Infinite Ebullience
Chapter 93 - 93 6 Handheld Radar and Bomb

93: Chapter 6 Handheld Radar and Bomb 93: Chapter 6 Handheld Radar and Bomb There were three items in the white waist bag: a black oxidized folding knife with a 11 cm long blade.

It had a distinctive design that caught Tang Zheng’s attention.

He took a liking to it at first glance.

He pulled it out and tested its sharpness on a coconut tree; it could certainly cut through metal.

He hacked at it twice with the Sword of Vengeance and found no notches.

Based on its performance, Tang Zheng guessed its Rockwell hardness had to be over 55.

It was undoubtedly a good knife.

“Is this folding knife supposed to be used for melee combat?” Tang Zheng dismissed this as impossible.

He figured the knife was meant for cutting off the totem seals printed on players’ hands.

He put the folding knife in his breast pocket for easy access and then picked up an item resembling a PSP handheld multifunctional machine.

He flipped it over a few times, feeling its weight.

There were no instructions included, but there was no doubt that this had to be the Personal Radar that the General had mentioned to him.

It had nine black buttons in total.

There were four on the left location and another one below it, four on the right.

In the center, there was a rectangular LCD screen the size of a person’s hand.

Tang Zheng hesitated before pressing the largest button on the lower left.

Typically, buttons of this type are power buttons.

And indeed, as he pressed it, a pleasant tune played and the screen lit up, displaying an exquisite Survival Game icon.

After three seconds, it disappeared, and seven lines of text appeared on the screen.

“Thank god it’s not in English,” sighed Tang Zheng.

Following the prompts, he began to figure out how to use the Personal Radar.

Ten minutes later, he had a basic understanding of how to use it and figured out that it was called a Handheld Radar.

The LCD screen displayed a circular background pattern in green with crosshairs in the middle.

A black line, called the Scanning Needle, kept rotating like the second hand of a clock and took ten seconds to complete a full circle.

Furthermore, by pressing the uppermost button on the left, he could bring up a small compass icon in the top right corner of the screen.

Regardless of how he moved the Handheld Radar, the compass would adjust and always point northward.

If he weren’t worried about damaging it, Tang Zheng would have really liked to open it up and see how it worked.

On the quiet beach, except for the noise made by seagulls and tidal waves, the only other sound came from the faint and steady beep of the radar.

As it swept in a circle, it let out a beep.

It was so subtle that it wouldn’t give away someone’s position unless one was listening for it.

Standing there with the Handheld Radar in his hand, Tang Zheng motioned around his surroundings.

There was no change on the screen.

He wondered if it could also detect wild beasts apart from humans.

Shaking off this doubt, Tang Zheng went to examine his final item.

It was a rectangular board with twenty hollows.

Each of them was inlaid with a black metal cube, each side measuring two centimeters.

One side of the cube featured an LCD screen and two buttons, while the other was perfectly smooth.

“What’s this?” Tang Zheng wasn’t going to mess around with it at random.

Chances were, this could be the weapon they mentioned for battles and fighting.

He didn’t find any instruction manual for it and didn’t think it was a good idea to just sit there pondering over it, so Tang Zheng took a deep breath, focused, and pressed the button.

He decided to test it out.

A single beep was heard, and a number 10, an Arabic number, appeared on the display and continued to flash.

After three seconds, the number stopped blinking and started decreasing: 9, 8, 7, 6, and so on.

“What the hell does this mean?” Tang Zheng muttered to himself.

He still hadn’t figured out how to use it.

Initially, he felt that when the countdown finished, a new message would appear, but seeing the number decreasing and for no apparent reason, he could shake the uneasiness in his heart.

Once the countdown reached 5, Tang Zheng abruptly stood up and, swinging his arm, threw the metal cube away.

BOOM!

The metal cube had just landed on the beach about a dozen meters away when it exploded.

The shockwave picked up grains of sand, which started to rain down haphazardly all over the place.

The moment the explosion occurred, Tang Zheng involuntarily threw himself to the ground.

He remained there for a full minute, waiting for his rapid heartbeat to abate, considering how lucky he was to have survived.

If he hadn’t thrown the cube out before the countdown ran out, he might have become the first unlucky player to die by his own hand.

“Did the others have the same kind of luck?

This could lead to instant death if taken lightly!” Tang Zheng grumbled as he pounded the sandy ground in frustration.

He didn’t understand why the organizers wouldn’t inform players about using bombs for combat.

Was this also a test of wisdom?

If someone accidentally blew themselves up, wouldn’t that be a huge loss and huge gain for the other players?

The truth is, Tang Zheng was just unlucky.

To make the game more interesting, a fifth of the 360 players, didn’t receive any instructions with their items.

They had to figure out how to use the bombs and the Handheld Radar on their own.

“Damn it.” Tang Zheng frowned at the big pit, about two meters in radius, that the explosion had left on the beach some distance away.

He hadn’t even started fighting yet, and he had already used up one bomb.

Only nineteen remained.

He was disheartened and dismissed the plan of experimenting with another bomb to figure out what the other button did.

He simply couldn’t afford to waste them.

After checking out his items, he put the white waist bag back on and got up.

He stood in the shadow of a coconut tree, shading his eyes with his hand and taking in his surroundings.

Although he didn’t know the dimensions of the small island, the Handheld Radar had a primitive compass function that ensured he wouldn’t get lost.

Tang Zheng had brought a compass and a map, but without knowing his exact location, the map was useless.

As for the compass, he wouldn’t be able to leave the island before completing his mission, so the compass was virtually as useless as scrap metal.

“I should follow the beach around the island and look for a place to camp.

It’d be dangerous to venture into the forest without knowing what’s in there,” Tang Zheng decided as he shielded his eyes against the blazing sun.

He wasn’t eager to move under the scorching sun, but going through the forest could slow him down significantly.

Looking at the coconut grove behind the beach and the dense forest further in, he was torn about what to do.

“This is no vacation beach, there is no sunscreen or juice to help you cool down.

There is enough sun for sunbathing, enough to peel a layer of skin off,” Tang Zheng muttered under his breath as he started walking.

He was hoping this method of spreading his focus would alleviate the physical discomfort caused by the heat.

“Wrong, there is juice, but you have to climb up those fifteen-meter tall coconut trees to get it.”

The sea breeze was blowing against his skin, but it was far from cool.

The high humidity, combined with his sweat, made him feel uncomfortably sticky.

He had barely walked a kilometer before he felt thirsty again.

However, he held back, not drinking before finding a new source of water.

Every bit of his supplies had to be conserved.

“The other players probably have it worse, right?

I’m sure some players have already been eliminated.” Tang Zheng did not run into the forest using the Handheld Radar to find other people to kill.

Subconsciously, he was still repulsed by the idea of killing.

After all, a moment ago, he was a law-abiding good citizen with a strong sense of justice.

But he knew he had to adapt, or else he might end up being the one who died.

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