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Chapter 8 Thirst

early morning.

The cold dew soaked her clothes.

Julie woke up in her sleep, and the dazzling sunshine made her dizzy.

After adapting to this brightness, she got rid of the state of half-dream. Seeing Gu Yu still sleeping and looking tired, she could guess that the other party would have been vigilant for a long time after she slept.

So she took a lighter pace to avoid waking up the Grain Rain, added some dry firewood to the bonfire's ash, and then began to look for food that could replenish energy on the surrounding leaves.

It was almost noon when Guyu woke up with his eyes wiped.

A few hours of sleep helped him recover his physical strength, and more importantly, his calm mind.

The panic and tension of last night disappeared completely, and Gu Yu's eyes regained his previous confidence.

Julie didn't find too many insects, and the number was small, but she would never starve to death.

As soon as Gu Yu woke up, he ate the top model’s fine grilled semi-charred insect skewers. He endured the bitterness and praised it as delicious.

Julie~ I should believe it, judging from the look of her eyes.

The sunny sun made the two of them feel smokey and painful after lunch.

However, there was less than half a bottle of red wine left beside them, which was their last source of water.

The two of them drank the last bit of red wine, relieved the dryness and itchyness of their throats, and then began to continue their journey.

At this moment, the two of them no longer demanded to return to the coastline, but only hoped to find a source of water that would allow them to survive.

As for whether the search and rescue team could discover them when they arrived, Guyu also thought of a way to deal with it at night.

That is to build a shelter around, clean the branches, and tie the more torches, the better.

In this way, even during the day, the search and rescue team's drones can be viewed.

Guyu thought this was not a problem and was full of confidence, but he might only know in his subconscious that this was just his compromise with the environment.

Compromise is not cowardice, because it is the survival wisdom obtained by humans through evolution, which is different from the survival wisdom of lower animals.

Compromise that does not include wisdom is cowardice.

Along the way, Julie was like a little bird, with quick eyes and quick hands collecting the found snail insects into a broad-leaved bag for dinner.

Guyu keeps reminding itself to forget the coastline and the soft beach, and focus entirely on finding water sources.

The water goes to the lower part, so along the way, Guyu is looking for the depressions of the private rooms in the mountains and private rooms, and looking for a source of water that may exist in a certain place.

As for looking back at yesterday's water source, they tried it from the beginning.

Just like looking for a coastline, what you think exists, but you will never find it.

Therefore, after only two hours of travel, Guyu will look for new water sources as the biggest target of today.

This is very important because both of their lips have begun to crack and white. If they don’t replenish their moisture, they may no longer be able to hold on to such a sunny and hot day.

The two of them walked around three or four o'clock in the afternoon and were sweating profusely by the stuffy heat in the jungle. Today, the sun was a little bit of vicious, and there was no wind in the forest.

As he walked, Julie stopped Guyu and pointed to a small bush next to her.

Every time Julie wants to go to Xiaojie, she will do this.

So Guyu stopped and stood with his back to the bushes and waited.

Julie had just taken two steps, and Guyu seemed to remember something and hurriedly turned around:

"Slowly, wait a moment, hold this."

Julie looked at the bottle of red wine handed over by Guyu with her hands, looking puzzled.

"Well~~What are you doing?"

Guyu pointed to the bottle and said:

"Don't waste it. Use a bottle to keep urine and drink it while it's fresh. If we sweat like this, we must replenish water. Otherwise, if we dehydrate to a certain level, we will find the water source, and it will be useless."

Urine can help you when it is in the wilderness and is short of water, but it cannot be relied on. It must be drunk freshly.

Obviously, Julie had a mental struggle at this moment.

However, this entanglement was short-lived, so she decisively took the bottle of red wine and went to the bushes.

This is a woman who can face reality rationally. If she had not debuted as a model star in her teenage years and was protected by a group of people, I believe she would have been able to succeed in other industries.

Because time is everything, and people who are not entangled always have more time.

After a while, Guyu saw Julie walking out with an empty wine bottle in her hand.

Yes, the bottle was empty, but Julie's hands were wet.

Gu Yu knew that most of the body fluids she had excreted were sent back to her stomach and intestines, and she didn't want others to see this scene, so she finished all this in the bushes.

When you see her tight teeth, you can tell how disgusting this woman is now enduring in her heart.

Guyu took the empty wine bottle in Julie's hand, grabbed a broad leaf and wrapped the bottle mouth, and put it back on the backpack.

Then he picked off a strange-shaped tip leaf of grass, handed it to Julie, and said:

"This is called cucumber fragrance. It is more comfortable to hold in your mouth than chewing gum."

Julie held tears in her eyes, but the tender leaves were held in her mouth, and she immediately felt the fragrance that looked very much like cucumber, and the tummy of her stomach finally relieved a little.

"Thank you!"

Gu Yu waved his hand, opened his mouth and pointed to the cucumber fragrance on his tongue, and then the empty bottle in his hand. Julie's little embarrassment disappeared because Gu Yu did the same thing.

With a knowing smile, the two of them continued to set off.

If things are likely to go bad, no matter how small this possibility is, it will always happen.

For example, water source.

When the beach is the target of two people, they cannot go back to the beach, and when the water source becomes the target, they cannot find the water source.

At dusk, the two were exhausted.

For safety reasons, Guyu chose to stop when the sun sets.

With a big tree on his back, two teams of bonfires were lit in front.

Julie licked her chapped lips with her tongue, but her equally dry tongue could not moisturize even a slight chapped pain on her lips.

She opened the broad leaves, which contained insects collected from the road, and was about to use grass stems to skewers, but was stopped by Grain Rain.

"We can't eat these things anymore. To absorb these high proteins requires consuming a lot of water in the body. We can't bear this loss now."

As he said that, Guyu stood up with a little shaking body, walked around and piled up a lot of tender leaves of wild vegetables.

"We can only eat this today. Although these things have few calories, they can replenish a little water and a lot of vitamins."

The bitter and slightly fragrant dandelions, shepherd's purse, and honeysuckle were chewed in their mouths. Julie imitated Guyu and pushed the chewed wild vegetables onto her lips with the tip of her tongue to moisturize the dry and cracked lips.

However, this little moisture in the wild vegetables is a drop in the bucket for the two of them who are now dehydrated.

Julie leaned against the root of the big tree, her eyes sluggishly.

"Guyu, are we going to die here?"

Gu Yu smiled, but it touched the scars on his lips. He grinned his teeth in pain and said:

"Don't think about it all. After a while, there will be water to drink. Don't be anxious, you will never die."

Julie looked at Guyu, smiled a little bitterly, and whispered:

"Thank you, I'm still in the mood to comfort me at this time."

She knew very well that this could only be a comfort to Guyu, because it was a sunny day and it would not rain, so naturally fresh water would not appear out of thin air to quench their thirst.

Gu Yu didn't explain anything, so he asked Julie to close her eyes and rest. He leaned against the tree pole and closed his eyes to rest.

The sun completely sank into the horizon, and the coldness of autumn once again came between the jungles.

Guyu got up, filled the bonfire with firewood, and then walked around.

After waiting for about half an hour, he woke Julie who was sleeping:
Chapter completed!
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