This person, who knows if he had been shocked awake by the pain, Xia Chuan estimated that he probably hadn't been.

Because after he opened his eyes, the first place his gaze fell was on the woman standing by his side, applying medicine to his back. He sized her up and down several times, staring at the animal skin clothing and the leaves decorating it for a long time, and then his gaze never moved again.

Even if she was dressed in a revealing way, she was still a young lady with everything she should have. Staring at her so directly for so long, almost to the point of making eye contact, was really a bit inappropriate.

Xia Chuan was probably afraid that if the girl was stared at for too long, she would directly use the crushed leaves and green leaf paste in her hands to plaster his eyes, so he couldn't help but cough to remind him.

But Dennis seemed to be in a daze, still staring at the woman with a silly look.

Xia Chuan: "..." I didn't realize this guy had such a great interest in women before.

"Hey, your eyeballs are about to fall out, what are you spacing out for?" Shen Lan crossed his arms and scratched his cheek. Even though he had returned to nature and streaked for several years, he still had gender awareness. He probably also felt that Dennis's gaze was a bit too silly and couldn't help but speak up to remind him.

As soon as he said this, Dennis's gaze finally drifted a bit, glancing at Xia Chuan and Shen Lan, and sweeping around the room, but quickly fell back on the woman wearing the animal skin clothing, still with a dazed and silly look.

The woman had just finished applying the medicine, and even vigorously rubbed Dennis's back for a while, making it easier for the juice of the leaves to dissolve into the wound and relieve some of the pain. She had just straightened her back after withdrawing her hand when she caught Dennis's gaze.

She was stunned for a moment, but wasn't angry. She probably thought Dennis's silly appearance was quite amusing. She directly reached out and touched Dennis's face, even patting it twice, smearing half of his face with the green liquid.

The woman's original intention was probably to tease Dennis a bit, but as a result, after being patted on the face twice, he had a look of sudden realization, and then his brows furrowed, his face turned bitter, and he instantly started crying with teary eyes.

Woman: "..."

Shen Lan poked Xia Chuan's waist with a pained expression, jerked his chin towards Dennis, and asked, "What's going on with him?"

The suddenly enlightened Dennis could finally listen to people's words this time. He cried "aowu" with a miserable look on his face, turned his head to Xia Chuan and Shen Lan and said, "So we made a big circle, I almost lost half my life, and we actually just jumped from the Cretaceous to the Stone Age? What about going back as promised?"

Shen Lan: "..."

"..." Xia Chuan was silent for a few seconds, but finally couldn't help saying, "Isn't your reaction time a bit long?"

After expressing his inner feelings of despair, Dennis finally realized that he was being a bit embarrassing. With a sobbing sound, he stopped abruptly and silently held back the two bubbles of tears that had welled up.

"By the way, since you're awake, it's a good time." Xia Chuan remembered to ask him, "Shen Lan said that you and Professor Linton got separated. How did you get separated?"

Dennis shook his head and said, "Actually, it wasn't really getting separated. To be precise, after Yaya and the others pushed us into the sea, we were washed apart by the waves. We landed in different places in that black sea area. I may have been a bit closer to you guys, while the professor almost got washed out of that area by the waves. I even tried to grab him, but couldn't reach him."

Xia Chuan frowned, understanding his meaning, "So you didn't see him again after you woke up?"

"Yeah, ouch..." Dennis nodded slightly, but it still pulled at the wound on his back. He instantly scrunched up his entire face, inhaled, and sighed, "What did they smear on my back? It's both cool and spicy, more intoxicating than mint."

"I don't know." Xia Chuan had never seen that kind of leaf before either. "Probably for pain relief and reducing swelling."

Dennis cried with a long face, "It obviously hurts more after applying it."

He howled a couple of times, then continued the previous topic, "Anyway, I didn't float in that sea for long before I was engulfed by the waves and completely submerged in the water. It was all black. I couldn't hold on for long and passed out, losing consciousness. Then I kept feeling a stabbing pain all over my body in a half-dreaming state, burning like I had been hooked by iron hooks many times, before I groggily woke up.

"As soon as I woke up, what I saw was a vast, boundless sea. I was lying on that reef, still sliding down. A couple more slides and I would have completely fallen back into the sea, so I grabbed onto that rock. But that damn reef was very small and especially slippery, without even a spot for me to step on and use for leverage, and I didn't have the strength to keep paddling in the water."

"Fortunately, the heavens have eyes." He said, pursing his lips in Shen Lan's direction, "When I was about to lose my grip, I saw him pop his head out of the water a bit further ahead. Luckily I'm not face-blind and recognized him at a glance, so I desperately called for help with all my might."

Xia Chuan said, "It's good that your eyesight is okay and you can see people clearly."

Shen Lan, whose eyesight was problematic and couldn't see people clearly at all, looked at Xia Chuan innocently, then said to Dennis, "What you did wasn't desperately calling for help with all your might. Your voice wasn't much louder than a mosquito's humming. Luckily it was me, with better hearing. If it were someone else, you would have clung to that reef until you were pecked clean by birds and no one would have discovered you."

Thinking about the wounds on his back, Dennis almost developed a psychological shadow towards those seabirds.

The three of them chatted casually for a while longer, and the cool and spicy feeling on Dennis's back finally lessened quite a bit. The two women stopped what they were doing and said a long string of words to Dennis in their language.

Dennis was completely baffled. "What?"

The women helplessly stopped talking and switched to mime performance, making several gestures and poses. Dennis finally understood that they were urging him to hurry up and rest and not talk.

In this tribe, these two women were probably their doctors. When the doctor spoke, one naturally had to listen. So Dennis obediently closed his mouth. Xia Chuan and Shen Lan also gestured to him, "Then we'll go first and come back to find you later."

As soon as they finished speaking and lifted their feet, Dennis remembered something and called out "hey hey" a couple of times, getting glared at by the two women.

He shrank his neck, gave the women an embarrassed smile, then turned his head to Xia Chuan and Shen Lan with a long face and said, "I lost my Little Black."

"Little Black?" Xia Chuan didn't react for a moment. "Who is that?"

Dennis said, "My black backpack had so many things inside. The others don't matter as much, but mainly it's the oscilloscope and the medicine box inside that are gone."

Hearing that the oscilloscope was gone, Xia Chuan and Shen Lan both frowned. However, it wasn't entirely unexpected, as they indeed didn't see Dennis carrying anything else when they fished him out of the water.

"And we were in such a hurry at that time. I remember I didn't even zip up my bag properly," Dennis still had a mournful look on his face. "When I was thrown into the sea, the bag flew off too. I remember I tried to grab it while in the water and managed to catch the waterproof bag that had fallen out, but after I woke up, I never saw it again."

Shen Lan let out an "Oh" and said, "I'll go back and take another look."

Initially, it was Shen Lan who had retrieved Dennis' black backpack from the sea. If they could find it again this time, that would naturally be great, as there were still quite a few useful things in Dennis' bag. However, the possibility was indeed slim.

After finishing this string of words, Dennis could finally rest in peace. Under the glaring eyes of the two women, he finally obediently closed his mouth and eyes, and lay there with his eyes closed to recuperate. Only when he completely fell silent did the two women withdraw their gazes and went to take care of the other two lying down.

Those two people had no missing limbs and no obvious injuries on their bodies. They probably fell ill, as their breathing was unsteady, and they seemed to be sleeping very uncomfortably.

Xia Chuan and Shen Lan took a quick glance and then hurriedly went out the door along the steps.

Outside, the sky remained half overcast, without dazzling sunlight, not glaring or sweltering. When the wind blew, it brought a hint of coolness, somewhat resembling the feeling of early spring or late autumn, only that it never quite rained.

Xia Chuan looked up at the sky for a moment, then followed Shen Lan straight to the main gate.

Aegon on the watchtower called out to them with two "Hey, hey," asking them where they were going with a combination of gestures and shouts. Only then did the two remember what Laura had said - except for going out hunting with the main group, anyone else going out at other times had to inform the person on the watchtower.

So Shen Lan also imitated their style, drawling lazily while gesturing, "Going to the seaside to get a couple of dolls to eat."

Xia Chuan: "..." Simply a nutcase.

Anyway, Aegon could only tell that they were heading towards the woods, not understanding what exactly they were going to do. So for a moment, he thought they were going to continue hunting or help the leader and the others. He nodded and let them out just like that.

As Shen Lan walked down the slope shoulder to shoulder with Xia Chuan, he sighed, "This works too."

Xia Chuan didn't want to pay him any attention at all.

They had originally thought that if they ran into the leader, they would lend a hand along the way. However, even when they reached the seaside, there was no sign of the leader and the others, and of course, the pile of sea fish at the seaside had also disappeared. They probably took a wrong turn in the woods, just happening to go one way and come back the other.

"You wait here for a bit, I'll go take a look." Jumping into the sea was naturally Shen Lan's responsibility. He instructed Xia Chuan and then plunged into the sea.

He was extremely familiar with the ocean, and he also had experience searching for bags before, so he wasn't entirely clueless when it came to looking for things. He headed straight for the reef rock Dennis had clung to, then dove deep down. Relying on the fact that only Xia Chuan could see him, he transformed back into the form of a Mosasaurus without any burden, stirring up the sea.

After nearly an hour or so, the giant sea creature finally resurfaced and then lazily slid to the shore along the waves he had churned up, stopping on the pebble-covered beach in a leisurely manner.

Xia Chuan: "..." Never seen a beaching done so comfortably.

As soon as that behemoth beached, it transformed back into human form. He ran up to Xia Chuan with something in his hand, raising his chin to show off his accomplishment: "See, I got it."