Forest Survival: The Talking Hyena

When Feng Rumeng heard the teasing voice, her head buzzed. Did I just imagine that? It actually spoke?

Moli tilted her head and took a step forward. "I wonder what such tender meat tastes like?"

Feng Rumeng's pupils contracted sharply. The hyena had become a spirit and could actually speak human words. She drew her dagger and said nervously, "Stay back."

The hyenas let out a series of low growls at the sight. Moli smiled. "Little thing, don't be afraid. I just want a taste of you."

Feng Rumeng took a step back. "I-I can kill beasts, you know."

Moli smiled flippantly and raised a paw to tease her. "You've got some guts, little thing."

Feng Rumeng looked up at the giant spider in the tree, which was about to ambush her. Moli seized the chance to open her bloody maw and pounce.

Caught off guard, Feng Rumeng twisted sideways and thrust the dagger upward, its tip striking Moli squarely in the lower jaw.

Moli groaned in pain and jerked her neck, flinging Feng Rumeng away.

Just as she was about to hit a tree trunk, Feng Rumeng twisted her waist in midair, spun around, and landed on her feet.

She had barely found her footing when the pack of hyenas swarmed her. Feng Rumeng quickly shot out a nanowire, driving it into the trunk of a tree ahead. An instant before the giant spider's web fell, she retracted the wire and leaped into the air.

She looked back down. The hyenas were stuck in the web and struggling wildly.

Moli hadn't been caught. She seemed to have anticipated its path and easily dodged it with a step backward.

She touched the wound on her lower jaw with her paw. Feeling the sticky beast blood, she glared viciously. "How dare you hurt me? I'll tear you apart."

As she spoke, she kicked hard off the ground with her hind legs and charged up the tree trunk.

Feng Rumeng went pale with shock. "You've got to be kidding me." She rapidly extended and retracted the nanowire, weaving between the tree trunks.

Moli pursued her relentlessly. Feng Rumeng had no attention to spare for her route. Wherever she went, she had to escape first.

Moli was much faster than her and soon cut her off. No matter how Feng Rumeng struggled, Moli could always anticipate her direction at once.

Moli could have dealt with Feng Rumeng with a casual swipe of her paw, but she didn't. Instead, she toyed with her like a kitten.

"Little thing, you should feel honored to become this queen's food."

Her beast eyes fixed on Feng Rumeng's nanowire bracelet. "But if you offer this queen the ring, I could consider sparing you."

Feng Rumeng watched Moli closely. This spirit was extraordinarily skilled, and she had no chance of escaping. Was she really going to stay here and become dinner for a hyena? She was so unwilling to accept it.

Back in the ring, she could have knocked opponents in the same weight class flat in minutes, but that was worth jack shit against this hyena. Moli was too agile.

Feng Rumeng regretted not buying some bows and arrows to put in her storage space. Otherwise, she wouldn't be in such a sorry state now.

"All right." Feng Rumeng held out her arm. "You can't go back on your word. I'll give you the bracelet, and you let me go. Also, tell me how to get out of this forest."

"Fine," Moli said flippantly. "Take off the ring and tell me how to use it."

"What if you go back on your word?" Feng Rumeng knew hyenas held extreme grudges. Moli wouldn't let her go.

Moli bared her teeth. "Little thing..."

"There's a snake behind you." Feng Rumeng pointed behind Moli.

Moli turned to look.

Feng Rumeng seized the opening and moved quickly.

Moli realized she'd been tricked. With a vicious grin, she flashed over to Feng Rumeng's side.

Seeing this, Feng Rumeng pulled a cane from her storage space and swung it hard at Moli's forelegs. Because Moli was suspended in midair, she fell to the ground as she dodged.

Feng Rumeng took the chance to flee.

"It's no use, little prey." Moli raised her head and watched her retreating figure, her voice icy. "You're destined to become my dinner."

Feng Rumeng ran with her whole body taut for she didn't know how long. Her body was covered in cuts from leaves and branches. If she wanted to live, she could only keep charging forward.

"Hiss." Moli's claws left three scratches across her back, and blood instantly flowed.

"Crack." The nanowire missed its target, and Feng Rumeng tumbled into a patch of low bushes, crushing purple berries all over the ground.

She scrambled to her feet, dagger in hand and eyes wary. She looked around and saw that Moli was still standing on a branch of the giant tree. She hadn't followed.

Feng Rumeng turned and ran deeper into the bushes.

Moli watched her viciously from the giant tree for a while, then left.

Feng Rumeng ran for her life, not even noticing that her body had swollen. On the ground, she had no advantage.

At last, she ran out of the bushes, only to find another vast stretch of giant trees ahead. Feng Rumeng braced her hands on her knees and panted. "Oh my god, when is this ever going to end?!"

If she hadn't been afraid the noise would attract wild beasts, she would have taken the dirt bike out of her storage space and gone speeding through the forest long ago. That was much faster than two legs.

Feng Rumeng glanced at the position of the sun. Evening was approaching again, and she had to find somewhere to stay.

After walking through the forest for only a few minutes, she saw a giant tiger with fierce eyes and a white forehead, lazily dozing beneath a tree.

Feng Rumeng shot up a giant tree. "Oh my!" She patted her chest. "The king of beasts."

As soon as Feng Rumeng left, the white tiger dozing beneath the tree raised his enormous head and sniffed hard at the air. "Is that the scent of a female?"

In the forest, Feng Rumeng hadn't gone much farther when she saw a giant lion racing through the trees. "Could this... Could this be the ferocious beast zone? Is that why the hyenas didn't dare come here?"

There was nothing she could do but grit her teeth and press on, hoping her luck would be better and she'd have somewhere to shelter for the night. Suddenly, a sweet fragrance drifted to her on the wind. Strawberries?

There were a few low bushes ahead. As Feng Rumeng approached, her eyes widened at the fist-sized strawberries growing on them.

The hyenas here can talk, the brown bears stand over ten meters tall on their hind legs, any random rabbit is bigger than a dog, and the trees are unbelievably thick. Could this place... Could I have been thrown into the restricted zone of the Supernatural Academy?

She looked at several rabbits standing upright on their hind legs at the edge of the bushes, eating strawberries. The animals were eating them, so they probably weren't poisonous. She hadn't touched fruit in nearly two months.

There was no danger at the moment, so she could pick some and put them in her storage space to eat on the way.

With that thought, she picked one and held it to her nose. Mmm, that's the smell...

"You can't eat that," a pleasant male voice called from behind her.

Feng Rumeng froze, her eyes turning red. Finally...

When she turned around with tears in her eyes, she saw a half-naked handsome man with silver hair, blue eyes, and exquisitely flawless features.

Meng closed her eyes, then slowly opened them. The handsome man was still there. It wasn't a dream.

Her lips trembled with excitement. She had finally seen a living person. She hurried forward two steps. "Handsome, can you take me out of here? I can give you lots of money."

Handsome? Money? Get out of here? Hu Yu looked at the terribly emaciated, dark-skinned female before him, her features sunken and her face covered in blisters. She... is so ugly.

But out of politeness, he still asked with concern, "Female, why are you alone..."

Before Hu Yu could finish, Feng Rumeng fainted.