Each person had a bowl of broth with large pieces of meat, fragrant soup, and fresh vegetables.
Li Du took a bite, and the delicious gravy spurted out of the shredded meat, making his taste buds explode. He chewed carefully and swallowed, and could not help but exclaim, "It's delicious!"
Victor raised his glass with a grin and said, "A toast to the Creator's gift, to us bastards who work hard to live."
The crowd followed him and raised their glasses. "To the gift of the Creator, to us bastards!"
As they chatted casually, Victor asked, "What are you doing here? Traveling? You look like rich people, but it's rare to see a tourist group like yours. "
Li Du said, "Sort of, we also harvest black gold abalone."
"Oh, you have a black gold abalone harvesting permit?" Victor asked again.
Li Du nodded but stopped talking. He felt that he had said too much.
They were on such a deserted island, but they exposed the black gold abalone harvesting permit, which could easily arouse people's greed.
As a result, a middle-aged man who looked very capable pointed to the west and said, "Do you want to harvest black gold abalone? Go west and you will come to an island with many large breadfruit trees and black gold abalone around it. "
"It's best not to go into the water there, it's dangerous, and don't go to the island, it's also dangerous," someone else said. "This is a bad idea."
"But there are black gold abalone in the surrounding waters," the middle-aged man said. "We have seen it and secretly harvested it to eat."
The others suddenly shouted, "Hey, Bauer, don't f * cking control your mouth after drinking. We didn't illegally harvest black gold abalone!"
"There are no fishing and hunting officers here. What are you afraid of?" Bauer said angrily.
They were very aware of the law and stopped talking about this topic.
Li Du wanted to ask what the danger was, but Bauer and the others changed their story and said that it was indeed very dangerous and told them not to go near there. Then they stopped talking about it and changed the topic.
Living on an isolated island, they had no entertainment, and these people did not like entertainment very much. After eating, they chatted for a while under the light, digested their food, and went home.
Li Du and the others stayed on the island for a night. In the morning, as they were sleeping soundly, there was a sudden scream from the building. "Ahhhh!!!"
The sound was so miserable that Li Du jumped up in fright. Ah Ow, Ah Meow, and Crispy Noodles, who were sleeping at his feet, also jumped up and looked around with wide eyes.
Li Du recognized Hannah's voice and hurried out the door.
Brother Wolf, Big Quinn, and Godzilla also rushed out immediately. Hans opened the door in a daze and said, "I think I heard my silly sister shouting?"
Li Du looked at his dazed look and was very angry. He said, "Brother Wolf, give him a slap to wake him up!"
Brother Wolf was obedient. He grabbed Hans and gave him a slap. Hans screamed in pain, and his voice was not much softer than Hannah's.
Hannah's room was upstairs. They rushed up and kicked the door open. Stephen was hugging Hannah, and both of them were disheveled.
Seeing that the two of them were fine, Li Du heaved a sigh of relief and asked, "What happened?"
Without waiting for Hannah to reply, Brother Wolf pointed to the window and said, "Look."
Li Du took a look and felt his scalp go numb too.
The houses on the island were very simple. Some of the rooms had no glass windows. When it was cold in winter, two layers of plastic sheets would be pasted on the windows. The plastic sheets were cheap and had better insulation than glass.
It was autumn, so it was not cold yet. There was not even a plastic sheet on the windows. It was empty.
At this moment, Hannah and Stephen's room was not empty. There was something hanging upside down, staring coldly at them with big black eyes.
The hanging animal was more than half a meter long. It was black all over and had fine hair. Its eyes were big and scary. It had a protruding mouth and monkey cheeks. It looked very evil.
Li Du recognized that it was a bat. However, in his memory, bats were only the size of a palm. Now, it was as tall as a child.
The others rushed over. Ah Meow and Ah Ow squeezed in. They were excited to see the big bat. They howled and pounced on it.
The big bat swung its claws and did a free fall. Then it spread its wings and flew up.
It was even bigger now. Its wings were more than a meter long, like a small black plane.
Ah Meow jumped out of the window. The big bat, like many animals, underestimated the power of the ocelot. It flew slowly, thinking that it was an air force and that land creatures could not do anything to it.
However, Ah Meow ran fast and jumped far. He put his four limbs together and pressed on the window. Then he flew out like an arrow and landed on the big bat.
Although the bat was big, its body was very light. Otherwise, it would not be able to fly and the force it could withstand was very small.
Ah Meow was too heavy. The bat could not bear it and immediately crashed!
The group squeezed to the window and looked out. They saw Ah Meow squatting on the big bat and looking up at them innocently. The big bat was twitching on the ground.
Li Du quickly waved his hand to signal it to move away. He shouted, "Are you not afraid of death? Move aside. "
Brother Wolf calmly said, "It's okay, boss. This is an Australian flying fox, a type of fruit bat. It likes to eat fruits from various plants. It will not hurt people or animals."
The owner of the house had also woken up. Hannah's scream was so loud that the people in the surrounding houses had probably woken up.
Seeing Ah Meow stepping on the big bat, the owner waved his hand to chase him away. He then squatted down to check on the bat. He carried it and put it on the table.
The owner's wife went to get some ointment and gave it to the owner. He applied it on the bat.
Li Du went downstairs and asked, "What is this for?"
The owner said, "It's for treatment. This is a flying fox. It will not hurt people. Don't be so scared."
Hannah felt wronged and said, "It looks so scary and big. Who knows if it will hurt people? I opened my eyes and it just looked at me coldly. "
At this point, she began to tremble again.
Li Du could understand. They had never seen such a big bat. Its head was too shocking. It was easy to be frightened when you saw it when you just woke up.
The owner of the house smiled and introduced the Australian Spectacled Fox to them. The Australian Spectacled Fox was an important species on the island.
They did not bite or attack people or livestock. They liked to eat the fruits of various plants. The seeds and undigested seeds would be brought to other places along with the Australian flying fox's migration.
In the primeval forest on the island, it was difficult for plant seedlings to survive in the canopy of the parent trees. Some mother trees even secreted a poison to prevent their seedlings from maturing.
Therefore, the flying fox was responsible for the important mission of spreading plant seeds, which was crucial to the island's rainforest ecosystem.
Because they stole the fruits of farmers, the Australian flying fox was hunted in large numbers for a period of time. Now their numbers were very low, and the Australian government began to protect them.
The people on the island had to protect them because they were more important than humans in the island's ecosystem. That was why the owner of the house quickly gave it first aid when he found it injured.
Just like the Maui dolphin, these flying foxes were now less and had to be protected.
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