Ye Zheng ate all the lobsters sent by the mermaid, and it tasted better than the first one. After eating the lobster, Ye Zheng really began to think about the next very important question: what should she do
If she jumped into the sea again and could go back to the Caribbean - although she might still fall into the sea - then Ye Zheng would do it. But she wasn't sure, Ye Zheng couldn't bet his life that he could not save.
Ye Zheng feels that, at present, it seems that she is better prepared to stay in this environment for a long time. She then thought painfully of her parents, who were probably still waiting for her to come home.
"No," she whispered to herself, "you have to forget about it, get your nerves, and everything will be alright."
"Yes, everything will be fine." Ye Zheng encouraged himself silently, then picked up her bow and arrow, and set off again.
She knew what she was looking for: a shelter with maximum protection from venomous snakes and wild beasts, preferably shelter from wind and rain, and a source of clean water nearby.
Ye Zheng wasn't sure how lucky she was, but she kept walking along the coastline. She hoped that at least she could find an entrance to the sea, so that she would not have to go deep into the forest and be much safer.
She didn't know how far she had come, but in this place where day and night were stretched, she went from the starry sky to the sun—let's call that hot star the sun—all hanging in the center of the sky.
Ye Zheng felt that she was about to be dehydrated by the transpiration of the sun above her head, and the sweat kept flowing down, making her clothes wet again and again.
Ye Zheng finally sat down under a big sap tree.
Now that she saw it, it was no longer a coconut tree with most of its hard leaves growing on its head. The tree in front of her has wide leaves, and countless branches are separated from the main trunk, extending in all directions.
She gulps down the last bit of juice from the big fruit she brought with her, then threw the empty shell aside with all her strength, and gasped with her eyes closed. Rao was that she had prepared in advance, it was not easy to find a suitable place, and Ye Zheng was still shrouded in disappointment at the moment.
When she closed her eyes and focused all her attention on her ears to listen to the movement, she heard... the sound of water.
No, it wasn't like the sound of water, rather, it was more like the sound of a waterfall.
Ye Zheng thought about it and listened more carefully. Yes, it was indeed like the sound of waterfalls, not the sound of waves hitting the coast.
Her spirits rose again, and Ye Zheng got up from the ground again after the last layer of sweat on her body had dried up.
This time Ye Zheng walked for a while, closed his eyes and listened to the sound carefully, and then walked forward in that direction again.
This time, luck favored her.
Ye Zheng walked a long way, turned a few corners, gritted his teeth shallowly through a forest, and found himself standing on the edge of a not-so-wide waterfall.
The waterfall is very high, about 50 meters, but after the river turned over from the waterfall, it only flowed ten meters before flowing to the bay.
Ye Zheng was standing on the edge of the bay that was smashed into by the waterfall. Probably because of the current scouring, there were more piles of boulders near the bay.
Ye Zheng walked slowly along the shore to the edge of this waterfall, and the splashes of water splashed coolly on Ye Zheng's face, bringing a little bit of coolness to her thirsty and hot.
She leaned down, took a shallow sip of water, and the long-lost fresh water moistened her dry throat. The small pond formed by the impact of the waterfall is exceptionally clear. Ye Zheng could see many small fish swimming happily in the water, and there were no strange creatures.
Ye Zheng's heart calmed down a little, she took off the torn jeans, and slowly put one foot into the water.
Very cool.
She quickly removed the clothes from her body and soaked herself in it. When soaking in the water, she poked the clothes and panties with clean water. Then spread them flat on the sun-hot rocks, and get up naked and sit on the other side to dry themselves.
After washing away his exhaustion with cool water, Ye Zheng began to think about how to prepare a place for himself.
She put the half-dried clothes back on her body, and then crawled up by grabbing the raised edge beside the waterfall rock wall. When Ye Zheng just observed his surroundings, he found that there were black shadows behind the three- or four-meter waterfall hanging above the pool. She suspects that there is a cave behind.
When Ye Zheng was lying on the rock and looked inside, she was pleasantly surprised to find that there was indeed a cave inside! She carefully stepped on the very smooth stone that had been washed with bare feet, and moved in with difficulty.
This cave is not big, but because it is separated from a small world by the rushing water outside, this makes Ye Zheng feel safe.
But its shortcomings are also very obvious. The inside of the cave is very humid, not to mention the place that will be in contact with the waterfall, and the depths of the cave are also covered with moss. And the washed stones outside were too slippery, and she could easily fall into the pool below with one foot.
But after going around the cave for a few times, Ye Zheng decided to use it as her temporary residence, at least until she found the next suitable place, she hoped that she could have a shelter from the wind and rain.
At this moment, she heard a sound of "crash-", which made her instinctively look outside, and a black figure was outside the waterfall.
Ye Zheng's feet were faster than she realized, she immediately ran to the other side, and then quickly drew the bow. A big guy passed through the curtain of the waterfall, slammed hard on the slippery place, and slid forward until its head hit the innermost wall of the cave. Ye Zheng heard a loud "bang" before it stopped.
Ye Zheng slowly put down the bow that was full of her, and slowly approached the big guy who was lying motionless. This is the merman who brought her food.
It didn't seem to hit it lightly, and Ye Zheng didn't react when he approached it.
Ye Zheng put down what was in his hand, squatted beside it, and asked uncertainly, "Hi... Are you okay..."
It didn't respond, Ye Zheng reached out his hand cautiously and touched the place where its head hit the stone.
Where human hair is supposed to be, it has a slippery, seaweed-like gelatinous growth on its head.
Seeing that it was not angry, Ye Zheng gently rubbed its head again and again, hoping that this would relieve its pain.
After half a sound, its huge tail flicked, and the tail tapped on the cold moss and stone ground to make a clear "pop" sound, its head buried under the arm turned around, its eyes moved, and it saw Ye Zheng.
"Are you... alright?" Ye Zheng asked hesitantly, she wasn't sure if the mermaid really hit her head.
Its ears moved, and Ye Zheng realized that it had ears that looked like fins and scallops.
The mermaid stretched out her claws, cold claws, held Ye Zheng's ankle, and then stroked her instep.
Ye Zheng was a little speechless, and silently patted its paws, then stood up on his knees.
The mermaid looked a little disappointed, and after staring blankly at Ye Zheng, it also got up and stood in front of her again. Then its head turned around, as if to survey the environment of the cave.
"It's great, right?" Ye Zheng said, regardless of whether the fish could understand it or not.
In less than two days, Ye Zheng's feeling for it quickly changed from fear to closeness, perhaps because she felt that this mermaid also looked like an intelligent race.
"I plan to live here temporarily, first find some branches to spread on the ground, and then spread some leaves and hay, if I can find it... I also plan to take a look around to see if I can find a suitable, other place to live... "
She stopped chattering, because the merman's mind obviously didn't pay attention to what the human in front of him was doing.
It used its fingers to pick up the rags of jeans that Ye Zheng had put aside.
Ye Zheng took off the pair of jeans when she was simply cleaning them, but for the reason of not wasting it, she still took the pair of jeans by her side.
The mermaid looked at Ye Zheng's bare thighs without blinking, and then handed her the denim.
"Thank you, thank you." Ye Zheng inexplicably took over the pile of fabrics that could not be worn on his body, and said naively.
fabric? She remembered that there was something so soft in the water, like... like its hair.
"Can you find this?" she said eagerly, pointing to her shirt. Draw a wide, long look.
"Soft, wide, maybe a little dry in the sun..."
She described it according to the image of kelp, and gestured awkwardly. Ye Zheng thought to herself, even if the seaweed here can't be worn, it's still as dry as kelp, but at least she can twist them to make a rope or something.
In her impression, the toughness of seagrass is very good.
She continued to draw for a long time, and the mermaid kept looking at her with her head tilted slightly, her eyes focused.
Ye Zhengsheng was afraid that it wouldn't understand, so he squeezed the collar of his clothes and tugged: "This, this..."
Maybe the mermaid understood, and it slowly put its claws on the collar of Ye Zheng's clothes.
Before Ye Zheng's smile could unfold, the mermaid imitated Ye Zheng and tugged at her collar...
"Thorn-"
The sound of the cloth strip being torn was particularly loud in the cave, and Ye Zheng was dumbfounded.
She looked down dully at her fair skin and slightly raised hills, which were exposed because of the torn front.
Ye Zheng closed her eyes in pain, she was... so stupid!
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