Chapter 1, Sick in the Brain
Waking up from the dark chaos, the teenager Ren Xiaosu wiped the sweat from his forehead before looking at the thirteen or fourteen year old boy in the doorway.
“Six Yuan, is there anything wrong?” Ren Xiaosu asked.
The child who was addressed as Six Yuan was actually fully named Yan Liu Yuan.
Yan Liu Yuan had a harmless look and just looked innocent, yet he was holding a bone knife in his hand and guarding the doorway, it was late at night and he looked sleepy already but never closed his eyes because he had to keep watch.
Yan Liu Yuan shook his head and said, “It’s fine, what’s going on with this disease inside your head, the doctors in the market town can’t tell what it is either?”
“You don’t need to worry about this kind of thing, I’m not sick,” Ren Xiaosu said in a resolute tone, “It’s almost dawn, I’m going to go out hunting, you sleep for a while and go to the school on time.”
“Oh,” Yan Liu Yuan nodded lowly, “What’s the use of studying well in this wasteland ……”
“It’s useful when I say it’s useful,” Ren Xiaosu said in an undeniable tone.
“I’m going hunting too,” Yan Liuyuan deflated.
“Who’s going to keep watch if something happens to you? The unconscious me?” Ren Xiaosu stood up and prepared to fetch water from the center of the market town, which was less dangerous at dawn.
Here at night, it was outside the law.
……
There were dark clouds rolling in the gloomy sky, and a drop of acid rain finally fell from the clouds, it kept fluttering in the gusty wind, and finally snapped and landed in front of Ren Xiaosu.
Teenager Ren Xiaosu lying on the ground in the wilderness, he frowned and said that today’s luck is a bit bad, the prey has not yet waited for surprisingly first waited for the acid rain.
Some people say, walking on this wasteland must be careful of wild beasts.
But Ren Xiaosu felt that this person did not say all the words, because there are many other things that can kill people in this wasteland, one of them is acid rain.
However, Ren Xiaosu still didn’t move, if there was no more prey today, without waiting for the acid rain to bring disease, he and Yan Liuyuan’s boy would starve to death.
Suddenly there was the sound of a bird’s wings flapping the air, Ren Xiaosu’s eyes suddenly widened, but his breath was never disorganized.
Not far in front of Ren Xiaosu was a black iron pot that he had supported with a branch, while a little bit of blackened bread crumbs were sprinkled underneath it.
That big bird landed beside the iron pot and watched vigilantly with stern eyes, this bird actually might not be much smaller than the iron pot in terms of size.
It stood still for half a day combing its feathers, while Ren Xiaosu continued to wait without moving.
It seemed that the big bird finally dropped its guard and began to slowly move towards the iron pot, its footsteps as tiny as a thief.
However, when it entered the range of the iron pot and just lowered its head to peck at the bread crumbs, Ren Xiaosu suddenly violently yanked the rope in his hand, followed by the teenager’s entire body jumping up, rushing towards the iron pot like a wild donkey out of control, and before the big bird overturned the iron pot, he exerted all his strength to use his own body to speak about the iron pot solidly pressed down!
“Whew!”
Ren Xiaosu exhaled a mouthful of turbid breath, in order to wait for this sparrow, he had waited for an entire night, but happily today’s efforts were not in vain, knowing that this kind of good opportunity does not come every day.
Under the iron pot came the sound of the sparrow’s struggle, the hard feathered wings rubbed out a sharp sound in the iron pot, at this time the chiming sound from the refuge barrier came liltingly.
Ren Xiaosu glanced back behind her, and wondered when she would be able to bring Yan Liuyuan inside the refuge barrier.
To Ren Xiaosu, the people in the refuge barriers were happy, because they could not have to face those dangers in the wasteland.
However, it wasn’t like anyone who wanted to enter there could do so.
At this time, the movement in the iron pot finally became much smaller, he sighed and once again made sure that the rags on his hand had been wrapped properly before slowly uncovering the iron pot by a slit, Ren Xiaosu’s hand then reached inside that slit and tried to grab the legs of this large sparrow!
Just life will not always be so smooth sailing, Ren Xiaosu’s hand just reached in and then owed out.
Ren Xiaosu retracted his palm and saw that his tiger’s mouth had already bled, and the rags didn’t stop the sparrow’s sharp beak.
Ren Xiaosu angry, he simply took off his broken jacket wrapped around his hand, palm violently into the iron pot inside, this time actually a hand on the pinch the sparrow’s neck.
He simply and neatly raised the sparrow pinned in his arm, and twisted vigorously, the sparrow’s neck clicked and never moved again.
At this time, Ren Xiaosu suddenly felt pain, because his jacket was gouged out several holes by this big sparrow’s claws.
Suddenly there was a thud in his head, Ren Xiaosu’s whole body knelt down towards the ground, his mind was like a huge bronze bell ringing, completely plunged into dark chaos.
Oh no, in the past, the disease would only come at midnight, but this time, it’s even earlier.
This is not the first time he is “sick”, almost everyone in the market town knows that he has some brain problems, and from time to time, he will have pain attacks.
But Ren Xiaosu is very clear, that is not pain, that is pure chaos.
Wait a minute, this time is actually different from the previous times, the black mist in his mind is actually open, revealing a palace inside!
Ren Xiaosu suddenly opened his eyes, incredulously standing up to survey himself, “Sobering up so quickly this time?”
He originally had the chance to take a good look at what that palace looked like, but he knew better that falling into a coma in this kind of wilderness was no different from sending himself to death. He had to rush back to the market town outside the 113th refuge barrier now, before the acid rain arrived completely!
Ren Xiaosu tied up the sparrow’s two claws and hung them on his shoulders, then carried his large iron pot upside down over his head and began to run wildly, the raindrops slapping against the iron pot making a clattering sound.
At this time, the iron pot became his umbrella.
However, not waiting for him to run far, there was a silhouette stopped in front of him holding a bone knife: “Give me the prey ……”
Just before this person finished his words, he saw a huge iron pot in his vision from far and near, and ruthlessly slapped on his face!
“Grass!” The robber as a whole tumbled over backwards, he didn’t expect Ren Xiaosu to move so crisply! He didn’t expect Ren Xiaosu to move so crisply!
Only to see Ren Xiaosu unloading the pot, dumping the pot, and re lifting the pot as an umbrella to run wildly in one go, without any pause …… Seeing that the robber is not yet lying on the ground, Ren Xiaosu is already going to run far away!
The robbers lie on the ground on their backs, acid rain on the face and a hidden stinging pain, some things he a little bit can not understand.
General situation will not everyone have some communication, this teenager is to deal with how many of such a situation to have such an instinctive reaction?
No, the teenager’s footsteps were reapproaching!
The robber sat up in a panic and turned his head to look, he was surprised to find that the teenager had turned back!
Ren Xiaosu hadn’t originally planned to come back, but he clearly heard a voice coming from that palace in his mind, “Mission, gift the prey to a bystander.”
Who was speaking? Ren Xiaosu turned back towards the robber in disbelief.
The robber panicked: “There is something to discuss ……No, I am the victim ……”
Ren Xiaosu carefully measured the robber, there is no one else beside him ah.
“You want this sparrow?” Ren Xiaosu asked.
The mugger’s eyes lit up, “I want it!”
“Here you go,” Ren Xiaosu shoved the sparrow into the other’s arms without a second thought.
That strange and neutral voice sounded again, “Quest completed, rewarded with a basic level Skill Learning Atlas, which allows you to learn the abilities of others.”
Ren Xiaosu froze for a moment, as he clearly felt that there was really an extra vellum page in his mind!
Skill Learning Atlas, meaning that one could use this to directly copy other people’s abilities? Hunting? Survival? Or some of the others?
The mugger held the massive sparrow tightly in his arms ready to say something thankful, “You’re a good man ……”
Before he could finish his words, he watched as Ren Xiaosu re-dragged the sparrow away and took off.
Robber: “???”
He looked at Ren Xiaosu’s back that ran all the way wildly …… What the hell are all these people ah! What is the figure ah?