Chapter 64.
Tang Yu suddenly turned around to look at Xila beside him, and met his face wearing sunglasses.
She heard Silla even complain a little: "You were so loud just now, you scared me."
At this time, the other people who were sleeping seemed to be awakened by Tang Yu's roar.
Yan Xiu rubbed her sleepy eyes and murmured, "Is it dawn yet?"
Tong Hao muttered, "It's still early. Damn, it's freezing!"
Tang Yu found it a little unbelievable. How could these dead people still feel cold?
The fire had gone out, and it was still dark, so the few of them had no intention of going back to sleep.
Ji Wenhan once again gave everyone a small piece of biscuit. After Tang Yu ate the biscuit he was given, he secretly stuffed several bites of bread into his mouth when no one was paying attention.
He Yibo looked around and reminded, "Chang Ziang didn't come back all night."
No one responded to its words; everyone just chewed their cookies in silence.
Tang Yu knew what these people were thinking. Running around in the mountains alone in the middle of the night was tantamount to seeking death.
"Don't you want to go look for him?" Tang Yu asked casually.
After all, when this group of people were looking for her, they found her accurately every time. There is no reason why they couldn’t find Chang Ziang, right?
Ji Wenhan paused, nodded and said, "Let's find the way back first, and look for Chang Ziang and Ren Qingqing on the way."
Tang Yu stopped talking, and no one else expressed any objection.
In fact, judging from the current situation, the way back is the same as the way to find Chang Ziang. Anyway, we are just walking aimlessly in the mountains.
Ji Wenhan and Zhang Cong walked in front of the team to lead the way. After losing all their equipment, they could only rely on the sun in the sky to determine their approximate direction.
Fortunately, it is summer now, and there are occasionally some berries to eat on the road, which can be considered as a barely supplementary food source.
Because of the previous experience with the wild boar, the team did not dare to approach the water source easily this time.
Perhaps it was luck that the team, which was wandering around in the mountains like headless flies, accidentally found a lost backpack.
Zhang Cong recognized it as his bag at a glance. The extra-large mountaineering bag was hanging on the broken branch.
The sturdy backpack seemed to have been torn by a huge force and was a little tattered, causing the contents of the bag to be scattered all over the floor.
"Maybe those wild boars brought the things here." Zhang Cong said as he checked the usable Dingxi.
When everyone looked over, they found that the things that fell on the ground were just the tent equipment. The edible things were completely destroyed by the wild beasts. They were immediately disappointed.
Suddenly Zhang Cong cried out in surprise: "We are saved! We are saved!"
Tang Yu saw Zhang Cong holding a mobile phone in his raised hand. Although the screen was cracked, it seemed to be still usable.
Having a mobile phone provides the opportunity to call for help, which is undoubtedly an exciting thing for those who are lost.
"Shit, the battery is almost out of power. Where's the power bank in my bag?" Zhang Cong buried his head and searched on the ground.
Ji Wenhan reminded: "Take the useful things and leave quickly, there might be wild boars coming here."
This bag might have been brought here by the herd of pigs, which would prove that this road is a route frequented by wild boars.
If the team continues to stay here, there is no guarantee that they will not encounter a herd of wild boars for the second time.
Because of the copy restrictions, this group of monsters still seemed to be afraid of the wild boars. As soon as Ji Wenhan spoke, Zhang Cong really sped up his actions.
Others also rushed forward to help, taking away everything that could be used and whether or not.
Because of the damage caused by the wild boar, there was little left in the backpack. Fortunately, there was a tent that could be used, so at least the few people had a place to shelter from the wind and rain.
Since picking up the phone, Zhang has been fiddling with it all the way, trying to find a place with a good signal to call for help.
This is also the team's most important task at present. Tang Yu followed the team and saw that this group of weirdos really wanted to ask for help. She guessed that this might be the established process of the copy.
It is also a feature of low-level copies. Many weird things are limited by the difficulty of the copy, and they often do many things that are unreasonable or illogical.
For example, at this moment, this group of guys could have beaten Tang Yu to death, but they chose the most roundabout way.
Because the battery of his mobile phone was limited, Zhang Cong was unable to find the lost power bank. Along the way, he could only turn it on every once in a while to check the signal conditions.
The seven people went up along the mountain and finally caught a signal at the edge of an open cliff. Zhang Cong was very excited and immediately called the search and rescue team.
But the signal was intermittent, making it difficult to make the call.
Zhang Cong's already gloomy face became even gloomier, and it reported another bad news: "The battery is only 2%."
Cell phones may be turned off at any time, which means that the hiking team has only one chance to make a call.
Everyone was silent. Ji Wenhan glanced at Zhang Cong and said, "Climb up the tree and give it a try."
Zhang Cong was a very strong boy who had grown up in the mountains. He was an expert at climbing trees. When he heard what Ji Wenhan said, he chose the tallest tree without saying a word.
The only tree that could grow at this altitude was pine. The pine tree that Zhang Cong chose was tall and straight, with very few branches, but he managed to climb up by holding onto the trunk and pushing with his feet.
Tang Yu's eyes widened as she looked at this unique skill. She was extremely envious and wanted to learn it very much.
Zhang Cong quickly climbed to the top of the tree and put his foot on a branch. In full view of everyone, he dialed the number of the search and rescue team.
After a busy tone, the call was finally connected, but the signal was poor. The voice on the other end was mixed with crackling noises and was a bit intermittent.
Zhang never dared to waste time and immediately reported the team's current situation, while trying to describe the approximate direction the team had taken before they got lost.
Tang Yu stood under the tree and watched Zhang Cong's actions. She couldn't hear whether there was any answer from the other end of the phone, she only heard Zhang Cong repeating his words over and over again.
About five minutes later, Zhang Cong slid down the tree and waved his phone towards everyone: "It's completely dead."
Tong Hao was the first to come up. His face was pale with a hint of dark blue, and his expression was stiff and cold, but his tone was anxious: "How is it? Did you make the call?"
Zhang Cong was not entirely sure, and said, "I think the call was made. The call was connected, but I didn't hear what was said. I can only try to report our approximate location."
Ji Wenhan heard this and said, "In this case, we can't walk around anymore. If a rescue team really comes, they won't be able to find us if we walk around."
This made a lot of sense. Everyone was lost at the moment. After dialing the rescue number, the best thing to do was to wait where they were.
Although according to Zhang Cong, there is a 70% chance that the call was received by the rescue team, there is also a 30% chance that the rescue team failed to hear the distress message clearly.
However, for those who are at their wits' end, they would rather believe that the rescue team will definitely come.
Fortunately, everyone now has a tent to block the wind. Ji Wenhan and several men set up the only tent against the slope, forming a semi-open space for seven people to take shelter.
They are not at the top of the mountain now, and the altitude is not as high as more than 3,000 meters, but it is still cold at night.
In order to keep warm as much as possible, Ji Wenhan mobilized everyone to collect nearby firewood. Only by lighting a fire could everyone have a chance to survive the whole night.
It’s a pity that we didn’t find the second backpack along the way, and everyone’s food rations were running out.
In the night, seven people huddled together around the fire. Ji Wenhan discussed with everyone, "We don't know when the rescue team will come, and the food has run out, so we have to work together to find food in the next few days. Does anyone have any good ideas?"
Yan Xiu raised her hand and said, "I know some wild vegetables on the mountain. Maybe we can dig them up and eat them."
Zhang Cong said directly: "I can set some traps, maybe I can catch some animals."
Tong Hao still pinned his hopes on the lost backpack, "Maybe we can look for it again. If we can find the bag with food, then we can all be saved."
Ji Wenhan listened to everyone's opinions and nodded to show his acceptance. Finally, he reminded them: "The premise of doing all this is to make sure you don't get lost, otherwise I won't be able to find you."
This is referring to Chang Ziang. He left the team alone in order to find Ren Qingqing. Everyone was looking around along the way, but they didn't find Chang Ziang at all.
Even if Ji Wenhan didn't say it explicitly, everyone understood that Chang Ziang and Ren Qingqing were probably in great danger.
The next morning, Tang Yu woke up as the sky slightly brightened. He Yibo had been keeping watch last night, and she managed to get some sleep. This time, she did not dream about Xila telling those strange stories.
Without food, everyone could only drink a little water. In order to fill their stomachs, everyone had to work together.
Fortunately, it is summer now, so there are at least some edible wild vegetables on the mountain, as well as some small animals active on the mountain.
In order to prevent everyone from getting separated again, Ji Wenhan had to divide the team into two groups, with it and Zhang Cong leading each group.
Tang Yu, Yan Xiu, Tong Hao and Ji Wenhan went in a group of four to look for wild vegetables.
It rained for two days the day before yesterday, and some mushrooms appeared on the mountain. Yan Xiu could only pick one or two species that she knew, and she also picked all the ripe berries that passed by. There were also some ferns growing on the mountain that were edible.
However, the four did not dare to go too far and just collected wild vegetables they saw along the way. This lifestyle, which was close to that of primitive society, resulted in the four not collecting much food.
Tang Yu followed the three people silently as they walked through the mountains. When she was hungry, she would quietly eat a bite of bread. As for the wild vegetables that Yan Xiu found, she did not choose to keep them for herself. After all, there were not many.
In order to prevent getting lost, Ji Wenhan would put up some road signs every time he passed a certain distance.
After wandering in the mountains for about an hour, the four returned to the camp. The three people who had gone out to set the trap had not returned yet.
The four of them were already starving, and Tong Hao suggested that they build a fire and cook some wild vegetables.
There was a small pot in the backpack that Zhang Cong found, which he could use at this moment.
Ji Wenhan looked at the sky and guessed that the others would probably be back soon, so he agreed.
Tang Yu waited for them to set up the pot, then volunteered to cook the wild vegetable soup. The others were too hungry and too lazy to move, so they did not stop him.
There is no food, not even seasoning, in the camp now. Tang Yu did have seasoning in her space backpack, but she chose not to put it in for fear of being exposed.
So that pot of wild vegetable soup is very simple. All you have to do is wash the picked wild vegetables, put them in clean water and cook them.
By the time Zhang came back from that team, Tang Yu's wild vegetable soup had already been cooked.
Yan Xiu rolled thick leaves into funnel-shaped bowls, and Tang Yu was pouring the soup into these bowls.
Seeing the three people, Ji Wenhan immediately asked, "How is it?"
In fact, there was no need to ask. As soon as it saw the three people returning empty-handed, it knew that the trip was fruitless.
Zhang Cong sat down beside the fire with a tired look on his face and said, "We don't have any tools, so we can only set up small traps. We have three of them. We will go check on the situation later."
Ji Wenhan nodded to show his understanding and said, "We are all hungry. We brought back some wild vegetables. Let's drink some soup to replenish our energy."
Anyway, at least they had some food in their stomachs, so everyone was very happy.
Tang Yu was also very happy. She poured the soup into leaf bowls and gave a bowl to everyone. She said enthusiastically, "Drink as much as you want. Don't be shy. There's more in the pot!"
Tong Hao was the first to grab the soup. He wanted to pass it to Yan Xiu, but Yan Xiu said with a strange look on her face: "You eat first, there's more."
Tong Hao did as he was told and held the leaf bowl, dragged the bottom with his hand to prevent the soup from leaking out, and took a big sip of the hot soup.
"Tsk, what...what's this smell?" Tong Hao touched his mouth, his expression hard to describe, so that his stiff and cold expression became a little more lively.
As it spoke, it lowered its eyes and saw the wild vegetable soup in the leaf bowl.
The thick dark green soup was almost a non-Newtonian fluid, with wisps of black lines flowing in it. Not to mention the wild vegetables, no one could tell that this was a bowl of soup!
"Huh? Why is there still hair here?" Tong Hao wanted to pick out the black thread in the soup with disgust, but he found that the thing seemed to be invisible and intangible and went straight through his fingers.
It was like a ball of dark green paint mixed with a touch of black paint. Tong Hao wondered if there was mud in the soup.
If it were two days ago, with its picky nature, it would definitely not eat such disgusting food, but now the situation is serious and it cannot be wasted, so it has to eat it even if it doesn't want to.
Tong Hao pinched his nose and drank the bowl of wild vegetable soup in one breath. He felt that he might have drunk too much and even his mind was a little dizzy.
When it raised its head, it saw that its companions also had ferocious faces after drinking. Tong Hao felt much more balanced now.
At this time, Tang Yu came close to it with a spoonful of soup and asked with a smile: "How does it taste? Do you want some more?"
"No, no..." Tong Hao wanted to say no, but while he said one thing, his hands holding the bowl of leaves stretched out uncontrollably.
Tang Yu happily poured it a spoonful of soup and went to ask someone else.
Xila also got a bowl of soup. He took a look at the soup before drinking it. The moment his eyes met the bowl, he turned his head away.
“Who did this?”
Ji Wenhan was sitting next to him and heard, "Tang Yu did it."
Hearing this, Xila said thoughtfully: “I’m not hungry, I’ll give you the soup.”
Ji Wenhan had already finished his soup at this time. He wanted to say that he didn't want the soup anymore, but like Tong Hao, he uncontrollably reached out his hand to take the bowl of soup.
Tang Yu walked around and divided the soup. She took a sip of her own portion. She felt confident that although the soup looked a little ugly, it still tasted pretty good.
She didn't waste it and drank the soup in one gulp. When she looked up, she found that the others looked dazed and were about to fall asleep on the spot.
Tang Yu couldn't help but ask: "Are you tired? Do you want to take a rest?"
These words seemed to have pressed a hypnotic switch, and everyone fell to the ground and fell asleep one by one.
Except Sheela.
Tang Yu really couldn’t ignore his overly focused gaze, she turned to look at Silla and said, “Aren’t you going to sleep?”
Silla shook her head: “I’m not sleepy.”
Tang Yu then asked: "So what do you think of the taste of my soup?"
Besides her, Xila was the only one who was not asleep. Tang Yu really wanted to get some feedback from him.
Xila realized that Tang Yu didn't see that he didn't drink the soup. He looked at her with a nasty smile and said, "It's terrible. This is the worst soup I've ever had."
What Xila didn't expect was that he clearly wanted to hit Tang Yu hard, but Tang Yu didn't show any sign of being hit.
"Really? Can you describe in detail why it's so unpalatable?" Tang Yu approached Xila and asked sincerely.
She felt that this face that always wore sunglasses was not so arrogant and annoying anymore.
However, Xila felt that Tang Yu, who didn't understand good or bad words, was a bit annoying.
He tilted his head back slightly and said, "It's just unpalatable. It's unpalatable in every way. Can it be called food? It's more like poison!"
Xila's words were somewhat emotional. He really couldn't understand why simply boiling some wild vegetables in water would have such a horrible effect after passing through Tang Yu's hands.
Tang Yu felt that he might really think that her cooking was terrible, but she was not discouraged.
"How about this? I'm going to cook some wild vegetable soup now. Can you give me some advice?" Tang Yu planned to ask for advice humbly.
There happened to be a little bit of wild vegetables left from the cooking.
Silla laughed angrily when he heard this, and he sternly refused: “Don’t even think about it!”
Tang Yu saw Xila's firm attitude and didn't want to force it.
In the afternoon, the five sleeping people slowly woke up. Tang Yu saw that their faces were rosy and rosy, and they had miraculously recovered to the state they were in at the beginning of the copy.
The stiff and cold feeling from before seemed to have faded a lot. Tang Yu couldn't describe what that feeling was, but he felt inexplicably that this group of weirdos seemed to be gradually shrinking from the edge of out of control.
Just as he was wondering, Tang Yu heard Xila's voice ringing in his ears.
He said faintly: "Ha! You really have some skills."
Tang Yu turned around and asked him what he meant, but Silla was too lazy to pay attention to him.
After Zhang Cong woke up, he looked at the sky, remembered the trap he had set, and decided to go and take a look, so he took Xila and He Yibo away.
Tang Yu followed Ji Wenhan and others in another direction to look for wild vegetables. When it was getting dark, the four of them returned to the camp and found that Zhang Cong and his two companions were already in the camp.
Ji Wenhan didn't see any edible food among the three people and realized that dinner would still be wild vegetable soup.
When Tang Yu was about to volunteer to cook, she was suddenly rejected politely by everyone. She had no choice but to give up the job.
Dinner was cooked by Ji Wenhan, and Yan Xiu distributed the vegetable soup to everyone in leaf bowls. This meal of wild vegetable soup was much more normal.
Tang Yu watched the whole process and was not worried that these people would add something to the soup, so she drank up the wild vegetable soup cooked by Yan Xiu.
Food is a bit scarce now, and even if this soup has no oil or salt, she can't waste it easily.
In order to ensure that he could survive the cold night, Tang Yu secretly stuffed two bites of bread into his stomach to replenish his energy.
In the evening, seven people gathered around a big campfire. Ji Wenhan encouraged everyone and said that the situation was still optimistic. As long as everyone persevered, the rescue team would definitely arrive.
Although the group's appearance had returned to its living form when they were first seen, drinking two meals of vegetable soup made them look a little haggard.
Tang Yu knew that the rescue team would come, but they definitely couldn't come so early, otherwise this copy would not be difficult at all.
The current situation is obviously what happened to this group of people in their previous lives. Before the rescue team arrived, what kind of torture did they go through that eventually led to their weirdness?
In the middle of the night, when Tang Yu was half asleep, he suddenly dreamed that Xila was telling a story again.
Beside the crackling fire, Shira's pale half face was cast in dancing shadows by the firelight. He grinned, revealing his sharp white teeth, and narrated the second half of the story.
"After running out of food, the crew came up with a brilliant idea. They sorted the survivors by strength, and the weakest one was eliminated as food for the others to survive. Eventually, the group survived until the day they were discovered by other ships. When the rescue ship arrived, they landed on the deserted island but saw a horrifying scene. They found that the surviving crew members had become..."
Sheila's story came to an abrupt end here. Tang Yu suddenly opened his eyes from his dream and saw the hikers sitting by the fire.
......
This went on for ten days, and Zhang Cong's trap never caught any animal, not even a bird.
The seven survivors had already eaten up all the edible wild vegetables around them. Yan Xiu and Ji Wenhan even discussed the feasibility of the ancients eating tree bark.
Tang Yu could clearly see how bad the condition of this group of people was. They were approaching the final moment of their lives. They were emaciated and had sallow faces, looking like evil spirits.
Not only are their physical conditions bad, their mental states are also very bad. When they look at people, there is always a certain light in their eyes, with an inexplicable desire.
Tang Yu knew that they couldn't hold out for much longer, and even she couldn't hold out for much longer.
If it weren't for the food in the space backpack, she would have starved to death after so many days. This is the viciousness of this copy.
If she didn't have the special item, the space backpack, she would never have been able to make it to the end.
Sure enough, even a low-level weird copy should not be underestimated!
......
Chang Ziang, who had disappeared at the beginning, was finally found, but when he was found, only a skeleton was left.
The bones were clean and dry, without a trace of flesh and blood. However, in just ten days, even in the hot summer, it was impossible for the corpse to corrode so cleanly.
"He was eaten by some wild beast." Zhang Cong concluded in a deep voice.
Chang Ziang's body added another layer of pressure to the hiking group, and the mood of collapse began to spread gradually.
Everyone was somewhat desperate. They suspected that the rescue team might never find them again, and this deep mountain would be the final destination for everyone.
At this time, it started to drizzle again. The drizzle was not heavy, but it seemed to cast a shadow on everyone's hearts.
The first one to collapse was He Yibo, this well-mannered and top student, who challenged nature with great enthusiasm, but ended up suffering the most severe test.
In full view of everyone, it started yelling and turned uncontrollably, running deep into the jungle.
Zhang Cong and Ji Wenhan were worried that He Yibo might get into danger if he ran out alone, so they chased after him immediately.
Only Tang Yu and four others were left in the camp. Yan Xiu was a little weak and was leaning on Tong Hao and sleeping.
In order to prevent the fire from going out, Xila added a little more firewood into it. A puff of thick smoke drifted past, and the flames grew a little bigger. He found that Tang Yu opposite him had been staring at him.
"What's wrong?" Silla said lightly.
"You don't seem scared at all." Tang Yu looked at the sunglasses that Xila was wearing, which seemed to be welded to his face.
She suddenly realized that she seemed to have never seen Silla's eyes.
Silla smiled when she heard this, and said casually: “You are not afraid either.”
His bland response made Tang Yu even more curious.
After so many days, even though Tang Yu had the private food in her space backpack to support her, she had become a little thinner, but Xila seemed to have not changed at all.
As the time spent in this copy increased, Tang Yu felt a stronger sense of disharmony. As she pondered over this, she finally set her sights on Xila.
This person appeared with a group of hikers and was considered a member of the mountaineering team. Other people in the team also knew him.
But the biggest difference between Sheila and this group of people is that he is roughly a living person. No matter what his origins are, at least he is very different from that group of weird people.
During the past ten days, everyone else was following the process of what happened in their lifetime, except for Sheila, who always felt detached from the entire copy.
Is he the only survivor of the mountaineering team who was finally rescued, or does he not belong to this copy in the first place?
After many days of observation, Tang Yu was very sure that Xila's left leg was somewhat disabled. Although it did not affect her walking, it might be a hindrance to climbing mountains.
Would such a person take on the challenge of a long-distance mountain climbing route?
If Xila deliberately sneaked into the copy, then what was his purpose?
Questions popped up in Tang Yu's mind one after another, but none of them could be answered.
She stared at Silla and found that he was also looking at her at this moment.
"Who are you?" Tang Yu asked the question that had been buried in his heart for many days.
"I'm Xila." Xila's smile was still full of malice, and she added a seemingly ambiguous sentence at the end, "We are the same people."
These words made Tang Yu feel a little strange in her heart, and she once again felt that Xila brought her a strange sense of familiarity.
She looked at Silla sitting on the ground, his left leg stretched out in front of him, looking straight and slender.
"What's wrong with your leg?"
Tang Yu's jumping question made Xila pause for a moment. He suddenly stared at Tang Yu in silence for a long time.
Although it was still the familiar evil smile, Tang Yu inexplicably felt a sense of crisis.
She then realized that her question seemed to have made him angry.
"That was an accident that happened when I was a child." Tang Yu almost thought that Xila would not answer, but he opened his mouth.
He leaned forward and asked, "Do you really want to know?"
Seeing that he had returned to his previous state, Tang Yu subconsciously shook his head and said, "No need."
At this time, Zhang Cong and Ji Wenhan came back, but they did not find He Yibo.
But the two who came back brought good news. Zhang said from a distance: "Our trap caught an animal!"
When Tong Hao heard this, he immediately went forward to take a look, and saw Zhang Cong holding a row of processed meat in his hands.
When Tong Hao, who hadn't eaten proper food for a long time, saw the meat, his eyes immediately glowed green and he wanted to take a bite of it raw.
It was panting with saliva dripping from the corners of its mouth, and asked, "What kind of meat is this?"
Zhang Cong and Ji Wenhan looked at each other and laughed, "I don't know what kind of animal it is. It looks like a marten or something like that."
When Yan Xiu was woken up and heard this, he asked in confusion: "Then, is it a protected animal?"
Tong Hao said angrily: "We are already in this situation now, why should we care about protecting animals? Even if we have to go to jail, we have to be alive!"
No one refuted this statement. Tang Yu looked at the strips of meat in Zhang Cong's hand, and his throat couldn't help but move.
She turned her gaze and happened to see Sheila sitting across from the fire.
When he saw his all-knowing smile, Tang Yu felt that strange ominous feeling in his heart again.
In just a moment, the meat that Zhang Cong brought back was put into the pot, and the steaming water vapor accompanied by the rich aroma of meat floated among the mountains and forests.
The tranquility and satisfaction at this moment greatly soothed everyone's hearts.
Although there was no seasoning, this pot of broth was considered the ultimate delicacy for the group of hikers.
When distributing the broth, Tong Hao almost got into a fight with Zhang Cong. He yelled about why there were only two pieces of meat in his bowl, while there were four in Zhang Cong's bowl.
Zhang Cong's expression was very indifferent. He said that the meat was brought back by him and Ji Wenhan, so he was naturally entitled to a larger share.
Tong Hao was not convinced and behaved very manic and angry.
However, there was only a small piece of meat in Yan Xiu and Tang Yu's bowls. As the only two women in the camp, the different treatment they received was particularly obvious.
Tang Yu took a look at the meat in her bowl. Her meat was a piece of skin with a small amount of fat attached.
The skin was slightly deformed after being cooked at high temperature and floated in the tangy broth. When it turned over, Tang Yu saw that there seemed to be a black spot on the snow-white skin.
She stared at the black spot for a long time, wondering what it was.
I don’t know if it’s because hunger caused my confused thinking, or because the illness at this time caused cognitive dissonance, but Tang Yu felt that the black spot looked like a mole.
She suddenly felt that the meat didn't seem so fragrant anymore. Yan Xiu, who was sitting next to her, had already gulped down the broth and was carefully licking the juice off the leaves.
It seemed that this could not satisfy Yan Xiu's hunger, so it stuffed the leaves into its mouth and started chewing them.
After eating the broth, Yan Xiu's eyes glowed even greener. He looked around and saw Tang Yu holding the broth in a daze.
Tang Yu felt Yan Xiu's strange gaze. She turned her head and looked at it for a while, then asked, "Do you want to eat?"
Yan Xiu directly proved his idea with practical actions. He reached out and snatched the leaf bowl from Tang Yu's hand, and drank the broth in an almost barbaric manner.
Zhang Cong, Ji Wenhan and Tong Hao occupied the pot of broth and were fighting over it.
After Tang Yu gave his portion of broth to Yan Xiu, she looked around and planned to find some edible wild vegetables to cook.
Then she saw Xila, who was also holding the broth but had not eaten it. After feeling Tang Yu's inquiring gaze, Xila turned her head to look at her, tilted her hand, and poured the broth on the ground.
Two pieces of meat that had been cooked into a light pink color rolled to the ground, tumbling around and becoming stained with dark brown mud.
Zhang Cong and Ji Wenhan were the first to react. They rushed over like arrows, grabbed a piece of meat each, and stuffed it into their mouths without even looking at it.
Tang Yu frowned slightly, but Xila found it very interesting and showed that evil smile again.
Looking at his smile, Tang Yu felt at that moment that this guy was really like a bad kid who played pranks.
I don’t know if it was luck, but in the next few days, the traps Zhang Cong set caught prey, sometimes even large animals.
But every time Tang Yu could only see it and Ji Wenhan bringing back the processed meat, and he never saw the full appearance of the prey.
Tang Yu instinctively didn't want to eat the meat, and the others were happy not to share it with her.
So she simply went to the woods to pick wild vegetables or mushrooms. There was some food in her space backpack, which was for emergency use, and she didn't plan to touch it.
As a member of the team, Xila neither ate the broth nor picked wild vegetables. Tang Yu didn't even see him eat anything during the journey.
But this person did not show any signs of weakness. Tang Yu suddenly suspected that maybe he was not a real living person?
This went on for about four days, and Zhang Cong's trap returned to its previous state and could no longer catch new prey.
The plants in the mountains grow very fast in this season, and the wild vegetables that Yan Xiu and others had picked before are sprouting again.
Logically, they had no shortage of food, but after eating the meat, this group of people seemed unable to eat anything else.
The four people who were unwilling to eat the wild vegetable soup had been hungry for the whole day and they really couldn't stand it anymore. Near dusk, Ji Wenhan looked at the other three.
A strange tacit understanding flowed, and the four of them left the camp silently.
Tang Yu sat by the fire and watched the four people go away. Xila sat against a tree not far away. Although he looked pale, he did not look thin.
"Guess what they went to do?" Sheila laughed.
Tang Yu played with the boning knife he took out of his bag and said calmly, "I guess they went to check the trap."
Silla said nonchalantly: "But there is no prey in the trap. The trap they made is too simple. What prey would step on it?"
Tang Yu blinked and said casually: "Perhaps the 'prey' did not step into the trap voluntarily."
The day He Yibo disappeared, Zhang Cong started to take back the meat. All the meat had been processed and Tang Yu had never seen its original appearance.
All of these things are connected together, and even if her mind is not very quick, she can still understand the logic.
Seeing that she was being cryptic, Silla knew that she had seen through it, and smiled even more happily, "Haha, then guess who their next prey will be?"
Hearing him say this, Tang Yu inexplicably thought of the horrific story in his dream. After eating their dead teammates, the crew members began to eliminate the weakest one.
Among this group of hikers who are in the same situation, who is the weakest one?
Facing Silla's malicious ridicule, Tang Yu was silent for a while. She looked at Silla for a while before saying, "You seem to want me to die."
Xila raised the corner of her mouth and said nothing.
Tang Yu said to himself: "You could have killed me directly, but why didn't you do it? Are you also restricted by the copy?"
Xila's condition was so strange that Tang Yu thought he was weird at first, but later he thought he was alive.
After so many days of observation, she felt that this guy might be some kind of even more bizarre existence.
But there are too many mysteries in this strange world, and Tang Yu knows too little, so she can't see through Xila at all.
One thing that is certain is that Xila is very dangerous, and Tang Yu is simply no match for her, but such a person chose such a tortuous way to deal with her.
That behavior seems to be...
Silla grinned and said, “Have you ever seen a cat catch a mouse?”
Tang Yu's eyes dimmed.
Yes! It felt like a cat playing with mouse!
It or he, or even Him, was playing with her life in a condescending manner, with a cold and vengeful malice.
That strange feeling of familiarity came to his mind again, and Tang Yu felt that he must have seen Silla somewhere, but that idea was too incredible.
She changed the subject and said something else: "Have you ever seen anyone come back to life from the dead?"
Sheela had too many similarities with the "husband" she had met in the previous copy and the later messenger of God, but the fact that the messenger of God turned to ashes was a fait accompli.
How could she convince herself to connect these two people together?
Moreover, that divine messenger is the ultimate boss of the B-level multiplayer copy, so how could he possibly appear in such a low-level single-player copy?
Xila misunderstood her meaning and asked, "Why? Have you begun to fantasize about coming back to life?"
Tang Yu: “…”
After finding that he could not get any more useful information from Xila, Tang Yu chose to shut up and started to boil water.
Xila was stunned by Tang Yu's sudden action. He saw Tang Yu took out a mushroom from somewhere.
The mushroom is small and cute, with round spots distributed on its thick cap. The spots also emit bright blue light, making it as beautiful and charming as stars.
From the moment Tang Yu took out the mushroom, a sweet smell began to float in the air, giving people a light-headed feeling.
Xila watched Tang Yu slice the thing into pieces and put it into the boiling water. The water in the pot changed color instantly.
Sheila: “What are you doing?!”
Tang Yu: "Cook mushroom soup."
Sheila: “You only put one mushroom in the soup?”
Tang Yu: "I only have this one mushroom!"
Silla: "...I mean, is this edible?"
Tang Yu smiled shyly: "How do you know it's not edible if you don't try it? Besides, I'm not the one eating it."
E-level item Glow Mushroom: The strong sweet smell means the most deadly!
Since the situation has become a dead end, there is no need to hold back. Tang Yu plans to treat everyone to a good meal.
Sheila: “…”
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