"...Hmm?"
Hearing the scream coming from deep within the jungle, Fang Mo froze for a moment.
His gaze instinctively swept over the JourneyMap in the upper-right corner, and he quickly noticed two somewhat familiar pixelated portraits.
One was a blue-haired man. Though it was only a pixel-art portrait, the three distinctive scars beneath the corner of his eye were still faintly visible. The other man beside him was a little more abstract—everything else about him looked ordinary, except his nostrils were unexpectedly large.
"Is that... Toriko and Komatsu?"
Seeing such distinctive portraits on the map, Fang Mo immediately recognized them.
"Master?"
A Xue, who did not have a map, saw Fang Mo suddenly zoning out and asked curiously.
"Oh, it's nothing. We just ran into the protagonists of this world." Fang Mo shook his head and briefly explained, "Wait a bit. They should come over and introduce themselves."
"W-Will they?"
A Xue sounded distinctly worried. "Didn't Master's snail hit them just now?"
"It wouldn't kill them."
Fang Mo was extremely certain. "That little thing only weighed a few dozen pounds. It couldn't kill Toriko. As for Komatsu... it probably didn't hit him. Otherwise, that guy would've been crushed to death already, and his portrait wouldn't still be on the map."
"But that scream just now..."
"He was probably scared." Fang Mo directly dismissed the concern. "If an ordinary person got hit, they'd either die or pass out. How would they still have the strength to scream?"
As if to verify Fang Mo's words.
Not long afterward, two figures, one large and one small, emerged from the forest nearby.
The one on the left was a burly young man with messy blue hair. He was tall, imposing, and powerfully built, easily over two meters in height. He wore an orange-red windbreaker