She Outshines Them All (Athena and Matthew)

Chapter 174

The temperature was at 46.7 degrees at noon.

Even with blazing sun and oppressive heat, Matthew had himself packed into his backpack, sitting on a rock with only half his face showing. "10, 9, 8, 7.""

When he reached "0," the sunlight vanished rapidly, and dark clouds quickly gathered.

The wind suddenly picked up, howling menacingly as it shook the trees and underbrush, seemingly trying to uproot them.

In less than three minutes, the sky turned from white to black, and visibility dropped to zero.

A torrential downpour began.

Such a heavy rain would be a once-in-a-decade event in Kitmore City or Valemont City, but here in the tropical rainforest, it occurred almost daily. Thankfully, it didn't last long. After about ten minutes, the rain stopped, and the wind calmed.

The darkness lifted to a a gloomy shade and then brightened to white.

Like the dawn, the sun reemerged, the dark clouds vanished, and the rainforest became stifling again.

Matthew opened his eyes, , stood up, and and took off his backpack.

He pulled out a small bottle from the pack and poured a peanut-sized white cotton ball into a waterproof box filled with rainwater.

The white cotton slowly expanded, gradually darkening in color.

It

was

absorbing impurities and harmful substances from the rainwater.

When the purification tablet stopped expent from the bottle and swallowed it down with the purified rainwater. He then took a sma I concentrated nutrient

This single

e nutrient

meant the water

daily nutrition and most of

gifts

trekking through the dangerous rainforest for

tanc

only sustain basic vitality. He needed meat

area, uncovered a waterproof tarp, and retrieved dry firewood, stacking it

prepped snake meat from a ziplock bag, skewered

it slowly, savoring it

was creating smoke

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smoke rising would not attract wild beasts but would

he couldn't find the rebel leader in such

placed the "Guardian," a gift from Athena, on a branch slightly above him, issuing the command, "Scan a 300-foot radius for humans or dangerous creatures and alert me immediately if you spot any." The round "Guardian' emitted a kitten-like sound "Understood, sin Then, two "eyeballs popped out from its

the past couple of weeks, the "Guardian" had helped Matthew detect numerous threats, such

was damaged and his ammunition was low, he remained

a lot, and since she doesn't lack money or status, your

smirk appeared on Matthew's lips as he pondered. It actually seemed rather

a a low

to the north, possibly armed, spreading out as if to surround this location." Thank you." Matt u." Matthew commanded,

The "Guard

"Guardian"

with a a

It

eyes into its round body, blending into the

retrieved an an AK47 from his backpack and concealed it in the grass behind a

mi-automatic

dagger and hid it in the

Matthew

small bottle containing purification tablets, nutrients,

acting nonchalant, he sat by the fire, continuing to grill the

to emerge from the