Exploring the Wilderness: Activating Proficiency in All Professions - Chapter 17

Chapter 17: Sea Urchin

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

The next morning David woke up and performed his routine duties.

After he was done running and exercising, he headed to the traps he had set up last night.

He wanted to see if there were any gains from this trap.

The audience in the livestream was also looking forward to it. They all wanted to know if his trap was effective.

Yesterday, his exclusive livestream had a popularity score of about one million. Today, it had fallen to 800 thousand.

At the same time, the number continued to fall. The reason was simple. After going through so much, he would definitely have to develop quietly for a period of time.

There wasn’t much to see during this period of time. The people who stayed behind were those who liked to watch him improve his life bit by bit.

David came to the place where the traps were at. He had placed a total of five traps, each separated by a distance.

Nothing happened in the first cage. Just like last night, it remained unmoved in the same spot.

He then came to the second and third cages, which were also empty.

Next, he reached the fourth cage. The cage was broken into pieces, black feathers were left everywhere.

David picked up the feathers and looked at them. They looked a little like the feathers of a pheasant.

“Isn’t his luck too bad? There’s nothing at all?”

“If it were that easy, someone would have lasted for a year on this program a long time ago.”

“You’re right. It seems like all his hard work last night was for nothing.”

David had the same mentality. He probably caught nothing.

He reached the last cage, but saw no sign of it.

The people in the livestream also grew curious. Why did the cage suddenly disappear?

“He cannot have gotten counter jungled1, could he?”

“Seems like it. Someone counter jungled him.”

“There’s no one else in this area but Morton’s group. They were putting up defenses around their lodging last night.”

“Other than humans, there will also be wild beasts. Such a small cage can only capture small animals. It’s normal for wild beasts to take them away after discovering them, right?”

“That makes sense.”

David looked around the area until he finally saw where the cage was.

In a pile of grass, it was impossible to notice if one didn’t pay special attention.

Inside the cage was a gray rabbit, staring at him warily.

It discovered him walking forward and ran restlessly around the cage, but to no avail.

David smiled. “I thought I didn’t get a single catch. I guess I’m in luck.”

The comments started again.

“You still have the nerve to say that? Your luck has always been pretty good. You are virtually a child of destiny.”

“I don’t think anyone on the entire island has your luck.”

“Person above, don’t generalize. Last night, I seemed to have found someone equally impressive. He also had food, lodging, and water.”

“Is he that strong? Who is he? I also want to go watch him.”

“I’ve already forgotten the name.”

“That’s as good as not saying anything.”

David brought the rabbit to the pond. He peeled its outer skin and washed it clean.

Whistling, he returned to his lodging with a naked rabbit.

He hung the rabbit on the trunk of the tree where he had hung the wolf’s leg the last time. He was in no hurry to eat it.

Coming to the beach, he started digging a pit with a flat wooden stick near the edge of the water.

This time, the pit didn’t need to be very deep, but it needed to be very big because he wanted to evaporate sea water to get sea salt.

The lack of salt in the wild was also a big problem. Without the consumption of sodium, it would affect the body’s metabolism.

Besides, eating tasteless food every day makes one very depressed.

Therefore, he had to get the sea salt out in the shortest time possible. A little bit of salt was a little bit of salt.

After digging for a while, he happened to be on a slope and poured the seawater in. The water seeped through quickly, he hoped some salt would be left behind.

The sun was very bright today. After sitting for a while, his entire body had gotten a lot more tanned.

In just four days, his originally pale skin had become a healthy bronze.

Under the sunlight, his thin body had gained a considerable amount of muscles and he looked brawnier.

This was the reason for consuming proteins everyday?

However, he couldn’t eat protein every day either. He had to maintain his fat intake.

He had originally thought that he could catch some birds with the traps he set up last night. They do not contain high fat content, but it was still more than those in rabbits.

Right now he had to solve this problem.

Especially when he was watering the plants earlier, he had realized that there were actually quite a number of shellfish by the sea.

When he was on Earth, he would often watch beachcombing programs.

The hosts would carry buckets and walk around the beach. They could pick up a lot of shellfish.

He could also find other seafood in the sea to increase the variety and diversity of his diet.

When David returned, he picked up a woven basket and walked back and forth along the beach as he had seen in the videos before.

However, after walking for a long time, he only saw a few small shells. They weren’t even enough to fill the gaps between his teeth.

On the left was the area where he fishes. There was a cliff facing inwards, and the waters were relatively calmer there.

He hadn’t been inside yet, because the water was deep and looked terrifying.

His past body would not permit him to go, but today, he could give it a try.

When he swam to the side of the rock, he saw many sea urchins and many fish and prawns.

They were frightened and immediately ran away.

David also picked up a lot of sea urchins, each as big as a fist.

Within moments, the sea urchins filled the basket to the brim.

There was enough food for today!

“I really envy him. So many sea urchins, and they’re still fresh.”

“I haven’t had sea urchins in a long time. I want to have some too.”

“Me too.”

As David walked back, he muttered to himself, “Eating sea urchins alone is so boring. I remember there’s a dish called steamed eggs with sea urchins.”

At this point, he looked around, wanting to see where there would be eggs.

The people in the comments were dumbfounded.

Were David’s expectations becoming too high by the day?

It was already good enough that he had sea urchins. He was even preparing to make a dish?

Were eggs that easy to find?

When David returned, he put the sea urchins into the fish basket and left them in the seawater.

Seeing that it was still early, he searched for bird eggs within a safe range.

After half an hour, he saw a bird’s nest on a tree.

The scene quickly cut it. The people in the livestream were speechless.

“Is he a divine being? He gets everything he wants?”

“You have a point, it really does seem like it.”

“This is too awesome. I want to have money, so why can’t I have it?”

“Look, David is standing at the foot of the tree and making circles around it as he stares. Does he not know how to climb trees?”

The tree in front of David was especially big and tall. It was a good 30 meters in height.

The bird’s nest was up on a 20-meter-tall tree branch. The entire tree was bare, and it was not easy to climb up.