Wilderness Survival with Druid System

Chapter 780 - 122: Fred in Danger

Seeing the rock wallaby hadn’t noticed him, Chen Wen decided to attempt a hunt!He took out the long spear and started looking for a suitable position.

Hunting rock wallabies can’t be approached the same as hunting red kangaroos, directly going up to deal with them.

Instead, you have to find the right angle.

Otherwise, the long spear would pierce through the rock wallaby and drag it down the mountain, and Chen Wen would have to turn into a Golden Eagle to retrieve it.

Very troublesome!

So if he could find the right angle, and use the spear to pierce the rock wallaby, pinning it to the ground,

that would be perfect!

Therefore, Chen Wen put down his backpack and spent some time finding a suitable position.

This spot was about fifty meters away from the rock wallaby, behind a rock.

Chen Wen picked up the long spear and tried to aim.

Before long, he locked onto a relatively large rock wallaby.

He took a deep breath and activated the "Giant Strength" to full force.

Chen Wen tensed his muscles all over and hurled the spear fiercely.

This attack tore through the air with a sharp whistle, precisely piercing the rock wallaby’s abdomen, pinning its body on the crevice while it was foraging.

Perfect!

Watching the rock wallaby struggle twice before fainting, a smirk appeared at the corner of Chen Wen’s mouth.

The other rock wallabies were startled by Chen Wen’s spear, scattering away in panic.

Just as Chen Wen stood up, planning to take the rock wallaby back,

he suddenly noticed that some of the fleeing rock wallabies were actually escaping down the mountain.

Watching the escape route of these rock wallabies, Chen Wen was amazed.

They used the jagged rocks and hopped along the slope, creating a perfectly escape route.

This route leads directly down the mountain and, overall, looks feasible for humans to travel!

"Wow, luck really has turned around!"

Chen Wen laughed happily.

Based on the escape route of those rock wallabies, Chen Wen quickly planned a route in his mind.

After confirming that this route is feasible, Chen Wen immediately headed to the meeting point with the dead rock wallaby.

...

When Chen Wen returned, the others hadn’t come back yet.

After all, the agreed time was in two hours, and now only a little over half an hour had passed.

So, Chen Wen took out a dagger.

Following the previous method Dennis used, Chen Wen began to process the rock wallaby.

After cutting open the rock wallaby’s fur, exposing the meat inside,

the Golden Eagle and Taipan Snake also returned.

In an unfamiliar place, neither animal gained much.

Seeing this, Chen Wen simply cut some rock wallaby meat and distributed it to them.

After the two animals were full, Chen Wen had also skinned the rock wallaby.

At this moment, hearing the sound of footsteps approaching, Hua Yun was the second one to return.

"How was it?"

Chen Wen looked up and asked, observing the exhausted Hua Yun.

Hua Yun shook her head: "The direction I went in was full of cliffs, very hard to navigate, and many parts of the rock layers were particularly loose, like wafers, crumbling underfoot."

As she spoke, Hua Yun curiously asked about the rock wallaby Chen Wen was processing: "Did you go hunting? Didn’t look for the route?"

"I did, this was just incidental."

Chen Wen cut open the wallaby, removing all the entrails and throwing them aside.

Then he recounted his experience.

Upon hearing that Chen Wen confirmed a downhill route through the wallabies’ escape path, Hua Yun was surprised.

She thought about it and felt that this route might be very stable, much more stable than the loose wafer-like rock layers she found.

"Should be feasible!"

Hua Yun said: "Just don’t know when the others will return, forget it, I’ll help you process it."

Saying this, she was about to help Chen Wen with the rock wallaby.

But Chen Wen waved her off, indicating for Hua Yun to start a fire: "Light the fire first, let’s eat before going down."

Hua Yun nodded, as it was around lunchtime.

...

The two lit a fire and placed the wallaby meat over the bonfire, waiting for the others to return.

Dennis was the third to arrive.

He returned panting, covered in dirt.

Seeing the disheveled Dennis, Chen Wen asked what happened.

Dennis reluctantly shook his head, explaining: "I had actually found a nice route down, but I wanted to test it out to see if it could be used, and unexpectedly, I almost got into trouble."

"The rocks on that route were fragile, as soon as I stepped on them, they collapsed, and if I hadn’t run quickly, I would have fallen!"

As he spoke, a lingering fear flashed across Dennis’s face.

Chen Wen nodded slightly, the surface rocks of this small mountain are indeed fragile, they have to carefully observe when exploring the route.

It would be best to get track of this rock wallaby to see if he could find a suitable one, then attempt to take that route.

Looking at the rock wallaby, Dennis also curiously asked Chen Wen what happened.

Just as Chen Wen was about to answer, Adam also returned.

He also appeared exhausted, with some dust on him.

But Adam brought back good news.

"I found a fairly good route down, in a valley; you could descend quite easily along the side of the valley."

Adam said: "But the only issue is the loose rocks, and there’s a section that requires rope assistance to abseil down."

Hearing Adam’s words, Chen Wen’s eyes lit up.

This route sounded much more reliable than his own.

After all, the route Chen Wen found was only feasible for rock wallabies, converting it for human use might pose risks.

"Is it far?"

Chen Wen asked.

Adam nodded: "Very far! Just getting there already took me almost an hour! I’m so exhausted from the journey."

At this moment, Chen Wen took the opportunity to share the route he discovered.

After he finished, he said, "We’ll check out the place I found after we eat, it only takes about ten minutes to get there."

Adam had no objections.

If Chen Wen’s route was viable, that would be even better.

The group sat around the bonfire, waiting for the last person, Fred.

But soon, as the meat was cooked, Chen Wen’s brow furrowed.

He said softly, "It’s past the time!"

The others were stunned, not understanding what Chen Wen meant.

At this point, Chen Wen continued: "We agreed to meet two hours later, but now it’s almost two hours and twenty minutes, Fred hasn’t returned yet, why do I have a bad feeling?"

Consider the fragile rock layers of this hillside, coupled with Fred’s height and weight.

This bad premonition became even stronger.

Upon hearing this, Dennis was somewhat dismissive: "Maybe he went far and was delayed? We don’t really have a timer, besides, Fred was originally heading far out."

At this moment, Adam interrupted Dennis.

He agreed with Chen Wen: "No, I have a bad feeling too, Fred isn’t someone who lacks a sense of time."

"And in wilderness survival, accidents are easy to happen, Chen Wen, let’s go find him!"

Chen Wen waved his hand.

He called over the full Golden Eagle, saying: "Let’s have the Golden Eagle take a look, it flies fast and in case of a problem, it can return quickly, helping us respond in time, Golden Eagle!"

Once the Golden Eagle got the message, coming to Chen Wen’s side.

It already knew what to do.

With a melodious chirp, the Golden Eagle flapped its wings and flew towards the direction Fred had previously explored.

Meanwhile,

Fred’s body was pressed against the cliff, his arm muscles tense, tightly gripping the trees overhead.