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"Let's continue." Gu Ting lowered his head to wash the cards.

The two of them played for an entire morning and Qiao Yanran's luck was so good that she could explode. She won an entire morning in a single go and Gu Ting also reaped many small turtles with a face.

At noon, the two of them ate a little bit of food and then stopped eating.

So far, the drinking water they had brought with them had been completely drained. If not for the heavy rain yesterday, they would probably have fallen into a situation where they had no water to drink.

Qiao Yanran returned to the cave and cleaned the box of yesterday's self-heating small pot plastic box before putting it aside as a backup.

Although there was a lot of water in the huge pit, only after boiling it would one be able to drink it.

Qiao Yanran packed up the dried leaves and brought them all into the hole. She then scooped all the cookies into the box inside the small hotpot.

Although the cookie box was not big, it was made of iron and could boil four to five hundred milliliters of water at a time. But how to boil the water? It was impossible to directly place the metal box on top of the flame.

Qiao Yanran's eyes lit up when she saw the mud outside the cave. She hurriedly walked out and said, "Gu Ting, let's get some mud bricks and build a small stove so we can boil some water."

Gu Tong nodded, "Alright, then tell me what you want to do."

His mind was blank.

Qiao Yanran walked to a shady place and took out a large piece of moist soil. She made a rectangular shape in front of her, using a rock to compress it. A rectangular tile of earth was barely made.

She scraped the wet brick with the dry lid of the cookie, making the six sides of the brick more square.

Gu Ting did as he was told. However, it didn't take long for the two of them to make thirty or so mud bricks, all of which they left to dry under the sun.

After the two of them dried up, they moved all the mud bricks back into the cave.

Qiao Yanran built up the mud bricks into a semicircle and took some dirt from the outside. After mixing it with water, she smacked it onto the brick and tried to make it into a whole.

It was six in the afternoon by the time he finished all this work.

Qiao Yanran did not eat anything for a few consecutive meals and still kept running and working. She was so hungry that her heart was against her back and her eyes were blurry!

Now it seemed that the food could be improved.

Qiao Yanran stuffed the dried leaves and branches into the newly lit stove and lit it with a lighter.

The leaves couldn't bear to burn. Gu Ting kept adding leaves to the fire. After a while, the kiln finally dried up.

The stove was set up next to where the two were resting. Xiao Huo took off the sleeping mat on his backpack and roasted it to make it warm, dispelling a lot of the cold.

The fiery light on Gu Ting's face dyed his face a layer of orange. The plain white gave him a bit of the scent of fireworks. The coldness that could repel people a thousand miles away was dispelled …

[Beep Beep — Gu Ting's affability level increased by 9. Current Gu Ting's affability level: 22.]

When Qiao Yanran heard the system notification, the corners of her lips curled up. She placed Cookie's plate onto the stove and added some clean rain water inside.

Gu Ting added in the leaves very diligently. The flames burned vigorously, and in just a short while, the water in the plate had already been boiled.

Qiao Yanran took out a bag of hand to tear up the spicy beef jerky.

The beef jerky was only as long as a finger's length, but it was very tasty, and the meat quality was extremely tight, making it very chewy.

She tore the dried meat into two halves and placed it in boiling water. A layer of red oil covered the surface of the water as the fragrance of the beef and the spicy taste filled the air.