"If we want to bathe as soon as possible, there are still ways," Hǎo Dà suddenly said.
"What ways?!" Sū Mèi, Chē Yán, Liǔ Yìjiāo, and Qí Yíngyíng all looked at him with their beautiful eyes shining intensely.
Admittedly, being able to bathe soon and feel refreshed was too great a temptation for them!
"I'm not going to the stream! I'd rather not bathe than risk being bitten by a poisonous snake or encountering a black bear!" Liǔ Yìjiāo quickly added, weighing the pros and cons!
"And we don't want Big Brother Hǎo to risk his life repeatedly by going to the stream to fetch lots of water for us to bathe," Sū Mèi added kindly.
"What I mean is, dig a well near the edge of the woods!" Hǎo Dà replied with a smile.
"Damn! That's a great idea! Why didn't I think of that?! But we don't have any tools to dig a well!" Qí Yíngyíng exclaimed!
"Yes, we definitely need tools, like a hoe. Usually, to dig a well, you have to go down at least ten meters before you might hit water," Chē Yán said.
"So after we change the down quilt tomorrow, the day after tomorrow we need to change into a hoe," Hǎo Dà replied.
"Once we have a hoe to dig a well, and well water, we'll also need buckets to hold the water!" Liǔ Yìjiāo said.
"So the day after tomorrow we need to change into a saw. With a saw, we can cut wood to make large and small wooden buckets," Hǎo Dà replied.
"Then what will we use to heat the water for bathing? We won't be able to stand cold showers in this cold weather!" Sū Mèi said. "That small square pot can't boil much hot water at once."
"Hmm, we also need to change into a large iron pot that can boil a lot of water at once," Hǎo Dà replied. "We'll have to wait until the day after the day after tomorrow for the large iron pot."
"I'll be damned! If the rescue team still hasn't arrived by the day after the day after tomorrow, our hope of being rescued will become increasingly slim!" Qí Yíngyíng couldn't help but exclaim again!
"Let's not think too much about it for now. Anyway, before the rescue team arrives, let's try to live each day well and not let our mentality collapse!" Chē Yán said very positively and actively.
"Right!" Sū Mèi agreed. "Complaining to heaven and blaming others solves nothing. Living in the present and doing the best we can right now is the most important thing!"
"Before the rescue team arrives, if we calculate it this way, the earliest we can have a hot shower is the day after the day after tomorrow!" Liǔ Yìjiāo frowned and said.
"We haven't bathed for two days already. Tomorrow will be three days, the day after tomorrow four days, the day after the day after tomorrow five days, and the day after the day after the day after tomorrow six days! My heavens! Six days without bathing! I'll probably become a dried fish!" Qí Yíngyíng wailed, somewhat despairingly!
"Speaking of fish, I'm getting hungry again," Chē Yán couldn't help but say.
"Then let's have lunch a bit early. We can chat while we eat!" Hǎo Dà replied heartily.
This morning, each person had been given four roasted fish and a small pot of fish soup, which contained one fish. Now there were five fish left, enough to have four more roasted fish and a small pot of fish soup made with one fish.
And so, the five of them busied themselves with renewed motivation, by the campfire near their makeshift shelter, roasting fish and simmering fish soup in the small square pot.
Originally, they had finished the fish soup this morning and had no water left. But it was still raining outside, so they could collect some rainwater to make fish soup.
"Damn! If we had a large iron pot, we could collect rainwater and boil water for bathing right now!" Qí Yíngyíng suddenly thought of this problem!
"That's right. So if it rains again tomorrow, why don't we change into a large iron pot first, and then change into a down quilt the day after tomorrow?" Hǎo Dà said with a smile.
"If your ability to change things could be upgraded, Hǎo Dà, and you could change at least two things a day, that would be awesome!" Liǔ Yìjiāo said, seemingly not entirely satisfied.
"I wish I could upgrade too, but it's not up to me," Hǎo Dà replied.
However, as soon as he finished speaking, a voice sounded in his mind: "If four beautiful women kiss you, the Desert Island System will immediately upgrade! It will upgrade so you can change two things every day! The one thing you've already changed today doesn't count!"
Hǎo Dà was clearly stunned upon hearing the content of this voice. He mentally exclaimed, 'Holy crap, it can really upgrade!' But the upgrade method was too unconventional! He had to have the four beautiful women around him kiss him! How could he bring himself to ask for that?! Even though he desperately wanted it!
"Big Brother Hǎo, why is your expression suddenly so strange?" Sū Mèi, who was sitting to his right around the campfire, noticed his abnormality and couldn't help but ask.
"Could it be that your superpower is communicating with you through telepathy?!" Qí Yíngyíng teased with a smile.
"You guessed right!" Hǎo Dà looked at her!
"Haha! Then what did it say?!" Qí Yíngyíng laughed even more heartily! Clearly, she thought he was deliberately being funny.
"It said there's a way to upgrade immediately. After upgrading, I'll be able to change two things a day, and the one thing I've already changed today won't count!" Hǎo Dà said with a wonderful expression.
"That's great?! Which means, after upgrading, I can still change two more things today! We'd have both the down quilt and the large iron pot! So what's the method to upgrade? Tell us quickly, quickly!" Liǔ Yìjiāo was clearly very excited!
"Good heavens! Liu Yijiao, you actually believe what Hǎo Dà just said about upgrading?!" Qí Yíngyíng looked at Liǔ Yìjiāo with a somewhat strange gaze.
"Why shouldn't I believe it?" Liǔ Yìjiāo retorted. "Even if it's fake, what do we lose? What if it's real?"
Qí Yíngyíng was speechless. What if it's real? That's a reason alright!
"Let's hear Hǎo Dà's upgrade conditions first," Chē Yán said. She was neither as excited as Liǔ Yìjiāo nor as suspicious as Qí Yíngyíng. She held a half-believing attitude.
Sū Mèi looked at Hǎo Dà, her beautiful eyes blinking. She felt that based on her initial understanding of Hǎo Dà, what he was saying now should be true.
"I'm a little embarrassed to say this upgrade method," Hǎo Dà replied with an awkward laugh.
"Damn it! The condition isn't that we all have to sleep with you and do... that, is it?!" Qí Yíngyíng blurted out!
"Qí Yíngyíng, what are you saying!" Sū Mèi chided angrily, seeing that the upgrade condition she mentioned was so indecent.
Chē Yán and Liǔ Yìjiāo remained silent for the moment, just looking at Hǎo Dà to see what he would say next.
"The upgrade condition is: four beautiful women... each have to kiss me once," Hǎo Dà said, seeing that Qí Yíngyíng had already guessed it. He quickly stated the correct answer.
"That's still too much!" Qí Yíngyíng exclaimed. "If it's fake, we four will have lost out too much!"
"That's what I heard in my mind just now as the upgrade condition," Hǎo Dà replied righteously.
"How about we try it?" Liǔ Yìjiāo said.
"I have no objections. Anyway, I've eaten the fish Big Brother Hǎo caught and drunk water. It's not a big deal even if they trick me into kissing him once," Chē Yán said.
"I have no objections either. Big Brother Hǎo even saved my life!" Sū Mèi said, her pretty face flushing.
"My heavens! You fell for it so quickly! Now it seems like I have no choice but to kiss him even if I don't want to!" Qí Yíngyíng was clearly a bit frantic, but then her eyes suddenly darted around and she said, "Hǎo Dà, you promise me this: if after we all kiss you, your ability to change things doesn't upgrade, and you can't change anything else out today, then you'll let us do whatever we want with you! For example, castrate you!"