Good luck with koi carp

Chapter 111 Tempest

"I picked so many!"


Jian Yuan had just finished knitting his own pair of straw sandals when he saw Chi Li coming back with a pile of wild vegetables. She quickly got up and helped take most of them and put them on the ground to sort them by variety.


Some of these wild vegetables he knew, some he didn't, but that didn't stop him from being happy about it: "There are actually radishes. It seems that today's meal is in order again. The best one is my Sister Chi."


When it comes to finding food, Jian Yuan has long ago determined that Chi Li is the absolute boss. Even if most of what she finds are unfamiliar wild vegetables, he firmly believes that they are all edible.


"You take care of these, and I'll go pick some wild fruits and come back. I'll go to the sea later to see if I can catch anything."


Yes, "catching", Chili didn't bother to use the word "catch" to describe going to the sea to find food, but directly said "catching", because for her, going to the sea to hunt is much simpler than going up the mountain to dig wild vegetables.


At least the deliciousness of the seafood is obvious, but whether the dug wild vegetables are delicious or not depends on the character.


Of course, Chi Li's character has always been good, so there is no need to elaborate on this point.


"Okay, go ahead and do your work. I'll also go to the other end to look for any suitable materials and get them back to make something useful. We still lack too many supplies." Jian Yuan nodded and quickly gave himself Work was arranged.


Apart from anything else, he must at least provide bowls and chopsticks for the two of them so that they don't have to eat with their hands.


The two people who divided the work quickly split up.


After getting some wild vegetables as a base, Chili stopped digging for vegetables while walking this time. At the same time, she also gave up her plan to pick fruits directly. She planned to walk further into the woods to explore the surrounding terrain while also looking around. Are there any other resources available?


It would be best to find a source of fresh water so they don't always have to go to the trouble of distilling seawater to get water to drink.


The only tool that can be used to boil water is the stainless steel water cup. Chi Li is really afraid that the cup will break if it is used too much. There will be no other replacement by then, and they don't know how long they will have to stay on this desert island. Of course, if you can take more care of the few things you have, take care of them.


Since she had already explored part of the area before, this time Chili went in a direction she had never been before. She found a lot of edible wild vegetables along the way, and even another wild fruit similar to pears, but she did not pick it. Just note down the location and continue exploring.


"Ok?"


As she walked, Chi Li unexpectedly discovered that the shape of the soil under her feet was a little wrong. She squatted down and measured it with her hands. Then she frowned and got an answer that was not surprising.


——There are wild beasts on this island.


The existence of wild beasts is a matter of course. This island is so big, with lush vegetation and rich products. It can naturally breed all kinds of creatures, including wild animals living on land.


What worries Chili is not the existence of these wild animals, but the footprints of the beast she found, which belong to some kind of large wild animal. This means that they may face threats from large wild animals while living on this island. threaten.


Let’s just hope this wild animal isn’t an apex predator, otherwise they might have to consider moving.


Because it is too close to their residence.


It took Chili a little more than half an hour to walk from her residence to the place where she found the animal footprints. Moreover, her walking speed was not very fast. She would occasionally stop for a moment to observe the terrain, which slowed her down even more. In fact, it is not far from the residence, and for wild animals, it is easy to wander there.


No wonder she was so uneasy.


If it were a world that was not so suppressed, Chi Li might have relied on her courage to look for traces of the unknown beast alone, but now she is just an ordinary person, so after discovering the danger, she immediately Reasonably choose to return the same way and meet up with your companions.


Two people are always much stronger than one.


Due to the sense of urgency in her heart, Chili walked very fast on the way back. Thanks to her caution, not long after she left, an adult wild boar with sharp tusks came back to Chili with a grunt. Chili had just found the footprints. It sniffed left and right, as if looking for something. Fortunately, it found no trace of Chili in the end, but turned around and went in the other direction.


After a period of rustling, the woods returned to calm.


When she returned to her residence, Chili found no trace of Jian Yuan. If it had been before, she might have stayed near her residence and waited for him, but now that she knew there might be danger in the woods, she could no longer leave Jian Yuan alone. Wandering outside.


So without hesitation, Chi Li turned around and headed straight for the direction Jian Yuan left before.


As she walked, she picked up a thick wooden stick in her hand to use as a weapon.


Chi Li did not take out the small knife hidden in the survival bracelet, because the knife was too small. If he really encountered a large beast, and if he was not a professional who was extremely good at this, he would have to rely on such a small blade to kill it. Killing him was a complete fantasy. In comparison, it was not as practical as the temporary wooden stick she picked up.


Chi Li did not dare to call Jian Yuan loudly for fear of disturbing the dangerous existence who didn't know where he was hiding, but it didn't matter, there was no one in the world whom Chi Li could not find.


Close your eyes and walk around based on your intuition until you hear unusual movement, then open them again.


Look, isn’t this what you found?


When Chi Li found Jian Yuan, he was in a bamboo forest. His hands were pulling the wire rope pulled out of the multifunctional knife and cutting a thick bamboo.


The sound of pricking was accompanied by countless bamboo shavings falling continuously. When it reached a certain critical point, the long bamboo could no longer withstand the widening crack and collapsed in the predetermined direction, causing a rain of bamboo leaves to fall. .


Surrounding it, there were three or four bamboos that had collapsed like this, and they were obviously the fruits of Jian Yuan Today's labor.


"Jianyuan."


After the people finished cutting the bamboo, Chili opened his mouth to call people.


"Huh? Why are you here?" Jian Yuan turned his head when he heard the sound, and then discovered Chi Li's arrival, which was a little surprising.


"I found traces of large beasts in this forest, and I was worried that it would be unsafe, so I came to see you." Chili told the other party what she had just discovered.


Upon hearing that there were still large beasts living here, Jian Yuan's face suddenly became solemn: "Are you sure?"


"OK." Chili nodded.


"Can you guess what kind of beast it is?" Jian Yuan asked.


"No, those footprints are overlapping. They seem to belong to different animals. They have been trampled on. There is no way to tell which type of animal the footprints belong to. I can only tell from those footprints that there must be a large beast among them. exist."


If not for this, Chi Li would not be unable to distinguish the general category of the owner of the footprints. After all, different types of animal footprints are different, and some directions can even be obvious enough for people to recognize them at a glance.


"Let's go back first."


Jian Yuan knew that he could not stay in this forest any longer. He leaned down, gathered all the bamboos he had just cut together, tied them with straw ropes, and then used force to hold the bamboos up to his shoulders, preparing to return to their residence. .


Chili helped the other party pull the bamboo from behind.


The two worked together to bring back a bundle of bamboos. When the bamboos fell to the ground again, they were both sweating from exhaustion.


Now how to do?

No one asked the other person this question, because they all knew it, and it would be useless even if they asked. After all, they were trapped on an island, not somewhere else, and they couldn't run away or hide. Hiding somewhere, just pretend it didn't happen. At most, if you want to go into the woods to look for resources in the future, just go together, it's safer.


In addition, their residence should also be upgraded.


At least it should be made sturdy so that it won't collapse if an animal hits it.


Chi Li, who had just thought this way, never expected that they would encounter a big accident that night.


"Boom!"

"Woooooooo..."

"Crash..."

"Bang bang bang!"

……


A ferocious lightning cut through the sky, lighting up a burst of light like daylight, followed by deafening thunder, accompanied by violent howling winds, heavy rain, and the simple house was blown to and fro, almost not big. Due to the poor resistance, some of the blades that were supposed to be used for shelter were torn to pieces by the strong wind, blown into the sky, and some were knocked down by the heavy rain.


But in an instant, Chi Li and the two who were hiding inside were forced to be exposed to the violent storm. They could only grasp the thermal blanket around their bodies and wrap them up together with their heads to pray for this thunderstorm. Go quickly.


"what!"


Hearing the screams coming from her side, Chili quickly popped her head out of the thermal blanket and saw Jian Yuan falling to the ground, with the frame of the house blown down by the wind on top of her.


It was a coincidence that the place where Chili stayed was the only safe zone, and she perfectly avoided the attack of the collapsed wooden frame. In the end, the only victim was the unlucky guy Jian Yuan.


However, neither of them had time to pay attention to this matter now. Seeing Jian Yuan being knocked down, Chi Li didn't care about anything else. She quickly lifted off the thermal blanket and went over to help move the wooden frame and help the person up.


"We can't stay here any longer, we have to find another place!"


The wind and rain were so strong that the voices were too low to hear each other. Chi Li almost shouted out with her loudest voice.


"It's thundering, you can't stay under the tree!"

"We can't go to the beach either. Let's go to the woods."


The heavy rain hitting the uncovered face not only hurt, but also made it impossible to open his eyes. Jian Yuan endured the pain on his body and walked as quickly as possible into the woods with the help of Chi Li, despite the wind and rain.


The woods are not all full of trees. As long as you find an open place with fewer trees to stay, you won't be afraid of being struck by lightning.


In this kind of weather, it is impossible to get close to the beach. With the help of the storm, the waves are huge. Who knows when it will develop into a tsunami. They have already experienced the pain of a tsunami and don't want to do it again, so they can only try their best to go there. Walk on high ground and in the open.


Of course, while running away, Chili did not forget to take all their belongings with them. There were not many things in the first place, and if they lost anything more, it would only make it more difficult for them to survive in the future.


I don't know how long they walked, until the tight strings in their minds finally loosened, and a large open space covered with grass appeared in front of them. Only then did Chili confirm that they had found a safe refuge.
Both of their physical strength was exhausted, and they almost fell together and threw themselves into the grass. The tall grass suddenly submerged their figures. From a distance, it was impossible to even notice that there were two people lying there.


"I can't walk anymore, that's it."


Panting, Chi Li turned over from Jian Yuan, lying on her back on the grass, closing her eyes to face the heavy rain.


To be honest, for her, the washing of these raindrops was comfortable, but for Jian Yuan, it was obviously not the case.


Sure enough, after resting for a while, Chi Li felt the rain on her face disappear. She opened her eyes and saw Jian Yuan using the surrounding grass as a support to spread out her thermal blanket and support the two of them. A small sheltered area.


But these soft grasses alone were not enough to withstand the heavier and heavier rain, so Jian Yuan turned around and left again, and came back after a while holding a few wooden sticks.


Knowing what he meant, Chili climbed up resignedly and helped to place the wooden sticks on the four corners of the thermal blanket. At the same time, she tied the tops of the wooden sticks with straw ropes, pulled them out, and then used one person to carry the branches. The small wooden sticks served as ground nails and fixed the wooden sticks supporting one corner of the thermal blanket in a triangular structure. The four corners were operated in the same way, so that they had a canopy that could protect them from the rain.


The two of them hid under the canopy, sharing Chili's thermal blanket, quietly waiting for the storm to stop.


I don’t know how long it took, the sky turned from dark to bright, the dark clouds finally dispersed, the rain stopped and the wind stopped, the clear sunshine shined through the white clouds on a silver-white sky, with a large pool of water gathering in the center, and the water surface refracted Out of crystal light.


A small drop of water hung on the edge of the sky. It persisted for a long time, but in the end it could not withstand the pull of gravity and crashed into a small puddle on the ground.


Logically speaking, this movement was almost too small to be ignored, but it still woke up the two people who had been sleeping cuddling against each other for some time.


Chi Li reached out her hand from under the canopy and tried it. She didn't feel any raindrops falling, and she immediately became happy: "The rain has stopped!"


"Finally made it through."


In order to celebrate the end of the heavy rain and to replenish his energy, Jian Yuan took out a candy from his pocket, opened it and stuffed it into his mouth. Seeing this, Chi Li also ate a candy.


The sweet taste penetrated into the body from the mouth, slightly soothing the spirit that had just suffered a lot.


"Go back and take a look?" Chi Li asked.


"Wait a minute, we can take turns taking a bath first." Jian Yuan pointed to a large puddle of water in the center of the sky and motioned to Chi Li.


The two of them were covered in filth trying to escape yesterday, and they had not taken a bath since they landed on this island. At most, they only used sea water to wash their faces, hands and feet.


But as we all know, sea water is salty, so after washing it, it is almost like not washing it.


After drying, a layer of salt crystals will form on the skin, which makes people very uncomfortable, so this is a rare occasion when there is enough fresh water to take a bath, and Jian Yuan does not want to miss this opportunity.


Chili didn't expect to be able to operate like this, but after being reminded, she immediately reacted, nodded in agreement quite positively, and asked Jian Yuan to wash first.


Neither of them wants to use the water as drinking water. It's not that they are worried that the rainwater cannot be drunk. In this environment, rainwater is a precious freshwater resource. Who would dislike it?

In fact, they had already cleverly filled all the water containers they had with them when it rained last night, including a few temporary bamboo cups that Jian Yuan made yesterday.


There was no shortage of water for them to drink at this time, so they were able to use the water from the canopy for bathing so luxuriously.


Of course, there is also the reason why it is difficult to take the water away, so it is better to use it locally.


Chi Li got up and walked away. After waiting for a few minutes, Jian Yuan called her to take a bath.


She walked over and took a look and found that Jian Yuan only used a small part of the water, and most of the rest was for her.


"Thank you."


Knowing that people are taking care of her, Chili naturally knows how to be grateful.


She knew that the other party was a good person and would not peek at her bathing, so she hid boldly under the canopy, using the cover of the surrounding grass to clean herself up with the water inside.


I have to say that bathing is really a relaxing thing, especially for Chili, a freshwater fish.


God knows she's had enough of the salty sea water.


After washing, the two closed the canopy, and then went to their original residence feeling refreshed...and wet.


The clothes that were soaked last night were not yet dry, but they were still wearing the same clothes and had no choice but to use the remaining water from Chili's bath to wash off the mud before putting them on.


Just be patient and do it later.


I had been running so hard to escape last night without realizing it. Now I was walking back and realized that they were really able to run yesterday. They actually ran to an unknown place far away. Now they want to go back to their original place. , I’m afraid it’s not easy.


One of the worst reasons is that they don’t know the way!

In other words, the two of them got lost in the woods.


After walking for a long time and confirming that they really could not find their way back, Chi Li and Jian Yuan couldn't help but look at each other with helpless expressions on their faces: "What should we do now?"


"The stupidest way is to walk to the beach, then take a look at the previous one and walk around the beach. You can always find it." Jian Yuan proposed a rather useless way.


They had already tested it themselves. The island is round. As long as you walk around the island, you can always find your original residence.


In fact, it's not that they have much nostalgia for their previous residence. As long as the two of them escaped in a hurry last night, they didn't have time to take all their belongings with them. Not to mention anything else, it was just the bed that was tied to the top of the wooden frame to serve as insulation for the roof. Blanket, they must get it back.


"Forget it, just rely on your intuition, you can always find a place."


Chi Li sighed and helped Jian Yuan move forward.


Jian Yuan limped beside Chi Li. It turned out that he had injured his leg by a collapsed wooden frame last night, and he ran away all night, which aggravated the injury to the point where he now had to be supported when walking.


Fortunately, they checked and found that Jian Yuan's leg was not broken, but the place where it was hit was severely bruised and swollen, and it would take a few days to recover slowly.


"How about we find a place to stay for a while, and then find our way back after your injury is better?" After walking for a while, Chi Li suggested out of concern for Jian Yuan's injury.


The two of them were so close. Even if Jian Yuan had been holding back, how could Chili not notice that his condition was getting worse and worse.


"Alright."


Jian Yuan knew that now was not the time to show off, so he found a place to sit down and rest with Chi Li's help.


But this place was not suitable for the two of them to spend the night. It was fine during the day, but at night, it was still a bit dangerous in places with large beasts. So after settling Jian Yuan, Chi Li said that she wanted to find a natural place suitable for the two of them to live. refuge.


It would be best to have a large tree hole or rock hole.


But this is a bit difficult, after all, these are not available everywhere...


"Found it!"


Jian Yuan's thoughts had just turned here when he was interrupted by Chi Li's clear and excited voice. He looked up in surprise and even asked in disbelief: "So fast?"


"Yeah, I just looked around and saw a big tree hole over there, which is perfect for our temporary residence."


Chi Li trotted over, helped Jian Yuan up, and took him to the temporary shelter she had found.


When he arrived at the place, Jian Yuan raised his head and looked around.


This is the bottom of a small short cliff. It is said to be a tree cave. In fact, it is a circle of several large trees that grow relatively densely. The top umbrellas of the trees grow together, hiding each other and relying on each other, forming a natural Tree hole shelter.


Due to the dense growth of these trees, the two of them had to find a slightly wider gap to get in. Fortunately, they were not fat. If they had been replaced by a fatter person, they might not have been able to get in.


But this also unexpectedly provided the two of them with a sense of security, especially after they got in and found that the space inside the tree hole was very large, almost ten square meters, they were even more delighted.


"This is more suitable for our residence." Jian Yuan said.


Chi Li shook her head when she heard this: "No, we have to find a way to return to the civilized world. It is more convenient to live by the sea."


If they want to settle on this island for a long time, this tree hole will undoubtedly be an excellent long-term shelter. But if they still have hope of being rescued, they cannot live in this deep mountain forest. Otherwise, if a ship really passes by one day and they don't notice it, they will regret it.


Jian Yuan was reminded by Chi Li and realized this, so he immediately changed his mind and said, "We will go back to where we came from once I have finished cultivating myself."


The place they were looking for was actually quite good. It had a wide view and was located on a relatively high ground. It would not be eroded by the rising sea water, and it could also be protected by the woods behind it. As long as there were no more storms like yesterday, it would be quite suitable for long-term living. .


But after returning this time, Jian Yuan was determined to build the "house" better, at least to the extent that it could withstand wind and rain.


The same lesson once is enough.


After settling Jian Yuan in this temporary new shelter, Chi Li went out to look for food without stopping.


They haven't received their food today yet.


It took some time to look for food, but fortunately the result was gratifying. However, when Chi Li came back with a pile of wild fruits, she accidentally stepped on something with a different touch halfway.


It is worth mentioning that both she and Jian Yuan lost their straw sandals last night, and the two of them were forced to become 'Barefoot Immortals' and could only walk barefoot, so as soon as the ground felt different, Chi Li immediately Just felt it.


She stopped and looked down in confusion, and saw a circle of black things embedded in the muddy ground. Out of curiosity, Chi Li freed up a hand, picked up the thing, and looked at it carefully. .


It was a black hair tie, a completely human item.

(End of this chapter)