In a semi-open-air wooden house, Li Xiang, Yang Qianyu, Fu Bin and several others stood around a table with a broken oil lamp on it, and the light reflected a white cloth laid on the table.

The corners of the white cloth were very clean, and the center was a mess of charcoal, but the lines on it looked more like a map.

"In the last ten days, we have explored all the surrounding terrain around the village. And this relatively detailed map was made. Fu Bin pointed to the white cloth on the table and said: "Because I don't know the direction and positioning of this world, I can only temporarily apply the orientation discrimination method on the earth." Since the weather has been eerily cloudy, it is difficult to orient by light, and we can only roughly identify the location based on the growth rings of tree stumps and the distribution of bryophytes on the ground. At the same time, due to safety considerations and limited materials, the farthest exploration distance of the companions sent out to investigate was only about 10 kilometers. However, the information available so far is that only the abandoned village where we are located within a radius of 10 kilometers, and there is no sign of human activity in the rest of the area. ”

"As for the surrounding terrain," Fu Bin moved the oil lamp to make the light source in the house brighter. "Two hundred meters south of the village is the forest where we first crossed, about four or five square kilometers. Abandoned structures were found at the edge of the woods near the village, presumably as logging grounds used by the aborigines of the area for logging or huts for hunters who went into the woods to hunt. There is open land within five kilometers in the east, north and west directions, and we have found some traces of man-made ridges, which are estimated to have been farmland in the past. Further on the periphery are rocky wastelands and sparse woodlands. When the sky is a little better, you can faintly see the outline of the mountains in the distance in the north, and the visual distance is about 123 kilometers. In addition, 800 meters east of the village, there is a riverbed that is almost dry, and its direction runs from north to south, and it is speculated that the source should be a mountain on the north side. That's pretty much it. ”

"No trace of the road?" Li Xiang asked.

Fu Bin shook his head. "Didn't find it. The dirt roads in the countryside are covered by grass as long as they are not walked on for a long time, and they look like they have been abandoned for at least seven or eight years, and even if there were any roads that led to other places, they are no longer available. However, according to the analysis of the topography of this place, the road to other places is nothing more than two directions: east and west. However, the details will not be known until we go out to explore again. ”

"Well, well." Li Xiang nodded in understanding, and then turned his gaze to Yang Qianyu. "Old Yang, how much food and supplies have we collected?"

"It's not too much, now there is only half a month's worth of food for all the staff." Yang Qianyu sighed and said, "Our food sources are mainly two kinds - collecting nearby vegetables, fruits, plant tubers and crops still growing in abandoned fields to obtain food; Hunt all kinds of wild beasts that roam the periphery of the village for meat. The problem now is that the vegetables, tubers, and crops that can be collected within a radius of 10 kilometers are almost exhausted, and now they mainly rely on hunting for meat to maintain their daily consumption. However, this method of obtaining food is too random, and it is not guaranteed that you will get enough food every day. ”

Li Xiang also looked worried after listening to Yang Qianyu's words. Food scarcity is a very serious problem at present, and once the food source is cut off, everyone will not be able to last long with only half a month's food ration reserves. Taking a step back, even if you want to cultivate the land and sow seeds, it is very difficult, after all, everyone is a generation that grew up in the city, and there is definitely more theory than practice for farming (although there is not much theory). Therefore, everyone is destined to not be able to settle here for a long time, and the best way is to find traces of the aborigines of this world as soon as possible, and contact and rely on the aborigines.

"It seems that we are going to find the human gathering place in this world as soon as possible." Li Xiang said: "But are you ready to come into contact with the aborigines of this world? ”

"Even if you don't do a good job, you can't take care of much." Yang Qianyu shrugged. "Stuck here is a dead end."

"Alright! That's it! Li Xiang made a decision after thinking about it. Starting tomorrow, two-thirds of the manpower will be used to explore the path in both directions to the east and west, and to gather as much as he can. Next, we may have to travel for a long time, and we must ensure that the supplies are abundant! Do you get it? ”

"Understood!" Everyone in the room replied in unison.

"Alright, adjourn!" Li Xiang stood up and stretched. "After a busy day, I came back and had such a long meeting, I guess everyone was tired and hungry. Let's eat and rest first, and we're going to get busy tomorrow! ”

"Good!" The crowd answered and dispersed.

Yang Qianyu walked out of the house slowly, looking at his companions who were noisily distributing food at the outdoor bonfire, he couldn't help but clench his fists subconsciously, and a trace of perseverance flashed in his eyes.

"No matter what, we must survive in this world!"

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That night, everyone was in the woods south of the village.

Several figures quickly shuttled through the forest, occasionally pausing for a moment, groping on the nearby ground or tree trunks, as if searching for something.

Suddenly, a whistle sounded, and several figures around immediately gathered around and came to a clearing in the forest.

I saw a mound of earth rising in one of the clearings, and a broken sword stuck on one side of the mound, and a broken shield slanted beside it.

The figure at the head saw the broken sword stuck in front of the mound, squatted down and looked at it carefully, and then pulled out a short knife from his waist and dug hard at the mound. After digging up the mound and seeing the objects buried inside, the figure was stunned for a moment, then slowly refilled the excavated mound, carefully photographed it, and then stood up.

A figure next to him leaned over and asked cautiously, "Captain......"

The leading figure raised his hand to stop his companion's inquiry, and a faint voice came from the mouth of the figure. "That's right, this is Elren's tomb. It seems that he has not escaped the pursuit of the monster......"

The surrounding figures let out a whimpering cry of grief after listening to the words of the leader of the leader.

"But Captain." The figure who had asked the question spoke again. "Since Brother Allen was killed, who buried him here? Didn't Lena say that when they encountered a monster attack, Brother Allen took the initiative to lure the monster away, and then there was no news from him? ”

"yes, apparently someone found Allen's body and buried him. But who did it? The woman in charge was also puzzled. Could it be that there are other human activities in this area? ”

"Captain. Captain? Captain! Seeing that his captain was a little distracted, the person who asked the question couldn't help but remind loudly: "It's getting late now, we'd better take a place to live and settle down." Otherwise, it is easy to be attacked by demonic beasts and wandering demons at night. ”

"Well, okay. But where do we shelter? The woman in charge asked.

"I remember walking a few hundred metres north out of the woods, with abandoned lumberjacks' huts at the edge of the woods, or an abandoned village a few hundred metres north."

"Alright then, let's go."

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At the same time, within temporary habitats.

Yang Qianyu sat cross-legged on the 'bed' made of hay and coarse cloth, and entered a state of 'meditation', examining his physical condition. Through such 'inner vision', Yang Qianyu was able to 'see' that there was a ball of light about the size of a thumb and a finger in the 'dantian' position in his body.

Yang Qianyu knew the origin of this group of light - ten days ago, when everyone had just crossed over, they were almost injured by a bear monster. At that time, Yang Qianyu, who had initially comprehended the inheritance ability, suddenly exerted his strength to destroy the bear monster, and then everyone worked together to kill the bear monster. Then the dead bear monster emitted a little light spot, which gathered into more than a dozen balls of light of different sizes and flew towards everyone, and disappeared after circling the body of some of its companions. At that time, Yang Qianyu's body was also integrated with one of the light balls, and it was a relatively large light ball. When the ball of light was submerged in his body, Yang Qianyu did not feel any discomfort, but felt a warm feeling on his body. It's just that this feeling is not very obvious, if it weren't for Yang Qianyu's deliberate attention, maybe he wouldn't have felt it.

Afterwards, when Yang Qianyu talked about this situation with everyone, he speculated that this ball of light may be some kind of energy escaping from the monster's body, and it was distributed to the people involved in killing this monster after it was embodied in this form, and the distribution method was estimated to depend on how much everyone contributed when killing this monster - the reason for this judgment is because some people didn't get it, and the companions who hit the monster hard like Yang Qianyu and those who gave the monster a heavy blow like Li Xiang and Shi Jinxin got more than others. If you use the words of online games, these light clusters are the experience points reward distribution of monsters after the team works together to kill monsters.

Of course, this kind of energy light cluster is not available to all kinds of monsters. At least after so many days of traversing, everyone will only absorb this kind of energy when they kill a few monsters (such as the bear monsters encountered at the beginning of the crossing). As for killing the seemingly lethal antelope (an otherworldly herbivore that resembles both antelope and elk) and the short-eared rabbit (a herbivorous animal with a rabbit-like appearance but short ears), as well as animals like wolves and dingos, there is no energy to collect.

"It seems that this world is not all kinds of beasts with energy...... Well, if you follow the traditional time-traveling novels, this should be the difference between ordinary beasts and Warcraft, right? Yang Qianyu pondered. It seems that there are still many mysteries of this world waiting for us to explore...... Well?! ”

Yang Qianyu, who was closing his eyes and meditating, suddenly frowned. Although he was self-examining his physical condition, Yang Qianyu was not unaware of the movement of the outside world. At this moment, his ears could not only hear the whistling of the night wind and the crackling of the burning wood in the campfire, but also the faint sound of palpitating roars and the clanging of weapons in the distance.