Deities Are All Just My Food

Chapter 2529 - 1143: Forest Cottage! (Part 2)

All around were trees he couldn’t even name, exuding a dank, shadowy chill.

The wind blew, leaves rustling, like Death holding a quill pen, writing everyone’s name into a death note.

The temperature around them dropped straight down, from late autumn to deep winter.

The girls were dressed too thinly; they instinctively hugged their arms tight, shivering with cold.

"Is this... again... an outbreak of pollution?"

Tao Nai’s voice was shaking.

This place was the perfect location for shooting a horror movie. If she were sitting in a theater, Tao Nai would’ve said, this location is awesome, and she’d start looking forward to the characters’ fate, feeling her ticket money was well spent.

But when it was her turn to be in it herself, it was terrifying enough to kill.

"Inside God’s ruins, because of radiation from divine pollution, the landform and terrain will change. Right now it’s not necessarily rule pollution, but give it a bit and we probably will run into it!"

Lin Baici explained.

"Should we change direction?"

The boss had been following not far behind, and when he heard this, he hurriedly suggested it.

"No!"

Lin Baici had followed his hunger radar here; even if there was a mountain of blades and a sea of fire ahead, he still had to push through.

Fifteen minutes passed.

At this light-jog pace, everyone was already exhausted, and people had started to fall behind.

"C‑can we... rest a bit?"

A girl tried to persuade Lin Baici.

They really couldn’t run any farther.

Lin Baici actually wanted to keep moving, but seeing everyone like this, he knew if they kept going and then ran into rule pollution, they wouldn’t even have the strength to respond.

"Rest in place for five minutes!"

Lin Baici gave the order.

Everyone immediately acted like they’d been pardoned, and regardless of dirt, sat down right on the ground.

"How are you feeling?"

Lin Baici took out a bottle of mineral water and handed it to Ji Xinyan.

He didn’t need to worry about Hua Yue Yu; Sister Fish was at least a God Hunter, her physique enhanced. A long run like this was nothing to her.

"I’m fine."

Ji Xinyan raised her hand and wiped the sweat on her forehead with the back of it.

She ran often; this level of exertion was still within what she could handle.

"If you’re thirsty, come get water!"

Lin Baici pulled out a few more bottles of mineral water.

He hadn’t expected his emergency supplies to get burned through like this.

"C‑class rep, I’m dizzy and I want to throw up. Do you have any medicine?"

Zhou Zhou held his forehead, wanting to ask Lin Baici for some medicine; otherwise, in this state, if they ran into trouble again, he wouldn’t be able to hold up.

"Medicine won’t help."

Lin Baici sighed. "And I don’t have any anyway."

"If you become a God Hunter, does it stop being a problem?"

Bai Jiao was sharp; she went straight to the key point.

"Yeah."

There was nothing to hide about this.

"Then how do you become a God Hunter?"

Bai Jiao pressed him.

The others all looked over too, interested in this question.

"Forget it. The requirements to become a God Hunter are very harsh. You have to pass the Jiuzhou Security Bureau license exam."

Fang Mingyuan felt they were being naive. "You all know my IQ, my knowledge, my physical fitness, but when I went for the exam, I didn’t even qualify to rank at the very bottom."

"You have IQ?"

Pei Fei teased.

"License exam?"

Bai Jiao frowned. "That can’t be right. It can’t be like getting a driver’s license, where once you get the certificate, you’re a God Hunter, right?"

"Or rather, what hard requirements are there to even go take the license exam?"

Bai Jiao was indeed smart, able to grab the heart of the issue.

"What Mingyuan is talking about is becoming an officially recognized God Hunter—you can then go in and out of God’s ruins, handle rule pollution, and work in related fields. Otherwise, you’re just an unregistered black operator."

Lin Baici explained, "Even as a black operator, you still need to have Divine Power generated in your body before you can be one."

Bai Jiao was about to ask again, but just as she opened her mouth, Lin Baici answered in advance.

"Where does Divine Power come from?"

"You draw it from Meteorites."

"And how do you get Meteorites?"

"With meteors carrying God’s bones falling, Meteorites can be found anywhere in God’s ruins."

Lin Baici put it simply and clearly.

"All of this is supposed to be classified, so don’t go blabbing when you get out."

Fang Mingyuan warned solemnly.

"Thank you, class rep."

Tao Nai thanked him. If it weren’t for them being classmates, Lin Baici definitely wouldn’t have told them.

"Are those Meteorites hard to find?"

Pei Fei wanted to become a God Hunter.

"Is there somewhere you can buy them?"

Qian Jiahui deserved his rich-kid label—faced with a problem, his first thought was to solve it with money.

Ji Xinyan’s gaze flickered. According to what Fang Mingyuan had said, since Lin Baici’s status was that exalted Nine Provinces Dragon Wing, he definitely had Meteorites.

Bai Jiao had thought of this too. She hesitated, but the urgent desire to stay alive outweighed her pride, and she opened her mouth to ask for help.

"Class rep, please lend me a Meteorite."

Bai Jiao stood up and looked at Lin Baici, her tone earnest. "As long as I have the chance, I’ll do everything I can to repay you."

"I don’t mind being cannon fodder if I have to."

"I won’t let you take a loss, one way or another."

The boss at the side spoke up too. "Handsome, name your price?"

"Handsome, give me a Meteorite?"

"Can you give my son one? He’s still so young, he hasn’t even gotten to enjoy life yet. If he dies here, it’d be such a waste."

A mother holding a child started crying as she spoke.

"It’s not that I won’t give them to you. It’s that once you take a Meteorite, you fall asleep, at least eight hours minimum."

Lin Baici sighed. "What are you going to do during that time?"

Everyone fell silent.

What a damn hassle.

It’s not like Lin Baici could carry them on his back, right?

But if a person was alone in this environment and fell asleep, what difference was there from just courting death?

"Don’t think I’m just brushing you off. If anyone could take them, I’d have given one to Xinyan already."

Given Lin Baici’s status now, he really didn’t care about gifting a few Meteorites to his classmates.

It was just that an ordinary body simply couldn’t withstand it.

Bai Jiao looked crestfallen.

Indeed, with Lin Baici and Ji Xinyan’s relationship, if he had something good, he would never be stingy with her.

"Let’s move."

Lin Baici urged.

They usually didn’t exercise much—at most they went to a PE class. Now that they needed physical strength to literally run for their lives, they suddenly realized on a deep level just how important a good body really was.

One by one, they were panting with their tongues hanging out like dead dogs.

Lin Baici had no choice but to slow his pace again.

Fortunately, half an hour later, a Forest Cottage appeared in the woods ahead.

It stood there like a nail hammered into the forest, jarringly out of place.

The cabin wasn’t big, maybe six or seven square meters—about the size of a public restroom stall.

Everyone stopped, not daring to approach rashly.

Lin Baici, on the other hand, sped up and ran over.

The cabin door was wrapped in chains, secured with a rusty iron lock. Lin Baici circled around it once and only found a window on the west side.

There was a panel of frosted glass in the window. Lin Baici pressed up to it and tried to peek inside, but couldn’t see what was within.

Everyone crowded up alongside him.

"Should we smash this lock?"

The boss tugged the lock, making creaking, grinding sounds.

"We probably don’t smash it; we find the key."

Lin Baici scanned the area.

"Find the key?"

The boss lowered his head, then bent over to look at the wooden steps under his feet.

Aside from some moss, there was nothing there.

"Spread out and look for the key to this cabin!"

Lin Baici shouted.

"Can’t we just break the glass and climb in?"

Xu Daguan pressed his forehead to the glass and tried to peer inside.

The window wasn’t big, but one person could still squeeze through.

Of course, with Lin Baici’s build, he’d probably be pushing it.

"Search nearby first. If we can’t find it, then we’ll smash the glass."

Lin Baici’s hunger radar was pointing right here. "Everyone be careful—there might be rule pollution here."

The moment Lin Baici finished speaking, the frosted glass shattered with a crash, and a rotting, decayed arm thrust out from inside, grabbing Xu Daguan by the throat.

"Urgh..."

Xu Daguan immediately started to suffocate, feeling like his neck was about to be snapped. He wanted to shout for Lin Baici to help, but no sound came out. He could only flail his hands wildly, slapping at that rotting arm.

Lin Baici lunged forward in two big strides, yanked the Plumber’s Wrench from his lower back, and smashed it down on that arm.

Crack!

The arm was smashed clean off. Black, stinking blood splattered across the ground.

Xu Daguan staggered back a few steps and fell hard on his butt, that severed hand still clamped tight around his neck.

The sight was both shocking and horrifying.