According to Chi Cai, the "hidden friend" was more like a fairy tale. It did not choose its targets at random; instead, it needed people to choose it.
"If that's the case, wouldn't it be extremely difficult for the Player of this Dungeon to clear it?" Xu Huo asked.
Chi Cai was worried too. "The real hidden friend targets the local elderly. I don't know whether the Player pretending to be it will have the same ability. But I'm inclined to think the Dungeon requires the person playing the role to kill the chosen target directly. As for the friends taken away by the hidden friend, this forest is so large—who knows where the bodies are?"
"Where is she?"
While Chi Cai was looking into the distance as she spoke, Xu Huo had already reached the woods a kilometer away. The Player had not searched this area yet—or perhaps he had, but had failed to find the person hidden inside an underground tree hollow.
Pushing aside the covered entrance beside a thick tree root crawling along the ground, Xu Huo bent down and entered. He carried out a little girl who had her eyes tightly shut but was breathing evenly.
"Wake up." He patted the girl's cheek.
The child was sleeping deeply. It took several calls to wake her, and because she had been hungry for a long time, she was rather weak. "Mister, why are you here?"
Xu Huo gave her some food and water and let her eat first.
Hunger, along with food she had never eaten before, gave the child a huge appetite. She chewed hard and swallowed the food with effort. Only after getting over her initial hunger did she slow down. With her mouth stuffed full, she said, "If only Sister Toto could eat something