Chapter 2 The Next Day

The next morning.

Light shone in from the cave entrance. The campfire had died out in the middle of the night, but everything was normal, and no danger had occurred.

Lewin was the first to wake up. Hundreds of years of life here had created a rhythm more punctual than the sunrise.

Lewin glanced at Fatty and was surprised to find that Fatty's wound had begun to heal slowly.

Fatty's breathing was also even, and his face was flushed.

Fatty's change scared Lewin. It was already fortunate for a normal person to survive such an arrow, let alone recover, which would require years of recuperation.

Fatty's recovery speed was beyond comparison with ordinary people.

When Zoey woke up later and saw Fatty's recovery, the stone in her heart finally fell to the ground. She estimated that Fatty would be jumping around again in another day with this recovery speed.

Yesterday, when they were sent to the cave by Black Bridge, they focused on taking care of Fatty because his life was in danger. They did not move outside the cave, and because it was already dark, they did not know what the environment was like outside.

Lewin came to the entrance of the cave and looked out along the light, and the scene before him surprised him greatly.

Lewin had been here for more than two hundred years and had visited many large and small independent simulated worlds, but this was the first time he had seen this scene.

Lewin's cave was on a cliff hundreds of feet high. Below the cliff was a sparkling red ocean. The red ocean had bubbles rolling upward from below, like a simmering beef stew. A bloody, pungent smell surged from the sea, hitting his nostrils and feeling very overpowering.

While Lewin was gazing at the Red Sea, an unknown, huge black marine creature, like a small mountain, leaped out of the Red Sea and opened its bloody mouth to swallow a large bird that skimmed across the sea.

The marine creature's skin was greasy and slippery, and its surface was covered with moss-like plants or whiskers. Its large mouth occupied half of its body. The two rows of jagged teeth opened and closed like a prison, firmly locking the bird in its mouth, crushing it, and then quickly diving and disappearing into the sea, leaving only ripples on the surface of the sea.

Lewin broke off a branch from a tree growing on the edge of the cliff at the entrance of the cave and threw it towards the Red Sea. When the branch was thrown out and was still some distance from the sea, a strange creature suddenly emerged from the sea and ate the branch in one bite. This marine creature had an even uglier face, and its entire mouth was like a large suction cup.

Lewin realized that the Red Sea at the cave entrance was not the way out.

After seeing the Red Sea, Zoey and Dodge also gave up the idea of ​​taking the Red Sea route.

There were no Black Bridges near where Zoey and the others were teleported, so they could only look for a way out deeper into the cave.

Zoey didn't know how Jennifer and Derek were doing. Now, Zoey was overwhelmed and could only hope that Jennifer and the others were safe.

When Zoey, Lewin, and Dodge returned after exploring the cave entrance, they found that Fatty was awake. He was sitting leaning against the wall, constantly adjusting his body, trying to find a comfortable position.

"Fatty, how are you feeling now? Is your body okay?" Zoey asked with concern.

Fatty groaned "Ouch, ouch" for a long time before squeezing out a sentence: "Hiss... I'm okay, not dead."

Fatty's wisecracking was consistent as always. He didn't forget to make a few jokes even at the critical moment of life and death. If he wasn't seriously injured, Zoey would have pressed down on his wound a few times to vent her anger.

Lewin told Fatty about the current situation. Fatty tilted his head, looked at the dark and deep cave on the other side, sighed helplessly, and asked, "Still no sign of Jennifer?"

Zoey sighed and then nodded.

"Ah..."

——Fatty's low sigh echoed in the cave.

Zoey sorted out the few packages they were carrying and found a few packets of compressed biscuits and the last remaining pot of water. After finishing this meal, they would have no food left at all.

Lewin only ate a small piece of compressed biscuit. He explained, "The environment inside is different from the outside. Staying inside for a long time doesn't actually make you feel hungry or thirsty easily."

Everyone thought about it carefully and realized that this was the first time they had eaten since entering this confined space, at least two or three days since their last meal.

When a person is in a state of low intake, either their metabolic level decreases, or the surrounding environment can just supplement the part of the nutrients that the person has not ingested.

Zoey and Fatty believed that the meteorite somewhere in the confined environment must have played some role, replenishing energy in some form to all the creatures here.

Fatty coughed and coughed, coughing up the stagnant black blood in his trachea, while covering his wound, as if these few coughs had torn his wound again.

Fatty's wound healing speed can be called a modern medical miracle. Even if Fatty was now coughing up blood, everyone would not think that Fatty was in danger again, but only that he was detoxifying.

Fatty pulled Zoey to his side and whispered in her ear, "I feel... the power in my body is disappearing."