Chapter 3 - Rover Island (1)

The system ordered her with a nonchalant voice that made An Jiaxin feel pissed, but she smirked as she looked at the front.

"Of course, since there are plenty of them, why spare them to rot away for no reason? This lady here shall take them all!" 

With that, all the supplies spread around the cave vanished in thin air as they started to get inside her inventory.

After a while,

Wow!

An Jiaxin felt overwhelmed by every passing second as she looked at the stored items. Everything was not only organized in different sections, all of the items were supplies she needed the most.

Food, water, medicine everything was stored within, this made An Jiaxin satisfied as she closed the inventory. 

"Oww… it hurts…" An Jiaxin looked at her torn sleeves and wounds properly after getting out of the cave.

"I should use some ointment for now." She took out a little ointment bar and put it on her wounds. 

It feels so real… it's not a dream…

"I'm really stuck inside a survival game." An Jiaxin thought as she started to walk again.

She needs to enter the village and mingle with the NPC's before night.

After straight five hours later,

An Jiaxin looked up at the time screen which showed she had more time left after entering the village, her face broke in a smile.

[Remaining Time : 29 day 17 hours]

"Enough time to look around the area!" 

She walked straight into the village, only to find herself inside a small village market. 

Since when do they have markets on an island?

Oh, well. It was a game setting after all, anything unpredictable can happen here.

The village people who saw An Jiaxin didn't show any unexpected expression, rather they smiled and nodded their heads to welcome the new guest.

An Jiaxin didn't have any idea of what was going on, so she stopped in front of a little shed where an old woman was sitting underneath. 

"Hello, Grandma. Um… can you understand what I say?" 

The old woman looked up at An Jiaxin with narrow eyes due to her age, as if she was confirming something. 

"Child, are you a new tourist visiting us old folks again?" the old grandma tried to smile as she asked An Jiaxin. 

 

"Uh… yes. Can you tell me where to go?"

NPC's can trigger certain events in a game, since the grandma was a NPC as well, so if she asked her then she might get some clue.

"Go straight in this way, you will find the village chief. He will surely help you, child." The grandma said as she pointed at the earth street that went directly deep inside the village.

"Thank you, grandma. This is a small souvenir, please keep it." An Jiaxin handed over an oil lamp to the old woman before she stood up and started to walk towards the village inside.

Looks like they are aware of the players that visit this place quite often, then that means they also have everything prepared for them as well.

Even so, An Jiaxin felt assured that by having something with her, she can use them in case of emergency. 

This island, although surrounded by the sea from every corner, is a quite big one.

The huts were all placed in different arrays and different routes. Among them, the eye-catching big hut was the one used by the chief, so she walked towards that one first.

A relatable old man was sitting in the balcony outside the two storied hut. An Jiaxin went to introduce herself as she greeted and talked with him.

At evening, An Jiaxin finally walked inside her assigned hut, threw her bag aside as she fell on the bed made of stray.

"Huh! What a chaotic day!" She covered her face with both hands as she made the comment. 

After getting to know the chief, he immediately assigned the hut to An Jiaxin, telling her to have a rest.

But she just changed into casual villagers clothes borrowed from the old man's daughter and jumped down to work with them.

After all, first impressions matter!

If she wanted to get a good relationship with them and mingle easily before other players come here, then she can easily take advantage of this well.

[Chopping woods 50x obtained.]

[Cutting grass 10x obtained.]

[Cutting Paddy 100x obtained.]

[Feeding cows 5x obtained.]

She worked hard to earn bonus points for herself. And now she can put them in good ways.

"Hmm… I'm sore all over my body, my hands hurt." An Jiaxin looked at her calloused palm on her first day of work. But to survive, she needs to go even greater lengths.

"Let's just sleep for today, I can check the status window tomorrow." An Jiaxin flipped over in left side as she closed her eyes, prepared to have a sweet sleep.

At the same time,

Outskirts of the village,

Slash! Slash! Slash!

"Huff, huff, huff… Damn! There is no end to these stupid random things!" A redhead complained in frustration, he couldn't keep up with these lurking demons in the shadow of night anymore. 

"A little more, we are almost there. Please, hang on a little more." Another gray head shouted out as he slashed down another wolf.

"What rotten luck! Those bunch of guys actually reached the safe zone, when will we reach there?" The red head looked at the back of the group that collapsed on the ground after entering the safe zone.

There were nine of them who were still fighting outside, because they still didn't make it closer towards the safe zone.

There were nine of them who were still fighting outside, because they still didn't make it closer towards the safe zone.

"We can do that, too. If you help us." The gray head turned at the red head with red eyes all of a sudden. 

"What do you—" before he could finish the sentence, a loud scream came out of his mouth as he looked at the gray head in disbelief.