Chapter 15 (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

In the beginning, Zhang Heng counted the days until the day he would return to reality.

But later on, he found that doing that did nothing else but frustrated him. The more you keep an eye on time, the slower it seemed to pass.

So, Zhang Heng no longer kept a record. During the fourth harvest of the potatoes he had planted, he received an alert.

[Archery Skill has progressed from level 1 to level 2. You may review the information on the character panel]

Zhang Heng dashed into his house and dug out the Tissot buried in the corner. After putting the watch on, he saw that he had been on the island for a total of 385 days—it had been more than a year.

Even though he could not compare to Robinson Crusoe, it was considered pretty incredible for a city person.

In fact, Zhang Heng had already gotten used to life in the wilderness. To make life more comfortable, his clay house and vegetable plot had undergone two stages of expansion. The house had transformed from a single-room building to three rooms and one living room. Zhang Heng even added floor heating. The vegetable plot, on the other hand, was producing more potatoes than he could consume. Zhang Heng sliced the excess tubers into thin shreds using his stone knife and left them out to dry under the sun. Thus, began the birth of his 100% organic baked potato chips.

In addition to that, he also found some onions in the forest and transplanted them in his vegetable garden. After that, he spent a good portion of his time setting up a fish pond, an outdoor bath, and a breeding garden next to his little hut. In the pond, he kept the fish and crabs he did not eat, and that ‘fowl’ which had its head stuck in the fences became the first tenant of the breeding garden.

After shooting at it for a month and a half, the creature went from ‘I’m not afraid of anything, I challenge you to come and try me’ to a blanked-eye, spiritless empty-nester.

Zhang Heng felt sorry for it and resisted the urge to eat it. On a whim, he decided to keep the ‘fowl’ as livestock, in hopes that he might be able to harvest eggs someday. But the dream was destroyed when he found out that the creature was a male.

Forget it. Zhang Heng decided to keep it as a pet and named it ‘Mickey Mouse’.

Compared to the fish, birds, and crabs, the creature had a slightly higher IQ. After a while, some interaction was established between master and pet.

For 80% of the time, Zhang Heng was able to hit a moving target within a ten meters distance, and 50% at thirty meters. When his archery skills had advanced to Level 2, he knew that it was time to make a move.

So, he spent ten days putting together food and supplies for two people, and preparing one month’s worth of ration for Mickey Mouse. Then he chose the toughest wood he could find and fashioned them into spears to be used as melee weapons.

On the 401st day, when he went to save the drifting adventurer, Zhang Heng was paddling on a wooden raft that he had made.

“Thank you, friend. Are you an indigenous person on this island? A typhoon sank the ship that I was on. I was the only one who swam here. I’m exhausted. If it weren’t for you, it would not have ended well for me.”

Zhang Heng was dumbstruck. ‘In what way do I resemble an indigenous person?’

He consulted his reflection in the seawater. Fine, this face does look aboriginal. He had been on the island for too long. Other than the watch, everything that he had with him when he first arrived was all either broken and unusable.

Nonetheless, it was still a pleasure to be able to see someone of the same species. It had been almost a year since Zhang Heng had spoken to another person. He could barely contain his excitement as he handed a wooden pail filled with fresh water to the man.

“My name is Zhang Heng. I’m not a native. I was in a shipwreck like you, but that was a year ago.”

After the adventurer drank the water, his complexion improved tremendously. At first, he was worried that this aboriginal man had saved him so that he could have him for dinner, but was relieved and delighted to find that the other was a civilized man.