The Otherworldly Adventures of a Super Naive Girl

456: Treasure Chest

The chests fell from the sky with much needed supplies, but it wasn’t without risks.
The possibility of death, though small, was very real.

So far, five people had died from opening the chests.
Each of the five had carelessly opened the chests and were subsequently bitten to death by the zombies that erupted out.

Feng Wu didn’t know about the zombies, no one did really, except for a few people who witnessed one of the five dying.
They knew it was a risk and that they could die opening one of those chests.

Some people were lucky and found warm clothes while others found food.
They wouldn’t have to worry about freezing to death or dying of starvation.

It was hard to get a bearing in all the snow and ice.
Food was also scarce because there were no wild plants to harvest or animals to hunt.
It was freezing and most of the animals were sleeping in their burrows.
Which of them would want to come out and be food for humans?

It began to snow, and as the storm intensified, visibility dropped.
The contestants had no magic or qi so it became difficult for them to continue.

Feng Wu found a place and set her tent up.
The inside was nice and cozy when compared to the outside storm.
Feng Wu had lots of pillows and quilts to keep warm while she chewed on her jerky.

She was lucky she could use her equipment to escape the snow; unfortunately, Ming Xi was not as lucky.
Although he didn’t have a tent, he did have food and clothing appropriate for the climate, having found a set of warm fur clothes and a bag of dried biscuits and water inside two different chests.
For housing, he built a thick igloo out of snow cubes.
He successfully kept himself insulated from the snow and cold outside.

Most people weren’t as lucky as Feng Wu or as smart as Ming Xi.
The rest of the people found holes and caves to shelter away from the wind and cold, otherwise if they stay exposed to the elements, they would surely become human popsicles.

It snowed all night but Feng Wu slept restfully and awoke refreshed.

When some of the audience members saw how their seniors were abused by the weather, turning into popsicles, an interesting feeling arose in their hearts, but they were smart and didn’t voice anything out loud.
After all, they didn’t know if anyone around them were fans of some of those very same senior competitors.
It was best to be careful.
The lesson learned from the vice president was still fresh in their minds.

“Look everyone, chests are falling from the sky again! Vice Principal, we want to know, will chests fall from the sky every day or will they only fall at certain times?” Tamansha asked a question everyone wanted to know.

There were too many unknown variables in the individual challenge.
The participants had to explore and discover on their own.
Though the secrecy made the challenge more interesting, it also made those watching hunger for more inside intel.
Or at the very least know a little more than those participating.

How could the audience feel superior if they only knew as much as the participants?

The vice president laughed.
“The chests are benefits we gave to all participants and will be available for the first three days.
In those days, chests randomly drop.
There will be no more chests beyond the third day.”

The audience was satisfied with his explanation.
It turned out the chests would only drop once a day for three days.
That was good.
If the chests dropped every day, then they would have signed up!

The contestants did not know the chest drops were a limited time event that would stop after the third day.
But there were some smart people in the group who suspected it wouldn’t last indefinitely.

Whether they suspected or not, the contestants were enthusiastic when it came to opening the chests.
Often times this would lead to fights between contestants.

Feng Wu had kept her chest and taken cared of two big guys who thought she would be an easy target to bully.

The situation with the chests became more pronounced on the second day.
Yesterday, everyone was still getting accustomed to the arena, but now that they knew about the contents of the chest, they were eager to get their hands on as many as they could.

The chest drops weren’t limited to a specific location; they fell all over the arena, so if you wanted to get them you had to have the strength and stamina to do so.

Feng Wu opened one of the three chests in front of her.
The other two would not open with the key she had.

Fortunately though, the chest she opened had snow boots inside.
She immediately swapped her leather shoes for the snow boots.
Her old shoes were doing OK in the cold, but they weren’t near as cozy as the new boots.
Both her feet felt like they were encased in warmth as soon as she put them on and it was wonderful walking in them.

Feng Wu was satisfied even though she couldn’t open the other two chests.
She was putting her old shoes away in her dimensional storage space when she felt murderous aura behind her.
She jumped to the side and neatly dodged.

She looked down after dodging to find an arrow lodged in the ice where she had originally stood.
She would have been knocked out of the challenge if the arrow had hit her.

“You dodged!” said a voice from behind.
Feng Wu turned around to see a girl and two guys, one of which had a bow and arrow, walking to her.
It was obvious he was the one that shot.

“What are you staring for? Hurry up and hand over your keys.
Do we need to shoot at you again?” The woman ordered Feng Wu.

All three had on leather jackets, but the woman had a leather hat as well.
Based on how the two guys were looking at the woman, it was obvious she was the leader.

Feng Wu blinked, then ignoring them altogether, raised one foot in front of the other to keep walking.

“Stop! Who said you could leave?! Hand over your keys right now.
And all the things you got from the chests too, otherwise we are going to send you out of the arena.” This came from the man standing next to the woman.
He was holding a sword.