Starting Off Survival With A Small Treehouse

Chapter 19: Map Authority, Hunt

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Map?

With a thought, a map appeared in Xu Xin’s mind. Some places were already lit up, but most of them were still black.

Upon closer inspection, the places that were lit up were places where he had once walked through. From the spawn point, he had traveled in an arc to the stream, walked along the stream, and finally, the lakeside where he was was also lit up.

The map showed all the places he had been to. It was very clear, and he could even see the black bears’ cave, as well as the lake and the location of his treehouse. The entire resource area was emitting a faint, hazy green light.

At the same time, on the entire map, whether it was lit up or not, there were unevenly distributed red dots that were moving.

“Are these red dots the wild beasts outside?” Xu Xin looked at the five red dots beside his treehouse. One of them was a little bigger than the other and surrounded by four smaller red dots. He looked outside and indeed saw a black bear being surrounded by four wolves.

He then looked at the center of the lake. There was a red dot there on the map that was as bright as the sun, and it was surrounded by many small red dots. This was definitely the python.

Xu Xin lifted his head to look at the python, and the scene that greeted him made his pupils contract with shock.

The python was still looking in the direction of his treehouse. Its pitch-black eyes seemed to meet Xu Xin’s gaze, and the cold moonlight in its eyes made his hair stand on end.

It can’t be that he had been discovered by the python, right? If that was the case, he would have no chance of surviving!

But before Xu Xin could finish sighing, he saw the python floating above the water surface move.

The python’s body emerged from the water, bringing a waterfall-like curtain of water that washed away the blood on the shore. After eating the red berry, Xu Xin could see countless fish being lifted into the air with the python’s movements, before falling back into the water.

The python opened its mouth in Xu Xin’s direction and flicked out its tongue, making a hissing sound. Its abyss-like scarlet mouth made Xu Xin feel like it could swallow the entire treehouse in one gulp.

Just as Xu Xin was clenching his jaw and his heart was about to jump out of his chest, the python suddenly turned around and plunged back into the water. Its body formed an arch in the water, and its body moved at high speed like a giant wheel. In the end, its tail was exposed before being submerged in the water again. With that, the entire python disappeared from the surface of the water, leaving only ripples on the surface.

The map appeared in Xu Xin’s mind again, and he noticed that the brightest red dot on the map was slowly fading away until it disappeared. The remaining red dots moved around in the middle of the lake.

“It can’t be seen when it’s in the water? That’s not right, the other red dots are still there though? Could it be that this lake is very deep and connected to other places, and the python has already gone to other places?”

The first time he saw the lake, Xu Xin thought that the center of the lake was very deep, and that did seem to be the case now. It was very likely that it was connected to another place. Otherwise, how could the python hide and survive in a lake the size of a reservoir with its huge body?

Regardless of the situation, at least the python was no longer looking at his treehouse, which slightly relieved his nervous mood.

“The ability I got this time is really strong. The Map marks the location of the enemies clear and simple. It’s simply X-ray vision!”

Xu Xin realized that not only could he see red dots on the area where the Map was lit, but the black areas that had not been lit up were also marked with red dots. This was a very strong ability. At least he didn’t have to worry about being attacked by wild beasts when exploring new areas.

When he looked at the Map again, one of the red dots beside his treehouse was missing.

Xu Xin’s eyes lit up as he thought of something. He immediately looked down.

At this time, one wolf had already lost its life to the bear’s claws, and the other three wolves were also covered in wounds. They were still surrounding the black bear and growling in a low voice. Although the hungry black bear had already killed a wolf, it was in a sorry state as well. Its body was covered in bloody scratches from the wolves’ claws, and one of its eyes had even been blinded. It had become a true “black blind bear”.

After about five minutes of a standoff, the two parties probably knew that they couldn’t gain any advantage against each other and if they continued the fight, it would only end up with both sides suffering. After one wolf howled, the remaining three wolves slowly retreated, then turned around and ran off.

Xu Xin looked at the map. Probably due to the battle between the black bear and the wolves, there were no other red dots around his treehouse. The black bear was covered in wounds, and it was showing its back to Xu Xin, enjoying its hard-won dinner.

Xu Xin had to admit that he was tempted.

This black bear was most likely the one from the black bear cave. Bears lived alone, and only mother bears with cubs would live with their cubs. When the cubs grew up, they would also live separately. In other words, there would usually only be one adult black bear in a cave.

If the black bear was really the one from the black bear cave, then Xu Xin killing it here would be equivalent to removing a hidden danger.

He clenched the stone spear in his hand and decided to take a gamble.

The black bear was right under the tree crown, which meant that he could use the treehouse’s ability to drop down from the sky and stab the bear to death.

He did as he thought.

Xu Xin gripped the stone spear tightly. To maintain his mental state at its peak, he ate a blue-grade orange that could boost his spirit. In an instant, all of his mental fatigue was swept away, and the sleepiness that he had been feeling disappeared without a trace.

Xu Xin took a deep breath and reached out his left hand, which was not holding a weapon, to the round plate that represented the door. He gripped the stone spear tightly.

Passing through the squirming door and feeling a root of the banyan tree wrap around his waist, Xu Xin pointed the tip of his spear down, aiming at the back of the head of the black bear that was feasting below. Then, he counted down in his heart.

Three, two, one!

Under Xu Xin’s control, the fibrous roots around his waist loosened, and he was almost free-falling towards the black bear.

The weightlessness reminded Xu Xin of the thrill of bungee jumping in his original world. However, he was not in the mood to experience it. Instead, he stared at the black bear on the ground and clenched the stone spear in his hand tightly.

The black bear, which had its back to Xu Xin, was enjoying the delicious wolf meat. It did not notice Xu Xin’s sudden descent from the sky at all. With a “pfft” sound and a painful groan from the black bear, the stone spear pierced into the back of the black bear’s head, and its blood splattered everywhere. The black bear did not even move to resist before it collapsed to the ground.

Xu Xin’s first hunt was a success.

His first hunt was a black bear!

The stone spear pierced through the back of the bear’s head and into the wolf corpse in front of the bear, killing it instantly. Xu Xin had tightened the roots around his waist just before he hit the ground. Other than the fact that he was a little nauseated from the tight grip of the roots, he didn’t suffer any other injuries.

He panted heavily, and his eyes revealed a hint of excitement.

As a child who grew up in the city, this was the first time he had killed an animal other than a mosquito. Naturally, he felt a little uncomfortable, but the series of exciting actions still made his adrenaline soar, and he felt an unparalleled sense of excitement.

“I’m sorry, brother black bear. I really need the materials on your body,” Xu Xin wiped off the blood on his face and muttered to himself. He controlled the roots of the banyan tree to grab the black bear’s body as well as the half-gnawed wolf’s body to the first floor.

He didn’t want to bring these bloody things to the third floor where he slept.

The first floor was filled with wood that he had cut, but it was enough to fit the two animal carcasses as well. After all, it was not easy to fill up an area of 100 square meters.

The black bear was very heavy, more than 200 kilograms. Although it was not as heavy as its two big brothers, namely the polar bear and the brown bear, it was at least considered fat among black bears. Of course, the size of the animals in this world could not be calculated according to the size of the animals in his original world. Perhaps a 200-kilogram black bear was nothing in this world.

Such logic could be seen by looking at the wolf at the side. The gray wolf should weigh almost 100 kilograms, and had been relatively small among the four wolves. In his original world, the average weight of a North American Gray Wolf, the largest canine animal, was only about 70 kilograms for a male. This gray wolf was obviously bigger than the gray wolves in his original world.

“It seems that the wild beasts in this world are more dangerous than those in my original world. Perhaps that’s one of the reasons why the voice repeatedly warned us to not abandon the treehouse. Without the protection of the treehouse, most people can’t survive in such a dangerous environment,” Xu Xin muttered to herself.

He first went to the Synthesis Platform to make a boning knife. A boning knife (white) required five stones (white). With his past experience, Xu Xin used four stones (green) and one stone (blue) to make a boning knife (blue).

[Boning Knife (blue): An exquisite knife that can quickly dissect the body of a wild beast. There is a chance to obtain materials of the blue grade and below. Durability 1000.]

Sure enough, the best tools should be used. Sharpening the knife frequently would ensure no delays in the work.