“This is yours.”
…
Lu Liran’s direction of travel is along the source of the upper reaches of the river. The rich and intertwined river system here means that it is very likely that the vicinity was once a vast oasis, but it has gradually turned into a desert over the years.
Even if there is an endless barren desert in front of him, the traces of oasis will not disappear completely. The closer they are to the source of the river, the higher the possibility of finding supplies.
It’s just that the sun is burning above their heads and there’s loose sand under their feet. Every time they take a step, the sand will flow, wrapping in their shoes, this provides an opposite resistance, making walking more physically demanding.
Lu Liran wiped the sweat off his face, he narrowed his eyes slightly and raised his hand to block the glare of the sun. He took a sip to moisten his lips, and said to the drone: “It’s a good thing I’m still sweating. In this environment, before most people realize it, they lose about a liter of water per hour.”
“If there is no timely water replenishment, heat stroke and dehydration will occur within a few hours.” Lu Liran said.
He looked at the tumbling sand dunes in the distance, and his eyes were slightly empty, as if dozens of soldiers appeared in the distance, staggering forward with each other’s support, but fell to the ground one after another.
The drone rose into the air and took a bird’s-eye view of Lu Liran’s back. With his always straight back and slender and powerful legs, he took firm steps, as if he was not afraid of everything and nothing could break him. In the scorching sun, his figure cast a shadow, as if this was the only safe haven in this desert.
The overhead shot is always the most impactful. The insignificance of human beings is compared with the majesty of nature. Everyone in the live broadcast room can feel the panic and anxiety of exile spontaneously through the screen.
“I have been to this desert before, and there were dozens of people with me. Some of them suffered from heat stroke and became dehydrated, completely losing their ability to move. At first, the symptoms of heatstroke were just mild headaches and fatigue, which were easy to ignore, but then, they stopped sweating. In order to preserve water and maintain stability, their bodies automatically stopped sweating. As a result, their brains became dizzy, their limbs became weak, and breathing became difficult.”
Lu Liran said indifferently, with no expression on his face, only the palm hanging by his side was clenched into a fist unconsciously, and his short and neatly trimmed nails were carved into his palm, but he himself didn’t realize it.
The audience in the live broadcast room were completely attracted by what Lu Liran described.
[Brother Lu has been to the Salba Desert before! I heard that as long as people who can come out of the Salba Desert alive, few dare to enter the desert again!]
[Ah, I’m curious what happened to the dozens of people who traveled with Brother Lu…]
[I heard that a few years ago, an airship was detected to have crashed in the Salba Desert. The Desolate Star government sent search and rescue personnel to search and rescue. In the end, only more than 30 corpses were found, all of which were found at intervals along the road. But not a single one was alive. To say that dozens of people appeared in the desert on such a large scale, it seems that in recent years there is only that one incident, right?]
[Fuck… Then Brother Lu was a survivor from that time? How did you get out of Salba all by yourself?!]
[Respect the anchor, really a determined man—— Yang gifted the anchor 1x white truffle]
[Put “The No. 1 Wilderness Survival Expert Lu Liran” on the public screen —— Saltedfish YuYu gifted the anchor 1x Buddha jumping over the wall]
[66666]
Ke Ji was the first to notice that Lu Liran’s pace was getting faster and faster, which completely exceeded the normal walking speed and increased unnecessary physical consumption. Such a situation should not happen at least to a survival expert like Lu Liran.
He strode to keep up, and walked side by side to Lu Liran’s side, only to notice that the other party’s body was almost rigid.
Ke Ji was surprised for a moment, then using his body as a cover, he grabbed Lu Liran’s palm and forcibly released the other party’s tightly clenched fist.
Lu Liran felt the dry touch of another body temperature in his palm, he suddenly regained his senses, he suddenly bounced in place, opening a distance.
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
He turned his head to look at Ke Ji, and saw the man looking over in a little astonishment.
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Luckily, no skin was broken.
Ke Ji nodded in good temper: “I was wrong.”
Lu Liran was choked by the other party’s good attitude of “whether I was wrong or not, since you said I was wrong, then I was wrong”, and then glared at the other party.
[Hey hey what happened. Why did you start flirting when I wasn’t paying attention?!]
[Laughing to death, Brother Lu almost put the words “Don’t come here” on his face]
[Tsk tsk, are you awkward?]
[This Omega’s temper is so good, Brother Lu’s contempt seemed to have hit a clap for a moment. Don’t you feel bad, hahaha]
Lu Liran’s lips twitched, he looked at Ke Ji and asked dryly: “How do you feel now? Do you want to take a break?”
“It’s okay, let’s go on.” Ke Ji waved his hand.
They walked in the desert on foot. After going over a sand dune, towering rock shelves appeared on both sides. The rock shelves were dry, and the fragile sedimentary rocks were very easy to loosen, and there was no sign of water underneath.
Ke Ji noticed that Lu Liran has not opened his canteen to drink water for a long time. He frowned slightly, then untied his own canteen and handed it to Lu Liran’s mouth.
Lu Liran was stunned for a moment, then pushed it away immediately: “What are you doing?”
“Drink some water.” Ke Ji said, abruptly took the military canteen that Lu Liran put in the side pocket of his backpack, he shook it, there was no water left in it.
Lu Liran frowned, and said coldly: “No need.”
“Don’t be stubborn.” Ke Ji sighed, and perseveringly brought his canteen to the other party’s mouth, “You yourself said the severity of dehydration and heat stroke.”
Lu Liran pursed his lips, he took Ke Ji’s canteen and shook it lightly. There was only dozens of milliliters of water left in it.
He dabbed some water to moisten his lips meaningfully, then pushed it back.
Seeing that the man didn’t drink water at all, Ke Ji sighed: “Don’t force me to forcefully kiss you to feed you water to drink. The water leaks easily with that, it’s too wasteful…”
Lu Liran stared at Ke Ji in shock, what is this Omega talking about, is he crazy???
“Be conscious, come by yourself?” Ke Ji asked.
“You dare.” Lu Liran looked coldly.
Seeing this, Ke Ji took a sip of water and was about to walk towards Lu Liran.
Lu Liran cursed, he grabbed Ke Ji’s canteen, and took a sip of water. His cheeks puffed up slightly, he stared at him, making him stop with sharp eyes.
Ke Ji smiled and raised his hand to show that he would settle down.
[Ah!! Chipmunk Brother Lu is online! —— HuanHuan-ya gifted the anchor 100x rice grains]
[Ah, I actually feel that Brother Lu is not fierce at all when he stares at people]
[I watched the live broadcast for the first time: Crap, the anchor is so serious and scary, like my teaching director. I then watched the live broadcast for the second time: Wow, wow, the anchor is awesome, the big shot anchor is so cool, break a leg! Me, who watched the live broadcast for the third time: Oh my god, Brother Lu is so cute, my mother’s big son——Brother Lu’s leg pendant gifted the anchor 1x Sukiyaki pot]
[Hahahaha, fuck, upstairs you’re not wrong!]
Ke Ji watched as Lu Liran drank the water, he turned his eyes, and finally said what he wanted to say just now: “Very cute.”
Lu Liran’s face darkened.
[Imao]
[The beauty teases Brother Lu!?]
[I respect the beauty for being a determined person. He said what I dare not say in front of Brother Lu!]
[Beauty run!]
“…are you blind?” Lu Liran gave Ke Ji a glare, then turned and walked away.
Ke Ji followed quickly, he smiled, but didn’t speak to provoke the man again.
After sharing the canteen once, Ke Ji handed the canteen to Lu Liran several times later, but he was not rejected again, probably because he was afraid that Ke Ji would speak out once more.
The rock shelves stood jaggedly around, as if they had walked into a group of strange rocks. The surrounding area is still yellow sand, with only a few sparse clumps of yellow, malnourished dry grass.
However, Lu Liran saw life from it. The detection system restored the original appearance of the rock shelf before it was eroded by wind. It used to be an extremely deep desert lake!
The discovery of the dry lake rock shelf meant that he was heading in the right direction, that they were indeed getting closer to the once fertile oasis.
There were a few rotten and dead tree trunks lying in the middle of the desert. When Lu Liran saw it, his eyes lit up, and he strode towards those tree trunks.
The corner of Ke Ji’s mouth twitched when he saw this, the only thing that could make Lu Liran so excited in the desert was food and water, obviously it was the former right now.
Lu Liran cut open the surface of the tree trunk with a knife, then peeled off several layers of withered bark, and explained to the audience in the live broadcast room: “It’s not that there are no creatures in the desert. As long as you know where to look and what to look for, you can get food supplies.”
“A tree trunk like this should have what I want inside.” He narrowed his eyes slightly, the feeling under the dagger changed, and when he picked it up with the tip of the dagger, a cotton-white, fat and wriggling worm with broad dactyla emerged from the trunk.
Lu Liran used the blade to press down on the worm that was trying to get back into the shade of the tree trunk, and signaled the drone to turn and take a close-up shot: “This kind of larvae, which live on rotting matter, is perfect as a refreshment in between. It has a high protein content and can provide a lot of energy. It is also convenient to eat. Removed the head, and then squeezed out the internal organs and body fluids.”
As he spoke, he faced the side of the dagger, and used the tip to smash the head of the worm, and cut off the inedible part neatly. He pinched the worm again, and forcefully squeezed out the brown-yellow body fluid mixed with unknown things from the tail to the severed head, “It can be eaten after these parts are squeezed out.”
After he finished speaking, he shook it off with force, shaking off the excess liquid that stuck to it, and threw it directly into his mouth.
[!? My gosh, this is worse than eating scorpions!!]
[Fuck, look, this look like a fat worm]
[I’m done]
Lu Liran frowned, his facial features were slightly twisted up, and he didn’t look very good.
He didn’t say anything, he just kept pulling at the tree trunk, obviously still looking for the next one.
[Ah? One is not enough!!!?]
[Maybe…there’s not much to eat in the desert, so the more the better…?]
[Perhaps looking for rations for the Ke Meiren…]
There was nothing in the rotten tree in front of him, so Lu Liran regretfully turned to the other two.
Not long after, Lu Liran waved to Ke Ji, motioning for the man to come over.
“This one looks a lot fatter than the one just now, so lucky.” Lu Liran said.
On the tip of his knife is a big fat worm that is twisting and rolling up, almost as long as the palm, about the width of a finger, so fat that the segmental lines could be seen, and there are also cyan circles on the small feet on both sides of the body.
Lu Liran looked at Ke Ji: “This is yours.”
Ke Ji：“……”
Sunnyshies: MTL-er recommendation! “Ten thousands people resented him for getting over it and moving on / 万人嫌他想开了”
This is your typical smart, friendly, gently, kind, persistent and determined mc–who woke up after an accident, and suddenly knew that he’s only a cannon fodder in a novel. And that he’s sickly, white-lotus half-brother, who was loved by everyone, was the protagonist. After he was discharge, mc give up everything.
The mc and ml’s is cute, and really smooth. What I like in this novel is that, sometimes, you know, in this kind of genre, esp in entertainment theme, the mc would still be seen in TV “always”, even though he already said he’d quit. But in this novel, the mc said “he quit” and so he really did quit. He never attended any entertainment related scene, expect for one time when he accidentally appeared in ml’s live broadcast (its in the synopsis, so no spoiler).
Mc is determined and stubborn. I like this consistency in the story. No one can change his mind!! Totally recommended!
Ahhh!! I won’t forget ML! Ml is just…!!!! (♡´艸`) He’s the cute type! (⺣◡⺣)♡* And he’s not the CEO ml, he’s the untouchable film emperor! Both protagonists doesn’t have any means to get revenged. And as the title said, mc minded his own business, and only the ten thousands people thought too much.
More so, there’s a cat!! (＾• ω •＾)
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Wuwuwuwu it’s exam season right now so i can’t pick up another story to read 🤧🤧 my GPA is dropping 😫
Maybe you can use the novel as motivation? set study goals and use the novel chapters as reward, e.g. you get to read 2 novel chapters every other hour or every time you finish a textbook ch/section. It will keep you happy and less stressed which means better memorisation, and it won’t affect your gpa negatively.
Hehhehe I know myself ill spend hours just reading I have weak self control
yeah, right. It happened to me too. But for me it happened in a very important exam, its board exam…hehehe…I tried to review, but my mind just can’t focused, and suddenly I was lost in the clouds, when I went back to earth again, it was time for the board. I cram for a week or so, anyway, I still failed…although board exam isn’t really mandatory, and I can still retake it anyway, e xams are important!! Don’t let those novels led you astray!
Yes sometimes novel chapters would be a good reward, that is if you have good self control. Compared to people like us who are just simply feral I would prefer to lock up all my devices and focus on learning or have a parent by my side otherwise I might have already threw myself on the pile of devices locked in my wardrobes when I’m studying…
Ew… Poor Ke Ji (>w<;)
Thank you for the update! I feel kind of bad for Ke Ji, but I feel like this is also retribution for hiding his identity from his #1 Fan hehe
».. as people who can come out of the Sarba desert alive..« Salba Desert
».. an airship was detected to have crashed in the Sarba Desert.« Salba
Uuurgh, just reading that is enough for my stomach >____< No, no, no… brain, please stop thinking more about it!! orz
Thx for the ch (ㅅ˘ㅂ˘)
Thanks!
Ah, another delicacy detected! Thanks for the update 🤣❤️🤣❤️🤣🐛
Thank you for the recommendation 😁
Thanks for the rec, sounds like something I may like.
This MC is good to read if you are dieting I guess, never eat again, lol.
Sunny-san, you misspelled this:
“…hr narrowed his eyes slightly and raised his hand to black the glare of the sun.” It should be “block”.
oh, thanks!
NP~!
Thank you for the recommendation ♥️💖
Ke Meiren dont you have a family, how can you dare to kiss someone else’s dad😁 my my they’re so cute
I am read your notes. the novel you tell looks interesting. is there a translation?
One of the delicacies in my state is coconut worm, yet I find myself unable to eat an insect and this one tastes like coconut, imagine an insect that doesn’t eat fruit but decomposition??? aaaaa