"The Devil Flyer?"
"What's that?"
"A strange monster that appeared in Southeast Asia before!"
"How could there be such a thing?"
Lu Zhe was also drenched in a cold sweat. For him, it didn't matter what was invading. What mattered was that the aircraft was a treasure, and once it was damaged, no amount of money could bring it back to repair.
He quickly turned the camera to observe the attacker.
It was a black bird with a long tail, flying away gracefully, making a turn in the sky, and then charging toward the aircraft again.
He saw clearly now, it was just a bird!
"A frigate bird?"
"No, frigate birds' feathers can't get wet. They wouldn't risk hunting in the rain!"
"Then what is it?"
Shen Bing stared at the screen intently: "It looks a bit like a skua!"
"A skua?"
"Aren't they polar birds?"
"The long-tailed skua and the South Polar skua occasionally make it to Southeast Asia as well!" Shen Bing said with some uncertainty, then added, "Right, Lu Zhe?"
How would Lu Zhe know? He had no idea what it was without touching it, so he just said vaguely, "Uh-huh, yeah...right!"
But he really wasn't in the mood to think about what kind of bird it was.
He was now gripping the controls tightly, judging the trajectory of its next attack!
When the bird was about ten meters away from the aircraft, he suddenly tilted the aircraft upward, simultaneously turning on the spotlights and shining two beams of light at the bird.
The bird, caught off guard by the sudden illumination, flailed about in the sky for a while before regaining its composure.
It was curious to try and grab the aircraft again, but saw it rapidly descending towards a large banyan tree!
Seeing the thing flying lower and lower, it was tempted to give up, but its intense hunger drove it to continue pursuing.
Lu Zhe knew the aircraft's flight speed was too slow to shake off its relentless hunter, so he handed the controls over to Shen Bing:
"Bing Jie, you take over the controls. I'll shoot it down!"
With that, he took out a Type 52 pistol, checked the magazine and bullets, pushed it back in, and took off the safety.
Shen Bing took the controls: "Hey, I think our roles might be reversed here?"
"What do you mean?"
"Shouldn't you be flying the plane while I do the shooting?"
Lu Zhe turned back and said, "Do you think you could hit it with one shot?"
Shen Bing felt a little sheepish: "I can barely see it clearly, who could guarantee hitting it..."
Lu Zhe nodded, walked to the entrance, and raised his gun!
Shen Bing sighed helplessly.
Whatever...
Boys do like guns!
Let him play with it, it's just wasting two bullets...
"Hey, aim carefully, don't hit the plane..."
"Bang!"
Before Shen Bing could finish, the gunshot rang out!
The skua let out an "Ohh" sound, violently shuddered, then plummeted straight down, crashing into a bare tree branch and getting stuck there!
Shen Bing's mouth fell open, her pretty face filled with disbelief.
"You've fired a handgun before..."
"What makes you say that? I've never fired a handgun before!"
"Then how were you so accurate?"
"My master taught me well!"
"Who's your master?"
Lu Zhe took off the safety and smiled faintly: "You forgot? You taught me yourself, Bing Jie!"
Shen Bing's pretty face turned red!
She should have remembered the scene of teaching Lu Zhe how to shoot, but instead, another scene appeared in her mind.
"You're a fast learner."
Ning Shu said blankly, "What predatory words."
Jiang Yao nodded, "Completely out of pace."
Lin Qianqian said softly, "I didn't quite understand what they were saying."
Tang Xiaoguo also nodded, "I'm too young, I don't get it either!"
Shen Bing praised, "But Lu Zhe, you're just too gifted, your shooting was way too accurate!"
"Never mind that, the aircraft is about to hit the tree!"
"Oh no!"
Shen Bing quickly maneuvered the aircraft, barely stabilizing it beside the banyan tree.
There were faint "Ohh Ohh" sounds coming from the sky, evidently there was more than one skua in the night sky.
Lu Zhe jumped down, braving the rain to pick up the skua. Sure enough, information about the long-tailed skua came into his mind!
It seemed Shen Bing was right.
If this was inland, killing one of these birds would land you in prison for eight to ten years.
But here, it didn't matter. He'd just take it back and roast it to try its flavor.
Lin Qianqian sketched a rough overhead view of the island, and Lu Zhe finally realized that the area they had explored so far didn't even cover one-fifth of the island.
But the sketch was still too rough.
What should they do next?
They had only flown for less than 5 minutes, but according to the manual, this aircraft could fly for 40 minutes on a full charge.
Without using any spotlights, it could fly for an hour.
They had used 5 minutes, and the display showed 70% battery remaining, so without using the spotlights, they could probably fly for about half an hour more.
"Too many skuas, we can't go to the beach!"
"To the jungle?"
"We can't go too far, let's go to the volcano bottom!"
"Alright, let's check on our little garden!"
The group unanimously agreed.
Ning Shu's hands were itching: "Let me operate it for a bit."
Shen Bing handed her the controls.
Watching the footage from the camera, Ning Shu steadily operated the aircraft, flying over the dense jungle.
Among the lush foliage, occasional branch movements could be seen, probably monkeys or squirrels foraging.
It seemed they were also taking advantage of the light rain to look for food.
Ning Shu carefully maneuvered the aircraft, not wanting to attract the attention of other animals. Soon they reached the lake.
The camp was only a few hundred meters from the lake, but normally they would have to trek through the jungle to get there, which took longer. With the aircraft, they arrived in less than five minutes.
Ning Shu circled the aircraft over the lake, spotting wading birds on one shallow end of the shore. To avoid unnecessary trouble, Lu Zhe told her to keep some distance from those birds.
Then they followed the tree line, flying up towards the mountain ridge and ascending over the dense jungle all the way to the volcano's mouth.
The higher they went, the sparser the vegetation became. About thirty meters from the volcano's mouth, there was almost no vegetation left, only various rocks and rubble scattered around.
"The minerals here must be great!"
"If we're lucky, we might even find diamonds!"
"Does that mean we could open a jewelry store later?"
"If we can't cut and polish gems, even if we find diamonds, we could only use them to cut glass!"
Looking down over the volcano's mouth, it was a perfect circular geological formation, as if they had arrived on a new planet.
They carefully descended, passing through vegetation at different heights, getting a clearer view as they went lower into the denser foliage.
"What kind of tree is that? It's so tall!"
"Wow, so many bird's nests, we should get a ladder next time!"
"Be careful, with all the plants, don't get caught in the trees."
"Got it!"
"Look, there's our bird's nest!"
"Haha, my idea!"
Just then, some branches in front of them moved, and a dark figure appeared on the screen!
Everyone immediately tensed up!
"What is that?"
"A wild man?"
"No, have you ever seen a wild man covered in hair, with arms longer than legs?"
"It's King Kong!"
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)
iaobai: "Councilor Dad, front me some funds. I want to hire ten thousand professional miners for a project!" [Five-Star Mission Issued: Capture the leader of the Blood Heaven Pirate Gang, who is on the run in the Radiant Star Sector. It is said the gang has over a hundred members. Proceed with caution.] Lu Xiaobai: "Councilor Dad, lend me the family's hundred-thousand-strong Lu Army!" [Seven-Star Mission Issued: Subdue a juvenile Void Dragon Beast.] Lu Xiaobai: "Councilor Dad, I'm taking your tamed Void Dragon Beast King out for a family reunion!" I said, System, don't you have any slightly more challenging missions? You're just not up to par! [Nine-Star Mission Issued: Become the Human Councilor.] Lu Xiaobai: "Dad, there's a small matter I'd like to discuss with you..."
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.
. 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!"
