Back at the camp, Ke Ji had already split the giant catfish in half. The skin was browned and slightly curled, and the flesh was milky white with clear texture.
Ordinary catfish have a strong earthy fishy smell, but this giant mouth catfish surprisingly does not have much fishy smell.
The two of them shared a whole fish around the campfire, minus the bones and inedible parts. In fact, they didn’t eat much, at least not too much for their consumption.
After eating the fish, they ate the fruit.
The shell of the Maori fruit is hard and you have to pry it open to get into the juicy flesh inside.
So Ke Ji was in charge of prying, Lu Liran was in charge of peeling, he ate one for himself, and then fed one to the commander, taking turns with one mouthful each, fair and square.
[Aahh, I actually saw a sweet love drama here!?]
[I must have gone to the wrong live broadcast room, it must be]
[Oh my God, Brother Lu has finally enlightened?! He actually started feeding him!]
[Commander is delighted, hahaha]
[Suddenly curious, if there is an extra one at the end, how should Brother Lu divide it?]
[If it’s a love drama, then this is the time to kiss! Hehehehehehe…]
[Squat down!!]
The small fruit that Lu Liran picked lived up to expectations and there was an extra fruit. With everyone watching eagerly, Lu Liran took action.
He took out the long-handed sword, and split the fruit into two parts with some difficulty, half for you and half for me.
Lu Liran stuffed half of the fruit into his mouth and held the other half up to Ke Ji’s mouth.
Ke Ji’s eyes circled around Lu Liran’s slightly bulging cheeks and lips stained red and moist with juice, and his eyes darkened.
“Here.” Lu Liran raised his hand and raised his eyebrows to signal Ke Ji.
Ke Ji paused, then lowered his head silently, and bit the half of the fruit in Lu Liran’s hand.
[Ah, as expected of you]
[You can always trust Brother Lu’s steely straightness]
[I looked at the commander and felt something was wrong, but in the end I still held it in silently]
[Hahahahahaha, I’ve thought a lot about it upstairs, but I actually think it makes sense. What’s going on?]
[I feel sorry for the commander for a second haha]
Lu Li Ran swept a glance at the live broadcast room, and did not see any cause and effect. He saw a bunch of barrages saying “I feel sorry for the commander hahaha”, “plus one”, “the commander’s mentality has collapsed”……
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He twitched the corner of his mouth, feeling a little baffled.
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Lu Liran stretched, turned around and walked into the stone hut with satisfaction, and showed the fully-equipped temporary hut to the audience in the live broadcast room: “The roof is waterproof and blocks wind from the front, back, left and right. The stone also has a good thermal insulation effect. It is equivalent to a private space with a constant temperature. There is also a double bed inside. The conditions are very luxurious.”
[666666 After being introduced by Brother Lu, I immediately felt that this small stone house was not an ordinary stone house]
[Brother Lu’s self-hypnosis ability and tolerance limit for food are really unrivaled, hahahaha]
[If you want to live a better life, you have to figure it out yourself]
[Hahahaha, I shed a handful of bitter tears for Brother Lu]
Lu Liran continued: “This is where I will sleep tonight. After a day’s trek, we have walked about two-thirds of the remaining route without much deviation in direction. I am very sure that our direction is on the ancient trail, although so far, the appearance of the ancient road has been almost completely covered by the original ecology here.”
“If everything goes well, then tomorrow will be my last day in Ghost Swamp. I hope so.”
“Then the live broadcast ends here. See you tomorrow.”
After Lu Liran finished speaking, he planned to close the live broadcast room, but he saw a bunch of refreshing fans in the barrage who didn’t want to rest and shouted that they didn’t want it to end.
He wanted to laugh but felt helpless. He pinched the bridge of his nose and said to comfort: “Good night, everyone.”
[Good night, Brother Lu!!]
[Okay, okay, Brother Lu said good night to us. Wuwu, that’s a sweet dream!]
[Brother Lu, take a good rest!!]
Lu Liran put away the drone and saw Ke Ji adding some dry branches to the bonfire, and said: “Come up and sleep when you’re done. Go to bed early today. We’ll set off early tomorrow morning.”
“Okay.” Ke Ji responded, speeding up his hands, and hurried back to the stone hut.
Ke Ji’s body was dry and warm with the temperature of a campfire. Lu Liran couldn’t help but move closer to him. After realizing his actions, he froze slightly. Just as he was about to distance himself, Ke Ji gently held his back.
“Are you still feeling a little uncomfortable?” Ke Ji asked softly in a low voice.
Lu Liran reacted for a second before realizing that the other party was referring to the disordered pheromones that had been affected last night. In fact, there had been no discomfort as early as after the inhibitor took effect.
However, Lu Liran responded in a strange way and said nothing. He just hummed softly and turned his body slightly stiffly, facing Ke Ji’s chest.
He closed his eyes and immediately felt himself being pushed into Ke Ji’s chest. He heard a gentle sigh coming from above his head:
“So you’ve been trying to be brave like this all day long?”
Lu Liran paused, he made a slight “hiss” sound in his heart, unable to argue.
Seeing Lu Liran’s silence, Ke Ji could only gently rub the back of Lu Liran’s neck. Without saying anything more, he lowered his head and gently kissed the man’s forehead and closed eyelids, and whispered: “I don’t mean anything else, I just want you to know that I am here now, and will be here in the future. You can tell me.”
Lu Liran took a breath, whispering: “I know.”
“En, go to sleep.” Ke Ji gently patted Lu Liran’s back and said warmly.
Covered by the gentle and densely woven mental power like a sleeping net, Lu Liran only felt an indescribable sense of peace of mind, and his spirit involuntarily slackened. He leaned on Ke Ji’s body and his eyelids sank.
Ke Ji lowered his head and gently left four words
in Lu Liran’s ear. Lu Liran’s lips slightly raised and he muttered: “Me too.”
The second before Lu Liran fell into a deep sleep, he was still thinking about it, as if he had missed something today, but he couldn’t remember it.
A dreamless night.
Early the next morning, Lu Liran woke up feeling refreshed. It didn’t rain last night. The annoying sounds of insects, creatures and water were all unnecessary and did not affect his sleep at all.
“Did you sleep well?” Ke Ji looked at Lu Liran and knew the answer when he saw Lu Liran looking relaxed.
“Well, I think we can directly walk to the other end of the highway in one breath today.” Lu Liran said.
When he turned on the drone and let it fly, he looked at Ke Ji: “What about you? It seems to me that you haven’t had much rest?”
“No, I had a good rest. It was very quiet yesterday.” Ke Ji replied.
Lu Liran nodded in agreement: “It’s rare to sleep so smoothly in the wild…I have to check the status of my traps. I made four, hoping to gain something.”
“Then I’ll go with you.” Ke Ji said.
“No, just wait for me here. If you catch a fish, you have to roast it before taking it on the road. You can regenerate the fire.” Lu Liran said.
Ke Ji nodded when he heard this and sat back in his old position to make the fire.
Lovely.
Lu Liran quickly returned to the place where the trap was placed yesterday.
He first checked the trap farthest from the camp. The stone was nowhere to be found, and the branches and bait tied with bait were missing. It looked like it had been triggered, but there were no fish on the water.
He carefully flopped around in the water twice, speaking to the drone camera with slight regret: “It didn’t get off to a good start, and the bait was eaten, but this is normal, so there’s no need to be discouraged. There was no loss anyway, and it didn’t take much effort.”
“Let’s go check the next one.”
[Ah, Brother Lu, are you comforting yourself?]
[He muttered to himself for comfort, hahahahaha, suddenly I get how adorable Brother Lu is!!]
[Brother Lu, don’t lose heart! There will definitely be a way to do it! Next time!!!]
When he came to the water in the tree hole near the second trap, there was no need to check this time. There were two fish of different sizes floating on the water!
Lu Liran’s eyes lit up and he immediately went into the water and fished out the two fish!
“A giant mouth catfish and a silver-bill fish!” Lu Liran’s eyes widened in surprise, “Killing two fishes with one stone!”
[6666]
[I didn’t expect that the anchor could use such a simple trap…and really catch a fish!?]
[It must be not just the trap, but also the place Brother Lu chose, there are fish!]
[Breakfast is ready!]
[These two fish…it looks like a fry, too small 2333]
Lu Liran stuffed the two fish into his backpack—— they were indeed not big. The giant mouth catfish was smaller than the one caught yesterday, only half the size. The silverbill fish itself is small, just a little bigger than a palm. It is so thin that it looks like it has no meat.
But Lu Liran doesn’t dislike them at all. He picked them up for free, so there’s nothing to dislike!
He immediately went to check the remaining two traps, but unfortunately, of the remaining two traps, one was motionless, and the other was in a similar state to the first one. The stones and bait were missing, and the fish was also missing.
Lu Liran didn’t give up, and went into the water again to explore the surroundings carefully, and even put his hand into the tree hole: “There should be fish in here…”
As he spoke, he paused, as if he had touched something. He suddenly narrowed his eyes slightly and reached in with both hands.
A minute or two later, Lu Liran carefully took something out of the tree hole——
It was a hat from the human world, but the hat itself was not the point. The point was what was inside the hat. Inside were tiny giant-mouthed catfish fry! There are even some eggs that have not been fully hatched, but the appearance of small fish can already be vaguely seen!
“Congratulations to the host for completing all collection tasks! Additional discovery of the third generation of alienated giant mouth catfish seedlings will reward you with 1 research contribution point!” The system’s voice sounded in Lu Liran’s min
Lu Liran’s eyes were still full of surprise, but he paused slightly after hearing the system prompt.
But soon, he gave up the explanation about alienation. He always insisted that nature has its own way of survival. He summoned a drone, carefully held the hat steady, and showed off the clusters of small black fry and the fish eggs inside.
“To be honest, this is the first time I have seen such a group of fry! It’s incredible, it actually laid fish eggs in the hat! It’s so clever.” Lu Liran said, after the display, he carefully put the fry and their hats back to their original places.
“These fry can’t provide many calories. Our breakfast has been provided, so we won’t harm them.” Lu Liran returned to the shore through the water and said to the drone.
[Wow!! It’s rare for Brother Lu to show such kindness!!]
[Little fishies: I survived Brother Lu’s mouth! I can brag about this for the rest of my life!!]
Lu Liran shook his head in amusement. In fact, another reason why he gave up the nest of fry was because of the remainder from the system. He did not want to provoke the revenge of an alienated giant-mouthed catfish just because the nest contained other people’s fry.
He knows when to stop.
Not long after Lu Liran returned to the camp, a shadow swam in the water of the tree hole he had just visited. The broad fish spine even vaguely broke through the water surface. It swam around the tree hole, and with a flick of its tail, the stone blocked by Lu Liran in front of the tree hole was blown away.
It swam around a little irritably twice, and finally dived back into the tree hole, guarding its fry nest and lay down quietly again.
Let’s hope those fish fry babies grow up and aren’t scooped up by the douchy team of dicks
Thank you for the chapter 😍 ❤️ ❤️
All the mothers in this place are too scary 😆.
There was the lizard from the start who hunted down Jiang Kun, then that GIANT spider, and now this giant catfish. Lu Liran was really correct to avoid triggering this boss fight 😅
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