Chapter 105
Sea breeze, birdsong.
There are tropical vegetation everywhere, and...
Puppeteers with strange looks.
"A puppeteer who treats puppets as teammates hopes to find a scapegoat at the critical moment!"
An unfriendly voice broke the silence first.
Miu Yi narrowed his eyes immediately and was about to step forward to argue when Pei Zhao grabbed his arm.
"Why bother with those people?" Pei Zhao whispered, "Don't you know whether they are scapegoats or not?"
Miu Yi snorted coldly. He was still angry, but he did not continue to act impulsively.
Pei Zhao looked at them indifferently, his expressionless eyes passing across each of their faces.
Such blatant scrutiny made the other puppeteers nervous, but Pei Zhao was only looking at their attire.
Just like the puppeteers I had seen before in the system center, these puppeteers came from different worlds and had strong regional characteristics, each one was different.
The only thing they have in common is their discrimination against puppets. And their attitude of sharing the same hatred towards Pei Zhao.
"What are you looking at?"
His gaze stayed on a few seconds and unconsciously fell on a man. The man immediately jumped up and glared at Pei Zhao as if his tail was stepped on.
Pei Zhao chuckled and didn't care.
They are just a bunch of boring people, perhaps they are just provoking disputes here to protect themselves. If they prove themselves now, they will probably attract more people's attention and become the target of joint attack.
It’s better to be silent.
Pei Zhao didn't even glance at him, but lowered his eyes and instructed Zhou Yuli: "It looks like a foreign battle royale variety show. It's getting dark now. We'd better find a place to rest. We should do it first, otherwise..." Pei Zhao winked.
Otherwise, once they realize what’s happening, we might not have a place to stay.
Zhou Yuli immediately understood and was about to leave the team to look for him when Pei Zhao grabbed his wrist.
"Bai Zhou, Lan Ji, and Miu Yi, the three of you go. It's best to find a tree house or two places. Just in case, find a place that's a little further away."
The three of them nodded and went their separate ways.
The huge five-man target became three.
Pei Zhao took Zhou Yuli to collect firewood nearby and made a simple fire. While I was lighting the fire, I heard the other puppeteers talking.
"Who knows what they're going to test? What basic qualities? After traveling through so many worlds, how can you not have any qualities?"
"That's right, it's useless to do anything. By the way, where do you live? The house in the system center is really nice. I don't even want to go back to the original world, hahahaha!"
"You haven't tried their restaurant yet, that's the greatest invention of this century. In my opinion, being a puppeteer is better than being an ordinary human. The food, clothing, housing and transportation are many times more advanced!"
"It feels like we are the highest level of human civilization, hahaha, and we are enjoying it."
“…”
These voices, both male and female, sounded extremely harsh to Pei Zhao.
But there was no trace of emotion on his face as he was trying patiently but clumsily to light the fire using stones and hay.
"Hehe, he's a pervert and his brain is not good either." A burly man wearing a green wild shirt and a sun hat, hugged the thin, dark-skinned man next to him wearing a Taoist robe and with two mustaches under his nose, and said sarcastically.
"There are too many perverts these days. Hey, man, you're eating and living with a puppet. You might as well buy an inflatable doll online. Hahaha!" The thin black man's voice was high and shrill, making people sound physically uncomfortable.
He made two "tsk tsk" sounds and deliberately asked Pei Zhao, "Brother, can you sleep with a puppet? Is it fun to sleep with a puppet?"
"Hahahahahaha!" The thin black man and the burly man burst into laughter.
Pei Zhao just wanted to treat them as farts. But he noticed that Zhou Yuli's movements slowed down and his expression changed.
"Zhou Yuli," Pei Zhao held Zhou Yuli's hand, his expression calm, and said softly, "If you are angry now, then you are really as stupid as they say."
Pei Zhao raised his hand, and amid the growing laughter of the two men, he placed his hand on Zhou Yuli's neck.
"Why are you always so easily led by other people's words? Huh? Why don't you listen to me?" Pei Zhao's voice was gentle.
Zhou Yuli was stunned for a moment.
They rarely show such intimacy in front of outsiders.
Zhou Yuli blushed slightly and looked at Pei Zhao cautiously: "I will listen to you, only what you say."
There was only Pei Zhao in his eyes, and the shrill laughter had long been thrown away to somewhere unknown.
The two people's actions were obvious, and those people exaggeratedly said "Wow" and "Oh my God"
“So disgusting”…
The pretentious scream exploded in his ears, but Pei Zhao turned a deaf ear to it.
He just kept pinching Zhou Yuli's neck in an intimate manner, and Zhou Yuli's ears turned red.
Just then, Miu Yi ran back.
Seeing the puppeteers still gathered here and Pei Zhao who was playing with fireflies on the ground, Miu Yi was confused and squatted beside Pei Zhao with his hands on his knees, puzzled.
"Brother Bai and Brother Lan, we've found a good place. It's a tree on an island in the middle of a lake! There are fish in the lake, and Brother Lan said we can use the lake water to make ice spikes for self-defense. Brother, don't we have Brother Bai's fire? Why are you bothering with this?"
Pei Zhao put down the stone and patted Miu Yi's head: "This is called making a feint to the east and attacking in the west. Also, it is better to strike first."
After saying that, he stood up and clapped his hands.
He glanced with a half-smile at the group of people around him who were laughing and doing nothing.
The sky is getting darker and darker, and the wild rainforest is bound to be full of dangers.
These "advanced humans" who consider themselves "normal" do not go looking for a place to live, but are just chatting and laughing here.
I'm really used to being served by the system.
No wonder those systems want to be independent, the first step is to clean up the house.
Pei Zhao took Zhou Yuli and followed Miu Yi to take a detour to the selected camp.
On the way, Zhou Yuli asked, "How did you come up with the idea of setting up camp?"
Pei Zhao smiled and said, "I just happened to have watched the Battle Royale variety show, and there is also some home-loving trait in my genes. I always feel that I can only feel at ease if I have a place to live."
Zhou Yuli did not hide his admiration and said bluntly: "You are really smart."
"Of course." Pei Zhao raised half an eyebrow and patted Zhou Yuli's butt gently. "Unlike you, who is always so stupid as to take other people's words to heart. Remember, I haven't completely forgiven you for what happened last time. It's just that I have something important to do first, so I'll record it for you."
"I know." Zhou Yuli nodded and lowered his head to reflect on himself.
Whether it was Sudi or these puppeteers, no matter whether their values were the same or not, Pei Zhao could always respect each of them, listen to them and let it go, still sticking to his own principles.
And I, like a single-celled organism, take everything others say to heart.
"I won't do this again in the future." Zhou Yuli whispered.
"Yeah." Pei Zhao curled the corners of his mouth, put his arm around Zhou Yuli's waist, and seemed to be in a good mood.
I just looked at that group of people. This round of assessment should be relatively simple. There don't seem to be many smart people.
You only need to get into the top fifth, you don't have to be first.
Pei Zhao made this conclusion based on the expressions and attitudes of those people.
Before tonight, at least one-fifth of those people will be dead.
As for how he died.
Pei Zhao's eyes flashed.
Either they were frozen to death or they were murdered.
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After walking for almost an hour, the uneven muddy grass finally became flat.
A roughly circular lake appeared before my eyes.
There are three big trees in the middle of the lake, and a bonfire has been lit under the trees.
Seeing Bai Zhou and Lan Ji standing on the tree from a distance, he looked for Zhang Shou and shouted, "Brother Bai, Brother Lan——"
The two people on the tree paused and turned back.
Lan Ji: "You pack up first, I'll go pick them up."
Bai Zhou nodded and raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead.
Lan Ji jumped down from the tree and raised his hand to create a long icy path on the water.
The three of them stepped on it, and the ice melted wherever they walked.
Pei Zhao stuck his head out to look at the place where there was no ice. The water was turbid and dark, and it seemed bottomless.
Pei Zhao said to Zhou Yuli, "It seems that this place is still quite dangerous. No one would dare to swim here at night."
"Yeah." Zhou Yuli agreed, "We should also take some precautions at night in case we have to stay here for a long time."
Pei Zhao nodded in agreement.
It takes more than ten minutes to walk carefully from the shore to the center of the lake. After landing, Bai Zhou also jumped down from the tree and raised his chin to Zhou Yuli.
"The dangerous branches above have been cleared. Can we use your wooden vine frame to build the house?" Bai Zhou asked.
Zhou Yuli readily agreed and used the ready-made wooden vines to wrap around the tree, which was much more stable than the one he built himself.
Lan Ji said: "There are some fish in the lake that look edible. We can grill them tonight. There are also some unknown creatures. I am afraid that there may be some that we cannot control, so we did not freeze the lake on a large scale."
"You did the right thing." Pei Zhao patted Lan Ji's shoulder.
"The biggest problem now is the water problem," Lan Ji frowned, "The water I treated is of a relatively high purity and cannot be absorbed by the human body. It may cause diarrhea... I'm afraid we need to find a way to make some drinking water."
Pei Zhao thought for a moment and said, "I can make a simple water purifier. It would be nice if it rains here at night."
"We don't know what the climate will be like yet." Lan Ji said, "But when I was looking for a place to live just now, I found that the vegetation here is different from your world. I've never seen it before."
Pei Zhao also discovered this.
It's not that we haven't seen it in daily life. We have never seen it even on TV programs that introduce tropical rainforest vegetation.
"Let me do it first and see the situation at night. If it rains, it would be the best. If not, we can only use lake water." Pei Zhao said.
The quiet lake water occasionally fluctuates. The lake is bottomless and no one knows what kind of creatures live underneath. Unless it is absolutely necessary, he does not want to drink the water, and he does not want to disturb the creatures living underwater.
The continuous "swoosh, swoosh, swoosh" sounds of something breaking through the air caused Pei Zhao and Lan Ji to look up, and they were stunned for a moment.
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