Hyperthermal Hell || Apocalypse Paradise #1 [Complete]

85: Who Is It?

After reaching a successive number of dead ends, Lin Sanjiu had no choice but to turn back. Due to Zhong Junkai's physical condition, Lin Sanjiu had already lost him at some intersection. Within this massive maze with a seemingly endless number of paths, she could only hear her own weak breathing.

Lin Sanjiu had no energy to run so she could only drag herself forward. Supporting herself with the walls, pushing forward step by step, she had no idea where she was heading. When she reached a fork once again, she could no longer endure any longer and sat heavily on the ground. After finding Old Wang and Lara Lian's corpses, she'd pushed herself to move faster, but she was still unable to find that specific area even after ten minutes.

That was another ten days without food. In total, she had not eaten for almost two months. A normal person would have died long ago. Even though she was not dead yet, she felt like she was going to die even with her Overall Physical Enhancement. Her vision had been blurry for a long time, and she felt bouts of dizziness. She could also hear illusionary sounds of waves in her ears getting louder and louder.

If this continued, she knew that she would become unconscious, and then she would die.

"Ssss!" She felt a sharp pain in her leg. It dragged her out of her reverie. Lin Sanjiu opened her eyes and realized that she had fallen to the ground. Her hand trembled as she reached for her thigh.

"What... What?"

Lin Sanjiu pulled B. Rabbit out of her pocket by his ears. He had probably just woken up, as his eyes were still unfocused. His mouth was still moving, and he was making a nibbling sound. Lin Sanjiu dragged him up and scolded him with a hoarse voice, "Why did you bite my leg?"

B. Rabbit regained a little of its sense. "Huh? Huh? That was your leg? I thought it was grass..."

'That is just the design of my pants!' Lin Sanjiu wanted to yell, but she didn't have the strength to move her mouth.

"Hey, did you save me?" B. Rabbit asked feebly as he regained his consciousness, though he still looked like he was near his deathbed. "Thank... Thank you."

"Mm..." Lin Sanjiu looked as ghastly with her pallid lips.

Both their minds were in a haze of hunger. They laid on the ground for a while and finally started to drink quite a few mouthfuls of water from the puddles on the floor. After they swallowed those large gulps of muddy water, they seemed to have managed to trick their stomachs and felt a little better. She had heard that people would resort to eating mud when they were starving and this must be the why.

Since they were thinking straight again, they had to continue searching. Lin Sanjiu wanted to move while she still felt that she had some energy.

"Wait!" B. Rabbit, who was sitting on her shoulder, suddenly said. He lifted his small nose in the air. It quivered rapidly as if he had picked up a scent.

Even though his physical enhancements could not compare to that of Lin Sanjiu's, as a rabbit, his hearing and sense of smell were naturally superior to that of humans. After a few seconds, B. Rabbit turned to Lin Sanjiu and said, "I can smell a faint scent of blood from the left path."

"Let's check it out!" Lin Sanjiu immediately perked up.

The left path was very long, and after a few turns, they reached another fork. If B. Rabbit hadn't lead the way by sniffing the undetectable scent of blood, Lin Sanjiu would have gotten lost. She mobilized all the energy she had and ran for five minutes until she felt that she would lose her consciousness the very next second. Finally, she noticed something weird.

"Blood... Bloodstains?" Lin Sanjiu's body only had a bit of mud to digest over that space of five days. She was truly at her limits, and it showed on her sunken-in cheeks. B. Rabbit didn't have the strength to stay on Lin Sanjiu's shoulder, so she placed him in her pocket. He poked his head out of her pocket and looked at the path ahead.