Chapter 217: Disaster Survival System (46)

After Xie Yang received it, she opened the Collection Illustrated Handbook, which displayed 【Sapodilla, edible】.

Tapping to open the detailed description, she discovered this was a rare fruit rich in protein, fat, various amino acids, all kinds of vitamins, as well as trace elements and minerals such as phosphorus, calcium, and iron.

Its selenium and calcium content ranked at the top of the list for fruits and vegetables, and frequent consumption had the effect of preventing cancer and inhibiting cardiovascular disease.

It could actually prevent cancer and inhibit cardiovascular disease?

Xie Yang's heart stirred, and she asked the other party: "Has its tree mutated? Is it convenient for you to dig one up for me?"

"Big Boss, you want to plant it yourself? Yes, yes! I'll go dig it up right now!"

Han Xinyi exited the private chat and went to find Sapodilla saplings.

There were only four players left from her country.

Besides her, there were two men and one woman; the woman was named Meisha, who had just graduated from university last year; the men were middle-aged, married, and had children.

When they fled the volcanic eruption on their Residence Island, the four of them had merged their resources and towed their belongings.

It was only by relying on her trading for fresh water and vegetables and fruits with Big Boss Wanyi that the four of them had luckily survived the Drought Season.

During their survival at sea, those two men had been quite respectful and polite to her, and they had lived in peace.

But ever since they landed on the island, those two men seemed to feel that she, a woman with no strength to truss a chicken, had inferior wilderness survival skills to them and needed to rely on them to survive on the island, so their attitude toward her gradually became flirtatious, and several times they even tried to take advantage of her.

She warned Meisha to be careful of those two men, but who would have thought that Meisha had already been messing around with them; not only did she not listen to the advice, but she turned around and mocked her for pretending to be high and mighty.

Furious, she immediately drew a line with them and decided to part ways.

But after separating, surviving alone in a crisis-ridden, unfamiliar environment was indeed quite difficult.

Just like that, a day and a night had passed, and she still dared not close her eyes.

Holding the Machete she had opened from a Blind Box Treasure Chest in both hands, she explored the outer perimeter of the island; when thirsty, she drank some water, and when hungry, she gnawed on some non-mutated wild fruits to get by.

When her eyelids were truly about to droop, she would go on the World Channel to see the status of other players, using it to keep herself alert.

That was how she saw the Yan Du Xian that Xie Yang had listed, and thus found herself a job—digging up saplings in exchange for delicious food!

In the following days, Xie Yang's group continued to hoard meat while on the move, and Han Xinyi kept digging up Sapodilla saplings at their stopping points to trade for food with Xie Yang.

Upon learning that she had parted ways with the other players from her country and was currently surviving on the land alone, Xie Yang gifted her a Shark Tooth Dagger and a small bottle of 【Mutated Octopus Ink】 for self-defense.

"Wuu wuu... Big Boss, you are too good to me! It's a pity I have nothing to repay you with..." Han Xinyi's voice choked with sobs.

There were still three months left! She felt that she would most likely die in this god-forsaken Survival Game.

But to turn back and return to the team of players from her country, she was unwilling.

Going back meant admitting defeat, and meant tacitly accepting the behavior of those two men.

As a woman, she knew full well what would happen afterward.

That was more painful than killing her.

She thought of her son outside the game, her precious treasure.

Thinking of him made her heart ache.

The private chat window vibrated, and Xie Yang's cold yet gentle voice came through:

"If you trust me, send me your coordinates, and I will see if we are on the same landmass."

Han Xinyi's eyes lit up; she wiped the corners of her eyes with the back of her hand, quickly sent her current coordinates to the private chat window, and after sending them, said with anticipation: "Big Boss, if we aren't far apart, can we meet in person?"

Xie Yang was already comparing the distance between the two locations.

Luck was good; the two places were not too far apart.

At their current speed of travel, they could reach Han Xinyi's location in ten days at most.

If they didn't hoard meat and focused on traveling, three to five days would be enough.

Even more fortunately, she discovered that the Sapodilla forest where Han Xinyi was located looked exactly like the location of the treasure indicated by the arrow on the Treasure Map.

She and Fu Zhangzheng smiled at each other.

Subsequently, Xie Yang posted a notice on the Regional Channel:

【Fellow countrymen, sleep early tonight, conserve your energy, and we will break camp promptly at four o'clock tomorrow morning. Move quietly when we set off; do not disturb the players from Ya Country.】

Everyone responded one after another:

【Received! I've wanted to ditch them for a long time! They're like sticky candy.】

【They are the type who want everything. Typical hypocrites. I've been annoyed by them for a long time!】

【We were all innocent people dragged into this game, so helping each other in the game world is only right, but how can they be like this!】

【This is an unwise way to act.】

【A bunch of big fools! Since they are so capable, they should find a way to survive on their own! Don't think about following us anymore!】

At 3:30 the next morning, the Dragon Country players woke up one after another, packed up their tents and other supplies with extreme care, and crept away from the camp in the dark.

Xie Yang and Fu Zhangzheng had roughly scouted the route yesterday afternoon and had cleared the mutated plants along the way while they were at it.

As for the animals, they were likely frightened by their fierce meat-hoarding spree over the past few days and had nimbly hidden in their nests before they even got close, which actually made it easier for them to travel in the dark.

Consequently, when the Ya Country players woke up at daybreak, they discovered that only their few tents were left in the camp.

The Dragon Country players seemed to have performed a collective vanishing act, disappearing without a trace.

They looked at each other, their expressions blank:

"Where are they? Isn't it only seven o'clock? Yesterday at this time, they were still sitting around the campfire having breakfast! What's going on today?"

"Their campfire has been out for a long time."

The lead captain walked to the spot where the Dragon Country players had camped, reached out to touch the ashes of the campfire, and found there was no heat left.

In this weather, at least two or three hours had passed since the campfire went out and cooled down.

"They did it on purpose!" A female player stomped her feet in anger, "The people from Dragon Country are truly petty!"

"It's not their fault," said the handsome young man who was the visual centerpiece of the group, speaking a fair word, "It's our own problem. I said long ago that our attitude was wrong! Since we wanted to follow them to win the game, we shouldn't have mocked them like that."

Hearing this, the faces of the other players turned a mix of green and red.

But it is too late to say anything now.

Not sure which direction the Dragon Country players went, they dare not rashly give chase.

"How about we don't leave, and just build a Shelter right here; this clearing is quite spacious anyway."

The captain had just finished speaking when a Wolf howl was heard, seemingly not far away.

"A Wolf! It's a Wolf! My God!"

"What do we do!"

"What else can we do! Pack up quickly and run!"

They scrambled to pack up their tents and fled in a panic in the opposite direction of the Wolf howl.

Everything seemed to have returned to how it was before they encountered the Dragon Country players.

……

Over there, Xie Yang and her group accelerated the entire way.

Aside from clearing the Mutation animals and plants encountered along the way, they did not specifically stop to hoard meat or wild fruits.

They only looked for a suitable open space to camp before nightfall, spending all other time on the road.

They traveled like this for over three days, until the fourth day, when they heard a woman's shrill scream.