Starting from Robinson Crusoe-Chapter 54 - 19: Mysterious Reward_3

Chapter 54: Chapter 19: Mysterious Reward_3
Chen Zhou was actually exhausted a long time ago. He was just enduring it, waiting for the storm to destroy the ship, waiting for all the supplies to reach the shore, waiting for the day he could rest.
Now, this waiting was turned into an ordeal or perhaps a torment by the sudden hope.
He didn’t know how many times he had turned over with difficulty in the tent, but finally, exhausted, he drifted off to sleep.
In the morning, the air was clear and washed clean.
The tent in the clearing suddenly flipped over, with a cry of pain, Chen Zhou crawled out wrapped in a dark blanket.
Just now, he dreamed that the challenge reward was a Godzilla.
The monster landed on the beach without warning, stomping flat his painstakingly built small camp, and then swallowed Lai Fu who was barking wildly at it.
At that time, the whole forest was a mess.
In panic, he only cared about escaping, ran madly along, not thinking about the horizontally growing tree root underfoot, and tripped.
That Godzilla opened its bloody mouth wide, leaned down to swallow him alive.
He could only fight back with punches and kicks, then "bang," he kicked over the tent.
Godzilla was gone, the dream was too.
Straightening up, rubbing his sore back and waist, he gazed at the empty sea beyond the rock beach, relieved that it was just a dream.
"Lai Fu!"
He called, seeing the dog come out of the nest, sleepy-eyed, he felt somewhat relieved.
"Maybe I thought too much about the reward before sleeping.
They say dreams are the opposite, maybe this time I’ll get lucky."
Consoling himself, Chen Zhou walked around the tent, found no suspicious items, he puzzledly looked toward the rock beach.
"What’s going on?
Why isn’t there anything?
Do I have to wait until the night?
Or did they forget to send it to me?"
Pulled by the question of "What exactly is the mysterious reward," Chen Zhou couldn’t take care of breakfast, hurriedly picked up the matchlock gun and lead bullets, hung a sharp hand axe on his waist, and headed straight for the beach.
He was going to the place where he landed on the night of September 30. If there was nothing there, he would row a raft to the ship to check.
If there was nothing on the ship either, then he could only wait until night or tomorrow.
The challenge rules had not been wrong until now, and Chen Zhou didn’t think those with the ability to warp time and space would break their promises on such a small matter.
Although the rain was fierce in the latter half of the night, it didn’t last long.
After the rain, some dirty white foam still floated on the sea, occasionally fish carcasses were washed ashore, and a few seabirds were using slender legs to pick at them, searching for edible parts.
Lai Fu followed Chen Zhou closely, walked all the way up the hill, through sparse woodland, to the beach above where they landed.
From afar, Chen Zhou saw the small tree hung with Robinson and his own clothes.
They were soaked by the wind-blown rain, the colors darkened, but the tied cloth strips didn’t loosen, not even the positions changed much, indicating that curious birds or wild cats hadn’t tampered with them.
Busy transporting supplies, Chen Zhou had always been shuttling between the sailboat and the riverbank slope without the leisure time to take back the clothes.
Returning here now, he wasn’t interested in the parcel.
He just opened his eyes wide, continuously scanning the beach with his eyes, searching for prominent objects.
Getting closer, even from afar, he seemed to see something reflective on the wet sand.
"Mysterious reward!"
Chen Zhou was ecstatic inside, carrying the heavy matchlock gun, he sprinted towards it.
Getting closer, he saw that the reflective thing was actually a yellow corrugated cardboard box wrapped with two strips of transparent tape, giving a deja vu of Pinduoduo’s low-quality express packaging, his heart suddenly filled with an ominous premonition.
He shut his mouth, controlled his heavy breathing, fearing to blow away his luck, Chen Zhou cautiously picked up the box.
The lower half of the box was already soaked by sand, with a slight force from his fingers, he poked a hole.
Held in his hand, the weight was very light, as if it was empty.
"High-tech items are portable, being light is normal."
The unease in his heart grew stronger, Chen Zhou tried to deceive himself, tilting his head and squinting to peep into the poked hole.
Darkness.
Just like scratching off a lottery ticket, he gradually enlarged the hole.
Seeing the flashy wrapping paper slowly revealed, Chen Zhou’s heart sank bit by bit.
Finally, he opened the box, the once every fifteen days "mysterious reward" finally saw the light of day—
It turned out to be a pink silicone Peppa Pig phone case!