The area we were hiding in was completely surrounded by blind spots, which also meant that from the outside, we were in a blind spot as well. The Rock Desert was larger than we had imagined. The maze was the fastest way to get through, followed by the Misty Forest, but no one had ever managed to get through the Rock Desert. While I was unconscious, Ji Lin'an tried to use his jump skill to get ahead and find the exit, but he couldn't reach the end even when the skill cooled down.
The system reclaimed many skills, including protective shields, invisibility shields, clairvoyance, thermal imaging, and keen hearing, as well as some other unimportant skills. Only offensive and evasive skills remained. The cooldown time of all skills was reduced to 20 minutes. Fortunately, my Anywhere Door was not taken away, and the teleportation method no longer required using my phone. Instead, it was changed to teleportation to a designated location. I could teleport to 5 locations consecutively within 15 minutes. Simply put, I could teleport to wherever I pointed within 15 minutes, but there was a distance requirement: each teleportation could not exceed 100 meters. In practical terms, it was no different from teleportation.
Ji Lin'an's treasure chest and weapon space are also unusable. If we encounter danger, we can only rely on skills to attack. Currently, the only player on the field with a gun is also gone.
We rested in the desert for a few days. During this time, Ji Lin'an and Chen Hu took turns going out to look for Xiao Dian, but they never found him. The number of survivors was not decreasing. While we were hiding, they were also hiding. After it became a one-on-one battle, we could not contact anyone by phone, nor could we see anyone's information.
On the seventh day after I woke up, I used the special medicine from the medical skills to treat my wounds every day. My wounds healed quickly, the scabs fell off, but there was still a raised, round hypertrophic scar on the wound, which was extremely ugly, but it was still much better than Chen Hu's scar.
On the eighth day, Ji Lin'an went out to patrol the surrounding area, but he didn't return for a long time. Chen Hu and I became anxious. I stared intently at the number of survivors and kept reassuring myself. After waiting for almost two hours without Ji Lin'an returning, Chen Hu decided to go out and look for him.
Not long after Chen Hu left, Ji Lin'an returned, carrying the injured Xiao Dian, who was wrapped in bandages and still unconscious. I quickly asked, "What happened?"
Ji Lin'an carefully placed Xiao Dian on the soft mat on the ground. I covered Xiao Dian with a blanket, and Ji Lin'an sat down and drank a bottle of water. He slowly said, "I walked from the Misty Forest to Zhu Chen's safe house. I saw signs that the safe house had been occupied, and there were two beds. I suspected it was Zhu Chen and Yuan Rui. I hid in the shadows, waiting for them to return so I could ambush them. But instead, Zhang Funan appeared. I hesitated for a while before I heard some noise nearby. I followed the sound and saw Zhu Chen and Yuan Rui chasing Xiao Dian. I quickly followed them."
Xiao Dian entered the Misty Forest, but after jumping onto a tree, he became still. His skill must have been on cooldown. Xiao Dian didn't have any points, so he couldn't redeem any more uses and could only stay on the tree. There were many blind spots when attacking Xiao Dian from below. Xiao Dian was small and easy to hide. Zhu Chen activated his fire attack and started burning the tree. Seeing that the situation was not good, I wanted to jump onto the tree to save Xiao Dian.
But I was intercepted by Zhang Funan, who suddenly arrived. He used ice spikes to nail my hands to the tree trunk, making me unable to move. But he didn't kill me. Instead, he went to meet up with Zhu Chen and the other man and told them that he had seen me. Zhu Chen and the other man immediately followed Zhang Funan and ran in the opposite direction from me.
The fire on the tree was huge. Xiao Dian wasn't burned at first, but the continuous thick smoke caused him to fall into a coma. I struggled for a long time to break free of the ice spike, but it was too late. Xiao Dian was burned.
After rescuing Xiao Dian, I used the available uses to send him into the medical space. Then I headed towards the exit of the Misty Forest. However, I was ambushed by Zhu Chen and his two companions just before I reached the exit. I initially wanted to run towards the Rock Desert, but I was worried that Zhu Chen and his group would discover our whereabouts, so I turned back. I planned to cross the lake barrier in their safe house to our safe house and then enter the Rock Desert from there.
However, I underestimated their intelligence. Yuan Rui also had the ability to jump, so he led Zhang Funan to chase after me. After passing through the lake barrier and reaching our safe house, we found Zhu Chen blocking our way at the crossroads. I fought with him for a while and escaped into the Rock Desert. Then I found an opportunity to go back towards the entrance of the Rock Desert and lure Zhu Chen out again. After coming out, I hid in the lake on the side without the barrier door and watched Zhu Chen come out of the Rock Desert and enter the maze.
I wanted to take this opportunity to rush back to find you, but Zhang Funan and Yuan Rui were also waiting at the crossroads. Helpless, I could only continue to hide in the lake. Fortunately, there was a height difference between the floating bridge and the shore. When I got up from the lake to breathe, I was blocked by the stone embankment and they didn't notice me.
Zhang Funan suddenly walked towards the pontoon bridge. I happened to be taking a breath when I saw him come over and dived into the water. I surfaced just as I was about to run out of breath and saw Zhang Funan standing on the pontoon bridge looking at the lake, but not in my direction. I quickly took a breath and went back inside. I don't know if he saw me or not. When I surfaced again to take a breath, Zhang Funan and Yuan Rui were nowhere to be seen.
I rushed back immediately, and as soon as Xiao Dian finished his treatment, I brought him back with me..."
After saying that, Ji Lin'an glanced at the unconscious Xiao Dian with a pity in his expression. I comforted him, "It's good that you're back to normal."
Ji Lin'an lowered his head: "He's still a child, and the injury is on his right side. He'll probably have difficulty holding a pen in the future..."
I couldn't help but frown. All I could see was Xiao Dian wrapped up like a mummy, and I had no idea that he had been burned so badly.
A moment later, Chen Hu returned. Seeing Ji Lin'an leaning against the rock with his eyes closed, I gestured for Chen Hu to be quiet and quickly got up, pulling him to sit in a corner. I told him everything about Ji Lin'an and Xiao Dian. Chen Hu looked at the unconscious Xiao Dian with the same sympathy and regret. I couldn't imagine what Xiao Dian would feel when he woke up and saw himself in his current state.
For the next two days, Xiao Dian remained unconscious. After Xiao Dian found Ji Lin'an, he stopped going out to patrol and instead took turns with Chen Hu to guard the rocks not far away to ensure that Zhu Chen and the others did not appear.
On the third day, Xiao Dian finally woke up. Seeing that he was completely wrapped in bandages and unable to move, he panicked and screamed uncontrollably. Ji Lin'an, who was waiting outside, heard the noise and rushed over to Xiao Dian, grabbing his hand: "Little one, little one, calm down. I'm your brother Ji Lin'an, and Sister Su Yi is here too. Calm down and look, we're all here. You can't move for now, it's nothing serious, be good..."
As Ji Lin'an spoke, he stroked Xiao Dian's head. After a while, Xiao Dian stopped screaming and struggling and gradually calmed down...
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