Chapter 89 The Hunter’s Island 5

Chapter 89 The Hunter’s Island 5

Feng Bujue had returned to the castle and harvested something unexpected. One minute after he had knocked on the door, Ivan came. Feng Bujue and the General chatted for a while as he tried to ask for something like torches. Turned out the other was so generous to give him a dagger and a flashlight, also advising him not to waste time running away...

In fact, in this scenario, if players asked, the BOSS would give them these two items for free. One item was to facilitate their journey in the jungle, and the other was used for lighting.

It was easier for players to get these sorts of items as their levels were getting higher and higher. Anyway, to high-level players, these normal quality items were really valuable for them, and they would gradually become like consumable goods. At level 20, players would have at least one or two items ranked Perfect. Even if they couldn’t find one in the scenarios, they could buy some with their game coins and Skill Value they had accumulated up to level 20. Nevertheless, there were various ways to find items in Thriller Paradise.

After acquiring the dagger and the flashlight, Feng Bujue started his escape journey in the jungle.

In his assumption, the area surrounding the castle wouldn’t have any wild animals. As they were all animals, which counted on their instincts to survive, they got it clear that the area around the castle was the King of Animals’ Territory. Of course, here I refer to General Zaroff, not our schoolmate Qin Ze. (1)

Thus, after Feng Bujue had entered the jungle, he traveled in a rush. He quickly moved forward without stopping to rest, wading across a one-meter tall moor of weeds, jumping over the muddy pits, and bypassing the stone cliff. Besides stepping on a large lump suspected to be the wild wolves’ feces, everything was smooth enough.

"Attention please, Zaroff has departed from the Castle."

When the notification sounded, Feng Bujue checked his Quest Menu as it displayed [240 minutes to sunrise].

It was also the time when Feng Bujue had considered to officially enter the stomach of a wild beast named ‘Jungle’.

It was unknown when some leeches had been clinging on his nape. Feng Bujue only knew about their existence when he found his Survival Value was decreasing. He shed some blood using the dagger to remove those vampiric mollusks from his neck. Fortunately, the game’s description also mentioned that under the same circumstances, parasites wouldn’t enter their clothing as they would just attack players’ exposed skin areas. If not, Feng Bujue would absolutely take off his clothes to check his body thoroughly once.

And, the one in front of Feng Bujue was an eight-meter one...

Perhaps the wild boar was running disorderly in panic, or perhaps the system intended to let players see what was going to happen... in short, when the flashlight shone to a certain area, a classic scene was being performed—a wild boar hitting the tree trunk.

However, the serpent didn’t hit the boar as it was slithering forward. Instead, it crossed its enormous body to make a half circle to trap the boar between its body and the tree trunk, which was really big that two adults couldn’t encircle it. At this moment, the tree trunk had blocked the boar’s escape.

The python lifted its head and scrutinized its prey. The wild boar seemed to understand that it couldn’t escape, so it then launched the last counterattack by flexing its limbs and storming forward in an attempt to bite the serpent with its long fang.

The boar hadn’t touched the python’s body, yet the python’s head had dropped right away in high speed, biting the wild boar with just one strike. Right after that, the python released the prey and bit it again instantaneously. The serpent’s speed was so fast that people couldn’t see it clearly, just like someone was using two fingers to grab a bar of soap from a pot of boiling oil.

The wild boar finally got into the python’s mouth, and the latter immediately started to enjoy its ‘dinner’. The ‘swallowing process’ depends on the sizes of the preys. Sometimes, it needs several hours.

Feng Bujue had already obstructed the light from his flashlight as he didn’t want to bother the python enjoying its dinner. Then, he tiptoed quietly as he crawled down the tree. He didn’t have the time to wait for the python to swallow the boar completely; he just prayed that the other was focusing only on its meal and ignored him.

After he had successfully got off the tree, he didn’t aim for the southeast direction; he just ran madly as he decided to leave this place and lengthen the distance between him and this monster.

Unexpectedly, right at this moment, Feng Bujue heard other sounds from another kind of animal, which was an even deadlier threat!

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(1) Qin Ze: Is the Chinese translation name of Serizawa Tamao aka King of Beasts was the leader of the "Serizawa Army" and formerly the strongest senior student at Suzuran All Boys High. He is from the manga Crows by Hiroshi Takahashi.

(2) Man vs. Wild: Man vs. Wild, also called Born Survivor: Bear Grylls, Ultimate Survival, Survival Game, Real Survival Hero or colloquially as simply Bear Grylls in the United Kingdom, is a survival television series hosted by Bear Grylls on the Discovery Channel.