Su Yichen swallowed, gritted his teeth, and turned his face away. He struggled to his feet and hobbled toward several short fruit trees.
He couldn't climb the taller ones. He didn't know how to climb trees and couldn't get up there at all.
Only these short, nameless fruits were within his reach.
Just as he was about to reach out and pick one, Yuan Liu's gloating voice came from behind him.
"Oh, you'd better not eat those wild fruits carelessly. A lot of them are poisonous."
"Some will knock you down after you eat them. You might not die right away, but your whole body will become paralyzed, leaving you unable to move. Then you'll only be able to watch helplessly as snakes and insects crawl all over you. If your luck is bad, you might even be eaten alive by wild beasts."
All kinds of horrifying images surfaced in his mind, and Su Yichen hurriedly pulled his hand back.
Finally, he gritted his teeth. "I... I'll go catch snakes."
Yuan Liu held up a forked branch and pointed toward a small slope in the distance. "There are quite a few in that patch of grass over there. I saw two or three earlier. Hurry up. If they get away, you'll probably have to keep starving."
The more Yuan Liu talked, the hungrier Su Yichen became.
He hadn't eaten anything since noon yesterday, nor had he drunk a drop of water.
Under normal circumstances, it wouldn't have been a major problem. At most, he would have felt a little weak from hunger.
But last night, he had been so frightened he had nearly lost his soul. He had run all over the mountains in the woods at night, fleeing for his life the entire time. Now he was hungry and