Faced with the steamed salmon, everyone had no idea about eating seagulls.
Gu Laosan originally wanted to prove that his method was feasible, so he didn't necessarily have to eat all the edible things tonight. So the captured seagulls and the remaining small yellow croaker became food reserves.
Everyone happily ate the salmon, and even smiled at the famous badger who came with a recliner. Hu Li even picked up the tenderest piece of meat from the fish belly with a chopstick, and passed it to the badger's little paw with a leaf, which made everyone look envious, but they couldn't say anything.
After all, it's someone else's fish, you can eat whatever you want.
"Goddess picks food for me, Badger is the winner in life"
"People are worse than badgers"
"This is the most famous pet in Douyu's history."
"The eldest has already fallen in love with a beautiful woman, don't worry about the third one."
"Nonsense, if I were Boss Ping, I would also choose the little fox"
"Am I the only one who's eyeing salmon?"
"Upstairs, I see that you have a unique way of thinking, and you are a rare genius. I have a book called "The Live Broadcast Life of Flathead Brother" here, I will sell it to you at a low price."
"The one who posted the advertisement, get out of here. Where is the property manager?"
Chen Bai's face turned black when he saw that half the bucket of instant noodles had turned white. He angrily flipped through the ID that had just posted the advertisement, muted the guy named "水鱼要吃素", and kicked him out of the live broadcast room.
After everyone had eaten and drunk their fill, they began to assign people to keep watch.
Because there were five boys on the island this time, Yang Xu took the initiative to suggest that the boys take on the night watch without waiting for others to speak. Others were fine with it, and Gu Laosan had to swallow the suggestion of "Seven people, one day each".
Ding Yi first proposed that he and Yi Jiuyang would take turns tonight, and the others would stay behind. So everyone picked up the cowgrass piled on the side, heated it over the campfire, and spread it in the dug "sleeping hole" to prepare for rest.
The "sleeping hole" was dug diagonally downwards in the sand, with branches used to support a frame inside to prevent it from collapsing before anyone could get in. It was covered with branches with leaves on them, then buried with sand, leaving only an entrance half the height of the person's body.
After people lie down, they cover the entrance with their coats, and it becomes a well-sheltered tent. The inside is covered with roasted cowgrass, and it feels warm when you lie down, which makes people relax instantly.
Gu Lang and Yi Jiuyang were the first to get in, letting out a comfortable sigh. But then everyone saw Gu Lao San crawling out again, taking off his half-dried hiking boots, propping them up with two branches and sticking them next to the campfire.
Yi Jiuyang turned his head and suddenly realized what was going on, so he followed suit. Soon, a circle of shoes of various colors formed around the fire.
Ding Yi, who was in charge of guarding the first half of the night, had a dark face. He stood up, pinching his nose, and after hanging up his shoes, he ran barefoot to the beach for a stroll, breathing the fresh air brought by the sea breeze.
Wang Ping ignored Hu Li who enthusiastically invited him to "sleep in the same cave", and also ignored Gu Lao San who also called him. Instead, he turned around and ran into the woods. Everyone was confused.
Hero Han wanted to remind him that there might be danger in the woods, but when he thought of this guy's identity, he was speechless.
It doesn't seem weird to see the honey badger sleeping in the woods.
Behind me, the little fox lying on the warm grass curled his lips and muttered, "Really? It's warm here, and I'm hugging you, why did you run to the woods to suffer!"
"Oh, suffering?"
A badger walked into the woods with his short legs, without hesitation, mocking in his heart: "When Gu Laosan starts snoring, you will know who is suffering!"
The woods were pitch black at the moment, and seemed unusually quiet to everyone. But when Wang Ping walked in, stepping on the grass, he could clearly feel that the atmosphere inside was much more lively than during the day.
From time to time, birds flapped their wings in the treetops, and in the distance, there were also the sounds of branches and leaves shaking as animals ran through the forest. I'm afraid there are more nocturnal animals on this island, and because of the arrival of everyone, the side close to the beach has become a direction that animals will avoid.
In the night vision of a badger, a hedgehog was seen running by tremblingly. After seeing the badger, it instantly curled up into a ball and rolled into the bushes.
Although the distribution of species on islands may be slightly different from that inland, for islands like this one that are very close to the mainland and near shipping routes, there will always be some land animals brought in intentionally or unintentionally by humans, thus affecting the distribution of species on the islands.
As Wang Ping walked, he used his night vision to observe the surrounding trees, looking for treetops with wide branches. It was a pity that he didn't see any squirrels in the woods, otherwise he could have stayed there for the night.
As he was walking and about to reach the puddle, Wang Ping suddenly heard a few slight "kee~kee" sounds near a tall red nan tree with a base diameter of nearly 1 meter. Because it was a bit muffled, it seemed as if they were coming from inside the tree trunk.
Approaching the tree, Wang Ping put his ear to the bark and listened attentively. In addition to the "rustling" sound of the tree crown being blown by the sea breeze, after a while, he heard a few slight "kee~kee" sounds coming from the trunk, which seemed to be accompanied by the sound of flapping wings.
"Hehe, I actually forgot that besides squirrels, there is another good friend who can dig holes in trees!"
A badger smiled as it climbed up the trunk of the red nan tree, clinging to the bark. It climbed to a height of nearly 7 meters above the ground, and the "kee~kee" sound became clearer and clearer. At a place where the trunk was bulging outwards, it saw a 20-centimeter-high oval tree hole.
“Knock, knock, knock!”
A badger raised one of its claws and tapped the bark at the edge of the tree hole.
"Is anyone home?"
"kee~!"
A much sharper cry sounded, and there was a noise in the tree hole. Wang Ping lay down at the hole and looked inside. Under the light of the night vision glasses, he saw a pair of small eyes reflecting light, staring at the hole.
"Hey~ my good friend, it really is you!"
Wang Ping laughed. In the tree hole, there was a brown woodpecker, with feathers on its neck propped up, staring at the badger warily, making warning calls.
"Excuse me, bro. I'm passing by your place and would like to stay overnight. Could you please help me?"
Wang Ping, like Gu Laosan, arched his paw towards the tree hole in a childish manner. Then, ignoring the increasingly shrill cries of the woodpecker, he clawed his way into the hole.
"kee~!"
The woodpecker inside was almost going crazy, not understanding what the hell this creature that suddenly came to its door was, so it flapped its wings and pecked at the badger. As the badger forced its little body into the tree hole, the woodpecker screamed (screamed?) at the same time.
Five minutes later, Wang Ping lay in the sheltered tree hole, breathing comfortably. Under him was a nest made of twigs that the woodpecker had brought back from the outside and feathers plucked from other birds. It was warmed by the woodpecker and still had the body temperature of some bird.
It's true that this tree hole looks small from the outside, but the space inside is quite large. Although it is impossible to stand up inside, it doesn't feel stuffy to lie curled up in the bird's nest. It seems that this woodpecker must have spent a long time to make the tree hole into this size.
"ke..."
In the corner of the tree hole, a weak voice sounded. The woodpecker with messy feathers squatted on the side, turned his head to face the outside of the hole, trying to avoid looking into the eyes of a badger. At the same time, he lamented, this is really a case of "when a bird is at home, disaster will come from the sky".
Beside the bonfire on the beach, several sleeping holes that were originally covered with coats now had their heads sticking out, looking with dark faces at the sleeping hole that was constantly snoring, and they hated it so much that their teeth were itching.
"Let this guy keep watch tomorrow! Otherwise no one will be able to sleep!" someone suggested.
"agree!"
"agree!"
There was a sudden echo of voices around the campfire.