It was late at night, and the moon and stars were few.
A bear emerged from the sparse woods, pacing restlessly back and forth outside the enclosure, occasionally tossing a small pebble to make its presence known.
As dawn approached, another golden eagle flew overhead, circling in the air. Its enormous, elusive black shadow had a strong presence. After hovering in the air for a while, it began to swoop down towards the ground.
Shekh sat by the car window, quietly watching the battle between the two colossal beasts, an eagle and a bear, in this world.
The ecosystem was completely in chaos, and the two sides fought back and forth, their fierce cries and roars mixed with splattered blood, their reckless behavior was awe-inspiring.
The golden eagle's superior talons pierced through the bear's hide, tearing flesh. The bear was dragged for dozens of meters before the eagle, with the help of its bulging muscles, managed to break off its wing with a single blow.
Amidst flying dust and covered in scratches, the bear that had one eye pecked out emerged victorious.
Shekh stared directly at the bear standing outside the enclosure through the glass. The bloodthirsty creature possessed an unusual ferocity, and it seemed somewhat unwilling to leave.
"We came all for you."
She suspected that Shi Jinzhe was some kind of jinx, just like in those TV dramas.
Shekh scared the injured bear away and lay back down.
Shi Jin bent one leg and put his arm over it, using it as a human support for her.
Shekh looked up: "Judging from their reactions, you must have improved quite a bit. Can you sense any difference in your body?"
Shi Jinzhe: "No, as you can see, I usually use some flowers and plants to practice how to develop skills, which has improved my physical condition a bit. Other than that, nothing else has changed, not even my self-healing speed has increased."
"That's a bit strange. You've managed to seduce animals outside into fighting for you. You should have a very obvious reaction of becoming stronger."
“Let me correct you, what you said was attraction.” Shi Jinzhe lowered his head, his breath mingling with hers: “This is seduction.”
“It makes no difference to me.” Shekh blocked his face. “It’s time to get up and get down to business.”
"Why is it that only officials are allowed to set fires, while ordinary people are forbidden to light lamps?"
"I just did what you always told me not to continue."
Sheh pushed him away. For her now, a kiss was like drinking poison to quench her thirst. It could relieve her thirst at first, but now it was hard to satisfy her physical desires.
She enjoys doing this with Shi Jinzhe, but during this special period, constantly demanding more might make her do something impulsive and irrational.
"I need to get up, hurry up."
Shi Jinzhe stared at his empty arms. He had been told to continue last night, but how could he have been chilled by the cold wind overnight?
Is this some kind of belated punishment...?
Seeing that he didn't move, Shekh urged, "Get up, or should I go get the car?"
"...I'll get up now."
She got out of bed, went to the bathroom to get clean clothes and changed, and immediately went to drive after she finished getting ready.
The two set off at 6:30 a.m.
Shekh sat in the passenger seat. “Finally, we have a car to ride in. Drive faster today, we’ll travel a bit more, and then we can rest for half a day in a couple of days. I want to sleep in.”
"Yes, but the sandstone road might be a bit bumpy if you drive fast. I won't close the carriage. If you're sleepy or tired, go back and rest. You'll feel more comfortable lying in bed."
"knew."
Not long after agreeing to that, Shekh, feeling a bit hot, fell asleep in the passenger seat.
The flat road gradually rises, and rainbow mountains with a red base appear on both sides of the road, with colorful lines adding a different touch to the monotonous journey.
I drove through it all morning, turning left and right.
Along the way, eagles and lizards appeared and followed his car for a while. When Shekh noticed them, he opened the window, put his hand outside, and then went back to sleep.
By afternoon, the area was completely surrounded by colorful hills, with only a few scorpions among the animals. They had their tails curled up and could pierce people with physical attacks without needing a stinger.
Shi Jinzhe parked his car in a shady spot around 3 a.m. and rested. Shehe slowly woke up and saw him putting his hand on his face.
Shi Jinzhe took out a glass of iced sweet water: "I thought you wouldn't wake up."
“Sleeping saves energy.” Shekh took a sip of water. “How far have we gone?”
Shi Jinzhe: "Exactly two thousand. The weather is great today. I plan to walk until nine o'clock tonight and then park. The roads in the second phase on the map are not difficult to walk. Let's hurry up and walk as much as possible."
"Ten hours, isn't driving for that long too long? Aren't you tired?"
"I'm in a hurry." Shi Jin folded his arm and rested it on the steering wheel, swallowing a bite of bread. "Thanks to my skills, I can alleviate the fatigue to some extent. It's not as tiring as I imagined."
"If you're not going to force yourself, then go." Shekh put on a piece of clothing to cover his face; it was too sunny, and the air was so dry that he had lost his appetite.
"Go inside and get some sleep. Eat something when you wake up." Shi Jinzhe ate a few bites and then started the car again.
Shekh ignored his suggestion, touched the folded palm of his hand to continue, pulled his feet up, leaned back, and covered his head to continue sleeping.
Shi Jinzhe brought her a pillow to place on the bed, folded up the carriage, and set off.
By 9 p.m., the hills, which had been shimmering during the day, were just black outlines.
Referring to the map, Shi Jinzhe drove through two forks in the road, and then found a spot to park near the third fork.
Just after the engine was turned off, the sound of tires crushing stones came from the other direction at the third intersection.
"There's someone here?"
Shekh opened his eyes and lay still. "They're players. They took a different path from us. They've got some skills to get this far."
The headlights flashed, and an SUV approached.
Shi Jinzhe saw two men and a woman sitting inside: "Strangers, not the ones who were with us before. The car is very dirty, like it was just dug out of the sand, it's covered in mud."
The three people got off the bus, dressed in a disheveled state; their clothes were so worn that they could hold their shape even without them.
The two men had long stubble on their faces, while the woman had tangled hair.
The three men had chapped lips with peeling skin, clearly indicating they hadn't had water in a long time.
They got out of the car and saw another one parked there. Their eyes lit up instantly. Without hiding, they took out a hammer and a gun and strode over.
The disheveled woman threw a prop, and the oxygen inside the car began to be rapidly compressed, causing a dizzying sensation similar to suffocation.
As she got closer, she raised her hammer and struck the car window.
The glass she had chosen was close to Shekh, and before her raised hand could even touch it, it was tightly gripped by another hand.
Sheh was very pleased with Shi Jinzhe's initiative in helping her lower the car window. "She was talking about props yesterday, and now she has them."
“That means you meant well.” Shi Jinzhe looked out of the lowered car window and asked the two men, “Tell me the route you took to get here.”
"...Why should I tell you? I have nothing to say."
"If she doesn't tell, she'll have no choice but to die."
Shekh sat up, grabbed the woman by the neck and lifted her up, his open jaws resembling a steel fork used to stab clothes.
The woman, her chin gripped and lifted off the ground, was powerless to resist.
"It's fine if you don't want to tell me. You've come at the right time. I was just worried about not having any props."
She pressed hard with her fingers, and the cracking sound of her dislocated cervical vertebrae was chilling to hear.
Upon seeing this, the man behind him conjured up a capsule about the length of a finger out of thin air.
Shi Jin threw a flying knife, and the man who was holding the capsule as if to twist it open was immediately severed from his tendons.
Seeing that things were going badly, the other one turned around and ran to the car behind, throwing bombs as he ran.
The loud explosions sent sand and gravel flying at people, and the smoke and dust blinded them. The man hiding in the dust kicked the car door, then pulled out a Barrett rifle, aimed it at the car outside, and pulled the trigger.
"Drive!"
A weak voice came from inside the car. A young man with round-framed glasses timidly raised his head from the back seat: "Aren't we... waiting for the others?"
"Wait for what! It's that woman who can turn into a snake tail, run!"
When he was grabbing the fuel packs, the woman swept her tail across him, and he lost every single fuel pack he had in his hand.
Although the tail didn't touch him, the wind it swept over was strong enough to blow someone away.
Seeing no movement outside, the man didn't linger and quickly got into the driver's seat.
The sound of gears turning filled the air as he started the car, cursing, "Damn it, those two's props were cheap... uh!"
A dagger emerged from the back seat and swiftly slit the man's throat.
The guy with round-framed glasses, who had been lying in the back seat, put away his timid and cowardly demeanor and picked up the man's props before the dust and grime settled, then got into the driver's seat.
He threw away the glasses he was using to cover his eyes: "Those three idiots, how could someone who's walking so far ahead be a simple person? They just went up and grabbed it, they really don't know their own limitations."
He stepped on the gas and drove off, but the man with the round glasses turned his car around and drove back the way he came, prioritizing avoiding the collision.
He threw two corn bombs in the opposite direction as a cover, stabilizing the swerving car, his round-framed glasses flying out of the dust cloud from the explosion.
Before he could even feel happy, his eyes suddenly widened.
Shekh stood in the middle of the road, holding a chain in his hand. He recognized it; it was a prop belonging to the woman in the trio.
The person with the round-framed glasses was shocked. How did she survive all those bombs and bullets?!
"No... I can't panic." He calmed himself down. If the road ahead was blocked, then he would try the back.
What started as a dilapidated ordinary off-road vehicle was transformed into a rugged and tough special off-road vehicle under his skillful maneuvering, as he quickly reversed backward with his round-framed glasses on.
He pulled out a gun, and with one hand on the steering wheel, he fired repeatedly at the rear.
Before the game officially started, he remembered that the woman did not come alone; she had an accomplice, a man.
If this person is still here, then if he's not in front, he must be behind!
The man with the round-framed glasses turned his head back from the driver's seat. As the dust settled behind him, a blurry figure appeared.
He tossed the gun aside and took out the new item he had just acquired: the Biochemical Capsule.
Once a single pellet is used, all life within a 50-meter diameter radius, except for the target, will be corroded and turned into blood within five minutes.
He rolled down the car window and threw the biochemical capsule out.
Splash—
The windshield suddenly shattered, and flying shards cut my round-framed glasses, leaving my face covered in blood.
The slashing snake tail dented and deformed the SUV, a chain flew over and bound him, and his round-framed glasses were pulled out through the broken front window.
Shekh led him into the pungent, yellowish-green fumes. "What did you lose?"
"A small bomb."
Seeing where she was headed, the man with the round-framed glasses didn't bother to throw away the bomb he had been holding in his hand, intending to take her down with him.
The target won't be corrupted, so the man is probably almost gone. Once this woman goes in too, he'll have a chance to live again.
“A little bomb?” Shekh chuckled, swinging the chains. “I hate being lied to.”
The confiscated chain wrapped around the neck of the man with round glasses, the gaps between the rings squeezing together, causing pain to the skin on his neck.
As they drew closer to the biochemical smoke, the man with the round-framed glasses pretended to be weak and cowardly, trying to lower Shekh's guard.
Stepping into the acrid, yellowish-green smoke, Shekh conjured a dark blue corrosive liquid in one hand and absorbed the biochemical smoke under the incredulous gaze of the man in the round-framed glasses.
The drugs seemed to have found their owner, drifting and swirling into her hands, clinging to her tenderly.
Shekh continued to drag the person inside, and after walking about ten meters, the man with the round-framed glasses was shocked for the second time.
He had imagined that the person inside might have their skin melt away, leaving only flesh and bones, or collapse and wail in agony. He never expected that this man would be cutting flowers inside.
Shi Jinzhe stood in the flower field that was constantly withering and blooming, picking out the fullest flowers and cutting them down. She had already collected about ten flowers in her hand.
At his feet lay a mangled corpse, the very man who had initially produced the bio-capsule.
The man with the round-framed glasses stammered, "Why...how could this be?!"
"Why not?" Shi Jinzhe didn't even look up, and only leisurely walked out of the flower bushes after cutting the nineteenth flower.
This is all thanks to the man on the ground who turned it into fertilizer; he revealed his powerful weapon early on, allowing the man to take precautions.
If you can restore Shekh's status and dispel negative effects in the bomb instance, then you can dispel them for yourself.
This is the second use of life, besides life balance, to restore life to its state before it was damaged—life repair.
It's similar to treatment, but instead of curing the disease, it reverses the body's condition, keeping it in a state where it was never affected.
It's a hardship for the seeds underground, as they need their life force balanced and toxins detoxified, which is why they keep blooming and withering.
The yellowish-green smoke was completely absorbed by Schech, and the flowers growing in the blood could finally bloom forever.
Shi Jin handed the flowers to Shehe: "They're quite pretty, but they don't smell very good. Let's make them into dried flowers, instead of putting them in the car."
Shekh: "That's exactly what I was thinking."
The flowers that have drunk human blood bloomed extremely beautifully, but the blood they drank was of such poor quality that she did not intend to hang them by the window.
She raised the chain in her hand. "How do we deal with this? Kill him too?"
“He was killed. I saw him use a gun.”
This is a good thing; we must get it.
"I didn't try to rob you! I was trying to run away, but you wouldn't let me!" The man with the round glasses defended himself. "I was forced into the car by those three men. We're not in cahoots, and what they did has nothing to do with me!"
He lost the last round, and he doesn't have enough points to lose this round, so he can't die again.
If he dies again, he'll really be dead. He's been playing the fool with those three idiots this round because he's afraid to take the risk!
“You might have misunderstood something,” Shi Jinzhe said. “Today, I’m going to snatch props from whoever comes. It has nothing to do with what you did. You just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
Before the man with the round glasses could say anything more, the chain around his neck tightened abruptly.
He made two noises, intending to throw the corn bomb in his hand, thinking that if they were going to die, they would die together.
However, Shi Jinzhe used the back of his knife to pry open Shekh's clenched fingers one by one, allowing Shekh to take the corn bomb.
"You can deal with the person who lied to you."
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