Dragon Raja: I practiced Naruto ninjutsu next to Lu Mingfei.

Indeed, since their engagement, he has taken Su Xiaoqiang on a trip to Europe and Africa for so many days without making a single phone call back, which is a bit unreasonable.

Gu Ran had the phone on speakerphone at the time, and Su Xiaoqiang, who was not far away, heard it and immediately ran over: "Mom, I was having too much fun and forgot to call you. Please don't be angry."

“I’m not angry. I only scolded that brat Gu Ran. Mom knows you’re the best.” Zhang Qiong couldn’t stop smiling when she heard Su Xiaoqiang call her “Mom”.

"Mom, I spent the last two days in Africa petting lions. Gu Ran tamed a group of lions and let me command them. He's amazing!"

Su Xiaoqiang began to speak highly of Gu Ran, recounting all the fun she had done for her, including their car chase in Germany and their shootout at the Nürburgring.

"It's all thanks to my mom for teaching me how to shoot so well in Japan. That day, when I was dealing with a group of gangsters, I hit the bullseye every time and even took down the enemy in front of me in five seconds. I was incredibly accurate." Su Xiaoqiang attributed all the credit to her future mother-in-law.

Gu Ran then took credit: "This is all thanks to me. Some of them were carrying guns, but I subdued them beforehand. I deserve credit for that too."

"Get out of here, kid. What's so great about dealing with a few thugs? Even Xiaoqiang isn't arrogant, so what are you showing off for?" Zhang Qiong said to him again.

At this moment, Zhang Wanjun handed the tablet to Zhang Qiong and showed her the latest breaking news.

The news report stated that a South African flight exploded and disintegrated in the South Pacific, and listed the names of the victims, including the crew, Gu Ran, and Su Xiaoqiang.

The news spread rapidly on Weibo and quickly became a trending topic.

Zhang Qiong looked at the news and understood what her son meant by calling.

She asked, "My children, who wants to bomb the plane you're on?"

“I suspect it’s the Solomon Temple Society, but I have no proof,” Gu Ran told truthfully. “I’m calling to let you know I’m safe and sound, so you don’t worry. Also, please help me cover up the identities of the victims. I don’t want Xiaoqiang and my names and photos to be exposed, so as not to cause concern among our relatives and friends…”

Zhang Qiong understood that her son wanted to use this as a pretext to fake his death.

“Fine, I’ll use my connections to cover for you,” Zhang Qiong paused, then asked in a cold tone, “What’s going on with the Solomon Temple?”

"Mom, don't trouble yourself with such a small matter. I'll get my revenge myself later. By the way, could you please ask around with Nuwa if there's a mixed-race family with the surname Jiang in Kunshan..."

Gu Ran explained some things, and Zhang Qiong listened and wrote them down one by one: "I understand, I will ask Nuwa about it."

"Also, you should talk to Mr. Su and make sure he doesn't worry. Of course, I'll have Xiaoqiang call back later too."

"know."

After hanging up the phone, Su Xiaoqiang also called her parents to let them know she was safe and sound, telling her father that they were alright.

"Dad, Gu Ran and I didn't get on that plane because we knew there would be problems, so we got off early," Su Xiaoqiang lied.

"Where are you two now? Do you have any money on you? Do you have your credit cards?" Mr. Su was a little anxious. He didn't know how to help the two of them, so he could only use the most direct method—transfer money!

"Dad, I have money. Gu Ran has recovered all the money they embezzled from our family. Don't worry, let's play outside for a while longer and then go back."

"Stop playing around, come back quickly." When Mr. Su learned that his daughter and son-in-law had almost died, he regretted sending them away.

Overseas is really dangerous, China is still the best!

"Dad, it's really okay, I have Gu Ran with me!" Su Xiaoqiang winked at her husband, signaling him to say a few words to his father.

Gu Ran immediately said into the phone, "Yes, Dad, it's okay. I'm here. No one can bully Xiaoqiang. Don't worry, we're safe now."

"Alright, alright, you young people can play as much as you want, but you need to know your limits. Being away from home is different from being at home." Knowing he couldn't persuade them otherwise, Mr. Su didn't say anything more and could only remind them to be careful.

"Alright!" Gu Ran said, "When we get back, I'll bring you a big, fat grandson!"

"You brat, I've told you before, you can't get pregnant before you graduate!" Su's father shouted as soon as he heard this. "Xiaoqiang, you can't always give in to him. This is a matter of principle."

"Dad, I know. Gu Ran was just teasing you. He's more sensible than you. You lost so much money and didn't even bother to look for it."

Su Xiaoqiang glared at Gu Ran irritably, then pinched his ear.

When Su's father heard his daughter say that Gu Ran was more sensible than him, he felt uneasy, but the fact that the overseas office had embezzled nearly 100 million yuan of his payment was indeed a dereliction of duty on his part.

The group chatted with Su's mother for a few more minutes. Su's mother was quite open-minded and said that having children was not out of the question.

“I was about this age when I was pregnant with Xiaoqiang,” said Su’s mother. “If you young people like to have fun and don’t like taking care of children, you can leave them to me.”

When Su's father heard this, it seemed like a good idea. Anyway, his company was about to be sold, and he would be free then, so he could help his daughter take care of the children... It seemed quite interesting.

But it's better to wait a year. I can get pregnant during my senior year of college and give birth when I graduate. That would be perfect!

Chapter 582: Children's Nature

Regardless, the fact that a female college student is pregnant while still in school, especially at a prestigious university, will cause a huge uproar if word gets out. It's hard to imagine what people in society will say about her daughter.

He was actually worried that his daughter wouldn't be able to withstand the pressure from public opinion.

In short, after Gu Ran and Su Xiaoqiang reported that they were safe, they hung up the phone.

Gu Ran glanced at the location information on his satellite phone. His satellite phone had built-in GPS, which allowed him to view the latitude and longitude of the current location in real time.

They are currently near the Tropic of Capricorn, roughly in the waters between Madagascar and Australia, in the southern Indian Ocean.

In this situation, he can either fly directly to Australia and land there, or he can fly back to Africa.

However, if they want to fly, they can't use Susanoo to fly continuously, because Susanoo consumes eye power. They must descend and use the Light-Heavy Rock Technique to fly.

He currently has a lot of chakra, almost never running out, enough to travel the world.

"Hey, there's a small island down there!" Su Xiaoqiang exclaimed excitedly as she looked down from high above. "Come to think of it, I've never been to a deserted island before!"

She looked at Gu Ran with expectant eyes.

"Why do you want to go to a deserted island?"

"I heard from Lee Eun-sook that you two had a lot of fun doing wilderness survival together, and I want to do it too!"

"But didn't we experience that in Africa just a couple of days ago?"

"That's the African version, I want to experience the island version!" Su Xiaoqiang shook Gu Ran's hand and pouted. "Let's play, it's not easy to come out here, and we can't fly to the land anytime soon, can we?"

"Okay, okay, go ahead!" Gu Ran pinched her cheek. Anyway, there were still almost two weeks before school started, so they could play for a long time.

"Hehehe, I knew my husband would spoil me the most!"

Su Xiaoqiang, feeling pampered, leaned contentedly on his shoulder.

If your wife says she wants it, you can't say no; that's a matter of principle.

So he controlled Susanoo to descend until it was about two thousand meters in the air, then he deactivated Susanoo and used the Light-Heavy Rock Technique to descend.

At an altitude of 2,000 meters, the air temperature and pressure are very stable, so there will be no altitude sickness.

From high above, the island below looked very small, but as we slowly descended, we realized that it was actually quite large, with an east-west diameter of about five kilometers and a north-south diameter of about three kilometers, a little larger than DYD.

The island has beaches and vegetation. From the air, there is a lake in the center of the island, but it is unclear whether the water in it is fresh or seawater.

Gu Ran led Su Xiaoqiang to float around the island for a while, memorizing all the terrain before landing in the center of the island.

The trees on this small island are not very lush; they are all coconut groves and some low shrubs.

Gu Ran's first task was to confirm whether the water in the lake was fresh. If it wasn't, he would have to think of a solution.

"It really is fresh water, lucky me," Gu Ran said after taking a sip.

"I don't understand why there would be a freshwater lake on an island?" Su Xiaoqiang asked, puzzled.

"Judging from this terrain, this should be a volcanic crater, and this island is a volcanic island, but it should be an extinct volcano. This water should be rainwater that has accumulated over time," Gu Ran explained.

"Won't the rainwater seep into the soil and mix with the seawater, eventually becoming seawater itself?"

"No, rainwater seeps into the sand and gravel layer on the island to form a freshwater layer, while the denser seawater is pressed down below, forming a natural water barrier in the middle. This freshwater layer is thick in the middle and thin at the edges, like a convex lens, so it is also called the freshwater convex lens layer."

After explaining, Gu Ran looked around and found a spot with the trade winds behind him to set up camp.

He carried the camping gear he had used during the off-road assessment, and later brought it along because Su Xiaoqiang wanted to go to South Africa to see lions. He then bought some winter camping gear in Cape Town.

Su Xiaoqiang was indeed full of enthusiasm and volunteered to set up the tent. It was winter or spring in the Southern Hemisphere, and the temperature at the Tropic of Cancer was not cold, just a little chilly, with a hint of warmth from the sea breeze during the day.

However, Gu Ran guessed that the temperature difference between day and night in this place would probably be quite large, so he put a layer of down mat underneath as a warm layer, and then covered it with a blanket at night, which would be enough.

With Gu Ran's help, the tent was quickly set up, and Su Xiaoqiang excitedly pulled Gu Ran along, ready to explore the island.

They only looked around from the sky; they haven't seen what's actually there yet.

Su Xiaoqiang walked briskly ahead, occasionally turning back to ask Gu Ran, "Do you think there might be some prehistoric animals on this island? Like... corpse beetles? Six-winged centipedes?"

"Have you been reading too much 'The Grave Robbers' Chronicles' and 'Ghost Blows Out the Light'?"

Ignoring what Gu Ran said, Su Xiaoqiang happily wandered around.

Most of the animals at sea are birds and sea turtles. Gu Ran was actually worried about snakes, but there were none, and there were no large lizards either.

There are many insects, which birds can come up to eat.

Su Xiaoqiang would occasionally flip over the sea turtles on the island. The sea turtles seemed to have never seen two-legged creatures before, let alone such a mischievous one. He actually flipped more than ten sea turtles over, letting them struggle on their backs.

"Why are all these turtles green? Green-haired turtles are so strange!" Su Xiaoqiang flipped the turtle over again and saw a hermit crab. Just as she was about to run over and grab it, Gu Ran suddenly grabbed her and hugged her.

"What?" Su Xiaoqiang asked in confusion as he suddenly pulled her into his arms.

"Be careful not to step on the turtle eggs." Gu Ran picked her up and moved her to the side.

"Oh, oh, oh, I'm so sorry!" Su Xiaoqiang quickly apologized to the turtles.

This beach is a nesting ground for sea turtles. Sea turtles usually lay their eggs on the beach to avoid most of their marine predators.

If they were short of food, they could eat these turtle eggs to stave off hunger. However, Gu Ran brought enough supplies, so he wouldn't harm their offspring. He would just take three or five to taste.

Sea turtles lay over a hundred eggs at a time, so it doesn't matter if you take three or five to try, since there are nearly a thousand here.

"I want to drink coconut juice," Su Xiaoqiang said, pointing to the young coconuts on the coconut tree.

So Gu Ran gently jumped up and picked one for her, then used a chakra scalpel to cut a hole in the coconut so she could hold it and drink from it.

"Mmm, sweet!" Su Xiaoqiang took two sips and handed it to Gu Ran. "You should try it."

Gu Ran took a sip and glanced at her heaving chest: "It really is sweet, no wonder you've been drinking it since you were a child!"

"You're being indecent again!" Su Xiaoqiang tapped his head.

After the two strolled around, they returned to the camp. It was about 5 p.m. Gu Ran was thinking about whether to go to the beach to catch some seafood when he saw Su Xiaoqiang taking off her clothes by the lake in the crater.

Because there was no one in the wild, she was very bold and quickly took off her outer clothes, and then her underwear, completely exposing her fair and graceful body to the air.

Gu Ran watched with gusto.

Su Xiaoqiang noticed his gaze and deliberately turned around to face him, raising her head and puffing out her chest.

"Are you a child? Why do you have to go down and play in the water every time you see it?" Gu Ran asked, both amused and exasperated.

"I walked around the beach and got all sweaty and sticky." Su Xiaoqiang was indeed sweaty and wanted to take a bath.