Chapter 1 The "Flyer"

Julian and his classmates were the first to arrive after receiving Mingmei and the others' "flyer" and finding it based on the pattern drawn on it.

They were also considered lucky, as they weren't too far apart after entering the game.

When they arrived, Mingmei and the others were already drying mud bricks for building houses later.

If there were no beasts or dinosaurs, Mingmei and the others would have chosen an area upstream of a fertile and flat riverbank, but given the current situation, they could only choose a cliff not far from the fertile riverbank.

This mountain had a rather distinctive appearance, with half of it collapsed. After being exposed to wind and sun, this half of the rocky platform was surprisingly flat.

Looking at this platform, it was backed by a giant stone mountain and had cliffs on three sides, making it easy to defend and difficult to attack. Even huge dinosaurs couldn't climb up.

Their only consideration was the large birds and flying pterodactyls above them.

However, according to their observations these days, these birds didn't seem particularly interested in them. Pterodactyls did fly down and stroll on the platform sometimes, but after Mingmei and the others chased them away a few times, they were reluctant to come over.

Besides, they were currently living in a cave on the other side of the stone mountain. When the houses were built, they didn't plan to abandon this place directly; it could be turned into an "air raid shelter."

"Your 'flyer' is really distorted! We ran in the wrong direction several times and wasted a lot of time..."

After Julian and the others met up with Mingmei, they were immediately treated to Mingmei's boxed lunch. After grimacing and finishing it, everyone's language barrier was completely gone.

"Really?"

Mingmei, Lu Xiaoyao, and Li Yuan, who were drying bricks at the base instead of going out hunting with Lu Gui and the others, looked at Julian and the others.

Before Julian could answer, the others chimed in, describing the markings they found on a bag of leaves on the back of a herbivorous dinosaur.

"It's really distorted. If some of the landmarks weren't drawn clearly, we definitely wouldn't have found our way here."

To distribute the "small advertisements," Mingmei had specially spent two days with Mu Chen walking around the vicinity, climbing to the top of the giant stone mountain to look around, and finally Mu Chen drew a map of the nearby terrain and iconic landmarks. When he finished drawing it, everyone said it was realistic!

Under Mingmei's suspicious gaze, the other party handed her the slightly yellowed leaf map that he had been carrying with him. Mingmei looked down and fell silent.

This map probably wasn't drawn by Mu Chen.

In the past few days, when it was hottest during the day, they had stayed in the cave helping Mu Chen draw maps. Although Mingmei didn't draw as realistically as Mu Chen, her drawings were still presentable. This one was clearly not drawn by her.

The childish kindergarten style in front of her, which could turn a mountain into a blob of ice cream and the surrounding forests into a series of eggs, made Mingmei's gaze involuntarily drift to Lu Xiaoyao, who was seriously making mud bricks.

"Hmm?"

Lu Xiaoyao noticed Mingmei's gaze and looked at Mingmei, also seeing the leaf map in Mingmei's hand.

Lu Xiaoyao: "..."

Oops.

Her terrible drawing skills seemed to have been discovered.

She knew her drawings were too terrible, so she only drew a small batch at the time, and then asked her brother to randomly drop them on some animal. How could it be so coincidental that someone saw the one she drew?!

"Wow, did Li Yuan draw this?"

Li Yuan, who was frowning because of his obsessive-compulsive disorder, troubled by the fact that the mud bricks were not exactly the same, suddenly heard someone call his name again and looked up dazedly at Mingmei and Lu Xiaoyao.

Li Yuan: ??

What happened?

When the others heard Lu Xiaoyao say this, they also looked at Li Yuan. Before Li Yuan could ask what happened, someone said, "It shouldn't be, right? The Li family is a family of mecha designers. Their children have been exposed to various design drawings since childhood. Freehand drawing and mechanical drawing are all easy for them. This abstract drawing shouldn't be him, right?"

Lu Xiaoyao: ??

What was abstract about it!

"If it's not him, then it's not him. You guys relied on this map to find your way here, so there's no reason to kick someone to the curb after crossing the river, right?" Lu Xiaoyao pouted aggrievedly. "It's not that bad, is it? It has everything it should have, right?"

As soon as she said this, everyone present understood. This drawing was probably Lu Xiaoyao's, right?

Seeing everyone looking at her again, their eyes a little strange, Lu Xiaoyao shouted in embarrassment, "What are you all standing there for? Hurry up and make bricks! Faster, faster!"

Compared to the "peace and tranquility" on Mingmei's side, the others who were hunting and gathering food were having a much more eventful time.

...

"Oh my gosh! What's wrong? What's going on?"

A group of classmates who were gathering wild fruits suddenly discovered that one of their companions had suddenly fallen to the ground, which scared everyone!

"No... nothing, just a little... numb, numb!"

Hu Yue looked at the half-eaten, unidentified wild fruit in the hand of the classmate who had gathered the wild fruit, and the corner of his eye twitched fiercely. It looked colorful and mottled, and it didn't look like it wasn't poisonous, right?

"You dared to eat it without knowing if it was poisonous?"

"A little... poison, I tried... before, it's just... numb, but, it's delicious!"

The others stared dumbfounded at the classmate who was paralyzed on the ground with half of his body numb, yet still tirelessly advocating for the fruit with a slurred tongue, and their hearts were shocked!

Is this the world of foodies?!

This unexpected event was brought up as a funny story when a large group of people were eating and resting in the cave that night, and the laughter echoing in the entire cave lasted for a long time.

The laughter lasted until it seamlessly transitioned into snoring.

Mingmei and Mu Chen were on night watch, and the strange snoring sounds such as "hulu," "rumble," and "aongaonga" were an eye-opener for Mingmei.

Good heavens! So snoring could be so different?

"It wasn't even this noisy in the dormitories of the Second Military Academy."

Mingmei complained to Mu Chen in a low voice that there were more and more people, and the snoring and sleep-talking were constantly rising and falling at night. Anyone who fell asleep a little later would be woken up.

"Well, sixteen people in one room is indeed a bit..."

Mu Chen didn't know what the female dormitory with sixteen people looked like, but he knew that their dormitory had almost the same thing every night.

"Just get used to it."

...

"Let... go."

Wang Wenfei looked at the abyss below her, her tone calm. If it weren't for the limited words she could speak, she would have told the person holding her wrist to let go as soon as possible so that at least one of them could survive.

"No... no!"

Meruita shook her head desperately, her face pale, her eyes full of pleading as she looked in Wang Wenfei's direction. In the dark night, with the moonlight behind her, Wang Wenfei saw the persistence in her eyes.

Wang Wenfei was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but sigh.

In the past few days of getting along, she found that Meruita was more like a child than Lu Xiaoyao, a spoiled child who was trying to get back on the right path.

She didn't like Meruita, whether from her own perspective or as a friend of Lu Xiaoyao and Mingmei, she didn't like her.

It was just that at the beginning of the game, she was unlucky enough to meet Meruita, who was also alone.

Faced with the dangerous barren star, even if they didn't like each other, they decided to work together.

"You, you save..."

Meruita endured the pain of her arm almost being torn apart, grabbing Wang Wenfei and trying to explain the reason word by word.

She still remembered the scene a few days ago when she was almost snatched away by an ancient beast.

At that time, Wang Wenfei could have pretended not to see her and escaped, but she still risked her life to save her. Because of this, they had been relentlessly pursued and forced into a desperate situation by this guy these days.

Although Wang Wenfei didn't have a good look on her face on weekdays, and neither did she, she realized that the other person was really good at this time.

"I... afraid..."

I'm afraid of being left behind again!

A teardrop from Meruita splattered on Wang Wenfei's face.

She liked the feeling of being surrounded, she liked the envious and admiring gazes that everyone cast at her.

However, the feeling she liked had gradually disappeared around her a long time ago, but she had self-hypnotized herself to maintain a very high and superior posture.

She was afraid of being left alone, she hated the hypocritical people around her.

Those people clearly said "as long as you want, you can do anything" but inwardly cursed viciously: "Why doesn't someone like you who has done so many annoying things just die?"

She hadn't met someone who showed her pure kindness for a long, long time.

She stared at the stunned expression on Wang Wenfei's face at this moment, sniffed, and said in a low voice, "Friend... not..."

Wang Wenfei: "..."

Meruita grinned, like a homeless puppy smiling obsequiously at a passerby who fed it, and then she took a deep breath and tried to pull the other person up in one go.

However, before they could completely escape the danger, the vibration from the ground became more and more obvious...