He walked straight to a crooked coconut tree at the edge of the beach and took out the novice axe from the system space - it was a thing he had left behind when he was disassembling supplies before, and he didn't expect it to come in handy so soon.
“Crack!”
He swung the axe and hit the not-too-thick coconut tree trunk.
The movements were quick and decisive, without any delay, and wood chips flew everywhere.
[Ding! Collection successful! Obtained: Wood*3, Fresh Coconuts*2!]
[System Tips: Wood can be used to upgrade vehicles or make simple tools.]
Lu Ye's eyes lit up, as if he had discovered a new world.
I was so busy fishing for boxes in the sea that I ignored these fixed resource points.
This island is simply a small treasure trove!
He immediately turned around and shouted at Shen Shu and Su Baiyue who were still studying the corpse.
"Stop looking! Come get to work! Get all the coconuts off this tree, and those few over there, chop down everything you can!"
Then, he turned his gaze to the guy who was still struggling to survive on the beach: "Hey, do you want to live?"
The man raised his head with difficulty, and finally there was a faint light in his eyes.
Lu Ye pointed at the coconut tree next to him with his chin: "If you want to live, get up and work. Chop trees and move wood. If you do a good job, you will have food and drink."
The man struggled for a few times, his voice hoarse: "I... my name is Liu Chenggong... Big Brother."
"Stop talking nonsense!" Lu Ye was too lazy to get close to him. He took out two compressed biscuits and half a bottle of mineral water from his backpack and threw them in front of him. "Fill your stomach first, and then get back to work!"
Liu Chenggong looked at the biscuits and water on the ground, his eyes turned green. He grabbed them and stuffed them into his mouth, gobbling them up so fast that he almost choked to death.
The water was gone in just a few gulps.
Liu Chenggong looked at the food thrown out by the other party and had some bad thoughts, but when he caught a glimpse of the grappling hook launcher on Lu Ye's waist that was flashing with cold metallic light, all his resentment disappeared in an instant, and he was left with only nodding and bowing.
"Yes, yes, brother, I'll do it right away, right away!" He crawled to his feet, picked up the other spare axe thrown by Lu Ye, and staggered towards the coconut tree.
Lu Ye turned to look at Su Baiyue and whispered, "Let's keep this guy for the time being. I'm going to take Shen Shu to the sea to get something. Can you handle him here by yourself?"
Su Baiyue glanced at Liu Chenggong's thin back and pondered for a moment: "He's definitely fine in his current state. However, it's better to be safe than sorry. It's best to leave me something to defend myself."
After all, people's hearts are hidden. Who knows whether Liu Chenggong will have any evil thoughts after he recovers some strength.
"Take it." Lu Ye didn't hesitate and directly stuffed the gleaming Alloy Engineer Hoe that he had disassembled earlier into Su Baiyue's hand. "This thing is quite powerful when you swing it. Send a signal if you need anything."
He gripped the grappling hook launcher tightly, and with Shen Shu, he turned and walked towards the high-end white speedboat parked on the beach.
Although no one knows who the owner of this speedboat is, it is now obviously his trophy.
After checking, I found that there was still half a tank of gas in the tank, enough to run for a while.
He drove his boat through the blue waves, and the roar of the engine was particularly clear on the sea.
Shen Shu sat in the passenger seat, looking at the island behind her that was getting smaller and smaller, and couldn't help but speak, with a hint of worry in her voice.
"Lu Ye, you're just going to leave her alone on the island? And you even gave her weapons... What if she..."
She didn't finish her words, but her meaning was very clear. What if Su Baiyue took that Liu Chenggong and ran away with the supplies on the island and the speedboat?
Lu Ye looked straight ahead with a playful smile on his lips.
"Run? Where can she run to?"
He turned his head to glance at Shen Shu, his eyes full of confidence.
"Let's not talk about Su Baiyue's speedboat for now. The fuel we gave it earlier is probably almost empty, and now this new one isn't full either. Without enough fuel, how far can she go in this vast ocean? Not to mention..."
Lu Ye patted the grappling hook launcher on his waist, his tone relaxed but with an unquestionable sense of oppression.
"My grappling hook has a range of fifty meters. It can kill sharks in the water with one shot. Do you think a person on land can escape from my grasp? She's a smart person. She knows who to follow to get the meat."
Shen Shu nodded in sudden realization: "Oh... no wonder you are so relieved."
She breathed a sigh of relief, but then a strange emotion welled up inside her, and she muttered softly, "Fortunately, you're not so easy to trust a woman you've only known for a few days..."
*Oh, are you jealous?
Lu Ye keenly caught the slight awkwardness in her tone and couldn't help but feel amused.
His tone was soothing.
"Don't worry, I, Lu Ye, have always kept my public and private affairs separate. I know exactly when to do what. We are in a partnership now, and our interests are tied together. Don't think too much about anything else."
The speedboat sped across the sea, and the system's map showed scattered light spots of supply boxes nearby.
Along the way, they also met other survivors.
Some of them were really miserable. They just had a small piece of wood or a broken tire, and they were struggling tenaciously in the water with their hands. When they saw Lu Ye's obviously advanced speedboat coming, their eyes were full of greed.
There were also some who were a little luckier and had a surfboard with a sail, or a simple raft, but the boat owners saw Lu Ye's speedboat approaching from afar, and before it got close, they were so scared that they desperately waved white cloth strips that they had torn from somewhere, indicating surrender, for fear of being slaughtered as fat sheep.
Lu Ye just glanced at them coldly. The boats of these people were empty and they didn't even have any decent weapons. They posed no threat to him and he couldn't squeeze any money out of them. Naturally, he was too lazy to waste fuel to deal with them.
Shen Shu looked at the miserable condition of those people and held on to the side of the boat tightly.
"It's a good thing I met you at the beginning. If I were alone, or just on that surfboard, I'd probably be..."
She didn't say anything else, but her glance at the bloated corpses that occasionally floated on the sea, and the fear in her expression said it all.
She had no doubt that if it weren't for Lu Ye, she would have become one of them long ago.
Lu Ye looked at Shen Shu, who was still in shock. He reached out and gently patted her shoulder, his voice softening a bit: "Don't worry, it's all over. I'm here, and I will definitely not abandon you."
Are you kidding? In today's world, a reliable doctor is more important than anything else. If I get seriously injured one day, I have to rely on her to save my life. This is a mobile medical kit. Where can I find it if I lose it?
Lu Ye's mind was busy calculating, but his face showed the look of a reliable elder brother.
However, even though Lu Ye's tone was firm, the uneasiness deep in Shen Shu's eyes did not completely disappear.
She forced a smile and nodded, but her gaze involuntarily drifted to the sea in the distance.
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