By the time Richard returned to Tanjung Sepat, three days had already passed.
God knew what he had gone through these past few days.
Traveling from Tanjung Sepat to Blue Village meant going downstream, and it only took a little over ten hours. But going back meant rowing against the current, relying entirely on his own strength.
Even though the current was gentle, it was still exhausting work.
Thank goodness his desire to survive kept him going.
Otherwise, he really would have broken down.
And he had to rest and find food along the way...
Oh!
My God!
Richard had been forced to survive in the wilderness. After dragging the boat ashore, he went onto land to look for wild fruit.
That had not been a good choice.
Fortunately, as an adventurer, he had plenty of wilderness survival experience.
As for Ah Wang and the boatman's corpses, he had thrown them into the river at the first opportunity. He had no desire to stay with two dead bodies.
After all.
When he pushed the boat into the water, he had not seen either of them at all.
But the moment he left the village.
They suddenly appeared.
It was hard to tell whether there was anything strange about them.
Even if there was nothing strange about them, staying with two rotting corpses was strange enough by itself.
But although he had thrown away the bodies.
For some reason, he always felt as if someone was behind him.
Whenever he rowed.
He felt Ah Wang staring at him from behind.
When he went ashore to find food, he also felt someone following him. Once, when he returned, he saw Ah Wang and the boatman sitting in the boat and talking through the shade of the trees.
But when he hurried out