On the starry night, the meager moonlight is not enough to illuminate the entire sea area, the small island in the night is pitch-black, and the bonfire's mask is throbbing on the young face.
The poor rabbit was found on the way by Allen and was killed by a stone. Dong Linhai and Lin Hangzhi cooked it together. It tasted worse without the seasoning, and it was not difficult to eat.
Wang Que was given a rabbit leg with the freshest meat. It was in the afternoon when the boat was wrecked, and there was no time for dinner. Except for Dong Zheng, who had not forgotten to eat compressed biscuits in a hurry, everyone else was hungry. The front is attached to the back.
"I have to find a place to spend the night." Washing the oil stains on his hands in the sea, Cui Zuojing turned his back to the sea and looked at the island under the night.
The lush wild forest is like a huge beast, entrenched on the island silently, from time to time there are the calls of unknown birds from afar, one or two short ones. The sea breeze blew over the top of the forest, bringing a light "rustling" sound.
"It's too late to build a bunker now, let's see if we can find a cave." Dong Zheng also came over and stood beside him. The tide beat against the reef and sand, leaving a fine white foam.
"I'll go look for it." Cui Zuojing glanced at the crowd around the bonfire. After such an encounter, the team's vital strength was consumed a lot. Dong Linhai had already lost a lot of blood when he was treated by Xiongxin Xiong. Although he was still very energetic, his lips were no longer bloody. Not to mention Wang Que, Cui Zuojing now only hopes that she will never get sick.
Dong Zheng: "I'll accompany you."
Cui Zuojing did not refuse. In the final analysis, he didn't like to walk alone at all. The frozen time for the past eight years made loneliness follow him like a shadow.
He had had enough.
When they were still on the boat, each of them sealed up some necessities in waterproof bags and kept them on their bodies at all times for emergencies. Dong Linhai gave the well-preserved flashlight to Dong Zheng and said, "You guys pay attention to safety."
"Is he still safe with me?" Cui Zuojing held the knife and saw Dong Zheng made two simple torches, lit them on the bonfire, and took one of them, "You should be more careful, although most of them Ferocious beasts are afraid of fire, but not necessarily the monster in the box."
The place where they are located is the southeast of the island. In addition to the large flat sandy beach and the rugged reefs, Dong Zheng walked towards the side with many cliffs. If the sea breeze blows in this direction for many years, it should form a natural wind-eroded cave.
On the way, they came across the body of a sea turtle. The two of them worked together to cut off the shell of the sea turtle, cleaned it and carried it on their body. They didn't know if they could find the water source in time. Before that, the turtle shell was a collection of water. good stuff.
The road is not easy to walk, the two groped and moved forward, and there was no other conversation along the way except to remind each other to be careful. After nearly half an hour, Cui Zuojing laboriously climbed up a bulge on the sloping cliff. When he saw the dark entrance, his eyes lit up.
The entrance of the cave is only 1.5 meters high. Cui Zuojing entered the cat waist and found that there was a cave inside.
This is a deep, deep cave, meandering and do not know where to lead, much like the lair of some creatures.
"It's okay here." Dong Zheng said.
"Well, call everyone here." Cui Zuojing took a torch and walked in for a dozen steps, but for a while, he found no trace of animal feces, and it was estimated that it might have been abandoned by its former owner.
To be honest, it's not appropriate to call everyone in before we find out, but there's no time. It's better to hide in an unknown cave than to sleep outside.
They went back the same way and called everyone up. By the time they settled down, it was past nine o'clock in the evening.
The Rolex on Dong Zheng's wrist, which he has been wearing since he got on the boat, has been soaked in sea water for so long, and it can still work normally. It is indeed the best waterproof and dustproof watch.
On the way, everyone picked up some firewood and built a bonfire in the cave to keep warm. It was the end of summer in the box, but the sea breeze was blowing on the island at night, and it was still cool.
Cui Zuojing and Allen, who had the most physical strength so far, took on the task of vigil. The two kept watch in the middle of the night. The others surrounded the small fire, found a relatively flat ground, and lay down and fell asleep.
Wang Que didn't have much flesh on her body, and the hard ground made her feel uncomfortable. She thought that it would take a long time for her to fall asleep slowly, but she didn't expect that as soon as she lay down, exhaustion drowned her like a wave.
Soon, the steady breathing of the crowd rang out in his ears. Cui Zuojing sat cross-legged beside Dong Zheng, with Tang Daozhangyue on his lap, Victor curled up at his feet, and the whole cat formed a fluffy white ball.
Dong Zheng thought it was so uncomfortable that he couldn't find anything to replace the pillow, so he could only put one arm under his head and lie down to sleep. Cui Zuojing glanced at him, and secretly laughed in his heart.
When I wake up tomorrow, my arm will almost be useless.
Guessing that Dong Zheng was asleep, Cui Zuojing quietly turned sideways, raised Dong Zheng's head with one hand, took out his arm with the other, and gently placed the man's head on the ground.
Dong Zheng was really tired, he didn't even wake up like this, or he subconsciously felt that the person touching him was Cui Zuojing, and he knew it was safe.
The young man leaned his back against the wall of the cave, stared at the slowly burning bonfire, added some firewood from time to time, and picked a branch to ensure it would not go out.
The night is so long.
But with the company of these people, it doesn't seem to be boring and lonely at all.
Wang Que didn't know what she was dreaming, and murmured softly, her brows furrowed. Allen rested on Lin Hangzhi's leg and fell asleep with his mouth open. Dong Linhai was leaning against the wall of the cave, his arms crossed his chest, as if he planned to sit and sleep like this all night.
Although he never explicitly said it, Cui Zuojing has to admit that he does have a sense of belonging to the current Wonton Splitter team.
He sees everyone's struggles, struggles and perseverance in it. When that day comes, he takes back the rest of his feelings from the clown. This sense of belonging will probably become an unswerving belief in Zhongzhong. and a special emotional bond for each individual.
Just like when he was at the afternoon tea party.
Cui Zuojing stayed until three-thirty before feeling sleepy. He narrowed his eyes and yawned silently, patting Alan lightly.
"It's me?" Allen rubbed his eyes, then Huoguang glanced at Dong Zheng's watch, and said in surprise, "Eh? Why are you calling me now?"
"I'm not tired, I can go back to the prisoner's space to rest during the day." Cui Zuojing put the knife aside and said softly, "It's estimated that it will be light before six o'clock, so I'll go back to the space first. Look carefully. o'clock, if you are really tired, wake up your uncle and let him watch, his cat's body will wake up automatically every day after four in the morning to eat."
"no problem."
More than five hours of sleep was enough for Allen. Seeing that Dong Linhai had been sitting awkwardly, his neck seemed to be about to break, he sat down and put the boy's head on his shoulder.
The first smear of fish maw white was lit up that day, and the bonfire had been extinguished. Victor, who woke up, paced out of the cave, looked at the flat and vast sea in the distance, and stretched a long, lazy waist.
Yesterday's shipwreck seemed to leave no trace, with the luxurious Gabriel II sinking to the bottom of the sea, trapping the desperate souls of many who died.
Those NPCs were originally the same players as them, the same pilgrims, they died on the road, were reused, washed their memories, put into a certain box, and became another "people" for their later pilgrims Add difficulty, or pave the way.
The light of the sky entered the hole and fell on everyone's faces, getting brighter and brighter, and soon woke them up one after another.
Dong Zheng opened his eyes and looked around subconsciously for a week. He didn't see Cui Zuojing's figure, so he glanced into the prisoner space in his consciousness. The boy was lying on the big bed and sleeping, only pulling a corner of the quilt to cover it. belly.
Dong Zheng slept and was thirsty to death. He put a layer of water condensed in the turtle shell at the entrance of the cave last night. It was very little, probably only enough for one mouthful.
Allen came over and said, "If you really can't, just use seawater for distillation. Anyway, there is a fire and there are plastic bags, and now there are even pots."
Dong Zheng nodded, just by accumulating dew, they estimated that they would die of thirst in a short time.
He saved up the clean water he had saved all night to drink the dog who had just woken up, and took the turtle shell out of the cave to pick up the sea water.
Dong Zheng turned a few turns and bypassed the large reef not far in front of the cave. In the bright sky, he finally saw the beach they passed by when they came last night.
On it, all are densely packed with white bones.
Dong Zheng could barely identify the bones of fish and human skulls that were about one meter long. They were stacked together to form a white shoal, dotted with orange-yellow dots. Those were all jumping off the boat and fleeing. People who died on the road, their bodies washed ashore.
Dong Zheng didn't go there, just glanced at it from a distance, so many corpses clearly told him that there was danger, at least it existed.
He didn't want to run and die just because he had Cui Zuojing.
He picked a place where the water quality looked better and put a turtle shell seawater back in. Everyone was awake, and they were facing the cave wall together and didn't know what they were doing.
Seeing Dong Zheng coming back, Lin Hai shouted, "Brother! Look at the text here!"
Word
Dong Zheng put down the tortoise shell and went over. In the depths of the cave, some strange characters were engraved on the wall of the cave, saying it was a text, probably because the horizontal arrangement was very neat, and the spacing between each pattern was about the same size.
Hieroglyphics.
These symbols have spread to the deeper parts of the cave. It was too late yesterday, and everyone was very tired, so they didn't explore in depth, and fell asleep in the outermost space.
The depths that the sun can't reach is still dark, like the legendary mouth of hell, swallowing everything in it.
No one knows how deep the cave is.
Holding a flashlight, Dong Zheng and Lin Hai tried to walk inward for a while, and found a huge inverted pentagram on the wall above his head. In the center of the coat of arms, a broken head of a goat was staring at him. them.
In the first special training not long ago, this pattern appeared in the information given by Fu Zhe. The inverted pentagram was also called "Judas' goat", which was the badge of Satanism and represented the devil.
"I always think it's not a good place." Dong Linhai whispered.
Dong Zheng rubbed his fingers on the Hebrew characters around the coat of arms for a week. Logically speaking, these characters should be "Leviathan", which means Leviathan, the giant sea beast mentioned in the Old Testament. His impression was different.
When the two returned to the entrance of the cave, everyone was extremely thirsty. There was nothing more unbearable than guarding such a huge sea without water to drink.
After thinking about it, Dong Zheng gave up using turtle shells to distill seawater, and said, "There are a lot of things floating from the boat on the beach outside. Let's see if you can find something useful."