Saving System: Calm Down, My Fleeing Host!-Chapter 169: Little Bear’s Wilderness Survival Skills

Chapter 169: Chapter 169: Little Bear’s Wilderness Survival Skills

Their entire bodies were covered with cuts, wounds intercrossing, looking downright appalling.

Tsk tsk!

Such a waste of good figures, now they’re unsightly.

System: "..."

Why is it that its host always has such bizarre focal points?

An hour later, the dark night gradually retreated, and the sun broke through layers of clouds, peeking out at the horizon with radiant rays.

The sound of a carriage swiftly approaching startled the system resting in Cheng Xiaoxiao’s mind.

The system tried to wake the host to no avail, so it had to watch the people’s every move from the sidelines.

The carriage driver’s attire didn’t reveal much, but the patterns and insignia on the clothes matched those of the two others, likely people from Fuxi Castle.

The newcomers addressed Gu Ming in the same manner as the other two, faces full of worry and urgency, handling her cautiously.

It seemed they were allies, so the system allowed them to take the three away.

Hoping Gu Ming could receive better treatment and swiftly exit life-threatening danger, making the host’s efforts in the rescue not in vain.

The system knew well that this time, the host was truly at the end of her rope.

Bringing Gu Ming’s family along might not quickly remove them from danger, with no System Coin to buy any useful supplies, the warehouse closed off preventing food retrieval, in this perilous wilderness, they were essentially sitting ducks.

It was best someone took over Gu Ming’s family now.

Once everything returned to calmness, Cheng Xiaoxiao hadn’t woken up yet.

Until a huge figure slowly approached...

The system was constantly calling out in the host’s mind, but she showed no sign of waking.

The anxious and frustrated system uttered every curse it could, yet someone remained oblivious, sleeping more soundly than a dead pig, until the towering, bloodstained figure cast a large shadow, while a certain little bear continued to snore!

The system gazed at the sky helplessly, hoping the big black bear wouldn’t notice anything amiss and would go easy on the little bear.

Seeing the little bear sleeping sweetly, the black bear dad, feeling helpless, reluctantly dragged his weary body, not caring about his bleeding wounds, hoisted his son onto his back, and carried him back to the cave.

By the time Cheng Xiaoxiao woke up, it was near dusk. She stretched lazily, blinked her sleepy eyes open, took a glance around at the dim, dull space, suddenly realizing something was off – where was this?

Attempting to get up, she found her body too heavy to rise quickly, remembering she was in the body of a little bear.

Slumping down hopelessly, dear God! How much longer did she have to endure this?

This pitiful bear existence.

While pondering, a bloody dead roe deer landed on the empty ground at her feet with a thud!

Cheng Xiaoxiao looked up fearfully at the same big black bear that had chased her yesterday, instinctively shrinking back.

[System, what’s going on?]

The system couldn’t even be bothered to respond to her.

Cheng Xiaoxiao called out several times without a response, spontaneously sprouting strange thoughts fearfully until the system finally murmured, "You’ve outdone yourself!"

[What do you mean?]

So the system recounted to Cheng Xiaoxiao all that had happened while she was asleep.

How could she have slept so deeply?

By calculation, she slept deeply for 12 hours, totally dead to the world, no waking despite calling out!

This was too bizarre, was it a quirky trait of the little bear?

But she had never heard of bears having such a deep sleep before!

What the hell was going on?

The person and the system couldn’t figure it out for now, having to shelve the doubts and focus on the situation at hand.

At that moment, Bear Dad caught a roe deer for the little bear to feast on, but since she wasn’t truly a little bear, how could she eat a bloody deer?

If it were roasted, it might barely be edible, yet now the warehouse wouldn’t open, she had no tools to use, no seasoning, not even a pinch of salt, how could she roast it nicely?

The little bear remained still, knowing it was disdainful of eating meat, always so with sons when letting them eat meat, as the black bear clan, how could they not eat meat?

Without eating meat, how could they grow strong and powerful?

The little bear turned around disdainfully, Cheng Xiaoxiao unable to communicate with Bear Dad, could only protest this way.

Bear Dad helplessly exited the cave, not wanting to deal with his haughty and cocky son, thinking when it grew hungry enough, it’d naturally know what was delicious, truly ungrateful while living in luxury.

Actually, Cheng Xiaoxiao appeared very disdainful, and in truth, she was very scornful, but the raw hunger pangs made her think that even a bloody deer might not be unedible.

Maybe it was the little bear’s instincts, making the roe deer seem tasty after all.

Gotta stop, gotta stop, swiftly dismiss such thoughts from her mind.

Yet, seeing the roe deer in front, the little bear gulped instinctively, stomach growling noisily.

Her bodily thoughts clamoring to eat, to eat!

Having slept so long without food left her starving with no recourse but to roast it; Cheng Xiaoxiao lamented.

But what about kindling a flame without a lighter?

The warehouse was closed too...

At this moment, in Cheng Xiaoxiao’s mind, the system said, "Host, did you forget, before the Mall opened, you stored a fire starter with me, remember?"

Right, right, how could she forget this? When she first arrived in this world, before the System Mall had opened, she brought back Yanlan from the wilderness, Yanlan’s fire starter was conveniently packed away by her.

Later, the system mentioned having a football-sized storage space, she even complained about no space for storing tigers.

Then, fearing other rescue missions in the wild, the fire starter along with handy little survival items from home were tossed into the system.

Now the System Mall had opened, the warehouse continually expanded, she never had to worry about food or supplies again, making her forget about the system there.

Now, in the cave rested a host clad in bear fur.

The system simply dumped out all the items her host once stored in its "belly".

Fire starter, salt, a small knife, some medication for colds, along with two bowls, two pairs of chopsticks, and a few steamed buns, but the system’s "belly" couldn’t keep fresh, now the buns had become black, hard lumps.

[System, you still hold on to these things! So icky! Mold on it’s even fallen off after months.]

The system, also speechless, had forgotten these things existed.

However, having these items for emergencies made Cheng Xiaoxiao really happy.

Wielding ungainly claws, she used the small knife to skin the roe deer, picked it up, and exited the cave.

Under the system’s guidance, she found a nearby creek, emptied and cleaned the roe deer’s intestines, washed away the blood and filth, then slowly scraped a suitable branch to skewer the roe deer.

As these mountains were near the Capital City, there were no plagues, no need to worry about infectious diseases.

Everything edible in the forest was collectible.

While gathering dry twigs and leaves, she discovered some spots with mushrooms, and a few precious herbal medicines.

Besides, a tall spice bush grew by the creek.

Ecstatic, Cheng Xiaoxiao picked the non-toxic mushrooms and fragrant leaves, washed them, added them to the roe deer’s belly, supremely satisfied.

This roasted meat would certainly taste even more fragrant and delicious.