The wind force in the stormy seas had dropped by one level.
The number of survivors had sharply decreased.
It was just like the shrinking safe zone in a battle royale ga, where players trapped in the toxic zone would eventually be killed as ti passed.
Unlike the danger zones, the buffer area here was different. There were no giant worms, the sea was calm, and there was a deserted island with a diatre of several hundred tres.
A man wearing a sharkskin swimsuit struggled to make it ashore.
It was Yang Yi. He had managed to swim there using a piece of broken driftwood for nearly two nautical miles!
A woman clung to the driftwood.
"Suna... You're heavier than I thought!" Yang Yi gasped, jokingly complaining.
Yang Yi underestimated the two-nautical-mile distance. Halfway through the swim, his energy was completely drained. If it weren't for the frenzied state, which allowed him to substitute blood energy for stamina, he might have drowned like many others.
He was utterly exhausted, and collapsed on the beach, lying spread-eagle like a dead fish.
Next to him, another "dead fish" lay unconscious – Suna, who had passed out from exhaustion. Although she was a good swimr, her stamina was limited, and Yang Yi had to drag her for the latter half of the journey.
Thanks to that, Yang Yi's blood energy was nearly depleted, with only 17 points left.
He checked his status:
Sanity: 42/100
Stamina: 0/100
Energy: 17/100
He was truly hanging by a thread!
Although the Nightmare had sunk, Yang Yi wasn't entirely hopeless.
Back when the Astrologer sank, Suna had shared information about shipwrecks with him.
A ship could be rebuilt after it was destroyed.
Yang Yi opened the ship interface, and the top ssage displayed:
【Materials required for ship reconstruction: Wood 500, Fabric 250. Materials from the ship's hold can be used. Each reconstruction requires a one-month interval, during which items on the ship will be frozen.】
He checked his resources. He had almost enough fabric, thanks to the large quantity gifted to him earlier.
However, there was still a significant shortage of wood, and he'd need to chop down more trees...
Thinking about it, he drifted off to sleep, this ti without nightmares. It was the most restful sleep he'd had in a long ti.
Who knew how long he slept, but Yang Yi was eventually awakened by the system notification.
"Only 3 players remain in the stormy seas. Please leave the area quickly, or you will be consud by the black mist..."
Yang Yi opened his eyes and found himself lying not at the shore.
Suna was beside him, staring at him with a pair of blood-red eyes.
The scene seed familiar, but Yang Yi, still groggy from sleep, didn't imdiately realise what was happening.
"Do you know how long you slept?" Suna asked.
"No idea."
"Over 12 hours. I woke up, dragged you here, and it's already been 12 hours!" Suna said.
"I see, no wonder I'm a bit hungry."
Yang Yi didn't think much of it, rubbing his empty stomach.
The much-needed sleep had left him feeling refreshed, with his status restored by 70%, though he was famished.
"When you were asleep, you were dead weight. I could barely drag you!" Suna complained.
"The feeling's mutual! You were as heavy as a dead pig when you passed out," Yang Yi quickly retorted.
"Really?" Suna wasn't angry; a mysterious smile appeared on her face.
"But I'm glad you're awake. Now you can answer my questions!"
Suddenly, her gaze turned cold as she raised a flintlock gun and pointed it at Yang Yi's forehead.
Yang Yi recognised this gun well. It was his prized possession.
But how did it end up in Suna's hands?
Before Yang Yi could think it through, Suna began her questioning, her words eerily familiar.
"Man, three sentences. Give a reason not to kill you!"
Her blood-red eyes looked dangerously intense, and her half-smile sent a chill down his spine.
At that mont, Yang Yi rembered a past nightmare.
In that dream, a red-eyed woman pointed a gun at his head – just like this.
He instantly beca alert and serious.
"Suna, this joke has gone too far!"
"Do I look like I'm joking?" Suna retorted, keeping the gun firmly aid at Yang Yi.
"By the way, that was your first sentence. You have two left, so choose your words wisely!"
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