Living on a deserted island, the cold female president regards me as king

Tonight is destined to be a sleepless night.

Looking at the very familiar open space in front of us, everyone, including me, is in a very low mood. We have already spent a nightmarish night here.

And now.

We will start our second night here.

"Clean up and tidy up."

I forced a smile towards several people: "You guys have a good rest tonight, I will keep watch."

"it is good."

The team members were not polite, they nodded and agreed. After all, there is no need to be polite in such an environment.

Along the way, they were already exhausted without taking a drop of water.

Fortunately, the place we are in is a jungle, where combustible materials abound. Soon we collected enough wood to burn until tomorrow morning. Then, the remaining five team members sat next to each other except me, Together quietly waiting for the arrival of night.

The fire was kindled.

And the sky gradually darkened.

If I listened carefully, I could still hear rustling sounds. No one spoke, so I squatted silently beside the fire, and kept adding dry wood to the place where the fire was weakening.

Looking through the confusing flames, I can clearly see the corpses four or five meters away from us.

What happened last night was vividly displayed in front of my eyes.

Suddenly, out of the corner of my eye, I noticed that the grass next to me was windless and moving, and my eyes were attracted to it in an instant. Looking carefully, a bug the size of my thumb crawled out from the corner of the grass.

"coming."

that bug...

It looked familiar, and I knew I would never mistake it. That bug was exactly the kind of beetle I saw last night.

the first one.

Then there was the second one, No.20, which was densely packed and rushed towards our position like a tide.

They seem to be born with the ability to capture the breath of the living.

One by one, they passed those dead people and crawled towards us who were hiding behind the fire. The number became more and more dense, and I kept adding firewood to the fire.

Fortunately.

After our previous experience, at the beginning of the night, when the first fire was kindled, we made a circle of dry wood around us.

The constantly burning fire ring has defended our safety very well.

crackling.

But tonight, the number of beetles that emerged was obviously more than last night. Although they were afraid of the flames, many of them rushed towards us directly. When we burned the fire circle, it was instantly swallowed by the flames.

The crackling sound kept ringing around us.

It sounds like setting off firecrackers, but unfortunately, our situation is not as festive as the Chinese New Year.

"I don't want to die here."

Suddenly, a team member behind me spoke.

I turned my head to look, only to find that none of them were asleep, and all of them were staring at the beetles outside the fire with their eyes wide open.

"No one is going to die here."

"I promise."

I said to them.

But as soon as I finished speaking, I couldn't help but glanced at the corpses four or five meters away from us, and I couldn't help sighing.

I kept adding firewood to the fire ring.

We persisted until midnight, when the beetles that were tightly surrounding us began to disperse slowly, but they did not completely disappear. They were just a little bit farther away from us, and they just moved their targets from the living to the dead.

There was a large cloud of beetles, one on top of the other, all lying on the corpses of those dead people.

The sound of their shells rubbing against each other is subtle, but with their huge base, the sound is indeed amplified by countless decibels. Even if the ears are blocked, the friction sound can penetrate into the human brain.

Tortured.

It was undoubtedly torture.

There is only a circle of fire between us and those dead team members, a circle of fire less than ten centimeters wide.

But it is Yin and Yang separated.

We on this side of the ring of fire are still alive, while the team members on the other side have already become cold corpses, and are still being eaten by those damn beetles.

Behind me, some players' eyes were red, and some lowered their heads.

Several of them have given up hope about whether they will be able to live in the future, and they are still alive now, just because they don't want to die.

late at night.

The beetles didn't move, but judging from the reaction of the beetles after I threw a rock, they should still be alive.

It's just that the vitality doesn't seem to be so strong.

They are dying?

I suddenly thought of a possibility.

Creatures such as bugs have an extremely short life cycle. For example, adults of mayflies can only live for one day at the shortest. Within one day, they will complete metamorphosis, mate, lay eggs and die, which is the last rite of life.

Could it be that these beetles are also dying soon?
This should be considered a good thing for us, but what is the truth of the matter?It still needs to be verified, so I just kept this idea in my heart and planned to wait for a while, but I still thought it was a bit too good after all.

Those bugs are not dead.

As before, it disappeared without a trace at dawn.

However, today's weather is not very good. Just when the sky turned white, there was rumbling thunder in the sky, and then, large swaths of dark clouds covered the sky above our heads.

It is going to rain……

I looked up, looked at the sky along the gap between the dense tree canopies, and estimated that there would be about an hour or two before there would be a downpour of rain.

This is not good news for us.

Because the dark clouds cover our only tool to tell the direction, we lose the sun and become blind, and we can only run rampant in this dense forest, but in that case, our situation may become worse...

and.

If we didn't leave here today, we wouldn't be able to make a fire that night, and without the protection of the flames, we would only be able to meet those beetles head-on.

No one likes a bad result like that.

"team leader."

The team members who didn't get a drop of water and didn't have a good rest at night didn't even have the strength to speak today.

Supporting each other, they barely stood up.

"Today, can we leave here..."

They asked a question that I had no way to answer, but after seeing their ashen faces, I still gritted my teeth and replied affirmatively: "Yes! It must be possible! I will risk my life today. , will also take you out of here!"