Chapter 1720

It was a softness that spread from the depths of the soul to every pore of the body.

Gradually, Lin Beichen closed his eyes, as if unable to open them again, finally collapsing powerlessly outside the reed marsh.

…

“Boss… Boss.”

After an unknown amount of time, Lin Beichen suddenly felt a familiar call ringing in his ears, the voice echoing around his ears.

Although it felt familiar, Lin Beichen couldn’t open his eyes no matter how hard he tried; he just felt an inexplicable irritation from the sound.

At the same time, he felt his body continuously shaking.

It was as if he were sitting in a speeding car on a mountain road, the bumping making his stomach churn.

“Urgh―!”

The intense shaking made Lin Beichen finally unable to hold back, vomiting out some foul matter.

“Boss, you’re awake?”

The voice entering his ears was especially kind.

Lin Beichen shook his head, smiled at Yu Feng in front of him, and said half-jokingly:

“Why are you worried so much? I’m not dead yet!”

Seeing Lin Beichen awake, a smile appeared on Yu Feng’s previously anxious face.

Lin Beichen glared at Yu Feng, and when he saw the shocking bite marks on Yu Feng’s body, was speechless again.

At this moment, the Net Python bite marks on Yu Feng’s body had all turned pale.

Those bite marks exhibited a whitish pink color, clearly because the later soaking made it hard for the wounds to heal.

“Have those people left?”

Lin Beichen took a few deep breaths, trying several times to get up from the ground, but found himself unable to.

The journey of fleeing and fighting had already exhausted Lin Beichen’s body, making it impossible for him to rise from the ground.

“They should be gone. I thought you had sacrificed yourself when I woke up.”

Yu Feng pointed behind Lin Beichen, where there was a reed marsh that had turned to ash.

Even as the charred remains of reeds floated within the reed marsh, the slight breeze turning the carbonized stalks into ash.

Lin Beichen touched his nose and carefully inspected his surroundings.

Before losing consciousness, he had reached the riverbank, and although he didn’t know how the fire progressed, it hadn’t harmed him.

As for the men he sent off earlier,

Looking at the distance, only black silhouettes remained, making it temporarily unclear whether they were the bodies of those men or already darkened mounds within the reed marsh.

“What time is it now?”

Lin Beichen smiled at Yu Feng beside him.

Yu Feng raised his hand to check his watch, and then smiled and replied: “Three in the afternoon.”

Lin Beichen nodded.

In the rainforest, it gets dark relatively early, around six o’clock.

Given the current condition of Lin Beichen and Yu Feng, trying to swim back to their home country from the river is impossible.

If they enter the river, the issue isn’t whether they can swim across, but whether they would end up dead in it.

“Find a place to camp and build a fire, preferably somewhere hidden, visible to the opposite bank but hard to spot in the rainforest.”

After saying this, Lin Beichen swallowed several times.

Now, even speaking made Lin Beichen palpably aware of the discomfort in his body.

“Okay.”

Yu Feng nodded and quickly moved towards the rainforest.

Soon, Yu Feng collected remaining charcoal from the fire left by Poisonous Snake and his group, and some unused firewood.

Yu Feng didn’t come back to Lin Beichen, but instead walked towards another reed marsh farther away.

He found stones in the river, and quickly built a stone platform over the river.

He soon constructed the stone platform to about half a meter in size.

He deftly pulled out a tactical knife from his chest, scraping with the knife back against a river stone, next to a pile of dry grass.

Perhaps due to his injured arm, something that usually took only a few minutes in training, now took him over ten minutes without any effect.

Yu Feng glanced at Lin Beichen lying on the ground, his brows furrowing even more.

Although it was still early, before nightfall, Yu Feng couldn’t guarantee he would manage to start a fire.

The snake meat wasn’t cooked through; Lin Beichen could even detect something seemingly wriggling inside the bitten snake meat!

No need for more thought—it must be larvae from fruit flies and such, what is commonly known as maggots!

At this moment, Lin Beichen looked at Yu Feng again, his eyes furrowing slightly with seriousness.

Lin Beichen wasn’t considering whether to act against Yu Feng.

He was just questioning how Yu Feng could eat such things; was it because training made him dull, or had he not really received proper training?

This stuff—even if Bear Grylls came here, it’d probably be hard to swallow!

“Boss, what’s wrong?”

Yu Feng looked seriously at Lin Beichen.

Speaking, he approached Lin Beichen, patting his back with concern:

“Boss, are you hurt somewhere?”

“Yesterday, when you fought that Net Python, Poisonous Snake’s group must have spotted you, then there was a shootout, right?”

Looking at Yu Feng’s contemplative face, Lin Beichen really wanted to grab a stone beside him and hit him with it.

“Never mind, eat your meal.”

Lin Beichen weakly pointed to another piece of snake meat by the fire, smiling at Yu Feng.

“Boss, you eat, you’re injured, you need…”

Yu Feng awkwardly scratched his head, and before he finished speaking, Lin Beichen suddenly grabbed the snake meat by the fire and stuffed it into Yu Feng’s mouth.