Trembling At A High Altitude

The hunting cabin 100 meters to the left was unbelievably the same hunting cabin that he was heading towards!

The giant rat carcasses inside proved it all.

Each giant rat had been killed by Li Teng, and he remembered clearly where each was placed.

So, there could be no mistake.

The large house, no matter which direction you walked, led to the hunting cabin!

And it was the same hunting cabin!

The space was not only repetitive but twisted.

"What's going on?" Liu Yin had clearly noticed the issue too.

"How about, we just hide here today?" Li Teng suggested to Liu Yin.

Within the entire area, there were only two buildings, one large house and one hunting cabin.

The rest was all flat land filled with fog and, besides the fog, there was no other cover.

Li Teng had also tried using the Spiked Hammer before; the ground was incredibly hard, and his Spiked Hammer couldn't even make a dent, so they couldn't hope to dig out some kind of underground shelter to hide.

"Let's try the right side of the big house again, maybe there's an exit there?" Liu Yin suggested to Li Teng.

"Right side? Our left side right now has a large house, we're actually on the right side of the big house, here, the left side is the right side, and the right side is the left side," Li Teng felt this attempt was meaningless.

Liu Yin still insisted and they had enough time, and Li Teng had nothing else to do, so he took her back to the big house the same way they came, then headed to the right side of the big house.

Sure enough, they ended up back at the hunting cabin.

"This big house is not our original big house, I think we need to go back to that big house and then try going to the left or right," Liu Yin proposed a new idea.

Li Teng, looking at the time on the wall, agreed to her experiment, so again took her to the left back to the big house, then around the back to the hunting cabin, and continued back to what Liu Yin considered the 'original big house,' then tried going left.

It was the same hunting cabin again.

"Do you want to check the right side?" Li Teng asked Liu Yin.

"No need," Liu Yin had completely given up hope.

There were only twenty minutes until noon. Would yesterday's scene repeat itself?

"Right, your weapon, can it break open the basement door? Maybe we could hide in the basement," Liu Yin thought of something.

"Okay, let's go back to the big house and try," Li Teng pulled Liu Yin away from the hunting cabin, looking at his watch while rushing her towards the big house.

On their way, a giant rat chased after them, which Li Teng spotted and knocked away with a swing of his hammer; soon, they were back at the big house.

Upon entering the big house, Li Teng rushed to the basement and began furiously smashing the alloy door with the Alloy Spiked Hammer.

It was no use, he couldn't break it open.

The iron gate upstairs was the same, unbreakable.

It seemed that the plot was set such that they had to obtain a key to open these two doors.

The two of them again exited, heading to the hunting cabin.

Then, they waited for fate's judgment.

...

In the morning, Gao Fei had gone out alone following Elsa's suggestion.

He returned screaming, his body covered in severe wounds and blood from giant rat bites.

When Elsa was closing the door, she panicked and let a giant rat inside by accident.

Then Elsa was also bitten all over her body, screaming loudly from her wounds.

After biting the two of them, the giant rat ran amok in the house and finally squeezed through the iron gate upstairs and disappeared.

The two spent the morning screaming in agony from their severe injuries.

...

Luo Bijiao was abused yesterday, so today her mood was very bad.

Huang Xun locked his bedroom door from the inside to avoid Luo Bijiao taking her anger out on him.

However, Luo Bijiao clearly wasn't prepared to let Huang Xun off the hook. She grabbed a wooden chair and violently smashed it against Huang Xun's bedroom door.

The bedroom door was made of wood with a common lock, not resistant to smashing. It was about to be broken open any moment.

In extreme fear, Huang Xun opened the bedroom window and climbed out of the big house.

Soon, a giant rat smelled Huang Xun's scent. It charged from the mist and bit down on his thigh.

Huang Xun fell to the ground and screamed in agony.

After the giant rat retreated into the mist, it quickly returned, charged again, and bit Huang Xun's arm.

Huang Xun's screams became even more intense.

Luo Bijiao entered Huang Xun's bedroom, heard his screams from outside the window, and couldn't help but look outside.

She saw Huang Xun sitting on the ground outside the window, covered in blood and continuously screaming.

"Save me!" Huang Xun cried out to Luo Bijiao for help.

Luo Bijiao sensed that the situation was bad and decided to close the window.

Just then, the giant rat charged again and bit Huang Xun's other arm.

Seeing Luo Bijiao about to close the window made Huang Xun extremely angry and desperate. He didn't know where the courage came from, but after the giant rat bit his arm again, he didn't scream. Instead, he gathered all his strength, grabbed the giant rat, and... threw it through the window that Luo Bijiao hadn't completely closed.

Suddenly, Luo Bijiao's cries filled the bedroom.

Huang Xun finally felt a sense of relief.

In the mist, another giant rat was startled and, smelling Huang Xun's scent, quickly sprinted toward him.

...

When morning arrived, Guo Haopeng and Mrs. Guo, equipped with their homemade weapons—a frying pan and a spear made from a wooden chair—stepped out of the house.

Like Li Teng, they were not willing to sit idly by.

Shortly after leaving the house, they encountered an attack from a giant rat.

After being bitten, Mrs. Guo saw Guo Haopeng strike the giant rat with the frying pan, injuring it. He pursued it and fiercely battered it, but it still managed to escape.

The mist provided excellent cover for the giant rats.

Fighting them was quite difficult without enclosures or scouting equipment.

After being injured, Mrs. Guo was taken back to the big house.

Guo Haopeng set out again, and eventually, he successfully found the Hunting Cabin.

Unfortunately, he had no watch or phone to download an app.

But he realized that hunting giant rats could be related to quickly accumulating Time Index points.

He resorted to a clumsy method, using himself as bait to lure the giant rats into the Hunting Cabin and using the tight space to hunt them.

FInally, he successfully killed his first giant rat.

He earned 1000 Time Index points.

This greatly encouraged him, prompting him to start a new round of hunting.

Although his efficiency was much lower compared to Li Teng and it wasn't safe, he was bitten several times during the process.

Luckily, his will was strong enough, and he did not give up.

...

Liu Yin, hiding in the Hunting Cabin, was utterly terrified.

Li Teng reached out his arms to embrace her, but it did not bring her a sense of security.

The time, minute by minute, neared twelve o'clock noon.