Chen Xi ate more and more, feeling sorry for himself.
As a dignified dragon, he had to eat cautiously, not only eating crabs like ordinary humans, cracking them open, but also having to justify the source of every morsel of food.
Chen Xi sighed as he thought.
Yan Hua slowly cracked open the crab legs, one by one, then meticulously picked out all the crab meat.
He painstakingly picked the crab meat into a small bowl, placed it in front of him, and invited everyone else to share.
Qi Yu unceremoniously grabbed a small piece.
Seeing this, the others quickly followed suit.
Chen Xi turned his head and found that the plate of crab meat was gone. He puffed out his cheeks, feeling dejected, only to look down and discover a small plate by his leg, which Yan Hua had specially prepared and saved for him.
Chen Xi then became excited like a child, picked up his portion, and decided to eat it slowly, making everyone else envious.
Director Wang and Director Li had been watching from the side for a while, and suddenly asked Qi Yu, "Is Yan Hua the oldest among you?"
Qi Yu, a little curious, didn't answer directly but instead asked, "What does age have to do with it? Why are you asking? Are you worried about the show's issues?"
Director Wang immediately shook his head and explained, "Not at all. I was just curious. Because I noticed you all seem to respect him a lot, and there's a sense of vying for his favor around him."
Director Li nodded, having the same feeling. This group of young girls and boys seemed to care a great deal about Yan Hua.
Even Chen Xi, who had a very mischievous personality, was unusually obedient to him.
Yan Hua quietly drank his tea, remaining silent. It was inconvenient for him to tell these two mere humans that he had lived for a very, very long time. So, strictly speaking, even if heaven's will and laws were present, in terms of age, none could compare to him.
Qi Yu looked at Director Wang and nodded, "Yan Hua is like our older brother. He grew up with us but is two years older than all of us."
Directors Wang and Li heard this and let out an "oh," their faces showing an expression of "just as expected."
Yan Hua glanced at the sky and said while prodding the campfire with a stick, "It's already 2 AM. We should go to sleep. If we wait any longer, the sky will start to brighten."
He stated the time directly, without even looking at his phone. Directors Wang and Li carefully checked their phones, and indeed, they showed exactly 2 AM.
Director Li was somewhat shocked, "How did you know it was 2 AM?"
He hadn't looked at his phone or watch just now. He had simply looked up at the sky and could tell the time.
Director Wang looked up.
The sky was dotted with stars, and the night was quite beautiful. But to be able to tell the time from it, he thought it was a real skill.
Chen Xi looked up with some confusion, "According to your time, it should be 2:15 AM? It hasn't been that long, so isn't it easy to tell?"
Qi Yu, standing beside them, felt like laughing.
They had cultivation and were connected to heaven and earth. Even though this was another world, calculating the time was not difficult, especially after understanding this world's timekeeping system.
So, Chen Xi and Yan Hua's matter-of-fact demeanor was clearly them teasing.
However, Directors Wang and Li didn't feel teased at all. They were merely excited.
It was rare to see someone who could deduce the time from the sky.
At least, this was the first time they had encountered such a case among people they knew.
Director Wang immediately lost his sleepiness and leaned closer to Yan Hua, asking curiously, "How did you learn to tell time? Are there any tricks? Hey, can you teach me? I've always thought it was cool how ancient people could tell time by looking at the sky. Never mind cool, at least it's convenient to know the time without a phone..."
Director Li wanted to say, "You're not doing it for convenience, but for coolness, right?"
After all, if you were out with a girl and could tell the time by looking at the sky, it would surely attract her attention.
Therefore, Director Wang also crowded around, and the two of them stared at Yan Hua, pleading with him to teach them.
Yan Hua showed a look of difficulty, which was quite rare.
It wasn't that he was unwilling to teach Directors Wang and Li.
It was just that after living for so long, this was the first time he had ever tried to teach someone how to tell time by looking at the sky. For them, it was something only very younglings needed to learn.
Seeing his troubled expression, Directors Wang and Li couldn't help but sigh.
Director Wang tentatively asked, "Is this a secret family technique that cannot be easily taught to outsiders?"
Some scions of noble families were indeed very particular about such rules.
Yan Hua raised his eyebrows and was stunned for a moment. Only then did he realize that Directors Wang and Li had misunderstood his attitude, so he quickly waved his hand, "That's not it. If you want to learn, I can teach you anytime. I was just surprised because it's the first time anyone has asked me to learn this. Directors, you have phones and watches, so you don't need to tell time by looking at the sun like I do. I'm just not used to electronic devices."
Before Directors Wang and Li could explain, Chen Xi propped his chin on his hand and said, "While that's true, the wilderness survival variety show a week from now apparently doesn't allow electronic devices, right? If that's the case, then knowing how to tell time by looking at the sky becomes very important."
Yan Hua heard him and thought about it carefully, finding it quite reasonable.
So, he pulled Directors Wang and Li aside, pointed to the moonlight on the sea, and began to explain some sayings and rhymes about observing the changes of the sun.
Directors Wang and Li listened, utterly confused. After half an hour, they hadn't understood anything and were starting to feel drowsy.
Yan Hua knew they wouldn't be able to comprehend it, so he stopped explaining. When the two of them were on the verge of falling asleep, he cast a spell and threw them into their respective tents.
He then used his magic to zip them up.
"Alright, these two directors are asleep. I used magic to make them sleep longer. Let's go back to the seabed and catch some more seafood," Yan Hua stood up and suggested.
Actually, it wasn't surprising.
He was probably the largest in size among them.
With such a massive body, eating just one or two crabs wouldn't even be enough to get stuck in his teeth.
Since Yan Hua had transmigrated, he probably hadn't eaten his fill.
Although he had magic, he occasionally wanted to eat something.
Now that he had the rare opportunity to come to a deserted island, he definitely had to eat to his heart's content.