13. Survival Rule 2: Water Knows the Answer(2)
There were three main sources of drinking water on this island.
A well I dug myself.
A large pond in the bears’ realm.
A pond in the realm of snakes.
These three were strategic points to obtain drinking water on the island. That’s why I’ve been working hard on supplying drinking water for several years. Sadly, the snakes released the venom and made it useless. Over time, it will be neutralized on its own, but until then, you have to survive while securing drinking water by all means.
Dog-like puppies.
I’ll burn the hydra baby alive and kill it.
I gnashed my teeth and accelerated my steps.
Of course, it was to go to the pond of snakes.
Yes, it is a pond. There can’t be a lake on such a small island. It’s pretty big for a pond, but anyway. The snakes who occupied the water source and relatively rich land were the most powerful on the island. Bears are also formidable, but there are fewer of them than snakes, and they are simply ignorant, and they are busy eating and fighting, so they have little interest in expanding their territory.
Although both of them didn’t get along very well with me. After all, I was like a foreign substance caught between the two realms. Now, only the snake cubs remained, and the snake cubs, the dungeon, and the country became a power structure. I don’t know if it’s good or bad.
Because dungeons were just as troublesome as bears and snakes.
First of all, I put off the dungeon because the snakes suck, but I have to attack the dungeon to escape the island. There’s no hard evidence, but it seemed like the only way to get rid of the mysterious vortex that surrounds this island.
So, when Lenny was cured, or just recovered to the point where he could fight, he thought of attacking the dungeon somehow. The undead will be cleaned up on the Carina line. It’s annoying to see the future that will be terribly busy for a while.
It might not be bad to live on this island all the time.
Will I be able to adapt to life outside?
You’ve already gotten used to living alone, haven’t you? I want to feel the scent of civilization, but after all, isn’t this the world I used to know? It is not a world where there are cars, airplanes, computers, and houses. What will happen if you enter a world like that? In the end, even if you leave this island, it is the beginning of a tearful adaptation period.
In addition, the endings of Survival Academy are full of bad endings with no dreams or hope. How many bad endings were there? Twenty? There are about 5 bad endings for the main story and about 2 bad endings for each heroine. There is also a comedic bad ending.
If you don’t leave this island, you won’t have to get caught up in such a bad ending. Even if the world perishes, this island will remain peaceful. Then one day I will hang myself and die.
I didn’t even see the true ending anyway. When the true ending part came out as DLC, I was possessed as soon as I bought it. In this unnecessarily difficult game, what will happen if you go outside without knowing the true ending conditions? Even if I don’t do anything, the main character will take care of it, but there is only one chance. I’m a little curious about who the main character is.
My thoughts have wandered. First of all, I have to think about the snakes first. Anyway, I have to get rid of those bastards to become something.
Diligently moves into the realm of snakes and makes plans. My target is the pond in the realm of snakes. Didn’t the great Hammurabi’s Law Code tell us to return an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth? So, I was thinking of terrorizing the snakes according to the Code of Hammurabi.
To put it simply, it’s a strategy that says, “If I can’t drink, you can’t drink either.”
The grudge for ruining drinking water is deep. The bear cubs are gone, so let’s fight now. Sleepy snake pups. This is like a declaration of war. A man who plays with water will come to his senses only if he is beaten badly.
As I gnashed my teeth and moved, I began to see the boundary line. A border lined with things that snakes hate. How did you get over You must have come through the trap on the side of the bears’ territory, right? I’ll have to spray some snake repellent there too. Dismantle traps to reinforce fences or repair walls. Now that the bears are all gone, we don’t need it.
No, since there are dungeons, let’s put off dismantling the traps. It’s annoying when zombies knock on walls in the middle of the night and make noise. I don’t know what the heck is going on in the dungeon that keeps popping out of zombies.
“…Quiet.”
Is it because there are no bears? The information about the massacre must have reached the snakes as well. So you’re bold enough to do this. Who is not a snake, look at the clumsy…
Standing in front of the boundary line, I took out a bag of powder from a leather pouch on my shoulder and sprinkled it gently on the boundary line. When the powder fell in the pocket, the snakes appeared with a hissing sound.
As expected, they were ambushing at the border. There’s no way that hydra didn’t know I was coming. If I openly enter, dozens of snakes will greet me. It’s obvious, obvious.
I moved the powder little by little along the border and moved to the nearest point to the pond. Because of the powder, the snakes couldn’t even try to attack me, and all they did was hiss angrily. That hiss was annoying, but it was tolerable because you wouldn’t hear it anytime soon.
“About here.”
It’s only a guess, as the trees are tightly packed, but if you recall your memories, this one was probably right. I stood there and looked at the location of the pond. There are many trees. Enough to want to burn it. In fact, if you burn the whole forest, you can wipe out the snakes very easily, but it’s a pity that you can’t do it because you die and I die.
So, the next best thing is to clean the pond. If the pond water is drained, the snakes will suffer because they cannot replenish water. And maybe we can slow down the advance of the snakes a bit. The distance is too far to rob the water source in the domain of the bears, and you have to face the problem that you may bump into the monsters in the dungeon.
No matter how poisonous snakes are, there’s no way they can attack skeletons or zombies.
Uh, wait.
I came up with a good idea.
I turned my gaze from the direction of the pond to the direction of the dungeon. Monsters are probably still being created in the dungeon. Maybe you can use it
I immediately turned my steps and headed for the dungeon.
While thinking about how to efficiently implement the plan I came up with.
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“Ugh…”
“Lenny?! Are you awake?”
“Lady Karina… This is… Where…”
In a hazy and hazy mood, Lenny noticed pink hair swaying in a corner of his vision that shimmered like a haze. The color she longed to see. The only pink hair in the world shimmered in her eyes. I wanted to hold her with my hands right away, but her body wouldn’t move.
‘The escort knight is disqualified.’
An escort knight being taken care of by an escort target, it was a story that others would laugh at. Still, Lenny was happy.
Anyway, if you’re alive, you’re lucky. Lenny couldn’t figure out whether to thank Calon, who didn’t believe she was dead and that she was reunited with Carina, or think she was just lucky.
Lenny pursed her lips to convey this joy.
I want to talk, but I can’t. Lenny, realizing that his condition was serious only then, tried to roll her moving eyes to see Karina’s face. Unfortunately, however, her eyes were unable to perform their proper function due to excessive movement for a long time. She is not blind, but she will live in a haze until her body recovers.
“Lenny…Don’t overdo it. Rest now. It’s been a while since I cleansed her poison…”
‘…Poison?’
I was poisoned? Lenny tried to recall her memory, trying to ignore the pain that ran through her body. What have I been through? I don’t remember very well. Waking up on the beach, defeating a bear, getting hungry and eating mushrooms, and…
“Ugh… !”
“Lenny?! Are you okay?!”
Karina looked at Lenny’s condition with an expression as if she would shed tears like chicken poop at any moment. She looked over Lenny’s body with eyes wondering if her wounds had healed somewhere, but fortunately there was no swelling. Karina let out a sigh of relief. Her body was full of cold sweat.
Lenny passed out again with her pain running through her body.
‘I’m dizzy because I used up all of her mana while trying to purify the poison that has been poisoning her body. I need to get some rest too.’
The poison that filled Lenny’s body was very vicious. Hallucinations, auditory hallucinations, as well as poisons that pollute the blood and poison that dissolves the intestines, from wounds all over the body. It was difficult to tell whether this was a corpse or a living human. The patient, who had been the subject of black magicians’ experiments for a long time, was not like this.
‘Even if it only takes about a week of treatment…’
Although a complete cure is impossible, it should be enough to be able to move at least. Karina was once again grateful that she was a saint. If it wasn’t for the powerful divine magic that only a saint can use, she would have been buried the day Lenny was carried on John’s back.
With his limbs severed.
“When will John come back…”
Muttering something to herself that no one would hear, Karina closed her eyes.
I need to rest for a very short time.
Quiet breathing added to the crackling sound next to the burning wood fire.