Su Xi heard the crying and pressed her temples, feeling a headache coming on.

At this moment, Song Xiaoyou and Dong Bingling arrived carrying firewood. They looked very anxious. When they saw Lu Wuyai's body, Dong Bingling almost fainted.

Trypophobia, an instinctive fear, made Dong Bingling instinctively shrink back.

"What are you still doing? Start a fire!" Su Xi was very unhappy. What happened today had pushed her to the brink of anger.

Soon, the fire by the stream was lit, and the sky turned completely dark.

By this time, Yu Yuxin had stripped Lu Wuyai naked, only to discover that his wet pants were covered in finger-sized leeches. The dense swarm made everyone feel nauseous.

"Have you ever carried salt on the beach before?" Su Xi asked.

Song Xiaoyou nodded immediately. In order to catch clams, they did indeed evaporate seawater and absorb a large amount of sea salt.

"Quickly soak them in water and pour it on Lu Wuyai."

"Is this possible?" Yu Yuxia stopped crying and asked uncertainly.

"It should be fine. Listen to me first. Check the other person's body. Remember, if you find leeches, don't pull them with your hands." Su Xi's words were unquestionable, yet also unconvincing.

In the following time, Song Xiaoyou and Yu Yuxia began to carefully apply salt water to every part of Lu Wuyai's body, even some shameless places.

This scene made Su Xi secretly admire him.

Half an hour later, Song Xiaoyou threw the leeches into the campfire. With a crackling sound, Lu Wuyai slowly opened his eyes.

Feeling the warm flames around him, Lu Wuyai was still completely confused.

What happened to me?

Isn't it in a forest? I think I'm standing by a stream...

Just then, a rustling sound came from behind him, and Lu Wuyai turned his head with difficulty. In the dim light of the fire, he happened to see four women taking off their clothes to have their bodies checked.

This scene directly caused Lu Wuyai to have a severe nosebleed, and he fainted again.

"Lu Wuyai".

"Lu Wuyai, why is your nose bleeding again?"

The next day, Lu Wuyai lay weakly on the rocky hill, looking down at the four women working by the stream.

Now he knows what happened yesterday.

"So it wasn't a mosquito bite after all..."

After carefully considering what happened yesterday, Lu Wuyai secretly realized that he should have been more vigilant from the beginning. If Yu Yuxin hadn't discovered him, he would have turned into a human mummy long ago.

"The bones of those animals must have been sucked dry by leeches."

Every time Lu Wuyai thought of those pale bones, his scalp tingled. He was truly lucky to have survived.

Then, Yu Yuxia's beauty when she changed clothes last night resurfaced in his mind...

With a snap.

Lu Wuyai clutched the back of his head, feeling a sharp pain. When he turned around and saw that it was Yu Yuxin who had hit him, he immediately smiled.

"What are you thinking about? Lift your head."

"My nose is bleeding again."

Upon hearing this, Lu Wuyai quickly raised his head and smelled a metallic odor in his nose.

Gu Yuxin asked suspiciously, "Are you sick? You've bled three times in two days."

"It's okay, it'll be fine in a while."

Lu Wuyai woke up for a while, turned around, and found that Yu Yuxia was still staring at him, her eyes red.

"What's wrong?" Lu Wuyai asked with concern.

Yu Yuxia shook her head, stood up, and walked towards the stream, leaving Lu Wuyai with a swaying figure.

"How are you feeling? Take care."

Lu Wuyai collapsed onto the rock again, his weak body not yet fully recovered.

Around nine o'clock in the morning, Song Xiaoyou had already begun peeling the cocoons, carefully cutting open the soaked bark to make each one as uniform in size as possible.

"Can this be used to knit a sweater?" Su Xi asked.

Song Xiaoyou paused for a moment, then said, "Okay, but I usually twist the rope again to ensure the finished product is as sturdy as possible."

As she spoke, Song Xiaoyou took out three pieces of cut bark. Each piece was very thin and carefully interwoven, making it look like a braid on a girl's head.

“It’s simple.” Su Xi’s eyes lit up and she began to braid the rope.

The first step in making a cage is to obtain and soak the bark.

The second step is to cut the bark, which can also be seen as the final step before completing the cage.

However, to ensure durability, Song Xiaoyou and others wove the cage with three strands of bark to guarantee its sturdiness.

On the shore, Lu Wuyai watched with great interest. He would occasionally flip through the notebooks of the rescue team members. There were translations of some of Song Xiaoyou's annotations in them, which didn't seem too difficult to understand.

I have to say, this notebook really came in handy after we came to this stream.

Water is the source of life, and that statement is absolutely true.

After turning the page, Lu Wuyai carefully browsed the contents and found that it described the entire process of making pottery jars in the wild, so he silently memorized it.

Now, they are planning to make a temporary home on this rocky hill, and there are some things they really need to consider.

When he thought about what might happen if he were surrounded by four beautiful women in the future, the gloom in Lu Wuyai's heart dissipated a lot.

"I hope Liu Gongming and those people will not disturb the peace here."

After thinking it over, Lu Wuyai realized he couldn't rest any longer. While they were busy, he planned to go to the upstream news sources.

"Lu Wuyai, what do you plan to do?"

Yu Yuxia stood up and glared at him.

Lu Wuyai said helplessly, "I want to go against the current and see why you keep caring about me."

Yu Yuxia blushed, immediately spat at him, and cursed, "When have I ever cared about you? Aren't you afraid something will happen to you? In the end, you'll have to ask us to save you."

Lu Wuyai scratched his head and said, "This was a mistake before. If you're really worried, come with me."

Yu Yuxia wanted to agree immediately, but she was conflicted. Dong Bingling shouted from the side, "I'll go with you, even if my legs go numb from squatting."

"Then hurry up," Lu Wuyai urged.

In the blink of an eye, Gu Yuxin and Lu Wuyai left the message, stepping on the stones and slowly walking towards the north side of the stream.

"Dong Bingling, how old are you?"

Lu Wuyai asked curiously, feeling that Gu Yuxin's personality was like that of a child who hadn't grown up. Not only was she willful, but sometimes, Lu Wuyai felt that she even had a problem with his own intelligence.

"What? Ask this girl if she wants to pursue me."

"Pfft pfft"

Lu Wuyai nearly vomited blood. If he wanted to know who he was interested in, it wouldn't just be Gu Yuxin's problem. With his personality, he wouldn't be able to avoid it in time.

"No, no, absolutely not." Lu Wuyai quickly waved his hand.

"Lu Wuyai, what do you mean? Are you looking down on me?" Gu Yuxin stopped directly in front of Lu Wuyai, her face showing a stubborn expression, and she even stretched her neck and puffed out her chest.

“Tell me, how am I inferior to them? I want bigger breasts than everyone else. And longer legs too.”

“You’ll definitely look better than them when you wear stockings.”

Hearing this, Lu Wuyai felt a headache coming on and secretly cursed himself for bringing her out when he had nothing else to do. This was purely to seek guilt.

"It looks great," Lu Wuyai said directly and perfunctorily.

Dong Bingling was furious and looked very unhappy. She even pressed Lu Wuyai's hand to her chest, which frightened Lu Wuyai so much that he ran away on the spot.

You see, Yu Mengru and the others are not far away. If they see me, knowing Dong Bingling's personality, I wouldn't be able to escape even if I jumped into the Yellow River.

So, one ran, the other chased, and before they knew it, they had passed the rocky mountain. At the end was a half-collapsed mountain, the rocky mountain being its continuation.

"Stop, stop, I'm not running." Dong Bingling put her hands on her waist and glared angrily at Lu Wuyai.

Lu Wuyai was also exhausted. He had been bitten by a leech last night, and now he was being chased. He felt a little dizzy.

Dong Bingling caught up and punched Lu Wuyai in the chest.

Next, the two began climbing the mountain, intending to find a water source from there.

The partially collapsed mountain was very high, and for some unknown reason, it formed the rocky mountain we see today. The destructive power of nature is evident.

Lu Wuyai climbed up, panting, and soon saw a cave the size of a human head on the mountain to the west, from which water flowed continuously.

"Isn't this called Spring Eye?" Gu Yuxin said curiously, reaching out to touch the water, but felt a chill.

After finding the water source, Lu Wuyai's curiosity mostly dissipated, and he then shifted his attention to other places.

As for Gu Yuxin, he disappeared quickly, saying he wanted to go to the top of the mountain to see the scenery.

But after a while, Lu Wuyai heard screams and immediately ran towards the top of the mountain.

"Lu Wuyai, please help me."

When he reached the top of the mountain, Lu Wuyai looked around and found Gu Yuxin's shadow everywhere, while the direction from which the sound came seemed to be on the other side of the mountain.

Lu Wuyai immediately craned his neck to look at the cliff, his face turning pale instantly.

"Dong Bingling, what are you doing?"

There was a pine tree on the mountaintop. Dong Bingling clung to a branch, dangling in the air, her face as pale as Lu Wuyai's.

"I...I...I tripped and fell," Gu Yuxin said, and then burst into tears.

"What a damn day!" Lu Wuyai was so angry he couldn't speak. This was all just to create trouble.

The only advantage was that the pine tree wasn't far from the mountaintop. Lu Wuyai noticed another large tree not far away. He simply took off his belt and wrapped it around his right hand. Then, he leaned forward, extended his left hand, and reached out to Gu Yuxin.

Throughout the process, Lu Wuyai was also worried about whether the big tree behind him was sturdy.

Three minutes later, when Gu Yuxin was brought back from the brink of death, Lu Wuyai couldn't help but slap her.

But in the end, due to some strange circumstances, the slap landed right on Gu Yuxin's buttocks.

With a snap.

The next second, Gu Yuxin looked at Lu Wuyai in disbelief, and his face immediately turned red.

"Gulu"

Lu Wuyai swallowed hard, thinking to himself that this was a mistake.

However, Gu Yuxin seemed to realize he was wrong. On the way back, he didn't say a word and kept his head down the whole time. This made Lu Wuyai feel a little regretful.

Soon, they returned to the stream. Gu Yuxin jogged all the way to Yu Yuxin.

"Yu Yuxia and Lu Wuyai touched mine."

By the stream, three women working were all staring at Lu Wuyai. He felt a chill run down his spine and quickly explained, while simultaneously grinning at Gu Yuxin.

In the end, although Lu Wuyai explained it very clearly, the others still expressed doubts when they saw the pitiful Dong Bingling, so Lu Wuyai could only try to divert their attention.

"Is the cage ready?"

In the stream, the tree bark had dried out, and Song Xiaoyou held a basket about fifty centimeters in diameter.

"That should be fine." Song Xiaoyou handed it to Lu Wuyai, who tested its firmness and found no problems at all.

"That's great, Song Xiaoyou, you're so skillful."

Lu Wuyai squeezed the basket in his hand. The workmanship was really tight. Song Xiaoyou was indeed a precious girl.

"Okay, stop pushing." Yu Yuxia looked at Lu Wuyai and suddenly felt a little sour.

At noon, Lu Wuyai set a trap across the stream, then turned the basket upside down, put some fruit inside, and tried to lure the wild rabbits from the mountains.

Making a trap is actually quite simple. Tilt the basket upwards, support it with a wooden stick of appropriate length, and tie a rope to the stick. When you see prey passing by, you can simply pull the rope to grab it.

"Isn't it simple?"

Lu Wuyai said with a smile that, actually, for them, the basket was the key.

Currently, there is only one trap.

Yu Yuxia looked at the sun overhead and couldn't help but ask, "How long do we have to wait?"

"I don't know, I might get nothing in the next second or the next day."

“That wasn’t a wasted day,” Dong Bingling complained.

"Don't make a fuss." Lu Wuyai rolled his eyes at Gu Yuxin. He was still "disturbed" by what had just happened; she even said that he had touched her.

Can that be called touching her?

Lu Wuyai pursed his lips, but that feeling...

“Okay, okay, it seems like something’s coming,” Song Xiaoyou suddenly whispered.

At the foot of the rocky hill, a group of people suddenly became excited. Looking at the meadow on the other side of the stream, several gray rabbits indeed came out.

"It's a big rabbit, much bigger than the little rabbit I saw last time," Dong Bingling said excitedly again, her voice rising considerably without her realizing it.

The rabbit opposite stood there, its ears perked up, looking left and right as if it heard something moving.

"Keep your voice down, don't scare them away."

"Oh, oh, oh." Dong Bingling covered her mouth, looking at the rabbits with sparkling eyes.

A few minutes later, the five rabbits started moving again, hopping around towards the stream.

"They're here."

Lu Wuyai was delighted when a hare ran toward the trap.

The gray fur shimmered in the sunlight, and even Su Xi, who always prided herself on her composure and calmness, couldn't help but think of the big wild rabbit on the campfire during their meal.

"Hurry up and pull the rope, it's coming in."

"Dong Bingling, shut up, I haven't gone in yet."

Lu Wuyai was furious and secretly cursed Gu Yuxin, saying that he hadn't done a good enough job and had failed miserably.

For some reason, the rabbit kept lingering around the basket, and almost knocked the stick over several times.

"It's too slow," the willful girl complained again.

"Dong Bingling, if I ever hear you speak again, believe it or not, I will skin you alive."

Finally, the rabbit entered the trap full of anticipation. While eating the fruit, Lu Wuyai quickly pulled out the wood and covered it with the basket.

"Hurry up and hold it down. Don't let the rabbit knock the basket away."

"Press, press, press."

"Rabbits are so cute, why do we eat them?"

Whether you like it or not, don't get in the way.

Chickens and dogs fluttered about by the stream; by the time the dust settled, it was already dusk.

Yu Mengrou and Song Xiaoyou were washing wild rabbits, while Lu Wuyai was sharpening his axe.

On the north side of the rocky hill, Ye Meng and Dong Bingling had already started a fire, and smoke was billowing up, making it look quite lively.

The only regret is that they only caught one rabbit today, but that's enough to make them proud.

Soon, Lu Wuyai found a square stone slab, laid the cleaned rabbit flat on it, split it open with an axe, and cut several large holes in the rabbit so that a fire could be made to roast it from inside.

Finally, Lu Wuyai pierced the sharp stick through the rabbit and handed it to Dong Bingling.

"Tonight, we finally have meat to eat."

Dong Bingling was excited. She had never eaten meat since she started living on the desert island.

"Stop dawdling, bring it over and bake it quickly," Lu Wuyai urged.

On the stream, Yu Yuxin and Song Xiaoyou were still busy. Since today's trap was successful, they should definitely make several more. In addition, the tree bark rope was very strong and might be useful when they entered the forest later.

They worked until dark, and everyone gathered on the east side of the rocky hill. Beyond the hill, there was a small stream.

The rabbit meat was roasted to a golden brown, and even without seasoning, its greasy surface was enough to make you want to keep eating it.

“We each have one rabbit leg, and the rest belongs to Lu Wuyai,” Ye Meng said.

“I have no objection,” Dong Bingling said excitedly.

As for the others, they looked at each other and then laughed.

Soon, the legs of the four rabbits were separated, and Lu Wuyai took the body of the last rabbit, which actually had the most meat inside.

"How does it taste?"

"It's alright, just a little bland, but it's quite fresh."

"I'm going to the beach tomorrow, but I can only stay for two days."

Everyone ate and chatted, and before they knew it, they had finished the whole rabbit, still wanting more.

"Don't throw away the bones."

Lu Wuyai reminded him that he had memorized the contents of the rescue team's notes, which might be useful in making some larger hunting traps.

Before going to bed, everyone went to the stream to wash up.

Just as we crossed the mountain, some green lights were flashing in the forest on the other side of the stream.

Why are there wolves?

Lu Wuyai broke out in a cold sweat and quickly turned on his flashlight. The light shone into the forest, immediately creating a rustling sound.

"Don't go there, come back quickly," Lu Wuyai said anxiously.

The four girls stopped immediately. They had also witnessed what had just happened and felt uneasy.

A few minutes later, several wolves came out and looked at the rocky hill with sharp eyes.

Soon, more wolves appeared. They seemed to be lining up to drink from the stream, occasionally baring their teeth and letting out low growls.

A full half hour passed before the wolf pack began to disappear. During this time, no wolves crossed the stream.

Seeing this, Lu Wuyai breathed a long sigh of relief. However, from that day on, the night watchmen had an additional task: to observe the stream.