Morning in the Siberian forest comes later than in other places... It was almost noon when the sky began to light up dimly... It was hard to tell if it was sunlight or the reflection of the white snow, but eventually, the entire forest woke up...
"Hah~" Li Xuan stretched and carefully extracted himself from the pile of clothes. Mei and Kiana on the other side were still sleeping soundly with their eyes closed... but Li Xuan noticed that Bronya's spot was empty...
"..." Bronya woke up so early... Li Xuan, who was used to staying up late in his previous life, felt full of energy at this time. He carefully moved aside some of the debris blocking the hole and squeezed his body out...
"So cold..." As he stepped onto the snow, a deep chill seeped into Li Xuan's body from all directions, making him shiver... As a southerner, this kind of cold was really a bit unbearable...
"Bronya... what are you doing?" As soon as Li Xuan walked out of the warship, he saw various strange instruments placed on the snow, and Bronya squatting in the woods nearby...
"No... it's nothing..." Bronya stood up with a frown, taking one last look at the faint tracks in the snow in front of her. They looked like animal tracks, but they were a bit different... at least, she couldn't find any similar animal tracks in the database. They felt like wolf tracks... but not entirely the same...
'It's probably my imagination...' Bronya thought as she stood up again and slowly walked towards Li Xuan. Seeing Li Xuan looking at the various instruments on the snow with a curious expression, she explained, "These are temporarily assembled instruments to contact Principal Theresa..."
"Because there is no signal in this place, Bronya assembled these instruments to send signals to Principal Theresa and the others..."
"Was it successful?" Li Xuan asked quickly. He didn't want to continue freezing in this godforsaken place... He hadn't even eaten yet...
"No... but the signal strength is slowly increasing now. It shouldn't be long before Principal Theresa receives the message..." Bronya said expressionlessly as she fiddled with the instrument in her hand.
"...How long?" Li Xuan couldn't help but ask again.
"If we're lucky... she'll receive the signal within a day. If not... two or three days..." Bronya said without stopping what she was doing, her expression as relaxed as if she were talking about what to eat for dinner...
"..." Li Xuan covered his face. Two or three days... this is killing me... The life at St. Freya High School was too easy, he had forgotten to put some food in his storage ring... this is a disaster...
"As for food... there are some compressed biscuits inside the warship that we can eat." Bronya reminded Li Xuan, who was standing there dumbfounded.
"Biscuits, huh..." Li Xuan licked his somewhat dry lips. As a hot-blooded young man whose zodiac sign was the tiger, Li Xuan felt a bit like eating meat... He remembered watching videos of celebrities surviving in the wild with his mother before, and it seemed like wild game was delicious...
And in this weather, just eating biscuits isn't enough... In cold weather, the human body needs fat and energy more. Compressed biscuits alone won't do the trick...
"Bronya... I'm going to take a walk in the woods and see if there are any animals. Maybe I can hunt something!" Li Xuan rubbed his hands together and said with great interest.
"Ah..." Bronya looked at Li Xuan rushing into the woods excitedly and wanted to remind him to be careful of wild animals... after all, she had just discovered that there were unidentified wild animals in this area... But when she thought of Li Xuan's strength and her own small complaints, she sighed and sat down again to fiddle with the machine in her hand...
'I hope Principal Theresa receives the message soon...' Bronya raised her head and looked at the gray sky with some worry. White snowflakes were slowly falling from the gray sky...
'It's snowing...' The Siberian forest welcomed another heavy snowfall...
Through his studies at St. Freya High School, Li Xuan also knew that this Honkai world was similar to the world of his previous life in many ways... So, logically speaking, the Siberian forest should also have those animals that have become rare in the Divine Land continent...
'Flying Dragon' or Hazel Grouse, this is a very delicious wild chicken ingredient. Li Xuan had noticed this rare and protected animal in Huaxia when he was reading novels... "Dragon meat in the sky, donkey meat on the ground" is enough to show its value.
Of course, this animal that is so rare in the 'Great Foodie Nation' (Divine Land) is quite common in places like Siberia... Because... besides the people of the Divine Land who like to eat this kind of wild game, the Russians here are not very interested in it... They think wild game is too dirty...
"Hah!~ It's so cold..." Li Xuan stretched out his cold palm, gently caught a snowflake falling from the sky, and exhaled, muttering to himself. The warm breath turned into a cloud of white mist as soon as it left his mouth. He should have prepared more clothes in his ring...
"..." Wait... am I an idiot?! Li Xuan wanted to slap himself in the face at this moment. How could he forget that he still had a piece of divine equipment, the 'Xuanyuan Festive Garb'... If a six-star piece of clothing couldn't even block the cold, it might as well just die...
"Ahem..." Li Xuan scanned his surroundings. A set of clothes embroidered with golden patterns on a base of bright yellow and orange-red appeared out of thin air in his right hand. He looked around furtively and hid in the nearby bushes...
When Li Xuan emerged from the bushes again, his entire aura was completely different... The ancient-style clothing, the 'Xuanyuan Festive Garb', emitted a faint glow, making Li Xuan look even more heroic, with even a hint of sharpness...
"As expected..." Li Xuan looked at the clothes he was wearing again after some time and couldn't help but feel a little happy... As soon as he put on this outfit, he couldn't feel the cold at all...
Produced by the gacha, must be a masterpiece! (Except for the Queen's Whip...)
"Very good... now let's go catch something to eat!" Li Xuan had no more worries. He took off running quickly on the snow, his pair of heterochromatic eyes scanning the sparse woods around him.
Finding a hazel grouse in the snow isn't that difficult... after all, even in winter, hazel grouses run all over the forest looking for food. When they're tired, they hide in the snow to sleep... If they weren't often preyed on by other carnivores, their lives would be quite comfortable...
So Li Xuan easily caught a hazel grouse. Perhaps because this place was rarely visited by people... the hazel grouse didn't even run when it saw a person. Li Xuan directly chopped off its head with a single sword strike. Blood splattered as it fell to the ground, convulsed a few times, and then stopped moving...
The forest was filled with the thick smell of blood. Li Xuan picked up the hazel grouse, which had already bled out, his expression unchanged... It has to be said that habit is a terrible thing. In the past, he couldn't even bring himself to kill a chicken, but now he felt nothing at all...
"...Hmm, I should be able to make Beggar's Chicken." Li Xuan was in a good mood as he held the hazel grouse's claws and walked towards the warship. Although he didn't have much food in his ring, he still had a lot of seasonings and spices, and even things like tin foil...
"...Swish~" Li Xuan frowned and looked at the road behind him. There was nothing there... Could the sound just now have been the rustling of leaves or something?...
"How strange..." Li Xuan scratched his head and turned to continue walking back...
"Roar!~" A beast's roar suddenly sounded in front of Li Xuan. As soon as Li Xuan turned his head, he was met with a bloody maw reeking of stench... Instantly, the azure blue shield attached to the 'Xuanyuan Festive Garb' was activated, and an oval-shaped shield protected his entire body within it...
"Bang!" The black shadow crashed into the shield, and the energy shield even rippled...
"This is?!....." Li Xuan finally saw clearly what had attacked him, and his pupils couldn't help but shrink... That wasn't a wild animal... That was... a Honkai Beast!
A Honkai Beast that shouldn't exist according to common sense!
(End of this chapter)