Chapter 6: As I Said

"You're still looking. I thought you were different from other men, but it turns out you're just the same." Liu Qing sneered at Chu Yang.

The next moment, Liu Qing quickly put her hands in front of her body protectively.

Facing Liu Qing's sneer, Chu Yang felt quite embarrassed, just like a thief being caught red-handed after a successful theft.

He quickly averted his gaze in a fluster.

Fortunately, Chu Yang's face could still endure it.

And he thought he hadn't done anything wrong. He had just looked, just made a mistake that every man would make.

"I've said it before, 'Guan guan ju jiu, zai he zhi zhou. Yao tiao shu nu, jun zi hao qiu.' There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with that!" Chu Yang said to defend himself.

Liu Qing gave Chu Yang a big roll of her eyes. "When did I ever say those words?"

Chu Yang scratched his head again. "Well, you probably didn't say them, but does it matter if I, as this 'I', say them?"

Muttering a few words in his heart, Chu Yang cleared his throat to relieve the embarrassment.

Liu Qing looked at Chu Yang a few times and didn't say anything more.

This was just a small interlude. Liu Qing didn't really blame Chu Yang. Instead, she now had some strange feelings towards him in her heart.

Shaking her wet hair, Chu Yang turned his gaze to the sea with rolling waves and looked at the shore beneath his feet. Only then did Chu Yang finally understand what had happened and why he woke up in the middle of the waves.

"It turns out it's high tide. I was careless. I didn't think about this problem last night!" Chu Yang said with a wry smile.

He also felt somewhat lucky inside.

Fortunately, he had discovered it early. Otherwise, if he had been swept into the deep sea by the rising tide, the consequences would have been unimaginable.

"The fire is gone. What should we do now?" Liu Qing asked Chu Yang.

At this moment, Liu Qing really didn't know what to do next.

Through last night's events, she knew that Chu Yang knew quite a lot. Unconsciously, she had also regarded Chu Yang as the backbone.

"It's okay if we lose the fire source. The most important thing now is to find a safe campsite to settle down. In addition, we need to find food and water sources," Chu Yang said very seriously.

A safe campsite to settle down, food, and water sources were the three most critical issues they needed to solve right now.

None of them could be missing.

If any one of these three things was missing, they probably wouldn't be able to survive.

Moreover, Chu Yang now felt extremely thirsty and hungry again, and he was somewhat drowsy, all due to the lack of food and water.

Liu Qing didn't speak on the side, but her face also became very solemn. Now she also understood the seriousness of the current situation.

The next moment, Liu Qing looked at Chu Yang.

She hoped Chu Yang could figure out a way.

"Let's wait here for a while. After the tide goes out, we'll start looking for a safe campsite to settle down," Chu Yang said again.

After the tide went out, there would definitely be food such as fish, shrimp, and shells on the beach.

In this way, the problem of food for the time being was solved, leaving only the two difficult problems of finding a campsite and a water source.

Liu Qing nodded without any objections and followed Chu Yang's lead.

The two sat on the shore for about half an hour until finally the tide went out.

Chu Yang looked at the shores on both sides and finally pointed to the left. "Let's go in this direction!"

It wasn't that Chu Yang had found anything on the left beach. It was all just by feeling.

At this moment, apart from relying on feeling, it seemed there was really no other way.

Although Liu Qing was curious why Chu Yang chose this side, she didn't express any opinions and followed behind Chu Yang, walking in the direction of the left shore.

In the blink of an eye, time passed from morning to noon.

The sun was scorching overhead.

It had been a breezy autumn morning here, but suddenly it had turned into a scorching summer heat.

For most of the day, Chu Yang and Liu Qing were still walking on the beach.

They still hadn't found a safe campsite to settle down.

Because apart from the dense forest of the deserted island, the beaches here were almost at the same level as the sea area. Although no problems could be seen now, as long as there was a high tide, these places could be flooded at any time.

Therefore, these shores were not safe.

Of course, although they hadn't found a safe place to settle down, Chu Yang and the others weren't without any gains. Now their hands were full of various fish, shrimp, and shells.

These were left on the beach by the receding tide and were their only food for now.

"No, I really can't walk anymore!" At this moment, Liu Qing staggered and sat directly on the beach. The fish, shrimp, and shells in her hands scattered, and her face looked a bit pale.

Chu Yang also sat down beside Liu Qing, licking his cracked lips, looking listless too.

Although they had found fish, shrimp, and shells as food on the beach during the receding tide, they hadn't found a safe campsite to settle down for most of the day, which made them very depressed.

This wasn't the most critical issue.

The key was that at this moment, under the scorching sun, they were almost exhausted due to lack of water.

They were now desperate for a water source.

Even more so than for food or anything else.

"Water, I want to drink water!" Liu Qing murmured weakly.

Looking at the surging sea, Liu Qing even had the urge to jump into the sea and drink wildly.

Not only Liu Qing, but Chu Yang also had a very strong urge at this moment.

But they also knew that they couldn't do this because seawater couldn't be drunk directly and couldn't quench thirst. They all knew this basic common sense.

If they drank seawater directly now, it would only speed up their dehydration.

"If it really comes to that, I still have a very simple and effective method, but it's somewhat unacceptable!" Chu Yang gritted his teeth and said.

Hearing Chu Yang's words, Liu Qing seemed to have grasped a lifeline. "What method?"

In her urgency, Liu Qing hadn't even noticed the second half of what Chu Yang had said.

"I once saw a movie. In a situation where you're extremely thirsty and can't find a water source, to save your life, you can use the water in your body to survive!" Chu Yang replied.

"The water in your body?" Liu Qing murmured weakly.

"What? Do you mean..." The next second, Liu Qing suddenly understood what "the water in your body" meant and was horrified.

"No, absolutely not. I'd rather die of thirst!" Liu Qing shook her head frantically.

The water in the body, as the name implies, was urine.

Liu Qing could grit her teeth and endure eating insects and food when she was hungry, but she would never be able to drink this water.

"In this situation, we really have no other choice. To survive, we have to choose this method!" Chu Yang gritted his teeth.

To be honest, he also found it hard to accept this method, but at this moment they really had no other way and no water source at all.

If they didn't drink, they would only have one way out - death.

Liu Qing's body trembled, and she gritted her teeth tightly, now in a state of crazy struggle.