Infinite Ebullience
Chapter 94 - 94 7 Sudden Encounter

94: Chapter 7: Sudden Encounter 94: Chapter 7: Sudden Encounter Nearly two hours had passed, and Tang Zheng had made good arrangements for rest and travel times.

He wasn’t too tired.

After turning a great arc, he was no longer facing the beach, but several kilometers of rocky cliffs where the seawater hit, splashing up snow-white waves, and the entire air was filled with the sound of the rising tide.

He found a protruding rock to sit on, ate a canned beef lunch, and enjoyed the scenery where the sea met the sky.

Frankly speaking, it was incredibly beautiful.

Through the clear water, one could even see schools of fish swimming everywhere, along with the gorgeous coral reefs that sprawled over many areas.

However, his peace was soon disrupted when his hand accidentally touched the white waist bag, triggering the memory of the nineteen bombs that could blow a person to smithereens strapped to him.

Tang Zheng twisted his body uneasily.

No matter who it was, they would be anxious if they were carrying unfamiliar and potentially lethal items.

While chewing a piece of beef, Tang Zheng was considering his next move when a beep sounded from his body, accompanied by a violent vibration.

Startled, he swiftly comprehended that it was the handheld radar making the noise.

“What’s happening?” Tang Zheng was baffled.

He was about to look at the handheld radar he pulled from his waist bag when he suspected it could indicate an approaching enemy.

He promptly lay down on the rock, trying to minimize the chance of being spotted.

After scanning the surroundings, he didn’t see anyone approaching.

But the ominous sound from the handheld radar became steadier and stronger, causing his nervousness to intensify.

“Damn it, I forgot the most important thing – it didn’t display the search range of this radar.

If it’s two kilometers, why am I even worried,” Tang Zheng complained.

He quickly pulled out the radar to inspect it.

Every time the black line representing the scanning needle rotated, a red triangular shape would flash in the upper left corner of the LCD screen, next to which were Arabic numbers labeled 200.

The red triangle moved, changing the numbers shown: 198, 195… Tang Zheng, though it was his first time using this radar in actual combat, inferred that these numbers likely represented the distance from the enemy.

However, the real problem was that the radar had been on all the time; he had been sitting here for so long and had even eaten half a can of food, so why did the radar only react now?

Looking at the decreasing numbers, it appeared that the enemy was moving away, which meant that he hadn’t been discovered.

There were two possibilities: one, the enemy hadn’t activated their radar, which was unlikely as Tang Zheng didn’t think any participant gamers would be foolish enough to not use their radar, a crucial tool for survival.

Even a fool could understand the benefit of being alerted to the enemy in advance.

The only other assumption was that the enemy didn’t notice the radar’s indication.

But that seemed impossible – though the beeping wasn’t loud, it was potent enough to be heard when strapped to one’s body, especially with the additional vibration function.

A confused Tang Zheng finally managed to understand the correlation between the triangle on the radar display and the actual geographical location after a dozen seconds.

After adjusting his position and turning his body slowly, he finally spotted a figure.

About two hundred meters to his right front, a young man climbed onto a massive rock, glanced at the vast sea, and continued to move towards his position.

Watching the radar, Tang Zheng confirmed that the distance was indeed decreasing.

“Could it be that the radar’s detection distance is two hundred meters?” Tang Zheng wondered uncertainly.

If such was the case, the enemy should have discovered him.

They couldn’t possibly have different radar ranges, so why had the enemy kept wandering aimlessly until now?

This rare opportunity allowed Tang Zheng to study this first encounter with a human being on the island.

The person appeared to be about one and a half meters tall, wearing jeans, sneakers, a skull-printed T-shirt, and with a jumble of dyed hair.

He held a cigarette, puffing out clouds of smoke as he looked around.

“What a careless guy,” Tang Zheng muttered.

Cursing his bad luck, he didn’t detect any panic on the man’s face.

The man looked nonchalant and curious, as if participating in a field trip rather than a competition, without entering a proper state.

Tang Zheng knew it would be easier to deal with a panicking prey than this guy.

With his doubts about the man’s outfit choice and his expression, Tang Zheng could guess his personality and decided not to reveal himself.

“Better hide and wait for him to leave,” Tang Zheng shook his head and sighed.

He couldn’t bring himself to kill someone for an unreasonable game.

He would rather challenge those villains who had committed murders.

At least then, he wouldn’t feel guilty.

The young man, unaware he was under surveillance, walked closer, wiped the sweat off his forehead, glanced at the sun, and walked towards a coconut tree.

From the white waist bag around his waist, he pulled out a bomb, fiddled with it, threw it, and quickly ran off.

Boom went the bomb, and down fell the coconut tree.

Laughing merrily, the man snapped his fingers, ran over, picked the largest coconut, pulled out a folding knife, made a hole in it, drank a few mouthfuls, and poured the remaining juice over his head.

“Good opportunity.” Considering the man’s proficient use of the bomb, Tang Zheng was determined to remain hidden.

If the man got closer, he might be discovered.

So Tang Zheng decided to hide behind a rock on the side of the cliff, but as he’d only crawled four meters, he halted.

The man had suddenly stopped drinking from the coconut and stood up to look around.

Upon finding no one, he pulled out his handheld radar.

“Has he noticed me?

Then he must have had his radar on, why did he only detect me now?” Tang Zheng was confused.

But he knew he’d been discovered because as soon as the man manipulated his radar, he focused on Tang Zheng’s position and ran excitedly towards it, holding two bombs in his hands.

“Stop hiding, I saw you on my radar, haha, my first prey,” yelled the young man, exciting fervor in his words.

This instantly deflated Tang Zheng, revealing the impossibility of negotiation.

“Damn it,” Tang Zheng cursed softly.

He quickly observed his surroundings, and then stood up.

He needed to run to an open area in front as fast as he could.

He didn’t have many places to hide on the cliffs and certainly didn’t want to jump into the sea.

He couldn’t afford to have the enemy block his escape route.

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