After being sold to a farm owner by her parents for a synthetic kidney worth 500,000 yuan, Lin Qiao accidentally killed someone.
Before the federal police arrived to investigate, she took the risk and escaped from Wandering City on a whale ship.
But the escape did not go smoothly. The ship encountered a thunderstorm in the Black Sea, and the helmsman and the crew were all massacred by marine pollutants.
Destiny rides the waves and washes the survivors onto the island, and the gears slowly turn.
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It was the second week since Lin Qiao arrived here, and she had had enough of admiring the white sand beaches and clear waves she had never seen before.
The only piece of synthetic meat left on her body was eaten three days ago. Her stomach was cramping due to not eating for a long time, and the cells in her body were screaming for hunger.
She originally thought she could catch a fish in such a pure sea, or even a little sea anemone clinging to the cracks of the reef, but she searched the entire beach and ventured into the water a few times, only to find that there was no seaweed around except rocks.
"The seawater around this isolated island is fucking cleaner than the Black Sea that is full of pollutants. I can't dig out any food. It's really fucking embarrassing." Jiang Dan, the fisherman who was following her, cursed feebly, covered with red bloodshot threads. Looking at her with his eyes, his voice was hoarse, "What should I do? What else can I eat?"
Lin Qiao glanced at him, silently clenching the folding knife in her pocket, "Let's go look for it in the woods."
"The forest?" The man turned his head and looked at the lush green jungle. His body was shuddered by the sun, and a chill grew in his heart. "If I don't go, don't you think it's evil there? There are so many trees, is this possible? "
"Then I'll go take a look."
Lin Qiao took out the folding knife in his pocket and unfolded it, took a deep breath, swallowed the burning pain in his throat and walked inside.
She had to put her last hope in this green forest. The strong man looked at her with a hungry wolfish look. She was not sure that she could not become his meal in the same hungry state.
But to be honest, Lin Qiao also felt that this island was very evil.
Even in the best botanical garden in Wandering City, there are not a few real trees with leaves. Even the dead trees there are listed as collections. This island is all green, but no super corporations or biological companies have discovered it.
Their private satellites have long covered the world. It is abnormal for no one to set foot here, just like there is not a single mutant fish in the nearby sea. In addition to the more terrifying creatures hidden here that they dare not approach, Lin Qiao can't think of anything else for the time being. What extra reason.
Her steps swayed slightly as she moved forward, her eyes gradually blurred with sweat, and her vision became drowsy.
The leaves rustled in the sea breeze, and the sound was eerie.
"Bah."
Her left foot suddenly sank into something with a jelly texture, and the smooth gel-like liquid seeped into the edge of her shoe, causing an extreme pain.
Lin Qiao's body froze, her distracted eyes suddenly focused, she quickly took two steps back, and reflexively inserted the folding knife in her hand.
One tentacle was thicker than her wrist. Its skin was black and red, and thick blood mixed with mucus splashed out from the incision. It looked like a disturbed sleeper, squirming crazily in the sand.
Lin Qiao quickly kicked off the shoes that had stepped on them, and took off the socks that had been corroded with big holes. Most of the skin on her ankles fell off. She squatted there and inhaled in pain, but her heavy mood felt strangely better than before.
She looked at the tentacle and made a quick mental assessment of the species.
It is probably a mutated octopus washed up in the sea. It is affected by seawater pollution. It is normal to grow to five or six meters. The mucous membrane on the surface of the skin is somewhat toxic, but it is not very harmful to humans.
The fact that it could appear here overturned her previous assumption that there was a terrifying monster.
Lin Qiao let the blood flow, endured the excruciating pain, and walked around it. She carefully pulled out the folding knife, saw the right moment and then raised the knife and cut off the entire tentacle that was exposed and writhing in the sand.
She wrapped her hands in clothes and pressed them, applying the purifying agent on her fleshy feet that felt soft through the fabric.
The tentacles quickly calmed down and lay there limply, covered in sand.
It was only about as long as Lin Qiao's forearm, and the rest was stuck under the beach. She didn't know exactly how many more there were, but this little bit was already life-saving food, enough for her to stay out of the woods and spend the night safely. .
After getting her dinner, she limped back, blood dripping from her ankles.
Where she couldn't see, the amputated tentacles were soaked in mucus and slowly shrank, thick bubbles bulged out, and countless tiny limbs split, expanded, and danced from the incision.
They burrowed back into the sandy bottom, then burst out after her departure, greedily rolling the sand into their mouths.
Although it smelled so delicious, it was an unbearable smell. His tentacles trembled like chaff, and he spit out everything intact.
The tentacles buried under the beach and extending to the entire island were intertwined and trembled wildly, and a suspicious buzzing sound came from the cracked abyss.
Sweet? smelly? Or is it rotten?
She obviously smells so sweet.
The monster entrenched at the bottom of the island was awakened by the noisy sound and quietly opened its eyes.
"What did you find?" Jiang Dan stared at the tentacles in her hand, "What is it?"
"The arms and legs of a mutated octopus." Lin Qiao threw the thing on the ground, "I've used purifier."
Marine pollutants can be eaten, and a biological company has specially developed a purifier to deal with them, which can 100% remove toxins from the body.
This thing is not cheap. Lin Qiao picked it up casually when something happened on the boat, and now it comes in handy.
"Octopus?" Jiang Dan walked to the tentacles and squatted down. He turned it over and pinched the meat, and then said: "I have been a fisherman for so many years, and I know that these are not octopus limbs and have no suckers."
Qiao Lin was startled and said dryly: "Maybe it's wrapped inside?"
She directly cut open the outer skin with a knife, and the black and red meat rolled out.
It's really not an octopus.
So what species is the owner of the thing she cut off?
Lin Qiao's heart sank and she raised her eyes to look at him, "I only found this, do you think it can be eaten?"
Jiang Dan touched his hungry and sunken belly, "I don't know, you want to try it first?"
Lin Qiao was silent.
By evening, both of them were almost unbearable from hunger. Jiang Dan looked at her with an increasingly hungry and gloomy look.
Lin Qiao weighed her condition, and finally found some dead branches and stones to block the wind and started a fire. She put the tentacles on the fire and roasted them, "I'll try to see if I can eat them first."
She was very knowledgeable, so Jiang Dan looked at her twice, and finally lay back and leaned on the rock to chat with her, "I see you are only 20 years old, why would you take the risk of going sailing with us, doing a job that can cost your life at any time?"
Originally, this fishing boat would dock briefly in a deserted country. It was not within the law enforcement scope of the federal police and the order was chaotic. The entire area was taken over by gangs. It was considered a good place for Lin Qiao to save his life.
She turned her tentacles over and made cuts on them. The firelight illuminated her face, bringing a bit of warmth after nightfall. "My brother is sick and is about to die. He needs a synthetic kidney. My parents have no money."
