Life or death

In the afternoon, among the trees in the forest, Ye Chen, who was walking while taking his last bite of dried meat, suddenly stopped and sighed.

It had been almost six hours since Ye Chen left Siqing village, and during the six hour journey, he had almost used up his supplies. At first, he thought that the supplies he prepared at the beginning were more than enough to get to Dayun village, but he didn't expect that his food and drink consumption on the journey was so large.

Now, his supplies were really running low, and the bad news was that he didn't know when they would reach other villages. His luck was also bad, during the journey, he didn't find other people, or even animals that could be hunted.

Seeing that it was approaching evening, Ye Chen was really helpless and chose to find a temporary resting place until tomorrow morning.

Actually, he didn't want to waste time in this kind of wilderness, but he knew that walking in the forest at night, especially alone, would be much more risky. Especially wild animals like wolves which always hunt in groups and are very difficult to deal with.

Fortunately, when the sky was not completely dark, Ye Chen found a small gap at the foot of the mountain. It cannot be said to be a cave, because the small gap that looks covered in weeds can only be entered by one person. Moreover, even though the inside of the crevice was slightly larger at one and a half meters in height and width, it was impossible for the cave to be a nest of wild beasts.

"Haah...."

lying down on the ground in the cave, Ye Chen immediately felt helplessness and extreme fatigue starting to hit his body.

Never thought at the beginning that a trip that seemed easy would turn out to be so tiring and boring.

Smiling wryly, Ye Chen threw away all the thoughts in his head and started to close his eyes to rest while waiting for tomorrow. Just at the same time Ye Chen was breathing and closing his eyes, he suddenly smelled a sweet aroma in the cave, and couldn't help but immediately wake up.

Then stood up quickly and once again tried to detect the arrival of the sweet aroma, Ye Chen immediately discovered that it came from inside the cave, or more precisely in the depths of the cave.

This discovery made Ye Chen excited, he didn't expect that someone would give him a pillow when he wanted to sleep.

"Really fruity!"

Ye Chen was excited and couldn't help but smile when he saw what he found after entering five meters into the cave. It was a tree that was actually only one meter tall, but had five bright yellow fruits the size of a baby's fist quietly growing in the darkness of the cave.

Of course Ye Chen didn't know that kind of fruit, but from the sweet aroma, he thought this fruit could definitely be eaten. To be more precise, he also immediately stretched out his hand to try one.

But then, Ye Chen immediately felt a sense of crisis, and a black figure flew towards him accompanied by pain that immediately came from his hand.

"Ah!"

He screamed and retreated backwards while flailing his right arm.

"Damn!"

Ye Chen immediately gritted his teeth when he found out that what was attacking him was a snake, and even bite marks had been printed on the back of his hand.

Careless!

Ye Chen couldn't help but think about how stupid he was. This was the wilderness, and dangerous things would definitely accompany him. A little carelessness could really result in fatal consequences.

At the same time, Ye Chen also immediately felt that his whole body was starting to heat up.

"Poisonous snake? Damn it!" Ye Chen was really angry and turned his head towards the snake on the ground.

Black in color with white patterns all over its body, the snake which had the thickness of an adult pira's arm, but was only one meter long, was currently sticking out its tongue with a hissing sound, and staring at Ye Chen with its pale yellow eyes in the darkness.

"I will kill you!"

Ye Chen was furious, and started to take out a small sword to tear the snake apart. But what he didn't know was that the snake was really agile. No matter how many times Ye Chen tried to cut it, the snake would twist to the right and left easily. The snake's speed and reaction were completely beyond his understanding.

At the same time, a hot, burning feeling began to become more and more intense throughout his body, and even the right hand that had been bitten by the snake began to tremble.

"Damn! Damn! Stop dodging!"

Ye Chen became furious and chased after him fiercely. However, the snake seemed to be teasing him, not giving him a chance at all and always being able to dodge easily. Even if Ye Chen tried to cut it hundreds of times, the snake was completely able to avoid it.

In the end, Ye Chen who felt that his body was starting to get wet with sweat, and numb because the snake's poison was starting to work tried to calm himself down.

He couldn't continue like this, he had to think of a way, and decided to slowly walk towards the snake which was looking at him coldly.

With his right hand starting to tremble, Ye Chen planned to catch it empty-handed.

Of course the snake would not allow humans to catch itself easily, especially humans like Ye Chen. But this time, it didn't dodge, because Ye Chen only used his bare hands, the snake started sticking out its head and nimbly immediately bit Ye Chen's right hand again.

"Ah!" Ye Chen once again screamed because of the pain of being bitten, but coldness suddenly appeared in his eyes, and his left hand which was holding a small sword quickly slashed out.

Slash

The snake was completely cut into two parts. One part of its body fell to the ground, while the other part was still attached because its head firmly bit Ye Chen's hand.

"Unlucky!"

Taking half of the snake's body while grimacing from the pain, Ye Chen threw his body against the cave wall angrily.

After that, Ye Chen's body suddenly became shaky and finally fell to the ground, but he was not happy at all and tried his best to get up. But it was useless, because the annoying snake's poison had almost paralyzed his entire body.

Ye Chen didn't give up, even though he couldn't stand up, he could still crawl, and with great difficulty, finally arrived at the fruit that caused the catastrophe at the beginning.

Taking one with his left hand, Ye Chen decisively without thinking about any risks started to bite it and swallowed it into his stomach.

No matter what, whether the fruit was poisonous or not, Ye Chen was sure that the fruit was definitely not as simple as having a bastard snake guarding it. Even if it is poisonous, without eating it he will definitely die from poison. So he could only bet that the fruit would bring him a miracle.

Unfortunately, the word "luck" never seemed to be on his side.

Just as the whole fruit was swallowed, a burning sensation stronger than snake venom suddenly exploded in his stomach. Then it spread throughout his body, and a pain that he couldn't bear came.

"Ah!" Ye Chen started screaming and rolling around in the cave crazily.

I don't know how much time has passed, the sound in the cave finally stopped, and the silent cave without movement once again became quiet.