Navigator: I have a double six-story house

Li Daniu's eyes welled up with tears, and then he noticed the strange looks from the local indigenous people around him.

He took a deep breath and forcefully suppressed the emotions that were welling up inside him.

His back straightened again, his chin slightly raised, and his gaze swept over the surrounding indigenous people. The "elder" was back.

He began by speaking in the indigenous language, at a slow pace, but with an undeniable air of authority.

With the help of the common language, Su Qing understood about 70-80% of what was being said.

The gist is: These three are messengers sent by the gods, the most honored guests. Everyone should treat them as they would treat me.

The leader knelt down on one knee and punched his left chest with his right fist, and the other indigenous people followed suit.

Li Daniu said another thing.

Su Qing translated it as: Everyone disperse, go about your business, I need to speak with my distinguished guest alone.

The indigenous people stood up and left one by one. Although many of them secretly looked back at Su Qing and her two companions as they left, none of them dared to stay a step longer.

Before leaving, the leader glanced at Su Qing one last time, then bowed respectfully in Li Daniu's direction before turning and departing.

The whole process was clean and efficient.

Su Qing looked at this scene and felt a little dazed. The honest and simple Brother Niu in her mind was hard to reconcile with the dignified "elder" in front of her.

After everyone had left, Li Daniu stood up from the altar and waved to Su Qing.

"Come with me."

These three words were spoken in Mandarin, and the voice was very low.

He led Su Qing and the other two through a narrow path between several wooden houses, finally stopping at the back of the village.

It was a detached building, larger than the other wooden houses, with a string of bone wind chimes hanging at the entrance.

Li Daniu pushed open the door, stepped aside to let the three of them in, and then stepped in himself.

The room was dimly lit, with only a faint orange glow emanating from something burning in a stone basin in the corner.

Animal hides were laid on the ground, and some miscellaneous items were piled up in the corner, including stone tools, woven baskets, and a few pieces of wood that had been shaved in half.

Su Qing was about to speak.

A tremendous force struck from the side.

Li Daniu pulled Su Qing and Wang Yao into his arms.

This burly man, over six feet tall, had his arms wrapped around two people, and his strength was so great that Su Qing felt her ribs protesting.

"Three years." Li Daniu's voice came from above, hoarse beyond belief. "Do you know how I've spent these past three years?!"

Su Qing was being strangled and was having trouble breathing, but she couldn't break free.

Wang Yao was even more direct, patting Li Daniu on the back with his other hand.

"Brother Niu, loosen your grip, your ribs are going to break."

Li Daniu didn't loosen his grip; instead, he hugged her even tighter.

Selena stood aside, watching the scene quietly without making a sound.

She stepped back half a step, leaning against the door panel, giving the three people some space.

After a long while, Li Daniu finally let go.

He took a step back, wiped his eyes with the back of his hand, and sniffed.

At this moment, he is not the "elder" worshipped by these indigenous people, but Li Daniu from the Sunshine Orphanage.

Before Su Qing could even ask what was going on, Li Daniu started spilling the beans.

"Three years ago, I was conscripted and entered the Age of Exploration. I thought, as I had heard, that I would be landed on Midway Island." Li Daniu sat down on the animal skin on the ground, his hands on his knees. "But when I opened my eyes, I was already on this island."

"Not Midway?" Su Qing raised an eyebrow.

"No." Li Daniu shook his head. "When I landed, I was surrounded by people with colorful drawings on their skin, holding stone sticks, all staring at me."

His face was twitching.

Do you know how scared I was?

"When I saw that formation, I thought we had encountered cannibals."

Wang Yao laughed. "And then?"

"Then I didn't dare to move," Li Dani spread his hands. "I just stood there, like a wooden stake, and after looking at me for a while, these people suddenly all knelt down."

"Kneeled?"

"They did it all in unison," Li Daniu gestured. "It was like they had planned it all out. They got down on the ground and started kowtowing, muttering something under their breath that I couldn't understand a word of."

Su Qing thought for a moment. "It might be because of the way you descended, appearing out of nowhere in the middle of the crowd. To a primitive tribe, that would be considered a miracle."

"Anyway, I didn't know what was going on at the time, so I just stubbornly didn't move." Li Daniu scratched his head. "Later, they brought me food, fruit, and raw meat."

His expression was subtle when he talked about raw meat.

"Raw, bloody meat—who could possibly eat that?"

"So I decided to roast it and eat it. I found some dry firewood, rubbed it together to start a fire," Li Daniu said, pausing for a moment. "Then they knelt down again."

"..."

"It was even more exciting than the first time; several people cried."

Su Qing remained silent for a moment, but he could understand the thoughts of these indigenous people.

The miracle of appearing out of thin air, creating fire from nothing, is yet another miracle.

In primitive belief systems, fire held immense significance.

These indigenous people most likely either didn't know how to use fire or had an extreme reverence for fire before Li Daniu arrived.

An being who descended from the sky and could create fire was revered as an elder.

That makes perfect sense!

"So you just served as an elder for three years?" Su Qing asked.

"Yes." Li Daniu sighed. "At first, I thought about how to leave this godforsaken place every day, but this island is surrounded by the sea. I'm not a captain, I don't have a boat, and I don't know how to build one."

"Later on, I gradually... got used to it."

His gaze fell on the animal hide on the ground.

"These people are actually quite good, it's just that they live a very hard life, living in caves and eating raw food."

"I was thinking, at least I should help them come up with something decent."

Su Qing glanced at the crooked wooden houses outside the window and nodded.

"So all those houses and fields outside were all built by you and the others."

"Hmm." Li Daniu smiled somewhat embarrassedly, "Although it doesn't look very good."

Wang Yao leaned against the wall, arms crossed, and suddenly asked a question.

"What about their weapons? Stone sticks? Aren't you going to upgrade them? Get them some iron weapons or something."

Li Daniu looked even more embarrassed.

"I don't know how."

Wang Yao was stunned for a moment.

"I don't know anything about iron smelting and forging," Li Dani spread his hands. "When I was in the orphanage, I did manual labor. I'm okay at farming, and I can manage building houses, but you want me to smelt iron and forge knives... where am I supposed to learn that?"

Su Qing nodded; reality is not a novel.

Not everyone who travels to a primitive tribe can advance the technology tree from the Stone Age to the Industrial Revolution.

It's already quite remarkable that Li Daniu was able to lead a group of indigenous people to build houses, farm, and repair walls.

He didn't have any special abilities; he was just an ordinary person who came from an orphanage and relied on his physical strength and an indomitable spirit to survive on this island for three years.

Su Qing looked at Li Daniu and asked the most crucial question.

"Brother Niu, where exactly is the dungeon entrance?"

"There is a door," Li Daniu nodded. "It's in a cave in the center of the island. I've seen it before."

"But if you're going, I have one condition."

Li Daniu's expression changed, and his eyes became extremely serious.