Everyone around heard every word Yang Rui said.
Bai Wei had wanted to argue, but then he thought about it and realized that Yang Rui was right, so he kept quiet.
What Yang Rui said actually makes a lot of sense. If we can't survive properly in the future, just wanting to leave here is just empty talk and wishful thinking.
Wang Ping stood up and looked at his colleagues, seizing the opportunity: "So now we have to find a way to rebuild a camp, whether on the mountaintop or at the foot of the mountain. Also, all the food we stored is gone, so we need to find something to eat as quickly as possible. There are two children in the camp now. Even if we don't think about ourselves, we should think about them. The children are weak, so good nutrition is essential for their health. I suggest we split into two groups today. One group will stay at the camp and follow Sihai's instructions to figure out how to rebuild a new camp quickly. The rest of you can come with me to the woods to gather food. The women who are in better physical condition can stay by the sea and gather some clams and sea cucumbers. In short, everyone needs to get busy, because it's not just for one person, but for everyone."
The camp was quiet for a long time, but soon everyone started moving again.
Because these are the most pressing issues at hand: no food, no way to keep warm, and no place to hide. How long can everyone survive in such a dangerous wilderness?
Wang Ping quickly led a few foreigners into the woods. Before leaving, I handed over our only remaining gun to Wang Ping.
You must make sure you stay safe, okay?
Wang Ping nodded: "Don't worry, I'm quick-witted, this little thing is no problem for me."
But when he left, he didn't take the gun with him. Instead, he told me that Xiao He and his gang were people whose faces you could not see, and that it would be safer to leave the gun with us.
I couldn't persuade Wang Ping otherwise, but I still felt uneasy watching him lead a group of people into the woods.
Bai Wei didn't go into the woods; he turned to me and asked what we should do next.
I looked around at the woods that hadn't been burned and sighed.
If you want to rebuild the treehouse, then logging is an essential step.
However, apart from the iron weapons that everyone had made before, we now have no other suitable tools at hand.
The foreigners' equipment had all been lost in another camp, so after much thought, the only option left was to use the most primitive method: brute force.
Fortunately, as long as everyone has faith in their heart, they will never lack the courage to start over.
We quickly got to work, with Xiao He and Yang Rui following behind. However, I noticed that Xiao He looked very unhappy, and I wondered what he meant.
Yang Rui, on the other hand, was very proactive, busying himself with helping everyone find suitable trees.
The women also got busy, searching for food on the beach. Fortunately, some of the vines that had been soaked by snow and rain were still quite flexible. Chen Jian and I quickly made a few vine baskets to hold the food for the women.
The women moved relatively quickly, as Xiao Qiang and Xu Wei were leading them in an orderly manner.
Our situation is much better than we expected. This area has been soaked by snowmelt, and the soil underneath is very soft and wet. So if we really can't cut the trees down, we can just uproot them without much effort.
After four or five busy days, we finally managed to neatly arrange all the usable trees in the forest, and the food that the women had collected was enough for us to eat.
Sea cucumbers, prawns, and some deep-sea fish were all arranged together by category.
Xiao Qiang had previously learned how to refine sea salt from me, and these past few days, besides providing us with distilled fresh water, she has been refining sea salt.
Because salt is essential in such places.
They salted all the perishable items so that they could be eaten no matter how long they were stored.
Although Wang Ping and his group didn't find any wild boars or anything like that in the woods, they did manage to catch a few rabbits.
In the evening, we finally filled the big iron pot we had prepared earlier to the brim with rabbit, fish, and some sea cucumbers.
I stewed a big pot of it, and it tasted really good. Everyone was exhausted these past two days, and they ate it with their heads down and eyes closed.
After we finished eating, we gathered around the campfire. Starting tomorrow, we'll be moving all these trees up the mountain because after much consideration, we still feel it's safer to be on the mountaintop.
After all, besides the natives and wild beasts, we also have to deal with those tall giants.
After we finished eating, Wang Ping and I were planning what to do first for tomorrow.
Wang Ping said that they should first pick up some iron blocks, because even if they used wooden wedges, they wouldn't be as stable as iron nails.
I also think this is a good idea, and we are currently short of a hacksaw. After all, we don't have a saw blade that we can use easily, so uprooting the tree to deal with it is a bit of a roundabout way.
As we were talking, Yang Rui walked over, nodded when he saw me and Wang Ping, leaned close to me and whispered, "Xiao He, they seem to be thinking of leaving here in the next couple of days, but he doesn't want to go with them."
"And I think Xiao He will definitely come looking for you again. What do you think?"
Yang Rui's words were truly baffling. Xiao He, if they really wanted to leave, I had absolutely no reason to stop them.
Secondly, I never thought that my relationship with Yang Rui was good enough that he could go over there to gather information and then come back to me to inform me.
His actions were truly like a weasel offering New Year's greetings to a chicken.
I looked at Yang Rui with a puzzled expression, while Yang Rui seemed to be eagerly waiting for me to keep him.
Wang Ping spoke up first: "Brother, you weren't originally one of us. When you were injured in the woods, we treated you purely out of kindness and righteousness. But now that you're healed and reunited with your companions, you can go with them to find what you were looking for when you came here. There's absolutely no need for you to suffer here with us!"
Yang Rui listened to Wang Ping's words but didn't take them seriously: "But Xiao He and his gang are ruthless and heartless. There's no good thing about being with them. I still hope to be with you guys, but I don't know if you'd be willing to take me in."
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