"Well, you've got quite the comprehensive gear, but if that's the case, as long as there's water, I believe we should be able to carry on."

Speaking, he looked up and felt the weather becoming a bit hot. Ye Chen realized the sun was hanging high above his head.

Fortunately, where they were was a shaded area, so the sunlight hadn't fully penetrated, but you could still feel the heat pouring down.

Ye Chen stood up and pulled a telescope out of his backpack, glancing ahead.

Now that there were no trees blocking the view, they could see some things.

Before, due to the dense trees, even with the telescope, they couldn't see anything; all they saw were large trees.

"Hey, I see it, ahead it seems to be a patch of yellow land, and it's all yellow. Look, you can't see any trees ahead."

As he spoke, Ye Chen turned back and handed the telescope to Anying.

Anying took it and looked over carefully, indeed seeing the same scene.

But since there was still some distance in between, and a few sparse trees were partially obstructing the view, it wasn't very clear.

"Looks like it's truly yellow land, but if that's the case, it seems there won't be much danger ahead, and our journey is fairly smooth."

"No, we've only reached halfway across this island, right?"

"The exact position, I'm not quite sure. While we have the time, let me use the GPS and positioning equipment to determine approximately how far we are from the shore."

As he said this, he opened his backpack and took out all the equipment inside.

Anying had placed a locator and some signal analyzers on the boat before they set out.

This means they could compare the location from the boat and their current positioning to roughly determine their position and distance.

When she turned on the machine, she suddenly noticed a blue marker flash, indicating the signal was connected.

Then, Anying began to pinpoint their location. After about a minute, a red dot appeared, but she sensed the distance between them wasn't too far.

Using the equipment, Anying measured roughly and found they had only traveled about 10 kilometers from their entry point.

"That's not right; they've been walking for about three hours, and given a human's normal pace, it shouldn't be such a short distance."

"Could it be that there's a deviation in our positioning, or is there some magnetic device on this island causing this discrepancy?"

Anying was mumbling quietly, but Ye Chen, sitting nearby, heard and quickly came over, looking down at the screen displaying two red lights blinking.

Ye Chen wasn't sure what these two lights represented.

"What does this mean, the lights?"

"Do you see the blue dot? That's the shoreline position, meaning it's at the boat where we just disembarked. The red dot shows where we are now. I measured on the map and deduced the distance between the two points should be 10 kilometers."

"What? 10 kilometers? We've walked for nearly three hours already. Even if slowly, I estimate it would be about 20 kilometers. Why is it only showing 10 kilometers?"

"I don't know either. Could it really be a GPS system deviation?"

"Hmm, what's this?"

Just then, Ye Chen noticed something black on the machine, unclear about what it represented.

"Oh, it's likely a small hill or rock formation detectable here. Look."

He spoke while looking up toward the source of the anomaly. Noticing something, he quickly lowered his head to verify the map's points and looked again.

Ye Chen seemed to have seen the issue and immediately grabbed the telescope to look ahead. Sure enough, he spotted a small hill.

Though the hill was tiny and likely just a collection of stones built over the years, it was clearly visible.

"Ha, I think we got it wrong. The machine doesn't lie; on the map, there's a small hill to our left front, and I can see it with the telescope, which means there's no deviation in our GPS system."

"Then why haven't we reached this location despite the long walk?"

"Perhaps we took some detours. Walking around doesn't always mean covering the straight-line distance, so we've only cleared about 1/5 of the island."

"Man, 1/5 consumed so much time. If we continue, crossing through tonight seems impossible."

"It's okay, we prepared for this before coming. I think we should find a resting spot soon for the night."