Chapter 72

After the black fish meat was minced, Qiao Sheng was about to enter the kitchen when she saw a boat not far away moving side by side with them. Their target was the island. This should be one of the other two ships mentioned by the system.

After standing on the second-floor terrace and watching for a while, no one from the other side came out. After trying to find out about the enemy, Qiao Sheng decided to go back to the kitchen to make dinner.

When Li Mu came up to roll the noodles, she pointed them out to them and was curious about why the other side was only a second-class ship. This was too confusing.

"Then let's be careful. Let's move away before we stop the boat." Li Mu took a look and began to knead the dough. The hand-rolled noodles were chewy, so kneading the dough was key.

As soon as the fish ball noodle soup came out of the pot, their boat hit the rocks on the shore. The two of them scooped out the noodle soup and put it on the small kang table in the warm room, then went downstairs and moved to the side with a bamboo pole.

When Qiao Sheng went out to check the distance, he found that the boat next to him was also moving. It seemed that everyone had the same idea and wanted to stay away from other players.

After parking the boat, the two of them did not rush to the island. They went back to the warm room to eat first. After dinner, they stood on the third deck and finally saw the other boat. Judging from the speed and direction of their drifting, they should eventually dock to the right of the other boat.

The three ships were docked at the following positions: Qiao Sheng's ship was on the far left, the second-level ship was in the middle, and the ship that had not arrived yet was on the far right. This distribution was good, so they would not be caught in the middle. If something happened, it would be difficult to escape.

After dinner, when it was completely dark, the two of them secretly went to the island from the left side with their small backpacks on their backs. After entering the forest, they started chopping trees. Their goal was clear. When they didn't know the situation of the players on the two ships next to them, they had to collect trees secretly.

However, after experiencing the wolf pack before, they didn't dare to go too far, so they could chop trees at the edge of the forest, and observe the situation on the shore outside the forest while chopping trees. The third ship was parked at the far right position, and a man got off and entered the forest along the right side.

"Only the middle boat is quiet. There are two boats, one with two people and one with three people. Now only one person has come down. It's hard to judge." Qiao Sheng analyzed quietly.

As soon as he finished speaking, a person from the middle boat also came down secretly under the moonlight. Judging from her figure, it should be a young woman. The details are not clear, but the outline can be seen.

It seems that the players of the three boats are people who don't want to cause trouble, but the details still need to be observed carefully.

After chopping trees for two hours in the dark, the two people went around and sneaked back to the boat. While brushing his teeth, Qiao Sheng secretly opened the wooden door of the second-floor cabin a little, just to observe when the people from the two boats will come back.

Fortunately, they didn't follow for too long, and they came back. More importantly, they bumped into each other. Qiao Sheng stood in the door and clearly saw that both of them were stunned for a moment, and then the young woman in the middle boat quickly ran back to the boat, and the remaining man in the rightmost boat was stunned for a moment and also returned to the boat.

Lying on the bed, Qiao Sheng was still analyzing, and Li Mu was so sleepy from analyzing. She first analyzed the young woman in the middle boat. The reason why a girl came down to cut wood in this situation was actually quite simple. There must be no men on the boat. Even if we don't know whether there are three people or two people on the boat, we can be sure that the main laborer must be the woman we just saw.

There are only three possibilities for the people on the boat who can be protected by the woman: the elderly, children, and the wounded. The boat on the far right is even simpler. Only one man got off, which means there are no other men on the boat. Even if there are, they are wounded and cannot get off.

"Do you think my analysis is correct? So no matter from which angle, we don't have to be afraid. We are both strong and healthy, and we are definitely stronger than those two boats. However, we are not the kind of people who bully the weak. We just need to avoid them when the time comes." Qiao Sheng spoke clearly. Li Mu was drowsy, but he subconsciously hummed and continued.

Looking sideways, she saw Li Mu lying face up with his eyes closed, obviously he had fallen asleep. Qiao Sheng whispered to him, and the sleeping man immediately said "yes", which made her laugh so hard. Even though she was so sleepy, he didn't even say a word to ask her to shut up, but just kept talking to her one by one, which was a little cute.

When she woke up, Li Mu was no longer in bed. Qiao Sheng climbed up slowly, remembering that she had to go ashore soon, so she quickly got up and washed up. Breakfast was already heating up in the pot in the kitchen. When she went downstairs with corn in her hand, she saw Li Mu squatting at the bow of the boat on the first floor, cooking shark meatballs for the cassock cub.

The troughs and water tanks of other animals were also filled with food and water. They were arranged properly. After saying hello and knowing that he had finished eating, Qiao Sheng went upstairs to have breakfast, then moved the cover in the greenhouse, put four planting pots in, planted chili peppers, and filled the stove in the kitchen with firewood.

When he came down again, the cassock cub was already eating with a snort. Li Mu was packing the things he wanted to bring in his waist bag and wrist bag. Qiao Sheng went to the storage room to get his backpack. The two discussed that this time they came for wood, and other supplies were collected by chance,

so they would definitely go back to the ship frequently to deliver supplies. There was no need to bring food, but some water could be brought.

"I got up early, before the sun rose. I didn't see anyone coming out of the two boats next to me. I guess they were prepared to stay put." Li Mu packed his waist bag and put it on, holding a machete in his hand, ready to go at any time.

Qiao Sheng looked through her bag, but there was nothing to bring, so she filled it with hot water. The two of them got off the boat and walked to the woods on the left. She turned her head to look at her boat. Of the three boats, theirs was the largest, big and tall, and with the more than three-meter shark on the bow that had not been dealt with, it looked quite intimidating.

They started felling trees as soon as they entered the forest, but their attention was still on the boats on the shore. Qiao Sheng had already cut down more than a dozen trees when there was some movement on the shore. At dawn, they could see more clearly. A capable girl with short hair came down from the middle boat. She looked young, only in her early twenties.

When she opened the door and came out, Qiao Sheng's 5.0mm eyes could see clearly that there was an old man in the cabin. The two talked for a long time at the door. The girl with short hair pushed the old man back into the boat, looked around, and then ran straight into the forest with the machete in hand.

"Look, look, I guessed right, there really is a reason for not getting off. That's an old lady, but it's hard to say the relationship between the two. If they are in a boat with two people, there should be three people in the boat of the man yesterday." Qiao Sheng was quite excited because of the accuracy of his analysis.

Li Mu also praised her for being smart. Qiao Sheng turned around and asked him if he really heard his analysis yesterday. He slept like a dead pig and even snored. Li Mu, who was still cheerful a second ago, obviously froze for a moment, and asked uncertainly if he really snored. He had never heard his classmates talk about this when he lived in the dormitory before. Teacher

Li fell into self-doubt, and Qiao Sheng felt no guilt at all. He also asked him to work hard to cut trees and not to be lazy.

While the two were working hard to cut down trees, there was movement on the boat on the far right. No one was seen this time, but there was a child's voice, shouting goodbye to daddy and asking him to come back soon.

"There's no need to look, it must be a family of three. The mother stayed on the boat to take care of the children, and the father went down to collect supplies. So, we are the strongest in the three boats. When I saw the old lady just now, I was thinking about sending some pickled cabbage or something to build a good relationship. Now, let's forget it. It's easy to scare others if we just show our kindness." Qiao Sheng put all the fallen wooden boards into his backpack.

Li Mu agreed with her, so they just went around the two boats. Whether they wanted to make friends or not depended on the other party's opinion. The strong and healthy group should just squat down.

The two of them were very efficient at work and quickly filled a whole bag with supplies. When they were logging, Li Mu was chopping frantically in the front, while Qiao Sheng was chopping and picking up the fallen planks on the ground. When a bag was full, he would switch with Li Mu. When the bags were full, they would go back to the boat to empty them. They went back twice in the morning.

The people on the two boats next to them also went at a similar frequency. At noon, the aroma of food coming from the three boats had their own characteristics. Qiao Sheng heated up yesterday's fish ball soup, added new hand-rolled noodles, and took some spicy rabbit meat. Although he was tired from working in the morning, this meal was quite delicious.

The boat in the middle was cooking stewed meat. Qiao Sheng could smell it. It must be the old lady's cooking. It smelled really good.

The boat on the far right was cooking spicy food. The wind was blowing towards Qiao Sheng and his friends. Standing on the terrace, he could smell it clearly.

Before eating, Li Mu harvested the chili peppers planted in the pots that he had planted that morning, and then moved the pots out. There was now a place on the kang to eat. After eating, he rested for a while. Before leaving, Qiao Sheng moved the pots into the greenhouse. This time, he did not plant chili peppers, but planted four pots of corn instead.

Just now when she was cooking, she checked and found that there was not much cornmeal left. If she planted some now, she could dry the corn on the third deck tomorrow. The only disadvantage is that the sun in winter does not dry things as fast as in autumn. What used to be dried in a day now takes a day and a half.

After arranging the harvest, the two of them went into the woods again with their small bags on their backs. Perhaps after a night and a morning of peace, the people on the other two boats dared to get off the boats. After they walked in, Qiao Sheng and Li Mu, who were working in the woods, could see the others clearly.

The old lady must be quite old, with gray hair and wrinkled skin. Qiao Sheng roughly estimated that she must be at least seventy years old. However, her steps were still quite steady. She carried a small bag and followed the short-haired girl into the forest. The trees blocked the view and the rest could not be seen.

"Li Mu, is my eyesight not good? Is the mother of that family of three pregnant? The little girl she is with is only five or six years old." Qiao Sheng felt dizzy. How could there be a pregnant woman in this game?

Li Mu also took a look and confirmed that it was a pregnant woman. She was already showing her pregnancy, but it was not too big. She must be at least five months pregnant.

"This game is really crazy. Why don't they let go of the old, weak, women, and children? I thought middle-aged people like Pei Hong were already the limit. The youngest I've seen before, apart from high school graduates like Xia Beibei, was a 13-year-old Zheng Xi. Today I've really broadened my horizons." Qiao Sheng suddenly felt that this game was inhumane. If children, pregnant women, and the elderly don't have their own relatives around them, they will be dragged into the game like this. Isn't it game over!