"How long have we been gone, Yu Pu?" I wiped the sweat from my forehead and asked Yu Pu.

"It's been more than two hours, and it's just after eleven o'clock." Yu Pu looked at his pocket watch and replied, "There are less than four hours left, and the next rain will come, and we still have plenty of time."

At eleven o'clock I looked up at the cloudy sky, and it was almost noon, and the temperature in the woods was rising rapidly, but until now we had not received any clue about the water source.

I turned my head to look at Lu Haisheng, there was no expression on his face, but I could clearly feel that the atmosphere around him was a little heavy.

We don't have much water left, I just asked Dao Yupu, Fang Ruoxi and Lin Ya to make a rough estimate. In this case, if there are no accidents, we will only have enough water to last until tonight. Even if you consciously save, at most you will support it until tomorrow daytime.

Yu Pu estimated the situation of Fu Lingjun and Wang Haobo, and there should be no difference between them and ours.

Thankfully, the concentration of nitric acid in the air also decreases during the period when the rain stops, allowing us to save a little bit of water.

But even then it is not enough, even if we save, there will always be a time when the water will run out, and the search for water has become urgent.

I wiped the sweat from my face again and looked left and right at the others. Two hours of non-stop travel may not be much in normal times, but in such an environment, it is no different from torture.

My clothes were already soaked with sweat and dried in the hot temperatures, only to be soaked with sweat again. If you look closely, you can see the white salt marks left by the sweat after it has dried off, and I turned my head to look at the others, everyone is basically in this situation, and in such an environment, I am afraid that no one can not become embarrassed.

"Lu Haisheng." I exclaimed softly.

Lu Haisheng heard my cry, stopped and turned his head to cast a puzzled look at me. I turned my head to look at Fang Ruoxi and Yu Pu, and opened my mouth to suggest.

"Let's rest for a while and then go, everyone is a little tired."

Lu Haisheng didn't speak, turned his head to look at Fang Ruoxi and Yu Pu, and then nodded.

Seeing Lu Haisheng nodding, Fang Ruoxi took off the backpack on her body first, found a tree casually, and sat down against the tree, "Hey, I can finally rest, I feel like my legs are going to break." ”

I glanced at Fang Ruoxi and shook my head amusedly, although I have to admit that the two-hour trip is indeed a great drain on physical energy, but the bigger reason is because of the high temperature here, not the terrain here.

I sat down next to Fang Ruoxi, and also leaned against the tree to rest like her, closed my eyes slightly, and relaxed.

I was poked in the arm, and I opened my eyes and looked at the person who poked me, it was Fang Ruoxi.

"What's wrong?" I asked.

"Hey, Mo Li, why do I think you've suddenly become much better." Fang Ruoxi looked at me as she spoke, "I remember that when you were in the Fairy Tale Forest, your physical fitness was much worse than mine, and you could breathe after running a few steps. But I don't seem to have a hard time seeing you these days, I feel like I'm going to break a pair of legs, and I don't see you feeling tired. ”

I was slightly stunned, knowing that the reason why my physical fitness improved was because the daily morning exercise in the time reset improved my physical fitness. But the time reset involves the room that only Lu Haisheng and I have entered, as well as Lu Haisheng's identity and a lot of information that Earth consciousness has told me, and I don't want to reveal this to anyone else for the time being.

So I thought about it for a while, smiled and said, "I don't know how to get better on my own, maybe I exercised in the fairy tale forest." ”

"That's right, but you see I haven't changed at all." Fang Ruoxi said as she propped up one hand to support her chin, "I don't know how big this broken island is, I have to be tired to death if I continue like this." ”

I smiled, knowing that Fang Ruoxi was just complaining, so I didn't say anything, but I turned my head and saw Chen Si and them on the other side.

Chen Si has now fully integrated into Fu Lingjun and Wang Haobo, and is now being held in Wang Haobo's arms, Wang Haobo has been putting his hand on her thigh, and the other hand is on her waist, and he is constantly moving and groping. I couldn't help but frown after just one glance and turned my head away from them.

"Chen Si, she's really it"

Hearing Fang Ruoxi's voice, I looked up at Fang Ruoxi, the expression on her face was a little complicated, and it was obvious that she had also discovered the situation on Chen Si's side. The expression on her face was anger, incomprehension, disdain, and sadness. I can probably understand Fang Ruoxi's feelings, after all, Chen Si is the first person she met after entering the endless room, although the relationship between the two was not very friendly from the beginning, but after all, they are girls of the same age, and there may be a feeling of the same kind.

But it is clear that the two people are not really the same, and they have chosen different paths.

I recalled what Chen Si said to me in the fairy tale forest, her thoughts seemed to be very extreme, making me feel that she didn't want to be a bad person, and she didn't want to choose to fall, but becoming bad and depraved was the only choice she gave herself.

I couldn't help her, I knew it from the beginning.

I glanced in Chen Si's direction again and sighed slightly.

I don't know what kind of past she went through, but I could tell that she was trapped in that past and couldn't or didn't want to get out.

Perhaps, in a sense, I used to be the same as Chen Si, stubbornly enclosing myself in a cage made of myself, torturing myself, and using one kind of pain to make myself forget about another.

It's just that the way I tortured myself was to close myself off from the outside world, and the way she tortured herself was to degenerate into someone she hated.

Yes, people who they all hate.

I believe that Chen Si also doesn't like this kind of herself, after all, when I saw her at that time, she had subconsciously dodged. But the more she hates herself like this, the more paranoid she becomes.

Thankfully, I've come out of the cage in my heart.

And Chen Si, will she still be able to come out?

"Mo Li? Don't leave! ”

"Ah, what's wrong?"

Fang Ruoxi's scream brought me back to my senses, and when I turned my head, I saw something in her hand.

"Look, this is what I just found at the bottom of the trunk!"

She said as she reached out to me.

There was a small piece of black in Fang Ruoxi's spread palm, and when he looked closely, he found that it was a black beetle.

"Bugs?" I was slightly stunned, then I reacted and reached out to take the beetle in her palm, "You found it at the bottom of the trunk?" ”

"Yes." Fang Ruoxi nodded, "It's a pity that it seems to be dead." ”

I looked at the beetle I had taken to my palm, its feet shrunk and motionless in my palm. I touched its back, and when I wiped it off, the beetle's shell was very smooth, and even seemed to have a slight glitter.

Is it dead? It didn't look like it, I moved my finger with my finger, and it felt more and more like it was dying when it was in danger.

Maybe it's dormant? After all, the insects here only become active when it rains, and when there is no water, they enter a state of suspended animation.

However, since they were found from the bottom of the trunk, could the bugs be hidden in the ground when there was no rain?

"Oh! Don't leave! Come and see! There are so many bugs here! ”

As soon as I thought of this, Fang Ruoxi's cry attracted my attention, I turned my head to look, and found that she had gotten up from me without knowing when, and was now squatting next to the tree, holding a branch in her hand that she didn't know where to pick it up, and the root of the tree in front of her had been dug up by her.

I got up from the ground and squatted down beside her, took the branch from her hand and continued to dig, and it was easy to see that there were different kinds of insects of different shapes in the excavated soil.

"What's wrong?"

As if attracted by Fang Ruoxi's exclamation, Lu Haisheng and Lin Ya also walked to the side of the tree.

Lu Haisheng opened his mouth and asked, "Did you find anything?" ”

"Discovery? That's it. I used the branch in my hand to point to the place where I had dug in front of me, "We've found where the bugs are hiding." ”

"Is it hidden underground? I said why didn't you see those bugs outside when it wasn't raining? Lin Ya said, also squatting beside us, picking up another branch and turning it over where it was dug up, "But what's wrong with these bugs?" Are they all dead? Look motionless. ”

"Not really." I frowned, "I think it's dormant when it's not raining now, and it doesn't come to be active until it touches the water?" I guessed too. ”

"Hey, don't you just have to try it?"

When I heard Fang Ruoxi's words, I was curious about how she was going to try it, and when I turned my head, I saw that she had opened a bottle of water and poured it slightly at the dug place.

And after the water was poured in, it was as if some kind of switch was turned on, and the insects that were originally motionless really moved immediately after touching the water.

One on top of the other, writhing the black body densely, and I saw my scalp tingling.

"You see, they don't move until they touch water. Hey, you see these bugs are digging deeper. ”

Hearing Fang Ruoxi's words, I endured the feeling of numbness in my scalp and took another look, and sure enough, as she said, those insects were burrowing deeper, and there were already a lot less on the surface after a while.

But it's just bugs, and it's enough for a few of us to watch the bugs around here.

I was sneering like this in my heart, but suddenly I heard Yu Pu's voice say.

"Keep digging and dig up all these bugs."