Chapter 218: Disaster Survival System (47)

Recognizing the voice as Han Xinyi's, Xie Yang told Fu Zhangzheng to lead the team forward at the original speed, while she dashed rapidly toward the direction where Han Xinyi had met with trouble.

While running, she took a gun from her Storage Space, and after vaguely spotting a figure, she quickly loaded it and aimed ahead:

"Don't move! Nobody take another step! Otherwise—"

"Bang!"

She fired a shot at a tree trunk not far away.

The bullet pierced through the thick trunk and landed on the cliff wall a bit further away, sparking a burst of fire.

The man who had been pinning Han Xinyi down and attempting to commit an indecent act was so scared that the thing between his legs went soft; he raised his hands above his head and slowly shuffled to the side.

"Han Xinyi? How are you? Are you alright?"

Xie Yang walked over with long strides, pointing the gun at the man with one hand while helping Han Xinyi up with the other.

"You... Big Boss?"

Han Xinyi, who had been somewhat uneasy, recognized Xie Yang's voice and climbed up from the ground in pleasant surprise.

There were tear tracks on her face, and her clothes were torn.

Xie Yang took a coat out of her Storage Space and draped it over her shoulders.

Seeing that Xie Yang's attention was on Han Xinyi, the man rolled his eyes, steadied himself against a tree trunk, retreated a few steps, and turned to run.

"Ah—"

After taking only one step, he fell to his knees in pain.

It turned out that Xie Yang had swapped the gun for the Octopus Tentacle Whip and lashed out at the man, striking him right in the back of the knee.

"Big Boss, let me do it myself!"

Han Xinyi wrapped the coat tightly around herself and wanted to take the whip from Xie Yang's hand, only to find—she couldn't lift it.

"..."

Xie Yang gave a light cough and handed her a Shark Tooth Dagger.

Seeing the dagger, the man widened his eyes in terror: "Lucy! You don't really intend to kill me, do you? You're crazy! My uncle is a Federation congressman! If you dare to touch me, you—and your family—won't be able to escape!"

Han Xinyi gripped the dagger tightly and approached him with a cold sneer: "If you hadn't mentioned your uncle, I might not have had the heart to kill you. But now..."

"I was wrong! Lucy! Let me go!" the man begged for mercy in a hurry, "I won't touch your family! I promise!"

"Get lost!"

In the end, Han Xinyi couldn't bring herself to kill him; she kicked the man hard several times, but she couldn't bring herself to plunge the dagger in.

Even though she hated this man to the core.

The thought that his death would cause her home country to lose another unit of the Protective Shield held her back.

What if the one lost was the very area where her family lived?

This guy wasn't worth pitying, but if his death indirectly implicated her parents and son, even if she survived until the end of the game, she would regret it for the rest of her life.

Hearing the word "get lost," the man felt as if he had been granted an amnesty and scrambled away, fleeing out of the sight of Xie Yang and the other woman.

Xie Yang walked over to help up the tear-streaked Han Xinyi.

"Am I too useless? I know that after he leaves the game, he will rely on his congressman uncle to take revenge on me and my family, yet I still can't bring myself to do it."

Xie Yang patted her comfortingly: "Don't worry, there are still two or three months left, right? Heaven will deal with evil people! With that hollow shell of his, whether he can even leave alive is still an unknown."

She paused and changed the subject: "By the way, didn't I give you a dagger and a small bottle of highly corrosive Octopus Ink? How did you still fall into his trap?"

Upon hearing this, Han Xinyi lowered her head in frustration: "It's my own fault! I had finished picking the Sapodilla on the outskirts, so I wanted to go into the woods to explore. The dagger got stuck too deep when I was dealing with a Mutant Vine and I couldn't pull it back out, so I had to use the Octopus Ink to corrode the vine to escape. I ran into him just as I came out of the woods..."

So that was it.

"Where is that vine?"

Xie Yang looked up to examine the woods before them; there seemed to be quite a few fruit trees inside.

She figured that when Fu Zhangzheng and the others arrived later, they would definitely need to clear this area.

Since she was idle anyway, she might as well start clearing it now and retrieve the lost Shark Tooth Dagger by the way.

In wilderness survival, one can never have too many weapons.

Being short one dagger meant one less means of survival at a critical moment. Especially such a sharp Shark Tooth Dagger.

"It's right over here."

Han Xinyi led her to the opening of the woods.

Outside the opening was a huge bluestone; these past few days, she had spent her days picking fruit and digging up saplings, and at night, she would make do by resting behind the large bluestone.

From this position, one could see the woods inside the opening, where the trees were laden with a dazzling array of fruits.

These fruit trees had thick trunks, with almost every one requiring two or three people to encircle, and the fruits hanging from them were large and plump, dangling heavily from the branches, looking mouth-watering.

That was why, after all the Sapodilla on the outskirts had been picked, she had wanted to try her luck inside the woods.

Xie Yang held the Octopus Tentacle Whip in one hand and the dagger in the other, stepping from the opening into this Orchard occupied by Mutant vegetation.

"Snap!"

"Sizzle!"

"Snap!"

"Sizzle!"

The whip lashed at the vines that wrapped around her ankles.

The Shark Tooth Dagger sliced through the thorns of the Mutant Thorn.

Relying on these two weapons, Xie Yang managed to carve a flat path from the opening.

The look of admiration in Han Xinyi's eyes as she followed behind was almost tangible.

At this moment, Xie Yang saw the Shark Tooth Dagger that had been stuck in the thick vine and couldn't be pulled out.

She lashed out with the whip, intending to use the force to lift the vine and then pull the dagger back.

Unexpectedly, the vine seemed to have gained intelligence, actually offering up the vine branch stuck with the dagger on its own initiative.

"..."

If Xie Yang could understand the language of plants, she would know that the news of her and Fu Zhangzheng, this pair of male and female scourges, had already spread throughout the world of Mutation plants:

"Waaah! It's her! I heard she beat the Mutant bamboo forest on the northwest slope into complete submission! The Bamboo Rat King even fled here with his family!"

"It's her! It's her! Besides her, there's a male, also a scourge! Wasn't he hanging around the northwest slope a few days ago? How did he run over here?"

"In my opinion, just give her whatever she wants! Is it any use to stop her? Not only is it useless, but you also lose a bunch of descendants!"

Unfortunately, Xie Yang could not understand.

She only knew that the dagger had been retrieved, and the Mutant vegetation had obediently cleared a path.

She raised an eyebrow, feeling that the Mutant vegetation in this area seemed particularly intelligent; could it be that they had evolved?

Thinking of this, she could not help but frown.

Humans had not yet evolved, but Mutant animals and plants had evolved a step ahead; how was this war supposed to be fought?

"Oh no! She's frowning! She's thinking about how to deal with us! Help—run away!"

"I'm retreating! I'm retreating! I'm retreating, retreating, retreating! If I can't afford to offend her, can't I at least hide?"

Consequently, Xie Yang discovered with surprise that the Mutant Vine that had always wanted to entangle her and the Mutant Thorn that acted like a roadblock had actually receded like a tide.

In the blink of an eye, this dense Orchard returned to its former clarity, with not a single Mutant plant left behind.

"!!!"

Han Xinyi widened her eyes in disbelief.

The Orchard, laden with fruit, had just opened its doors to them like this?

Xie Yang casually picked a Sapodilla, peeled the skin, and took a bite.

She discovered that the Sapodilla in the Orchard tasted even better than the ones Han Xinyi had given her.

The ones Han Xinyi gave her were picked from the outer perimeter.

It was as if the ones inside the Orchard were carefully cultivated varieties, while the ones on the outer perimeter were wild fruits moved out after thinning and left to grow naturally.

The effects were more or less the same, but the taste was quite different.

Xie Yang clapped her hands and called out to the stunned Han Xinyi: "What are you still standing there for? Let's pick them together!"

For this reason, she even cleared out a Backpack Slot specifically for collecting Sapodilla.

Having discovered another local specialty that could serve as a gift, how could she not hoard a bit more?

Keeping some to eat herself, and later donating some to the state for research into anti-cancer, cancer-causing, and cardiovascular treatment drugs would also be quite good.

Besides Sapodilla, there were fist-sized Jabuticaba, Spiny Horn Melon that helped relieve kidney and urinary system issues, White Olive with its extremely low yield, and Miracle Fruit with its bright colors and sweet-and-sour taste, among others.

As long as it had nutritional or medicinal value, Xie Yang picked, picked, picked! Hoarded, hoarded, hoarded!

This god-forsaken Survival Game had wasted a year of her time leaving her to struggle for survival in such a sorry state; giving her some in-game supplies could be considered a form of indirect compensation.

Survival Game System: 【...】

You walking bug, you still have the nerve to say that!