Chapter 39 - 33: Return, Special Reward +1
In the blink of an eye, twenty days passed.
On this morning.
Two crew members and two tourists at the edge of the forest began hunting, imitating the traps Zhang Feng taught them to set.
"According to the dimensions I drew." The old captain and another crew member were using a saw brought from the boat to cut a large tree.
"Is it almost ready?" The helmsman and another person were beside several distillers.
They had a large pot in front of them.
It rained last night, so fresh water was plentiful.
Today they were going to drink a stew of ’wild game and wild vegetables’.
Similarly, after surviving twenty days, though their clothes were in tatters and their beards scruffy, their mindset had become somewhat calmer.
After all, surviving meant there was hope.
Meanwhile.
Inside a relatively airtight cave.
Zhang Feng was recalling his practice experience of Eight-Step Chasing Cicada.
After twenty days of practice.
Zhang Feng concluded.
This martial art is mainly about lightweight skills with some ’continuous’ killing moves in the leg technique.
But to execute these killing moves effectively, one’s constitution must meet the standards.
Otherwise, without leveraging strength in the air, it would be hard to maintain continuity and consistency.
However.
Zhang Feng had decades of martial arts experience.
Thus, in these twenty days, Zhang Feng used these killing moves to reverse-analyze his previous fist skills, gaining quite a harvest, and even developed some new understanding of his original combat techniques.
His rich knowledge base had already made Zhang Feng reach a state of understanding a multitude through analogy.
He could seamlessly adapt foreign concepts to enhance his skills.
Zhang Feng contemplated for a while and then looked at his legs.
’To practice Eight-Step Chasing Cicada, one must first connect fourteen meridians and make them resonate together.
These meridians are mainly in the legs.
Upon reaching great success, although one may not be able to walk on snow without leaving a trace, within seven steps, a gun might not be faster.’
Zhang Feng’s spirit lifted as he practiced and walked out of the cave.
Near the beach.
"Brother Zhang is here!"
"President Zhang, what do you say, are we having wild chicken stew tonight, or?"
When they saw Zhang Feng coming over, they all paused their tasks to greet him.
Even though the big pot was already set up, if Zhang Feng said not to eat, they would change it.
The boiling water in this pot could also be used as fresh water storage.
"Since the water is boiling, let’s stew." Zhang Feng did not dampen everyone’s enthusiasm; instead, he ’assigned tasks’, naming two people,
"Let’s go, follow me into the woods to see if Old Hu and the others have harvested anything today.
If not, we’ll have to get something, or we’ll be drinking the northwest wind tonight."
"Haha!"
"Let’s go! Following President Zhang means meat to eat!"
"I’ll keep the soup boiling here, waiting for your harvest!"
The crowd laughed and joked as Zhang Feng also led them into the woods.
The old captain and others laughed for a while, then began clanging and knocking on the tree trunks.
They were preparing to build a wooden ship.
The previous small boat was, after all, a galvanized steel structure, and there were no materials on the island to repair it.
Arbitrarily substituting other materials would only make the boat lose its balance.
Meanwhile, in the distant woods.
Although Zhang Feng felt the ’adventure survival’ atmosphere was quite pleasant and friendly.
The only thing was the island lacked medicinal herbs.
Even a simple prescription for a medicinal bath was hard to gather.
...
Another month passed.
Splash—
The tide at the shore rose and fell.
Zhang Feng stood in shorts, in a horse stance on the beach, using the force of the incoming tide to train his stable strength.
’Although this small island can’t provide a full set of medicinal herbs, I can still practice other skills to deepen my understanding of human body mechanics.
To thoroughly comprehend, digest, and practice what I have learned.
After all, the next world might not be the type I’m familiar with.
It won’t be as simple as building and farming as it is now.’
Zhang Feng’s thoughts were clear.
And he saw that the ’special adventure world’ was not a place to linger.
’The non-mainline task is to survive for four months.’
Zhang Feng thought this timeframe should be when ’everyone gets rescued’, similar to the trial world.
When ’the time comes’ or ’the mission is completed’, it will ’immediately return’, without delay.
But it’s precisely about ’rescuing’ and ’being rescued’.
So Zhang Feng often speculates.
Whether the characters he possesses are all destined ’to die soon’.
Then he possesses them, saving ’him’ and ’the people around him’?
Zhang Feng thought it through and felt there really was something to it.
Because in the trial world, a fitness enthusiast, with such a huge gap in constitution and experience, would surely be unable to escape a monster’s onslaught.
The people inside the building might not survive until rescue arrives.
In the second world, a baby might also die prematurely.
In the third world, an undercover agent would be tortured to death by Ah Liang’s boss.
This world.
Zhang Feng turned back to look at the crew and passengers.
Unlike the despair and hopelessness two months ago, they were now full of hope, repairing the ship and building small houses.
Even without him, they might survive.
But his presence ensured the stability of this survival process.
It was also his appearance that changed everything that was supposed to be ’destined’.
As King Snake put it, ’Fuck this! Thinking about it like this, there’s really a fucking sense of historical mission and fate!’
Zhang Feng shook his head, not wanting to think too much.
With the familiarity of this world, he finally squeezed out four months of ’peaceful learning’ time.
So he continued to practice diligently.
...
In the blink of an eye, the third month passed.
Zhang Feng welcomed the final reinforcement in his focused martial arts practice.
[Please choose the sixth reinforcement]
[1: Increase current Constitution by 5%]
[2: Two coconuts]
[3: Introductory Heart at Ease and Body Plump]
...
In the last entry, there appeared the Heart at Ease and Body Plump that Zhang Feng had always wanted to examine again.
[Effect: Each pound of weight gained increases Constitution by 0.01]
The current weight is 180 pounds.
Equivalent to 1.8 Constitution.
Compared to normal point distribution, it’s indeed quite good.
Moreover, it’s introductory, Intermediate might add 0.2, or even higher.
Furthermore, after Zhang Feng started practicing two types of martial arts, he also found that his Constitution was slowly increasing.
Although he looked like a porcelain solid state around 160 pounds, he actually weighed 180 pounds.
Zhang Feng felt he could still grow.
Conservatively estimated, after achieving great success in both martial arts, it would reach 270, or even heavier.
And this is only with practicing two martial arts.
’This entry is considered growth-oriented, and no matter when you choose it, the increments are the same.’
Zhang Feng glanced at it a few more times, then looked towards 2, ’Double Joy Coconuts’.
[Effect: After consumption, Constitution +1.1 and replenishes normal body hydration needed for ten days]
[Note: Below 20 Constitution, you can receive the perfect enhancement of the ’hydration replenishment’ effect. Above 20 Constitution, the hydration replenishment effect will decrease until it ceases to exist]
The higher the Constitution, the more daily water consumption.
Zhang Feng could understand the meaning of this ’Note’.
Afterward, because it’s a real-point setting.
Zhang Feng decisively chose the coconut.
...
Half a month later.
An important event occurred this night.
Two adult lions attacked the camp where Zhang Feng was located.
Everyone was asleep at the time.
But Zhang Feng was diligently practicing martial arts.
And at this time, his Constitution had reached [17]
Paired with weapons, and a strong bow.
During their charge.
Zhang Feng drew the bowstring taut, the arrow hit the lion’s head, killing one.
One left.
Zhang Feng stretched his neck, shook his hands, and picked up a stone spear.
This battle, when the people awoke from their dreams to the roar.
Further solidified Zhang Feng’s position of absolute leadership.
They were full of gratitude towards Zhang Feng.
...
And unknowingly.
The fourth month.
Before the wooden ship was finished.
On this day, the nearly primitive-dressed crowd saw a large fishing boat passing in the distant sea.
"There are people! There are people!"
"Ship! Ship!"
The helmsman and others frantically waved upon seeing the boat and used everything at hand to make noise.
The old captain also poured out precious gasoline, igniting a large flame on the shore.
Meanwhile.
Zhang Feng watched the approaching fishing boat while also looking at the text within his view.
This day.
Happened to be the fourth month since Zhang Feng arrived in this world.
At the same time, as the fishing boat approached the shore.
Zhang Feng once again saw the speed of time around him slowly decelerating, as it was before leaving the trial world, seeing the last scene freeze on everyone’s jubilant expressions.
[The fishing boat ’Riding the Wind’ just like future expectations, passed through the southern sea on the afternoon of August 12, 2016]
[But the crew of Riding the Wind did not see a beach with satiated lions or scattered corpses this time, but saw ten survivors including you]
[Including the trial world, you have completed two previously occurred world lines]
[You have changed the fate of most people, you saved most of the people]
[Your initial reinforcement choice attempts +1]
[You have left the current world]