Coming out of the hole, I clutched the fabric that covered my mouth and nose.

The last nitric acid rain had just stopped, and the air was filled with a strong smell of nitric acid. Lu Haisheng and Lin Ya went to the side to dig up the soil under the tree to replenish the water source, and when the water source was replenished, we had to continue to set off.

The rain had just stopped, and it should be nine o'clock in the morning. If you do the math, we entered at two o'clock in the afternoon the day before yesterday, and it's been 43 hours.

We have not been able to find a new source of food, and we have survived until now, that is, after the water problem has been solved, food has become a new problem for us.

I looked down at the logo on my wrist, my fingertips swiping over it. The signage has changed, but I still don't have a clue how to get out of here. Cluelessness means that we may have to stay in this room for quite some time, so food is an issue that cannot be ignored.

This is already the fourth room I have experienced, in the previous three, the food in the uninhabited city came from the cellar of the forest cliff, the food in the fairy tale forest came from the creatures of the forest, and the day of reincarnation was in a city where as long as there was money, you could buy food everywhere.

On this island, however, food has become a problem.

Obviously, there won't be any cellars for food, and there's no place for us to spend money on food, and there's only one way to find food here – local source.

But I looked around, and there was silence. I didn't see any more plants than the trees, I didn't find any edible fungi, and I didn't see wild fruit growing on the tree. And the tigers, wolves, and monkeys that we've encountered so far are clearly more interested in eating us than in being eaten by us.

Even though we did kill some tigers, wolves and wild monkeys, we were so busy running for our lives that we didn't bring their carcasses out for food at all.

At present, the only thing that seems to be able to be used as food is my eyes on the insects dug up by Lu Haisheng and Lin Ya, and after thinking about it carefully, I dispelled this idea.

Although insects are indeed edible, there are also local specialties that specialize in making insect barbecue and the like. Even if I can break through my psychological barrier to eat those bugs in order to survive, don't forget, these bugs absorb nitric acid, and who can guarantee that they are non-toxic and harmless?

Insects that may have toxins, I guess that doesn't make it to our food list.

Seeing that Lu Haisheng and Lin Ya had already filled the water bottles, we continued to walk in the direction we had moved forward. The island is really large, and although we have only been moving forward half the time, and it has always been stalled by various problems, we have been walking for a long time, but until now, there is still no sign that we are about to cross to the other edge of the island.

Is it just my delusion? The trees around you seem to be thinning?

"Don't leave."

Hearing someone call me, I turned my head to look and found that it was Fang Ruoxi who called me.

"What's wrong?" I asked softly, Fang Ruoxi frowned slightly, looking a little worried, "What's the matter?" ”

"I've already eaten all the food I've brought." Fang Ruoxi sighed as if deflated, "But we've been in this forest all the time, and we haven't seen anything to eat, we won't starve to death here, right?" ”

"No, it won't." I shook my head and looked around at the same time, "There are fewer trees around us, and I think we'll be able to get out of this woods soon." Maybe there's something we can eat outside the woods, don't worry. ”

Fang Ruoxi nodded, but her expression was not much better because of my relief. Since we were already running out of food, we also began to spontaneously restrain our appetite and limit our appetite. After all, Lu Haisheng and I are two people, and we still bring a lot of things, such as a little girl like Fang Ruoxi, who doesn't bring many things by herself, and it is understandable that the food will be eaten before us.

I reached out and touched Fang Ruoxi's head, remembering the first time I saw her, when she still had some baby fat on her cheeks, but now it has also disappeared, and her eyes are bigger. took out some food from her backpack and handed it to Fang Ruoxi, motioning for her to take it and eat it.

"Huh? No, I don't need it" Fang Ruoxi didn't seem to expect me to give her food, and waved her hands a little crampedly, "I'm not asking you for food, I ate it when I was resting before, I'm not hungry"

"Take it." I stuffed the food into Fang Ruoxi's hand, "It's always good to eat more and save some physical strength." ”

Fang Ruoxi hesitated for a moment and took it, and said thank you softly. I smiled and touched her head again, then turned to look ahead, only to see that the trees around me were getting thinner and thinner, and they looked like they were about to disappear.

"There are fewer and fewer trees, are we going to get out of this wood?" I asked.

Lu Haisheng, who was walking in front, looked left and right, turned his head and replied, "Yes, the soil quality here is also changing." ”

Soil? I was slightly stunned, looked down at my feet, and realized that the soil quality was indeed different from the previous one. The soil is now more delicate than before, darker in color, and seems to be wetter.

After walking out for a while, Lu Haisheng stopped under a tree, and the rest of us also stopped.

Lu Haisheng stretched out his hand and groped for a few times on a tree, and said to us, "I think we got out of that wood." ”

Got out? Why? There are still trees around us, although they are much more sparse in number.

I was strange, and walked to Lu Haisheng's side and looked at the tree in front of him, and then I understood what Lu Haisheng meant.

The trees in front of us were very different from the ones we had seen before, and now they were much thinner, and they were the thickness of a man's wrists, not the kind of trees that we could climb up before, and the bark and leaves were very different from before, and they were indeed a different species.

I looked towards the location we had come from, and saw that the previous position was still the same as before, and it was from here that the variety of trees began to change from where we were now.

"The variety of trees has changed, but what about the water source?" I frowned slightly, "Can you find water under this tree as well as before?" ”

"Dig and see." Lin Ya said as he squatted down and dug up the soil beside the tree.

What I didn't expect was that the soil here seemed to be saturated with more water, and there were still a lot of dormant bugs under the surface of the soil, and there was no need to dig to the depth of the sodium salt before the water began to overflow.

"It seems that there will be no more problems with the water source, so let's move on?"

It was Fu Lingjun who spoke, and after the previous argument about the pistol, she began to approach us. Now the relationship between our left and right people is a little delicate, there is another Li Sheng in our original five-person team, and the remaining three people, Fu Lingjun, Lin Chang and Chen Si, are all walking alone, and they do not continue to be in the same team as originally.

In fact, if you think about it, it is difficult for these three people to form a team again. The contradiction between Fu Lingjun and Lin Chang is already obvious, coupled with Fu Lingjun's strong character, Lin Chang has bad intentions, and it is very likely that he is the murderer who killed Wang Haobo and framed Fu Lingjun, and these two people are bound to be unable to get along as companions anymore.

And the other person, Chen Si, she joined the team over there because of Wang Haobo's relationship, and now that Wang Haobo is dead, she doesn't have much intersection with Fu Lingjun or Lin Chang, and it is expected that she will become a person again.

I glanced at Chen Si and lowered my eyes slightly. Chen Si is not close to us, and they are not close to Fu Lingjun, and now they are suspected of murdering Wang Haobo, a girl who has no ability to survive, what will happen if she is alone here, I don't want to think about that obvious consequence.

I peeked at Chen Si again, and firmly turned my head to stop thinking about her.

If there are only five people destined to survive here, then I'll have to make a trade-off. I won't kill people, but since she has chosen the wrong path and gone farther and farther, I won't exchange the people around me for her death.

I don't want to say that this is forced or forced by circumstances, this is the inherent selfishness and cruelty of human nature, I think.

I found that after entering the Endless Room, I was also changing. Before entering here, if I thought someone was on a dangerous path, I would never sit idly by, and I would choose to do everything in my power to pull that person out of that way. But now, when I know that someone must go on the road of death, I will not deliberately let anyone go, but I will choose to pull him out or watch from the sidelines after seeing who walks that way.

I want to be a kind person all the time, but here, any kind of kindness can cause harm in disguise, so I need to find the right way to be kind again.

This is hell, I thought about it before, because we have to face the threat and fear of death at all times. But now I think that the most terrible thing in this hell is not death and fear, but even kindness will be stained with haze.

I looked up at the still gloomy sky, and suddenly I felt a pain in my chest that seemed to suffocate, and I shook my head in some confusion, dispersing the thoughts in my head, and I didn't dare to think about it any further.

What do you think? The more I thought about it, the closer I got to the abyss.

"Ahh

A scream came, attracting my attention, I followed the sound and looked at it, only to find that the person screaming was Fu Lingjun, she seemed to be very panicked, waving her arms wildly to grab something but couldn't catch it, and she seemed to be getting shorter and shorter.

Getting shorter? I was slightly stunned and looked at her feet, only to realize that half of her calves had sunk into the ground, and there was a swamp under the ground!

"Help! Save me! ”

Fu Lingjun shouted and struggled, but it couldn't stop her from sinking, and at this time, the swamp had already swallowed up to her knees!