115 – Healing
‘The penalty doesn’t come right away.’
Instead of taking their lives, I put them in a corner out of sight.
I won’t die right away, but my injuries are so bad that I can’t even escape on my own.
If no one touches it, it will slowly die there.
There is no reason to hit the last hit, so there is no reason for other players to care.
‘I’ll buy some time with this.’
Of course, the limit would be a few hours at the most, or two days at the longest.
Later the players will come to attack us.
It would be best to clear the quest before then, but that’s not possible.
I think it would be better to make a base, at least roughly.
For that reason, we were walking around to find a decent place, but-
“…Hey Jihoon. Is it right for us to go this way?”
“I honestly don’t know, but I was going to look around the terrain anyway. I have nowhere else to go.”
“Mmm.”
Eunbyeol looked at the rabbits walking in front of her with an ambiguous expression.
The guys who first followed us were walking ahead of us before we knew it.
It wasn’t just walking, it was like being followed.
When we stop talking, they stop and look at us like why aren’t we coming?
If I tried to go somewhere else, I would bite the crotch of my pants and pull it.
“Are you asking me to follow you?”
Pippi!
A rabbit nodded intently to see if he understood what he was saying.
As I said earlier, there is no place to go anyway.
They were quietly following along, thinking there must be a reason.
‘Are you guiding me to where they live?’
From our point of view, it is a dimension that suddenly appeared.
For them, it’s just a land where they’ve lived well.
There must be at least the house where you lived.
‘I heard that rabbits live in rabbit holes.’
Anyway, we calmly followed the rabbits.
The path the rabbits went was much deeper than expected.
First of all, apart from the dense forest, I had to pass a waterfall and a cave behind it.
It feels like finding a hidden passage in a game.
On the other hand, looking at the rabbits walking very naturally, it seemed that they hadn’t been there for a day or two.
“What, something is more amazing than I thought? How do rabbits know this way?”
“It’s not just a rabbit, it’s a spirit. Perhaps their intelligence itself is not so different from that of humans.”
Not to mention the clothes and tools you are wearing.
Fighting to protect one’s own kind is surprisingly a behavior that is not easily seen in other animals.
Most herbivores are busy running away when carnivores appear.
‘Anyway, this should be enough to survive being chased by players?’
It’s not a problem since we’re being guided by the rabbits.
I think it will be quite difficult for a first-time visitor to find the way.
Simply knowing my location will take me quite a while to get here.
How long did he have to walk even after entering the cave like that?
Suddenly, the surroundings became brighter and a large space was revealed.
“Wow, this place!”
Eunbyeol and I looked at the scene in front of us with admiration.
It was a field that was wider and brighter than the forest earlier.
It would be easy to imagine if it were a scene that would be seen in a fairy tale.
The trees and bushes were full of fruit.
The floor was full of flowers and grasses I had never seen before.
It was such a scenery that heals the heart just by looking at it.
Pippi!
Beep!
As soon as we arrived, the rabbits ran out and started to plow through the fields.
Sometimes they rub their bodies on the ground with a happy expression, and sometimes they enter burrows that look like houses.
It’s like enjoying a home you’ve finally returned to.
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“It looks like this is their house.”
“Wow, I never thought a place like this could exist. The scene that I only saw in cartoons unfolds like this.”
Pippi!
At that time, the baby rabbit we had saved earlier dragged our legs.
Since we came all the way here, we were just dragged away.
The rabbit reached out her little hand to the bush and pulled something off.
Looking closely, it was a strawberry.
Although it is blue in color, unlike the ones on Earth.
Punch!
The little rabbit put it in his mouth and gobbled it up in an instant.
Then they picked some more and handed us some strawberries.
“You want us to eat too?”
Pippi!
Maybe it was a reward or a gift for saving him.
Eunbyeol, who received the strawberry that the baby rabbit gave her, made a slightly troubled expression.
“Umm, is it okay to eat this?”
Color is also color, but this is a completely different dimension from Earth.
Even if it’s fine for rabbits, we don’t know what it will be for us.
Even chocolate from Earth right now is a sweet snack for humans, but it can also be fatal to dogs.
Beep…….
As we watched without eating, the baby rabbit’s ears drooped sullenly.
It seemed difficult to just refuse what the baby rabbit had given him.
I finally reached out.
“Give it to me. I will eat first.”
“But if Ji-hoon gets sick… ….”
“I’m immune to poison, so I’m fine.”
To be exact, there is the ‘Poison Resistance’ characteristic that was obtained as a reward in the past.
In the meantime, I haven’t seen anyone using poison, so I haven’t had a chance to use it.
I never thought I’d use it for something special.
Still, as long as I have this characteristic, I won’t die from any poison.
I don’t think the poison of the cherry tomatoes is stronger than the poison of the boss monster.
“Mmm.”
I only ate half of a strawberry.
Without swallowing it right away, keep it in your mouth and savor the taste for a while, in case you feel the bitter taste.
“Umm, this is…?!”
“How is it?”
“It might be poisonous. Just in case you don’t know, Eunbyul-san, you’d better not eat it!”
“…….Contrary to what you say, you are eating very hard.”
Even while Eunbyul asked, I put all the strawberries I took a bite into and ate the other strawberries that were open in the bush.
It wasn’t difficult to pick strawberries because the trees were full of strawberries, not just here, but everywhere.
“Umm… ….”
Eunbyeol, who watched the scene carefully for a while, eventually stretched out her hand after me.
After taking a bite of the strawberry, her expression widened.
“Oh, it’s delicious!”
Pippi!
At Eunbyeol’s exclamation, the baby rabbit opened her chest wide as if she was proud of it.
I’m not saying this for the sake of rabbits, but the strawberries were really good.
‘Strawberry…No, I don’t know how long it’s been since I’ve eaten a fruit like this.’
With the collapse of the social system, all the electricity that was used comfortably was cut off.
Of course, most of the fruits were already rotten or damaged, so it was impossible to find the right ones.
However, strawberries that become unusable even if left at room temperature for a few days have become difficult to even look at.
By the way, this strawberry was better than any other strawberry I’ve ever eaten on Earth.
The juice and sweetness that fills your mouth are incomparable.
‘Could it be that all the fruits grown here are so delicious?’
Of course, you shouldn’t make hasty judgments, but if strawberries are this good, other fruits are worth looking forward to.
No, just this strawberry was enough for me to use as food throughout the quest.
Strawberries will have enough moisture, vitamins, and calories.
In addition, the amount is so large that you can find it by simply turning your head.
We ate the strawberries recommended by Baby Togi for a while until we were full.
“Whoa, this is the first time I have eaten such delicious strawberries.”
Eunbyeol sat down in the bush with a satisfied expression.
Maybe it’s because it’s been a long time since I’ve eaten sweet food.
Because the surroundings are not a desolate city, but rather a secluded landscape.
My tense body relaxed slightly.
At that time, the rabbits came to us in twos and threes, as if they had finished their errands.
Beep!
Beep!
Bad!
Beep!
Among them were many other children as well as the rabbit that brought us.
In an instant, Eunbyeol, surrounded by rabbits, smiled with a relaxed face.
“Ehehe… Ai, guys. It tickles me.”
The rabbits continued to rub their bodies as if expressing affection.
The fluffy hair feels good.
The round eyes were also very cute, and it felt like it was healing just by being like this.
‘Do you know that you saved them?’
But it is also true that they brought them to their hidden home like this.
When you see him giving you strawberries to eat or showing off his affection like this, it seems like he is trying to repay the favor.
Anyway, if you welcome us, we would be grateful.
To be honest, we were in a position to camp because we had nowhere else to go.
‘Then I’ll have to stay here for a while.’
Seeing the reactions of the welcoming rabbits, I decided to take a break here.
Once you’re here, you don’t have to worry about food.
Not only the strawberries you just ate, but also other fruits and vegetables are scattered all over the place.
In addition, it is not easy for enemies to find us due to the location where they can come by turning around and finding a hidden path.
If they do come, you can defend it to some extent by blocking the cave at the entrance.
After all, food and base were solved at the same time.
I think it would be better to rest here for a while and do some maintenance.
‘…Besides, maybe there’s a clue about the quest here.’
A hidden place in a location where you would have barely found it if you hadn’t rescued the rabbit.
If you didn’t know, you would have felt like you’d found a treasure.
I can’t be sure, but I had a vague intuition that if there was a clue to clear the quest, it would definitely be here.
Of course, it’s really just a hunch, so I can’t be sure.
‘Was saving the rabbit the correct answer here?’
I’ll have to try using the comment search with a rabbit later.
If you have a clue like this, you can get nutritious information by searching for comments.
Pippi!
“Yes, yes. Thank you for trusting us.”
Beep!
I stroked the head of the baby rabbit that was rubbing against me.
We chose to turn the other players into enemies anyway.
In that case, I’d rather be friendly with the rabbits.
“Ehehe… Fluffy~”
Above all, farewell looks quite enjoyable.