Chapter 22: Premature Joy

Seeing Chu Yang and the others enjoying their meal with gusto, Qiao Lin threw the sea fish and shrimp in her hand aside in disgust all at once.

She felt extremely envious inside.

Why could they eat delicious food while she could only have these stinky fish and rotten shrimp?

"Could this snake meat really be that delicious?" Qiao Lin glanced at the golden snake meat that Xu Qing had just handed to her and thought to herself.

Perhaps it was out of spite, or perhaps it was out of curiosity seeing Chu Yang and the others' ravenous appetites, Qiao Lin gritted her teeth and decided to give it a try.

She slowly brought the golden snake meat to her lips with her eyes closed and took a small bite.

When she tasted it, Qiao Lin was completely stunned.

It was crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. This was definitely much better than the sea fish and shrimp she had just had.

Moreover, perhaps because she had only eaten fish and shrimp on the deserted island and had never had meat before, Qiao Lin thought this was definitely the best meat she had ever eaten.

At least it surpassed all the delicacies now.

Chu Yang also noticed Qiao Lin eating the snake meat and curled his lips. "How does it taste?"

"It's not as disgusting as I imagined. Just so-so!" Qiao Lin replied to Chu Yang with a huff.

The next moment, Qiao Lin didn't pay any more attention to Chu Yang. She stuffed a big piece of snake meat into her mouth. While eating, she kept putting other pieces of snake meat in front of herself without any hesitation.

She was really wolfing it down.

Seeing Qiao Lin's greedy appearance, Chu Yang curled his lips again. She was really like a dead duck that won't shut up. She could have just said it was really delicious.

Finally, all the remaining snake meat went into Qiao Lin's stomach.

Liu Qing and Xu Qing were also stuffed and burping one after another.

Only Chu Yang looked at the remaining pile of sea fish and shrimp with a helpless face.

He had thought that after making the sharp tools today, they could have a good meal and fill their stomachs with meat. But unexpectedly, they were all eaten by the three of them.

This whole evening was in vain.

Shaking his head, Chu Yang could only finish the sea fish and shrimp.

After dinner, everyone ate some wild fruits to replenish their water.

After eating and drinking their fill, it was already late at night, and everyone was getting ready to rest.

Just like last night, Chu Yang slept in the middle position between Xu Qing and Liu Qing. Although he was still distracted, Chu Yang was really tired and drifted off into sleep.

It was another peaceful night.

In the blink of an eye, it was the next day.

"Ah, great, great!" A loud cry rang out in the valley early in the morning and lingered for a long time.

Chu Yang was woken up by this loud cry, still groggy.

Xu Qing and Liu Qing also opened their sleepy eyes.

The three of them looked over and saw Qiao Lin standing at the entrance of the small cave, jumping up and down, sometimes crying out in alarm and sometimes laughing loudly to herself.

"So early in the morning, what's she going crazy about?" Chu Yang looked puzzled.

Xu Qing and Liu Qing also looked at each other, equally confused.

At this time, Qiao Lin also saw the three people who had woken up. She hopped on one foot and walked over, gesticulating wildly for a while before shouting loudly, "I'm going to tell you a piece of good news, a huge piece of good news!"

"Could it be that you saw the sun rise from the west today?" Chu Yang joked half-heartedly.

She wouldn't say anything good. She didn't believe that Qiao Lin would have any good news.

Maybe it would be a good thing for her alone, but for them, it would definitely be a huge disaster.

"Stop talking if you have nothing to say!" Naturally, Qiao Lin detected the mocking tone in Chu Yang's half-joking words and replied angrily.

However, perhaps because she was in a good mood today, Qiao Lin didn't continue to argue with Chu Yang as she usually did.

"Qiao Lin, what exactly is this good news? Hurry up and tell us. Stop beating around the bush," Xu Qing urged Qiao Lin.

"Okay, I'm going to tell you now. Listen carefully!" Qiao Lin laughed gleefully and then waved something in front of the three people.

This thing was exactly the mobile phone that had been handed to Qiao Lin earlier, asking her to dry it with the fire from the bonfire.

"I'm going to tell you the huge good news. This mobile phone can be turned on."

After saying that, Qiao Lin tapped on the phone.

The originally dark screen of the mobile phone lit up all at once.

"Huh? The mobile phone is on?" Hearing Qiao Lin's words, the three people all shuddered at the same time, frozen in place.

It took them about ten or so seconds to recover.

"This is really great. If the mobile phone can be turned on, it means we can contact the outside world soon and leave this deserted island in a short time," Xu Qing said excitedly.

"That's right. We can finally leave," Liu Qing also said excitedly.

Of course, Chu Yang felt the same as Xu Qing and Liu Qing, extremely excited inside.

"You finally did something good," Chu Yang originally had a big problem with Qiao Lin and was always dissatisfied with her, but now his attitude had changed a bit.

"You should really be grateful to me this time," Qiao Lin puffed out her chest like a proud little swan.

"Sure, sure. As long as we can leave this deserted island, you can ask for anything, and we'll do it. Hurry up and call for help!" Chu Yang urged Qiao Lin.

Qiao Lin gave Chu Yang a scornful look and then excitedly opened the mobile phone.

Now all she had to do was dial her father's number, and she could leave this horrible place.

However, after a few seconds, Qiao Lin froze, and her face changed suddenly because she found that she couldn't get through no matter what.

"This can't be. How could this be!" Qiao Lin gritted her teeth angrily.

"Qiao Lin, what happened?" Xu Qing saw Qiao Lin's face and asked anxiously.

Chu Yang and Liu Qing also felt that something was wrong, but Qiao Lin kept a straight face, which worried Chu Yang a lot.

"What's going on?" Chu Yang urged.

"Could it be that there's something wrong with the mobile phone again?" Liu Qing raised her eyebrows.

"Shut up all of you. It's all your fault for rushing me. The phone can't get through!" Qiao Lin snapped angrily at their eagerness.

Seeing Qiao Lin's reaction, Chu Yang stepped forward before she could smash the phone again and snatched it away.

After opening the phone, Chu Yang's face also fell.

They were overjoyed too early because this mobile phone couldn't be used at all.