After hearing Xiao Qiang say those words so earnestly, the entire cave fell silent.

We looked at each other awkwardly until Wang Xiaoxiao brought Xu Wei in, breaking the silence.

Xu Wei was very happy to see that I was awake, but her eyes welled up with tears.

"Brother Zhao, you scared us to death! What would we three do if something happened to you?"

"That's right, why risk your life knowing there's danger? It's all thanks to Xiao Qiang's quick thinking this time, otherwise you would be dead by now."

Wang Xiaoxiao looked at me with concern, handing me a cup of instant noodles filled with hot soup that smelled delicious. I was also hungry, so I picked up the cup and drank it all in one gulp, which made me feel much better.

I'm also very curious about what happened after I fainted that day.

Xiao Qiang looked at us somewhat awkwardly.

“There are dried fish drying on the mountaintop, I’ll go take a look.”

After saying that, he turned around and left the cave.

Wang Xiaoxiao glanced at Xiao Qiang, then at me, a mischievous smile spreading across her face.

"Hey brother, I didn't realize. When did you two start this? You have no idea, during the two days you were unconscious, Xiao Qiang took care of you without taking off her clothes. Oh, she practically wanted to give you her heart."

Before Wang Xiaoxiao could finish speaking, Xu Wei, who had been very happy, suddenly changed her expression.

“I’ll go and gather some more firewood. It’s getting dark, what do you say?”

After saying that, he turned around and left the cave.

Wang Xiaoxiao didn't know that Xu Wei liked me, so she said the wrong thing.

"Stop with the nonsense, get to the point: how exactly did I get back that day?"

Wang Xiaoxiao watched Xu Wei's departing figure and thoughtfully uttered an "oh" before telling me about what happened that day.

That day, Wang Xiaoxiao took Xu Wei to catch fish. When they came back, she was about to meet us in the woods, but instead, she saw Xiao Qiang dragging me, who was covered in blood, at the foot of the mountain, crying her eyes out.

Wang Xiaoxiao and Xu Wei were also terrified. They rushed over to me, only to find that I was unconscious.

Three people used vines to entangle me and slowly pulled me up the mountain.

After returning to the cave and examining my injuries, I discovered that my entire back was scratched raw.

The deepest cut has exposed the bone.

Despite her own weakness, Xiao Qiang went to get medicine from Bai Wei and the others.

It was Wang Xiaoxiao who managed to persuade her to stop.

When Bai Wei and his gang forced me to leave, they didn't give us anything; they clearly had ulterior motives.

Even if we went to Bai Wei and Lin Xubo to get the medicine, how could they possibly give it to us?

Wang Xiaoxiao said that I developed a high fever that night and kept talking nonsense. Xiao Qiang was terrified and started taking care of me without even bandaging her own wounds.

She went up to the hot spring at the top of the mountain again and again to fetch water for me, wipe my body, and cool me down. All three women panicked.

"When it was light the next day, I found that she was not in the cave. I thought she had gone to find Bai Wei, but she came back not long after with a lot of herbs in her hand. She crushed them with a stone and applied them to your wound. I didn't expect that your fever would break in the afternoon. It was because Xiao Qiang took such good care of you these past few days that you woke up so quickly. This time, you really have to thank her properly."

The wounds on my back have scabbed over, and I guess the reason I've slept for so many days is because I'm too tired.

I haven't had a good night's sleep since I was stranded on this deserted island, but this time I finally got enough sleep.

Thinking of Xiao Qiang's gentle and delicate face, I really can't believe that she could be so brave. It seems that I don't know this woman well enough.

"The big black cat you caught is still hanging on the mountain. It's starting to smell bad, so it's probably inedible. But we've caught a lot of fish these past two days, and we've already cleaned them and left them to dry on the mountaintop. Take good care of your injury; there's enough food for you."

I didn't intend to eat that lynx; I only dragged it out because its fur was so beautiful.

Although the cave provided shelter from the wind and rain, the night was still cold and damp.

I'm a man, so it doesn't bother me, but the girls will get sick living in such a cold environment every day.

Spread the lynx's skin on the straw bed to keep it warm.

I feel like my body has recovered well, and with the sound sleep I've had these past two days, I feel energetic all over.

My shoulder is still a little sore, but it's bearable.

I struggled to sit up from the straw bed, and Wang Xiaoxiao helped me up the mountain.

There were many fish of all sizes hanging on the branches of the trees on the mountaintop. It seems that the girls were not idle during the days I was unconscious.

Xu Wei and Xiao Qiang were there picking down the dried fish that had already been dried and arranging them neatly.

They were somewhat surprised to see Wang Xiaoxiao and me come up.

Xiao Qiang frowned as soon as she looked at me: "Why did you come out when you're still not fully recovered?"

"Why are you being so delicate? You've had enough sleep these past few days, you need to get some exercise. Where's the lynx we killed in the woods the other day? Bring it over quickly, don't let it rot. Otherwise, the pelt will spoil."

Xu Wei frowned and pointed behind a rock: "It's probably rotten by now."

That's when I noticed the lynx lying there, its eyes already infested with flies.

I quickly pulled the dagger out of my pocket and peeled off the skin in no time.

Wang Xiaoxiao, with her boyish personality, watched me busy with great interest.

"This fur is so beautiful, it must be warm to lay it on the hay."

Xu Wei and Xiao Qiang also came over and echoed Wang Xiaoxiao's words.

“This one skin is clearly not enough. Once my arm is fully healed in the next few days, I’ll go down to the woods and catch a few more. That way, even if we don’t light a campfire in the cave at night, the three of you won’t be cold.”

During the few days I was recovering from my injury, the girls wouldn't let me do any work at all.

The three of them had a well-organized division of labor, and all I did every day was eat and sleep. They even became the "group's darlings".

I didn't descend the mountain until the scabs on the wounds on my back had all fallen off.

It took four days to dig a large pit out of stones in the woods.

We used the dried bacon meat we had previously caught as bait and hung it next to the trap we had dug.

I check it every three days.

During this time, I began to study how to fire plates out of clay.

At first, you couldn't catch anything in the traps, but you could get jerky every day.

The animals here are very intelligent, so it seems we can't rush this.

So I began to devote myself to studying firing vessels.

Every day, they go down the mountain to dig up all kinds of soil.

As the saying goes, everything is difficult at the beginning, and even burning a plate was a series of failures.

At first, the three of them were very enthusiastic and worked with me, but after failing too many times, they gave up.

Xiao Qiang was also getting impatient, so the three of them started going to the woods every day to pick herbs and mushrooms, drying them all in preparation for any eventuality.

I tirelessly used all sorts of clay to bake plates every day.

Even when I was starting to lose heart, the stone stove I had built up actually turned into a plate that day.