Chapter 13: Life-saving Torch
Within five minutes, the already exhausted player was pounced on and bitten by three hungry wolves. Their sharp fangs pierced his neck and the scarlet blood was still warm.
Just as he was about to die, the last message he posted on the public screen was erased by an invisible hand.
"Fuck, the words upstairs disappeared!"
"Another line of words disappeared!"
"Oh my god, this is so scary... Didn't you see that every time a line of text disappears, the number in the lower right corner also decreases."
At this moment, almost everyone knew what the disappearance of the handwriting meant. There was only one life, and then all traces of existence would be wiped out when it died? !
This realization intensified everyone's panic, and many people cried and shouted that they wanted to go back and did not want to stay in this world anymore.
[Qing Ben Zhi Ruo]: "Everyone calm down. There's no point crying now. We don't know what will happen if we are selected to come in."
[So Redundant]: "For now, the most important thing is to stay alive."
"I felt like there was a tiger staring at me from behind. I was so scared. What should I do? It was so dark that I couldn't even see the road clearly."
"Me too. If I had known it would get dark so early, I wouldn't have walked so far!"
"It's a good thing I was too lazy to go out, otherwise I can't even imagine it."
[His Highness Nan]: "Help... There's a python! It's really big, it's almost catching up to us, damn, this guy is too fast."
Qi Xuanze didn't expect that he would encounter such a thing just when he wanted to pick more soapberries to take back. The two-meter-long python behind him was chasing him at an extremely fast speed.
He didn't dare to think about anything and just tried to run. There was not only cool wind but also a cold "hissing" sound in his ears.
It was like a death warrant from hell. It was not that he did not dare to fight back, but the python was so black that it almost blended into the night. He could not see the exact location of the python when he looked back.
Otherwise, you can try to hit the snake's weak spot to complete the kill.
Shu Lingyi took out a piece of wood, then took out some resin*1 and smeared it on the wood, borrowed some fire from his own fire, and the fire instantly ignited.
Unexpectedly, the white light of the system appeared in my hand at this time, and along with the mechanical sound of the system, the wood in my hand turned into a real torch.
【The torch is now concretized.】
Shu Lingyi put this in the trading center and set the trading requirements very low. 2 pieces of wood or 2 pieces of stone can be directly traded for this torch.
While Qi Xuanze was running away, he glanced at the news on the public screen. More than a dozen people had died in just over ten minutes!
Such a terrifying number, it made his heart sink; could he really escape from the python's mouth safely?
He had no idea.
Thinking of the python behind him that was thicker than his thigh, Qi Xuanze thought that he might as well go to the trading center to buy himself an urn so that he could perhaps die more peacefully.
Unexpectedly, he accidentally thought of the trading center, and the virtual screen in front of him jumped to the trading center, on which a bright object suddenly appeared: a torch.
After taking a look at the materials needed for the transaction, Qi Xuanze used wood*2 to trade for the torch without thinking. The torch appeared in his hand with an unpleasant smell.
"Cough cough cough!" The smell of burning resin was irritating and unpleasant, but it also illuminated the vision within a range of more than one meter around Qi Xuanze.
Even the position of the python that was farther away could be vaguely determined, but Qi Xuanze still walked forward. He thought that even if he wanted to kill the python, he had to wait until it was almost in front of his house.
When his small thatched hut appeared in his sight and a dagger appeared in Qi Xuanze's hand, he forced himself to calm down and stopped running away.
The pungent smell obviously made the python that tried to get close to hunt hesitate, but Qi Xuanze had already thought about his next move.
He clenched the dagger in his hand, and with the torch, he became bolder. He approached the python step by step but did not dare to get close to him. There was no trace of the arrogance he had when he was chasing him in the beginning!
As the distance got closer, the python could no longer bear it and swung its huge tail towards Qi Xuanze, but Qi Xuanze cut a deep wound on it with his dagger.
Qi Xuanze was also beaten back. From resisting the python head-on, his arms felt numb and trembled slightly.
"Hiss - this terrible power, but it seems to be a little afraid of fire." Qi Xuanze waved the torch in his hand, which indeed had a certain threatening effect.
Qi Xuanze provoked him everywhere, and the python attacked again, opening its bloody mouth and biting towards Qi Xuanze. Its long scarlet tongue and sharp fangs were so terrifying.
The next second, Qi Xuanze stuffed the torch directly into the bloody mouth, and even poked it in again for fear that it was not lethal enough.
The python's throat was stabbed with the same technique as those white snakes. The scorching heat was stabbed into the python's throat, causing it so much burning pain that it wanted to roll on the spot.
In the last moment before the light disappeared, Qi Xuanze's dagger stabbed into the python's vital point quickly, accurately and fiercely.
If one stab was not enough, two stabs were used. The python, which was injured in front and back, was stabbed three times in a row. Finally, it could not bear it anymore and died completely.
After such a tense battle, Qi Xuanze felt that most of his strength had been drained away. He picked up the spoils on the ground, then took the extinguished torch and quickly rushed to a house not far away.
Shu Lingyi produced 5 torches in succession, and then traded them for 10 pieces of wood, which was considered a big profit.
The weeds in the stone pot were also cooked, and she scooped them out and put them directly on the trading center for sale.
[Cooked wild vegetables: 5 wild vegetables per serving, can provide about 10 points of satiety. Trade for dry grass *5, or wood *2. ]
"It was the guy who just sold me the torch. Luckily, the guy's torch saved my life. Otherwise, it would have been difficult to tell whether the road I was walking on was safe in the dark even with a map."
"Me too. The torch that the boss gave me has that resin on it. The strange smell it emits can also affect the monsters that want to hunt us down."
[His Highness Nan]: "That's right. If it weren't for the torch from you, I might not have made it back to the house alive."
They took out dry grass*5 or wood*2 for trading without hesitation. Four of them, including Qi Xuanze, traded with dry grass*5.
There was only one person who used wood as a trade. Shu Lingyi kept boiling weeds, and the weeds * 120 were sold by her in groups of 5.
Each weed can provide two points of fullness, which is a very good food for many players, so they took out dead grass or wood to trade with Shu Ling.
After selling all these weeds, including the initial five pieces of Shu Ling Yi, I only got 220 dead grass and 32 wood.
“It’s time to upgrade the thatched cottage!”
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