There were two prompts announced on the Research Group’s chat channel in a row: “10 Points” “5 Points”.
10 points were naturally the blue card that Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce just got from the snake’s den, and the other 5 points, it seemed that Liu Zhaoqing and Ke Shaobin had gained something. Yue Xingwen hurriedly asked: “Did Xiao Tu find another green card?”
Ke Shaobin replied: “Senior brother and I found it, hidden in a patch of grass.”
Liu Zhaoqing followed up and asked: “What’s with these 10 points? Did you two find two cards at once?”
Yue Xingwen said: “We found a blue card and added 10 points directly. We’ll be back and talk in person.”
Both of them finally looked at the group of snakes on the opposite side of the cliff and quickly turned around to rush back.
Half an hour later, they arrived at the fork in the road where they had just separated from their teammates, where Ke Shaobin and Liu Zhaoqing were waiting at the intersection, and Xiao Tu had also returned from scouting. Seeing that Yue Xingwen was covered in sweat, Ke Shaobin was concerned and asked, “Xingwen, what took you guys so long to arrive?”
Yue Xingwen replied helplessly, “The two of us found a glowing card in the forest over there, but we ended up breaking into a snake’s den and were chased all the way by the snakes! The forest over there is densely packed with bamboo viper!”
Ke Shaobin was stunned. “Bamboo viper? That venomous snake?”
Yue Xingwen nodded. “En, there are at least a hundred of them.”
Liu Zhaoqing hurriedly took a step forward and looked at the two worriedly, “You didn’t get bitten, right? The poison of bamboo viper is very strong, once it enters the bloodstream, you have to rush to the hospital for resuscitation!”
Jiang Pingce said calmly, “It’s alright. Xingwen used ‘Golden Cicada Shell’ to escape.”
Yue Xingwen exhaled softly and said with some trepidation, “Fortunately, there is a cliff over there with a river below, and Pingce destroyed the single-log bridge, so the snakes could not chase after us. Otherwise, even if I use the acceleration skill, I might not have been able to outrun the snakes.” He paused, then looked at Jiang Pingce again. “By the way, let’s show the blue card we got to everyone.”
Jiang Pingce took out the blue card and handed it to Ke Shaobin.
Ke Shaobin took out the green card he had just collected and put the two cards together to compare them carefully and said, “The material of the cards is exactly the same, with only the difference in lighting effects. It seems that the cards on this deserted island have different denominations of points, with the 5 points green cards being relatively easy to obtain and the 10 points blue cards being more difficult.”
At present, they have collected a total of three green cards. The first green card was picked up by Yue Xingwen by smashing a branch with his dictionary, the second one was a direct scout by Xiao Tu, and the third one was turned over in the patch of grass by Liu Zhaoqing after seeing the glowing effect.
All three were ‘free gifts’, and there was no risk at all.
However, the 10 points blue card was really dangerous. Thinking of the experience of being chased wildly by the snakes just now, Yue Xingwen could not help but feel his scalp numb, and he said, “In the future, when you see cards with different light effects, you have to be careful. Let’s try to collect green cards as much as possible.”
They could be considered pass with the score of 60, and so far, they had collected 25 point cards.
And the real-time leaderboard on the deserted island was updating——
[A-76 Research Group 35 points]
[B-16 Research Group 30 points]
[C-183 Research Group 25 points]
Yue Xingwen’s C-183 Research Group came in third place, and the top two Research Groups were actually faster than them.
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Ke Shaobin analyzed and said, “It takes four green cards for 20 points, it’s impossible for four green cards to be put together in a row and they happened to pick them up. It’s more likely that there happened to be a card with 20 points near their landing point and they got their hands on it.”
Liu Zhaoqing said, “To get a 20 points card at their landing point, they are very lucky ah.”
Yue Xingwen pondered and replied, “The 10 points card is so difficult, and this 20 points, won’t it be a wolf’s den or a tiger’s den or something like that?”
Liu Zhaoqing laughed and said, “If there is group’s field control in the team, there is no need to be afraid when encountering the tiger’s den. Don’t forget Liu Xiaoxiao, who lectured the monkeys. If this A-76 Research Group happens to be her team from Binjiang Normal University, they can continuously control the tiger for up to 30 seconds with two people taking turns to lecture, and then send one person to get the card. They can even run away with the card unscathed.”
It was true theoretically, but people had an instinctive fear when confronted with a beast. It was hard enough to lecture crazy monkeys, for them to lecture tigers…
That was something a daredevil could do. When the ordinary people saw a group of tigers, they would have been scared to death.
No matter how the A-76 Research Group got the 20 points card, Yue Xingwen had the highest respect for them—— These classmates were awesome ah! The dangerous environment of the deserted island forced everyone to face all kinds of beasts and snakes that in ordinary times, these university students rarely even went to the zoo.
Yue Xingwen took a deep breath and changed the topic, “We’ve almost cleared the mountain, right? Let’s go down the mountain.”
Xiao Tu’s radar monitoring helped them a lot, the robot directly swept through a large area in the upper left corner. For the remaining part of the fork in the road, the four people checked separately, without missing any dead corners.
The entire top of the mountain had a total of 25 points, all of which were held by them, and the harvest was quite rich.
The four of them went down the mountain together.
The mountain was high, and had a winding road, and because it had rained, they could not go too fast.
Ke Shaobin was worried that he would encounter other snakes or fierce beasts along the way, so he let Xiao Tu walk in the front to explore the path. Xiao Yu could detect living objects within a radius of 10 meters and display them in real time on Ke Shaobin’s laptop.
Before dark, the four of them finally reached the foot of the mountain.
Just after walking to the foot of the mountain, a light suddenly lit up on the Xiao Tu’s head and a small cluster of red dots the size of the two hands of adults appeared on the laptop screen—— The red indicated that radar monitoring had detected the high quantity of heat, which was obviously a living object.
Ke Shaobin stopped, pointing to the left ahead of them and whispered, “There’s a small animal in the grass over there.”
When Yue Xingwen heard the words, he looked closely, and sure enough, he found a pheasant foraging in the grass, and the upturned gray tail was just at the same level as the grass. He summoned his dictionary, and carefully took a few steps forward, and then, taking advantage of the fact that the pheasant was not paying attention, he threw the dictionary over——
With a ‘bang’, the pheasant was smashed down by the heavy dictionary and made a quack sound.
Yue Xingwen quickly stepped forward to catch it, carried its wings to the front of his three teammates, and said with a smile, “Thank you Xiao Tu, our dinner problem is solved.”
Three other people: “……”
Liu Zhaoqing could not cry or laugh and said, “Can you still hunt with this dictionary?”
Yue Xingwen raised the pheasant in front of Liu Zhaoqing and said, “Senior brother, can you kill it?”
Liu Zhaoqing thought for a moment, and said, “My scalpel should come in handy, I’ll try it out.”
In the past, it was said that ‘why kill a chicken with an ox-cleaver’, and now, the scalpel was used to kill the pheasant…
Liu Zhaoqing took the pheasant from Yue Xingwen and said, “Let’s find a place to rest and have dinner by the way.”
Jiang Pingce quickly scanned the surroundings, found a relatively safe place, and said, “Go under that tree.”
The tree was within Xiao Tu’s scouting range, and no living objects were found, indicating that there were no dangerous creatures on the tree, and the shade was large enough to shield from the wind and rain.
Yue Xingwen followed Jiang Pingce to the tree and cleaned up the fallen leaves and weeds around it.
The sun had set, and the light around them gradually became dim. Yue Xingwen’s pocket watch showed the time of 7:00pm in the evening, and no other groups were found nearby.
There was silence all around, and the deserted island was about to enter the night.
Yue Xingwen looked around and said, “Let’s sleep here tonight and don’t go any further.”
After a busy afternoon, everyone was indeed a bit tired. Moreover, it was not convenient to continue to move after dark, so they had to make do with spending the night in the wild and waiting for the dawn.
Liu Zhaoqing carried the pheasant to the side, took out his scalpel and cut the pheasant’s throat with a neat slash.
He was worthy of his surgical studies, his hands were quick and precise, with none of the gruesome scenes of haphazard fluttering and blood splattering of the pheasant that Yue Xingwen had imagined.
Liu Zhaoqing killed the pheasant with a single slash, and after killing it, he plucked the feathers out with his bare hands and disposed of it quickly.
Ke Shaobin went to collect some dry branches and came back to use them as firewood. Yue Xingwen found some dried leaves to pad under the branches, took out a lighter and made a fire. Liu Zhaoqing took a thick branch, set the pheasant on the fire and began to roast it.
Four people sat on the ground around the fire.
Soon, the pheasant was cooked to turn brown and an aroma came to their nose.
Ke Shaobin’s eyes lit up as he fixed his glasses, saying with an expectant look, “I haven’t eaten a pheasant yet.”
Jiang Pingce said calmly, “This pheasant won’t be tasty.”
Ke Shaobin looked back at him doubtfully and said, “I thought the pheasant smells pretty good when roasted?”
Jiang Pingce said, “We have no salt and no seasonings.”
Ke Shaobin: “……”
The title of the king of awkward silence was true to its name, and his one word instantly made a good dinner become tasteless.
Yue Xingwen could not help but glance at Jiang Pingce and said, “You always speak so directly.”
Jiang Pingce said, “I’m just telling the truth.”
Yue Xingwen smiled helplessly. Seeing Ke Shaobin’s depressed face, he patted the other person’s shoulder and comforted, “It doesn’t matter, when we go back to school, we will go to the restaurant outside the East Gate to eat bbq.”
Ke Shaobin slumped his shoulders in frustration, “*sigh*. It’s good to have something to eat, we can’t ask too much.”
Liu Zhaoqing turned the pheasant over and said, “It’s still Xiao Tu who was smart enough to help us find dinner, the other Research Group might have to go hungry tonight, so when we think about it, a few of us are actually quite lucky.”
Yue Xingwen agreed, “We did have good luck, ignoring the snakes, we got 25 points on the first day, and with two more days to go, we can definitely pass this exam.”
The pheasant was roasted very quickly, and Liu Zhaoqing tore the pheasant into four halves and distributed it to his teammates.
Ke Shaobin took a bite—— It was really not tasty!
No salt, no seasoning, and this statement from Jiang Pingce hits the nail on their head. Ke Shaobin silently lowered his head and chewed the pheasant, with the same taste of chewing wax. Yue Xingwen next to him was eating quite well, gobbling it a big mouthful, perhaps, he was really hungry. Yue Xingwen always gave a ‘delicious’ feeling when he ate, and Ke Shaobin gradually felt that the pheasant in his mouth was not so difficult to swallow.
The four of them had a simple meal. Liu Zhaoqing took out the gauze and pulled a small piece for each person and said, “Wipe your hands.”
Yue Xingwen tried to wipe his hands, the dirt and grease on his hands was actually magically disappearing, cleaner than liquid hand soaps. He looked at Liu Zhaoqing with a surprised look, “Senior brother, this gauze of yours, does it still have the function of removing stains?”
Liu Zhaoqing smiled and said, “That’s right. Repairing wounds and cleaning stains, this medical gauze has many uses.”
While sighing at the magic of medical powers, Yue Xingwen wiped his face with the gauze, and it was really much fresher.
It was already completely dark, but fortunately it was not very cold on a summer night. So, the four of them sat around the fire, and Ke Shaobin suggested, “It is said that wild beasts are more afraid of fire, and they don’t dare to come near where there is fire. Do we need to gather more branches? Shall we take turns keeping watch at night?”
Jiang Pingce said, “Let Xiao Tu keep watch, in case of danger, it can sound the alarm immediately.”
Liu Zhaoqing asked, “How many hours does Xiao Tu’s battery life last? Does the smart robot need to be charged?”
Ke Shaobin said, “WHen I retrieve it, it’s equivalent to charging it. It can be fully charged in 1 hours, and can work continuously for 12 hours. Xiao Tu’s battery now has the power to help us keep watch until 7am in the morning.”
They put their minds at ease after hearing this. The robot was actually more reliable than humans on the night watch; After all, humans could doze off, but the robot did not get sleepy as long as they had a battery.
Yue Xingwen felt relieved and said, “Great, then you can put Xiao Tu here on watch, and everyone can sleep early, we have a long journey tomorrow.”
Four of them gathered a lot of wood and put it around so they could get up at any time in the middle of the night to add firewood.
It would be very uncomfortable to lie directly on the cold ground and sleep directly, so they sat down and leaned against the big trees to rest.
After spending so much energy in the afternoon running wildly all the way, Yue Xingwen did get a little tired and soon fell asleep. Jiang Pingce was sitting next to him, leaning against the big tree and closing his eyes to recuperate.
The night at the deserted island was extremely quiet, and only the occasional crackling sound from the firewood burning was heard in their ears.
Not long after, Yue Xingwen’s head was slightly tilted, and he suddenly leaned on Jiang Pingce’s shoulder.
Jiang Pingce opened his eyes and looked sideways—— Xingwen slept soundly, and breathed evenly, but his brow frowned tightly. He was obviously having a not-so-good dream, maybe it was related to the experience of being chased by the snakes today?
Jiang Pingce adjusted his posture to make Yue Xingwen lean more comfortably, gently embracing his shoulders as if to soothe him.
Yue Xingwen’s brow finally relaxed after he smelled a reassuring familiar scent from the other person, as he leaned into Jiang Pingce’s arms, and fell into a deep sleep.
Xiao Tu on night duty!
Thx for the chapter~
Thx for the chapter🔥💗
thanks for the chapter <3
JP is so dependable and sweet!
Thank you for the chapter ☺️
Oh, late night work for our little gundam! And our couple is so cute
Thank you for your translation 🤍
The fact that they still care so much about each other even before they get together 💞💞💞 their synergy is off the charts 🤧💕
The robot is best
Thank you for the chapter!!! <3
Xiao Tu is even better than having an extra team member!
The dog food is so sweet! 🥺
OMG!!!! So cute, so cute, so cute
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