Navigator: I have a double six-story house

The entire squad suddenly fell into extreme hunger.

Su Qing felt something was very wrong!

First of all, they had just eaten lunch before entering the instance, and that was only a short time ago.

Secondly, the human digestion rate should not be this fast!

There is only one possibility: the act of killing the rabbit just now triggered some kind of mechanism.

The man who had been terrified just moments before came out, picked up the rabbit with his bare hands, ripped open the fur with a tearing sound, and then shredded the rabbit into pieces with a few snapping sounds, handing them over.

"Eat up, you need this!"

Su Qing glanced at the bloody, mangled rabbit meat in the man's hand.

Although he could endure hardship, he still found it hard to accept eating raw food, so he turned to look at Selena.

"Selena, take the dry rations out of your bag."

Selena nodded and unzipped the pink handbag.

He reached in and groped around inside for a while.

Her movements slowed down.

Su Qing noticed that her wrist paused slightly, and then her entire arm went in, almost up to her elbow.

I flipped through it once, and then flipped through it again.

Selena looked up.

Su Qing had known her for a while now. This face had shown smugness, cunning, and coquettishness, but never this expression.

A genuine surprise.

"Captain... there's no more food."

"Not enough?" Wang Yao replied with difficulty.

"It's not that there's not enough..."

"There's absolutely no food left!"

There was no dry food, no cured meat, no dried fruit, no cookies...

Everything edible seemed to have vanished into thin air, as if it had never existed.

The sound of a zipper echoed through the bushes for several seconds, then there was silence.

Wang Yao slowly sat down on the ground.

With the shield resting beside his knees, his entire demeanor was completely different from when he had charged forward.

Su Qing frowned; things were spiraling out of his control.

The man, holding a piece of bloody rabbit meat in his hands, was not surprised; instead, he showed an expression of "I knew it."

He glanced at Selena's pink handbag, and his chapped lips twitched.

"What kind of food did you bring?"

"They're all gone," Su Qing said.

"That's normal." The man shrugged. "I brought a lot of stuff with me when I first arrived on the island, and it all disappeared on the first day."

"That's the rule on this island; no outside supplies are allowed."

"If we want to survive, we can only rely on what's on the island."

Su Qing leaned against the tree trunk and closed her eyes.

It's not about giving up, it's about organizing.

The information flowed through my mind, one by one.

First, combat accelerates stamina consumption; the higher the intensity, the greater the consumption.

Second, outside food was forcibly removed, cutting off external supplies.

Third, there are extremely dangerous mutated creatures on the island, and under normal circumstances, one should not confront them directly.

The three rules intertwined, effectively blocking all paths of "overwhelming combat power".

This is a survival instance.

The white rabbit from before was a boss-level monster that you had to desperately avoid in Hell difficulty.

The fact that the three of them could kill it head-on was purely due to their superior combat abilities.

But the price was already in front of us; after the fight, we were so hungry that our vision went black.

"Let's try a different approach."

He opened his eyes, his tone flat, but Wang Yao and Selena both looked up at him at the same time.

From now on, do only one thing.

"Looking for food."

"If you encounter a monster, try to dodge it; if you can't dodge, then fight it. When you fight, finish it quickly."

He paused for a moment, then said, "Playing the hero is not allowed."

After saying this, Su Qing glanced at Wang Yao.

Wang Yao touched his nose, unusually not refuting it.

But that's for later; right now, we need to solve the problem of being hungry.

The man handed the lump of flesh to Su Qing again.

Su Qing swallowed hard and tentatively asked, "Is there any risk in starting a fire?"

The man looked at him without saying a word, his eyes conveying the message: What do you think?

Su Qing took a deep breath and finally accepted the piece of meat.

Then Wang Yao received a portion, and the latter didn't say anything, took it, and immediately started cooking.

Then there's Selena, whose pupils are practically trembling.

......

The three followed the man toward the coastline.

"To the east," the man pointed towards the coastline, "there's a rocky area where you can collect shellfish and seaweed at low tide, and also..."

He pointed to the coconut trees overhead.

"Coconuts. But small, mutated lizards usually perch atop coconut trees; they're not to be trifled with, so be careful."

Miss Selena ultimately did not eat the rabbit meat raw.

The adorable bunny girl is still a bit too advanced for this young lady.

So the man led the three to the coastline in search of some easy-to-eat food.

Su Qing glanced at the sun's position; it was setting in the west, and it would probably be dark in about two hours.

"We'll split up and meet back here before dark." He quickly assigned tasks: "Wang Yao, the reef area; Selena, the berries; he and I will go coconut picking."

Wang Yao got up from the ground, dusted off the mud on his backside, shouldered his shield, and strolled eastward. He muttered to himself, "Going to the beach for a hellish difficulty dungeon? Who would believe that..."

Selena put away her purse and disappeared into the bushes.

Su Qing noticed something.

Selena is very fast at identifying plants.

She had walked less than twenty steps along the edge of the bushes and had already plucked three handfuls of purple berries.

We passed several clusters of similar-colored fruit, but we didn't even glance at them and just walked right past them.

The man noticed it too, and opened his mouth as if to say something.

Su Qing asked on his behalf, "How did you tell the difference?"

Selena didn't turn her head; her voice came from deep within the bushes, tinged with smugness.

"The distribution of leaf veins and the way fruits hang are different."

"The veins on the leaves of purple berries are radial, while those of the poisonous varieties have parallel veins."

"The basic courses for sailors on long voyages taught by the Windbringer Merchant Guild include toxicity identification, edible plant identification, and freshwater locating... all of which they begin learning at the age of six."

The man's mouth was open, and he couldn't close it for a long time.

He spent four days on his own trying to figure out which berries were edible, and he even got poisoned once, vomiting and having diarrhea for a day and a night. The girl with the ponytail recognized him after walking just a few steps.

Su Qing didn't comment, and took the man to pick coconuts.

During the conversation, he and the man chatted casually, mainly with Su Qing asking questions and the man answering.

Have you been to the center of the island?

The man's steps noticeably faltered for a moment.

"I can't go." He walked with his head down. "Nothing grows in that area in the center of the island. It's barren, not even a weed."

"I tried to go further in, but the closer I got to the center... the hungrier I became. I couldn't go on for more than halfway and had to turn back."

Su Qing's gaze remained fixed on the man's profile.

When the man said this, his eyes flickered, but he never looked Su Qing in the eye.

Su Qing didn't press the matter, but kept it in mind.

Before dark, the group met on the beach.

With the campfire lit, everyone could finally relax a little.