Before Ding Yi came near with the fish basket, Hu Li came running up to him, took one of the fish baskets and helped him carry it, saying as they walked: "Brother Yi, please make a few more small baskets for us. There are so many clams and conchs on the beach. Sister Mengdie and I have picked up so many that we have nothing to put them in!"
Ding Yi rolled his eyes and thought to himself that he had been busy since he came to this island and was almost becoming a bamboo craftsman.
He agreed, and when he reached the camp, he took the fish basket that Hu Li was carrying, poured the fish into another basket, handed the empty one over, and said, "Use this one first, and I'll make a few more that are easier to carry later."
"Oh, that's good. We should hurry up and pick up more while the tide is receding! Hehe, I just saw some crabs under the sand!"
As they were talking, they paused at the same time. A drone that was only one person tall was flying past them unsteadily, with an extremely arrogant attitude. Looking down, they saw a badger dragging his recliner and beef jerky, leisurely walking towards the sunny spot on the beach, putting down the recliner, and lying on it.
Ding Yi: …
How can I feel this sour feeling
Hu Li's eyes lit up and he shouted to a badger, "Boss, can we go catch crabs together?"
"Catching crabs?"
Wang Ping stood up and looked at the wet beach across from him, which was full of sea foam. He turned around decisively, shook his head, and lay down again, squinting his eyes in comfort to bask in the sun. You must be kidding. If I step on a piece of sand with my paw, I will have to wash it again. In such good weather, isn't it better to lie down
"Tsk, so lazy..."
The little girl muttered something in a low voice, took the empty fish basket, called Li Mengdie and returned to the beach.
Ding Yi thought for a moment, then pulled Yi Jiuyang, who was picking seafood, aside and whispered a few words to him. Yi Jiuyang nodded as if he suddenly understood, turned around and ran towards the two girls, took the fish basket from Hu Li, and picked up shells with them.
Here, Han Daxia pushed Gu Lang to fetch water from the forest, and at the same time, he sorted the various shells that the two women had picked up. Then he started digging a hole on the beach, preparing to get some seawater in to keep the shells. After all, once shellfish died, they would quickly become smelly, and if they were not alive, they could not be preserved at all.
After Gu Lang came back with the water, Han Daxia put some of the selected shells into the pot and cooked a pot of seafood soup. Everyone gathered together to have a simple breakfast, and then Yang Xu got up and said that he and Ding Yi had discussed in the morning that they should finish exploring the entire island as soon as possible.
Compared with yesterday, everyone's harvest was a great harvest. All four fish baskets that Ding Yi had set up had harvests, with the largest number of fish being four or five and the smallest number being two. They were all kept in the sand pit by Han Da Xia.
Other things like conchs and oysters filled two fish baskets. In addition, there were some seagulls that someone caught last night, so everyone didn't have to worry about food for at least three days.
There was no shelter on the beach, so Yang Xu suggested that the two girls stay behind to watch the food to prevent seagulls from stealing it. The remaining five boys divided into five directions to explore simultaneously and come back at noon to discuss their findings.
Ding Yi had a gloomy face throughout the whole process, which was considered as his agreement with Yang Xu's arrangement.
Hu Li was somewhat happy. Since he didn't have to go into the woods to feed mosquitoes, he could just try to get close to the badger. But after everyone set off, Hu Li found that the badger had also disappeared. He threw the recliner, beef jerky and other things back into his sleeping hole.
A drone that was following Wang Ping in the woods had only been following him for less than a hundred meters when it was hit by a branch thrown out from nowhere. By the time the cameraman managed to stabilize the camera, the badger had already disappeared from the camera. As a last resort, he could only follow the direction assigned to Gu Lang to look for the salted fish.
Unfortunately, Wang Ping followed Han Da Xia instead of Gu Lang.
At this time, Han Daxia was exploring the direction that Hu Li and Li Mengdie had entered the woods yesterday. When Wang Ping found him, he was peeing at a big tree with a wretched look on his face. The drone following him turned the camera helplessly, looking stupid and not knowing what it was filming.
A badger thought with a malicious look on his face that if a snake suddenly fell from the tree at this moment, he would probably not be able to hold his head up for the rest of his life.
On the shore, Hu Li began to feel comfortable not having to go into the woods, but after staying on the beach for a long time, he became bored.
Although Hu Li and Li Mengdie seem to have a good relationship, that's because they are the only two girls in the team. When it comes to getting along, their personalities clash a bit.
Hu Li was the kind of person who liked to be around people. When she was happy, she would shout and yell. When she was unhappy, she would put her hands on her hips and start a quarrel. But Li Mengdie was just the opposite. She seemed to be indifferent to everything and always lectured Hu Li like an older sister. After a long time, the two of them had nothing to say to each other.
However, this did not pose a problem for Li Mengdie. Seeing that Hu Li was listless and not in high spirits, and remembering the chat she had with Yi Jiuyang on the beach before, she suggested teaching her to weave straw mats in preparation for the shelter to be built in the future.
In the direction that Yi Jiuyang and Ding Yi explored yesterday, there was a saltwater beach that extended beyond the reefs and out of the woods. There were a lot of saltwater rush growing around it, which was just right for weaving straw mats.
After instructing Hu Li to keep an eye on the things on the beach, Li Mengdie got up and walked towards the woods in the south, looking for the saltwater depression that Yi Jiuyang mentioned.
On the other side, Wang Ping followed Han Daxia all the way, but he still didn't notice anything unusual.
The biggest difference between poachers and outdoor hikers is that when hiking in the woods, hikers will deliberately break off some branches or make marks on tree trunks to remember their routes so as not to get lost.
Poachers or anti-poaching security guards like Wang Ping do the exact opposite. Not only do they not leave any marks, they even habitually erase the traces they left behind. They also subconsciously walk with their backs bent, and avoid stepping on flowers and plants.
This habit, which has become a muscle memory, is not easy to change. As long as you pay attention, you can always find something. That's why Wang Ping deliberately got rid of the drone that was following him and hurriedly caught up.
But after all, it was in front of the camera, so maybe the other party did the opposite on purpose. Anyway, Han Daxia stopped and started along the way, not to mention hiding his tracks, he wanted to break all the branches in front of him, and even ran to pick wild flowers in the forest, smelled them and threw them away, he was so naughty.
A badger touched his head, his furry face lost in thought. Either this guy was hiding too deeply, deceiving everyone, including himself. Or he was just overthinking it, this guy was just a sleazy uncle with a strong sense of gossip.
As the sun rose to the nine o'clock position, the view in front of me suddenly became empty, and Hero Han had already crossed the forest.
The island was originally a long and narrow shape running from north to south. The distance to the east was only 2 kilometers, and even if the speed was slow, it would only take two or three hours.
In front of me was a coastal cliff, with the reef at my feet varying in height from two to three meters above the sea level. The terrain became higher as I went south, and the terrain of the entire island rose from the southeast. There seemed to be a small mountain to the south of the cliff.
Just as the badger was considering whether to follow him, Han Daxia, who was standing outside the woods, suddenly turned his head and looked south. Just two hundred meters away, Gu Laosan also came out of the woods, staring at the cliff in front of him with his mouth wide open.
"Hey! Xiao Gu, what a coincidence! We are the first two to come out."
As soon as Gu Lang showed up, Hero Han walked towards him with a smile on his face, shouting as he walked.
"What a coincidence! There are only two of you in the east-west direction, and you are the shortest distance horizontally. It is impossible for others to meet you even if they leave the forest, right?"
A badger squatting on a tree crown behind him curled his lips and sighed at the perfunctory way someone approached him. This Han guy had just cleared some suspicion, but now he was exposed again.
Seeing that a certain salted fish was about to be tricked again, Wang Ping turned and walked along the tree canopy towards Gu Lang. However, after running for a while, his ears and nose suddenly moved at the same time, and a buzzing sound and a strange flower fragrance came to his face.
“Gu~!”
Under a badger's small T-shirt, the round little belly suddenly woke up.