Survival in the Forest: She Didn't Want to Be Eaten

"Aah!!!"

Sudden weightlessness and pain struck, and Feng Rumeng screamed in fright.

She didn't want to fall to her death,

and she didn't want to be eaten by a bird either!

With trembling hands, Feng Rumeng pulled out her dagger and stabbed it hard into the giant bird's talon. Blood spurted, and the bird released her in pain.

Holy crap!

Wind howled in her ears as her body plunged.

"I don't want to die yet!"

"Somebody save me!!"

Was she about to die? If she'd known, she would have stayed holed up in the cave.

"Crack!"

Feng Rumeng landed among the branches of a giant tree, but before she could celebrate, she fell again. At last, an offshoot of the tree caught her with a bang, and pain blackened her vision.

Only after recovering a little did she dare move. As she pushed herself upright, she felt as though every inch of her body had been crushed beneath a boulder.

There was no time to fuss. Feng Rumeng was covered in scratches, and the shoulder the giant bird had torn open was still bleeding. She took a wound disinfectant spray from her storage space and sprayed every injury on her body.

"Ah!" Cold sweat covered Feng Rumeng's forehead, and her face twisted in pain.

She covered the wounds from the bird's talons with sterile dressings, wrapped them in bandages, and leaned against a nearby branch to calm her fear.

After resting for a while, Feng Rumeng looked down, and her heart lurched. She was still at least a hundred meters above the ground. She didn't dare imagine what would have happened if she'd fallen all the way down.

Feng Rumeng quickly surveyed her surroundings. The trees here looked as though they had grown for thousands of years. The thickest would have taken seven or eight people with their arms outstretched to encircle, and their crowns were as huge as ghostly hands.

The smell of rotting fallen leaves hung in the air. Listening carefully, she could also hear thin, high-pitched birdsong in the forest. She even wondered if she was in the Amazon Rainforest.

"Roar!"

The sound made Feng Rumeng's scalp go numb.

A giant bear below, drawn by the smell of blood, spotted Feng Rumeng on the tree trunk at once.

Feng Rumeng's eyes widened, and her whole body trembled. She hurriedly clung to the trunk. Below, the giant bear, as big as a small mountain, stood upright like a person and rammed the tree with all its might.

Feng Rumeng swallowed. This place was definitely hell. Damn it, who could come and save her?

The giant bear rammed the tree three times in a row, only to find that the leaves had barely moved—and that was because of the wind.

It extended its claws and dug them into the trunk, but its body was too heavy. After climbing a few meters, its claws couldn't support its weight, and it fell.

It circled the tree twice in agitation, then looked up into the branches, let out a few low growls, and left in a huff.

Feng Rumeng trembled all over in the tree. The giant bear had gone, but other beasts would come.

The hairs on her body stood on end as she looked around fearfully, terrified that some animal would swallow her whole the next second.

Feng Rumeng had only just calmed down when several giant wolves appeared below and began circling the tree. She stared at the wounds on her body for two seconds.

Animals had sharp senses of smell. More and more beasts would probably be drawn by the scent of blood. If one of them could climb trees...

She had to leave quickly. The forest at night was even more frightening. She didn't have animals' night vision, and the trees weren't absolutely safe either.

Pythons and spiders generally liked to stay in trees, and if she ran into another bird of prey, the more she thought about it, the less chance she saw of surviving.

Feng Rumeng's legs were weak as she struggled to her feet, using the trunk for support.

"Hiss!" A huge, bloody maw lunged at her from overhead.

In a panic, Feng Rumeng leaned backward and pressed her bracelet. A nanowire shot out and embedded itself in the tree ahead.

Just as the enormous mouth was about to clamp around her waist and abdomen, she retracted the nanowire. She failed to control her direction and slammed into the trunk, blood pouring from her nose.

Before she could steady herself, the python had already launched itself at her. (°_°)... Could this snake fly?

Feng Rumeng shot out the nanowire again to move. She had just leaped onto another fork when the python's jaws snapped shut on the spot where she'd been, sending wood chips flying.

Feng Rumeng's heart thudded wildly. She didn't dare look back as she used the nanowire to dart quickly between the tree trunks.

She didn't know how much time had passed before she heard running water. Fixing on the direction, she shot out the nanowire again and moved toward it.

Soon, Feng Rumeng stopped on a thick trunk and gazed at the waterfall ahead, which defied her understanding.

Even with her head tipped back as far as it would go, she couldn't see the top of the waterfall. Below, all she could see was a glittering expanse.

Where on earth had she ended up? Did it have to be this outrageous? She had never heard of such a wonder on Earth. Even novels wouldn't dare write something like this, would they?

She'd been too careless. Why hadn't she bought a camera? She could at least have taken a few pictures and shown her new roommates something to shake up their view of the world when she got back.

Feng Rumeng touched her nose. It had stopped bleeding. She glanced back, but the python hadn't pursued her.

She breathed out and sat leaning against the trunk. She had been too tense to notice before, but once she stopped, exhaustion swept over her, and she hurt everywhere.

She would rest for a while before deciding what to do next.

Feng Rumeng closed her eyes to rest. "Buzz, buzz, buzz!"

There were mosquitoes this high up?

She raised a hand to wave them away, then remembered how strange this place was and hurriedly opened her eyes.

Holy crap. Feng Rumeng looked at the giant bees surrounding her and instantly held her breath. Every one of them was bigger than her head.

They were all poised to strike. She felt that if one stung her, she'd spring a leak.

Feng Rumeng stared at them, not daring to move her eyes. She had struggled for so long and had just thought herself extremely lucky when the bees came to teach him a lesson.

How was she supposed to escape? Jump into the water? At this height, wouldn't that be no different from crashing at high speed? There might even be man-eating water monsters in the water, and she couldn't swim.

Heavens, how have I offended you, that you'd play this kind of joke on me?

The giant bees gave her no chance to hesitate. The largest had already lunged at her with its stinger.

In her panic, Feng Rumeng took out an animal hide and swung it in front of her. As the giant bees backed away, she pulled it over her head and shot a nanowire into the tree ahead.

The moment she retracted the wire and leaped, she felt something cold coil around her waist.

Her whole body was yanked into the dense branches and leaves with a whoosh.