Chapter 1
As soon as the time limit was up, Li Ang opened his eyes again and found himself still wearing the bulletproof vest and other equipment he had worn when he entered, standing in a jungle.

He looked up at the sky and saw the tranquil night sky was extremely clear. A round moon surrounded by a hazy halo hung high, but there wasn't a single star around it.

If it weren't for a few wisps of drifting dark clouds lazily floating by, one would have mistaken the dome for a static oil painting.

Under the cold moonlight, Li Ang scanned his surroundings and found that he was probably in a subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forest. Orchid plants and moss lichens grew on the ground, and shrubs and ferns flourished. In addition to common trees such as Fagaceae, Lauraceae, and Magnoliaceae, there was also a type of tree that Li Ang couldn't identify at all.

This tree had dark brown bark that peeled off in scaly flakes, branches that were almost horizontal, short, thick needles, and a pyramidal crown, similar to a North American shortleaf pine, but the trunk was extremely twisted and bizarre. Many trees even grew horizontally along the ground, with trunks on both sides propping up the ground, and the middle section of the trunk and crown suddenly rising.

It looked like... a living person crawling on the ground.

Li Ang's expression remained unchanged, and he activated the Cat's Eye effect. He didn't see any traces of humans hiding in these strange pine trees.

He didn't relax his vigilance at all. He gripped the three-edged bone spear tightly and poked the strange pine tree from a distance. After there was nothing unusual, he used the spear blade to dig off a piece of bark and wood, and examined it carefully. There was still nothing wrong.

Li Ang put the pine tree fragments into his backpack and found that his phone had no signal, the walkie-talkie was full of static, the GPS positioning device was malfunctioning, and the drone couldn't be turned on for some reason.

"This forest is strange."

Chai Da小姐 (Miss Chai) said softly, "It gives me a bad feeling."

"Yeah."

Li Ang nodded, put away the drone and other items, and said silently, "Like the last time at Guhan Temple, the script mission didn't arrange any special identity for me.

"That is to say, it is very likely that I don't need to communicate with the characters in the script world.

"Even if I do, they don't care about my strange appearance."

The most important thing is, where are my teammates?

This script mission was a team effort, but from just now until now, Li Ang hadn't found any traces of other living people.

Even if he listened carefully, he could only hear the chirping of insects and birds, the rustling of the wind, and the sound of small rodents or insects crawling back and forth on the pile of fallen leaves.

Those who can be matched with Li Ang won't be too far off in level, at least they can be regarded as players who already know most of the survival methods and have a certain combat ability.

It's impossible for them to be silently wiped out.

The only explanation is that the system didn't match them together at the beginning, but scattered them throughout the forest.

The reason for doing this is probably very simple. The hidden dangers in the forest cannot pose a life threat to a group of players, but they are very lethal to lone players...

Sha, sha, sha, sha—

A dense sound of a group of wild beasts' feet stepping on fallen leaves and stirring up dust sounded in the depths of the dense forest. Without thinking, Li Ang bent down and took off the low-light infrared night vision device from his helmet, using the night vision device to spy on the jungle.

Li Ang clearly saw a group of non-human and non-beast monsters rushing from afar.

Their bodies were similar to humans, with an average length of about 1.5 meters. Their skin was pale and hairless, they were not wearing clothes, their backs were curved, and they crawled quickly on all fours. Their hands and feet were unusually large, and their fingernails were extremely sharp.

In addition, their skulls protruded forward, cone-shaped. Their faces vaguely had human facial contours,

But their eyes had degenerated into a slit, their noses were pointed, and their upper and lower lips were gone, so you could only see their gums and serrated fangs exposed to the air.

These monsters surrounded him from all directions, numbering about a hundred or so, with a very manic aura.

During their running process, the monsters would pant desperately like hounds, and the turbid airflow spewed from their mouths was clearly visible in the low-light infrared night vision device.

Anyone with half a brain would know that these things didn't run over to be Li Ang's simps.

Li Ang observed that they were like a pack of wolves, swarming from all directions and surrounding him to weave an encirclement. He immediately made a decision—run.

The mission objective given by the system was to go to the Williams Manor, not to stand here and fight these monsters with unknown combat power head-on.

Li Ang ran forward a few steps, and the three-edged bone spear in his hand slammed into the ground. The whole person leaped high like a pole vaulter.

When he was about to land, he slammed his feet on the trunk of a tree.

He rose again for a distance, leaping out of the canopy.

The wind whistled past his ears, and Li Ang clearly saw that in the distance at the foot of a mountain, a clearing had been artificially opened up. In the center of the clearing stood a large Victorian manor.

The manor's buildings were quite large, with an overall Victorian architectural style. Giant trees were shaded on both sides, and there was a large flower bed divided into four petals in front, with a fountain with an angel statue in the middle.

Since his figure was still falling, Li Ang's dynamic vision could only barely see the bright lights shining in the living room of the manor's main building.

That should be the Williams Manor referred to in the mission objective...

Li Ang stepped and leaped on the tree canopy branches. The monsters below him surged like a tide, following him.

Among them, some aliens stretched out their fan-like palms, clasped the trunks of the trees, and quickly climbed up the canopy, swinging and jumping forward as nimbly as apes.

These aliens were like a closely cooperating pack of wolves, but it was impossible to see how they were connected to each other. They were just silent, like pliers, flanking from left and right, gradually closing the encirclement of Li Ang.

"Please don't chase me, I don't have any cough syrup on me."

Li Ang was a little helpless. Seeing an alien swinging forward in the canopy pouncing on him, he directly activated the Cat's Eye effect, trying to make it fall into an illusion.

The illusion had no effect on the alien. The other party was not affected or interfered with at all. Instead, it opened its fangs, stretched its claws forward, and wanted to rip Li Ang open from the back while he was in mid-air.

"Get lost."

Li Ang thrust out a shot with his backhand. The attribute value far exceeding that of players of the same level, coupled with the increase of the Ripple Breathing Technique, directly pierced the alien's chest.

The location where Li Ang stabbed was roughly the human heart. The touch from his hand also clearly experienced the feeling of chiseling open the ribs and piercing the heart.

The alien was hung on the barrel of the gun, but it was not completely dead. It just struggled violently, and its hands subconsciously grabbed the barrel, thinking about pulling itself down.

Li Ang released Ripple energy attached to the barrel of the gun. The alien monster at the blade of the gun immediately screamed shrilly, and bursts of black and white smoke rose from the wound.

Undead? Or a negative energy creature?

Li Ang's toes didn't stop, and he continued to leap and run wildly towards the mansion. He shook the barrel of the gun in his hand and pierced another alien that pounced over. In just a few breaths, the barrel of the gun was covered with monster corpses. From a distance, it looked as if he was holding a string of fried skewers and flying in the canopy.