"Lin Chuan, what are you doing?" Zhou Rui asked.
"Making a trapping cage!" Lin Chuan replied with a smile.
"You think this thing can catch rabbits?" Zhou Rui frowned.
"Hehe, don't believe it?" Lin Chuan asked with a smile.
"Of course not!" Zhou Rui immediately shook her head, such a shabby thing can catch rabbits? That would be too magical, right?
Lin Chuan's mouth curled up in a mischievous smile. He turned to look at Nuo Xiaoxi and asked, "Xiaoxi, do you believe I can catch a rabbit?"
"I do!" Nuo Xiaoxi believed in Lin Chuan unreservedly.
"I knew you would believe me," Lin Chuan laughed.
"Of course I believe you!" Nuo Xiaoxi giggled.
Lin Chuan laughed, "Don't worry, I'll definitely catch some rabbits for you."
"Great!" Nuo Xiaoxi immediately nodded, the girl excitedly said, "I'm really looking forward to Brother Lin catching rabbits."
Zhou Rui pursed her lips and said, "I don't believe it, I just don't believe it."
It's not that the girl truly disbelieved; it was because Nuo Xiaoxi believed, so she felt unwilling. Zhou Rui is naturally a person with a strong independent character, so if Nuo Xiaoxi believed, she wouldn't. Even if she did believe in her heart, she wouldn't admit it. She is such a person with personality and character.
Lin Chuan made five or six such rabbit cages in one go, and these cages are specially designed for capturing wild rabbits.
After finishing the cages, Lin Chuan created a simple triggering mechanism. As soon as a rabbit enters and touches the trigger inside the cage, the door would immediately close and lock the cage.
After the cages were set, Lin Chuan walked around the area and gathered some wild vegetables that rabbits love, putting them inside the cages. Then he placed the cages in a dense thicket. After all six cages were set, Lin Chuan clapped his hands and said, "All set. Everything is ready except for the east wind."
"Really?" Zhou Rui blinked and said, "You think you can catch rabbits with that? Rabbits aren't stupid to just bump into your cage by themselves."
"Hehe, we'll have gains when we come back," Lin Chuan chuckled.
Zhou Rui scoffed dismissively, "I really don't believe that."
After all the cages were set up, Lin Chuan stood up and said, "Alright, let's leave these cages here for now, we are going to collect bird eggs now."
"Bird eggs?" Nuo Xiaoxi's interest was piqued upon hearing this, she excitedly said, "I've never seen what bird eggs look like. Brother Lin, please take me to find a nest and see."
"Let's go!" Lin Chuan gestured with his hand.
Then, the three of them headed into the dense jungle.
In the jungle, birds fluttered up, many startled by the sudden intrusion of humans.
"Wow, so many birds!" Zhou Rui exclaimed.
"Yeah!" Nuo Xiaoxi nodded, "I didn't expect to find so many birds here. This definitely means there are lots of bird eggs!"
Lin Chuan walked deeper into the forest and then said, "Come quickly, I've found something!"
Zhou Rui and Nuo Xiaoxi quickly gathered around.
Lin Chuan skillfully parted a clump of weeds, immediately revealing a bird's nest with five or six delicate eggs lying quietly inside. The eggs were blue in color. Zhou Rui and Nuo Xiaoxi hurried over, Zhou Rui excitedly picked up the nest and exclaimed, "Wow, our first haul is six bird eggs, lunch is settled!"
"Are these six eggs enough for you?" Lin Chuan retorted.
"Hehe, isn't there you?" Zhou Rui giggled.
Lin Chuan laughed heartily, "This island indeed has a lot of bird eggs, but wild rabbits are the most abundant thing here."
"Hehe, we're going to eat rabbit meat later!" Nuo Xiaoxi said eagerly.
"Xiaoxi, you might as well give up on that idea!" Zhou Rui threw cold water on her, saying, "Do you really believe Lin Chuan's cage could catch a rabbit? Dream on, not even mosquitoes will go into that thing."
"Perhaps a miracle will happen!" Nuo Xiaoxi laughed.
"Impossible," Zhou Rui shook her head.
Lin Chuan led the way to look for birds' nests, while Zhou Rui and Nuo Xiaoxi chattered behind him.
An hour later, the trio returned with nearly half a basket of bird eggs. Zhou Kai, Da Pao, Li Qiang... a group of people seemed to have already returned to the pre-agreed place. This place was located near a clear spring, where they gathered.
By the edge of the spring, there was a large flat area, and in this stretch of clear water, there were fish swimming. Unfortunately, the water in the spring was somewhat deep and the pool was quite big, so no one dared to go in to catch fish.
By the side of the spring, someone was already barbecuing.
Lin Chuan and the others chose a very good spot. Then, they set down the portable grills. There were two portable grills, a large bag of charcoal, and barbecue-specific forks.
"How did you all fare?" Zhou Kai asked.
As he spoke, he proudly lifted the basket in his hand containing roughly more than twenty bird eggs, Li Qiang and Liu Cheng and others also gathered almost the same number. Each person held one or two rabbits in their hands. When everyone saw Lin Chuan returning empty-handed, they laughed and asked: "Brother Lin, why are you coming back empty-handed?"
"Nonsense." Zhou Rui, holding a basket, said: "Are you blind? What is this?"
"Uh..." Everyone was stunned for a moment.
"So many?!" Lu Dapao exclaimed: "You actually gathered thirty or forty. Incredible!"
"Psh, if you average it out, it's just over ten per person," Liu Cheng snorted lightly, seeming quite disdainful. Ah Xing laughed and said: "Not bad, not bad, everyone did quite well."
Liu Cheng naturally wanted to gain Ah Xing's attention, and although Ah Xing totally understood, she couldn't understand Liu Cheng's tone and attitude.
"What about the rabbits?" Liu Cheng asked.
"We haven't collected them yet." Nuo Xiaoxi said with a smile.
"Xiaoxi, let's go catch some rabbits!" Lin Chuan hurriedly said.
"Sure!" Nuo Xiaoxi immediately nodded.
The two ran towards the place where they had previously set the cages.
Six cages, and they managed to capture three rabbits. Each rabbit definitely weighed over three pounds. One was definitely over five pounds, the plump big fat rabbit made Nuo Xiaoxi extremely excited. Nuo Xiaoxi excitedly said: "Wow, such a big rabbit, Brother Lin, you're amazing, Sister Zhou Rui will definitely be amazed."
"Let's go, back to camp!" Lin Chuan, holding three cages with captures, walked back.
Nuo Xiaoxi carried one of them, excitedly teasing the trembling little rabbit inside the cage.
Lin Chuan's lips curled up in a strange smile, and Nuo Xiaoxi curiously asked: "Brother Lin, do you think we can keep the rabbit alive if we take it back?"
"Of course!" Lin Chuan immediately nodded.
"Then... can I take it back to raise?" Nuo Xiaoxi asked: "Look at it, it's so pitiful."
"Sure!" Lin Chuan nodded, then said: "However, the rabbits here are somewhat overpopulated because they have no natural predators. It seems that Jiangbei City City Committee is intentionally allowing tourists to come to the island to catch rabbits. There isn't any control over it yet, and I believe it won't be long before the rabbits here are on the brink of extinction."
"That's not good at all!" Nuo Xiaoxi pouted, saying: "The rabbits here are really pitiful."
Lin Chuan laughed: "Survival of the fittest, the adaptors survive."
As they returned to the camp. A bunch of people looked at Lin Chuan.
"Oh my, how did you catch three rabbits by yourself?" The crowd asked curiously.
"It's a matter of technique." Lin Chuan smiled.
People who came nearby for a wild picnic also gathered around, some of them helplessly said: "Indeed, there are a lot of rabbits on this island, but catching them isn't that easy. Bro, you're really amazing to be able to catch three in one go, how did you manage it?"
"Set cages!" Zhou Rui spoke up from the side.
Lin Chuan immediately glared at her, saying: "Don't talk nonsense, what's the use of setting cages, it's about trying to catch them, I naturally run faster than others. Just following the rabbits, keep chasing them until they can't run anymore!"
A crowd of people laughed.
Lin Chuan and his group caught six rabbits, with Lin Chuan alone capturing three of them, accounting for half of the total.
Zhou Kai and Li Qiang went downstream of Qintan to kill rabbits, where a few other groups were also cleaning the rabbit's innards. The hunting of rabbits is allowed here, but in-country control over things like air guns is strict, so most people are helpless regarding hunting rabbits on the island, they can only watch the rabbits run past them, as humans simply can't match the speed of rabbits.
"Yo, bro, you got quite a catch!" Those groups looked at Zhou Kai carrying several large fat rabbits over and laughed: "Pretty strong, managing to catch so many."
"That's right!" Zhou Kai laughed hehe.
Killing rabbits was very simple for them, first, they strangled the rabbits with a rope. Then they slit them open, cleaned the innards, skinned them...
Cleaning the rabbits was relatively simple, four of the rabbits were easily slaughtered and cleaned. The other two rabbits were protected by Nuo Xiaoxi, this girl flatly refused to let them kill these two rabbits, insisting on taking them back to raise. Everyone could not persuade Nuo Xiaoxi, so they had to let her take them back.
After Zhou Kai and others finished cleaning, they returned to the camp.
Lu Dapao used a knife to chop one of the two rabbits, at this time, Zhou Kai's big axe came in handy.
"You... you actually used his axe to chop meat?" Zhou Rui looked at Lu Dapao in astonishment.
"What's the problem?" Lu Dapao looked at Zhou Rui, puzzled.
"Of course there's a problem!" Zhou Rui hurriedly said: "His axe often chops people, what if those people have some virus, like AIDS or some terminal disease, what then?"
"Even if there is a virus, it can't survive that long in the air," Lu Dapao laughed hehe.
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