The emaciated man lay unconscious on the bed, and Xia Linyin placed a wet towel on his feverish forehead.
I took off his pants and carefully wiped away the pus and blood flowing from the wound.
"His wound is infected..." Xia Linyin said worriedly.
"Master, don't worry, he won't die. Humans are constantly adapting to the harsh environment of the apocalypse, and their physical fitness is getting stronger and stronger. The wound on his leg won't kill him, but he will suffer a lot. He will experience fever, vomiting, and unconsciousness until his body recovers on its own."
Xia Linyin nodded, but the worry between her brows did not disappear.
"Although I've blocked your hunger pangs, this is only a temporary solution. You need to eat as soon as possible, or you'll starve to death. And Li Luo, he needs food too."
After helping Li Luo put her pants back on and covering her with a blanket, Xia Linyin licked her chapped lips, got up, and walked outside.
“Number 83, Li Luo is currently in a coma. I’m very worried about leaving him here alone.”
"Giant insectoids, cannibals, aliens, lurking creatures... all sorts of dangerous creatures roam the city ruins..."
With so many dangerous creatures roaming the ruins, in such an extremely dangerous post-apocalyptic world, it would be unwise to leave an unconscious person alone in a cave, but she had no choice but to go out and find food.
"There is sawtooth beast droppings at the cave entrance. You can pick them up and smear them on the big rocks to enhance the sawtooth beast's scent. This way, ordinary insect beasts will not enter this area."
Xia Linyin squatted down and picked up the round, black object from the ground. "Is this feces?"
The black ball, as hard as a rock, turned out to be excrement. She looked down and smelled it; sure enough, it stank horribly.
These droppings must have been collected by Li Luo and placed at the entrance of the cave as a scent marker, so that other insects and beasts would mistakenly believe that this was the territory of the Sawtooth Beast.
Judging from its appearance, this sawtooth beast occupies a rather high position on the food chain.
Xia Linyin smeared the sawtooth beast's droppings all over the stone blocking the entrance, just like she was scribbling on a blackboard.
The smell made her eyes roll back and she almost fainted.
If she hadn't been able to vomit nothing more, she probably would have vomited uncontrollably.
This game is designed to completely destroy the player's body and mind.
Pushing aside the stone, Xia Linyin, her body also covered in the smell of feces, crawled out.
Standing atop the ruins, Xia Linyin stared in shock at the scene around her.
It's even more desolate, gloomy, and ravaged than the alien invasion scene in the Joker game.
High in the sky are crisscrossing bridges, and one can imagine that the pre-apocalyptic world is a high-tech future where the ground is no longer a passageway for people, but rather people travel in the sky.
But now, all those bridges are destroyed, broken and damaged, covered with a thick layer of dust, like pearls covered in dust, without the slightest luster.
Those skyscrapers, which she had to crane her neck to see the top of, looked like they had been ravaged by gunfire, resembling a frail old man, his body riddled with holes and teetering on the verge of collapse.
The sky was overcast, with gray clouds rolling around. It was a sky that had been polluted, and God refused to add any more color. Blue had become the most luxurious color.
The ground was uneven, with deep pits filled with green puddles and piles of rocks like hills, overgrown with weeds that rippled in the bleak, cold wind.
Grass, taller than a person with sharp edges, grows out of the wall.
Apart from the sound of the wind, Xia Linyin could not hear any other sound. In a daze, she felt as if she was the only person left in the whole world.
"Scan complete. Prey found. A giant black spider is located 50 kilometers from its owner."
"50 kilometers?" Xia Linyin exclaimed. It would take about ten hours to travel 50 kilometers, and a round trip would take a whole day and night.
"It's too far. Are there any prey or plants closer by? Edible plants will do."
"This is the closest insectoid beast we've encountered. As for the others... well, if Master is willing to eat human flesh—"
Xia Linyin interrupted Number 83, "I don't eat human flesh!"
Xia Linyin practically screamed those words. She was breathing heavily, and the scenes she had just experienced flashed through her mind. When she learned that the meat she had eaten was cut from Li Luo's thigh, her heart felt as if it had been suddenly squeezed, and she felt a heart-wrenching pain.
Number 83 disagreed with Xia Linyin's idea, "Master, you need food, and besides, it's just corpses. I scanned and found several corpses that died of starvation nearby."
"I would not eat human flesh if I excluded it from my considerations."
Xia Linyin shook her head. She had her bottom line and principles. In this apocalyptic world, eating human flesh would be like opening Pandora's box, and she would become a complete cannibalistic maniac.
She didn't want to become someone she didn't even recognize.
In that case, even if she were alive, she would be living in hell, suffering torment from countless wronged souls.
If someone's body is still alive but their morality has been lost, what difference is there between them and those walking corpses who only know how to eat human flesh?
You must not eat human flesh! You absolutely must not eat human flesh!
"Most plants nowadays are highly poisonous, and some plants have mutated to be more dangerous than many insects and animals."
Xia Linyin remained silent. No wonder Li Luo could only eat mud cakes; she would faint from hunger. This world left too few ways for humans to survive, and the food shortage was even more severe than she had imagined.
There is nothing to eat within a 50-kilometer radius.
On the bright side, there are no threatening insect beasts around here, and as for other creatures, the place Li Luo found is secluded enough that there shouldn't be any major problems.
"You need to get back before dark, as there will be lurking enemies at night."
A projection screen appeared in front of Xia Linyin's eyes. On the left side of the interface, a 3D image of the infiltrator rotated, and on the right side, the infiltrator's information was displayed.
[The Lurker: A zombie monster mutated after being exposed to nuclear radiation. Due to living in the dark underground for a long time, its visual function has deteriorated, but its auditory system has evolved. It fears sunlight, rests during the day, and is active at night, relying on its keen hearing to hunt prey.]
"Before dark..." Xia Linyin bit her lip, "Will my current body be able to support me running for a long time?"
Number 83 provided the answer: "You have an 80% chance of dying suddenly."
Xia Linyin took a deep breath, put on high heels, and ran towards the prey according to the map.
Along the way, Xia Linyin observed her surroundings, trying to find a means of transportation.
"call--"
"call--"
Xia Linyin stopped, panting heavily. Her legs, which were almost numb from the cold, trembled uncontrollably. After resting for a moment, she continued on her way.
After being continuously enhanced by Ghost Coins, the Blood-Red High Heels no longer brought as much cold when they took effect, but after a while, the feet still couldn't stand it.
Xia Linyin calculated that at this speed, she should be able to get back before dark, but she was afraid that her body wouldn't be able to hold on.
"Master, stop 300 meters ahead," Number 83 suddenly said.
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