Chapter 29: The Lonely Man and Woman's Deserted Island Night

  As the sun was about to set, Du Wei's search finally yielded some results.

  He found a small pool of water deep in the woods on the west side of this island. This was probably a leftover from the rainy season, and since there were no wild beasts on the island, the area around the pool was relatively quiet. Du Wei carefully checked the surroundings of this water source and didn't find any signs of animal activity either.

  After tasting it, Du Wei confirmed that the water in the pit was fresh and felt relieved. The two thirsty boys and girls immediately threw themselves down at the edge of the pit and started drinking wildly. The cool water with a slightly strange taste poured into their parched throats, and Du Wei couldn't help but let out a comfortable sigh. As that refreshing feeling slid down his throat, his whole body would shudder in comfort.

  After drinking his fill of water, Du Wei immediately took off his sheepskin boots and started washing them in the puddle.

  "What are you doing?" Vivian blinked her eyes and stared at Du Wei's movements.

  "Wash the shoes." Du Wei said as he continued his actions without pause: "Then use it to hold water."

  "Are you talking about water? Using shoes?" Vivian made a weird face.

  "Of course." Du Wei curled his lip: "Apart from shoes, can you find any other container to hold water? Do you have a bottle or a jar? If not, then we can only use shoes. My shoes are made of sheepskin, and they're very waterproof." As he said this, Du Wei glanced at Little Fool: "Don't frown, this is our only way out. We still don't know how long we'll be stuck in this godforsaken place, we can't stay here guarding the water hole, we have to get to the coast! If you think my shoes stink too much, you can take off your own shoes to hold water."

  Vivian was still a bit dazed, Du Wei urged: "Hurry up. Unless you want to drink the water from my shoes tomorrow."

  It was probably the sentence that followed which stimulated poor Vivian, who hastily and nervously took off her own shoes.

  The female magician's shoes were also made of leather, and the leather seemed to be better than Duvie's sheepskin boots. After taking off her shoes, the female magician seemed a bit at a loss, with white socks on her feet that had already been stained with blood, as if she had been walking for half a day, the girl's feet had blisters, and the blisters were broken.

  Soon, the female magician learned from Du Wei's example and quickly cleaned her shoes by the puddle. She repeatedly washed them countless times, until Du Wei became somewhat impatient: "Two washes are enough, why do you need to wash so many times?"

  "Shoes... shoes, dirty..."

  Du Wei laughed, looking at this simple little fool: "Hey, look at this puddle, it's not big, just a little water. You wash and wash, your shoes are clean, but the water is dirty, and what you drink in the end is still this water."

  Vivian was stunned, then she pouted, with infinite grievance, filled her two boots with water and stood up: "But, do we really have to drink this?"

  "Wait till tomorrow, when you're so thirsty you're smoking, and even if it's ten times filthier than this, you'll drink it without hesitation." Du Wei said calmly: "Alright, let's head back now."

  As they journeyed on, Du Wei still held the long wooden staff to lead the way. However, after a while, he found that the female magician behind him was falling farther and farther behind. Du Wei stopped in his tracks, frowning at her: "You'd better hurry up, time is running out. If the sun sets completely, this place will become pitch black, making it even more difficult for us to walk. It's hard to tell directions at night in the forest."

  Vivian hastily nodded and quickened her pace to catch up, but after taking a few steps with one foot deep and the other shallow, she couldn't help but tear up in pain: "I... my feet, they really hurt."

  Du Wei furrowed his brow and walked to her side, lowering his head to look. The girl's small feet were already pierced by several thorns, and the originally delicate ankles and tiny toes were covered in mud and streaks of fresh blood.

  He sighed and Du Wei felt a bit helpless. Letting such a delicate girl walk barefoot in the jungle was indeed difficult for her.

  Du Wei hung two shoes around his neck and then turned around, slightly bending down.

  "Come on up!"

  "Huh?"

  "I'll take you up on that!" Du Wei turned his back to the female magician, his voice still cold: "Hurry up. Don't waste time, I'll carry you back."

  "But cocoa is..."

  "There's no time for that, listen, little girl, we need to hurry up and get back to the giant dragon before dark, we're not familiar with this island, heaven knows what's on it. Neither of us has any self-defense capabilities now. We must seize the time! Quick! Now, don't waste words, come on!"

  Du Wei's severe voice made poor ViVi Ann dare not refute anything, she immediately learned from Du Wei and hung her shoes around her neck, then obediently lay on Du Wei's back.

  Carrying the female magician for a few steps, Du Wei felt somewhat strenuous. After all, his mind was that of an adult, but this body was still that of a half-grown teenager in his early teens... and one who had been frail and sickly since childhood, lacking in innate vitality.

  "Thank... thank you."

  After walking for a while, the female magician on his back suddenly said in a low and stuttering voice, her voice was very low, so low that Du Wei almost didn't hear it clearly. However, he just hummed and didn't speak.

  In this desolate island, as night fell, poor Vivian lay on the back of a strange boy, she raised her head and saw the black sky through the dense leaves, lowered her head and saw the boy struggling to move forward, and could also hear Duwei's labored breathing.

  Vivian suddenly felt that this honest and self-deceived, yet fierce-speaking young nobleman didn't seem so intimidating after all...

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  They returned to the place where the two "plane crash" survivors were, and the giant dragon was still asleep. According to Vivian's stuttering introduction on the way, after being injured, the giant dragon would slowly recover by falling into a deep sleep, during which it didn't even need to eat or drink.

  This made Du breathe a sigh of relief... Fortunately, otherwise, this little fresh water wouldn't even be enough for people to drink, let alone enough to feed a dragon?

  With great difficulty, the two returned to their temporary campsite. Du Wei dropped the female magician from his body and himself collapsed to the ground, panting heavily.

  "No...no way......" Du Wei panted heavily, like a dying man, his whole body feeling weak and sour. He complained: "If it were in the past, let alone carrying this little girl, even if I carried one or held one, I could run 1,000 meters in one breath. Now this body is far too different..."

  Vivian, who was beside him, was thrown to the ground by Du Wei. This time, she didn't cry out in pain again. Instead, she sat up with a thud and looked at Du Wei's panting face. The little fool suddenly jumped up, busily plucked a large leaf from a nearby book, and then quietly sat down beside Du Wei, lifting her small hand to fan him gently.

  Du Wei panted for a while, then looked up at Vivian: "What are you doing?"

  "You... you look like you're really tired. Let me fan you." Vivian said with wide eyes and a serious expression.

  Du Wei couldn't help but laugh, this girl was silly, but also kind of silly and lovely: "Thank you...but don't you know that it's early spring now, the weather is still quite cold?"

  Du Wei gently took the large leaf from the female magician's hand, with a hint of a smile looking at the female magician's reddened face, then said: "Alright, we need to start a fire now, otherwise it will be too cold tonight. We don't have anything right now, if we catch a chill, that would be troublesome."

  Actually, the problem of cold at night is not difficult to solve, as long as two people sleep against the giant dragon.

  After all, that dragon is a flame dragon... However, sleeping next to such a massive creature, if the giant dragon were to casually roll over in its sleep, those two would be crushed to death.

  And Vivian would probably become the first magician in history to be crushed to death by her own magical pet.

  Du Wei picked up enough branches and leaves, allowing the female magician to cast a fire spell... a small fireball technique (now Vivian's magical abilities have also been reduced to this point).

  Ignite the branches, let Vivian hold the torch, Duwei hugged enough branches, and the two came to a nearby beach. Duwei set up a bonfire, he tried his best to pile the branches high, and the fire burned fiercely.

  In the darkness, a conspicuous firelight, I guess it can be seen even from a very far place!

  Du Wei sighed, this was the only hope left. He could only wish that there would be some passing ships, see the bonfire here, and send someone over, so that the two of them might be rescued.

  After doing everything, Du Wei was exhausted. He lay down on the beach with his four limbs stretched out and let out a long sigh.

  Just at this time......gulp!

  Du Wei was stunned for a moment, and then he heard another sound...

  Gasp!

  He sat up and looked at Vivian beside him with a faint smile.

  "Sorry, my tummy." The bonfire beside her cast a reddish glow on the female magician's face, Vivian looked somewhat embarrassed as she covered her stomach: "I'm hungry."

  "I am too." Du Wei sighed, "Unfortunately, at our current location, we haven't found any small animals on this island. Otherwise, catching two and having a barbecue here wouldn't be bad either."

  "Then... what about Nono Kojou?" Apparently, hunger had sharpened the female magician's thinking a bit.

  "Look around, where are there any fruit trees? Not even a bush of berries. Only leaves and wild grass." Du Wei sighed: "Otherwise, would I need you to remind me?"

  "So, what about the fish?" The female magician looked at Du Wei with a pitiful expression: "There are fish in the sea, right?"

  Du Wei shrugged his shoulders and looked at Vivian: "Can you swim?"

  The female magician shook her head.

  "I won't either." Du Wei smiled wryly: "I'm just like you, a duck that can't swim. Catching fish in the water is not my specialty. Besides, during the day, I've already searched along the coast and only found some empty shells and snails. Unless your stomach can digest hard shells?"

  "But... I'm so hungry." Vivian pouted, batting her eyelashes at Du Wei.

  "I'm also helpless, let's sleep for a night first. Tomorrow when the sky brightens up, I'll think of a way to find a long tree branch and go to the seaside to see if we can find fish in the shallow water... It's not possible now, it's already dark, and neither of us knows how to swim. If we drown, that's the end."

  Vivian sighed and sat down obediently... unintentionally, she sat beside Du Wei.

  "Let's talk and forget about the hunger." Du Wei smiled: "We haven't formally understood each other yet. Now we can be considered as friends in adversity."

  "What's going on, got it?"

  "For example..." Du Wei thought for a moment, hugging his knees and gazing at the stars in the sky: "For example, you're so young, seemingly not much older than me. How did you become a great magician? That's quite an extraordinary thing."

  "I don't know either." Vivian also learned from Du Wei's example, hugging her knees and sighing softly: "I've been with my teacher since I was a child, I've never been out before, this is the second time."

  Du Wei turned his head to look at the little silly girl and suddenly smiled: "Actually, your voice is still quite good to listen to, sweet and soft. If you don't stutter when speaking, it would be even more pleasant to hear."

  "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to." Vivian's face turned red: "I've never been very good at talking since I was a child."

  "In fact, the more stuttering, the more you want to talk, anything, done more, naturally better." Du Wei smiled and said: "Well, tell me about yourself, how did you become an eighth-level magician at such a young age? Achieving this is probably unprecedented in the entire empire."

  "What?" Vivian looked at Du Wei with a bewildered expression.

  Du Wei sighed and said with a bitter smile: "Hey, I'm praising you, can't you at least react?"

  "Ah...... sorry, I...I..." Vivian became a bit flustered again.

  "Silly girl." Du Wei shook his head: "Do you seem to understand nothing except magic?"

  Then Du Wei patiently chatted with Vivian for a while, and Vivian laboriously told Du Wei some of her own situation.

  She, Vivian Yang, has been learning magic with her teacher since she was old enough to remember.

  But as her teacher, no matter how Du Wei asked, Xiao Sha was biting her teeth and refused to reveal a single word, not even Du Wei's trick questions could get anything out of her.

  Let's just assume her teacher is an extraordinary person from another world.

  Vivian has been living with her teacher in a secret place, which she claims is also deep in the mountains. For over a decade, Vivian has only left the house twice, and otherwise spends almost all of her time at home studying magic.

  She spends all day studying various magical knowledge, reciting strange and obscure magic spells, and... helping that teacher with laundry.

  "Do laundry?" Du Wei laughed: "You can also do laundry?"

  He casually pulled up Vivian's small hand and took a look: "Such tender little hands, it doesn't seem like they would do those household chores."

  "I can do it!" Vivian's face turned red, unsure if it was because Du Wei didn't believe her or because she was embarrassed by being pulled by the hand: "I can use magic to wash... just cast a spell and the clothes will wash themselves."

  "Oh... isn't that just like a washing machine..." Du Wei's heart skipped a beat.

  Vivian's two outings, the first was when her teacher took her to the headquarters of the Imperial Capital's Magic Guild, where she participated in a secret and non-public magic level assessment.

  Before that assessment, her teacher had once said a sentence "Let those fools in the Magic Guild stare their eyes out! Let them know what an outstanding genius I've cultivated!!"

  As a result... The several magicians from the Magic Guild who were in charge of that assessment almost had their eyeballs bulging out.

  Because from a magical point of view Vivian is indeed a genius! And it's a genius among geniuses!

  A fourteen-year-old eighth-level magician! It's almost unprecedented in the history of magicians!!

  "That, that was a year ago." Vivian looked a bit embarrassed: "Those magicians originally wanted me to stay in the Imperial City, but Teacher said that no one would do the laundry at home, so he brought me back instead."

  "Hmm, your teacher doesn't want you to be poached by the Magic Guild." Du Wei naturally wouldn't be as naive as Vivian: "An eighth-level magician is a major figure anywhere! Even in the Magic Guild, how many magicians above level eight are there? Hmm... and you're still so young."

  "Uh-huh." Vivian blinked, not quite understanding Du Wei's words, but she soon became happy: "That time I took the test, I passed it, and my teacher was very pleased. He gave me a gift, it was... it was... a sunflower!"

  "What dragon?"

  "Ah!" Vivian exclaimed, her eyes sparkling with excitement as she pulled out her magical pet, "It's this one!"

  Du Wei sighed... What kind of person was her teacher? He actually gave a dragon as a gift!

  This is no cat or dog! It's a dragon!!

  And Vivian stayed in the teacher's hiding place for another year... Every day was still learning magic and washing clothes.

  After that, this recent trip out was her second time coming to the outside world. It was just to catch the escaped Fear Illusion Demon... That was her teacher's pet.

  "Wait!" Du Wei suddenly jumped up, his face somewhat excited, looking at Vivian: "That phantom beast, is it still on you?"

  Vivian nodded and opened her cloak, and the small illusion demon was locked in a small cage hanging from Vivian's waist.

  "Stomach, oh stomach, you're saved now!" Du Wei's eyes gleamed with hungry green light as he swallowed his saliva: "Hey, little fool! We don't have to starve anymore. Hmm, this little thing looks quite plump and tender! Although there aren't any seasonings here, peeling the skin and roasting it should still taste pretty good."

  Vivian blinked her eyes, and after a long time, she finally understood Du Wei's words. Suddenly, she let out a shrill cry: "Ah!!! No, no way! You can't eat my Chuchu! It's the teacher's pet, if you eat it, I...I..."

  "We can't take care of so many things...!" Du Wei said loudly: "We've all been hungry for a day, and if we're still hungry tomorrow, everyone will be out of energy. And who knows if we'll even catch any fish?"

  "No, no, no, no... Don't eat my Chuchu!" Vivian clutched the small cage tightly in her arms, refusing to let Duwei take it away: "Don't eat my Chuchu."

  "Hmph! Then eat your fill of dragon!" Du Wei said loudly: "Such a big chunk, cut off a piece of meat to eat, it won't die, will it?"

  "Eat... eat dragon?"

  Vivian felt like she was going to pass out.

  I thought this little aristocrat was quite a decent person, but in the blink of an eye he turned into a devil again!

  Eat dragon? Omnipotent god! Spare poor Vivian! In my entire life, I've never heard of anyone daring to hit a dragon's head... and even treat it as food!

  "No, no, don't eat my Liday! No, no, don't eat my Jiujiu...... Wow...... Daddy, Mommy......" Seeing Du Wei's vicious look, Weiwei An launched another tear attack.

  Du Wei helplessly looked at the crying Xiao Sha, shaking his head: "This won't do, that won't do... Hmph, fine! Tonight I'll let you have your way. Tomorrow I'll try going to catch some fish, if tomorrow I still can't catch any fish, then we can't just starve to death either! If our own lives are gone, then there's nothing left to talk about! If all else fails, I'll have no choice but to dissect this Phantom Beast first!"

  At this moment, it's not just Vivian who is crying. The little fat ball-like Xiao Yao in the cage, a high-level demon that can understand human language, was also frightened by Du Wei's "declaration" and trembled with fear. A pair of bean-sized eyes stared foolishly at Du Wei, its fat body shrinking into a trembling ball.

  After hearing Du Wei's words, Vivian felt a little relieved, but she quickly prayed in her heart...

  Almighty God! Please bless poor Vivian... Let this devil catch a few fish tomorrow... Oh no, no, no, it's not that poor Vivian is greedy, but just to save Chuchu's life... Um, if possible, Vivian can't eat fish, um... or maybe just eat one less... Please, almighty God... Waaahhh... But I'm so hungry too, and Vivian really wants to eat fish...

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  (Two chapters completed today, and it's over 10,000 words again! Smash smash smash votes! Not smashing votes wouldn't be enough!)

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