After the meal, the two began to work on the tree trunks. Wang Lun positioned each trunk and cut a notch in it. Liu Ruoling then used the glowing embers from the campfire to burn through the notch. Once Wang Lun had cut notches in all the tree trunks, he started burning them.
Inside the camp, Li Ling and Liu Ruoxi got up in the morning, fed the pheasants and rabbits, and after breakfast, they began weaving a fishing net. They finally finished weaving the net before lunchtime. The only problem was that lunch was a little late today, around two or three in the afternoon, similar to yesterday.
After the two finished weaving a fishing net, they went back to cook lunch and feed the pheasants and rabbits. While they were still weaving, the pheasants and rabbits started calling out, but since they only had a few left, they ignored them. Once they finished weaving, without even checking it, they rushed to feed the pheasants and rabbits, as their calling was quite annoying.
After lunch, the two checked the fishing net. Finding nothing seriously wrong, they put it away in a basket. Seeing they had some vines left, they discussed it and decided to weave another net. Although they didn't have much vine left, they figured weaving a barrier net wouldn't be a problem.
The two decided to proceed and began weaving their second fishing net. The first was a casting net, specifically for catching fish. The second was a weir net, thrown into the sea to catch fish. Although their functions differed, both were for catching fish, and presumably, the results would be similar.
The two worked all afternoon, only stopping to continue weaving fishing nets as the sun was about to set. They took advantage of the remaining time to bathe, feed the pheasants and rabbits, and then prepare dinner. Their original plan was to feed the pheasants and rabbits and then cook dinner, but since they had eaten lunch rather late and weren't hungry yet, they decided to continue weaving straw ropes until they were hungry before cooking.
On the hillside, at the treehouse camp, the Zheng brothers, Zheng Long and Zheng Hu, had finally finished repairing their wooden cabin after several days of work. They moved the dried wild vegetables into the hut below the cabin and then began cooking dinner. Of course, they also cooked the three birds they had found earlier with the dried vegetables. The two brothers had been craving meat for some time, and finally they could eat it.
The two brothers watched as the three birds were put into the pot and cooked. They kept a close eye on the pot, and when the aroma of the meat wafted out, the two brothers couldn't resist and decided to eat. Each of them took one and a half birds. It really was one and a half; dividing the whole bird was easy—just choose birds of roughly the same size, one for each of them. And that half bird—it really was half a bird. Before cooking, they had used a knife to separate the birds, even the heads. Half for each of them, no more, no less.
The two of them finished the bird meat in a few bites, not even spitting out the bones. Of course, they ate the bird's head too. After finishing the meat, they started eating the wild vegetables. Perhaps because they had cooked the meat, the wild vegetables tasted better today.
Soon, the two finished everything in the pot, leaving not even a drop of soup. After their meal, they went to rest in the treehouse. As for the pots and pans, they could wash them the next morning.
Little did they know, in the middle of the night, both brothers experienced stomach aches and rushed down from the treehouse to relieve themselves. They continued defecating until they were completely exhausted. The entire treehouse campsite reeked of excrement, and their waste was found in almost every part of the camp. They managed to hold on until dawn, but their condition didn't improve; in fact, they felt increasingly weak. Finally, they decided to give up, but they didn't even have the strength to do so. Eventually, some viewers in the live stream couldn't bear to see them suffer and contacted the organizers. After assessment, the organizers decided to intervene and sent a rescue team to bring the two brothers out.
When the rescue team arrived at the treehouse camp on the hillside, they could smell the stench even outside. Several team members exchanged glances, then tacitly took out their gas masks before entering the camp. Thankfully, they had considered this beforehand and put on the gas masks. Although the air inside the gas masks was unpleasant and had a strange odor, it was far better than the stench outside, which was comparable to a biological weapon.
Several rescue team members entered the camp, found the Zheng brothers, Zheng Long and Zheng Hu, and confirmed that they were unable to move. They then took out the prepared stretchers, carried them out, and then called a helicopter to take them away.
Just as the helicopter arrived, Li Ling and Liu Ruoxi heard the sound. Liu Ruoxi even deduced that it was coming from the direction of their previous camp. Actually, Liu Ruoxi had no idea where the camp was before, as she had been running a fever when she arrived, and it had worsened on the way, leaving her completely disoriented. Later, when the four of them were discussing it in the camp, Liu Ruoling pointed in the direction, and given that Liu Ruoxi had gone out of the camp with them a few days earlier, she was even more certain of the direction.
When Li Ling heard the sound coming from the direction of Liu Ruoxi's previous camp, she sensed something was wrong. For so long, apart from Liu Ruoxi and her companion who specifically came looking for them, they hadn't encountered any other teams. Were the teams too far apart? Or had someone been guiding them? Li Ling wasn't sure, but she knew that there was a team very close to them at this moment. Although they had been rescued by the rescue team, it wasn't certain whether only one person was rescued or the entire team was eliminated. Li Ling considered finding a time to go and investigate. She also wanted to find out about the other teams' situations. But all of this had to wait until Wang Lun returned; for now, the two of them should continue weaving their fishing net.
At the beach, after Wang Lun and his companion spent the entire night burning holes through all the tree trunks, they had completed more than half of the work of building the raft. Now, all that was needed were two oars and three sticks to connect the trunks. These tasks could be completed today. Therefore, Wang Lun decided to finish them today and return to camp early tomorrow morning. When Liu Ruoling heard that they could return to camp tomorrow, she was very happy, but also somewhat disappointed. She was happy because she could finally return to camp and see Liu Ruoxi and Li Ling again, and no longer have to worry about keeping watch at night or not being able to sleep due to the heat during the day. She was disappointed because once they returned, there would be four of them instead of just the two of them, and sometimes they would have to be more careful about certain things.
As usual, Wang Lun and Liu Ruoling first went beachcombing, then cooked breakfast. After breakfast, Wang Lun took out a piece of wood and began to burn it into the shape of a paddle. Liu Ruoling helped, as making two paddles at the same time would be faster. While burning the paddles, Wang Lun also found three long branches, larger than the holes he was burning. He removed all the surrounding branches, scraped off the bark, and laid them on the sand to dry.
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