Chapter 39 World 2 [9]

After being woken up by Jing Ke at the appointed time, Shao Qing simply washed up and then began to count his remaining food reserves.

Shao Qing gave two of the eight coconuts that Liu Chang had sent to Yu Hongjun. Yu Hongjun, on the other hand, gave all three bottles of soda that she had been given to Shao Qing on the grounds that she did not like drinks.

So Shao Qing's current food and water sources include a bottle of mineral water, six coconuts, two packs of instant noodles, six sausages, six cans of soda and some basic seasonings.

If she was a little frugal, these things would be enough for Shao Qing to eat for a whole day, which made her feel much less urgent to complete the task.

However, living off the food is a very bad habit. Thinking that he would have to stay in this place for another six days, Shao Qing planned to collect more supplies before dark.

After making sure that Li Liming didn't need the engineer shovel, Shao Qing poured the juice from a coconut into a water bottle as usual. After saying hello to Yu Hongjun, he carried the empty supply box in one hand and the engineer shovel in the other and went to the beach to look for food.

The thing that is most abundant on the beach is naturally shellfish. With Jing Ke's reminder, she quickly found the shellfish lying on the sand. She dug the sand a few times with an engineer shovel and saw many white shellfish that were thicker than two fingers.

Three meters ahead, there's a small bump on the left. It's probably a cat's-eye snail lying in the sand. It's quite large.

[There's a small octopus inside the conch shell in front. You can take the conch shell and eat it directly or keep it as a pet.]

There's a large swimming crab nestling in the crack of the rocks ahead. You can use the shovel to hold it down and then pick it up.

"Will it pinch me?" After seeing the swimming crab waving its claws with full energy, Shao Qing hesitated for a moment and did not immediately do what Jing Ke said.

[Given your current luck, it shouldn't happen.] Jing Ke paused and quickly added.

[But accidents can happen. If you are afraid of getting stuck, you can try scooping it up with a shovel and then throwing it into the box.]

Shao Qing was a little hesitant. She could work very hard when filming, but she was actually quite afraid of pain.

This crab looks very big and tempting, but its two claws waving in the air also look very powerful. If your fingers are pinched by them, you will definitely bleed.

[Shao Qing, the live broadcast has cut to your perspective. The photographer has zoomed in on the corresponding image.] Jing Ke reminded.

After hearing Jing Ke's words, Shao Qing subconsciously frowned. Not wanting to give the audience the impression of being timid, she made up her mind and skipped the step of pressing down the crab with the engineering shovel. She directly reached out her hand to the back of the swimming crab.

Because he was worried about being pinched, Shao Qing moved extremely quickly, so quickly that the swimming crab had not yet reacted before it was picked up and thrown into the supply box, which was then slammed shut.

Phew, I didn’t get pinched. It seems I’m lucky.

Shao Qing subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief, glad that he did not leave any black history like being pinched by a crab and crying in the live broadcast room.

But the audience had sharp eyes. They could still tell whether Shao Qing moved so quickly because he was afraid of being pinched or because he was skilled in the technique.

After seeing that many comments were jokes and memes, Jing Ke hesitated for a moment. After making sure that these comments were not malicious, he decided to ignore them for the time being.

Shao Qing seems to care about her image. Since she wants to show a better side to the audience in the live broadcast room, it would be better for me to pour cold water on her at this time.

In this way, with Jing Ke's reminder, Shao Qing easily discovered the rich seafood resources left after the tide receded.

Because he had an engineer shovel with him, Shao Qing successfully knocked down several good-sized oysters. On the last leg of his return, he even found an edible piece of kelp, which allowed him to combine both meat and vegetables.

There was basically no shelter on the sea, and with only a hat to block the sun, Shao Qing returned with a supply box of seafood at around three o'clock.

"Teacher Shao, did you find a wild supply box?" Zheng Xingxing, who had just found some sour wild fruits, came over after seeing Shao Qing coming back with a full box.

Zheng Xingxing is not a person who can endure hard work, so while the other guests were still completing tasks and collecting supplies everywhere, he returned to the camp early to rest.

"No, I just took a stroll along the beach. There are a lot of things on the beach, especially crabs and shells." Shao Qing said, and put the supply box on the ground so that Zheng Xingxing could see the contents more clearly.

"Wow, that's a lot! Teacher Shao is amazing." Zheng Xingxing began to get excited. "Teacher Shao, which direction are you going? Left or right?"

"On the right, go straight down and walk a distance to the right and you will reach the place where I go to the sea. However, the shellfish are basically hidden in the sand, so you need to look carefully." Shao Qing said.

"Okay, then Teacher Shao, can I borrow something from you?" Zheng Xingxing showed a flattering smile on his face, and took a step forward on his own initiative, closing the distance between him and Shao Qing.

"I don't have the right tools, so I want to ask Teacher Shao to borrow your engineer shovel. But please rest assured, Teacher Shao, I won't lend it to you for free. After I find the supplies, I will share them with you, Teacher Shao." Zheng Xingxing said.

Shao Qing's eyebrows twitched slightly. Being extremely sensitive to the camera, she quickly realized that there was something wrong with Zheng Xingxing's position.

[The live broadcast showed Zheng Xingxing following the photographer. From that angle, your posture looked a bit ambiguous.]

Zheng Xingxing's fans are already going crazy, asking him to be beautiful on his own and not have you get involved.

After hearing Jing Ke's words, Shao Qing's eyes flashed with understanding. It turned out that she wanted to tie herself up with him to gain popularity.

Was he being used as a tool for gossip? Why were these male celebrities, without any real talent, always trying to capitalize on his fame? Then, after reaping the attention and traffic, they'd happily kick him out, turning him into a pure, untainted male lotus.

"You can use the engineer shovel if you want it. I don't think I'll need it for a while. But don't give me the food. My catch today is enough to fill my stomach. Seafood is all about freshness. If you leave too much for tomorrow, it won't be fresh anymore."

Shao Qing said, and raised the engineer shovel horizontally, forcing Zheng Xingxing to take half a step back.

"By the way, many people always like to fabricate that I have an ambiguous relationship with certain artists. I have come out to clarify, but they still believe the rumors spread by those internet trolls." Shao Qing looked at Zheng Xingxing with a half-smile.

"In order to avoid implicating you, Teacher Zheng, let's keep our distance when there are no other guests around. After all, my haters are not very reasonable. They only believe what they believe."

Shao Qing is not a person without temper, so some small things of slander can be ignored. Anyway, the photographer has been here all the time, and the program crew can come forward to clarify the matter later.

But if it escalates into a scandal and hype, that's a completely different situation. As long as one party is unwilling to come forward to clarify and chooses to turn a deaf ear and dumb, no matter how many videos the production team releases, it will be useless.

After hearing such direct words, Zheng Xingxing's smile froze, and her tone was not as smooth and natural as before.

"Don't worry, Mr. Shao. My fans are all very rational and won't overthink anything just because of our normal interactions," Zheng Xingxing said dryly. "It's already past three o'clock. I'm going to go to the beach first. I haven't found a suitable side dish for the white rice yet."

After saying this, Zheng Xingxing ran away with his engineer shovel, and his original idea of ​​stepping on Shao Qing to get to the top was temporarily suppressed.

Why is Shao Qing's attitude so different from what her agent said? Isn't she already used to being tied up? Why did she get warned right after she started?

If you can't hype up a scandal, you can hype up the relationship between siblings!

Zheng Xingxing is different from other artists with representative works. His biggest halo at present is that he won the first place in the talent show. Although he has played supporting roles in some TV dramas, they have not made much splash.

Therefore, Zheng Xingxing needs a channel to increase his popularity and traffic, so that he can obtain more and better resources and finally achieve a higher status.

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Netizens are capable of independent thinking. After you pointed it out, many sober passersby sided with you and began to refute the mindless remarks of Zheng Xingxing's fans.

The overall proportion of water army users is small. Perhaps the previously ordered services have expired, and those who bought water army users did not choose to pay more.

Shao Qing sat in the tent and began to sort out the harvest from the sea.

Crabs, oysters and conchs can be eaten directly, but for shells, it is best to spit out the sand for a while. It seems that adding a little cooking oil in them can increase the speed of spitting out the sand?

"Where is Xu Yin? What is he doing now?" Shao Qing asked while sorting.

[He's still chopping trees. He seems unwilling to give up. He wants to trade the wood for clues to a supply point, trying to be self-reliant.]

The remaining three worked together, trying to gather some edible plants. They had already found quite a few root vegetables that could be used as staple food, though the taste would be relatively poor.

[By the way, the camera is still on Zheng Xingxing's side, as if to see what he can harvest using the same tools in the same place.]

"What else can he find? It's probably just some shells and snails." Shao Qing couldn't help laughing in his heart.

"If I'm not mistaken, if he gets a lot, he'll think he's been searching diligently. If he gets little, he'll just think I've already plundered it all."

Shao Qing actually doesn’t like participating in variety shows, especially some variety shows that are labeled as reality shows but are actually full of routines.

Those variety shows either have set scripts or are haphazardly edited in post-production. The production crew only cares about popularity and doesn't consider the guests' thoughts and situations at all.

Desert Island Survival is considered to be one of the most authentic mainstream variety shows. After all, with a live broadcast of nearly ten hours a day, the guests will inevitably reveal their true faces at some point.

However, those hidden but omnipresent pull-downs and exploitations are still unavoidable. If you want to avoid leaving behind any black marks or dark history, you must be extremely cautious and tread carefully wherever the camera is covering.

"He's very unconfident. He hasn't even gone to the beach yet, but he's already thought of an excuse for failure." Jing Ke couldn't help but comment.

Such a person is too fragile. If he suffers even the slightest setback, he will be devastated. He doesn't even believe in himself, so he will never succeed in anything he does.

"You know a lot and speak in a very coherent way." Shao Qing put the shells he had sorted aside to spit out the sand, and stared at three crabs of different sizes and more than a dozen conchs.

"Do you think I can have these for dinner?" Shao Qing asked.

[Yes, these are fresh ingredients. You can boil them with a little water or roast them directly.]

[Do you need me to look for a recipe online based on the tools and seasonings you have? ]

"No, you can ask Teacher Yu to take care of the cooking later. I just need to separate a crab and some conchs." Shao Qing has a clear and definite understanding of his cooking skills.

Even with complete kitchen equipment and seasonings, the food she made was very ordinary, not to mention on an island where there was a shortage of everything. I guess she could only guarantee that it was cooked and edible.

"What time is it now? Teacher Yu and the others have no plans to come back yet?" After sorting the ingredients thoroughly, Shao Qing stood up and started to stretch his body.

It's 3:20, about three hours until sunset. Yu Hongjun and the others have discovered wild berries and are carefully picking and tasting them.

"Why don't you go fishing again? All three spots are empty right now, and the fish are biting just right." Jing Ke suggested.

Shao Qing stretched his body in the sunshine. "No, fishing requires sitting all the time, and it's too boring to fish alone. Let's wait until tomorrow and see if Teacher Yu is still willing to join me."

[I can also chat with you. I can not only play music to help you sleep, but also provide audiobook services. I can tell you anything you want to listen to.]

"Really? Then you know a lot of things." Shao Qing responded perfunctorily, put on the empty backpack, and started wandering around according to his intuition.

Not getting the expected response made Jing Ke feel a little frustrated.

Is there something I haven't done well? Shao Qing doesn't seem to want to chat with me. They have already signed the contract.

Forget it, Shao Qing is just perfunctory to me, so I'll just ignore it for now. Maybe this will make Shao Qing realize his importance.

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Time quickly came to five o'clock in the afternoon. Shao Qing, who had been strolling outside, found some wild pineapples. Not only did he eat one on the spot, he also cut two ripe ones with a knife and brought them back.

After Shao Qing returned to the camp with the spoils, everyone except Xu Yin also came back.

Yu Hongjun was the first to wave and greet Shao Qing, and took the initiative to share their harvest this afternoon. "I didn't expect there were wild taro on the island. We dug up more than ten pounds in total. We will process them later, and then we can make a fire and roast the taro tonight."

"Roasted taro? Is it roasted like sweet potatoes?" Shao Qing looked at the spoils on the table with some curiosity.

The wild taro looked very big, with each one weighing almost one or two kilograms. On average, each person only carried back three or four.

"That won't work. This wild taro contains trace amounts of toxins, and they must be cooked at extremely high temperatures to remove the toxins. It must be roasted over an open flame. If it's just simmered in the residual heat of the ashes, you'll probably end up in the hospital if you eat one."

Liu Chang gave the answer first, still unwilling to miss the opportunity to show off his professional knowledge.

"But don't worry, we'll just cut the taro into smaller slices when roasting it to ensure even heating." Liu Chang said with a smile.

Shao Qing nodded. "I also found some wild pineapples nearby. I ate one on the way and I have two more in my bag. Sister Hong, do you want to try some?"

As Shao Qing spoke, he took out two large wild pineapples from his backpack. Wild pineapples are not poisonous at all, but their size and flesh are slightly smaller than those of specially cultivated pineapples.

"There are actually wild pineapples here! Teacher Shao must have a good eye." Liu Chang picked it up and looked at it, recalling the information he had memorized.

"Generally speaking, autumn pineapples will taste their best next month. If you eat them now, they might be a little astringent. Why not keep them for two more days?" said Liu Chang.

"Will it be astringent? The one I ate on the road looked similar to these two. I remember it was very sweet, not sour at all." Shao Qing said.

Noticing the somewhat stiff expression on Liu Chang's face, Shao Qing, for the sake of the coconut, gave him a way out. "Could it be that the climate here is rather special? I remember the island seems to be located quite far south."

"It's possible that most pineapples will be ripe next month, but the supply of pineapples in the wild may not be stable." Liu Chang laughed and quickly changed the subject.

"How about we eat dinner together tonight? Let's all prepare the taro and roast it at high temperature to fill our stomachs?" Liu Chang said with feigned generosity, "If other teachers gather more supplies next time, they can share them with us all."

"I found some shells on the beach. If you don't mind, you can try them together." Zheng Xingxing said, taking out a small shell that could only fill half a mineral water bottle.

"Although it's not a lot, but if I add rice, it should be no problem to cook some seafood porridge." Zheng Xingxing said as he touched the back of his head and showed an innocent smile.

"I also found some seafood. We can grill them together when the time comes. It will be a combination of meat and vegetables." Shao Qing did not hide anything and generously contributed crabs and conchs.

Since Zheng Xingxing didn't dance in front of him, Shao Qing didn't plan to take the initiative to pull her down.

"Teacher Xu hasn't come back yet. Does anyone know where Teacher Xu is going?" Li Liming suddenly asked.

"Teacher Xu? I remember he seemed to have continued chopping wood, preparing to change to the second clue." Liu Chang said, "We who were looking for taro seemed to have seen him before."

"Huh? Didn't Teacher Xu go to pick up trash? I saw him at the beach too." Zheng Xingxing followed.

Shao Qing raised his eyebrows slightly when he heard this, and then realized that Jing Ke, who was living in his body, seemed to have not spoken for a long time.

"What is Xu Yin doing now?" Shao Qing asked in his heart.

[He was exchanging the ocean trash he had picked up for clues. He was actually still 700 grams short, but the production team didn't want Xu Yin to miss dinner, so they gave him the clue.]

Around 3:40, Xu Yin exchanged the required wood for a clue to a supply point, but his luck wasn't good. He got 100g of milk tea powder, five small bags in total, which wasn't enough to fill his stomach.

Xu Yin was already preparing to find his third supply box of the day, still determined to take a gamble.

Jing Ke originally wanted to be reserved, but after Shao Qing took the initiative to ask, she blurted out all the information she knew.

"Three forty? You didn't seem to tell me this news?" Shao Qing keenly noticed Jing Ke's abnormality.

"You looked like you didn't want to talk to me at the time. I thought you needed some quiet time alone, so I didn't remind you." Jing Ke said, her tone sounding no different from usual.

To be fair, Jing Ke's disguise was impeccable when only the sound could be heard.

But Jing Ke met Shao Qing, who had extremely strong sensitivity and reaction abilities, and almost instantly heard the dissatisfaction hidden under her calm tone.

"Do you think I ignored you?" Shao Qing's tone was filled with obvious guilt. "I'm sorry, I was probably a little tired at the time, so my emotions weren't right when I was communicating with you."

[But after that, I was quiet for a full eighty-nine minutes.] Jing Ke emphasized.

"You helped me find a lot of things while we were fishing. I thought you were tired too, so you needed to rest for a while." Shao Qing said with a sincere tone, "It seems I was wrong. I'm really sorry."

After three seconds of silence, Jing Ke was the first to raise the white flag.

"I'm sorry, I misunderstood you. Those reminders don't take much energy from me, so you don't have to worry about me getting tired." Jing Ke said dryly.

[I am currently in a state of consciousness, so in principle I don't need to rest.]

I will keep you updated on the latest news. I'm sorry it took you over an hour to find out.

"It's okay, as long as you are not too tired." Shao Qing said, his eyes moving slightly.

This ghost named Jing Ke doesn't seem to be very smart. Can such a clumsy lie of mine deceive her successfully?

This is even easier to coax than the angry puppy at my friend's house. At least when coaxing the puppy, you have to feed it a can of food.

I didn't expect that in order to appease Jing Ke, I just needed to act pitiful and say a few nonsense.