004 Crazy Orthopedic

The dusk was fast approaching.

On the red campfire, the stewed seafood soup was steaming, filled with clams, conch, and a fat crab.

"Ready!"

Ethan Brooks stirred the soup, then speared the eye-pierced keg with a tree branch. Naturally, the soup was not to be wasted, and Luna secured a couple of coconut bowls to the sand as Ethan Brooks poured it all into the bowls and finally poured the seafood onto a braided coconut leaf. Looking at the seafood in front of them, Ethan Brooks and Luna looked at each other with some excitement.

They had been starving since yesterday, except for the coconut milk and a bit of coconut meat.

"Let's start!" Ethan Brooks was the first to pick up a conch and pick it out with a twig. The first bite was yummy!

More than coconut, at least this is real meat, soft and sticky with a light salty flavor as soon as it hits the mouth! The second bite was fishy! Naturally, the conch isn't all meat, and when there were bites, the fishy flavor mixed with the sand in the mouth in a way that made Ethan Brooks almost throw up. 

Luna peeled open the clams and saw the look on Ethan Brooks' face, pursed her lips, and snickered, handing Ethan Brooks the clams in her hand.

"help yourself. And, we'll need to find a way to get a little salt."

Ethan Brooks cleaned the conch in his hand, glanced at the nooks, and then at the jungle not far away. "I'm going to need a knife, I can't cut the wood without one, and this little shack of ours won't hold if there's a real storm."

Looking at Ethan Brooks in thought, Luna slowly put down the clams in her hand and blinked at Ethan Brooks with wide eyes.

"What's wrong with you?"

Luna took her "self-defense" weapon out of her pocket and seemed to be hesitant to give it to Ethan Brooks. Ethan Brooks giggled. "You might as well keep it, it's the last weapon you have. What if I turn out to be the bad guy after holding your weapon?" Luna slanted a glance at Ethan Brooks as if she knew it was a joke. After all, Ethan Brooks would have plenty of opportunities to turn on her if he wanted to.

But Luna still handed it over with her hand. Ethan Brooks didn't say no and took it and examined it by the light of the fire. When he checked the back of the claw which was round and clumsy but it had a sharp edge underneath!

Ethan Brooks scraped it with his finger, the edge was thin but tough, and while the blade wasn't long enough to be considered a pocket knife. Turning around, he chipped at the wood on the side of the hut behind him, easily chipping off a small piece of woodchip.

"Where did you find this? What beast's paw is this? "

Luna shook her head in bewilderment,  pointed a finger at her head, and gestured with the fingers of both hands on her head.

"You think it's horns?"

Luna nodded.

Ethan Brooks shook his head. He didn't think it was horns, but if this was the claws of something, these

claws could tear him apart with a slap. It was more than twice the size of a bear's fingernails.

"Thanks, this is useful."

Ethan Brooks planted his paw in the doorframe of his cabin and proceeded to enjoy the very cobbled-together seafood meal. Luna was considerate.  She only had one crab pincer for the large crab and expressed to Ethan Brooks that he should take the bigger part because he is the main hand.  Ethan Brooks' heart warmed. Especially when she smiles softly, it reminds Ethan Brooks of a girl in his memory for three years. After supper, and darkness falling, they assigned the jobs that each should get up once in the night to keep the fire.  Then both went into their little nests.

It was a clear, starry night with no rain, and the cool moonlight on the beach was so beautiful that Ethan Brooks could see it from the opening of his nook as he lay there.

After returning home, will he or she ever see the night like this again? 

Ethan Brooks always got a sore nose when he thought of the woman in his memory, and it was amazing

how out of touch he still was since the breakup.

The night stopped being beautiful and instead became a torment that left him tossing and turning, wanting nothing more than to get to dawn faster.

A few small thuds reached his ears, even though the sound of the waves couldn't be muffled, indicating that the sound was close by. In a haze, Ethan Brooks awoke with a jerk of his body.

It was the sound of firewood crashing into each other, interspersed with a continuous rustle that was beginning to bit loud.

"Luna, is that you ?" Ethan Brooks shouted.

Unexpectedly, the voices outside came to a screeching halt. The sudden silence made Ethan Brooks'

heart skips a beat. This certainly wasn't Luna! The light of the fire outside was already very faint. Ethan Brooks slowly clenched the animal claw in his hand. He inclined his head and peered out of the nook. In the darkness, He could only see two eyes like green lights. The eye was looking at him when he looked over, and the four eyes met, after a moment, a beastly roar rang out abruptly as it bore down on the litter.

"Gzees!"

Ethan Brooks felt like he was going to explode. Luckily, the roof of the den was only strapped to the top, and Ethan Brooks scurried right out through the roof. The small nest was instantly destroyed by the crash, the beast sank deep into it, and after shaking violently twice, the small nest completely fell apart.

Luna also climbed out of the small nest at this time, scared out of her wits, and wanted to run in the direction of the coconut grove, but her feet panicked and fell to the ground. Ethan Brooks rolled a few paces, grabbed a stick from the fire, and was about to run into the jungle, but the darkness of the jungle out of reach dissuaded him again.

He turned back around: The beast let out two low growls and bursted out. With its arched back, tusks, and bristles like steel needles, it was a boar!

At this time, Luna just climbed up from the ground, the boar immediately like a formidable enemy looking at this "suddenly taller" creature. The atmosphere froze in a flash. Luna also didn't expect the boar to target her and froze in place for a moment.

In the past, he would think the boar seemed to be far less dangerous than the tigers and leopards. However, when it shows up on the island, it is so violent with its fangs and brutal eyes that it sends shivers down the spine.

Run?

Ethan Brooks just wanted to get the hell out of there and the boar wasn't even paying attention. it was staring at the mute girl, and he had every chance of escaping while the boar was attacking the mute girl.

Go.

The sanity that wanted to escape was like a wild bison running wild, but this bison was pulled back by dignity as slender as a spider's silk.

It's okay to run but in front of a mute girl?

During the day Luna's every move, look, and smile, were all vivid in his mind. Up to now, Luna hadn't even looked at him. There were no cries for help, no running towards him for shelter, not even a glance this way.

Ethan Brooks wished that Luna's crying and screaming had rushed toward him, shouting, "Help me, help me!" In that case, He probably wouldn't have hesitated to leave her behind. But now, abandoning such a girl to her face, Ethan Brooks couldn't do it. She moved! Luna moved her trembling legs and took a step backward of her own accord, backing up in the direction of the coconut grove as she turned her head to look at him. Ethan Brooks couldn't see her eyes, but by the light of the fire, Ethan Brooks could see a drop of crystal, slipping quietly from the corner of Luna's eye.

What's she up to?

Ethan Brooks was startled.

But the moment she moved her eyes away, the boar moved! An angry roar rang out, and the boar's aura steeply went berserk, charging towards Luna, unstoppable between the mud and sand being thrown around! When Luna saw the boar rushing towards her, her body suddenly gave a jolt and froze straight in place, her eyes staring round, obviously stunned!

"RUN!" Ethan Brooks roared wildly and charged at Luna as well.

Just as the boar was about to crash into Luna. Boo!

Luna suddenly felt a huge force that knocked her sideways. And all Ethan Brooks felt was a maddening force slamming into his calves, instantly toppling him over, his body jerking half around in the air, his back slamming into the ground with a loud thud, and his brain buzzing with shock, while the boar darted into

the thicket of forest disappeared.

Seconds later, Ethan Brooks was picked up on his upper body by Luna, but all he could feel was that his leg seemed to have broken, completely, as if someone had broken his bones with an iron vice so hard that it hurt so much that it became difficult to breathe, let alone scream. Large drops of cold sweat practically squeezed out of his pores. Having his head propped up by Luna, Ethan Brooks looked toward his calves.

The pants tore open completely, revealing half of his leg, and at his calf, a huge twenty-centimeter wound, the skin, and flesh turned out, blood gurgling out. His knee, jutting out sideways at an incredible angle, could see the bone dislocated under the skin, bulging into a large bag. Ethan Brooks felt every cell in his entire body trembling.

Luna's tears snapped and fell as she nodded her head desperately hard.

"Help me step my knee back!"

Ethan Brooks said the words and Luna's body plummeted. 

Step back?

Ethan Brooks didn't have time to explain to her that the boar had arched his bones the wrong way and that every second was too important for him to force his body a bit. He turned the bulge upward and flattened his legs on the sand.

"Stomp!"

Seeing Luna in a daze, Ethan Brooks bellowed. Luna also realized the seriousness of the situation and stood up shivering. Ethan Brooks reached his hand up to the mismatch, covering it with his entire hand.

"Step on the back of my hand! "Ethan Brooks isn't sure whether it can work, but it's his last chance. There's no hospital on this desert island!

Luna was already in tears, and just as Ethan Brooks was about to yell at her again, Luna gritted her teeth and raised her foot, stomping down on the back of Ethan Brooks's hand!