Chapter 380: Chapter 380: Building the Camp

Jerry looked at the back of Xu Yi, opened his mouth, but said nothing.

He really wanted to win over Xu Yi, to make him his right-hand man. After all, Xu Yi was very powerful and had awakened a unique spiritual power.

He just didn’t expect that Xu Yi wouldn’t even give him a chance to speak.

He realized that all the advantages he used to have were gone. Ever since the advent of telekinesis and brain crystals, ordinary money had lost its meaning.

Even if he offered Xu Yi ten billion, Xu Yi wouldn’t be tempted.

If Xu Yi didn’t go back, that money would be just a meaningless number, unable to provide any practical use to Xu Yi.

Go back?

He felt Xu Yi wasn’t the kind of person who would want to go back. Even if he successfully challenged the 500 days, Jerry didn’t think Xu Yi would return.

Become Xu Yi’s enemy?

That’s something Jerry wasn’t planning for the time being.

Unless he gained enough strength to easily deal with Xu Yi.

But he wasn’t sure if he would get that opportunity.

What comforted him was that Xu Yi didn’t have much ambition and didn’t like to win people’s hearts.

If it were him in Xu Yi’s place, Jerry thought, he would have already won over most of the challengers.

“Xu Yi.” Lu Ke handed a bottle of water to Xu Yi. She now had two Star Chart spaces, the one Xu Yi picked up was also given to her. Because her original one still only had water.

Xu Yi took the water, drank a sip, and then put the bottle away.

“Let’s continue, everyone. It’s almost 11 o’clock, we should speed up. It will be troublesome if we can’t find a water source before nightfall. Everyone should know how dangerous the jungle is at night from experience.”

“We will definitely find water. With such a big forest and such lush vegetation, there must be water.”

“Let’s go, let’s move quickly, speed up a bit.”

Xu Yi let Lu Ke ride on the back of the Black Qilin, so that Lu Ke was safer.

“A stream, it’s a stream, everyone look, it’s a stream!” Lu Ke, sitting on Qilin’s back, suddenly shouted, breaking the silence.

“Really, it really is a stream, we found a water source, we found it.”

The group became excited and rushed towards the stream.

In just over 300 meters, they reached it in no time.

“Such clear river water…” Someone immediately bent down, scooped up a handful of water, and drank it.

They were really too thirsty; some hadn’t really had a drink since last night.

Although some wanted to stop them, suggesting they wait until the water was boiled before drinking, they couldn’t be persuaded.

But judging by the situation, there didn’t seem to be any problem with the river water here.

“Should we set up camp nearby?” Zhou Chun asked Xu Yi.

“This place might not be ideal; let’s see how it goes. Right now, I think it’s better for us to stay together,” Xu Yi thought they were still too weak to separate from the main group and find a place to set up camp on their own.

Zhou Chun nodded, also thinking that they shouldn’t leave the main group.

The six fierce beasts they encountered today proved that only by gathering everyone together could they manage to deal with them.

With only a dozen people, they could at most handle one fierce beast.

After half an hour, someone suggested that they quickly start building a camp by the river before nightfall.

Some felt this wasn’t an ideal location and suggested taking enough fresh water and continuing to find a suitable place to set up camp.

In the end, they voted.

More people wanted to stay, so they started cutting down trees to build a camp.

With over 400 strong individuals, the work efficiency was astonishing.

Over a hundred people were responsible for chopping trees, while 300 started digging trenches.

The trenches were one meter deep. Only at this depth did everyone feel that the stakes established after being buried could possibly fend off fierce beasts.

For now, the camp didn’t need to be too big; each person having two square meters of space to lie down was sufficient. This meant they needed a total area of just 900 square meters.

A perimeter of 30 meters wide was enough.

The 300 people completed the digging of a total of 120 meters of trenches in just over an hour.

The remaining hundred or so chopped many trees, cutting them into four-meter lengths.

Once the trenches were finished, the four-meter-long stakes were buried in the trenches one by one.

Everyone worked hard, and no one slacked off.

After all, with a camp, they could sleep peacefully.

In the past twenty days, they hadn’t had a good night’s sleep.

The speed at which they worked amazed viewers across various live-streaming platforms.

“So fast, this is the first time I’ve seen such a scene with so many people working.”

“Incredible efficiency, setting up a 900-square-meter camp in just two hours, it’s a miracle.”

“You have to think, each of them is as strong as three ordinary people now, equivalent to 1,000 people working. Isn’t it supposed to be fast?”

“If you were also facing a threat of death, you’d have such drive and efficiency as well.”

“Can this camp really defend against those fierce beasts? I feel it’s a bit risky, wouldn’t using massive stones be more effective?”

“Given the current conditions, being able to set up a camp like this is already quite good, and it’s the only option. Who knows what’s in the jungle? Even plants can kill. Not only do they have water here, but it’s also quite safe. They’ve been working for two hours without any beast attacks.”

“Exactly, they also set up ten watchtowers. Even if there’s danger, they can detect it right away.”

“We’ll know if it’s safe after tonight.”

“It’s already six o’clock, why is everyone heading to the river instead of having dinner?”

“Big scene, absolutely a big scene, hundreds of people bathing together; soon the screens might go black.”

“Yes, bathing, why didn’t I think of that? They haven’t bathed in over twenty days; now that they’ve found a water source, how could they resist?”

Naturally, the ones who needed to fetch water for bathing were the women.

Out of over 400 people, there were fewer than 100 women, a rather low ratio.

The men all went to the river to bathe; by now, the sky was quite dark, and they turned off the cameras.

This time, they remained off for a considerable length, a full hour.

After an hour, everyone changed into freshly dried clothes.

There were a dozen large bonfires in the camp.

Each team assigned one person to keep watch for the first half of the night.

Given how strong the fierce beasts were here, if manpower was too scarce, they might not survive a surprise attack long enough for the others to wake up.

The person assigned by Xu Yi’s team was Zhou Mo, and Qin Fan’s team sent Su Yan, because Su Yan had the Thunder Strike Gun.

At around 10 p.m., the camp suddenly erupted with the sound of a sharp whistle.

Enemy attack, it was the alarm for an enemy attack.

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