Reincarnated as a bamboo rat, it begins its extreme survival struggle.

Bell, quite excited, poked half his head out of the cave. By then, it was broad daylight, and the predators that had been active in the night had fallen silent.

Bell looked up and glanced at the mimic snake above his head. After a night, the creature had changed its coiled posture, and its previously swollen belly had returned to normal.

The mimic snake, no longer languid after being satiated, turned its head after Bell showed itself and flicked its tongue back and forth in Bell's direction.

Bell believed that if he went a little further out, he would be able to see for himself what the mimic snake's huge mouth looked like.

"Being blocked at the spawn point by the enemy is the most troublesome thing."

With a light spit, Bell stated that being blocked at the door by enemies is never a pleasant thing in any game.

Back when Bell first started playing Minecraft, he was brutally beaten up by monsters in a village all night long.

But things are different now. Bell already has a way to deal with the mimic snake in his mind.

"My past experiences of getting beaten up in the game are now my survival skills. Can you withstand this twenty-year-old technique?"

With a loud squeak, Bell burst out of the cave.

His movements were wide-ranging yet slow, and his actions were completely undisguised; for a predator, there was simply no better prey than Bell.

The mimic snake directly above Bell didn't pause at all. Its body shot out like lightning, opening its mouth to pounce on Bell below. Its speed was so fast that it even left a green afterimage in mid-air.

Looking up from below, Bell saw a gaping maw rushing towards him, the mimic snake's row of sharp teeth and twitching forked tongue clearly reflected in his eyes.

In another 0.38 seconds, the mimic snake will be able to bite Bell's nape and use it...

Its slender yet powerful body entangled and strangled Bell.

This is the hunting characteristic of snakes: they can patiently lie in wait for several days, but once they strike, they are swift and decisive.

But even in the face of a life-or-death crisis, Bell's lips curled into a smirk, showing no sign of panic and even a hint of a smile, as he mentally pronounced the death sentence on the mimic snake.

A compressed clod of earth suddenly appeared in front of Bell, and was swallowed by the mimic snake, which didn't have time to stop.

The mimic snake, which was just one centimeter away from biting Bell, suddenly stopped in mid-air due to the appearance of the compressed soil clod, and then fell off the bamboo.

The slender body of the mimic snake had changed its appearance. A compressed clod of earth suddenly appeared and was shoved into its mouth, stretching the head section of the snake's body into a cube.

"I'm faster from seven steps away, and I'm still faster within seven steps. No matter how fast your muscles explode, you can't outpace my reaction speed."

With a thought, Bell can release the compressed block of soil in his inventory that is larger than himself. Theoretically, the faster Bell's reaction speed is, the faster he can take supplies from his inventory.

Even with a well-intentioned but unprepared attack, the Mimic Snake's explosive attack speed boost during its attack is insufficient to overcome the suddenly appearing compressed earth block.

[Experience +7]

Even a centipede doesn't die easily; the mimic snake, its mouth stuffed with half a clod of compressed soil, was still twitching, but the experience points for killing it had already been earned.

"I just leveled up, and my experience bar has already accumulated more than half again. I'll be able to level up again soon."

It's unclear whether it's because Bell's initial template was so weak, but he gained experience much more easily than expected.

Bell believed that other templates couldn't gain experience points from trivial matters like poking toads to death or bloating snakes to death.

He couldn't imagine a great demon king using a peerless divine weapon to poke a toad for experience points.

Shaking his head, Bell dismissed these random thoughts. The mimic snake's body gradually stopped twitching; its not-quite-dead body wouldn't last much longer.

With an inventory now, Bell won't abandon the prey he's killed like before.

He took out two bone spikes tied to his waist with grass stems, and with a swipe along the edge of the mimic snake's stretched body, he peeled off the entire snakeskin in no time.

Dissecting a corpse is a skilled job, and Bell wasn't very proficient at it, as it was his first time doing it.

Fortunately, the compressed soil clumps stretched the mimic snake's body, otherwise Bell wouldn't have been able to find a place to attack.

After some fiddling, Bell retrieved the compressed soil block he had released, and two pieces of material he had taken from the mimic snake appeared in his inventory.

Obtained: [Fresh Snake Skin] *1, [Fresh Snake Meat]

Snake skin and snake meat are both unprocessed live materials. Since Bell cannot use these materials for the time being, he must process them before they rot and spoil.

To process these things, new tools must be created, and Bell must find the logs that can be used to craft a workbench as soon as possible.

With this in mind, Bell immediately set off to explore beyond the territory of the mimic snake.

You won't find any logs in the bamboo forest; these tall and sturdy grasses will aggressively absorb all the nutrients from the surrounding soil.

In areas where bamboo grows in abundance, not to mention other trees, even weeds are rarely seen.

"So, farewell to my beloved little nest. A much wider world awaits me to explore. Perhaps one day in the future, when I return here, I will feel a sense of nostalgia."

Chapter 7 This is the night in the fantasy world!

Stepping out of the territory of the mimic snake, Bell chose to explore the outside world by following the stream among the bamboo.

"Generally speaking, there are abundant ecological resources near rivers. If you continue downstream, you should be able to find a place where trees grow."

Exploring along the river has two advantages: first, you'll encounter many small animals like poisonous toads along the way, which Bell can kill to gain experience points.

Secondly, going downstream along the river makes it easier to reach open areas, since water flows downhill.

After walking for most of the day, seeing nothing but bamboo all around him, Bell wasn't physically tired, but his mental state was already very bad.

This is just like not being able to look up when harvesting wheat; if you look up and see the vast sea of ​​wheat, you'll only feel despair.

"Heaven knows how big this bamboo forest is. Even with my short legs, I should have run at least five miles, right? Why can't I see a single tree?"

Somewhat frustrated, Bell pulled out a bone spur from his waist and grabbed a poisonous toad hiding on the riverbank, poking it repeatedly in frustration.

After leveling up to level 2, killing these silly poisonous toads will only give Bell two experience points, halving the experience gain.

However, the increased physical attributes after the upgrade also gave me an advantage when dealing with the poisonous toad.

When Bell was holding the bone spikes, he had to move around and pull the poisonous toads back and forth, poking and prodding them here and there for a long time without killing a single toad.

Now, Bell can quickly end the fight with his bone spikes. As long as the poison toad doesn't go into the water, its speed can't keep up with Bell's short legs that can kick so fast.

Bell can now jump over the 20-centimeter distance he couldn't before, so he won't fall flat on his face and get a mouthful of sand after leaping over it.

"To put it simply, my strategy for dealing with these giant toads is just two words—slaughter them all!"

After rinsing the two bone spikes in the stream to remove the toad's bodily fluids, Bell conjured a cool pose and tucked the two bone spikes back into his waistband.

Along the way, Bell has already killed three poisonous toads. With a little more experience points, he can level up again.

This was Bell's only consolation for not finding any wood.

"But it's not good to keep focusing on killing toads. The sun is about to set, and I haven't been able to collect the resources I need. I'll have to find a place to spend the night."

Through the gaps in the layers of bamboo leaves, Bell could glimpse the dim sunlight; the forest would become even more dangerous after nightfall.

Moreover, Bell wasn't very familiar with this place, and continuing his journey under the cover of night was not a good decision.

"Bring it, you!"

Near the riverbank, Bell used his bamboo rat instincts to find an abandoned burrow, chased away the few small lizards hiding inside, and then claimed the place for himself.

If these little lizards weren't so slippery, they would have become Bell's victims, turning into a wisp of experience points.

"There's still some time before sunset, but the temperature is dropping way too fast."

A chill ran through him in the cave. As Bell looked at the faint mist rising above the stream beside him, a very unsettling feeling crept into his heart.

He looked up at the sky and saw a faint purple moon appearing in the eastern sky, opposite the setting sun.

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After just a few glances at the still barely noticeable unusual moon, Bell felt a strong wave of dizziness and nausea, as if he had been thrown into a washing machine.

"I've been subjected to a mental attack?! What exactly is the moon in the sky, and why is it directly damaging my sanity?!"

The intense dizziness made it difficult for Bell to control his body. He wanted to mutter something like, "Looking at this for even a second will make me explode," but his extremely poor physical condition prevented him from saying it.

He fell back into the cave and gasped for breath. After a quarter of an hour, the discomfort in Bell's mind gradually subsided.

"This strange moon almost took my life."

When Bell poked his head out of the cave again, he was so exhausted that he didn't dare to look up at the strange purple moon in the sky.

Although the dizziness subsided, Bell's thinking speed also slowed down significantly, and abstract images with no concrete meaning would occasionally flash through his mind.

"Ouch——"

Just then, a long, drawn-out sound, like a wolf's howl, suddenly rang out in the mountains and forests, followed by echoes of response from the forest.

The surrounding bamboo forest swayed as one after another, giant hyenas, nearly two meters tall at the shoulder and with bulging muscles, emerged from the bamboo forest.

They stood on both sides of the river, howling incessantly, their fist-sized eyes scanning back and forth around the riverbed, as if flames were burning deep within their pupils.

"What the hell is this monster? My hind legs are trembling, and my bladder is about to burst..."

After the first giant hyena appeared, Bell's body trembled uncontrollably. This was the fear that came from the bamboo rat's biological instincts. Even with human intelligence, Bell could not eliminate the fear that came from his flesh.

These giant hyenas were unlike any of the animals Bell had encountered in the past two days, and Bell's intense curiosity prompted him to use his information insight on them.

【Chewing Fire Hyena】

Type: Warcraft

Level: lv.8 (34/150)

Health:

Mental strength: