The Tang dao fell from the tree, slicing through all the branches it encountered.
It even cut into the ground, as if a searing hot knife were being plunged into butter…
"This Tang dao is incredibly sharp!"
Sweat beaded on Ye Feng's forehead. If he hadn't let go in time, he might have been cut by the Tang dao…
Fortunately, the branch he had used to build his tent was over two meters in diameter; otherwise, that strike would have severed it.
"Phew!"
Ye Feng let out a sigh of relief, climbed down the tree, and approached the Tang dao.
At this moment, Ye Feng was troubled, as his grip just now indicated he wasn't strong enough to lift the Tang dao.
"Should I add some power?"
Ye Feng hesitated.
He felt this Tang dao was very peculiar. The extreme heaviness he had just felt was also unusual, not like ordinary weight.
The next second, Ye Feng, as if possessed, gripped the hilt of the Tang dao.
"Huh?"
Ye Feng was surprised.
Because he didn't feel that immense heaviness anymore. With a slight effort, he managed to pull the Tang dao out of the stone a little.
"This...?"
Ye Feng was perplexed.
He tried pulling it out, eventually freeing the Tang dao and holding it in his hand. He even swung it a few times, but there was no sign of the initial, overwhelming heaviness.
"Forget it, I'll eat first~"
After puzzling for a long time with no results, Ye Feng decided to stop thinking about it.
Brushing his teeth, washing his face, and eating breakfast, after a series of actions, Ye Feng once again set out to search for zombies.
What was different this time was that Ye Feng wasn't carrying a fire axe, but the extremely sharp Tang dao he had just acquired!
…
At noon, under the scorching sun,
Ye Feng returned to his campsite, feeling somewhat dejected.
He had traveled a considerable distance that morning, scouring a large area, and had only managed to kill five zombies.
"It seems most of the zombies here have already been killed by me~"
Ye Feng retracted his binoculars and muttered, preparing to climb the tree to make lunch.
"Huh? What's going on?"
Halfway up the tree, Ye Feng frowned. He heard a noise coming from where he had set up his tent.
"Did a bird accidentally fly in? Or a monster?"
Ye Feng cautiously climbed higher, tiptoed to the outside of the tent, drew his Tang dao, and suddenly flipped open the tent flap.
"Ah!"
A piercing shriek immediately erupted.
Although the sound was sharp, Ye Feng could tell that the person had a pleasant vocal timbre.
He looked closely and saw that the source of the scream was a girl who looked about eight or nine years old, dressed in a JK uniform and black stockings, appearing truly pretty and lovable.
However, the JK uniform was quite damaged, and the stockings had runs…
"Who… who are you?"
The scream lasted for a while before the JK uniform girl's voice, filled with confusion, sounded out.
"Shouldn't I be asking you that? What are you doing in my tent?"
Ye Feng was somewhat annoyed.
The noise from his tent hadn't been a bird, nor was it a monster he was worried about. It was a girl in a JK uniform?
"Your… your tent?"
The JK uniform girl looked at Ye Feng with a questioning gaze.
"Of course! How did you get here? And you're stealing my food!"
Ye Feng glared at her with some dissatisfaction.
This place was more than ten meters above the ground, and the tree was difficult to climb.
He had thought that by setting up his tent here, there would be no problem, but a little girl had run in? If he had been any later, his food and water might have been gone…
"I… I found this place first. It’s… it’s mine…"
"But if you're hungry, I can share some of my food with you~"
The JK uniform girl glanced at Ye Feng weakly, then offered a plump little bun to Ye Feng.
"I…"
"???"
Ye Feng's mind was full of question marks. This person was offering to share his own bread with him?
What kind of logic was that?!
"What do you mean you found it first? This is clearly where I set up camp, and those were my provisions!"
Ye Feng looked at the JK uniform girl, quite speechless.
"I… I was hungry, so I came out to look for food, and I found my way here… I thought those provisions were unclaimed…"
The JK girl seemed to understand that the place she had found originally had an owner, and that owner had now returned.
"I… What's your name?"
Based on the girl's attire and appearance, Ye Feng deduced that she was unlikely to be a native.
The natives he had encountered before wore coarse linen clothes that were not only old but also had many patches.
As for the girl in front of him, although her JK uniform was damaged, it was clearly new. As for the black stockings… emmm…
"I'm called Xiao Xiao, the 'xiao' from small~"
The JK girl nodded and then said to Ye Feng crisply, "Can… can I have a piece of food?"
"A piece of food?"
Ye Feng frowned, pointing at the bun in her hand, "Don't you know what that thing you're holding is called?"
"I don't know~ But I know it's edible~"
Xiao Xiao shook her head.
"Oh my goodness!"
Ye Feng became even more speechless. What was going on with this JK girl?
If she had transmigrated like him, it was unlikely she wouldn't recognize bread. And the natives seemed to know what bread was too?
Yet, this Xiao Xiao in front of him didn't recognize bread, only that it was edible?
"I… can I have a piece of food? I haven't eaten in three days~"
At this moment, Xiao Xiao's clear and pleasant voice rang out again, her eyes filled with anticipation as she looked at the bun in her hand.
"That thing is called bread, go ahead and eat it~"
Now, Ye Feng hardly had to worry about food anymore. Not to mention the daily refreshes of the [Shop], his current strength was enough to go hunting without major issues.
"Thank you, big brother!"
Hearing Ye Feng's words, Xiao Xiao's eyes lit up. She directly bit open the packaging with her teeth and began to devour it.
"Hey, hey~ That bread will expand, eat slowly, be careful not to choke~"
Seeing this, Ye Feng quickly opened a bottle of mineral water and handed it to her, gesturing for her to take a sip.
"Cough, cough!"
Even so, Xiao Xiao still choked a little, coughing for a while before recovering.
"How did you get here?"
Ye Feng opened a small bun for himself and asked while eating.
"I'm not sure either. I was sleeping in a cave, and when I woke up, I was in a small wooden house~"
"I was hungry, so I went out to find food, and then I came here~"
Xiao Xiao tilted her small head, recalling the events, and explained.
"A cave?"
Ye Feng became even more confused. He pointed at Xiao Xiao's clothes, "What about your outfit?"
He hadn't paid much attention before, but now, looking closely, Ye Feng found Xiao Xiao's JK uniform somewhat awkward. She seemed to be wearing a short undershirt or something similar underneath.
"Oh, this is something I got from a treasure chest I happened to open while looking for food~ It was a bit cold earlier, so I put it on~"
"This underneath is my old clothes~"
Saying this, Xiao Xiao pointed to the short undershirt visible at her neckline.
"Do you want to eat more?"
At this moment, Ye Feng offered Xiao Xiao another bun.
"No, thank you, big brother. One is enough for me~"
"This food called bread is very delicious, very fragrant and sweet. The food I used to eat wasn't only not sweet, it had a strange sour taste, and sometimes it smelled bad~"
"And my stomach often hurt after eating it!"
Xiao Xiao smiled slightly and shook her head.
"What kind of environment did this person live in before?"
Ye Feng was quite curious.
The food Xiao Xiao had just described was likely spoiled food, and she lived in a cave?
"Wait, is that…"
Suddenly, Ye Feng's expression changed.