When Zhang Heng opened his eyes again, he found himself lying on an unfamiliar beach.
The waves washed over his body, and a hermit crab with a conch shell on its back slipped past his eyes.
Zhang Heng was in a terrible state. Ever since he woke up, he had been thirsty, hungry, and exhausted. It felt like he had been floating at sea for a few days.
He found a dry spot and sat down with his back against the rock wall.
He looked in the direction he had been washed from, and there was only endless seawater.
What was this, a survival reality show set?
Perhaps it was the aftereffect of the lemonade, or maybe it was because he had not eaten for a long time, but Zhang Heng's brain was groggy. He forced himself to calm down and began to think about everything that had happened to him.
He had followed the request of the weird guy in the Tang suit and became his agent. He had come to a bar called Sex and the City to participate in a mysterious game, and when he finally found the man, he was drugged and thrown on a deserted island.
So the question was, why did the man do this, and what good would it do them?
Also, that mysterious voice that seemed to have appeared in his mind earlier, was it an illusion? If it was not, what was the point?
His body was still the same, but the sportswear on his body was gone. He had changed into a pair of beach shorts and a flowery T-shirt. The Swiss Army knife that was stuffed in his trouser pocket was naturally gone as well.
The watch on his right hand, however, was still there. It was the only thing that was not lost.
When Zhang Heng's eyes fell on the watch, he was stunned.
The date on the watch had not changed, still on Thursday, the night he entered Sex and the City, and only one minute had passed since he passed out.
Zhang Heng stared at it for a while and found that the second hand had not moved.
Was it broken?
Zhang Heng was a little surprised. He had done a lot of experiments before, and the watch could not be adjusted. The time on it was always accurate, and only he could see the extra 12 ticks. Whether it was soaked in water or burned by fire, it could not be damaged. It was so sturdy that it did not seem like something from this world.
Zhang Heng had once tried to throw it from a 200-meter-tall building to the concrete ground below. The result was that a small pit was formed on the hard concrete ground, but the watch was still intact.
He once thought that even if he were to die, he would still be able to walk until the end of the world. He never thought that there would come a day when it would lose its power …
However, Zhang Heng's heart skipped a beat. He remembered the mysterious voice that appeared in his mind not long ago. It mentioned that the time flow rate was 480.
Zhang Heng's eyelids twitched. Did it really mean what it said?
If someone else wanted to verify this, they would have to wait until 40 days later. But for Zhang Heng, he had other ways.
He reached out and pressed his pulse. Twenty minutes later, he finally confirmed something terrifying.
The starfish in his hand was not broken.
The hand was still moving according to the time in the real world, but after conversion, one second became eight minutes.
So … was this really just a game?
Zhang Heng was a little confused. The scenery in front of him was so real. The golden beach, the coconut trees swaying in the wind, the t-shirt that stuck to his body after it was wet, the uneven rocks that made his back hurt. Hunger and weakness enveloped him, and he could clearly feel his life slipping away.
No matter what, the most important thing now was to find a way to recover some physical strength.
Now, even thinking had begun to take a toll on Zhang Heng.
He knew that he had to eat and rehydrate. However, although Zhang Heng's mental fortitude was better than ordinary people, he was still just an ordinary college student. As a modern person, he had no clue how to live on a deserted island. He couldn't tell whether a plant was edible or not. He didn't know how to hunt, find water, build a shelter …
Fortunately, he knew what coconut trees were.
At this moment, there were quite a few coconut trees less than twenty meters away from his left. There were some green coconuts growing on them. The coconut juice inside could moisturize his already dry lips and throat, and the pulp could provide him with much-needed energy and vitamins.
Zhang Heng picked up a palm-sized stone from his feet and found a coconut tree that might have been blown askew by the typhoon.
He used the stone in his hand to smash the coconuts on top of it.
There were a total of seven coconuts, about three to four meters from the ground.
This kind of thing, of course, would not be difficult to do under normal circumstances. However, considering Zhang Heng's current physical condition, it took him a lot of effort to get those coconuts down from the tree.
By the time he smashed the green coconuts on the rocks one by one and drank the coconut juice inside, half an hour had passed. Then, Zhang Heng used the stone to scrape some coconut flesh off and swallowed it. After doing all this, his strength finally recovered a little, and he could continue to think about his current situation.
Zhang Heng could no longer tell whether he was in the game or reality.
If all this was fake, then there was no way to explain why his current senses and physical state were so real. There was also no way to explain the strange flow of time on his watch. But if he was still in the real world … Then how did the other party throw him from the city where he studied and lived to this deserted island in the blink of an eye?
Zhang Heng shook his head and decided to use the old method, putting the unsolvable problem aside for now.
Anyway, according to the old man in the Tang suit, whether this was a game or reality, he had to find a way to survive.
But as an ordinary modern person living in the city, could he really conquer this mysterious and unpredictable nature?
Zhang Heng smiled bitterly. He had always been a very optimistic person, but in the face of the current situation, he did not think that he could survive on this completely unfamiliar island for 40 days.
In fact, even four days would be a bit too much for him.
He lacked the knowledge and skills to survive in the wild, and his physical condition was terrible. Not to mention, he was alone. Now, Zhang Heng really wished that he was in a game. Logically speaking, an excellent game should not have any fatal situations, especially when it was just the beginning of the game.
As if responding to his expectations, the next moment, the next moment, three small black dots appeared in the distant waves.
Zhang Heng dropped the coconut shell in his hand and stood up. Under the scorching sun above his head, he ran as fast as he could to the beach. Finally, he saw the three black dots clearly. They turned out to be three people floating in the waves.
All three of them, without exception, were male foreigners.
One of them was wearing a full jacket and hiking boots, and there seemed to be a dagger hanging from his waist. But because the wind and waves were too strong, Zhang Heng could not be sure. His expression was the calmest of the three. In addition, there was a young man wearing only shorts, his face expressionless, and a naked, bald uncle.
All three of them were in a very dangerous situation. Although they tried to get closer to the island, for some unknown reason, it seemed that they could only maintain a state of floating, constantly being swept away by the waves.
Zhang Heng knew that he had to make a choice. Although he had recovered some of his strength with the coconut, it was obviously unrealistic to save all three of them in one go. With his current strength, he could only try to rescue one of them.
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