Chapter 25
Since we started surviving in the wild, this was the best meal we had tonight. We also had a nice bath and fell asleep in the cool lake breeze. The occasional chirping of birds and the sound of the water made us sleep soundly until dawn.
In the early morning, the sun rises over the mountains. The mist that lingers between the lake and the mountains slowly dissipates, and the light shines down, shrouding the mountains and the lake. The shimmering water reflects the beauty of the early sun. The waves surge toward the shore, accompanied by the morning breeze, and the mountains and water behind them complement each other brilliantly.
"Oh my god, I didn't realize how beautiful this place was yesterday. I want to go there."
"What I need now is a boat and some oars. It would be wonderful to go boating on the lake."
"China's landscapes are world-class. Any scene in the mountains is stunning."
"You're late. It was around five or six in the morning, just as the sky was getting light. It was even more beautiful then. The vast sea of mist and the overlapping green mountains were so beautiful that it made me cry."
The people in the live broadcast room woke up earlier than those in the camp. The beautiful scenery presented in the live broadcast room almost made the audience who worked from nine to five every day cry. They all kept posting comments and wanted to go on a trip at any time.
"Ho, ho!"
The audience who were immersed in the beauty of the lake were startled by the sudden sound. They turned around and saw Feng Shan and Bing Xiang standing up. They were boxing facing the lake. This was the first time the audience saw them so relaxed since the live broadcast began.
After they woke up, the others followed suit, continuing with yesterday's work: some cutting bamboo, some looking for food. Feng Shan and Bing Xiang boxed for a while, then took off their shirts and jumped into the water. Su Huaichen and Su Feichen both knew about Chu Huaiqin's condition, but since he didn't wake up, they didn't call him. Instead, they teamed up to patrol the mountain.
Lin Zhinan had her hair tied up in a bun and was standing by the lake practicing English. After practicing for a while, she ran to Chu Huaiqin's tent to see how his injury was, but she saw Xia Entang standing outside like a door god, which made Lin Zhinan a little scared. After thinking about it, she turned around and ran away.
Running to the shallow water where he'd caught shrimp the day before, Lin Zhinan rolled up his pants and dove in. The lake wouldn't be flooding, but the water level would rise slightly, and many small fish and shrimp swam in from the shallows. Schools of fish, even in high water, would flock together. My sister thought for a moment, ran back to the camp, and begged the monk to make a fish bag out of bamboo sticks and a T-shirt. Because the T-shirt was dense, she poked a few small holes in the bottom to filter the water.
The live broadcast room lamented that Group A3 seemed to have wasted a lot of T-shirts, from torches, to tree people, to Xia Entang and their fish bags. The audience seriously suspected that after this season of the show, no one would have any clothes left.
When Chu Huaiqin woke up, things were already going on in full swing outside. He was always an early riser, so this was the first time he woke up. Listening to the noises outside, he felt a bit dazed.
Chu Huaiqin moved. He felt his waist hurt more after sleeping on his stomach all night. After a while, he got up and opened the tent. Xia En's enlarged face was blocking the front of the tent, and the banana leaf in his hand was filled with crushed Solanum nigrum juice.
"How's your waist?" Xia En frowned and looked Chu Huaiqin up and down. Seeing that he looked dazed, he knew that his waist might not be well slept. "How about some more sleep?"
"No." Chu Huaiqin scratched his hair, shook his head and yawned.
"ah!"
The scream startled everyone in the camp. Chu Huaiqin snapped awake, holding onto his waist and rushing out of the tent, running towards the source of his sister's scream. Xia Entang couldn't stop him even if he called out. The young monk and the others who were cutting bamboo branches threw down their daggers and ran towards the sister. The livestream was also startled by the sister's scream. Everyone looked closely and saw a snake about a meter long wriggling in the shallow ditch. Its tail and head were still hidden in the water plants, and only its body had been pulled out by the sister.
"What's wrong?"
Chu Huaiqin arrived first and saw his sister pointing at the water plants with a pale face and unable to speak. He looked in the direction of her gesture and saw a black snake-like thing moving in the water plants, and then slowly stretched out its pointed head. Everyone was about to exclaim "snake" when they saw it slid out of the water plants in a flash. It was a snake fish.
Someone in the livestream recognized it, and An Shunan had already entered the water to catch it. Coming from a rural background, he was very familiar with these creatures. After entering the water, he approached cautiously, grabbed the snakehead by the gills, and flung it to the ground with a swift movement that was eye-popping.
"Awesome." Chu Huaiqin applauded. This thing had mucus on its body and was not easy to catch. He didn't expect An Shunan to succeed in one try.
"Brother, does your injury still hurt?" Lin Zhinan shook the water off his hands and moved closer to Chu Huaiqin.
Chu Huaiqin touched his waist and said with a smile: "It's nothing serious, don't worry."
The younger sister breathed a sigh of relief, took the fish basket and went back into the water to continue fishing. The young monk came over and saw that everything was fine, so he let Chu Huaiqin rest and ran back to make the bamboo raft.
The snake fish was still twisting on the shore. An Shunan licked his lips, his eyes shining, pulled out the knife from his body, and walked towards the snake fish with a smile.
Live broadcast room: It seems abnormal.
Xia En poked Chu Huaiqin, "You need to change the medicine."
The dark eyes were very clear, looking straight at him like hooks. Chu Huaiqin blinked. This time, Xia En was quite good-looking!
"You, what are you looking at?" Xia En blushed and took two steps back, looking at Chu Huaiqin warily, not understanding why he suddenly stared at him.
"It's nothing, go back and apply medicine!" Chu Huaiqin smiled and turned away.
Xia Entropy: ...
Chu Huaiqin did not return to the tent as it was too small and it was not convenient to apply the medicine. So he just found a piece of grass outside and lay down. Xia En untied the gauze around Chu Huaiqin's waist, applied the medicine, and took a breath.
The director didn't blur the scene, so the people in the live studio saw it too. A large swelling appeared on the side of the thin, fair-skinned woman's waist, like a steamed bun, except this one was purple-blue.
"Wait a minute." Xia En put Chu Huaiqin's clothes down and stood up. Just as he was about to look at his tent, he saw a drone flying nearby. With a cold face and icy eyes, he stared at the drone and said, "Mosaic."
The drone shuddered, and the technician looked at Director Huang, who snorted, "Ignore him."
Technician: Director Huang, have you forgotten one thing? I am an employee of Qingentropy Technology. I borrowed it for you to use. I have to go back to the company after the show.
Director Huang had no time to listen to the technician's complaints. He was preoccupied with other matters. He had just received word yesterday that Director Anthony, the lead producer of Wilderness Survival, was coming. He wanted to see what was happening in China, and his arrival would also bring international attention.
China's performance in previous years caused a stir domestically, but its international popularity lagged behind that of South Korea. This move has drawn the attention of many international survival fans. This news is currently trending on Weibo! Subsequently, many Weibo users dug up past achievements and criticized China, ranking them from top to bottom. The most displeasing statistic is that South Korea once made the top ten of an international competition, ranking ahead of China. This comparison is quite disheartening.
However, many fans said that they did not envy their players at all for being able to make it into the top ten. After all, no one is as shameless as South Korea, which recruited foreign players under the slogan of "International Family". In the end, it was not their contestants who were selected, but foreign players.
Some people said that a variety show in the entertainment industry is like playing in the NBA. There are three spots every year, and two are occupied by foreign players. We can't do this.
Complaining about South Korea is one thing, but Anthony's sudden action attracted the most attention. If today wasn't a weekday and school time, the live broadcast room would have exploded.
However, even if it wasn't a holiday, it couldn't stop everyone's enthusiasm. New traffic poured into the live broadcast room, but the audience who were worried about Chu Huaiqin didn't notice it at all. Everyone looked at Chu Huaiqin lying on the ground with a painful back:
"It looks so painful, can't you call a doctor?"
"If it wasn't like Xia En's high fever or Shao Tai's vomiting and diarrhea and broken hand, the accompanying medical staff would hardly care!"
"Not really. When my brother came back yesterday, I saw the doctor examine his injuries. It was just that the condition wasn't serious. I had given them a medical kit on the show before, and the medicine inside was effective, so they didn't prescribe any more medicine."
"But why doesn't Chu Huaiqin use Western medicine? Can applying these herbs really heal him?"
The live broadcast room felt painful when watching Chu Huaiqin's injury, but the accompanying doctor didn't pay much attention to it, thinking that it was just an external injury as Chu Huaiqin said, and no bones were injured. The worried audience was relieved by the rational audience's words, and they relaxed and joked with Chu Huaiqin:
"Why mosaic? I won't laugh at my brother. I'm just heartbroken. I want to touch him. If I touch him, the pain will go away."
"I want to touch it too. Even though the side of the waist is swollen, you can still tell that it's not a simple waist. Tsk, my mouth is watering."
"Please stop in front. We're going the wrong way. This is the kindergarten's car. Thank you!"
"Hey, is it my imagination? Why does it feel like there are too many viewers? It's nine in the morning. How can anyone with work or school have time to watch the live broadcast?"
"New traffic? Why is there such a surge of new traffic?"
The live broadcast room finally discovered that there was something wrong with the number of viewers, and it kept increasing.
When the wilderness survival livestream first started, it still attracted a lot of traffic. However, in the early stages of the show, many people dropped out due to the reasons of Yang Ling and others. Although Chu Huaiqin's several appearances on trending searches later attracted some traffic, the departure of the stars also took away a lot of it. Wild survival is not a very popular variety show these days, so the sudden recovery in traffic today is indeed surprising.
"Guide Weibo."
I don’t bother explaining to the new traffic, they just come to take a look.
Xia Entang came back quickly, holding a pot filled with boiling water and cotton strips cut into pieces. The live broadcast room sighed again that this show was really useless.
The boiling T-shirt was still smoking. Xia Entang wrung out the water from the cotton strips with a grimace, then carefully touched the swollen area. Chu Huaiqin, drowsy from the sea breeze, jumped at the burn. Xia Entang quickly reached out and held his shoulder. "Don't move. I'll heat it up to reduce the swelling."
Chu Huaiqin took a breath, turned his head with tears in his eyes, sniffed, and urged weakly, "Hurry up."
Xia En held the rolled-up cotton strip and stared blankly at Chu Huaiqin, his eyes shining.
Chu Huaiqin: ...
"Hurry up," Chu Huaiqin couldn't help but kick Xia En and turned back to lie down. "I'll give you three minutes."
After saying this, he buried his head in his hands. "Okay, okay." Xia En quickly regained his composure, his focus returning to Chu Huaiqin's swollen, purple waist. After a moment's thought, he bent down and blew gently.
Chu Huaiqin, who was lying on his back, suddenly froze.
Live broadcast room: Ahhhh, Xia Entropy bastard!
Seeing that Chu Huaiqin didn't respond after he blew on him, Xia Entang continued his action, blowing while sticking the hot cotton cloth on the wound. Feeling Chu Huaiqin's muscles jump, he blew even harder.
He changed the steaming cotton cloth strips one after another, burning the purple lump until it turned red. He pressed it lightly with his hand, and when he felt the lump softened, he applied the medicine prepared earlier on it and tied the gauze.
Chu Huaiqin got up from the ground, his face was still a little wet, his eyes were red, but they were bright.
Xia En's eyes were red as he lowered his head to change the medicine on Chu Huaiqin's hand.
"I'm hungry." After finishing, Chu Huaiqin sighed.
Feng Shan and Bing Xiang were still swimming in the water. Xia En heard Chu Huaiqin say he was hungry. After thinking for a moment, he said, "Pack your things."
After he finished speaking, he walked towards the lake. When he got closer, he took off his shirt in a few seconds and jumped into the water.
There wasn't much to clean up, really. Just wash the pot and the cotton cloth. The swelling on Chu Huaiqin's waist dissipated after being heated, and the pain subsided. He could squat up and down without feeling any discomfort. After washing everything by the lake, Chu Huaiqin watched the young monk make a bamboo raft.
The skin of the bamboo raft has been peeled off, and the young monk and others are squatting by the fire to roast the bamboo heads, bending them into arcs while roasting to make the raft head. The people watching in the live broadcast are amazed that the bamboo raft can be made like this.
The raft bend was a time-consuming project; by the time Xia Entang and the others returned from their fishing, they had only half finished. Su Huaichen and Su Feichen, who had gone out that morning, also found some cassava. After finishing breakfast, they continued working on the raft, while Su Huaichen continued looking for food.
“I never thought that one day I would be in this cycle, looking for food, eating, looking for food.”
Actor Su was helpless and everyone in the live broadcast room burst into laughter because of him.
The sun rose, and everyone was sweating profusely. Chu Huaiqin leaned against a tree, his face pale as he gazed at the shimmering surface of the lake. His sister was catching small fish in the shallows. She hadn't eaten her fish for breakfast or lunch today, but at first glance, the small puddle she had dug was full—quite a lot.
"younger sister."
"Brother, what's wrong?"
"Do you have any ribbons? I'd like to use one."
He had to divert his attention. Chu Huaiqin rested his palm on his forehead and took a breath. Xia En, who was far away at the head of the raft, frowned and looked at Chu Huaiqin from time to time, causing Bingxiang and others to think that he was looking at his sister, and they all warned him: his sister is not yet an adult.
Xia Entropy: ...
"Yes, wait a minute." Lin Zhinan ran away and came back with a blue ribbon about half a meter long. The sea blue color was very beautiful. "Brother, is this okay?"
Chu Huaiqin nodded and said yes, and Lin Zhinan ran back to catch small fish and shrimps.
The curved raft head was not completed until almost three in the afternoon, and everyone was ready to complete it in one go.
To assemble the raft, they first calculated the width, placed the support frame at the bottom, and arranged the bamboo poles on top. Four more poles were then laid horizontally on top, tying them securely with rattan. For safety reasons, they made two rafts. Several people worked tirelessly, sweating profusely, until almost five o'clock. Several people also made oars from wood. Next, they carried the raft into the lake for testing. Xia Enshuanxiang and the others carried it over, and Chu Huaiqin and his sister followed suit.
The bamboo raft was launched into the water, and the moment we saw it float up, cheers rang out, it worked.
"Try to balance."
The young monk and Bingxiang pushed the raft a little further and climbed on. The large raft swayed on the lake, bouncing a few times, but it was quite stable. They tried to paddle the water with the prepared oars, and it started to move.
"Brother, success." The little monk turned around and smiled at Chu Huaiqin.
Chu Huaiqin raised his thumb and praised generously, "Great, but it's still missing something."
As Chu Huaiqin spoke, he took out what he had just made, two branches, each tied with a blue ribbon.
"I just wanted to ask, what can this thing do?"
Some people in the live broadcast room were puzzled, but they soon found out that the little monk inserted the branch into the thick end of the bamboo raft, which is the bow. When the wind blew, the blue ribbon fluttered, and the wind direction was very clear.
"Let's go tomorrow!"
"good!"
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