Chapter 35: Golden Entry! [Rainforest Shadow]!

Struggling to climb ashore.Chen Wen spat out a mouthful of stream water.

The recent fight was truly a brush with death!

The unfamiliar waters indeed helped Chen Wen trap the Black Panther, but they also taught him a lesson!

Deactivate.

Chen Wen silently uttered, deactivating the bloodthirsty state.

Once the state wore off.

Chen Wen immediately felt intense pain.

In the recent battle with the Black Panther, the injuries he sustained were extremely severe!

Countless scratches and bites.

Especially the scratches!

"The Black Panther’s claws are damn formidable!"

Chen Wen tore off his tattered clothes and looked at his chest.

During that bloodthirsty period, he and the Black Panther exchanged injuries continuously, and his chest was in tatters.

It was still bleeding.

As for the bite on his left arm, it was even worse!

The blood flowing from the wound nearly stained his left forearm red.

Moreover, there were scars on his back.

His eye had also been viciously swiped by the Black Panther, leaving it slightly swollen.

But fortunately, this heavy price brought an extremely rich reward—the Black Panther was dead!

Chen Wen couldn’t say if there were other Black Panthers on the island.

But for now, the only thing that threatened his survival was indeed slain by him!

Simultaneously, the system responded.

Chen Wen closed his eyes and looked at the system.

[For natural creation—Indian Leopard (Corrupted), proceed with extraction!]

[Extracting... Extraction complete!]

[Please choose one of the following three options]

[Rainforest Phantom (Gold): Greatly enhances speed and agility when surviving in the rainforest, ignores some rainforest terrains, and is less likely to be detected by creatures. ps: Special attribute, appears only on corrupted leopards]

[Note: In the rainforest, beware of shadows!—Indian Leopard (Corrupted)]

[Claws (Purple): Your nails become extremely sharp, and creatures you scratch will keep bleeding]

[Note: Fangs and claws are our most powerful weapons!—Indian Leopard (Corrupted)]

[Night Invisibility (Purple): At night, your actions are less likely to be noticed and many creatures will ignore your presence]

[Note: The night is our best camouflage!—Indian Leopard (Corrupted)]

[Please make a choice within one minute or forfeit! The first option will be automatically chosen once the time is up!]

One gold and two purples!

Chen Wen was momentarily stunned.

Without hesitation, Chen Wen chose the golden [Rainforest Phantom].

At the same time, Chen Wen noticed that this time, he didn’t plunder, but extracted.

He remembered the system saying that extraction was achieved through taming or befriending.

Could it be that as the Black Panther was dying, I successfully tamed it?

If I had stopped at that moment, would the Black Panther have become my pet?

Chen Wen was a bit surprised.

But given the situation at the time, he absolutely couldn’t spare the Black Panther’s life.

Besides the fact that the Black Panther was inherently fierce and could retaliate if left alive,

Chen Wen couldn’t afford to keep such a creature either.

Food was scarce enough for himself, how could he sustain a Black Panther?

...

"Let’s go back and treat these injuries first!"

Recovering his senses, Chen Wen was too occupied to deal with the Black Panther.

He dragged its carcass near the suitcase.

Using the stream water, Chen Wen washed his wounds clean.

It hurt a lot!

But Chen Wen gritted his teeth and endured it.

He cut his torn clothes with a knife, turning them into bandages to tightly wrap the wound on his left arm.

This was the only way Chen Wen could stop the bleeding at the moment.

As for the scratches, under Chen Wen’s basic Deadpool-esque healing ability, they were beginning to stop bleeding.

But it might take some time to scab over.

"I can’t bring the Black Panther’s body back for now."

Chen Wen rubbed his dizzy head, still feeling the after-effects of bloodthirstiness.

His most urgent task was to bring back fresh water; the Black Panther meat was secondary.

But Chen Wen still cut open a part of the Black Panther’s pelt with a knife, taking a piece of its meat with him.

The attribute still had to be obtained.

After all, natural creations could be both plundered and extracted once each.

After properly storing the rest of the Black Panther’s carcass, Chen Wen began his return.

At this time, the long-brewing rain finally began to fall.

...

While Chen Wen was battling with the Black Panther.

Downstream.

"It’s going to rain, everyone hurry up!"

In the midst of busy work, Yan Bian looked up and loudly reminded everyone.

"Alright!"

Lu Heng stood upstream, responding loudly.

This water collection trip was the happiest and easiest action for the men’s group.

Watching the bottles and jars gradually fill up, everyone felt a surge of achievement.

"Are they all full? Everyone take a rest, we’ll leave shortly!"

Yan Bian filled the last plastic bottle and jumped into the stream.

People still love cleanliness.

After so many days on the island, everyone was already eager to take a bath.

But bathing in the sea came with many inconveniences, so no one went.

Now that there was fresh water, although they couldn’t bathe, they could at least rinse off the grime.

Everyone jumped into the water.

Lu Heng was no exception.

With a mild obsession for cleanliness, he was at the top upstream.

But just when Lu Heng was happily washing his arms,

something floating down the water made him pause in surprise.

"What is this?"

Lu Heng reached out and picked up the object in the water.

"What?"

Yan Bian heard the commotion and came over directly.

Lu Heng opened his hand and handed the tuft of black hair to Yan Bian.

"This is..."

Yan Bian was startled and instinctively pinched and sniffed it.

"Could it be Black Panther’s fur?"

The thought popped into Yan Bian’s mind.

"Black Panther’s fur? Does this thing shed?"

Lu Heng chuckled, "Just like a cat."

Yan Bian laughed, "It’s a cat species too, you could think of it as a big black cat."

"Well, I don’t like cats."

Lu Heng shook his head.

At that moment,

both of them noticed there were more things floating on the stream.

"Huh? Is this cloth?"

Yan Bian stepped quickly to retrieve the floating object.

His expression turned serious as he inspected the fabric closely: "Something’s not right! There’s blood on it!"

Seeing the pale red stains, Yan Bian’s heart sank.

"Could it be that someone from us went upstream and encountered the Black Panther?"

Hearing Yan Bian’s words, everyone gathered around.

Lu Heng frowned and said, "Impossible, there are only four of us at the camp now, Zhuo and Du Feng are injured and can’t really move, Wang Zhi is timid and won’t take rash actions."

"The only one left is Ding Decai..."

As soon as the last person was mentioned, everyone exchanged looks.

It seems very likely!

That person acts impulsively!

"Let’s go back!"

Seeing the continuous flow of clothes and fur coming down the stream, Yan Bian made a decisive decision.

"Shouldn’t we go directly upstream and take a look?"

Bai Yachuan asked.

He was the brave one.

"No! It’s already raining, and it’s getting dark. The road conditions are unclear, going now is too dangerous!"

Yan Bian was gradually showing the traits of a leader.

Under his firm opposition, the others couldn’t say much.


Soon, the men’s group carried the water and retraced their steps back.

...

As for Chen Wen.

Braving the pouring rain, he finally returned to the shelter before the fire went out.

"The fire is about to go out!"

Chen Wen looked at the dwindling fire and quickly added the stored dry wood.

"Luckily, we moved here. If we were outside, with the fire doused by the rain, we’d be in trouble tonight!"

After several days of survival, Chen Wen’s mentality had greatly improved.

As the fire slowly rekindled,

Chen Wen placed his stored food near the fire to heat.

Whether for healing or the aftereffects of [Bloodthirsty], a lot of energy was needed.

Therefore, Chen Wen decided to have a big meal tonight and prepare a midnight snack.

To avoid nearly fainting from hunger like the last time.

Simultaneously, Chen Wen also placed the leopard meat over the fire.

"Right, on the way back I got scratched by aloe vera!"

Chen Wen glanced at his ankle.

On the way back, due to the heavy rain and darkness, he took quite a few wrong turns.

Before reaching the camp, he was accidentally scratched on the leg by a clump of aloe vera while passing through a sparse forest.

The injury wasn’t severe, but it was indeed very painful!

Sitting by the fire, the originally cold Chen Wen gradually warmed up thanks to the fire’s warmth.