it works, it won't last long since we don't have any way to charge it!" Tang Xiaoguo said.
Lu Zhe sighed, "Xiaoguo, we could catch all the crocodiles on this island and it still wouldn't be enough for you to watch Empresses in the Palace!"
Tang Xiaoguo nodded, "Is farming crocodiles the only way forward?"
"Not necessarily crocodiles!"
Shen Bing thought for a moment, "We could also make soil batteries, lead acid batteries, seawater and charcoal can also store electricity!"
Lu Zhe nodded, "Batteries aren't hard to make. The key issue isn't the power source, but stable voltage! Otherwise it would break after using it for a while. I'm even a bit worried that Class Monitor's phone won't last long!"
Ning Shu said, "No way, my phone's new!"
"Even new phones will have reduced lifespan!"
As they spoke, the laptop had started up!
Lu Zhe operated the touchpad mouse, checking the computer's programs. The girls all crowded around to watch.
Lu Zhe nodded, "The battery is full, must be a girl's laptop!"
Ning Shu asked curiously, "How can you tell?"
"Such a high-end laptop, full of messy bundled software, and a bird wallpaper!"
Ning Shu was taken aback, "Is that...weird?"
"Isn't it?"
"Let's see what games there are!"
Lu Zhe read off the screen, "...PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, League of Legends, Leap Day, Plants vs Zombies...not bad, quite a few games she knows how to play..."
Jiang Yao exclaimed, "Wow, the games are exactly the same as the ones on my laptop!"
Tang Xiaoguo happily said, "Haha, we can play offline games now!"
"Don't even think about it!"
Lu Zhe opened the laptop's drive, searching bit by bit, "We should look for useful information with this little battery left! Her major might have critical knowledge for our survival!"
Lin Qianqian nodded, "Right, a medical student would have nursing materials, a fashion design student would have cutting and textiles information! Civil engineering would have surveying and mapping data!"
Lu Zhe nodded approvingly, "Not bad, Class Monitor is still focused on the right things!"
Jiang Yao asked, "So what's her major then?"
After searching around, Lu Zhe finally found a lot of professional courses that identified her major!
"Damn, philosophy!"
The girls were all speechless!
"Everything from Socrates to Hegel, very thorough!"
"Might as well have some cookbooks on here instead!"
"As useless as useless gets!"
Check the other drives!
There were some Korean and Japanese dramas and movies that brought some comfort to the girls.
This made Lu Zhe even more certain that this was a girl's laptop!
Guys usually wouldn't download ordinary movies onto their computers. If they wanted to watch something, they'd just stream it online.
The precious SSD space was usually reserved for higher quality videos worth rewatching many times.
"Lu Zhe, there's nothing useful on this laptop?"
"If you girls stay mentally sound, then the content in this laptop is indeed useless!"
Tang Xiaoguo blinked her big, hopeful eyes, "Then can we watch a movie?"
"Well..."
Lu Zhe was about to refuse, but then thought:
With the lack of useful data and no reliable way to charge it, once the battery ran out it would be no different from the laptop being broken.
Although if they had a suitable charging device, it would still be quite useful.
But there would be no need to worry about running out of battery then!
Just recharge it when it gets low!
So they might as well let the girls relax for now!
"Alright, fine! But no recharging when the battery runs out, the power banks need to save battery for the Class Monitor's phone!"
The girls happily said, "We know!"
Then they chattered lively about picking a movie!
Since they could only watch one, it had to be a quality film.
Jiang Yao wanted to finally watch the zombie movie Alive, Qianqian wanted to see My Love from the Star, Ning Shu picked Dream Horse, Xiaoguo wanted Monsters University, but they couldn't agree and argued loudly without deciding. Finally they asked Sister Bing!
Sister Bing glanced over the list and pointed at one: "This one!"
It was none other than the survival treasure, Cast Away!
At that time and place, no other movie could resonate with them as much as that one!
"Take notes on any survival knowledge from the movie, it might help us!"
The girls all looked at each other and nodded.
They finally agreed!
By then, the instant noodles were cooked, even with ham!
The long-lost aroma filled the air.
Night had fallen. The friends either held seashells or bamboo tubes, eating steaming hot noodles while watching Tom Hanks talk and chat with a volleyball in his loneliness.
Shen Bing thought back to her own days when she first got stranded on the island. She was even more desperate than the movie's protagonist!
And now here she was, able to pick clothes that fit her, drinking beverages and eating noodles while watching a movie together with partners she would live and die with!
It had been so difficult to get here today!
As she watched, she couldn't help sobbing!
The other girls didn't feel as much.
"Why doesn't he just open all the packages?"
"You don't understand, that represents duty and hope!"
"Why doesn't he look through his poop for seeds?"
...
Shen Bing smiled wryly!
These lovely children!
If not for getting stranded with Lu Zhe, it would be impressive if you could even survive, let alone accomplish what the movie protagonist did!
Yet the movie still resonated deeply with everyone.
"It's so good to be alive!"
"It's so great to have friends!"
...
Mist shrouded the sea, fish swam around underwater.
It seemed the searing hot temperatures had not drained all the fish of their vitality. They were still struggling to adapt to the environment!
After a while, the girls grew tired and lay down to sleep on the bamboo raft's grass mats.
"Sister Bing, you sleep too!"
Shen Bing smiled, "You sleep, we still have to continue salvaging supplies tomorrow. I'll keep watch tonight!"
Still have to keep salvaging supplies...
Lu Zhe looked worriedly at the clothes hanging all over the raft, plus the dozen suitcases and packages.
He sighed, "What if we can't carry everything back in one trip after salvaging it all? If we leave it behind, it'll have to soak in the water again for a while!"
He pondered, then said, "We need to figure out a way to have the best of both worlds!"
rowess are unmatched, commanding a million-strong army! Yet, the Emperor wants to depose him for the sake of a false prince? Hold on, are you throwing me into some female-oriented romance plot? How can I tolerate this? With a grand wave of his hand—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! Slander the Emperor? Very well, all of you shall die! ... The False Prince: "Although I am not the biological son, Father and Mother love me more. The throne should be mine!" The Female Lead: "Qin Xiao, you are the Emperor, and I am a commoner. If you wish to marry me, you must abdicate. Otherwise, you will never have me!" The Empress: "After we divorce, you must give me half the empire!" The Transmigrator Consort: "You worthless Emperor, why should I kneel to you? All men are equal—I advise you to be kind!" The Great General: "The enemy general is my childhood sweetheart. For her sake, I willingly abandon the frontier defenses!" The Retired Emperor: "Although Yu'er was adopted, I prefer him. Qin Xiao, you should abdicate and let him become Emperor!" ... Very well! So this is how you want to play? Facing this twisted world of female-oriented tropes, Qin Xiao grins and raises his hand to unleash—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! I am the Emperor. Why would I bother reasoning with you? Seal the gates! Leave none alive!
transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”
. As long as he maintains the villain image and follows the plot to the grand finale, he can obtain generous rewards and return to the real world. So Gu Chen'an entered the role and began to act as a scumbag villain, but who would have expected that the female leads could hear his inner thoughts. Miss Su from the Su family was shocked: "I originally thought Gu Chen'an was a scumbag, but I didn't expect he turned out to be a gentleman! What? You said I have to call off the engagement? I definitely won't, I'll piss you off!" Bai Yuan Tian was dumbfounded: "Young Master Gu is usually unreasonable and a complete brat, but he actually calls me little sweetie in his heart? What, Young Master Gu even said he likes me?" As the female leads' images collapsed more and more, the plot also collapsed with it. Gu Chen'an looked at all this chaos. "Ladies, don't aggro me, if you keep this up the male lead really will stab me, I still need to survive to the grand finale!"
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.
