Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 231

  Leave marks on the beach and look for food sources.

  The former can be done easily when looking for food, while the latter... The barren island has no food sources related to plants and animals, and there can be no wild canned food here.

   The only possibility is at sea.

  Leaving the warm windbreak, the cool sea breeze blew away some of the heat from the body. Lu Li put the empty can under the water intake, took off his shoes and held it in his hands, and walked to the beach near the sea.

   Moving forward along the coastline, the icy waves with white foam washed under the feet, engulfing Lu Li's ankles, and took away the footprints behind him.

  The sound of the waves was loud, but Lu Li could only see that there was no life. Apart from shells, he did not see any living creatures on the beach, and it seemed that a similar situation in which plants stopped growing occurred in the ocean.

   The problem may exist, but it is not that serious. At least the fishing boats in Rodester port sail every day.

   After walking 200 meters, Lu Li found a palm-sized, unknown whitebait on the light-colored beach. It has been dead for a long time, and the fish carcass has rotted and cannot be eaten.

  Lu Li picked up the tail of the fish and continued to move forward with the silver fish. It might be useful. Even if it couldn't, it could keep the vicinity of the windbreak away from possible predators.

   After about 500 meters, Lu Li came to the end of this sandy beach. He continued along the curved coastline and circled to the side of the island.

  The landforms here have changed somewhat, with some protruding dark reefs on the brown sand beach, and the density of the reefs gradually increases as you move forward.

  These reefs are just the tip of the iceberg, most of them are hidden beneath the gravel. After Lu Li's feet stepped on a reef hidden under the gravel, he put on the plus-sized short boots again.

   There were some conch shells attached to the bottom of the reef near the sea, and Lu Li broke the next one and found that the conch shell was empty. I broke off a few conch shells around, and finally saw the still active snail meat.

  Lu Li put it back on the reef. If no other food source was found, these conch snails could barely be used to satisfy hunger, but they couldn’t eat more.

   Continue to move forward, the reefs begin to dense enough to need a detour. Looking into the distance, this beach looks like a dense layer of black spots, ugly and tingling.

   But it unexpectedly brought Lu Li a surprise: a water moor surrounded by reefs.

  The water moor is close to the sea, with a length and width of about ten meters, a depth of only twenty centimeters, and there are no fish in it.

   But on the surrounding reefs, there is a waterline more than ten centimeters higher.

   Now is the low tide period, after the high tide period, this waterbore will be connected to the sea for a short time.

  If the land separation allows the fish in the sea to enter the water bank during the high tide period, some fish will be left in the water bank after the low tide period.

   That would be the source of most of Lu Li's food.

  Lu Li also brought stone chips. He used the nearby reef as a cutting board to cut open the whitebait, cut it as finely as possible, and threw it into the water.

  Whoa——

   A small and dense water splash emerged, and then calmed down.

  The crumbly fish slowly floated into the bottom of the water, Lu Li took off his shoes, went around to the outlet of the water moor, and built up the sand walls that gathered inward, so that as many fish as possible could survive after the low tide.

   didn't take much time. A few minutes later, Shuibo's exit to the sea was blocked by a sand wall a few centimeters higher than the palm of his hand, leaving only an opening less than half a meter wide.

  The lake surface became a little cloudy, but it will clear again soon.

   went back to the reef and put on his shoes. Lu Li finally glanced at the water and continued to explore the coastline of the island.

   goes around to the north side of the island, directly opposite the windbreak point, the beach here is restored to its original appearance, and there are no ugly reefs.

   The width of the beach here is only 30 meters, and the sand is long and narrow, making the sea and the woods seem to be close to each other.

  Lu Li was walking on the edge of the waves and continued to look for other sources of food, when suddenly a line of footprints came into view.

   The footprints are more than ten meters in front of you, and it is difficult to find if you don't get close. It stretches from the sea to the woods, across the front.

  Lu Li vigilantly looked around, approaching the footprints. As he got closer, Lu Li saw the shape of the footprints, and at the same time found more messy footprints not far away.

  The shape of the footprints is like some kind of fins. Lu Li put his shoes close to compare them. These fins are larger than human feet and smell fishy. Some fins have some silt from the deep sea.

  Lu Li counted the number of flippers on this beach, and there were twelve round-trip marks in total, and no more than twelve flipper prints were left.

  These footprints were left recently, within about ten hours.

  Lu Li looked back and saw that his footprints extended from a distance to his feet, but after the tide rises, the traces he left will be covered up.

   And the good news is that similar footprints were not found on the cliff.

   The flippers that landed on the island have not been close to the other side of the island for the time being, but if they come again, it will not be long before they find the wooden house and windbreak on the other side of the rock wall-after all, the island is only a few hundred meters long.

  Lu Li intends to follow the footprints. He wants to figure out the source and whereabouts of this group of existences, and more importantly, whether they will come again.

   But when Lu Li took off his short boots and was about to follow with his fins, an uncomfortable feeling emerged in his heart. It was as if something bad would happen if you stepped into the fins.

  Lu Li followed his intuition, which became sharper and more accurate due to the decrease in Sanity, but he couldn't walk straight into the woods.

  If the owner of the fins has wisdom, it would be very stupid to leave footprints.

   After thinking for a while, Lu Li returned to the original road, leaving a trail of footprints that would be engulfed by the rising tide. He retreated to the reef area on the east side of the island, stepped on the reef and entered the woods, and returned to the area where the footprints were found.

  The traces of silt left on the brown and yellow withered grass are still clear. Lu Li moved along these traces while avoiding being contaminated by it, but as he went deeper into the woods, the traces of silt became less and less until they disappeared completely.

  Luri walked 100 meters in the direction they were heading in, until he saw the beach and the sea in front of the woods and stopped.

   Lu Li, who had lost his track, returned to the area around the flippers. He continued to move forward along the edge of the woods and the beach. After ten minutes, he circled the island and returned to the cliff.

   The flipper prints only exist in the area where they were originally discovered, and their traces and the purpose of landing on the island were not found.

   This shrouded Lu's centrifugation in a haze, and it also dispelled the surprise of finding a water moor.

  Lu Li canceled the plan to leave a striking mark. If investigators come to the rescue they won't let the island go.

   checked the water point, the water was still dripping, he returned to the windbreak.

   Just in case, he plans to widen the bunker and find something to block the windbreak, but only after waking up.

   Drilling into the windbreak, the gravel and surrounding rock walls are no longer cold, and begin to emit a comfortable warmth.

   Filled the fire with a few moist wood blocks that could burn for a long time, and Lu Li curled up in the innermost part of the windbreak and fell asleep.

   (end of this chapter)