Sunlight came through the gaps in the trunk, forming thin pillars of light that brought a bit of light to the hollow inside of the trunk.
One of the beams of light slowly fell on the man leaning against the trunk, reflecting his long silver hair that almost reached the ground, shining slightly.
Xu Fengqing looked at him and couldn’t help sighing with relief.
He had just been called to eat by his mother, and had been away for ten minutes. He had constantly worried about whether this person would be discovered by the interstellar beasts if left alone.
Seeing that the man was safe and sound, and not taken away by wild animals, Xu Fengqing’s worry fell to the ground.
Xu Fengqing couldn’t help laughing at himself when he recalled the meal that seemed like a war just now, and thinking about the nervousness during the meal.
Unexpectedly, he would also have a day when he was addicted to games.
This was indeed a new thing for him, who had always been self-disciplined and rigorous, never making a mistake.
At this time, Xu Fengqing’s heart suddenly moved.
His eyes fell on the man’s face. This person’s complexion was very white, a sickly white that hadn’t seen the sun all year round. It made the abnormal blush on his face very conspicuous.
Xu Fengqing bent down slightly and reached out a hand toward him.
At this time, the man’s brow was slightly furrowed, revealing a trace of unbearable pain.
Xu Fengqing looked at him and the outstretched palm paused. Finally, he touched the man’s forehead to test his temperature.
It was very hot. There was no need to measure it with any instruments to know that this temperature was abnormal.
Not only was he unconscious, but he now had a high fever.
Xu Fengqing’s gaze fell on the legs that were empty below the knees.
If left alone in this dangerous wilderness, he would probably die of illness even if he wasn’t eaten by wild beasts.
Xu Fengqing sighed helplessly.
After carrying the silver-haired man out of the underground cave yesterday, he evaded the monitor lizards’ tracking and ran in a panic. Finally, he managed to get rid of them when crossing a small stream.
He escaped their pursuit but was lost in the jungle. He could no longer return to the cave where he was born, let alone the place where he picked up the silver-haired man.
He briefly bandaged the man’s injuries before continuing down the stream, trying to get out of this primeval jungle first.
The road wasn’t smooth and he would be attacked by interstellar beasts from time to time. Fortunately, the basic attributes of this account were indeed very strong. After reaching level 10, he could run quickly even if he didn’t stimulate his bloodline power.
Even so, he was in a state of exhaustion.
This lasted until noon today, when Mother Xu called to remind him because he hadn’t been out of his room for a long time. He chose to put the man in this tree hollow and come back after going offline to eat.
All this way, he had only focused on running for his life and hadn’t paid attention to the man’s state. Now he had a high fever, which made Xu Fengqing feel difficult.
He glanced at the communicator icon again.
In fact, it wasn’t that he didn’t want to ask his younger brother Xu Yuheng for help, but Starry Sky Age was a holographic game with 99% realism.
Players didn’t have a system map.
In other words, players had to explore the map by themselves in the game. Meanwhile, he was located in a primeval jungle and he didn’t have this method.
So even if he asked for help, he couldn’t solve his urgent needs because he didn’t know where he was at all.
The entire Escher Star was so big. Apart from the one-third that was ocean, the rest of the continent was basically primeval jungles and forests.
How could he identify the specific location?
Or… if he went to the game team, he should be able to get the coordinates of his birth place. It would be much easier with the coordinates. The problem was…
Xu Fengqing couldn’t say it.
Originally, it was a mistake for him to use this account. The most correct and suitable way was for him to return this special game cabin and stop doing anything that affected the balance of the game.
However, Xu Fengqing looked at the silver-haired man in front of him with a bit of struggle in his eyes.
If he returned the game cabin, what would this person here do? Would he die here?
The answer to this question was almost inevitable.
Not only did he have a high fever, but also a disability. How could such a person survive alone in this primeval jungle full of interstellar beasts?
Xu Fengqing sighed and slowly straightened up.
He knew in his heart that this person was an NPC, a piece of virtual data, but he still couldn’t leave the man to die.
So let’s wait until he was saved and sent to a safe place.
In this state, the man couldn’t survive alone in the jungle, so he must have a partner in the jungle.
Or maybe Roland’s main city wasn’t far away?
Xu Fengqing was still optimistic about this. But the priority now was to treat this NPC. He couldn’t be allowed to have a fever like this.
Xu Fengqing got up and left the tree hole, casually placing a shadow over it.
This was the dark skill he got when he reached level 5. He could control shadows. The level wasn’t high and the shadow area that could be controlled was limited, but it was more than enough to block a hole.
Xu Fengqing turned into a shadow and walked cautiously through the jungle.
This was his second life-saving skill, which was automatically acquired when he reached level 10. He moved a bit slower but at least he didn’t have to worry about being attacked by interstellar beasts.
He could vaguely hear the roar of beasts in the distance, as well as the riot of flying interstellar beasts in the sky. They were so far away but he could still feel the vibrations of the ground.
With such momentum, he was afraid that ordinary people would lose their lives if they got closer.
Xu Fengqing cautiously didn’t go in that direction.
He could be resurrected after death as a player, but now he wasn’t alone. Who knew what would happen during the half an hour period before he could be resurrected?
Speaking of which, as far as he knew, there were two ways for players to resurrect. It was at the birth place and in place. In-place resurrection could only be used ten times a day while the birth point resurrection had no limit.
Yet strangely, his account wasn’t bound to a birth point. He could only be resurrected in place now.
This was probably one of the costs of being strong.
Xu Fengqing first went to a stream to get water. The container was made from local materials. There were all types of plants growing in this jungle.
The container he found was the leaves of a plant. The leaves were flexible and shaped like a bowl. He could scoop up water and place it in his personal backpack.
It was a pity that they couldn’t be stacked up. His backpack only had the initial 10 grids and he couldn’t put anything more than that.
After fetching water, he picked up dry firewood. In the end, he couldn’t find any herbs that he knew. Therefore, Xu Fengqing could only return to the tree hole first.
He had just returned when he saw a giant-toothed tiger hovering near the tree hole in the distance. This made his heart rise to his throat.
Fortunately, with the cover of the shadow he had laid down, the ferocious beast didn’t find anything. In the end, it was attracted by other movements and left.
Xu Fengqing waited for a moment to confirm that there were no more interstellar beasts nearby. Then he moved over and the shadow disappeared into the tree hole.
After strengthening the shadow at the entrance of the hole and holding up a shadow ‘tent’ inside the tree hole to ensure that light wouldn’t leak, he took out firewood and started a fire.
He had been cultivated as the family’s heir since he was a child, so almost all his time was scheduled. He didn’t spend much time with his two younger brothers.
After Xiao Li’s accidental death in the plane crash, he had always regretted it. It was just that as the pillar of the family, he couldn’t show too many fragile emotions.
At that time, he thought about strengthening his relationship with Ah Heng. He knew that Ah Heng liked to run outside and participate in extreme sports, so he secretly learned some wilderness survival skills, ready to go with Ah Heng.
Unfortunately, due to Xiao Li’s accident, Ah Heng was depressed for a while and gave up this hobby. Naturally, Xu Fengqing didn’t use this knowledge.
Unexpectedly, now it came in handy.
Xu Fengqing lit a fire and built a shelf with stones. Then he took out the bowl-shaped leaves he had just collected outside and tried to throw them into the fire.
According to the introduction, this plant wasn’t afraid of fire. Looking at the leaves that were still existing tenaciously in the fire, Xu Fengqing nodded with satisfaction.
He took out the leaf filled with water and heated it on the fire.
He didn’t dare drink the stream water directly. He didn’t feel at ease even when using it to wash his hands.
Xu Fengqing glanced at the still-unconscious man and thought of something. He quickly rummaged through his personal backpack.
In addition to the gems he obtained from his birthplace and what he collected outside, there was also the novice gift pack.
He took out the novice gift pack and directly opened it.
[Ding~ Congratulations on obtaining Escher coins +10,000, Roland faction reputation +100.]
Faction reputation…
Xu Fengqing looked at the explanation about reputation and explored around the game interface.
He rarely played games and wasn’t very proficient in the operation. It took him a while to finally find out where the faction warehouse was and to read the relevant instructions.
In order to exchange things from the faction warehouse, he needed to accumulate 100 reputation points and reach the ‘Friendly’ status. Xu Fengqing just happened to meet the conditions.
He looked again at what could be exchanged in the faction warehouse. It was mainly equipment, transportation, food, and… medicine?
He quickly studied it.
It was a pity that the medicine wasn’t what he imagined, but health recovery medicine and blue medicine.
At present, there were wood, iron and copper quality health medicines that could be exchanged. One bottle could return 2,000, 4,000 or 6,000 health respectively. It corresponded to 10, 20 and 30 points of reputation to exchange.
Xu Fengqing frowned and looked back at the man.
[???]
[Level: Unfathomable]
It was estimated that the difference in strength was too great, preventing him from seeing the other person’s information. Naturally, he couldn’t see the specific health of this NPC.
He thought for a while. Then he reached out and patted the man’s shoulder lightly.
Miss!
A reminder popped up above the man’s head but no health bar appeared.
Xu Fengqing was helpless. This was a weak patient. He couldn’t use more force against this person.
Forget it.
He pulled up the man’s jacket, which had slipped off somewhat, and gently tucked it around the man’s thin shoulders.
Xu Fengqing had never seen such a thin man. He placed a hand on the shoulder and felt like he only touched hard bones. The only remaining arm was also very thin.
He couldn’t help thinking of the underground cave.
There had been a fight there before he arrived and the man didn’t suffer much.
How had he done it?
Xu Fengqing shook his head. Then seeing the man’s furrowed brow and the way he trembled slightly, Xu Fengqing simply sat down next to the man.
His arms gently hugged the man, so that the man could lean on him instead of the hard and rough trunk. This also allowed the man to draw a bit of warmth.
Then Xu Fengqing looked at his health again.
A little over 10,000.
This NPC was stronger than him. There must be at least 50,000 health or higher.
Meanwhile, the health medicine that his current reputation could exchange for could only restore 20,000 health at most… so the health medicine could only be used for an emergency, not for routine use. Whether this NPC could survive or not depended on his own luck.
Xu Fengqing exchanged 20 points of reputation for a bottle of iron quality health medicine. He took it out of his backpack and carefully fed it to the man.
Seeing the furrowed brow relax a bit, Xu Fengqing nodded secretly. It was fine as long as it worked.
Then he stared at the water.
After the water boiled, a piece of cloth was torn from the man’s clothes.
His clothes were the initial system clothes and couldn’t be torn.
He rinsed the cloth, soaked it in hot water and wrung it dry. He had just finished wiping the man’s face when he saw the light-colored eyelashes tremble slightly. Finally, he opened those purple eyes that inexplicably stunned Xu Fengqing the first time they met.
Their eyes met again.
Xu Fengqing put down the cloth in his hand and asked, “Are you awake?”
The man’s eyes were dull and it was obvious that his consciousness wasn’t clear yet.
He opened his slightly chapped lips but didn’t make a sound.
Xu Fengqing tested his forehead. The hot temperature still hadn’t dropped but at least he had woken up.
Xu Fengqing took out the boiled water he had just put in his backpack and carefully fed it to the man’s mouth. He wet the man’s lips first and waited for the man to instinctively look for the water source. Then he raised his hand slightly and fed it to the other person.
After drinking the water, the man closed his eyes and fell asleep again.
His expression had obviously relaxed a lot. Once the dry and chapped lips were moisturized, they had a light luster and had regained a bit of a red color.
Xu Fengqing put down the leaf, picked up the cloth again and wrung it a bit. Then he started wiping the other person’s forehead and neck again to help him cool down.
Finally, he took the remaining left hand and gently helped wipe off the dirt and blood on it.
“Thank you…”
A voice as thin as a mosquito was heard.
Xu Fengqing looked up. He saw that the man had opened his eyes a bit with some difficulty. He looked over and spoke with great effort.
There was gratitude in these eyes, but also some type of sad emotion in them.
Xu Fengqing looked at him, before lowering his head and continuing to help clean the mud from his fingers. Xu Fengqing asked casually, “What is your name?”
“Xe…”
Xu Fengqing heard only one character clearly.
“Then I will call you Ah Xe.” He looked into the man’s eyes and asked, “Do you still want to drink water?”
The man shook his head before his eyelids closed heavily.
Xu Fengqing didn’t bother him. There was no medicine and Ah Xe needed more sleep to ward off the illness.
Next, he exchanged for one catty of Black Valley from the faction warehouse and started to boil water for cooking.
It was getting dark outside.
On the other side, the battle of the first day for the City of Braves was also nearing its end.
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