Chapter 9: The End of the Forest
In the two days of waiting for the express delivery of Princess Huahua, Chen Lin did not remain idle, because his crossing is a passive type, as long as he is tired, it can be said that he will fall asleep, and it is impossible to wear it without thinking about it.
In the beginner's note document in the traversing group, the Great Wilderness Doudi also clearly said that traversing is mandatory, so at least the newcomers can't refuse at all, and can only think about how to survive after traversing.
Fortunately, he is now getting a sense of the time, which is between 3 p.m. and 6 p.m., and his fatigue usually appears during this time.
If he still had a choice, Chen Lin really didn't want to go to that damn forest every day.
Suffering from the lack of oxygen on the plateau, eating astringent leaves, and shivering even more by the cold wind, this kind of passing through the days, unless you are a masochist, you will be willing to go.
Chen Lin still didn't know if he could carry through this time and insist on not sleeping, would he be able to avoid the crossing?
However, this idea can only be thought about for the time being, Chen Lin has indeed tried hard in the past two days, but even if he drinks coffee and strong tea until his stomach is swollen, and he endures the fight up and down with his eyelids, at most he can only last until about six o'clock in the evening.
This is his limit, and then, Chen Lin's spirit and willpower will reach the limit, just like a person who has just finished a marathon and is about to collapse, he completely falls into sleep, and still can't get rid of the forced time and space shuttle.
Since this is the case, Chen Lin also accepted his fate.
Although Chen Lin's progress is not great because of the limitation of physical fitness, but every day he crosses, Chen Lin will find something new, and now he is gradually getting used to the habit of summarizing the rules every time he comes back, and by the way he buys a small notebook to record.
For example, when he travels back the day after each death, he will appear near the place where he died before, because he had deliberately marked the place where he had last fallen with a stone, but his body could not be seen nearby.
There was still nothing in the forest, and as far as he could see, there were towering trees, but the only thing that made Chen Lin feel a little strange was that as he gradually moved towards the depths of the forest, he found that there were more and more withered yellow leaves around him, whether they were on the ground or just falling from the branches of nearby trees.
Chen Lin wasn't sure what season this world was, or whether such a small world also had four seasons, but he clearly remembered that in the first two days, there were hardly any dead leaves to be seen.
However, considering that the temperature in this time and space is getting lower and lower, Chen Lin feels that it is either the winter of this plane that is coming, which also makes him want to speed up his pace, otherwise he may be even more difficult to advance if he really has to wait for winter to come.
Chen Lin's cold has a tendency to worsen, although he has bought some cold medicine, but he has to shuttle back and forth every day, even if the cold is a little better, he will soon be in the cold wind and get cold again, so repeatedly, the light cold gradually dragged into a severe cold, Chen Lin even doubted, if it continued like this, he was afraid that he would be dragged into pneumonia.
A few days later, Princess Flower's delivery finally arrived.
When he received the call from the courier brother, it happened to be not long after he shuttled back, Chen Lin got dressed, rushed to the supermarket collection office outside the school, and retrieved a courier box that was only the size of a palm.
After returning to the dormitory, Chen Lin opened the express box very curiously, and found that there was only a flower and a note in it, Chen Lin carefully took out the flowers and looked left and right for a moment.
This is a bright red flower, a bit like a chrysanthemum, but if you look closely, it doesn't look like it, but unfortunately Chen Lin doesn't know anything about flowers, so he can't name them at all, and what makes him marvel is that this lonely flower has no signs of withering at all.
He picked up the note, and on it was a line of graceful handwriting.
"In the plane I shuttle, this flower is called Gran Flower, which has a very strong vitality, and you can take a petal before each crossing, which can temporarily give you a small amount of photosynthesis ability."
Chen Lin picked up the flowers and looked at them for a moment, and was amazed, as he expected, this is something from another world, according to the knowledge that was given to him by the crossing group two days ago, Princess Huahua was able to bring things from the other world back, which means that her crossing level should be at least about two stars.
Obviously, this is what Chen Lin needs most at the moment, after all, he can't bring things into other planes, but his own state is not affected.
Therefore, if you eat the petals and let yourself have the ability to photosynthesize, you can bring them into another world, absorb light energy, and then convert it into oxygen, so that the problem of hypoxia can be temporarily solved.
When he fell asleep again that afternoon, Chen Lin decisively took a petal, and the taste of the petal was not bad, with a faint sweetness in the aroma.
Lying down and falling asleep, Chen Lin soon reappeared at the place where he had died last time.
After a week, Chen Lin was already relatively proficient in the shuttle process, of course, this was not a difficult thing.
Standing on the loose pile of leaves, Chen Lin closed his eyes and took a deep breath, and sure enough, he didn't have the symptoms of breathlessness like before, not only that, his body seemed to become lighter.
If he felt it carefully, he would see that the extra uplift did not come from breathing through his nose, but from a reaction in his own body, which directly produced oxygen to penetrate his lungs.
In particular, the sunlight slanting down through the treetops bathed Chen Lin's body, which made him feel a sense of relaxation and comfort, as if he was soaking in a hot spring.
Chen Lin noticed that the surface of his skin, at each hair pore, faintly oozing a subtle light green substance, but it was not painful or itchy, probably because of the incidental effect of the petals.
Anyway, Princess Flowey really didn't lie to him. Although the woman had a strange temper, Chen Lin felt that after going back this time, he still had to thank his subordinates.
That traversal group is indeed of great help to the budding traverser, of course, all of this is also based on the premise that Chen Lin can return after every death.
Chen Lin's footwork was significantly faster, and after walking carefully for about an hour, he was pleasantly surprised to find that his physical strength was barely consumed, and if it weren't for the fact that he was still suffering from a severe cold that made him a little weak, he would even want to speed up again.
Chen Lin was looking forward to being able to get out of this forest as soon as possible, calculating the time, he had been in this primeval jungle where birds didn't for more than a week, and he was already tired of the large green in front of him.
It's just that......
Chen Lin frowned suddenly, turned his head a little dazedly, and glanced at the traces of his own journey, the confusion in his eyes flashed.
Why did I always feel so strange from the beginning?
Forget it, it may be that I have a low-grade fever and am a little confused.
Chen Lin shook his groggy head and quickened his pace.
Because of the compulsion of crossing, Chen Lin simply did not have enough time to recuperate for himself, which was also one of the factors that was eager to get out of the forest, at least he had to find a place where he could shelter from the wind and cold, and recuperate for a while, otherwise even if the problem of lack of oxygen was solved, he felt that sooner or later he would be dragged to death by this heavy cold.
For two days in a row, Chen Lin was on the way, relying on the leaves on the ground every day to satisfy his hunger and quench his thirst.
The effect of the petals is quite obvious, in the past, he would pass out after holding out here for a day at most, but this time Chen Lin could already last until the second half of the night before fainting.
The cause of death was because of the night.
After days of wind and cold, coupled with the lack of enough food to replenish energy every day, Chen Lin felt that his body was already in an extremely weak state, and he found that the temperature in the forest at night had plummeted a lot, and he couldn't resist the night with the thin T-shirt on his body alone.
However, Chen Lin didn't feel annoyed, he originally wanted to go back early, he still remembered the time ratio on both sides, one day here is equivalent to half a day of the earth, and two days is equivalent to one day of the earth.
If it takes too long, he is worried that his roommates will directly call 120 to pull him to the hospital.
Now, Chen Lin can guarantee that he will wake up on the earth for at least half a day, although his lethargy makes his roommates complain frantically, and at the same time, they are more and more worried about him, because it is said that he sleeps so much that he can't wake up with a loudspeaker in his ear.
After Chen Lin's repeated comfort and explanation, the roommates reluctantly accepted Chen Lin's explanation that he just had a cold.
In this way, at noon on the third day, when he crossed over to the forest, the woods in front of him gradually became less dense, and Chen Lin finally had a little more color in front of him in addition to the lush green.
At the end of the forest, there is a brown roof, and wisps of cooking smoke.
Sure enough, the experience of the predecessors in the crossing group is very correct, it has been ten days since the first crossing, this primeval jungle is indeed not as big as imagined, and there are indeed intelligent life in this world.
Chen Lin was still looking forward to it in his heart, but he didn't forget the reminders of his predecessors, unless there is not much difference between otherworldly beings and humans, otherwise when the traveler and otherworldly beings come into contact for the first time, there is a high probability that they will be regarded as monsters.
This is not difficult to understand, just like if a life form that looks completely different from a human suddenly appears in the urban crowd one day, such as four legs and eight hands, it will definitely be regarded as a monster and cause panic, and if it is in some foreign countries, it may even eat a gun on the spot.
Chen Lin slowed down and cautiously approached the past, he decided to quietly observe the neighborhood first, observe the life of this world, and observe what this world is really like.
After a full ten days, it was only at this moment that Chen Lin felt that he had truly begun to contact the other world.
At least that's what Chen Lin thinks now.