When the Purple Gold Three Minutes started, Wang Wu finally confirmed that the Gray Rat Race was not ambushing him.
Because those five White Rats were absorbing Golden Particles.
Without their involvement, Wang Wu could relax a lot more, so he jogged all the way back, returning to the direction of the cliff, specifically to the rock crevice that belonged to him, and waited silently for the arrival of the Silver Three Minutes.
The Golden Three Minutes are great, but he was afraid he couldn't enjoy it.
Very soon, the golden sunlight poured down, but it was already at the end of its afterglow.
Wang Wu took two minutes and fifteen seconds to gather 10 points of Spiritual Qi, and counting the 10 points he got from those two Giant Blade Mantises yesterday, he could just upgrade once.
This time, he unhesitatingly chose the Danger Perception Talent, upgrading it to Level 2.
Previously, during this time, because his Danger Perception Talent was relatively low, he had indeed suffered quite a few losses.
After the upgrade was complete, Wang Wu didn't wait for the Silver Three Minutes to finish and decisively took off, sprinting all the way to the stream where he drank his fill and then headed straight for Berry Plain.
Then he was stunned, seeing that a giant leaf had been set up there long ago with precisely fifteen berries piled on it, and in the distance, four Gray Mouse Knights saw him but didn't make a sound, merely maintaining that strange posture.
Alright, they were quite sincere.
Wang Wu didn't hesitate, knowing that those five White Rats were still on the low hills and couldn't ambush him, so he happily indulged in the feast without needing to pick the berries himself.
These Gray Rats were really considerate.
But to make me believe you, that's a dream.
After eating and drinking to his satisfaction, Wang Wu doubled back and forth across the stream twice, then found a dense bush to start a day's hibernation.
And as expected, the Gray Mouse Knights did not launch a large-scale hunt for him again, as if both sides had really let bygones be bygones, now living in harmony as one family.
Wang Wu was happy with this, keeping the sugar-coated bullets while sending back the projectiles, why not?
Two more peaceful days passed like this, and Wang Wu only absorbed Spiritual Qi during the Silver Three Minutes every day, and each time he was very cautious, as soon as he gathered 10 points of Spiritual Qi, he immediately ran, never giving potential enemies the chance to trap him.
Then, when the Spiritual Qi reached 20 points, he chose to continue upgrading the Danger Perception Talent.
Obtaining the Level 3 Danger Perception Talent, Wang Wu pretended to continue as before, eating his fill and finding a bush to enter the Level 5 Concealment State.
But about half an hour later, he silently exited the bush and started roaming through the underbrush, relying on his Level 3 Danger Perception.
Of course, this wasn't for fun, but to test the strength and effect of the Level 3 Danger Perception, to prepare for subsequent plans.
After circling around, he was both excited and concerned.
The exciting thing was that the Level 3 Danger Perception was indeed powerful, allowing him to sense any Little Demon within a 50-meter radius that could potentially threaten him, letting him make detours to avoid exposure.
With this tool, coupled with the Level 5 Concealment Talent, ambushes by entities like the four valley heroes or eight jungle gallopers would be much harder.
However, the concern was that he knew well enough that his Level 3 Danger Perception Talent might not be able to preemptively sense the presence of high-level entities like the Black Snake Priest or the Fire Scorpion Priest.
If he wanted to go back to the Flame Scorpion Clan to borrow fire, the consequences might not be too favorable.
"Chirp chirp chirp chirp!"
Two Little Red Birds flew low past the shrub, completely ignoring Wang Wu below. As the sun rose higher, the bustling valley began to quiet down, soon approaching the daily terrifying white-noon silence.
Wang Wu pondered and then avoided the territory of the Little Red Birds from afar, creeping toward the cliff, hoping to find a chance to catch a lone Flame Scorpion for a fire?
Which required getting as close to that cliff as possible.
Up to this moment, Wang Wu finally realized why the cliff and other low hills had always had an open space extending out about 30 meters at the foot, with no bushes or trees growing.
It now seemed likely that these Little Demons had arranged it to expand their surveillance views.
Indeed, the reason he was previously attacked by the Fire Scorpion Priest was likely due to being exposed in this manner.
Unfortunately, his Level 5 Concealment Talent required him to remain motionless; it would be great if he could maintain it while moving.
While mulling this over, Wang Wu lay in ambush in a bush 35 meters away from the rock crevice, waiting for the opportunity.
But today's sun was exceptionally scorching, seemingly enough to make the entire valley smoke from the heat.
So much so that he didn't dare look up at the sky, as all directions seemed to become sun clones, gray and foggy but intensely bright.
"Is it going to rain heavily?"
Wang Wu suddenly realized, thinking he had traversed this world for over ten days and it was sunny and cloudless every day, almost forgetting it could rain.
Then rain would lead to flash floods, and if it were to stay overcast for a prolonged period, with no sun in the morning, wouldn't there be no Golden Particles?
Feeling pressing urgency, Wang Wu wondered whether it was the keen sensation brought by the Level 3 Danger Perception or his past memories' fear of the rainy season, but was quickly aware he could no longer play Galen in the bushes.
Level 5 Concealment might be impressive, but against a flash flood, he'd die silently as well.
So that rock crevice had to be reclaimed.
While thinking this, Wang Wu felt a sudden movement in his heart, noticing twenty meters away, on a seven to eight-meter high tree, seven or eight Black Spiders the size of washbasins swiftly descending.
It was the Black Widow family, which wasn't the same species as the Blood Spider Lady under the rocks to the southwest of the cliff, nor the same species as the Grass-Flying Spider.
What were they doing?
If he remembered correctly, these Black Widows usually came out to hunt at night, and it was broad daylight now...
No, they were weaving a web!
But not the kind for hunting prey, Wang Wu couldn't make it out but felt greatly shocked.
"Surely, they aren't also anticipating heavy rain?"
"Even, a continuous rainy season lasting a month or multiple months in the future?"
Wang Wu immediately went on high alert, as lacking Spiritual Qi intake would be disastrous for him, rendering the world a watery mass during the rainy season—
"Wait, those White Rats!"
He suddenly thought of the Gray Rats' appeasement strategy recently. It seemed to be reconciling with him, but the rainy season advent was advantageous for the White Rats with Ice Magic, whereas the Flame Scorpion Race would likely struggle.
Thinking of this, Wang Wu couldn't help but glance up at the tall cliff ahead.
The territory that originally belonged to the Black Snake Race seemed to have no living creatures now, as if it had become an abandoned domain, surely there couldn't be Scorpion Sentinels closely monitoring this place, right?
Let it go!
A heavy downpour was likely to breakout in the afternoon, so he needed a place to shelter from the rain and avoid the flood.
With a determined heart, Wang Wu dashed out of the bushes, heading straight for the rock crevice.
At this moment, his Level 3 Danger Perception immediately received an abundance of unprecedented information.
Among these danger-laden pieces of information was the Black Widow family and, not far off, about a dozen bushes—no way, heroes think alike!
But just as he was about to approach the rock crevice, less than five meters away, the Level 3 Danger Perception finally rewarded him with a spine-chilling sense of danger.
"Damn!"
"There are ambushers in the rock crevice!"