Chapter 60 Still Have to Dig a Pond

Chapter 60: Building a Pond Is Still Necessary

Xu Yi quickly swept his surroundings with X-ray vision, but found no trace of any animals.

"This smell... It's very musky, somewhat like a fox."

Xu Yi had smelled it too, naturally, but he wasn't sure which animal had left the scent.

If it really was a fox, Xu Yi wasn't particularly worried. After all, compared to other carnivores, foxes are relatively easy to deal with.

However, this served as a reminder to Xu Yi that he needed to set up some traps around the camp.

The smoked fish hanging from the beam of the tree house was still there, untouched by any animals. Xu Yi figured that the animal which visited the camp today must have been attracted by the smoked fish.

Fortunately, they hadn't left any leftover fish soup or the like at noon, or it might have attracted even more animals.

In the wilderness, storing food will inevitably attract animals because their sense of smell is exceptionally acute.

"Daddy, are foxes... delicious?"

As soon as Su Keke said this, the live stream chat exploded.

[Keke, are you a little demon?]

[Hahaha, the look of bewilderment on Xu Yi's face is so cute. I want to bear him a handsome son.]

[Keke's foodie nature is getting stronger and stronger. She hasn't even seen the real animal yet, and she's already thinking about eating it?]

[They're in the wilderness. If they don't hunt for food, they'll starve to death. Is there anything wrong with that question?]

Xu Yi rolled his neck and said, "They probably aren't very tasty. Daddy didn't eat wild animals in the past either. Once we catch it, we'll find out if it tastes good or not."

Su Keke seemed to snap back to reality. She turned, waved her hands frantically at the hovering camera ball, and said, "Keke didn't eat them before either! We are currently in what Daddy calls... an emergency... emergency rescue situation. Yes, an emergency situation! You can eat anything in an emergency, but you guys must not casually eat wild animals."

[Our Keke is too amazing! She actually remembers what Number One said about emergency survival. Isn't she too smart?]

[Watching Keke every day makes me want to beat my own son. Why must comparisons to others be so infuriating?]

[Aww, I so want to snatch Keke away and raise her myself! If the daughter I give birth to in the future isn't as smart and cute as Keke, I'll definitely drench my husband.]

[Drench... That's quite a suggestive choice of words. What kind of drenched are we talking about?]

[Veterans of the chat, tone it down a bit. There are children in this live stream. If you want to race your cars, go to another live stream, thank you very much!]

Xu Yi patted Su Keke's head and then untied the vines binding the bottle tree.

"Keke, go get the fire going. Daddy will go fetch some water to test whether this bottle tree leaks."

Whether the bottle tree could be used depended on whether it leaked water.

There was still some firewood left in the camp, so it was best not to let the campfire go out. Lighting a fire with a flint took quite a bit of time.

After fetching a bucket of water, Xu Yi returned to the camp.

Picking up a section of the bottle tree, with Su Keke's help, Xu Yi poured more than half a bucket of water into it. Then, he stood the bottle tree upright, leaning it against a nearby tree.

Whether it would leak or seep water would become clear in an hour or two.

"It's time to cook lunch again. Daddy is going to catch and clean some fish. At noon we'll have fish soup and boil some stream snails, which will also give you something to pass the time this afternoon."

With that, Xu Yi picked up the bucket and walked toward the suspension bridge on the riverbank.

Their back basket was tied to the suspension bridge and submerged in the river, with about two-thirds of it underwater to ensure the fish wouldn't die.

When pulling up the back basket, Xu Yi indeed found no dead fish.

Selecting enough fish for lunch, Xu Yi carried them to the stream and gutted them clean.

The appearance of that animal made Xu Yi realize that they needed to consume the remaining food as soon as possible. It was best to catch and kill these fish right before eating so they wouldn't attract animals.

Ideally, he should dig a small pond and raise the fish in captivity. After all, they didn't have fences yet, and it was still quite dangerous if animals showed up at the camp.

Additionally, if they wanted to do any farming, they would need water for irrigation. Rainy days were relatively rare here; the climate was predominantly sunny.

To dig a small fish pond, he needed a hoe. Once the bamboo walls of the small tree house were fully tied in place, Xu Yi could start making farm tools like stone hoes and wooden mattocks to dig the fish pond and clear the land.

"Viewers, what's the situation with the other challengers?"

"Right now, I feel like there's a severe labor shortage. A single person really can't get much done."

"Teamwork is definitely the right choice."

"There are five ultimate winners, so the maximum limit for a team should be five."

Xu Yi was very curious about the current situation of the other challengers. So far, there were still 3,909 challengers left. Over the past two days, only a few people had been eliminated, which indicated that everyone was gradually stabilizing.

[Bro, you've finally started caring about the other challengers! Over 6,000 people have already been eliminated.]

[Fewer than 100 people are living better than you. You're already doing amazingly well.]

[Crap, absolutely no more than 20 people are living better than Number One and Keke. You guys are already living extremely well.]

[Truth be told, Number One, you're already formidable. It feels like you never stop; you work harder than an ox.]

[Indeed, Number One completely doesn't know the meaning of exhaustion. He works from morning till night, pushing himself too hard.]

[There's no help for it; that's what being a father is. With Keke around, how could he not push himself? Why don't you guys have Number One show you his hands and see how thick his calluses are?]

All sorts of voices filled the live stream chat.

Xu Yi managed to gather some understanding of the overall situation. Judging by their current circumstances, he and Su Keke were doing quite well. They weren't at the absolute top, but they were comfortably in the middle tier.

There were still several hundred people hovering on the verge of elimination.

Currently, there was only one team formed. There were two members—one European and one Japanese—and they still experienced some language barriers. However, nobody held high hopes for this team; friction between them was significant, with each wanting the other to do more work while doing less themselves.

Therefore, forming a team was extremely difficult.

Based on the viewers' analysis, the distance between challengers must be quite vast, with only a tiny fraction located close to one another. Encountering someone else was exceptionally difficult unless the live stream platform unlocked the coordinates of all challengers.

After all, the end game would undoubtedly be an elimination mode. Only five people could remain, with no time limit. To speed up the conclusion of the challenge, they would have to eliminate other challengers. Perhaps they would even have to cross oceans to search for others.

Without coordinates, that would certainly be impossible.

In the early stages, everyone was in survival mode, but later on, warfare mode would likely be triggered.

However, Xu Yi wasn't thinking that far ahead yet. What he wanted to do right now was simply try his best to take care of Su Keke, ensure she could eat three full meals a day, and protect her from animal attacks.

*Thanks to book friend yy Gucheng for tipping this book.*
*(End of this chapter)*