DISN – Chapter 10

Deserted Island Survival Notes

By Gu Cheng Huai

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Translator note: I don’t speak Chinese so this has been awkwardly translated using google translate and cleaned up. I was just going to do it for myself but thought I’d share it. I have no idea how accurate my translation is. Original text found here: https://www.sto.cx/book-138000-1.html 

All credit to the original author for this wonderful story.

Please read this translation on https://erzoohobbytranslating.wordpress.com/

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Chapter 10

Ye Zheng waited for a long time and finally felt a little impatient, wondering if the big fish had forgotten that he buried a person’s feet in the sand.

I will wait another five minutes, Ye Zheng said to herself. If the big fish did not return after five minutes, she would go back to the grassland.

This time, the mermaid did not disappoint Ye Zheng.

Ye Zheng vaguely heard the sound of the rolling waves changing, as if there was a behemoth struggling desperately in the sea water. This sea was very shallow, even if you couldn’t see the struggling creatures yet, Ye Zheng, who was big enough, could hear it.

Soon, she saw the mermaid’s dorsal fin, which spread out greatly, cutting the water surface like a sharp blade. Ye Zheng saw the mermaid leaping from the sea, followed by a larger fish.

Wrong! Ye Zheng, who had excellent eyesight, saw that the fish was not following but was held in firmly by the mermaid’s hand.

The mermaid rushed towards her and Ye Zheng quickly jumped from the sand to get out of the way. She stopped to watch and found that the mermaid was pulling the larger fish to the shore.

When she saw the whole body of the captured fish, Ye Zheng subconsciously covered her mouth.

The big fish brought in by the mermaid was more than four meters long, not including the long beak held firmly in the mermaid’s hand like a wooden stick. The big fish was dragged to the shore by the mermaid, still struggling. Its tail slammed through the air, lifting the sand on the ground, creating a breeze that swept sand onto Ye Zheng’s face. Ye Zheng could feel it. It was strong and powerful, and desperate to get rid of the mermaid’s hold. If the sword-like long-beaked fish could make a sound, it would be screaming in horror at the moment.

The mermaid threw a string of things under Ye Zheng’s feet and used its free hand to hold down the big fish.

Ye Zheng glanced at the black shiny thing under her feet, which ended up being two large crabs tied together by seaweed. Freed from the mermaid’s hold, the pair could not wait to crawl back to the sea.

Ye Zheng held one end of the seaweed and picked up the two crabs. The two of them swayed at the other end of the kelp rope, trying to break free of the binding. Unfortunately, their large pliers were entangled to death and the two crabs could only move in vain.

Ye Zheng was a little worried about the seaweed breaking from their struggles, so grabbed them with one hand, holding their abdomen while their thin legs struggled in the air.

Back on the shore, the mermaid was already processing the four-meter-long fish.

It held the fish’s long beak and threw the prey down to the ground. The fish body was heavy, and the mermaid exerted a lot of energy. Ye Zheng could feel the sound of the fish’s body against the ground as the mermaid beat it down again and again.

Gradually, the fish that was longer than the mermaid didn’t seem to be struggling anymore. It didn’t even move the tip of the tail. It seemed to have completely fainted. But the mermaid still didn’t let go, it kept a hand carefully holding the length of the fish and used the other claw to cut the abdomen of the ‘swordfish’. He pulled out the intestines and other internal organs and threw them back into the sea.

Ye Zheng subconsciously covered her mouth as she watched. The mermaid’s movements were as smooth as clouds and flowing water, as if this swordfish wasn’t four meters long but only as light as forty centimeters.

From this angle, Ye Zheng could only see the expressionless side face of the mermaid, his killing intention causing the fangs behind his lips to be exposed. Fish blood splashed on his face but he didn’t care, he was completely focused on dismembering his prey.

Cruel power.

The mermaid vividly revealed its characteristics as a top predator in the ocean. It had shown a very friendly attitude towards Ye Zheng in the past two days and Ye Zheng almost forgot her initial fear.

She watched as the mermaid unceremoniously pulled off the head of the dead fish, broke its tail, and threw them back into the sea without any regret. Then it cut out the fish bones one by one. Its movements were clean and tidy, without any hesitation or pity.

Ye Zheng couldn’t help but take a step back. The mermaid’s murderous behavior made her feel a little uneasy.

The mermaid immediately stopped, and his head turned around, staring at Ye Zheng.

“Hey…” Ye Zheng chuckled at the mermaid. She felt that the muscles of her face were a little stiff and she tried to make her smile bigger. The mermaid cut off a slap-shaped piece of fish and handed it to Ye Zheng.

“Thank you…” Ye Zheng embarrassedly took the piece of freshly cut fish meat under the watchful eye of the mermaid… and took a careful bite. Too delicious!

Ye Zheng originally just didn’t want to brush off the goodwill of Mermaid and she made up her mind to try it. But after she bit down, she discovered that the fish was really delicious. There was no sea smell at all, the fish was tender and soft, melting in her mouth and sliding down Ye Zheng’s throat.

No wonder this mermaid was gone for so long, presumably it really wanted to find this delicious food, Ye Zheng thought while eating the piece in her hand with satisfaction.

After the merman cut all the remaining fish meat, it piled them by Ye Zheng’s side. At this time, it lay down arrogantly and began to pick up the fruit scattered across the sand.

It sat down next to Ye Zheng’s feet obediently, holding the fish in one hand and the sour juice fruit in the other, looking at her expectantly.

Already has fruit and fish in hand, does it need to wait for her to feed it? Ye Zheng thought helplessly but also sat down and began to use juice to garnish the fish meat.

As she fed him, Ye Zheng also tasted the fish meat dipped in the juice. Compared with the original taste, the fish meat dipped in the sour juice was more elastic and the taste was fuller.

This mermaid was really a foodie. After trying the taste of sour sauce, he immediately found the perfect fish meat. But Ye Zheng did not expect that this mermaid was not only a foodie, it was also a rice bucket!

Ye Zheng only ate a few pieces of thick fish meat and the remaining small pile of fish meat all entered the mermaid’s stomach!

Half full from the shrimp, Ye Zheng had been hesitant to eat more and now she was afraid that the mermaid would eat too much. But the mermaid still opened his mouth at her, asking her to continue feeding it. In the end, Ye Zheng watched the mermaid swallow the last piece of fish, contentedly roll to the side, and lay still.

Ye Zheng leaned over to look at it. Its eyes were still open, but they looked like they were covered with a thin grey film.

Ye Zheng’s movements to see its face made the film on its eyes disappear again. It glanced at Ye Zheng and probed the sand to pick up the crabs that Ye Zheng had almost forgotten.

Ye Zheng noticed the action of this mermaid had become a little clumsy. Although it was usually only a little less flexible on land than when in the sea, Ye Zheng could still see that the movement of the mermaid had indeed become a bit slow.

It seemed he wasn’t one to miss an opportunity to eat. Even if he was full, he would still eat up a whole pile of fish and now it had moved on to the crab. Lying lazily on the sand, he began to crunch the crab, swallowing the flesh.

Was this dessert?

Ye Zheng laughed until she cried, watching the mermaid. Its sharp teeth chewed the crab effortlessly. Now he was enjoying the second crab comfortably.

Ye Zheng simply let the mermaid lay there and eat. She started to pull out the straw reeds and build a grass tent for herself.

She used arrows to cut the denim into many thin strips, and carefully bundled the straws one by one. Finally, Ye Zheng erected each bale of grass upright and tied the top again. Finally, a simple triangular grass shed formed in front of Ye Zheng, barely standing.

Ye Zheng crawled in and found that the top of the small grass shed was really low. When she was sitting, her head almost brushed the roof.

But Ye Zheng was already very tired and now she had a grass shelter to block the outside waves. The sea breeze and starlight made Ye Zheng feel very satisfied.

She closed her eyes, at ease in this small world, intending to take a good rest.

But it was clear that another big creature on the island was not tired. It had become more energetic after digesting his meal.

Ye Zheng closed her eyes. First, she heard the sound of something on the sand outside on the ground and then her feet were cold. The grass curtain blocking the entrance was opened.

Her bare feet were held by a cold hand. It scratched Ye Zheng’s foot and then, after Ye Zheng didn’t respond, he scratched again.

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ER:*there wasn’t anything after this, I don’t know what the author had to say*