Julia is back to the jungle, a dense forest without any path. Without any leads, it’s like trying to walk through a wall of leaves.Since she didn’t find Dwayne in the cave, she believes that Jimmy must have already casted him out just like her. All she can do is call for his name by diving deeper into the nowhere.“Dwayne! Where are you? Please, answer me!”Sadly, her naïve calls are only answered by the monkeys. Terrified, she fastens her steps and stumbles a few times.One might think going back to nature must be so great with interesting adventures. But the jungle is so wild even the grass won’t let you pass them without scraping your skin.Not to mention the lousy mosquito bite.“Aw!”“Woo, shit! It’s so big!”“River! I need to find a river. They said where there is a river, there’s civilization!”It’s a good mindset indeed. But, for a clueless city girl like her, finding a river is as hard as finding her way out.In Serene Den, Jimmy is now explaining in brief to the others the f
After seeing the changes in the quest conditions, Jimmy is confirmed that this 'Hunting System' considers Dwayne, Peter, Tyler, and Julia as part of his hunting party.Now he needs to kill 14 Dread Rheas and 29 Zombies, as requirements to complete the ‘Clearing Leawel Isles Lv.1’ quest in a party.He doesn’t care about the number of Zombies that needs to be killed. They were quite easy to hunt and there are quite a lot of them. But the story is different for Dread Rheas.“So, we have to hunt at least 14 rheas, and then we can go home?” Marco squints.Zoe raises one of her hands. “Um, what is this rhea thing?”“It’s a type of bird similar to ostriches,” says Marco.Zoe then shows her contorted face to Jimmy. “Then, what does the bird have to do with the necklace you mentioned earlier?”Jimmy sighs, seeming reluctant to reveal everything about his ‘Hunting System. He simply takes some items from his inventory, and starts making some preparation.“You just stay here! I’m going to look foo
They take the risk to look for their way back to Serene Den. But they actually get lost in the jungle.“Daamn! Didn’t we take this route before?” asks Dwayne, squinting, trying his best to observe his surroundings in the dark, only lit by the light of the two moons penetrating the dense leaves.“I don’t know, man! It looks different, but same,” says Tyler unsurely.“What do you mean?”“What do you expect me to say? We’re lost! Just admit it already!”They keep looking their way back to the previous cave under the waterfall, until they find a river. However, instead of going upstream, they are now running hectically following the river heading to the coastline.It’s not that they are stupid. They are getting away from something they don’t even know what exactly it is.“Are you sure!” asks Tyler as he catches up to Dwayne.“I’m not sure! But it’s big,” replies Dwayne in fear.“It could just be a tree trunk!”“No! It’s something else!”On the other hand, the Serene Den is shrouded in sere
It’s not that hard for him to understand the situation. Now he remembers that he isn’t allowed to die during the hunt, and it seems that also applies to all his party members.He begins to be so hectic, looking for the 6 rat monsters which have entered the cave. As he finds them, he goes crazy shooting the rats while letting out his war cry loudly.“Fucking, annoying rats! Die!!!It isn’t clear if he is angry at those rats, or he is angry for the fact he has to also keep the people he hates the most; Dwayne, Peter, Tyler, and Julia, alive.With zero composure, he spews all his bullets blindly. With that many targets, he is only able to hit one.“What’s going on with him?” Zoe mutters to herself. “Marco! Could it be because he didn’t get enough sleep last night?”“If that’s the problem, then I should have let him sleep the whole night,” Marco deplores with a weak voice.While Jimmy is reloading the gun with a new magazine, all the rats get out of the cave. They leave him with so much di
Now, because it has been passed many times, a path has been formed leading to the river. Julia finds no difficulty at all following it.A few moments later, she hears Zoe’s excited laughter. She stands behind the bushes, observing Zoe who is completely naked, having fun in the freshwater.“Come on, Cynthia! Take off your clothes!” Zoe invites in half shouting.“Naaah!” Cynthia declines as she keeps skinning the dead rhea with a knife. “It’s going to take a while for me to clean a chicken this big. I’m dead hungry. I want to grill this one as soon as possible.”Julia stays there for quite a while, with whatever kind of thought she has in her mind.As she keeps observing them, Julia’s grip on the crowbar is getting tightened. Her face looks so sour full of emotion, unlike the pitiful pale face she has been showing inside Serene Den.She steps forward, but accidentally steps on a dry twig. Immediately, she gets down right before Cynthia looks in her direction.Cynthia abandons her work.
It hits Jimmy so hard that he is flung two meters away and falls into a deeper part of the river. The snake isn’t letting that chance slip, and immediately slithers toward him.Jimmy clearly sees the snake’s head underwater, while the gun is no longer in his hand. And there’s no way to issue any command now.Just as the snake opens its mouth to eat Jimmy, it suddenly behaves strangely. It’s thrashing around like it's in so much pain.Jimmy has the opportunity to bring his head above the surface, and immediately swims to the nearest river bank, even though he has to get closer to the snake.And then…“Inventory! Box No. 6!”…“Yes!”A shotgun appears in the air and drops. It’s a pump-action semi-automatic shotgun with 20-gauge shells.“Kachk!” He pumps once, and then shoots the snake’s body at point-blank range.Boom!The snake raises its head from the water, opening its mouth wide, either in pain or it is angry at Jimmy.As soon as it turns its head toward Jimmy…“Kachk! Boom!”One sh
Julia looks so frustrated, before she averts her attention to Dwayne. “We need to do something! I’m telling you! He is our key to get back to Summerfield!”Dwayne doesn’t say a word. He then glances at the crowbar in his hand, with whatever thought he has in his mind.Later, he also ignores Julia. He doesn’t follow Tyler, but heading toward the river.“Hey, Dwayne!” Peter calls as he rushes to prevent him. “You want to confront that guy with just a crowbar! Are you out of your mind?”Apparently, Dwayne goes to the river only to pick the dead rhea abandoned by Marco. He picks it and then throws it toward Peter. Somehow, there’s still some confidence in his face.“A crowbar is enough! But first, we need food! You can’t win a war without food!”It’s a good thing they have meat to eat now. However, none of them knows how to make fire. It doesn’t even cross their minds about the importance of fire, but they look so excited for having something to eat.***Two days have passed in Summerfield
The third day on the Leawel Isles, Jimmy still has to continue the hunt, in the grassy lowland, located between the forest and the coastline.As Marco speculated, this place is indeed the rheas' favorite habitat, something Jimmy has never thought of before.“You see! One of the most important things in hunting is to know the habits and habitat of your prey,” explains Marco in a whisper.Unlike before, they bring Cynthia and Zoe along, but don’t give the two girls bow guns. This is better than leaving the two of them in the cave.The grass around them is quite tall, making it easy for them to approach their prey quietly. Not to mention Marco, who is also quite talented with a bow gun and rarely misses his target.They only need to kill 6 rheas, and manage to accomplish this even before midday. Everything is done by Marco alone, while Jimmy hasn’t hit a single rhea at all.“You see! We don’t need to immediately kill them!” Marco hands over his bow gun at Jimmy. “After injuring one rhea,