After the despair, Chen Xuerou began to worry. Lin Feng was so badly injured, and her phone still had no signal.
Now it was truly a case of crying to the heavens and no one answering, crying to the earth and no one hearing.
Although she didn't understand how Lin Feng had suddenly brought her to this strange place,
the most important thing now was to stop Lin Feng's bleeding.
Lin Feng was severely wounded, having sustained over a dozen stab wounds. Each wound was deep, so deep that she could see the white bone.
"I must have owed you in my past life!"
Chen Xuerou sighed and began to tear off Lin Feng's clothes, making bandages to tie around his wounds.
As a teacher specializing in veterinary medicine, Chen Xuerou only knew how to treat animals.
So, she treated Lin Feng like an injured old dog, bandaging him up haphazardly.
After bandaging, Chen Xuerou picked up some branches from the surroundings and used Lin Feng's clothes to tie them together.
In this way, a simple stretcher was made.
Meanwhile, Lin Feng had been stripped by Chen Xuerou down to his underwear.
Chen Xuerou had utilized everything she could from Lin Feng, not even sparing the shoelaces from his shoes.
With the stretcher ready, she laboriously pulled Lin Feng through the mountains.
As night fell, Chen Xuerou was completely exhausted.
In this desolate wilderness, with no one around, she sat on the ground, feeling intense fear and unease.
She thought about starting a fire, believing that with fire, she wouldn't have to fear the darkness or surprise attacks from wild beasts.
So, she began the process of trying to make fire by friction.
According to the books, all she had to do was to dig a hole in a piece of wood and drill with a stick to create fire.
However, when she actually tried, Chen Xuerou realized how difficult it was to make fire by friction.
She drilled for over an hour, her palms were scraped raw, but she still couldn't start a fire.
"This is so frustrating, what should I do!"
Chen Xuerou gave up struggling, using Lin Feng as a pillow and falling asleep, exhausted.
In the evening, a cold wind woke Chen Xuerou.
She shivered uncontrollably from the cold, even hugging Lin Feng, she was still freezing.
To make matters worse, a slithering sound of a snake's tongue flicking echoed piercingly in the silent mountain forest.
Chen Xuerou focused her gaze and saw a snake over a meter long with its head peeking out, watching her.
Chen Xuerou was most afraid of snakes. Terrified, she grabbed Lin Feng's hand: "Don't bite me, bite him, it's all his fault for bringing me here."
As she spoke, Chen Xuerou instinctively hid behind a tree.
After all, Lin Feng was so severely injured, he probably wouldn't survive anyway.
Rather than dying together, it was better to sacrifice this scoundrel!
As a result, the large snake approached Lin Feng, sniffed him a few times, and then headed straight for Chen Xuerou.
"Hey, why aren't you biting him? I'm not tasty, you eat him!"
Chen Xuerou, terrified, picked up a branch, intending to fight the snake.
But she was no match for the snake. The snake was incredibly fast and lunged towards Chen Xuerou with a whoosh.
Opening its gaping maw, it was about to bite Chen Xuerou's thigh.
Chen Xuerou waved the branch in fear, but it was useless. The snake didn't even bother to dodge, determined to eat Chen Xuerou.
"It's over!"
Chen Xuerou gave up resisting, closed her eyes, and prepared to meet her death.
At the critical moment, a loud hiss from the snake echoed.
Chen Xuerou's eyes snapped open, and she saw that Lin Feng had woken up at some point.
He was naked, his large hand gripping the snake's neck, and he slammed it against a tree with a few thuds.
Just like that, the meter-long snake was brutally smashed to death by Lin Feng.
"You, are you alright?"
Chen Xuerou asked with surprise and joy.
"How could I be alright? If I don't die from blood loss, I'll soon freeze to death!"
Lin Feng managed a pale smile. He didn't need to think to know that Chen Xuerou had stripped him.
He sat down, looking at the pile of branches Chen Xuerou had gathered, guessing that she had intended to start a fire.
So, he picked up a branch and began to drill rapidly, gathering some dry grass fibers along the way.
When the branch started to smoke, he placed the grass fibers on it and blew on it a few times.
Then, the grass fibers ignited into flames.
"So this is how you make fire by friction!"
Chen Xuerou realized with a sudden understanding.
Fortunately, there was a man beside her; otherwise, she would have perished here today.
Lin Feng didn't answer, nor did he have the strength to. He skinned the snake and placed the snake meat on the bonfire to roast.
"Eat something. When my injuries improve, I'll take you out of here."
Lin Feng shared the roasted snake meat with Chen Xuerou, while he sat cross-legged on the ground to cultivate.
Chen Xuerou ate the snake meat and watched Lin Feng enter his cultivation state, suddenly feeling incredibly curious about this man.
"What was that masked man who wanted to kill you today? He looked very formidable!"
Chen Xuerou asked.
"Formidable is an understatement. If we hadn't fled in time, you and I would now be dead by his blade."
"It's my fault, really. You were never meant to be in my world, and I've implicated you."
Lin Feng felt sincere shame.
"Why are you saying that? Didn't you take a stab for me too? We're even now."
Chen Xuerou smiled. Her initial resentment towards Lin Feng had largely dissipated.
"Teacher Chen, Luo Tianchen is a good person. When we get back, I'll explain things to him."
Lin Feng said seriously.
"Why bring that up? Luo Tianchen and I are just classmates. If he doesn't believe me, then we have no fate."
Chen Xuerou had come to terms with it.
Having fallen to this state, she suddenly felt that some things and some people were not that important anymore.