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

black, it meant the water

adult with essential daily nutrition and most of their dietary

were gifts from Athena, extremely

maintain good health after trekking through the

tanc

could only

waterproof tarp, and retrieved dry firewood, stacking it on the rocks before dousing it with lighter fluid and lighting it

some prepped snake meat from a

cooked it slowly, savoring

truth, he was creating smoke

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Chapter 174

not attract wild beasts but would catch the attention of

couldn't find the rebel leader in such

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

couple of weeks, the "Guardian" had helped Matthew detect numerous threats, such as rebels, the approach of pythons, and lurking crocodiles and

was low, he remained calm, not at all worried

made him recall what Louis had told him. "You owe Miss Donovan a lot, and since she doesn't lack money or status, your only option

as he pondered. It

a

feet to the north, possibly armed, spreading out as if to surround this location." Thank you." Matt u." Matthew commanded, "Guardian, remain silent and avoid detection. If you notice any attacks from angles I can't see, respond

The "Guard

"Guardian"

a a low

It

retracted half of its eyes into its round body, blending

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

Desert Eagle Semi-a mi-automatic pistol and buried it shallowly beneath the

and hid it in the sparse

Matthew

tablets, nutrients, and multi-functional antibiotics into the

by the

began to emerge from the