When they came back, Huo Dong had already lit up the fire.
A few square meters of fish skin was spread out, and pieces of black smoked fish were placed on top of it.
Huang Jiahui's face was expressionless, as if she had not heard their argument. She calmly placed a wooden cup in front of everyone and poured each of them a cup of tree sap. She then said to Zhao Yali, "Try this!"
Zhao Yali had a weak personality, so she would only vent her anger at people she was familiar with. No matter how unhappy she was, she would not dare to show her displeasure to anyone else. She quickly said, "Thank you!"
She held the cup and took a small sip. Then, she took another big gulp and remained silent.
Wang Shishi, on the other hand, could not keep her composure. Brother Luo was too much of a playboy. Women after women made her feel a great sense of crisis.
She kept looking at Zhao Yali with hostility. Most of the paint on Zhao Yali's face had been washed away by her tears, revealing her true face. The more she looked at Zhao Yali, the more familiar she felt. She ignored her hostility and asked in surprise, "Did you use to live opposite my house?"
Zhao Yali was stunned. She had not expected anyone else to recognize her besides Luo Yuan. She took a closer look at Wang Shishi, but she had changed so much that she could not remember her at all.
"I used to live opposite your house. We used to bump into each other quite often," Wang Shishi explained when she saw Zhao Yali's confused face.
Zhao Yali thought about it and seemed to have some impression of her. She asked in surprise, "How did you grow up? And you're with Luo Yuan?"
"My parents are gone, so I've been with Brother Luo all this time."
Zhao Yali thought of her family and sighed. She held the cup and drank the tree sap, worrying about her future.
Seeing that everyone had started talking and the atmosphere was not as gloomy as before, Cao Ling could not help but ask, "What's that on your face? I think everyone in the campsite has it on."
Zhao Yali looked a little embarrassed and said, "It's a kind of tree sap. It's used to repel insects, but it's not very effective."
Everyone's eyes lit up except for Luo Yuan and Wang Shishi. Although the sap smelled bad and did not look good on their faces, it was nothing compared to life. Cao Ling quickly asked, "What kind of plant is it?"
An unnatural expression appeared on Zhao Yali's face. "I'm not sure either. These were all … brought by Zhu Hao and the others."
She was timid by nature. Ever since she came to the camp, she had never been outside the dangerous jungle. She had no idea what kind of plant juice this was.
A hint of disappointment flashed across everyone's faces. There were so many mutated plants. Even if it wasn't as difficult as finding a needle in a haystack, it was almost the same.
Luo Yuan wisely chose not to participate in the women's conversation. He carried a wooden bucket that he had made in the past and walked away. There were many low-lying areas that were filled with water. This was the seawater that had been left behind after the tide had receded. Moreover, the salinity of the water was very high after being exposed to the sun for a long time.
As Luo Yuan walked in, there were whirlpools at the bottom of the pond from time to time, causing the water to be polluted. Luo Yuan searched a few places, but it was the same. He didn't care too much. He chose a slightly clean low-lying area, took a bucket of water, and returned.
Huang Jiahui and Cao Ling came over to help when they saw that he was ready to boil the salt. The two of them stacked a few cloth strips together and filtered the dirty water over and over again. However, the cloth strips were not specialized filtration materials. No matter how much they filtered, the water was still a little muddy. Since the conditions were poor, they could only do so.
After putting the stone pot in place, they began to boil the salt. The fire was very strong, and the water soon boiled. Soon, the salt came out.
The salt was not as white as it had been before the apocalypse. Instead, it was a little gray.
"There are too many impurities in the salt. I think it will be very bitter," Huo Dong said.
"It's better than nothing. I feel like I can eat one or two now." Lin Xiaoji licked his chapped lips. He had not eaten salt for a long time, so anything he ate now had tasteless taste. He could even eat salt, no matter how bitter it was.
The water soon boiled dry, and a layer of gray salt crystals appeared at the bottom of the pot. They had formed into lumps, which did not look like common household salt.
Everyone could not wait to taste it. The salt was bitter, astringent, and full of sand and stones. Even dogs would not eat this kind of salt before the apocalypse. Now, not only did they not change their expressions, they even looked like they were enjoying it. Those who had not experienced it would never understand the pain of not eating salt for a long time. Some of them even grabbed a handful and stuffed it into their mouths, chewing it like it was candy. They even swallowed the sand and stones.
Since they had not eaten salt for a few days, everyone except Zhao Yali had eaten a lot during lunch. In the end, it was so salty that everyone drank a lot of water. The bag of tree milk was also finished.
After lunch, everyone packed the extra salt, packed their luggage, and set off again.
Along the way, they could see huge skeletons stranded on the beach. These dead marine creatures did not have the time to evolve limbs and lungs to crawl on land. They had died in the low tide. Luo Yuan saw a skeleton that was more than 30 meters long and 8 to 9 meters tall. The huge skeleton was like a small mountain lying on the shallow sea.
He went over to take a look and found that it was only a dark blue level creature, but its body was a few times bigger than a land creature like the giant lizard. Just based on its size, he was afraid that a normal light green level land creature would not be able to do anything to it.
At first, Luo Yuan thought that it was all tidal flats, but as they got closer to the center of the bridge, there were fewer tidal flats. Many of the slightly lower areas were covered by seawater. Everywhere they looked, there were big and small lakes. The small ones were thousands of square meters, while the big ones were a few square kilometers.
At first, they could avoid them. But gradually, the lakes became bigger. When the other side was far away, they were blocked by a narrow and long belt of seawater that was a few kilometers wide.
Luo Yuan looked around. Even with his eyesight, he could not see where the end of the seawater was. It had almost become a wide river.
"The seawater is too wide. Should we turn back?" Huang Jiahui asked.
"We've already walked so far. It's not fair to turn back," Huo Dong said bitterly. "It's already three o 'clock. I'm afraid it'll be dark soon. There's mud everywhere. It's not easy to dig a hole. It's too dangerous to sleep in the open."
"Yeah, the seawater here shouldn't be too deep. I think it's three to four meters at most. It should be no problem for the giant lizard," Lin Xiaoji said.
It was not easy to get here. The other side was already far away. It would be a huge blow to their morale if they went back.
On one side, they would be sleeping in the open, and on the other side, they would be in danger in the seawater. Luo Yuan hesitated. He felt that there should not be any strong mutated creatures in the shallow water, so he decided, "Let's go in and see. If the water is too deep, we'll turn back."
Since Luo Yuan had made his decision, no one had any objections.
The giant lizard carefully waded through the seawater, occasionally roaring to chase away the creatures that tried to get close.
After walking for more than ten minutes, the seawater began to get deeper and deeper. It had already reached the giant lizard's thighs.
From time to time, there would be streaks of water streaking across the surface of the sea like arrows, or splashes of water that were a few meters high. Blood kept surging from the bottom of the sea. There was a murderous undercurrent here, and the splashes of water splashed on them a few times.
Everyone's faces gradually turned pale. Zhao Yali could no longer be bothered with Luo Yuan. She grabbed his arm tightly.
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