After getting up, the four women continued to weave the fences for the other three sides of the house using Yang Xi's method. Meanwhile, Yang Xi walked around the one-square-kilometer island to search for a water source. He was hung with coconut shells that he had pierced and emptied of coconut water to use as containers. Whenever he reached a patch of bushes or wild banana trees, he carefully collected dew—every single drop mattered, and drop by drop it added up. Soon, his five military canteens were completely filled!
To his delight, behind a huge bush on another side of the island—initially intended for hunting bird eggs, as two huge seabirds with long, narrow wings resembling legendary albatrosses had flown out from there—Yang Xi guessed such huge birds must have eggs. He slowly climbed up the massive bush. "Damn it," a huge python, about seven or eight meters long, startled Yang Xi, who had never seen such a huge snake before. The python was also slithering toward the birds' nest.
This was a huge reticulated python, its mountain-like body winding through the bushes. After the initial shock, Yang Xi was overjoyed. Such a huge python could feed them for several days. With that thought, he nimbly leaped up onto the branches, took out his Husa Saber, and drove it straight through the snake's vital spot. The entire python began to thrash violently, flattening a large section of the brush.
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