Chapter 20 (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Zhang Heng had been on the island for more than a year now, but this was the first game item he had come across.

But other than the voice in his voice, there was nothing else.

He did not know what this thing was used for, or what it does. It seemed as if the voice did not intend to inform him either. After it had notified him about the item, it just disappeared.

Zhang Heng surveyed the rabbit’s foot but found nothing special about it. He would just have to keep it in his waist pouch for the moment.

After Bell looked at the wound on Zhang Heng’s shoulder, he decided not to take any risk and sterilized the wound with saline. “The wound is too deep. The claws of beasts that live in the wild like this are normally full of germs. There’s a chance it could be infected.”

Zhang Heng understood the horrible consequence of infection. In the city, this would have just been a matter of an antibiotic injection. But on this barren island, the chances of surviving an infection was next to none. It was because of the injury on his leg that Ed contracted high fever and passed away. Even though his death was premeditated by the game; that would mean the game designers could be trying to inform the players of such dangers.

But there are some things, that even if made known in advance, could never be helped.

What should he do in that situation?

Being able to fight back and kill his attacker had already exceeded his limit. It was impossible to think that he could have come out unscathed.

The explorer comforted, “It may not be infected, for sure. Maybe nothing would happen.”

Zhang Heng smiled bitterly. He could only hope for that right now.

After they had rested for a day, since they had already made it here to the center of the island, Zhang Heng suggested that they go straight to the other side of the island. Ed did not express any opinion against the idea, of course.

So, they spent another two days or so to pass through the forest.

When they were finally greeted by the sight of the beach and the ocean, Zhang Heng was rewarded for his achievement ‘toured island’ and had another 3 points added to his game points.

But this was none of his concern right now.

There were two things that were giving him a headache right now, was the possibility of being infected and that time for Bell’s death was approaching.

The first matter was purely dependent on luck—there was nothing he could do; the second matter was having stayed together for such a long time, and that Bell saved him from the becoming python food, Zhang Heng regarded him as a friend. In the end, he decided to give his friends a heads up.

Of course, he would not mention that they were in a game and that Bell was a non-player character (NPC) with a buff that set him up to die after nineteen days. The discussion of whether this would yield some unpredictable reaction aside, Bell would have found this explanation difficult to believe. Chances are, he would conclude that because Zhang Heng had been alone on the island for too long, his mind was in a state of confusion.

Which was why Zhang Heng only told Bell to be extra careful tomorrow.

The explorer did seem to mind it too much. After all, the both of them did just massacre a jaguar each. Now that they had left the forest, they had moved past the most dangerous portion of the journey. Whatever happened next could not possibly be as severe as this.

Zhang Heng thought that it made sense, but after what happened with the guy in shorts and the poisoned mushroom, Zhang Heng knew that anything could happen tomorrow. He persuaded Bell not to hunt the next morning and kept his eye the explorer for the entire span of twenty-four hours.

Zhang Heng also wanted to see to what extent this death could be done and if it could be changed.

…

Nothing happened in the morning.

Zhang Heng trailed behind the explorer the entire day like an idiot, giving his friend the chills. In the afternoon, Bell suggested that they go outside the forest to pick some wild vegetables and mushrooms to make a seafood soup but was sternly refused by Zhang Heng.

What kind of joke is it? Were they seriously using the same trick again?