Lu Zhe was just as shocked to see a giant panda or golden snub-nosed monkey here. Its slender body, jackal-like face, and long tail like a snake, with a slightly bulging abdomen.
At first they thought it was a thin dog, but when they saw the black spots on its back and butt, they were all stunned.
"Hey, this animal looks familiar..."
"From a textbook..."
"This thing, I think it's called... thylacine!"
There was some excitement in Lu Zhe's eyes: "That's right, it's a thylacine!"
"Isn't it a prehistoric creature?"
"What prehistoric, it only went extinct a few decades ago!"
Extinct a few decades ago is still extinct!
A species that went extinct in Australia and New Guinea, yet discovered alive here. No wonder you would be excited!
Lu Zhe looked at his gun, tucked it into his waistband, then pounced at it. However, this thylacine was extremely sensitive. At the moment Lu Zhe pounced at it, it actually jumped to the side, as fast as lightning.
After dodging Lu Zhe's pounce, it still didn't want to give up the food in front of it. Baring its teeth, it made a "hissing" sound. This was slightly different from the way ordinary canines would threaten.
Lu Zhe looked at it, trying to make his eyes as gentle and friendly as possible: "Don't be afraid, I'm a good guy..."
Hearing Lu Zhe say that, the thylacine inexplicably shuddered, then the threatening sound stopped abruptly. It turned around and disappeared into the woods.
Lu Zhe realized its movement was as agile as the clouded leopards on Volcano Island.
Lu Zhe sighed, "It doesn't seem good at socializing."
Tang Xiaoguo said, "Should we go after it?"
"Why chase it?"
"Hey, this is a thylacine that's been extinct for decades!"
"Yes, then what?"
"Catch one and take it back to sell, we'll make a fortune!"
"Then spend a lot of time and effort catching it, instead of taking care of Sister Bing and the Class Monitor?"
"Well..." Tang Xiaoguo was speechless.
Lu Zhe pondered and said, "I don't blame you. When I first saw this thing, I also wanted to catch it! But when I think about it calmly, I realize that discovering an extinct species is important, but compared to companions, it's as light as a feather! Sister Bing and Class Monitor, as well as you all, are just as important."
The three girls looked at each other and felt their own importance in Lu Zhe's heart.
"Our top priority now is to go back to Volcano Island. If we happen to catch one or two... we'll have to hand it over to the country. Most likely a $500 bonus plus a pennant of honor!"
"Huh?" Tang Xiaoguo was a little disappointed.
Jiang Yao said, "It's not as good as selling crab-eating macaques. There are plenty of them on Volcano Island. It is the most suitable non-human primate to replace humans for animal testing. Europe and America are looking everywhere to buy them, several thousand dollars a piece."
Tang Xiaoguo was shocked: "Wow, I don't need to ask my dad for money anymore!"
Lin Qianqian worriedly said, "Isn't it illegal to trade wildlife?"
"What if it’s not within our territory? ...Well, I’ll have to ask Sister Bing about this later!"
Lu Zhe figured he probably wouldn't encounter the thylacine again for a while, so he calmly continued with the task at hand!
The sheep they captured was a ram. Looking at the place pierced by the thylacine's sharp teeth, it was above the neck and didn't affect skinning the whole hide for the raft!
Give it a imaginary lunch of tender strawberries, then humanely kill it.
Lu Zhe first cut off the lower legs of the limbs, then tied three legs tightly with ropes.
Then he poked a small hole in the skin at the broken leg stump of the front right leg, and blew air in from here. As he blew, he slapped the sheep's body to separate the skin from the flesh.
He tried for three minutes, and the skin was actually blown open. Then Lu Zhe started vomiting!
"Damn, too freaking fishy, you guys try..."
The three girls all came over to smell it and ran away before even trying.
"Is this something humans do?"
"Why blow into this?"
Lu Zhe explained, "With this process, it won't be easy to damage the skin when pulling it off. Professional raft makers have extremely strong lung capacity. Their cheeks can swell up like frogs."
Tang Xiaoguo pondered, "Hmm, no wonder ‘blowing cowhide’ comes from this!"
Jiang Yao said, "That’s blowing cowhide, this is blowing sheepskin, how can they be the same?"
Lin Qianqian gently explained, "Actually there really is a connection! I read in a book that people along the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers not only make sheepskin rafts, but also cowhide rafts. Sheepskin can be blown up, no matter how hard you blow, cowhide can’t be blown up. Saying you can blow up cowhide means you're lying!
Over time, people in that area used ‘blowing cowhide’ to refer to people who lie. It then spread out from there."
Tang Xiaoguo and Jiang Yao looked at each other. "Strange knowledge +1!"
Lu Zhe also knew that not to mention these three girls blowing it up, even ordinary adults would have a hard time, so it looks like he had to do this himself.
After resting for a while, he continued blowing!
Half an hour later, it was finally almost done.
Then he cut open the sheep's butt and started pulling the sheepskin from the back to the front little by little. In no time at all, a whole sheepskin was pulled off.
Then the leg hair took up another afternoon.
"Is that it?"
"This is just the first step. It still needs to be dehaired, oiled, salted, inflated, stitched, and sun dried, more than a dozen steps in total."
"So how long would it take to make a raft following all the steps?"
"At least three months!"
"Three months? Sister Bing and the Class Monitor would go crazy!"
Lu Zhe nodded, "So we can't follow the normal procedures!"
Lin Qianqian said, "What problems would there be not following the normal procedures?"
"Although untreated sheepskin rafts are also very sturdy, air will leak through the pores."
Jiang Yao worried, "You mean this raft could sink halfway?"
"To be frank, yes!" Lu Zhe said lightly. "But we can modify it to solve the air leak issue."
"How to modify it?"
"We can put empty plastic bottles inside the sheepskin raft!"
Lin Qianqian's eyes lit up: "Empty bottles can provide buoyancy but are prone to scattering. The new skin may leak some air but it can ensure the bottles don't scatter."
"That’s right, that’s it!"
The other two girls seemed to vaguely understand, and then started discussing how to eat this sheep.
At dusk, the second sheep was caught!
At that time, it was on a cliff thirty meters away looking at Lu Zhe. Lu Zhe raised his gun and shot it directly in the skull. It fell straight from the cliff, convulsed and died.
Lu Zhe figured no animals would come around to make trouble for a while.
While eating roasted lamb and drinking boiled lamb soup, the thylacine came again.
It was no longer as agile as before. Covered in scratches and wounds, it staggered out of the woods, blood flowing continuously from its mouth. It seemed to be at the end of its life.
This made Lu Zhe feel somewhat surprised.
Then it crawled to Lu Zhe and collapsed in front of him. The way it looked at Lu Zhe seemed to be pleading!
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.
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
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.
ver to a world of cultivation and returned invincible. Modern medicine is child's play compared to elixirs; technological might crumbles before true cultivation. My name is Qin Ning, Earth's sole cultivator!
