Level 3 Danger Sense

Only when Violet Gold Three Minutes began did Wang Wu finally confirm that the Gray Rat Clan was not lying in ambush for him.

Because those five White-Haired Rats were absorbing Golden Particles.

Without them involved, Wang Wu relaxed considerably. He jogged back toward the cliff, to the rock crevice that belonged to him, and waited there for Silver Three Minutes to arrive.

Golden Three Minutes was good, but he was afraid he would not live to enjoy it.

Soon, golden sunlight came scattering down, but this was already its fading aftermath.

It took Wang Wu two minutes and fifteen seconds to gather 10 points of Spiritual Qi. Added to the 10 points he had gained yesterday from the two Broadsword Mantises, he had exactly enough for one upgrade.

This time, he chose the Danger Sense talent without hesitation and upgraded it to Level 2.

Over this period, he had suffered quite a few losses because his Danger Sense talent had been too low.

After upgrading, Wang Wu decisively turned and ran without caring that Silver Three Minutes had not yet ended. He sprinted all the way to the creek, drank his fill, then headed straight for Berry Plains.

Then he froze. A huge leaf had already been laid out here, piled with exactly fifteen berries. In the distance, the four Gray Rat Knights saw him but did not call out. They merely continued holding those strange poses.

Well then, they were certainly sincere.

Wang Wu did not hesitate. At this time, the five White-Haired Rats were still on the low hill and could not possibly ambush him. He was more than happy not to pick the berries himself, so he stepped forward and wolfed them down.

These Gray Rats had been quite thoughtful.

But expecting me to trust you is nothing but a dream.

After eating and drinking his fill, Wang Wu went back and forth through the creek twice, found another dense patch of grass, and began his daily hibernation.

And sure enough, the Gray Rat Knights no longer hunted him on a large scale, as if the two sides had truly buried the hatchet and become one loving family from then on.

Wang Wu was happy enough with that. Keep the sugar coating, send the cannonballs back—what was wrong with that?

Another two days passed safely. Every day, Wang Wu only absorbed Spiritual Qi during Silver Three Minutes, and each time he was extremely cautious. The instant he gathered 10 points of Spiritual Qi, he ran at once, determined not to give any potential enemies the chance to corner him.

Then, when his Spiritual Qi reached 20 points, he chose to continue upgrading his Danger Sense talent.

After obtaining Level 3 Danger Sense, Wang Wu pretended to carry on as usual. After eating and drinking his fill, he found a patch of grass and entered Level 5 Stealth.

But about half an hour later, he silently slipped out of the grass and began roaming through the shrubs using his Level 3 Danger Sense.

Of course, this was not for fun. It was to test the power and effects of Level 3 Danger Sense, preparing for his later plans.

After making a full circuit, he felt both excited and worried.

He was excited because Level 3 Danger Sense was indeed powerful. It allowed him to sense almost any Sprite within a fifty-meter radius that might pose a threat, letting him calmly take a detour and avoid exposing himself.

With this sharp weapon, combined with the Level 5 Stealth talent, Sprites such as the Four Heroes of the Valley and the Eight Steeds of the Jungle would not find it so easy to ambush him anymore.

What worried him was that he knew Level 3 Danger Sense probably could not detect beings on the level of the Black Snake Priest or the Fire Scorpion Priest in advance.

If he wanted to borrow some fire from the Flame Scorpion Clan again, the outcome probably would not be pleasant.

"Chirp chirp chirp chirp!"

Two Little Red Birds skimmed low over the shrubs, completely failing to notice Wang Wu below. It was already late morning, and the valley, bustling all morning long, was gradually settling down. The terrifying daily daytime silence was approaching again.

After thinking it over, Wang Wu gave the Little Red Birds' territory a wide berth and crept toward the cliff. He wanted to find an opportunity to catch a lone Flame Scorpion off guard and borrow some fire.

And that required him to get as close to the cliff as possible.

Thinking about it, Wang Wu only now realized why the foot of that cliff—and every other low hill—had a stretch of open ground extending more than thirty meters outward, with no shrubs or trees growing there at all.

Now it seemed likely that these Sprites had created it to expand their surveillance range.

Even the reason he had been attacked by the Fire Scorpion Priest last time was probably that he had exposed himself at this point.

Unfortunately, his Level 5 Stealth talent required him to remain completely motionless. It would have been wonderful if he could maintain it while moving.

With these thoughts in mind, Wang Wu lay hidden in grass thirty-five meters from the rock crevice and waited for the right moment.

But today's sun was especially vicious, making the entire valley seem as though it were about to smoke from the heat.

He did not even dare look up at the sky, because in every direction, above and below, it felt as if the sun had split into countless shadow clones. The sky was clearly gray and hazy, yet the glare was blinding.

Could a torrential rainstorm be coming?

A realization dawned on Wang Wu. He had been transported into this world for more than ten days already, yet every day had been clear and cloudless. He had nearly forgotten that rain was even a thing.

And rain would bring flash floods. Besides, if there came several consecutive overcast days without morning sunlight, would there be no Golden Particles?

A sense of urgency rose within Wang Wu. He did not know whether it was the heightened sensitivity brought by Level 3 Danger Sense or the fear of rainy seasons buried in his memories from his former life as a human, but he immediately realized that he could not keep pretending to be Garen in the grass from now on.

Level 5 Stealth was indeed awesome, but if flash floods broke out, he would still die without a sound.

Therefore, he had to reclaim that rock crevice.

Just as he was thinking this, Wang Wu's heart suddenly stirred. More than twenty meters away, seven or eight Black Spiders as large as washbasins rapidly descended from a wild tree seven or eight meters tall.

They were Black Widows. They were neither the same kind as the Blood Spider Empress beneath the rocks on the cliff's southwest side, nor the same kind as those Grass-top Flyer spiders.

What were they doing?

If he remembered correctly, these Black Widows usually came out to hunt at night. Yet it was broad daylight now...

No, they were weaving webs!

But not the kind of webs used to hunt prey. Wang Wu could not make sense of them, but he still felt deeply shaken.

Could they be preparing for torrential rain too?

Or even for a coming rainy season that would last a month, perhaps several months?

Wang Wu immediately became highly alert. No Spiritual Qi income would be a devastating blow to him. By then, heaven and earth would become a vast ocean, and the rainy season—

Wait, those White-Haired Rats!

He suddenly thought of the Gray Rats' appeasement strategy over the past few days. It looked as though they had reconciled with him, but when the rainy season arrived, the White-Haired Rats, with their ice magic, would have every advantage of timing, terrain, and human support. The Flame Scorpion Clan, on the other hand, would be in a real miserable fix.

At that thought, Wang Wu could not help raising his head to look at the towering cliff ahead.

That territory, which had originally belonged to the Black Snake Clan, showed no sign of any living thing at this moment. It looked like an abandoned patch of land. There could not possibly be Scorpion Sentinels keeping a close watch on this place, could there?

To hell with it!

A torrential downpour would likely break out in the afternoon. He needed a place to shelter from the rain and avoid flash floods.

Wang Wu steeled himself, burst out of the shrubs, and charged straight toward the rock crevice.

At that moment, his Level 3 Danger Sense immediately received a great deal of information—something that had never happened before.

Among all those danger-filled signals were the Black Widows, as well as nearly a dozen spots in the grass not far away. No way—did heroes truly think alike?

But just as he was about to reach the rock crevice, less than five meters away, Level 3 Danger Sense finally sent him a terrifying warning that made his hair stand on end.

"Fuck!"

"There's an ambush in the rock crevice!"