Live Strong in the Wilderness

"Taming fierce beasts and using the Thunder Strike Gun, wow, Xu Yi, you’ve got quite a few tricks up your sleeve!" Su Yan couldn’t help but say, all her worries were swept away.

"Idol!!!" Qin Chao’s eyes lit up.

"Alright, let’s gather some firewood and prepare to cook." Xu Yi said, indeed intending to tame the fierce beasts hiding in the dark.

With his skills, capturing two fierce beasts wasn’t too difficult.

If there were more, that would be another story.

Of course, taming them wasn’t easy, it might take days, even tens of days without success.

But still, it’s an opportunity.

The forest had some shrubs, and they weren’t small, as thick as a calf, and four or five meters high, Zhou Chun immediately took Zhou Mo and Liu Li to chop wood.

"Lu Ke, take the Black Qilin with you as a precaution." Xu Yi said, then took a large pot from his Storage Space.

This pot was a military marching pot, 45L, enough to cook for seven or eight people, and Xu Yi was quite satisfied with it.

Seeing this, Qin Fan, Lu Yao, and Qin Yue were all very familiar with it.

"Xu Yi, you even have a marching pot, where did you get it?" Lu Yao, who was quite familiar with Xu Yi, was also more knowledgeable about what tools they had.

"Picked it up, we found a Star Chart, which included this pot, some single-soldier rations, and the like." Xu Yi explained.

"You found that? You all have such good luck." Qin Yue said enviably. She regretted taking so many bullets, which were useless. It would have been better to have a set of cooking tools.

After all, no one expected firearms to become ineffective so quickly.

They couldn’t possibly aim their guns at humans.

Against fierce beasts, firearms were no longer effective.

By comparison, the Thunder Strike Gun was much more powerful and could auto-recharge.

For now, the gunpowder from the bullets could be made into explosives, and the shells could be cast into copper tools. Other uses were uncertain.

"At the start, we encountered two people bitten to death by fierce beasts, one of them hadn’t had their Star Chart removed, so I picked it up." Xu Yi explained and then placed the marching pot into the pit stove Qin Fan had dug.

The others took out some fierce beast corpses to wash by the river.

Those tasked with gathering firewood quickly returned; after all, they didn’t plan to stay long, only overnight, so they didn’t need to bring too much firewood.

The women boiled water and cooked meat.

Xu Yi and his team set up the tents, three in total: two large and one small.

After finishing all that, it was completely dark.

The forest night was quite chilly, everyone sat around the bonfire, eating meat soup.

"Fierce beast meat is really nice, very tender." They had noticed it when eating grilled meat the previous day, but after making soup, it was even more tender.

"Yeah, after removing the scales, the skin is particularly tender, tastes great." Lu Ke couldn’t help but remark, having not been satisfied by last night’s snack, tonight she could eat to her heart’s content.

"Yan, eat more. Xu Yi mentioned before that eating more fierce beast meat can make you stronger." With that, Lu Ke glanced at Su Yan beside her.

"Is that true?" Su Yan looked at Xu Yi with some doubt, as she had been watching Xu Yi and Lu Ke’s live stream and hadn’t heard Xu Yi mention this before.

"Yes, he mentioned it while we were setting up the tent, right Xu Yi." Saying that, Lu Ke glanced at Xu Yi, then focused on her bowl.

"Yes, this meat is nourishing, filled with spiritual power." Xu Yi, seeing Wang Jin use the term ’spiritual power,’ decided to go with it.

"I don’t know about increasing telekinesis, but it certainly boosts strength." Xu Yi added.

"Then I can eat as much as I want, this kind of opportunity shouldn’t be missed. Eating to get stronger, definitely beats training any day." Qin Chao said happily, as his physical ability had never been great, only slightly better than Su Yan’s.

If eating meat could boost his strength, he could catch up quickly.

"Then we should all eat more and not worry about gaining weight." With that, Qin Yue finished her bowl of broth and went to get another bowl.

As an eliminated contestant, her physical ability and strength were already at a disadvantage compared to Xu Yi and the others who had been challenged for a hundred days. If she didn’t strive to catch up, the gap would only widen.

If she didn’t want to become a burden, she had to work even harder.

Now it seemed that mere training wasn’t enough; eating more was necessary.

After finishing one pot, they cooked another. After all, the original pot wasn’t enough for 12 people.

"Come on, let’s practice the Eighteen Forms of Body Strengthening, and then we can eat more." Lu Ke took the lead, then began practicing the Eighteen Forms of Body Strengthening.

It really was quite effective; initially 60% full, they found themselves down to 40% fullness after half an hour.

After finishing the second pot, everyone began their cultivation.

Using telekinesis to control their Military Daggers, they shot them towards the trees in the distance.

Currently, they still found it difficult to pierce the tree trunks with the daggers. After all, the speed was too slow and the force too weak, unable to achieve that.

They honed their telekinetic power repeatedly, resting when exhausted before starting over.

They trained until past 11 PM before going to sleep.

The 4 men shared a large tent, while the 6 women divided between a large and a small tent.

For the night watch, Qin Fan and Liu Li took the first half, Xu Yi and Lu Ke the second. Tomorrow, others would rotate in.

It seemed Xu Yi’s team was indeed slightly female-dominant, not even balanced.

However, gender no longer had clear advantages or disadvantages, so having more females wasn’t a major issue.

Xu Yi’s group went to rest, but in the larger camp built yesterday by 400 people, no one had gone to sleep yet.

They had caught two game animals today, at least not empty-handed.

And with over 200 people dealing with two fierce beasts, it wasn’t too dangerous. So today, no one got injured.

As for those at the forest edge, they hadn’t heard any prompt sounds related to them, presumably very safe as well.

However, Ivica and the others weren’t concerned about the challengers at the forest edge, but rather Xu Yi and Qin Fan’s groups.

Qin Fan, whom Lei Jie and Ivica knew, was a very capable person with high military training. Lei Jie felt he was inferior to Qin Fan.

But this Qin Fan followed Xu Yi’s command, which puzzled the siblings.

They often heard expelled challengers talk about Xu Yi, saying he was very strong.

Yet during last night’s enemy attack, Lei Jie felt Xu Yi wasn’t particularly formidable, at least not as exaggerated by the eliminated individuals.

And today, Xu Yi left with Qin Fan and the others, which seemed odd.

Could their group of 12 really survive in the forest?