Chapter 55 – Tailing

In one word, the area where our hideout is located is a jungle.
It is a jungle where grass and trees grow thick and all kinds of unknown animals and plants live.

Amazon?
It’s a bit different from the real jungle.
Animals that have nothing to do with the jungle live shamelessly.

Ah. Come to think of it, there was also a Tyrannosaurus.
Wouldn’t it be more like an “Earth zoo created by aliens” That practically knocked all earth creatures, including humans, into one place?

“Is the direction west?”

The woman was moving west from our hideout.
I followed the woman, being careful not to fall within the detection range of the other beasts.

– Heck, heck.

… Fast.
I’m not inferior to anyone in terms of her stamina, but even though she was a woman, she walked so fast that I could barely keep up with her.

Above all, the speed of breaking through the complex jungle was amazing.
The footing is also unstable. Is that woman Tarzan?

I followed her for a long time by relying on the terminal map, but at some point, her mark on the map stopped.
And the red mark right next to it.

“Is it a wild animal?”

It seems that he encountered another animal.

I decided to close the distance in this gap.
I might get caught if I got too close, but I still wanted to check it with my own eyes.
What animals have you met? Also, how does she deal with it?

“There is.”

Hide behind a tree and survey the situation.

Back view of a white woman. And in front of her was a wild boar with large tusks.

Is it a wild boar
I also saw wild boars often in the military, but the wild boars in this neighborhood are different in size. His temperament is also ferocious. If you hit it from the front, you might be prepared for death.

So did that wild boar. It must have weighed several hundred kilos. If it was outside, it was a level where the shooter had to be dispatched.

The woman confronted the boar with a trident in one hand and the medicine I had given her in the other.

It’s probably hard to fight with a vial in hand.
The woman seemed to have the same thoughts as me. Without taking her eyes off the boar, she carefully set the vial on her floor.

And slowly move sideways. As if trying to get away from the medicine bottle a little bit.

– Kwuik!

However, the wild boar was not so patient.
He had run in before the woman fell off the vial.

“Suck!”

She leaped to the side with all her might and got out of the way of the boar’s charge.
The wild boar lunged at her head, struck her in the face, and passed right where the woman was standing.

And the moment of crossing with a wild boar.
At just the right moment, she thrust her trident into the boar’s side.

-Kwaheek?!

The woman immediately let go of her hand and fell away from the boar.
The boar struggled with a trident stuck in her body.

“… There is no such thing as an Amazoness female warrior.”

I was amazed. It was such a picturesque hunting skill.
If it wasn’t for the position of hiding and watching, I might have clapped.

– Kwaek! Queueek!

A wild boar screaming and writhing like mad.
When the body is shaken, bright red blood splatters.

If left as it is, it will probably die in a few hours.
But the woman wasted no time.
This time the woman ran in first and grabbed the trident stuck in her writhing boar.

“Hey!”

After pulling out the trident with pure force, stab the boar again.
Hooked

And once again, once again.
Hooked hooked hooked

She repeated the action mechanically until the boar collapsed completely dead.

-Gurrurr–

Eventually the boar collapsed.
It soon stopped breathing and disappeared like dust.
The scattered blood evaporated without leaving a trace.
Just like any other animal I’ve killed so far.

“Haha, haha, haha…”

The woman catches her breath, looking at the spot where the boar was for a moment.
Then, as if he had remembered, he jumped up and began to look at the ground.

“… Doesn’t exist. Doesn’t exist!”

However, the thing I was looking for was not found.
Did the wild boar get kicked when it charged?

When the medicine was not where it was supposed to be, the woman panicked and started searching around her.

“My medicine, my medicine! Where are you? Where are you?”

Maybe it broke and disappeared.
My precious 300 coins.

What to do If it’s really broken, do I have to buy another one?
Of course, I had no intention of leaving here.
More than anything, it would be annoying if I found out that I was following you.

Maybe I should go straight back to the hideout and prepare a new potion.

“Ah!”

After a while, fortunately, the vial was found.
The vial was rolled to the grass, far away from where it was.

“Thank god…”

I know. Good thing.
The weeping woman hugged her medicine bottle as if it were precious.
As if it were a medicine to save a child.

“…”

I hope it can’t be all acting.
You won’t even know I’m watching.

Her story of her son being sick seems to have been true.

My doubts are mostly dispelled at this point.
It didn’t matter if I went back like this.

Still.

“… A little more, shall we follow?”

Her fight made gentle ripples in my heart.

The sight of her fighting a wild boar reminded me of when I used to fight hyenas in front of her mother. The way she handled the medicine bottle with care overlapped with the way her mother cried over her injured self.

Her situation didn’t feel like someone else’s business to her.
Unlike me and her mother, she too was abducted to this island by her mother and son. And the hat is struggling somehow to survive together.

However, as she said, it would be difficult to survive on this island with only two hats. It would be difficult to carry out the mission when the son is that young.

Even if I can’t help right away, it might be good to know the location of the hideout.

Judging by that, I decided to follow her some more.

“Whoa.”

Chasing the woman who has started walking again, we break through her jungle.
The woman’s movement speed was still fast, and I was in a hurry to chase after her.

And there was one thing I noticed along the way.
That she doesn’t use a terminal (cell phone).
While I was following her, she never looked at her phone.

Even without a map, you can understand the road to some extent.
However, the presence of survivors and animals is also displayed on the terminal map. This was a merit that could not be ignored.

Didn’t you just run into a wild boar while going straight? I could have avoided it if I had looked at the map. Why don’t you check?
Maybe you don’t have a terminal or don’t know how to use it?

“Ah.”

I remembered it when I thought that far.
When I threw the terminal away, it returned to my pocket by itself.

If that woman came to this island with her son, the young son would probably be the main player and the woman would be the partner. Just like me and my mom

Then, even if that woman leaves with the terminal, her terminal will soon return to her son’s hands. So it was only natural that women could not use the terminal.

“… That would be harder than I thought.”

My 7-year-old son is of no help to survival. Rather, it is just a burden.
Even if you try to work alone, you cannot use the terminal, and it is difficult to get rewards from missions.

Only then did it become a hardcore mode that was incomparable to me.

“Are you going to save me anyway? …”

Even surviving alone is a difficult situation.
However, she was doing her best to save her sick son.

That must be a mother and a family.
Maybe even if it was my mother. Even if you couldn’t hunt animals like that, you must have tried to save me somehow.
Even Seung-hee, who seemed to have a bad relationship with her brother, is now working hard to save Seung-pil.

People in similar circumstances will not be punished even if they extend a helping hand a little.

“Ah.”

At some point, my eyesight widened.
You have reached the end of the jungle.

In front of it is a sandy beach.
And farther away, the sea could be seen.

I was stunned by the sudden change of environment.
It was absurd. I’ve been through such a grassy jungle so far, but I can’t believe that a sandy beach suddenly appears like this.
As if a line had been drawn on a map, the boundary between the jungle and the sand was clear.

“Noah… Noah!”

As soon as we got out of the jungle, the woman in front of us accelerated.
She must have gotten closer to the hideout.

Judging from the direction they were running, it was a rocky hill near the seaside, and that cave pierced at the bottom of it.
Somehow, the atmosphere seemed similar to our hideout.

I took out my terminal and checked the map.
To confirm the exact location of her hideout.

However.

“…”

Nothing was marked on the map.

If there were survivors, they should have been marked with a red dot.
However, only the sign of a woman running is shown on the terminal map.

That means…

“… Is it too late?”

I wasn’t expecting a happy ending.
Still… I hoped that I would be rewarded for my efforts.

The unrequited reality was cruel.
It was a bittersweet ending.

“Noa——!!”

A woman’s screaming voice came from afar.

I walked away without a word.

[Immediate return to the hideout]
[Immediately return to the hideout. The cooldown is 24 hours.]
[Do you really want to return? (Y/N)]

[Y]