In the firelight, the foot of the mountain shimmered with dazzling light.
Behind the mountain, the howling of wolves continued for quite some time. Since it was already late at night, Lu Wuyai did not dare to go out and look around, so he could only wait until morning.
The campfire could only bring Lu Wuyai a little warmth, but more than anything, it brought him a sense of anxiety.
Suddenly, a clear sound rang out from the darkness, and then the wolf's howling stopped.
Lu Wuyai gripped the harpoon, his eyes fixed on the darkest moment beyond the firelight, his heart pounding in his chest.
Who is it?
Lu Wuyai's eyes widened, and he quickly saw that his opponent was a wolf covered in blood, with a quill impaled in one of its eyes. It might be blind.
Even so, a fierce aura struck his face, making Lu Wuyai shiver with cold.
Just as he was about to retreat to the fire, Qin Feiming's voice suddenly rang out.
"Don't move, just stare at it. Otherwise, it will stay with you forever."
Lu Wuyai swallowed hard; Qin Feiming's words were truly frightening.
However, Lu Wuyai did as he was told, staring intently at the wolf, but his shifty eyes betrayed his true feelings.
it hurts.
Suddenly, a wolf howled, startling Lu Wuyai. He never imagined that a wild wolf could have such a powerful sensory impact on him.
It was a hunter subduing his prey. Lu Wuyai felt that no one could be an exception.
Lu Wuyai felt his legs go numb, and half of his body went numb too.
"Take your harpoon and stab it."
Lu Wuyai gripped his weapon tightly, Qin Feiming's words echoing in his ears.
"You must suppress the wolf's aura so that it will feel threatened the next time it sees you."
"Don't worry, you have fire. Face it alone, there's nothing to be afraid of."
After Qin Feiming finished speaking, he fainted again.
Lu Wuyai took a deep breath, lifted his leg, and walked forward. The firelight shone on his back, gradually enveloping the wolf's body.
Finally, the wolf howled, hid in the forest, and disappeared.
At this moment, Lu Wuyai finally gave up, rubbed his temples, and returned to the foot of the mountain exhausted.
Strangely, the wolf howl woke Qin Feiming, but the others showed no signs of waking up.
At that moment, a bloody smell seemed to permeate the air, drifting further and further away in the deathly still night.
Dawn broke quickly.
As dawn broke, Lu Wuyai couldn't resist the urge to go out.
But the impact of that blind wolf on him was so strong that it still lingered in his mind.
"If it weren't for Qin Feiming and the campfire, I probably would have shown my cowardice much earlier."
Lu Wuyai shook his head, glanced at Qin Feiming's sleepy-eyed appearance, and felt a little confused about this person.
Soon, Yu Yuxia woke up from her sleep. When she saw Lu Wuyai, her tense little face visibly relaxed.
"Did you stay up late last night?" Yu Yuxia looked at Lu Wuyai, a pang of guilt flashing through her heart.
It was obvious that there were two people on watch, but he couldn't resist falling asleep.
Lu Wuyai smiled and said, "It's okay, I'm almost used to it. I can just sleep for a while during the day."
Composing himself, Lu Wuyai looked at the rosy dawn in the eastern sky and said, "I'm going to check out the back mountain, but don't come over yet."
Yu Yuxia hesitated for a moment, then nodded and handed the harpoon to Lu Wuyai.
Be careful.
Yu Yuxia suddenly stretched out her arms and gently hugged Lu Wuyai, a blush rising on her fair face.
Lu Wuyai was taken aback for a moment, but didn't think much of it. He simply said that the other person cared about him.
"Just like you"
Lu Wuyai took the harpoon and turned to walk towards the back mountain. Along the way, a faint smell of blood lingered in the air.
Half an hour later, Lu Wuyai saw obvious footprints on the ground, shaped like plum blossoms, which were very likely the footprints of wild wolves.
Lu Wuyai secretly thought that, judging from this blind lone wolf, his trap must have been successful.
Soon, as the sun rose, he saw a wolf hanging motionless on a crooked sapling on the back hill, blood at the corner of its mouth, seemingly unwilling to rest.
Seeing this, Lu Wuyai felt excited. This simple trap could really kill wolves.
However, after wandering around, many traps were destroyed, but no wolf carcasses were found.
Overall, last night's efforts were worthwhile, and even quite fruitful.
A few pieces of rabbit entrails actually killed a wolf.
Lu Wuyai swung his axe and cut the rope connecting the trap, and the wolf fell to the ground.
"A bit thin." Lu Wuyai touched the wolf's body. It wasn't as muscular as he had imagined.
"Even a small mosquito is still meat, and this wolf can eat it for at least two days."
Lu Wuyai tied the body up with tree rope and dragged it all the way to the foot of the mountain.
At that moment, everyone else woke up and looked at the dead wolf, licking their lips one by one.
The two rabbits from last night were divided equally among everyone. After a night of digestion, they were hungry.
So, Yu Mengru and Ye Meng randomly found a clean puddle and cleaned themselves on the spot.
Lu Wuyai once again used the wolf's entrails. He randomly chose a spot, set some traps, and planned to return at dusk.
But what Lu Wuyai was thinking about was how to improve the material of the rope catcher.
In fact, most of the traps on the mountain were successfully triggered after last night. However, tree ropes or thorns are not very effective at binding animals. If we could use steel wire or other alternatives, we could certainly catch more animals.
The wolves were probably among the few carnivores on the deserted island. They must not have seen many traps before. Taking advantage of this time, Lu Wuyai felt he should make a proper plan.
"Hey, I don't seem to be afraid of wolves at all."
Lu Wuyai muttered to himself, only then realizing that his fear of wolves had lessened considerably.
Looking back at the others, the way they cleaned up the wolf carcass and the way they ate the wolf meat seemed absurd.
To be honest, the wolf meat didn't taste very good. After eating it, you'd feel a strange burning sensation that would disappear after a while.
In comparison, rabbit meat is absolutely delicious.
"Lu Wuyai, we're almost out of fresh water," Gu Yuxin called out from the foot of the mountain.
"It disappeared very quickly."
Lu Wuyai smacked his lips. He had just been to Shiqiu yesterday, but he had drunk all the water in the stream.
Su Xi washed her hands, looked up, and said to Lu Wuyai, "I will go to Shishan with you again and buy some clay while we're there."
The pot-making process was not going well, and the clay was almost used up.
Soon, before noon, Lu Wuyai and Su Xi left the air-raid shelter at the foot of the mountain. The two passed through the forest and quickly approached the rocky mountain.
Around 1 p.m., Lu Wuyai and Su Xi stopped near the rocky mountain because someone was fetching water from the stream at the foot of the mountain, and the person had five perfectly intact buckets.
"They are Liu Gongming's men."
Lu Wuyai squinted and saw a familiar person, Su Xi.
After not seeing each other for a while, she seemed to have developed a second phase, becoming even more feminine than before. Several men around her were staring at her greedily.
Su Xi suddenly approached Lu Wuyai and said with a smile, "I felt very unhappy when I saw my ex-lover."
He snorted. "Don't be so strange." Lu Wuyai glanced at Su Xi, feeling genuinely unhappy. Especially when he thought about Su Xi's previous actions, he wanted nothing more than to tear her to pieces, including Liu Gongming.
"A man shouldn't be so stingy."
“I’m petty.” Lu Wuyai was almost losing his temper when he reached out and slapped Su Xi on the shoulder.
With a snap.
Suddenly, Su Xi blushed with embarrassment and pinched Lu Wuyai's waist hard.
Hissing sound.
Lu Wuyai gasped, almost screaming. The two men exchanged a glance in the grass. A long time passed before they heard people leaving the stream one by one.
"I'll go see, you've come to fetch water."
Lu Wuyai rubbed his lower back and quietly followed the others into the forest, heading upstream towards the stream.
Seeing that the person had gone far away, Su Xi also came out of the bushes, took a water bottle, and quickly filled it with water.
Ten minutes later, after crossing the upper reaches of the stream, Lu Wuyai realized that the group showed no signs of stopping and were still walking. It seemed that their residence was not near the rocky mountain.
Occasionally, Lu Wuyai would see two people from the opposing team suddenly turn towards the forest, a man and a woman, their actions suggestive. Without thinking, Lu Wuyai roughly knew what they were about to do.
They used the sky as their blanket and the earth as their mat.
This is a major blow to single people.
Lu Wuyai spat on the ground and turned to leave, but out of the corner of his eye he saw that the person leaving the group was carrying a bucket of water.
After entering the forest, he placed the bucket in the grass and ignored it, then led the woman directly into the woods.
Lu Wuyai stood there for a while before finally quietly following behind.
With his back hunched over, using the grass and bushes for cover, Lu Wuyai arrived at the bucket, a buzzing sound ringing in his ears.
"Dogs and people."
Lu Wuyai cursed, then carefully poured out the water from the bucket, picked it up, and left as quickly as possible.
When he returned to the stream, Lu Wuyai was beaming with excitement. With this bucket, his days would be much easier from now on.
When Lu Wuyai returned to Shishan, Ye Meng, who was hiding in the bushes, naturally saw him.
She came out looking surprised and said, "You stole their buckets!"
"How could that be? I took it secretly," Lu Wuyai raised his chin, quite proud of himself.
I got this bucket without any effort, and the material is sturdy enough that it won't break easily and can be used for a long time.
However, Lu Wuyai still said, "Leave here quickly, I'll tell you slowly on the way."
He was worried that the other party's people would chase him, so he had to leave when it was safe to do so.
Su Xi nodded, carrying the life-saving kit, and led the way. As for Lu Wuyai, the bucket was already full of water; a twenty-liter capacity was quite heavy.
"Can't you lift it?"
Seeing Lu Wuyai staggering behind him, Su Xi couldn't help but ask.
"You can move, you can go your own way."
"You always look back at me, do you have feelings for me?"
"I'm annoyed. God is very interested in you." Su Xi blushed and spat.
Lu Wuyai also held his breath. In the past, he could even lift 40 liters of water, let alone 20 liters.
However, since the plane crash, the lack of food and initial dehydration have left everyone malnourished. If this continues, they will easily fall ill.
After walking for a while, Lu Wuyai asked how much further it was.
"It's quite far. It's 1:30 now, so I think we won't get there until 2:30."
"Then let's hurry up."
Lu Wuyai urged him on, panting, and they rested several times along the way. The main reason was that the water buckets were too heavy.
As a result, around three o'clock, they stopped outside a valley overgrown with weeds. There were obvious signs of water flow, and the terrain was quite flat.
Lu Wuyai looked at it carefully and sighed, "This place is so suitable for people to live in, why didn't you tell me before?"
There is a natural, clean haven in the valley. It is closer to the rocky mountain than to the foot of the mountain.
Su Xi shook her head: "We used to think this place was great, but we saw several black bears in the valley. This place is not suitable for human habitation."
Hearing this, Lu Wuyai felt a pang of regret, but he was always content. After digging up enough soil outside the valley, he and Su Xi continued their journey.
Exhausted, they reached the foot of the mountain at the last moment before nightfall.
As a result, the two of them walked out of the woods and bumped into each other without prior arrangement.
"Hissing sound."
Lu Wuyai covered his head, looked closely, and found that it was Yu Mengru and Song Xiaoyou. Then he complained, "It's almost evening, what are you doing here?"
At this point, Yu Yuxia's face turned red. She glared at him fiercely, grabbed Song Xiaoyou, and turned to leave.
"Why does it taste like blood?"
Lu Wuyai immediately sniffed and subconsciously glanced at the grassy area where the two women had just come from, his expression turning somewhat strange.
"So, my aunt is here."
This kind of thing often happens on deserted islands, but it's relatively easier to handle on a beach.
Su Xi chuckled twice and went to the foot of the mountain first, followed closely by Lu Wuyai. The bucket he brought immediately attracted everyone's attention.
"My God, where did you get this?"
"Having this bucket is so convenient for us."
Hearing the cheers, Qin Feiming opened his eyes, his dark eyes revealing exhaustion.
In the evening, we ate wolf meat, drank stream water, and chatted for a while, but fatigue washed over us like waves.
It was Dong Bingling and Song Xiaoyou's turn to keep watch, while the others lay quietly in their sleeping bags, the air filled with the long-absent sound of snoring. Before they knew it, it was already around 12:30 a.m.
Meow.
A sudden sound came from the mountainside, immediately stimulating Gu Yuxin's interest, who was originally dozing off.
Is it a stray cat?
"Song Xiaoyou, did you hear that?"
In the pitch-black night, the sound seemed exceptionally distant. Song Xiaoyou pricked up his ears and heard a hissing sound, similar to a cat's meow.
"I didn't expect there to be cats here," Dong Bingling said excitedly. "I'll go check it out."
As soon as she stood up, Song Xiaoyou stood up at the same time, grabbed her by the collar, and pulled her back.
At the same time, a black animal flashed past in the firelight, cutting off several strands of long hair that were falling in front of Dong Bingling's forehead.
A flash of lightning startled Gu Yuxin, who screamed in fright.
ah
The next second, everyone except Qin Feiming was woken up. They rubbed their sleepy eyes and gradually woke up.
Meow.
At the foot of the mountain, a gust of wind blew, stirring up clouds of ash. Several figures silently appeared in the forest opposite the foot of the mountain.
Those large eyes, flashing with an eerie blue light, flickered like will-o'-the-wisps in the darkness.
"Who cares?" Lu Wuyai's eyes widened. In the darkness, even with a campfire, he couldn't see anything clearly.
Those people look like felines.
"Be careful." Song Xiaoyou still protected Dong Bingling: "The other side is very powerful."
At the foot of the mountain, everyone was holding weapons. Gu Yuxin kept adding firewood to the campfire, hoping the flames would burn more fiercely.
However, everyone was worried because the deterrent effect of the fire did not seem to be particularly significant for the animals on the deserted island.
Soon, illuminated by the firelight, an animal that looked like a cat gracefully stopped in an open space ten meters away from the campfire.
This is an animal several times larger than a typical domestic cat. Its face has a distinctive tricolor pattern, resembling a Peking Opera mask. When it bares its teeth, the sharp fangs inside gleam coldly.
Lu Wuyai felt that the wolf's teeth were not as sharp as his own.
"What is this? The cat is playing."
"Everyone be careful."
"Something else has come out."
Before long, dozens of masked cats of varying sizes gathered in the open space, their dark golden fur exuding a murderous aura.
Meow.
Suddenly, several "kittens" leaped across the campfire and approached Mengru and Yemeng at an astonishing speed.
"Go away"
Lu Wuyai had been preparing for this for a long time. Just then, the saw in his hand smashed to the ground, shattering several of the wolf fangs.
Meow.
As soon as the kittens retreated, Yu Yuxia turned pale with fright, but Su Xi wasn't so lucky.
A masked cat left a bloody gash on her thigh, a large chunk of tender flesh rolling out. Su Xi couldn't help but gasp in pain, her eyes changing as she looked at Lu Wuyai.
"You chose to save Su Xirou first, instead of me."
Am I worse than her?
For a time, Ye Meng was full of thoughts, and his arrogant personality made people feel that he had been thrown to the ground and repeatedly trampled on.
"What are you thinking about? Come here quickly."
Lu Wuyai's voice suddenly roared, startling Su Xi awake and making her realize the danger before her.
She glanced at Lu Wuyai, and after taking a few steps, a large-faced cat suddenly appeared on the other side of the foot of the mountain, baring its teeth and claws as it pounced on the sleeping Qin Feiming.
It was clearly too late to save Qin Feiming.
But Su Xi suddenly found an arm around her neck. She took a step back and felt a heavy aura rush towards her.
"Qin Feiming, what are you doing?"
As Lu Wuyai roared in shock, Su Xi finally realized that she had actually been taken hostage by Qin Feiming.
A man who had been unconscious due to a leg injury revealed a horrific motive at this moment.
"Qin Feiming, put her down for me."
Lu Wuyai felt a surge of anger rush into his brain. He was about to charge forward with the harpoon in his hand, but the agile feline ignored the threat of the campfire and gracefully arrived at the space at the foot of the mountain.
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