Jiang Yao said, "Forget it, I won't go and cause trouble for everyone. I'll stay in the camp and tend the fire!"
Tang Xiaoguo had originally wanted to go, but when she heard what Jiang Yao said, she also said, "Then I won't go either. I'll continue distilling fresh water!"
Lu Zhe nodded, "There doesn't need to be too many people to go salvaging. Someone should stay back to take care of the two patients. I can go by myself today!"
"No!" Ning Shu shook her head, "Although you're a boy, going alone could still be dangerous! Or...why don't I go with you!"
"Okay, let me get ready first."
"What else is there to prepare?"
Lu Zhe placed the dried, distilled salt on the rocks and crushed it into a fine powder, then put the salt powder into a bottle.
"You'll see in a bit!"
Lu Zhe and Ning Shu walked side by side on the beach in the evening dusk, watching the sunset dye the sea surface red, and stretch their shadows long.
This put Ning Shu in a bit of a good mood, and she suddenly had the urge to hold the hand of the boy in front of her!
But soon, she shook her head.
She silently told herself:
What am I thinking about!
How can I be thinking about such silly things when we're trying to survive?
I'm the class leader, I can't be as boy crazy as Yao Yao and Guo Er!
But as she glanced at Lu Zhe from the side, she felt that the boy in front of her was handsome and refined. The more she looked, the better looking he became!
It seems Guo Er does have good taste after all.
If not for his slight perverted tendencies, he really could make for a good boyfriend!
Clearly, both Yao Yao and Guo Er are interested in him, so who does he prefer?
Or if he doesn't like either of them, could it be he likes someone else?
Shallowly, or perhaps...me?
Why not just ask him, if he had to choose one of us four girls to be his girlfriend, who would he pick?
"Hey...Lu Zhe!" Ning Shu hesitantly asked.
"What's up?"
"I want to ask you a question..."
Lu Zhe nodded, and earnestly said, "I know what you want to ask!"
Ning Shu's face turned a little red, "Then...would you mind telling me the answer?"
"Of course!"
"Okay, go ahead then."
Lu Zhe seriously said, "Watch closely!"
As he spoke, he pointed at a small hole in the sandy ground, "It's right here!"
Then he poured the crushed salt into the hole. Soon, a razor clam poked its head out!
Lu Zhe quickly grabbed it and slowly pulled it out, then waved it in front of Ning Shu, explaining, "See? This salt powder is used to catch these!"
Ning Shu gaped, the corner of her eye twitching, "This guy...thought I wanted to ask what the salt powder was used for?"
"Not every small hole will have razor clams. Some have sea snails, some hermit crabs, but they won't come out on their own. We have to dig them out!"
As Lu Zhe spoke, he dug and dug in another hole where no creature had emerged. Soon he dug out a sea snail.
He waved it and said, "Look!"
Ning Shu took it and looked it over. This sea snail was as big as a baby's fist, the biggest one they had caught since being stranded on this deserted island!
The milky white meat kept shrinking back into its shell, squirting out mouthfuls of seawater.
"Quite impressive!"
Lu Zhe nodded, "The class leader really gets it. They only think about silly things!"
Ning Shu smiled awkwardly. Just one minute ago, she had wanted to ask Lu Zhe a very silly question!
Given the circumstances, she'd better not ask anymore!
The two walked about two kilometers, picking up quite a few empty bottles, broken swimsuits, old slippers, plastic bags and other useful items along the way!
Lu Zhe also found a pile of seaweed with over twenty large and small scallops clinging to it!
In total, they had caught five razor clams, over twenty scallops, two sea snails, and a few sea stars!
Ning Shu wondered, "Sea stars can be eaten too?"
Lu Zhe nodded, "Of course!"
"Why didn't you say so earlier!"
Ning Shu immediately grabbed a plastic bag, ready to go pick sea stars all over the beach!
"Hey..."
Lu Zhe hurriedly stopped her, "You can't just casually pick sea stars!"
"Why not?"
"Only the females can be eaten!"
"How do you tell the males from the females?"
Lu Zhe picked up a sea star and pointed at the center of its underside, "Look at its mouth, the female is orange, the male white! And not all females can be eaten either, only those in breeding season, so you have to find heavy females!"
Ning Shu looked at the squirming, flower-like mouth, and her whole body felt uncomfortable.
They flipped over fifty to sixty sea stars before finding three suitable ones!
"It's really not that easy!"
Ning Shu grabbed her waist as she stood up. Just then, she spotted something unusual!
"A boat...a boat!"
When Lu Zhe heard her say there was a boat, he immediately rushed to the shore!
Far in the distance, a faint shadow seemed to linger out on the sea!
But they couldn't make out what it was!
Ning Shu desperately shouted at the top of her lungs!
Lu Zhe also shouted a few times, but soon realized something was off.
"Stop shouting, they can't hear us from that far away!"
"What do we do? We don't have any fire either?"
"Wait here, I'll climb a tree to take a look!"
Lu Zhe looked left and right, but there were no suitable trees to climb.
Left with no choice, he directly lifted Ning Shu, "Stand on my shoulders!"
"Oh...okay!"
Ning Shu acrobatically stood unsteadily on Lu Zhe's shoulders, while he held her ankles to help her keep balance!
Ning Shu shaded her eyes, squinting towards that area.
But at that very moment, the sun had already set behind the other side of the island!
The distance instantly became dark and murky, and they could no longer make out any clear features!
Ning Shu anxiously cried out, "How could the sun set at this time!"
Lu Zhe set her down, "The sun hasn't actually set below the horizon yet. We've turned to the other side of the small island, and are blocked by the high ground of the island!"
"Lu Zhe, was that a boat or not?"
Lu Zhe shook his head and honestly said, "To tell the truth, I don't know either!"
"What do we do now?"
"Two options, either wait here, or head back to camp."
"If we wait here, won't we freeze to death at night?"
Lu Zhe nodded.
Ning Shu went on,
"If we go back to camp...and miss getting rescued this time, we might lose our chance forever."
Lu Zhe nodded again, "However, we can make a distress signal here, then use small rocks to spell out our names, to show there are people here! We'll come back and check tomorrow!"
"Good idea! Hurry up then!"
The two put down everything in their hands and hurriedly gathered rocks to build markers!
After over half an hour of busy work, they finally finished a smaller "SOS" landmark!
They also used small rocks to spell out: "5 people on island, please rescue!"
Ning Shu looked at these words:
"It's getting darker and darker. Even if a ship passes by here, they may not be able to find us!"
"Rescue boats usually don't search at night! This should do. Let's head back!"
Only then did the two pick up their things and start walking back!
But just then!
Lu Zhe noticed that the shadow seemed to flicker!
s + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
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.
ng to die together with you." Lin Xuan is dead, his body thrown into the river by his scumbag lover and her accomplice. She, the president of the Su Group, is decisive, ruthless, and ice-cold. For three days and three nights, she had his body fished out of the river, and without hesitation, she kissed the bloated corpse of Lin Xuan. She laid down beside him in a cold coffin, their fingers intertwined, a smile lingering on her lips as she closed her eyes. The noble and cold-hearted woman, only bending for one man—Lin Xuan. Lin Xuan, with his golden finger, is reborn and returns to the day of his wedding to the treacherous woman. Su Qiang comes to steal the bride. Lin Xuan's eyes light up, eager to pledge his loyalty on the spot, but instead, her kiss transfers a glass of drugged wine into his mouth, causing him to pass out... 【Male Protagonist with Single Female Lead】【Yandere Tycoon】【Action-Packed】【True vs. Fake Heir】
] [Lone Wolf, No Male Gaze] [Protagonist is pursued early on; extreme protagonist-stans, stay away!] The "Carnival Paradise" descends and slowly devours the real world in the form of a game. By chance, Zhu Yan awakens the talent [Roleplay], becoming one of the first beta players. He thought he could develop safely, but after clearing the first instance, he is branded by humanity as the chief culprit behind the game's spread—a traitorous villain. A villain? Who would ever... become one! He'll be the villain! From then on, Zhu Yan is not only a player but also a lackey for the Carnival Paradise. Between the straight path and the crooked path, he chooses the con. With his left hand, he dons the villain's mantle, staging scenes within instances, infuriating players who decry him as a despicable traitor, all while the game happily promotes him. With his right hand, he joins the non-human organization "Fangcun Mountain," which opposes the Carnival Paradise, transforming into a mysterious player who slaughters game bosses, earning cheers of "Long live the expert!" from fellow players. Gradually, Zhu Yan rises to become an S-rank human player in Fangcun Mountain's archives, while also being the Carnival Paradise's certified top game Boss. But when the final war erupts and both major factions place their hopes in him— Players tag his various aliases: "Experts, this offensive depends on you." The Carnival Paradise's supreme Boss throws an arm around his neck: "Bro, you're the iron, I'm the steel; you can't let me down again!"
