Bear Grylls and Ed Stafford Said Never Drink Unfiltered Water in the Wild

"Hey! You with the axe!"

Cheng Tian's sudden shout, after relieving himself, made the two college students, who had been keeping their distance, flinch slightly.

Having successfully witnessed Cheng Tian's entire process of taking down the Red Imp, One-Ear and his friend were astonished by Cheng Tian's combat power, considering he should also be a newbie. At the same time, they also felt a faint sense of fear.

This was different from fighting zombies before. The decisiveness and brutality Cheng Tian displayed when dealing with the Red Imp made them very naturally associate him with someone who might not be a good person in reality.

What kind of good person beats a demon into a human stick!?

But they were even more afraid to leave Cheng Tian and push forward on their own... they probably wouldn't even know how they died.

Words teach those who can't be taught, experience teaches in one go. Having personally experienced the dangers of Demon Village, they had long abandoned the idea of being heroes. Now, the two just wanted to try to cling to a strong backer.

So, Cheng Tian didn't move, and they simply rested ten meters away from him.

"Big brother! What do you need!"

One-Ear, aware of the vast difference between himself and Cheng Tian, immediately stood at attention.

"Got any food?"

"We'll go find some!"

Faced with Cheng Tian's sudden request for food, One-Ear was still scratching his head when the stupid college student covered in blood scabs directly put his arm around his roommate's neck, and took on the task without asking why.

The blood-scabbed idiot, who had already done one stupid thing, had an unprecedentedly clear mind at this moment.

He had completely realized that One-Ear at least had some combat power and was qualified to get some assists from Cheng Tian, while he was just a useless burden. The other party had no reason to help him at all.

If he wanted to cling to someone's coattails, he had to show his value besides combat power as much as possible, running errands, carrying things, and handling some chores for the big shot.

Cheng Tian's request at this moment was a good opportunity to show his value.

Neither of them had any food, but the blood-scabbed idiot remembered that some of the other dead players had satchels or briefcases, and there was a high chance of finding food and drink in them.

A short hour had already greatly changed his perspective. As long as he could cling to a strong backer and survive, touching corpses was just a small problem.

If he really couldn't find anything, he could only try searching the surrounding tombstones to see if anyone had left offerings that could be stolen... He didn't know if the medieval-style world view included food in its offerings.

"Wait a moment."

Just as the blood scabs were about to lead One-Ear back the way they came, Cheng Tian suddenly stopped them. When the blood scabs turned around, they saw a baseball bat falling in a parabola not far in front of them.

"Take it, it's something to defend yourself with."

Cheng Tian said, throwing the white baseball bat to the blood scabs.

"Okay, big brother!"

The blood scabs, who had just made a statement and immediately received a response, were overjoyed.

One-Ear patted the blood scabs on the shoulder, and then followed him back the way they came.

Killing zombies and searching corpses were fundamentally different. At least, the two college students couldn't do it without any psychological fluctuations.

Fortunately, there was some food in these bags that the zombies had ignored, especially in the girl's satchel, which was filled with several kinds of snacks, and they were all high-calorie foods such as fruit gummies, fruit crisps, and nuts.

Cheng Tian, who was taking the two young men as errand runners with peace of mind, wasn't idle either. He opened the bronze treasure chest that he had been using as a stool.

Naturally, there was no lurking vampire magician inside, just an ordinary treasure chest.

As the treasure chest opened, Cheng Tian's originally empty wealth column directly added 1500 Heaven's Chosen Coins. Obviously, this was the universal currency of the space, but he didn't know what the purchasing power was.

The second drop was the Red Imp wings that had been scattered not far away, which Cheng Tian had cut off. They dropped as a green, excellent-level processable material, and Cheng Tian also put them into an empty slot in his inventory.

Then, the main point came.

The third treasure chest reward was 1 free skill point.

In addition to completing the main quest with high completion and high evaluation, killing powerful monsters, completing hidden side quests, and obtaining special treasures all had a chance to get free skill points.

However, Cheng Tian's attitude towards skill points was obviously more cautious. Of course, the main reason was that the only skill he currently had that could be upgraded, just by looking at the description, wasn't the type that could cause a qualitative change with 1 skill point.

As the saying goes, ride a bicycle to the bar, save what should be saved, spend what should be spent. He had already used attribute points and skill stones, so Cheng Tian would leave the free skill points for now and allocate them as needed later.

While the two young men went to find food, Cheng Tian wasn't completely idle either.

Not far from the exit of the cemetery, a narrow river blocked the only way to Demon King's Castle. Above the river, there were clearly circulating moving platforms, like drifting ice floes, driven by some special force.

The river water was clear, and the current wasn't fast, but it was definitely deep enough to completely submerge a person.

After just a few glances at the river water, Cheng Tian unhesitatingly uninstalled his "Vampire Hunter" template.

The reason was the template's own template skill, called Water Solubility.

Water Solubility: Template skill, negative passive skill. When your whole body is submerged in a water source exceeding your height, you will immediately be judged as dead.

Since Cheng Tian's Vampire Hunter template was "native", it not only had Simon's advantages, but also inherited his disadvantages.

With this physique, some people might even believe that Simon was a vampire...

Hit Evasion was a bit of a letdown in practical application, and the terrain requirements were very demanding, but at least it was nominally a buff effect. Water Solubility, on the other hand, was a pure, unadulterated negative passive.

A gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall. Cheng Tian didn't want to gamble that he could safely and without any accidents reach the other side of the river through the circulating moving platform, so he simply uninstalled the template first.

You have to choose the right occasion for gambling, right?

Anyway, he was still wearing strawberry macho underwear, and he could reload the template in just 15 minutes, so he uninstalled it without hesitation.

By the time Cheng Tian returned to his original spot, he had filled his knight's helmet to the brim with clear river water.

Even though he was parched, he didn't rush. Cheng Tian first gathered some dry branches and grass from around the withered trees. He wrapped the embers from the fireball that the Red Imp had spat out before dying in the dry grass, held it in his palms, and blew on it bit by bit, quickly igniting the grass and starting a small campfire.

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Next, he spent some effort moving a few broken tombstones to use as a stove, placing them in the fire, and then he set the helmet full of river water on top to boil.

Bear Grylls and Ed Stafford had taught Cheng Tian more than once that if possible, you should always boil wild water sources before drinking them.

The likely consequence of skipping the hassle and drinking untreated water in the wild is severe dehydration... or even rectal prolapse.