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

essential daily

of these were gifts from Athena,

after trekking through the dangerous rainforest

tanc

on purified water and nutrients could only sustain basic vitality. He

and retrieved dry firewood, stacking

some prepped snake meat from a ziplock bag, skewered it on a stick, and

slowly, savoring it like an outdoor

he was creating

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smoke rising would not attract wild beasts but

the rebel leader in

above him, issuing the command, "Scan a 300-foot radius for humans or dangerous creatures and alert me immediately if you

Matthew detect numerous threats, such as rebels, the approach of pythons,

was low, he remained calm, not at all worried about an impending crisis he

what Louis had told him. "You owe Miss Donovan a lot, and since she

on Matthew's lips as he pondered. It actually

a low

live individuals spotted 300 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

It

round

his backpack and concealed it in

out a Desert Eagle Semi-a mi-automatic pistol and

and hid it in the sparse

Matthew

small bottle containing purification tablets, nutrients, and

the fire,

sounds began to emerge from the

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