"There's nothing we can find about Jiang Kai's situation. The Golden Compass Company has already disabled many functions of the Fearless One's watch, even the main server is down, but they haven't informed the users," Professor Li shook his head.

"Got it... I'll look into this person," Su Lanlan said, glancing again at Uncle Li's computer screen. By now, it was pretty much confirmed that Nuannuan and the others had escaped.

...

Su Nuannuan had treated Yuan Zhu's wounds, and Zhu was currently unconscious, but fortunately, his life wasn't in danger.

However, Su Nuannuan herself was severely injured, with her shoulder a bloody mess, and she couldn't apply medicine on her own.

Jiang Kai walked over and said calmly, "Let me help you."

"Why are you still trying to take advantage of me?" Su Nuannuan frowned at Jiang Kai.

Jiang Kai didn't answer, just gave a faint smile and half-forcefully took Su Nuannuan's medicine bottle.

"I thought you'd leave on your own earlier, didn't expect you to jump down. I couldn't tell, you're braver than most girls," Jiang Kai said as he carefully applied medicine to Su Nuannuan.

At this moment, Jiang Kai no longer had that lecherous look from before.

Su Nuannuan gradually let down her guard and forced a smile, "I thought you'd run away. Good thing you didn't, or I'd really look down on you."

"Tch," Jiang Kai snorted, "Am I that cowardly in your eyes?"

"Besides, since we're planning to level up here, encountering such situations should be expected. The human-faced beasts aren't the strongest. If we can't handle two of them, we might as well quit early."

"The medicine is applied, but there's not much left. You'll have to make more on the way," Jiang Kai returned the remaining medicine to Su Nuannuan.

"You know what?" Su Nuannuan suddenly asked out of nowhere.

"Huh?"

"After this battle, I have more confidence in our team!" Su Nuannuan looked at Jiang Kai with determination, "We can definitely complete the trial!"

Jiang Kai smiled slightly, "Not just can, we must! Get some rest!"

As the only uninjured member of the team, Jiang Kai automatically took on the role of guard.

Meanwhile, he was also assessing the current situation.

"This fishing method is too dangerous. One battle, only a few experience points, and two people got injured!" Jiang Kai muttered, "Tomorrow, we need to change our strategy and take the initiative."

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"And this leveling speed is too slow, we need to think of a way."

Fortunately, Jiang Kai and the others weren't too unlucky, or perhaps Jiang Kai's judgment was correct. Most of the beasts were chasing the main group, and they finally made it through the second half of the night safely.

In the morning, Yuan Zhu opened his eyes and saw Jiang Kai and Su Nuannuan, immediately exclaiming, "I'm not dead yet?"

"You're not dead," Jiang Kai laughed, "How's your injury?"

Yuan Zhu looked at his waist, stood up, and moved around a bit, "Still hurts a bit, but much better. Nuannuan, your Holy Hand Healer is amazing."

Su Nuannuan proudly said, "Of course it's amazing, healing speed increased by thirty percent. In real combat, this talent is even more useful."

Zhu nodded approvingly, and then his stomach growled a few times.

He smiled awkwardly, "Let's eat something first." Saying this, he pulled out a card from the edge of his leather pants, "This is the Ghost Star Mountain Rat I caught."

"What the heck, Zhu, why didn't you mention this earlier?" Jiang Kai looked at Zhu in shock.

Zhu shrank his neck, "This thing is hard to catch, we should save it. But after several battles, we can't hold on anymore. Stop talking and eat!"

The Ghost Star Mountain Rat was quite large, about the size of a house cat, but it couldn't withstand Zhu's appetite.

One mountain rat was finished by the three of them in one meal, with Zhu eating three-quarters of it by himself.

While eating, Jiang Kai kept looking at the mountain rat roast in his hand, occasionally lost in thought.

After replenishing their energy, the three immediately changed locations.

On the way, Jiang Kai said to his companions, "Have you heard of snake nests?"

Su Nuannuan immediately nodded, "Of course, the Chameleon Land Snake nests. The land snakes are females that hunt, while males guard the nest. Usually, there are eight to fifteen land snakes in a nest."

"But their nests are very hidden and often located on smooth cliffs, even if we find them, we can't reach them."

"Moreover, if attacked multiple times, unless we have a strong antidote, regular detoxification agents won't work in time."

The antidote happens to come from the land snake's venom, which alone makes people hesitant to approach the snake nest.

Jiang Kai nodded, "I might be able to try climbing the cliff with my agility, and as for the antidote, don't we already have it!"

"The key is finding the snake nest."

Zhu frowned, "Yeah, how do we find the snake nest?"

Jiang Kai explained, "Land snakes are highly aggressive, so they will attack players, but they're too small to actually eat humans. Their food mainly consists of animals like mountain rats."

Zhu suddenly realized, "You want to find the snake nest?"

"But another characteristic of land snakes is their chameleon-like camouflage, making it hard for us to track them."

Jiang Kai smiled, "It's hard for us to track land snakes, but we can track mountain rat corpses, right? Nuannuan, your watch can lock onto personal items, right?"

Nuannuan nodded, "It does have that function."

"Wow, rich people have it good..." Zhu shook his head in amazement.

With a definite answer, Jiang Kai immediately assigned tasks, "Zhu, let's catch a few more mountain rats, trade them to Nuannuan, and use the mountain rats to find the snake nest!"

Mountain rats, though agile, have nests that aren't hard to find, usually located inside larger dead tree trunks.

The three immediately set to work, capturing five mountain rats and handing them all to Nuannuan.

After defining the mountain rats as personal items, Nuannuan's data watch could lock onto their positions within a certain range.

In a dense forest, Jiang Kai tapped the ground with a branch for about two minutes before quickly hiding in a tree.

He left only a mountain rat corpse on the ground.

Before long, without the three noticing anything unusual, a green shadow flashed by, and when they looked again, the mountain rat corpse on the ground had disappeared.

"Nuannuan!" Jiang Kai immediately looked at Nuannuan.

Nuannuan checked her watch and found that the previously locked mountain rat corpse was moving southwest.

"The tracking distance is 400 meters, let's not get too close!" Su Nuannuan said.

"Okay, let's wait until it's 300 meters away before following, or it will notice us!" Jiang Kai said.

Land snakes have four limbs and are extremely agile when they burst into action.

However, without enemies and carrying a heavy load, their movement speed wasn't fast, and the three quietly followed behind.

After tracking all the way, Jiang Kai and the others found the target appeared on a cliff, so they stopped moving.

The three quietly approached the cliff.

Looking up, they indeed found a hole about half a meter in diameter at the top of the cliff!

But the cliff was smoother than expected, with few places to gain a foothold, making it difficult to climb.

Facing a thirty to forty-meter cliff, Jiang Kai was a bit troubled. He had underestimated the land snakes!

However, just as Jiang Kai was pondering how to get up, suddenly a dozen snake heads poked out from the hole.

They swarmed out of the hole, crawling down the cliff towards the three.

As they moved, their bodies immediately turned the same whitish-gray color as the cliff.

Of course, by this time, Jiang Kai and the others had already spotted the land snakes, and their camouflage couldn't completely hide them.

Nuannuan looked at her companions, "We seem to have forgotten that land snakes are very aggressive, they won't allow us to approach their nest!"

Jiang Kai smiled slightly, "In that case, we'll just have to reluctantly accept this batch of experience."