It is said that this stuff can make sharks convulse, but only a little bit can be collected from one fish. It looks like we'll have to catch quite a few.
Removing the internal organs and poison sacs, the flesh of the pufferfish itself is still very delicious!
Lu Zhe cleaned and gutted this one, and gave it to Lin Qianqian to grill over the fire pot!
Although the fire pot was not big, it could keep being filled with sticks to thoroughly grill a fish!
In a short while, Lu Zhe had caught five pufferfish!
Although they could only be grilled one by one, their bodies were thin, so they cooked through very quickly!
The little fish below gave off a dim, blue glow, brightly colored and varied. As the few friends ate the grilled pufferfish, the fear in their hearts of being stranded at sea was also somewhat settled!
"Lu Zhe, after you finish eating, sleep a while longer!" Ning Shu said caringly.
Tang Xiaoguo also said, "Yeah, you must be exhausted!"
While eating the fish, Lu Zhe carefully adjusted the homemade compass propped on the reef. The compass on the reef was still spinning wildly, and Lu Zhe knew they were still being affected by the unknown magnetic field here.
He perfunctorily responded, "I'm fine!"
"Even if you're fine, you can't be a donkey for us. You're the only guy on the team, if you collapse from exhaustion who will we rely on!" Jiang Yao's complaining voice was full of concern.
Lin Qianqian also said, "Don't worry, just go to sleep, leave this place to us!"
Lu Zhe hadn't slept well all night, and was also feeling tired: "Okay, I'll leave it to you all then!"
He climbed onto the raft, using his backpack as a pillow, but Tang Xiaoguo took the backpack away: "I need something to lean on too!"
Lu Zhe was startled, but she said somewhat petulantly, "I don't have a pillow anymore, so I'll reluctantly let you lay your head on my lap!"
"Is this a privilege?"
"Of course, a huge privilege!"
Lu Zhe felt it would be improper to refuse, and with a sigh, reluctantly lay down!
Before long, he felt Tang Xiaoguo's hands gently massaging his forehead, extremely comfortable!
"I didn't expect you to have this talent?!"
"Stop talking, hurry up and sleep!"
Lu Zhe closed his eyes and gradually fell asleep!
A few hours later, the sun rose from the sea, and the sea breeze had also blown away the thin fog!
Lu Zhe felt he had slept enough and sat up, stretching.
The three girls sleeping beside him were also disturbed and woke up.
"You're awake!" Jiang Yao said with a yawn. It seemed she was the one on watch duty for the second half of the night!
"Slept well, you can rest for a bit now!"
"Lu Zhe, look over there!"
Following the direction Jiang Yao was pointing, Lu Zhe saw an island!
Although their orientation had changed, Lu Zhe could confirm that was the volcanic island!
Indeed, it was larger than he had imagined!
Lu Zhe nodded: "Yesterday we rowed a distance towards the volcanic island, it looks like we drifted with the currents again last night, changing our course. Fortunately we didn't drift out of sight!"
Lin Qianqian observed the direction of the water flow and said, "Lu Zhe, but the distance is still very far, and now we're completely against the current!"
Lu Zhe nodded. He knew the difficulty of rowing over was greater than imagined!
But other than that, there was no other way!
"Relying on one oar isn't enough to row over, we need to make several more paddle oars!"
"But what materials can we use?"
"We'll have to take apart some of the wood on the raft!"
"Hmm..."
Just then, Ning Shu cried out in alarm, "Hey, look in the water..."
Lu Zhe noticed a shark's fin sticking out of the water around them, seeming to be lying in wait for something!
Taking a closer look, there were more than just one!
Probably a dozen or so sharks were circling around the reef, swimming back and forth!
They were a bit restless, seeming to want to swim up onto the shallows, but because the water was too shallow, they couldn't get up at all!
But their purpose was obvious enough, they had already targeted the five people as prey!
"What's going on? There weren't any sharks here yesterday!"
"Yao Yao...you..."
Jiang Yao was startled: "What's wrong with me?"
"You're bleeding!"
Jiang Yao looked down, and saw a streak of deep red blood flowing down her fair leg, the blood strands dissipating into the sea water!
"Crap...it's that time of the month?"
No wonder the sharks were gathered in groups around the reef. It turned out Yao Yao's menstrual blood had flowed into the seawater, attracting the nearby sharks!
Lu Zhe knew sharks had extremely keen sense of smell. Even just a little blood and they could notice it!
And Jiang Yao had probably been bleeding for half the night, most of it seeping through the cracks in the raft into the sea!
It was like the starving wild dogs had smelled delicious meaty bones!
Jiang Yao said in frustration:
"Damn, of all times, it had to come now..."
Lin Qianqian said, "Don't talk, class president, don't you have sanitary pads?"
Ning Shu hurriedly opened a small pack and helped Jiang Yao pad herself.
Then they washed the blood off her legs!
But the sharks smelled the blood and became frenzied again, slapping the water and trying to charge onto the shallows!
The few girls were all scared silly!
And at this time, an even more dangerous thing happened!
Lu Zhe discovered the water level compared to last night had risen considerably!
Last night the water had only come up to their ankles, but now it was already up to their calves!
At this rate, Lu Zhe estimated in another half a day the water would be up to their waists!
By then these sharks would definitely charge over and tear them to pieces!
Lu Zhe understood that the more critical the situation, the more he needed to keep a calm mind!
Only this way could he come up with reasonable countermeasures!
"Everyone don't panic, give me a moment to think of a way!"
Hearing Lu Zhe say this, the girls all quieted down, everyone huddled together, all looking to Lu Zhe.
Lu Zhe let out a long breath: "For now, try to stay as quiet as possible! Don't let any blood or bodily fluids flow into the water!"
Tang Xiaoguo asked, "Can't even go pee?"
"Hold it. If you really can't, use the urine bottle, don't let a single drop leak out!"
"In short, don't let them sense any more of our smells!"
The girls all nodded.
"The water is rising now, but they still need some time before they can swim over here. I need to think of a way to deal with the sharks, so the task of making the paddle oars can only be left to you all! Let's try to leave this place within two hours!"
The four girls looked at each other: "Okay, let's put our heads together!"
While the girls discussed making oars on the raft, Lu Zhe fell deep in thought!
He did have some shark repellent extracted from the pufferfish bodies, but because it was so little, it wasn't suitable for driving away large groups!
For now, he still needed to find another two types of shark repellent!
Just then, the ashes in the fire pot had piled up, and Lu Zhe went to empty out some to add more wood.
As soon as he poured out a bit, wisps of black ash mist floated over the water surface, and the little fish below scattered in fright when they saw the blackness!
Lu Zhe suddenly had a flash of inspiration.
That's right, fish are extremely sensitive to the black ash mist, which is why weak octopus and squid can survive in the ocean by using their ink spray escape method!
He quickly poured out most of the ashes in the pot to cool and bottle them!
Then he added new wood to burn!
This gave him the second thing to drive away sharks!
Lu Zhe noticed there was an orange ragged T-shirt among the gathered clothes.
He remembered from watching Animal World as a child, Zhao had said sharks were extremely sensitive to bright colors!
Especially red, which could make them turn fierce and frenzied!
But orange was an exception!
Also a bright color, sharks seeing orange things would usually flee as far as possible!
This was because sharks feared sea snakes, and the most terrifying sea snake to them was a kind with orange and black banded markings that was highly venomous!
So lifejackets and diving gear were often made orange, largely to avoid shark harassment.
If that was the case...
He could make use of this and turn the shirt into something sharks detested!
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.
lity and could only live as an ordinary mortal. He only wished to live a peaceful life. Yet he didn't know— The dog he adopted, because it ate his food, became a legendary demon king. The kitchen knife he casually forged became a peerless divine weapon, causing numerous experts to fight desperately for it. The young disciple he took in became an immortal lord that led an era, due to cultivating the techniques Ye Feng taught him. Even the skeletons he looked down on the most were ominous demon kings that suppressed countless worlds. Many years later, looking at the void shattered with a punch, Ye Feng murmured to himself: It turns out the peerless kings were myself all along...
to panic—he has a system. As long as an investment target dies, he can claim a reward. And since he is immortal, the one thing he has plenty of is time. ... Countless years later. “Immortal Emperor of Longevity? I invested in him.” “Supreme Celestial Venerable? I invested in him.” “Undying Empress? I invested in her.” “...” “Heh. Once they’ve all died, even the Heavenly Dao will have to kneel and call me Dad.”
