Chapter 13: Division of Labor and Cooperation

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

Everyone followed Li Chen back to the shelter he had built.

“Who are they?” Hua Long was extremely surprised to see Li Chen bringing back a group of people. He did not expect there to be other survivors.

“This is all of us. This place is too small, but if everyone is really willing to come, we can clean up this place.”

Li Chen suggested. Unexpectedly, everyone agreed. According to the number of people, some were in charge of cutting trees, some were in charge of finding food, and some were in charge of arranging the leaves.

Li Chen found many pieces of shale and smashed them into pieces. After polishing them, he finished making stone axes one by one. With the stone axes, it was much easier to cut trees.

Soon, they moved everything back and prepared to start building their common shelter. Moreover, the people who were looking for food brought back more wild fruits, which filled them up.

At this point, the only thing they lacked now was fishing equipment. The efficiency by just relying on Li Chen’s harpoon was too low. It could not effectively guarantee the number of fish.

Just as Li Chen was thinking, Wang Qi called him over.

“Li Chen, let me ask you something. Why don’t you make some fish baskets?”

Li Chen had thought about what Wang Qi had said, but there were no suitable materials at the moment. He did not find any vines to make a fish basket. There were only hard branches, so he could only tie a frame.

“Look, is this it?” Li Chen handed the frame he had already tied to Wang Qi.

“Uh… If only there was a layer of mesh on it,” Wang Qi thoughtfully said.

“Right!” Wang Qi suddenly thought of something. She quickly searched in her backpack.

“Here!” Wang Qi handed Li Chen a few bags. They looked brand new and unused.

Li Chen took the bags from Wang Qi in surprise. He took a look and saw that it was stockings. Li Chen was immediately stunned. Wang Qi must have watched too many wilderness survival movies. Only they would bring these to attract attention.

“It’s brand new. I’ve never worn it before,” Wang Qi quickly explained.

Li Chen took it and opened it. He covered it with the frame that he had already tied up. This way, the fish basket was ready. He only needed to throw them into the sea and place them in with bait, after which they would just have to wait for the fish to come in.

“I really have to thank you this time. It’s all thanks to you,” Li Chen said.

With the fish basket, the efficiency of catching fish was indeed much higher. There were a lot of fish inside. Li Chen quickly caught them and grilled them to eat.

At that moment, Hua Long thought of something. He quickly called Zhang Yang to follow him. As he walked, he seemed to be thinking about something.

When Hua Long arrived at the cave that he had found, he quickly took out the knife that he had hidden long ago. Then, he went to the forest and started cutting trees.

“What are you doing?” Zhang Yang saw that the usually lazy Hua Long had suddenly started chopping down trees.

“What do you know? Come and help. If we don’t take the opportunity to seal the cave entrance, what will we do in the future?” Hua Long did not stop what he was doing. Soon, he cut down two thick trees.

Hua Long and Zhang Yang dragged the tree trunk to the entrance of the cave. Then, they dug a deep hole in the cave and placed the tree trunk inside. They used the tree trunks as support to build the wall outside.

After the tree trunk was properly erected, Hua Long kicked it a few times and said, “It’s quite sturdy. Wouldn’t it be safer to seal the entrance of the cave like this?” As he said that, he even asked Zhang Yang a question, but Zhang Yang did not say anything.

The rest of the party had been busy for the entire day. Some of them managed to harvest some wild fruits, some moved back to the tree trunk, and some even managed to get some fresh water. Only Hua Long and Zhang Yang came back empty-handed.

“Hey, get me a glass of water. I’m so thirsty!” Hua Long sat down in the shelter and began to drink. No one paid him any attention, as if he didn’t exist. After all, there were other people around, and no one personally knew Hua Long.

“Hey, I’m talking to you, the one with glasses!” Seeing that the person did not move, Hua Long raised his voice.

“What? You’re calling me?” That person reacted and asked Hua Long.

“Yes, I’m calling you. You deaf fool, get me some water!” Hua Long shouted. This shout attracted the others, who heard the commotion and hurried over.

“Who are you? Why should I listen to you?” the bespectacled man asked.

“That’s right. Who is he? What right does he have to order people around?”

“That’s right. How can there be such a person?”

Everyone started discussing. When everyone saw Hua Long like this, they did not want to spoil him. After all, it was very difficult to survive now.

“You can ask me to pour you some water, but tell me what you did today.” The bespectacled man asked Hua Long about his laziness. Hua Long had gone to set up his secret base today, so he had not done anything here.

“What did I do? Why should I do it? You can abandon me. I didn’t force you to accept me,” Hua Long said stubbornly.

“Alright, since he didn’t do anything, we won’t give him anything to eat.” Someone below started to jeer.

“Yeah, no work, no food.”

At this moment, Li Chen heard the commotion and hurriedly walked over to check on the situation.

“What’s wrong?” Li Chen looked at the angry crowd and asked in confusion.

“Li Chen, you came at the right time. Judge him. He doesn’t do any work and even orders other people around,” someone below said.

Li Chen knew that it was Hua Long who did it. Li Chen could only go forward and persuade Hua Long. However, Hua Long ignored Li Chen and rejected him.

“Li Chen, we’ll listen to you, but you have to listen to us on this matter. We won’t feed the two of them today.”

“Yes! You’re right!”

Everyone began to jeer. Li Chen stopped everyone and quickly got the others to bring out the food so that everyone could eat first. After all, they had been tired for the entire day.

“Hmph! If you don’t want to give me something to eat, then forget it! Let’s go! I’ll bring you to find something to eat!” Hua Long shouted at Zhang Yang to follow him.

When they saw Hua Long and Zhang Yang leaving the forest, no one stopped them. They were still discussing what they had seen and heard in the forest today and which fruit was better.

Hua Long and Zhang Yang went outside and wandered aimlessly on the beach. There was nothing on the empty beach. Suddenly, Hua Long thought of something.

So he called Zhang Yang over to the shade of a rock.

“I’ve thought of something!” said Hua Long excitedly.

“What did you think of?” Zhang Yang asked curiously, “Do you have a way to find food?”

“Are you stupid? You only know how to eat. Why don’t you eat until you die? We’ll go back later and you’ll do as I say!”

Hua Long confidently brought Zhang Yang back to the shelter. The people in the shelter were resting. When they saw Hua Long return, they could not help but tease him.

“Yo, Young Master, you’re back after dinner?”

“How long do you plan to sleep today?”