This series of inexplicable actions completely puzzled Tang Xiaoguo, "Brother, are you... messing with fresh water?"
"Why not?"
Tang Xiaoguo rubbed his eyes, "Digging snake holes, throwing away lamb chops, clearly having nothing to do with fresh water!"
"Young and shallow girl, how long will it take for you to learn to draw inferences from one instance?"
Tang Xiaoguo looked at her chest and angrily punched him, "Who's shallow?"
"Shh, don't speak!"
Just then, a monkey cautiously descended from the tree.
It looked around, seeing no one, and quickly ran to the small cave, sniffed, and then cautiously peered inside.
Then, it looked around again and reached its paw inside to grab something.
But the lamb chop was too big, it couldn't pull it out after gripping it tightly. The more it struggled, the tighter it got stuck, and the monkey became anxious, screeching incessantly!
"Now is the time!" Lu Zhe calmly walked over, taking out a noose.
The monkey was startled when it saw Lu Zhe, becoming more panicked. The more it hurried, the more flustered its heart became, and it couldn't remember to let go of the food in its hand!
Then, Lu Zhe bound it up!
Tang Xiaoguo pondered and asked, "Are you going to drink monkey blood?"
"Of course not, that's too cruel."
Then, he patted the monkey's head and gently said, "Don't be afraid, I'm a good person!"
The monkey seemed to believe him, grinning and screeching non-stop!
Lu Zhe smiled, patiently saying, "Are you hungry? I'll give you something to eat!"
Saying that, he took out a piece of rock salt from his pocket and handed it to the monkey.
The monkey was a little surprised, it hadn't expected this person to be so friendly.
It hesitantly took the salt and took a few bites!
Salty!
But delicious!
It felt even more appetizing than the salt it had picked from its companion's fur, so it greedily continued to eat!
Lu Zhe occasionally handed it a small piece of lamb meat, watching it eat with a smiling face.
The monkey had never eaten such a flavor before in its entire life, and its whole monkey existence was elevated.
But as it ate, the monkey began to feel something was wrong.
It started scratching its tongue from time to time, torn between the deliciousness of the salt and whether to continue eating.
Lu Zhe felt it was about time, so he patted the monkey's shoulder.
"Is it tasty?"
"Ga-ga..."
"Well, as long as you enjoy it!" He stood up. "I'm leaving now, we might meet again someday!"
Saying that, he walked away with a bewildered Tang Xiaoguo.
The monkey was a bit panicked, staying in place and pulling at the rope around its neck, screeching loudly as if trying to remind Lu Zhe of something!
But Lu Zhe ignored it, humming a tune and disappearing from its view once again.
The monkey struggled internally, using its mouth to bite the rope, only to find that the rope was also unbelievably salty!
After a few struggles, it finally took the plunge, enduring the excessively salty taste, biting through the rope, and then darting out, running in one direction!
From the depths, Lu Zhe said, "Now is the time?"
Holding Tang Xiaoguo's hand, Lu Zhe followed the direction in which the monkey had run, finally finding a water source in a mountain stream one kilometer away.
There was a small waterfall and a rocky pool, and the monkey squatted there, licking its tongue.
Tang Xiaoguo finally understood Lu Zhe's true intention for doing this.
"Hey, Lu Zhe, isn't this idea too cruel?"
"This is a method used by indigenous people in Africa to find water sources. By giving salt to the monkeys and then letting them go, we only need to follow the straight distance the monkeys run, and we can usually find a water source! This is about survival, it doesn't matter if it's cruel or not!"
Saying that, Lu Zhe grabbed the back of the monkey's neck and threw it with force!
"Squeak..." A piercing monkey cry echoed in the air as it drew a beautiful arc and flew into the dense jungle!
Silence fell!
They could finally drink water comfortably.
Lu Zhe and Tang Xiaoguo drank their fill from the flowing water of the waterfall, filled all the containers with fresh water, and finally satisfied, they washed their bodies.
"It's been a long time since I drank water so refreshingly..."
"Yeah, it's just a pity about this bottle of Fairy Water!"
Tang Xiaoguo exclaimed, "It's not a pity at all, right?"
But Lu Zhe still poured it out, rinsed it, and filled it with fresh water!
"It's a pity that Qianqian and Yaoyao didn't get to drink fresh water."
Lu Zhe thought for a moment, "It's okay, let's go back and call Qianqian and Yaoyao to drink water, fill all the containers with water, and then leave on the sheepskin raft."
"That's the plan!"
With a decision made, the two of them retraced their steps, taking all the containers to replenish their water supply in the mountain stream.
At this moment, the mother kangaroo stood up.
Lu Zhe sighed, indeed, the vitality of wild animals in the wilderness was stronger than he had imagined.
"Alright, you can leave now!"
But the kangaroo didn't leave. Instead, it walked over and sat down at Lu Zhe's feet!
Lu Zhe unscrewed a bottle and carefully poured it out, letting the kangaroo lick it up.
The sight of Lu Zhe caressing the kangaroo's mother while feeding it water touched the three girls' hearts. They couldn't help but be moved!
They didn't expect Lu Zhe to have such a loving side.
It seems that killing animals is sometimes just a matter of emergency, and kindness is his true nature.
"You can leave too, take your babies with you! Otherwise, if I get hungry, I might eat all of you!"
Lu Zhe said calmly.
The mother kangaroo shook its head and sniffed Lu Zhe's hand with its mouth!
Lu Zhe felt helpless, luckily it was just a wild animal.
If it were a young woman with two children, it would really be hard to say.
Lin Qianqian said, "It doesn't look very fierce, why don't you keep it?"
Lu Zhe nodded, "Okay, considering the 500 yuan and the banner, I'll give you a name when we get back, and you can come with me."
The kangaroo remained silent, clutching its two babies and following behind him.
Along the way, the group chatted casually.
"If we can catch a male kangaroo, can we reproduce and continue?"
Lu Zhe nodded, "That's right, but it's not easy to catch one! This one was saved by us, but other kangaroos usually avoid us like the plague!"
Jiang Yao said, "It's strange. Why would there be Tasmanian wolves here?"
Lu Zhe pondered for a moment and replied, "Actually, it's not difficult to understand. Tasmanian wolves are unique to Australia and New Guinea. While this place is quite far from Australia, it's not far from the island of New Guinea. It's not impossible for some of the island's creatures to end up on this small deserted island due to certain circumstances."
Lin Qianqian also contemplated and added, "It's also possible that, like the wild buffalo and Komodo dragons on volcanic islands, these Tasmanian wolves were deliberately introduced here by humans. The wolf population in their native habitat went extinct due to human hunting, but here, far away from humans, they were able to quietly reproduce and have continued to thrive until now."
The four people, accompanied by the mother wolf and her two wolf cubs, arrived at the mountain stream.
At that moment, a limping monkey emerged from the forest. Judging from its disheveled appearance, it seemed to have gone through a series of arduous trials and tribulations.
However, Lu Zhe didn't want it to disturb them, so he grabbed it by the back and tossed it back into the jungle.
. 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!"
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ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
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.
