Chapter 13: The Ring's Contribution
"Half-day flower is a kind of poisonous flower outside the Seven-Color Valley. Its toxicity is low but hard to detect. It slowly affects the human body, causing the poisoned person to gradually lose strength and various physiological functions. After half a day, they become a toy at the mercy of others."
"However, the toxicity of the half-day flower gradually disappears after half a day. One day later, the poisoned person will recover as usual. So our time to strike is 12 hours later when he is at his weakest. If he reacts in advance, we'll make our move earlier."
"I heard the heavy sound of iron coins inside when this kid went out with his things just now. At least no less than 200 coins."
"If this job goes well, we brothers can enjoy a hearty meal of meat."
The two men with sharp mouths and monkey cheeks hid behind a tree, narrowing their eyes and staring at Cheng Shaofeng's tent.
In the Wasteland, there was never a shortage of opportunists.
They were like cockroaches, ineradicable.
Zhang San and Luo Wu were such people. They were also scavengers, but not as lucky as Cheng Shaofeng and Wu Jie.
They hadn't found any valuable items for three days.
The little savings they had before were all used up.
Zhang San recalled his previous experience of being poisoned. It was just outside the Seven-Color Valley in the human forbidden area. After inhaling the scent of this flower, he felt like he was about to die half a day later. But after lying down for a day, he came back to life as if nothing had happened.
The above experience was all tested with his own body.
Yesterday, the two men, who were almost at the end of their rope, had another sinister idea. They covered their mouths and noses with a wet cloth, picked a half-day flower, and planned to find a fat sheep to target in Yanjing Town.
The hunters were too vigilant to be their targets.
They set their sights on Cheng Shaofeng, who was carrying a bag to buy things at the store, and heard the sound of iron coins in his bag.
The two discussed and directly put the flower in Cheng Shaofeng's room.
Then they quietly waited for the fish to turn belly-up.
Zhang San hid behind the tree, laughing sinisterly, "This kind of poisonous flower has no effect on vigorous creatures like Predators, but it's enough to deal with ordinary people. If this job goes smoothly, we can make good use of this poisonous flower more often, hehe~"
Luo Wu: "But if the town chief finds out, won't it be too cruel?"
"That old thing is already old and his thing doesn't work well anymore. He can only take pleasure in torturing his newly married wife. Haven't you noticed that his people have been patrolling much less recently? As long as we're careful not to be discovered by them, it's fine. In the Wasteland, it's too common for a scavenger to die from poisoning."
"Oh, that's right. Big brother is really amazing!"
"Don't you know who I am! Hehe~"
The two scavengers hiding in the dark were ready to rob Cheng Shaofeng.
Looking in the direction of their gaze, a wisp of white smoke was faintly rising from Cheng Shaofeng's tent.
"Burp~"
Only after eating a full 2 jin of boiled beans was Cheng Shaofeng satisfied and let out a burp.
This thing tasted average, but it was still filling.
Otherwise, it wouldn't have become the common dry food in this area of the Colossus City.
He drank most of the bean soup and poured the rest into a box to extinguish the wood.
Cheng Shaofeng glanced at the time. It was only 9 o'clock in the morning, and it was still early for the hunters to return. He could rest for a little while.
"Yanjing Town is 3 hours away from my place. A round trip relying only on manpower, transporting too few things and being slow won't work. I need to get a transportation tool."
Sitting up from the bed, Cheng Shaofeng walked out of the tent again, planning to find a two-wheeled wooden cart.
At this moment, his eyes suddenly flashed, and a green damage value jumped out in front of him.
[Poison damage received, HP-1, Duration: very long]
Before Cheng Shaofeng had time to panic, a flash of light passed on the ring, and his health was full again.
He could see that his basic life value at the base was 500 points.
"Huh? How did I get poisoned?"
Cheng Shaofeng was a little surprised and inexplicably received a poison attack of 1 point.
"But this little damage is not even as fast as my life recovery speed, which is equivalent to not being poisoned?"
"Could it be that the beans are expired? Or is this place too damp, and the number of microorganisms exceeds the standard? Looking at this duration, it's estimated to be..."
He shook his head, preparing to go back early after finishing the task.
Zhang San and Luo Wu outside saw Cheng Shaofeng dragging his bag out again and quietly followed behind.
They saw Cheng Shaofeng go to the store to buy a two-wheeled wooden cart and put his things on it.
Then he stayed in his tent for 3 hours. When he heard the sound of hunters returning, he dragged the cart out.
He bought a mutated dog that had just been killed from the hunter, a two-headed deer from another hunter, and finally a mutated blood deer from Hunter Wang Qian.
He put the three prey on the small cart and left Yanjing Town.
Striding swiftly.
Zhang San and Luo Wu looked at each other.
(〃°ー°)(°ー°〃)
Zhang San: "How is he acting like nothing happened?"
Luo Wu: "He seems to be in an even better state, as if he just had a full meal."
Zhang San's face darkened.
"He must be pretending. He discovered someone poisoned him and wants to run away. We'll chase after him and slaughter him in a place with no one around. All this prey will be ours!"
"Let's go!"
The two quickly caught up.
Cheng Shaofeng's scavenger partner Wu Jie was not around. Outside Yanjing Town, they could directly use force.
20 minutes later.
At a bend in a mountain road.
Cheng Shaofeng, who was pulling a small cart of prey, wiped his sweat and opened his water bottle to take a sip.
"It's really tiring to drag 300+ jin of things on a mountain road."
If it weren't for the wheeled cart he bought with two severely worn tires, he estimated that he would have died of exhaustion on the way.
Suddenly!
There was a rustling sound from behind, and two men holding crowbars rushed over.
Zhang San and Luo Wu.
Cheng Shaofeng took a step back vigilantly and stood behind the small cart, picking up a rusty spiked club from the cart.
"Zhang San, Luo Wu, what are you following me for?"
Zhang San grinned, "What we want to do, don't you already know? This cart of supplies is ours now."
Luo Wu: "If you know what's good for you, put everything on the small cart and get lost quickly. We'll spare your life since we're all scavengers."
Cheng Shaofeng's eyebrows moved slightly.
"What if I say no?"
Zhang San approached slowly with the crowbar, "Then you'll be left behind along with the supplies. I heard that in some settlements, human flesh is also a tradable commodity."
Luo Wu approached from the other direction, forming a flanking trend with Zhang San.
But both of them moved very cautiously, their eyes always fixed on Cheng Shaofeng's spiked club.
Luo Wu shouted, "I advise you not to seek your own death. If you lose your things, you can still scavenge and get them back, but once your life is gone, everything is gone."
Zhang San: "If I guessed correctly, your limbs can't exert much strength now, right? While the poison hasn't taken full effect yet, you still have a chance to live. Otherwise, hehe~"
Cheng Shaofeng's eyes narrowed.
"It was you who poisoned me? No wonder..."
He glanced at the two approaching men and asked, "If I put down my things, will you really let me go?"
Zhang San and Luo Wu looked at each other, revealing a hint of pleasure.
Zhang San: "That's right. Everyone in Yanjing Town knows that we two brothers are the most credible. Put your spiked club on the cart and get lost quickly!"
Cheng Shaofeng nodded, "I understand."
He slowly put the spiked club on the cart.
"Take action!"
The two men pounced like demons baring their fangs, grabbing their crowbars.
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
Two gunshots rang out from the mountains.
(End of chapter)
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