"Hey!"

I barely made a little noise from my smoking throat, and I didn't react at all to Shen Yao, who was lying on my feet.

The day after I came back from yesterday's exploration, I started to feel uncomfortable in the morning, my hands and feet began to swell, and my fingers were so thick that I couldn't clench my fists. It's also a bit hard to get up, and I just want to sleep. In a grogginess, I felt that Shen Yao had gotten me something to drink, but I never got up.

I opened my eyes now, because of the instinctive desire to survive, the weather was gloomy, and I didn't know the time, I touched Shen Yao with my foot, and she finally let out a faint breath, and I breathed a sigh of relief.

As soon as I sat up, I felt a wave of dizziness and retching, unable to vomit anything but bitter throat.

Shen Yao was still nesting there, not moving, curled up into a small dot, holding the puppet with both hands on her chest. She had apparently become a wild child now, and she could no longer see the slightest squeamishness and tenderness.

I got up and reached out and touched her forehead, unexpectedly icy. I grabbed her hand again and looked at it, her hand was even more swollen, caused by long-term malnutrition and lack of water, and she would die if she didn't last a few days, and I wouldn't get better.

I struggled to crawl out of the crevice, but my feet were as soft as noodles, and I fell headlong to the ground.

I reluctantly got up and looked around for some dry fluff grass to start a fire, but I couldn't do anything with crushed saltpeter in wet weather. I picked up the stick I usually used to make crutches, and it became heavier than ever.

Moving along the seashore with great difficulty, I wanted to go to the mouth of the creek to get some fresh water back, thinking that it would be better if I had prepared more coconut scoops to hold water, and after a lot of effort, I finally walked back, almost tired and collapsed, and I had to rest after walking one or twenty meters.

I pulled Shen Yao's head and poured a little water into her chapped mouth, she coughed, opened her eyes and looked at me, as if she wanted to say something, but the voice was so small that I didn't hear it clearly, I guess she probably said she was hungry!

After drinking the water, I am in a better state, and I want to try my luck, after all, in my current state, I want to go to the depths of the island to find food, I am afraid that there is no return, I can only go to the shallows of the tidal zone, it is now the low tide, I once caught some delicious small fish in the puddle of the tidal zone, far more palatable than those clams, those unknown shellfish and snails have eaten my and Shen Yao's stomachs, which will aggravate our dehydration.

I struggled to find it, and when I was hungry, it was easier to concentrate, but my eyesight seemed to deteriorate, so I thought it was probably that the only energy left in the body could only maintain the operation of the most important organs.

Every time I reach a puddle, I will use a wooden stick to hit the reef on the ground twice, if the small fish in the puddle swim I can see, only a few deeper and larger puddles have fish in them, but that doesn't make much sense, I tried before, the fish in it can't catch at all, the water is connected to the sea, and I can't dry, I sat on the reef in discouragement.

Is it that I am hallucinating? The stone under my feet seems to be moving, shaking my head and smiling bitterly, I must be faint from hunger, but this stone is mischievous again, yes, it is indeed moving a little bit into the puddle, I poke it with a wooden stick, it is soft, I am shocked! Luck is really good, this is actually an octopus that wants to climb into the puddle to catch fish, I stood up suddenly, my head was dizzy and almost fell into the puddle, I knelt on the ground to catch it, it was not fast in the crack of the reef, but it was possible to go into the depths, I grabbed its slippery body and antennae, laboriously pulled it out of the crack in the stone, this octopus is a kilogram full, grasped in my hand, its tentacles are dead and wrapped around my arm squirming, cool.

I was so happy, I knew that it might be the key to our survival, I was so hungry that I couldn't help but want to eat it directly, but because it was still alive, the tentacles and body were still very slippery, and there was a little strength, and a lot of black ink was squirted out a little fishy, it was really hard to put down my mouth, I dropped it on the reef a few times, it lost its vitality, after cleaning it I bit off one of its tentacles and ate it, it was very chewy and delicious, I couldn't help but giggle, sometimes people are really easy to satisfy.

Suddenly thinking of Shen Yao's hand just now, he quickened his pace, but his legs were still not very obedient, and the two legs under his buttocks were like two prosthetics, and he could only move slowly like a ninety-year-old man.

Finally came to the edge of the forest, thinking that Shen Yao would definitely laugh when he ate this, but just after walking a few steps, a strange feeling made me have to become alert, after living in the wild for a long time, some human organs will become sharp, and I smell unfamiliar smells and bloody gas.

Sure enough, through the gap in the forest and grass, I saw that something was moving in the crack of the stone, black and fluffy, right where Shen Yao was lying, could it be that there were beasts on this island!?

For a moment, my heart rose to my throat, and I raised the wooden stick in my hand and rushed towards it and shouted, although the sound was not loud, it was already the limit of what I could shout, obviously it heard my call sign and turned around, my speed was not fast, there was still a distance of more than ten meters between us, I was worried that I would not care about the danger, and it jumped down from the crack in the stone nimblely, moving like a monkey. My heart was cold all at once, and the corners of its mouth and half of its face were covered with blood! But it looked like a child, but it ran on all fours like a monkey, and its hair was messy. The body is black and thin and full of small scars, seeing me holding a stick and smashing it at him, it ran away with a little fear and disappeared into the woodland, I was already scolding my mother in my mouth, and threw the stick and octopus in my hand hard to hit him, when I turned around and saw Shen Yao lying in the rock crevice, the blood on her face, her face and neck were full of blood...

My whole body was like a deflated ball, kneeling on the ground weakly and at a loss, tears flowed unconsciously.