What Feng Bujue found after he returned to the castle surprised even himself. One minute after he knocked on the door, Ivan came to answer it. After Feng Bujue entered the room, he chatted with the general for a while. He tried to borrow something like a torch for light, but the general very generously gave him a dagger and a flashlight and advised him not to waste any more time.
Actually, in this scenario, the players only needed to ask for them, and the boss would give them these two items for free. One was for the convenience of moving through the forest, and the other was for light.
As the player's level increased, these kinds of tools would become easier to obtain. This was because normal quality items like these would lose their value after the player's level increased. They would become more like consumables. When the player reached level twenty, they would have at least one or two excellent quality items. Even if they could not find them in the scenario, they could buy them with the Game Coins and Skill Points gained from leveling up to level twenty. After all, there were many ways to obtain equipment in Thriller Paradise.
After obtaining the flashlight and dagger, Feng Bujue started his escape through the forest.
Based on his prediction, there should not be any beasts in the forest around the castle. Since the animals acted on instinct, they should know that the area around the castle was the territory of the king of the beasts. Of course, I was referring to General Zaroff and not Qin Yuru.
Therefore, Feng Bujue had nothing to worry about when he entered the forest, and he moved quickly. He cut through the thistles and thorns without stopping. He waded through weeds that were more than one meter tall, jumped over muddy pits, and circled around steep stone walls. Other than stepping on a pile of feces that he suspected to be made by a coyote, everything was relatively smooth.
"Warning, General Zaroff has left the castle."
When this system announcement came, Feng Bujue looked at the quest tab. It said, "Time until sunrise: 240 minutes."
It was around this time that Feng Bujue really entered the stomach of a beast called the 'forest'.
He did not know when, but there were several leeches on the back of his neck. When his Life Points started to drop, Feng Bujue noticed their presence. He lost a little more blood as he scraped the blood-sucking mollusks off the back of his neck with his knife. Fortunately, the game manual mentioned that in such situations, the parasites would not burrow into the clothes and would only attack the exposed skin. Otherwise, Feng Bujue would definitely strip her naked and check her thoroughly before he could be at ease.
At this moment, he finally realized the price he had to pay for moving so quickly. The effects of the humid tropical climate were starting to show. His Stamina Points were dropping at an alarming rate. The effect of [Jazz Dance] was obviously limited in the rugged terrain of the forest, and the clothes he was wearing made him feel stuffy and uncomfortable. However, the lesson from the leeches made him not even dare to roll up his sleeves.
After another half an hour, the forest in the dark had already revealed its ferocious appearance. The shadows of the trees were like a curtain. When the surrounding trees became denser and denser, Feng Bujue had no choice but to climb to the top of a tree to look at the sky. Otherwise, he would gradually get lost.
The deeper he ventured into the forest, the more obvious the difficulty of the environment became. Some areas had three to five layers of vegetation. From top to bottom, it was like a tent. Even the moonlight lost its effect. The flashlight became Feng Bujue's only hope.
When I first saw Man vs. Wild, I thought they were just putting on a show, but now that I'm in the forest, I'm as helpless as a child. It's true that it's not tiring to judge a person's work. The difficulty of traversing the forest is not something that can be conveyed through the camera. Feng Bujue lamented internally. He could not help but be reminded of a rerun of a classic video from the Discovery Channel that he had seen before. The host of the show had given him the feeling that 'surviving in the wilderness is not that difficult after all.' However, he understood now that the act of traversing a long distance with a small knife in the middle of nowhere was not something a normal person would do.
Suddenly, from the darkness to Feng Bujue's right, there were two animal cries. They sounded like heavy panting, mixed with the sound of wee, wee, wee. It sounded like a wild boar.
Feng Bujue's first reaction was to climb up a tree. He did not want to compete with a four-legged creature in the dark.
The cries were approaching, accompanied by the sound of the wild boar's stomping on the ground and its body rubbing against the trees.
Feng Bujue quickly climbed up the tree and aimed the flashlight's beam in the direction of the sound.
'That's not right … There seems to be another sound …' Feng Bujue vaguely heard the sound of another animal. He quickly understood why a wild boar would run amok in the middle of the night.
Ten seconds later, the wild boar appeared in Feng Bujue's sight. Its four limbs were thick and short, and its body was muscular. Its body was covered with a thin black mane. When it charged forward, it was like a small black tank. At this moment, the mane around the wild boar's neck was standing up, and it was constantly barking. These signs indicated that it was quite agitated. It seemed that it had encountered a very powerful predator.
As soon as the wild boar appeared, the hunter that was chasing after it appeared. It was a giant python. Although it was not as exaggerated as the behemoth at the northwest corner of the island, this one was not small.
In fact, most people would find it difficult to imagine how big a python could swallow its prey. Let's put it this way. A five-meter-long python could swallow a two-meter-long crocodile, and an eight-meter-long python could swallow an entire zebra.
The one in front of Feng Bujue was eight meters long …
Perhaps the wild boar was panicking, or perhaps the system wanted the player to witness what was going to happen next … In short, within the range of the flashlight, a very classic scene played out — the boar crashed into a tree.
However, the snake did not crash into the boar. It zigzagged forward, spreading its body horizontally to form a semicircle, trapping the wild boar next to the tree trunk. The tree was very thick. It was estimated that two adults would not be able to wrap their arms around it. At this moment, it had become a wall that prevented the wild boar from escaping.
The giant python arched its body and looked up, looking down at its prey. The wild boar probably knew that it could not escape, so it launched its final counterattack. It aimed its upturned tusks at the snake's body, exerted force under its hooves, and rushed forward.
Before it hit the snake's body, the snake's head fell down at high speed, biting the wild boar. It swung it in half a circle in the air, then fell heavily to the ground. Immediately after, it loosened its mouth and bit the boar again. The speed was too fast for the eyes to take in. It was as if someone had used two fingers to reach into a pot of hot oil and pick up a piece of soap.
When the wild boar officially entered its mouth, the giant python immediately began to "eat." When this kind of animal ate, there was only one word to describe it: "swallow." This process depended on the size of the prey, and sometimes it would take several hours.
Feng Bujue had tried to block some of the flashlight's light to avoid disturbing the other party's meal. He then tiptoed down the tree. He did not have time to wait for the giant python to slowly stuff the wild boar into its mouth. He could only pray that the other party would focus on eating and ignore him.
After successfully getting down the tree, he did not immediately run southeast. Instead, he chose to leave this place and put some distance between him and the monster.
Unexpectedly, at this moment, Feng Bujue heard the sound of another animal, an even more deadly threat.
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