I became a giant of light

Chapter 425 Dark World 2

After that, Fu Xin followed the woman to her permanent residence.

Upon arrival, Fu Xin discovered that the dwelling the other party had mentioned was merely a huge crevice in the mountainside. The crevice was so crooked that it was just big enough for the woman to squeeze in sideways, and she couldn't even turn around or squat down inside.

There were some simple decorations on the outside, making the scenery look normal. Fu Xin did not go inside, but scanned inside with his mental power.

Inside, there were only some stones wedged between the cracks as footholds, with some withered leaves laid on top of the stones for wind protection and warmth. After the woman went in, she bent her legs slightly to wedge herself against the stone wall to secure herself, then bent to the side and took out a few pieces of dried, unidentified fruit, some dried edible plants, and mostly dried insect carcasses, and even some live maggots.

The woman moved around inside for a while, and it seemed like she had exhausted all her strength just to take this little thing out. She would move for a bit, rest for ten seconds or so, and repeat this three or four times before she was able to take the little thing out.

After emerging, the woman, as if holding a precious jewel, used her withered leaf skirt to present the food to Fuxin, carefully and ingratiatingly saying, "This is all the food I have. Can I go with you? I eat very little..."

"If we eat this sparingly, it will last us many, many days..."

Looking at the handful of things, Fu Xin thought that if they were all food, they would probably only be enough for one normal person's meal. How could they possibly last for many days?

"How can you eat this for so many days?" Hearing Fu Xin's words, the woman's tone perked up, and she quickly replied, "I eat one of this every two days..."

She picked up a dried fruit and said, then pointed to some dried plants, "My mother told me these are medicinal herbs. Whenever I feel unwell, nauseous, or weak, eating one of these makes me feel much better. If I finish the dried fruit, I can eat one of these every two or three days..."

“This is what my mother told me a long, long time ago. She said that some of these things are edible and some are not. My mother probably died because she ate too many of these inedible herbs.”

"Later, when I was so hungry that I couldn't find anything to eat, I would eat some herbs that I didn't recognize. However, some of them caused me a lot of pain, so I didn't dare to eat herbs that I didn't know. I could only eat herbs that my mother had taught me to eat."

“If we run out of herbs, we can eat one of these every two or three days…” She eagerly picked up a dried insect the size of a finger and said, “My mother told me that these insects can be preserved for a very long time after being dried, and they are edible…”

“After we finish this, we still have this…” she said, then pointed to the worm and continued, “This worm can survive on leaves alone, and after a while it will breed many smaller worms. If we eat one every two or three days, it will allow us to live until we can grow fruit on the next tree…”

"By then, we'll have plenty of fruit to eat, but we must be careful of others; that's when the competition will be fiercest..."

As she continued her incessant chatter, Fu Xin fell silent. He had never imagined that someone would live in such a way.

He now understood why the other person was so thin, almost skin and bones.

Seeing that Fu Xin remained silent, the woman grew anxious and quickly knelt down, saying, "My lord... is it... is it because I've eaten too much... I can eat less... I can eat once every five days... once every six days... I can even give it all to you... I can go outside and find something else to eat..."

Fu Xin waved his hand and used his mental power to destroy these things. Then he wanted to take out some food, but he stopped shortly afterward.

He then realized that he had run out of energy, and even his armor had run out of energy and entered hibernation. At this moment, he couldn't take out the fruits he had collected in the advanced civilization ruins trial.

Seeing the woman's panicked expression, as if she thought he was dissatisfied, Fu Xin said, "From now on, you'll follow me!"

"...Yes!" She excitedly kowtowed to Fuxin, her voice even becoming more confident.

After thinking it over, Fu Xin realized that the most urgent task was to solve his energy problem. Only with energy could he solve the basic problem of survival.

Secondly, we need to understand why the world is the way it is, and why people live such difficult lives.

The first step is to figure out where the energy points of this world are located.

Looking at the other person's thin and weak appearance, it seemed as if a gust of wind could blow them over.

Fu Xin used his mental power to carry the other person along the way, while trying to get more information from them.

Seeing herself floating in mid-air, she was initially terrified, but after Fu Xin explained herself, she managed to calm down and suppress her unease.

"Do you know where there are volcanoes?" Fu Xin asked, hoping to restore his energy by absorbing the heat from the lava.

What is a volcano?

"A volcano is a big mountain with a huge crater at the top. From the crater, very hot, reddish water will spew out."

"I've never seen a mountain like this before. All the mountains I've seen don't spray this kind of stuff..."

Fu Xin frowned, realizing that restoring energy would be difficult, and then asked, "When will the sun rise?"

Since there's no quick way to restore energy, we can only take it slow. We'll absorb sunlight for a few days to awaken the armor, and then things will be much easier.

What is the sun?

Floating Heart: ...

Damn illiterate world, what are people in this world doing?!

"The sun is a giant sphere of light in the sky, very far away, drifting from one side to the other..." Fu Xin said, gesturing with his hand, "and it continuously emits warm light to illuminate the entire earth..."

“I don’t know…” She shook her head and said, “I rarely see the sun. Since my mother died, I think I’ve only seen it twice, maybe three times, I can’t remember…”

Fu Xin frowned, looking at the dark sky, and thought to himself: Is there no sun?

What kind of world is this?!

It seems impossible to quickly open the armor space and retrieve the fruit...

So Fuxin led the woman on her way while using his mental power to scan the surroundings to see if there was anything edible.

Otherwise, he feared that the woman would starve to death before he could recover his energy and take out the fruit.

Not long after they left, Fu Xin found a snake-like creature in the forest. After killing it, he used his telekinesis to clear away the surrounding dead leaves, creating a clearing to prevent a fire.

Then, using his telekinesis, he obtained some wooden sticks, strung them together, piled them up with stones, placed some withered leaves on top, and mobilized the faint energy within his body, causing a wisp of flame to rise from his fingertips.

Although we can't fire energy blasts right now, the energy restored from our source can still be enough to start a small fire.