After finding her broken machete, Ye Zi leisurely returned to the shelter, carried a bucket of water to the back of the shelter to wash herself, went back inside to change her clothes, and then prepared to eat.
Although he eats fish soup or grilled fish every day, that's just how things are, and there's nothing he can do about it. Fortunately, he's not a picky eater and is happy as long as he's full.
After finishing his meal, Ye Zi examined the two broken pieces of the knife in his hand. The part with the handle was fine. Although its stabbing function was almost completely lost, he was strong enough that it wouldn't cause any problems.
The tip of the knife is the tricky part, mainly because it's hard to grip; it's too wide, almost half the width of a palm.
Dilraba suggested wrapping it in shark skin, which would make it a perfect kitchen knife. Shark skin is readily available, whether it's thresher shark skin or great white shark skin.
Moreover, the skin of the thresher shark was already tanned enough, making it a perfect match.
In the end, Ye Zi followed Reba's advice, blunted the blade with the back of an axe, wrapped it with a layer of long-tailed sharkskin, and a fresh kitchen knife was made.
One knife becomes two, and the newly acquired kitchen knife is even more suitable for peeling shark skin.
The two knives walked toward the great white shark carcass on the beach. As Ye Zi walked, she pondered how to use such a large shark skin.
After examining the corpse in front of him for a while, Ye Zi grinned. He never expected that the great white shark, which roamed the ocean with impunity, would die at his hands.
Moreover, the great white shark, which is about 4.5 meters long, does not look like a juvenile at all. It is much larger than a brown bear, and it fought in the most favorable environment for the great white shark. It won.
After laughing, Ye Zi turned the corpse over. He didn't intend to start peeling the skin from the wounds, but instead planned to start from the great white shark's belly.
Holding a kitchen knife, he slashed at the shark's belly, then gutted it.
Removing the internal organs is necessary. Firstly, it prevents the shark's abdominal cavity from expanding and exploding due to high temperatures. Secondly, it prevents the miscellaneous contents of the internal organs from contaminating the fish meat.
We've at least killed one with white sand; it would be a waste not to eat it.
After removing the internal organs, Ye Zi was about to continue peeling the skin when a voice came from the person filming:
"Leaf, you can't peel it yet."
Ye Zi paused for a moment, then turned to look at the drone and said:
"Why?"
"Great white sharks are protected animals."
Ye Zi paused for a moment, then said:
"This is international waters, and my reason for killing the great white shark is very clear: either I kill it, or it eats me."
Now you're telling me that killing a great white shark to protect yourself is a nationally protected animal?
"Great white sharks are indeed protected animals, but as you said, this is international waters, and the country won't do anything to you."
The reason you're not allowed to touch its carcass is mainly because the World Wildlife Fund called and instructed you not to touch the great white shark's body.
Ye Zi frowned, then asked:
"What does this have to do with them? Am I supposed to just wait to be eaten by a great white shark without being able to fight back?"
Animal protection organizations suspect that the production team deliberately hunted great white sharks for the sake of popularity and then attributed the credit to you in order to gain traffic and attention.
They want to investigate the cause of the great white shark's death.
"Mind your own business. What evidence do you have to prove that the show's crew hunted it down, and not that I did it?"
"It's precisely because your ability to single-handedly kill a 4.5-meter-long adult great white shark in the ocean seems so unbelievable that they investigated the great white shark's cause of death."
After hearing what the drone said, Ye Zi looked speechless, and then said:
"I've never heard of anyone being able to kill a black bear or a brown bear by hand-to-hand combat. Why didn't they investigate back then? Why are they jumping out now?"
“Animal protection organizations warned us that if we did not accept the investigation, they would take the program to the International Court of Justice, so we had no choice but to compromise.”
Ye Zi retorted, unconvinced:
"Let them sue. At worst, they can find another great white shark of similar size, and I'll give them a live demonstration of how to kill a great white shark solo."
“We believe you have the ability, but it’s too troublesome to do so, so you can cooperate with the production team as well,” the drone said in a different voice.
Ye Zi knew that doing so would indeed be very troublesome, and his words just now were just a rant.
"Fine, if you won't let me decompose the corpse, then you're delaying my meal. It's such a waste to go through all this trouble only to end up with nothing."
When are these idlers arriving?
"They've already sent people out, and they should arrive by tomorrow morning."
"Alright, if it's proven that I killed this great white shark, what happens to the carcass? Can I still keep the skin?"
"Sure, we've already discussed that. As long as it's confirmed that you were the one who killed him, you can decide how to handle the body," the drone replied immediately.
Ye Zi nodded and said:
"Before the shark meat spoiled, it could at least provide me and Dilraba with food for a day. Now, in order to accommodate these idle people, we definitely can't move. Shouldn't your production team provide us with food for a day?"
"Well... if the production team provides you with a day's worth of food, it might disrupt the balance of survival."
Without wasting any words, Ye Zi took out a knife and prepared to cut it up, hoping to at least get enough food for him and Reba for a day.
"Stop, we promise you, we'll provide you and Reba with the food you need for one day."
The production team panicked and immediately compromised.
Ye Zi turned her head and shouted at Reba:
"Dilraba, what do you want to eat right now?"
"Now? Vegetable salad and soda," Dilraba answered without hesitation, then jogged over and asked again:
"What happened? Why are you asking this all of a sudden?"
Ye Zi explained the program's requirements, and Dilraba happily said:
"Is this for real? I want a vegetable salad and a sugary drink, plus yogurt curds and stewed beef."
"Too many," the drone replied immediately.
Ye Zi said bluntly:
"This is just Reba's need. I need ten catties of hand-pulled mutton, which is barely enough for me to eat for a day."
"Ten pounds, can you finish it?"
Ye Zi responded:
“We eat three meals a day, and ten jin is barely enough. Besides, Reba only asked for two meals, which is quite generous of us.”
Reba immediately nodded in agreement after hearing this.
Ye Zi decided to take advantage of the situation to the fullest extent possible, since he now held the initiative.
The production team really overlooked the fact that the other survival groups only had two meals a day. They also overlooked Ye Zi's appetite; ten pounds of hand-pulled mutton was barely enough for Ye Zi's daily needs.
"Okay. We'll deliver it to the animal protection organization tomorrow morning, and get it checked out while we're at it."
Ye Zi gave an OK sign, then put away the kitchen knife and turned back to the shelter.
The viewers in the live stream were delighted, finally seeing the production team suffer a setback, especially one that disrupted the balance of the program.
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