Chapter 1: Crossing the X Jungle

In a community in Linjiang District, H City, in a rental house.

It was early in the morning, and the young man in bed was sleeping soundly.

Suddenly, a loud noise pierced through the window and into his ears, waking him up.

"Damn, what's the noise in the middle of the night!" Ji Yan lifted the quilt and sat up, his sleepy eyes were full of anger, "Move! Damn, I must move this month!"

Having made up his mind, Ji Yan got up and got out of bed to close the window. Walking to the window, the noise outside became clearer.

"Wow, meteor shower!"

"Husband, look, what a beautiful meteor shower!"

"Wife, get up and watch the meteor!"

"Make a wish!

“......”

Obviously, it is not for nothing that there is a sudden noise in the middle of the night. If Ji Yan runs outside, he will find that the entire night sky is covered by the brilliance of meteors, which is brilliant and gorgeous, and it is a rare wonder in 10,000 years!

Ji Yan's eyes were full of indifference: "Boring." He pouted his lips and slammed the window shut.

Lying on the bed again, the noise outside the house not only did not subside, but intensified, and I couldn't sleep after tossing and turning for a while.

"Damn Meteor!" scolded him, Ji Yan reached out and fumbled in the bedside table for a while, and found a lighter and cigarette case.

Originally, he didn't smoke at all except for a few puffs during the New Year's holidays, but the strong pressure of going out of school in the past two years made him start to change, although he was not a smoker, but he would smoke one or two cigarettes a day.

The cigarette case was deflated and empty.

"Fake!" Ji Yan threw out the cigarette case fiercely, his facial muscles twitching, and his expression was hideous.

Suddenly, a sudden change occurred!

A little strange light fell from the sky, pierced through the sky and broke through the clouds, and landed in the community. Then the light flashed, ignoring the wall obstruction, and appeared in Ji Yan's room, submerging his eyebrows.

Ji Yan disappeared out of thin air!

..................... Divide............... Cut............... Line.....................

Skull Island, a giant island that evolved from the mainland in ancient times, is located in the depths of the ocean, isolated from the outside world for hundreds of millions of years, thus deriving a life world that is completely different from the outside world.

Its skies are covered by a mysterious cloud all year round, and human reconnaissance satellites cannot detect it, let alone develop and explore it.

For thousands of years, it existed only by word of mouth among pirate sailors - in the form of myths and legends.

On this day, Skull Island welcomed an uninvited guest.

"What's going on?!" Ji Yan opened his eyes, and then he was stunned, and his jaw was about to fall.

He only remembered that a bright light suddenly appeared in front of him, and he instinctively closed his eyes, and when he opened his eyes again, he had actually come to an unknown dark forest from a small rental house!

"Am I dreaming?" he squeezed his arm hard, "Hiss~~ It hurts!"

He was still wearing the same clothes and pants he wore when he slept, slippers on his feet, and a lighter in his hand.

Ji Yan walked in front of a giant tree hugged by several people, and with a stroke of his fingernails, the rough bark was cut open, revealing a white-green inner layer, and the sap was faintly visible.

"Ground ...... Rock...... Tree...... Also, this feeling of air ......" Ji Yan's breathing became heavier and heavier, the blazing light burned in his eyes, and his face was flushed: "All this...... It's all real!"

"I've crossed over!!"

His thoughts raced, and when he connected to the previous meteor shower and the light that appeared in his room, he probably restored everything that happened in between. Most of the "culprits" who let themselves pass through were the rays of light that landed on the earth with meteors.

"I don't know if I can go back......" Calming down from the surprise of the crossing, Ji Yan's thoughts were flying.

At this time, the sound of "banging" in his ears woke him up.

"Damn, I'm distracted!" Ji Yan bared his teeth, secretly blaming himself in his heart. As far as he knew, this dense wooded forest was very terrifying, not to mention the beasts that existed in it, just all kinds of mosquitoes, snakes and scorpions could easily kill people.

Ji Yan hunched over, walked lightly to a relatively open place with a few steps, held a lighter in his left hand, and tightly grasped a dead branch he had just picked up from the ground in his right hand.

Fortunately, it was daytime in this world, and the sunlight shining through the gaps in the foliage gave him a good vision.

Ji Yan stared at a place where a bush and a dead tree trunk met, and it was where the sound of shredds came from.

A black creature appeared in Ji Yan's sight, it looked like an enlarged centipede, but without the latter's fangs and long tentacles.

It's an ancient giant horse!

Ji Yan couldn't help but gasp, and intuitively a breath of cool air rose from the soles of his feet, swam all over his body, and rushed to the Tianling Gai, with a thick layer of goosebumps on his body!

It's these bugs that he worries about the most on weekdays.

The aggression of ordinary horses is very weak, but these ancient horses are different, hundreds of legs under it are wriggling, and they are approaching the season.

"Damn, fight!!" gritting his teeth fiercely, Ji Yan stepped out, the dead branch in his hand stabbed out fiercely, and then picked, the giant Ma Lu was picked open, turned over, and the dense tentacles squirmed quickly and wanted to turn over, making Ji Yan's scalp numb.

Taking another step, Ji Yan picked up the dead branch and slapped Ma Lu's head hard, once, twice...... It didn't stop until the dead branch couldn't bear the click and snapped.

"Whew...... Dead, finally dead. Ji Yan panted, his reddened eyes staring hatefully at the giant Ma Lu, whose skull had been torn apart by dead branches, and the latter was still trembling and struggling, but he couldn't do anything strange without a head.

Ji Yan wiped his hand on his face, only to find that he was already sweating profusely, and his body couldn't stop trembling lightly - this was an instinctive reaction of his body, stemming from his fear of insects for more than twenty years.

Killed this giant horse with his own hands, and most of this fear dissipated unconsciously.

Ma Lu will emit a disgusting and unpleasant smell after he dies, and the same is true for the giant Ma Lu, but Ji Yan forcibly held back the stench and stayed where he was without acting rashly.

When he first arrived in the other world, he ushered in such an enthusiastic "master", and this forest instantly turned into a terrifying hell in Ji Yan's eyes, so it was better to make some preparations before making further moves.

He plucked a few thin vines from the surrounding ancient trees, grinded off the outer bark and left the pulp white stems, and used them as ropes to tie the sandals tightly to his feet. He felt inconvenience when he killed the giant Ma Lu just now, and he didn't want his life to be hung up because of a pair of shoes. Walking in this dense forest full of snakes, scorpions, rats and ants, a good pair of shoes is very important, but unfortunately he only has these sandals on his feet, so he can only find a way to make up for his strengths.

Then, he tied the trouser legs and cuffs one after another, and even tied a long rattan rope around his waist a few times as a belt to prevent insects from getting through the gaps in his clothes.

Eventually, he made a "torch" that he didn't know how effective it would be—using rattan rope to tie dry bark, i.e., something else that looked good to burn, to a dead branch, and only God knows if it could burn.

After checking it one last and confirming that he could not think of any other means, Ji Yan held a torch in one hand and a spear with a broken branch in the other, and a lighter tied with rattan rope around his neck, and stepped out of the area shrouded in the stench of the giant Ma Lu's death.

It's the first time in his life to do these things, or in this environment, Ji Yan's speed is not fast, and he made several mistakes during the period, and after all of them are completed, his shadow has stretched a lot.

Without a clock, Ji Yan didn't know how long it had been, and he could only judge that it was about three or four o'clock in the afternoon based on the knowledge of survival in the wild, which couldn't even be called half a bucket of water, and the sun's rays were still emitting heat, but they had begun to subside.

He knew he had to find a place to spend the night before the sun set, or else he would ......

The air in this forest is very humid, the rain is heavy, and it didn't take long for Ji Yan to see several puddles of water, and I don't know how many parasites thrive in the seemingly clear puddles.

He had a premonition that something was not right, and sure enough, a river or a swamp was blocking the way.

The river is not wide, the gentle water surface is mostly covered by fallen leaves and dead branches, and the river looks relatively muddy, and you can't see the bottom of the river at a glance, and you don't know how deep it is, let alone what kind of terrifying creatures live in it.

Ji Yan frowned: He can't swim!

If you fall into the river, you will drown in it, even if you are lucky enough not to encounter a man-eating creature.

But he had no choice but to cross the river!

It was relatively open, enough for him to have a rough judgment of the topography of his area.

From the place where he first appeared, the terrain has been rising, and in the area opposite the river, a mountain peak can be seen breaking through the dense forest blockade, revealing a section.

There is no need to choose between mountains and dense forests!

Ji Yan walked along the river bank for a while, but found no natural bridges or anything that could cross the river.

The shadows on the ground grew longer and longer, and although he knew that he had little time left, his anxious brain couldn't think of anything to do.

"That's all it takes!" After taking a few deep breaths, Ji Yan made a decision.

He resolutely turned around and stepped into the forest again, following the path he had come.

Since there is no bridge, you have to build it yourself!

Ji Yan remembered that there was a broken trunk on the way here, not very thick, but long enough, the heart of the tree was hollowed out, and most of the creatures in it lived.

Sure enough, after a few clicks with his spear, two giant centipedes crawled out of the trunk.

Ji Yan repeated his old trick, knocking over the giant centipedes that were not very fast, and then used the sharp stubble of the spear to desperately stab their mouthparts and heads to kill them.

After confirming that there were no other hermitage in the trunk, Ji Yan hugged the trunk of the tree, lifted it up forcefully, and moved it towards the river.

"Strange ......"

When passing by the corpses of two giant centipedes, Ji Yan suddenly had a strange feeling.

I can't describe the feeling in words......

He remembered that when he killed the giant Malu before, he had a similar feeling, but it was weaker than that, and he was so uncertain at the time that he didn't notice it much.

This strange feeling turned into an impulse......

Pick it up!

Hiss~~!!!

Ji Yandeng shivered, goosebumps all over his body, and gasped.

Hurriedly taking his eyes off the giant centipede corpse, Ji Yan quickened his pace and moved the trunk towards the river.