Chapter 1

Afternoon.

In a secluded and deep primeval forest.

Soft sunlight pierced through the layers of overlapping leaves, sometimes converging into beams of golden light, and other times transforming into mottled patches of light, gently sprinkling onto the moss-covered soil.

It was truly a beautiful scene. If it were posted on a popular social media app, it would surely attract a large group of followers.

Unfortunately, the person who witnessed this scene firsthand only found it glaring.

So tired, so thirsty, so hungry, Xian muttered silently in his heart. Looking at the front, where he still couldn't see any roads, only a dense sea of trees, a sense of despair couldn't help but rise in his heart.

"Damn it, where the hell is this place! Is it Southeast Asia or the Amazon?"

Xian punched the tree next to him hard, the burning pain on the back of his hand making him a little more conscious.

He was just an ordinary college student on Earth. He had only decided to take a trip to Thailand with his friends before the New Year during his winter vacation. As a result, he was knocked unconscious as soon as he got off the plane, and when he woke up, he was already in this seemingly endless dense forest.

He had asked for help and shouted, but in the end, he realized that no one would respond, so he might as well shut his mouth and conserve his strength.

"There's still no signal on my phone. Not only that, but the battery is about to die."

Xian took out his phone from his pocket, looked at the phone that still couldn't be connected and the blood-red battery warning, and could only sigh heavily.

He looked at the sky above, which was heavily obscured by the canopy of trees. Although it was very slow, he could still notice that the sunlight was gradually weakening.

Although he had never learned any knowledge about wilderness survival, a few survival clips he had occasionally watched on video software still made him understand that the forest at night was ten times more dangerous than during the day! Especially in this dense forest with such a perfect ecosystem, there couldn't be a lack of carnivores.

"Search forward for a while. If I still can't find a road, I'll find a safe place like a tree hole to survive the night."

Xian made a decision. He held his breath and concentrated, while pushing aside the messy weeds to move forward, while trying his best to listen to the surrounding sounds.

At the same time, he also used fallen branches and stones from the soil to make marks, so as not to get lost.

About half an hour later, he stopped.

Whirr, whirr, whirr.

A sound came from a distance into his ears.

Although it was very weak, he still heard it. It was the sound of running water.

"Found it!"

After carefully listening to confirm the direction of the water sound, Xian quickened his pace without stopping and rushed in that direction.

Before long, after he pushed aside a dense thicket of bushes, the scene in front of him suddenly opened up.

On the wide riverbank covered with weeds, a small stream about four or five meters wide flowed through. The stream was crystal clear, and he could see the fine texture of the fine sand and pebbles at the bottom, as well as the small fish that occasionally swam among them, shimmering with silver light.

Xian slowly approached the river, squatted down and reached out to gently touch the slightly cool stream water. An unspeakable joy spread from his fingertips to his whole body, making his expression hard to hide his excitement.

Because he knew very well that where there is water, there is life.

As long as he kept walking along this stream, he would definitely be able to find human habitation and get out of this dense forest.

Poof, poof.

Xian scooped up the stream water and gently washed his face. The cool stream water could make him more conscious.

However, although he was slightly thirsty, he had no intention of drinking the stream water yet. Although the stream water in front of him looked clear, it still contained many bacteria, fish eggs, and other impurities.

Unless the feeling of thirst became so severe that it affected his actions, he was not prepared to drink raw water directly.

"Let's walk along the stream for a while. If we still don't see any signs of civilization or a way out, we'll find a way to make a fire and solve the drinking water problem first."

Xian pondered for a moment, and was about to get up when he suddenly froze.

He saw a line of strange characters quietly floating above his reflection's head in the stream.

It was not any kind of writing he knew, but their common sense of regularity told Xian that it was indeed a kind of writing.

At first, he thought he was hallucinating, but after rubbing his eyes several times, the characters still did not disappear, so he had to accept this fact.

"What does this text mean? And why does it appear above my head?"

Xian tried to move his body, but the characters in the stream also moved with the reflection, which meant that the text was indeed related to him.

Clearly, he couldn't see the characters above his head when he looked up, but he could see them in the reflection.

Not only that, when he concentrated on the characters above his head, another similar line of text appeared below that line!

Seeing this, a sense of fear spread through his mind.

Although many people on Earth hoped to encounter supernatural events, when such events really happened to them, the first reaction of most people was undoubtedly panic.

"Calm down, calm down. The top priority is to follow the stream to find civilization and make a fire to solve the water problem."

Xian took a few deep breaths, and his emotions gradually calmed down.

This was a small trick taught by a senior when he participated in a university speech contest. Whenever his emotions were too agitated, he only needed to take a few deep breaths repeatedly as much as possible, and his emotions could be quickly controlled.

After calming down, just as Xian wanted to get up and continue moving forward, a sense of inexplicable peeping suddenly appeared behind him.

Considering that anything could happen in this land that resembled a primeval forest, he immediately stood up and turned around, staring intently at the dense bushes behind him.

Seemingly aware of being discovered by its prey, accompanied by a subtle rustling sound, a huge wolf slowly emerged from the bushes.

Hiss! Xian's pupils shrank at this scene.

It's not that he hadn't seen wolves in the zoo, but this wolf was too big!

Its shoulder height was already more than half a meter, and its muscles were faintly visible under its deep gray-brown fur, showing the unique power and beauty of a beast.

The wolf stared at him with its ghostly green wolf eyes, revealing the full fangs in its wolf mouth, and walked towards Xian step by step, making people fearful.

"This size is almost catching up with the North American Wolf," Xian's mouth twitched.

Although he was terrified, he did not choose to run away. Instead, he opened his arms and glared at the wolf fiercely, making a fierce expression.

He had watched a few episodes of Animal World. Two legs can't outrun four legs, and carnivores have a hunting instinct for creatures that expose their backs.

In conclusion, running away is a dead end, and facing each other with open arms may offer a glimmer of hope.

Sure enough, under Xian's actions, the wolf stopped its pace, just staring at him, seemingly weighing the value and strength of him, this prey, to see if it was worth hunting.

"You will be injured if you hunt me, get out of here!" Xian shouted in his heart, he had never been so nervous as he was now.

However, just when his eyes were about to dry out from staring, the wolf suddenly let out a shrill howl!

"Awoo—!" Xian's expression changed drastically. He knew very well that the purpose of this wolf howl was definitely not to intimidate, but to summon its companions!

Just as he expected, within a few dozen seconds, accompanied by the sound of bushes being pushed aside, two more equally tall North American Wolves emerged from the bushes.