After eating the Spirit Fruit and recovering some Spiritual Energy, Lin Li, now able to defend himself, immediately took his motorcycle out from the Mysterious Small Island.

Although his injured left arm had stopped bleeding after he applied the hemostatic ointment, it still ached and was difficult to move.

But that was no big deal. It wasn’t like he couldn’t ride a motorcycle with one hand. 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

Of course, this was the desolate and dangerous wilderness. No one would care if you rode a motorcycle with one hand out here.

But if he did that in the city, the traffic officers would pull him over and give him a fine.

RUMBLE...

He started the motorcycle. The roar of the engine immediately spread in all directions, quickly attracting the attention of some Mutant Beasts wandering the wilderness.

After starting the bike, Lin Li took a helmet from the Mysterious Small Island and put it on. Then, gripping the handlebars with one hand, he sped off toward the safe zone.

He was already riding one-handed in the wilderness, so why bother remembering to wear a helmet? What was the logic in that?

The thing was... Lin Li was wearing a helmet because of a post he’d seen on the discussion forum of the Exotic Beast Hunter app. It had been written by a fellow Hunter.

The Hunter who’d made the post described how his squad ended up being hunted by over a dozen Mutant Beasts, all because the noise from some guy on a motorcycle had drawn them in.

The members of that Hunter’s squad were still looking for the guy on the motorcycle to have a word with him.

As the one responsible for that incident, Lin Li had no desire to be found by the Hunter who made that post.

Therefore, putting on a helmet to hide his face had become a necessary precaution every time he rode back to the safe zone from the wilderness.

’That loud noise went on and on all afternoon. It was quiet for barely an hour, so why is it starting up again?’

Some of the Mutant Beasts wandering the wilderness looked in the direction of the roar, thoroughly confused.

...

The sun sank in the west, its fading light painting half the sky.

The fiery red sunset was about to vanish, and darkness would soon descend to shroud the world.

Near the safe zone, under the dimming sky, a young man was running. He wore camouflage, stood about 1.75 meters tall, was in his late twenties, and had rainbow-colored hair.

Right now, the man was sprinting desperately toward the safe zone, his face a mask of panic.

SKREEE...

A sharp cry reached the young man’s ears. As he heard the shrieking from behind grow closer, the panic on his face intensified, and the color drained from his cheeks.

It was as if the Grim Reaper himself, scythe in hand, was chasing him.

No, to him, the figure chasing him from behind was even more terrifying than the ethereal Grim Reaper.

SKREEE...

A giant rat, a two-meter-long Mutant Beast, was closing in fast. Its eyes flashed with an eerie red light, and it ran with the speed of the wind, rapidly gaining on the desperately fleeing young man.

’Thirty meters... twenty... ten...’

When the giant rat Mutant Beast was just ten meters away from the young man, its eerie red eyes suddenly flared with a faint golden Spiritual Light.

Superpower, ’Speed Enhancement,’ activated.

As the giant rat Mutant Beast activated its awakened Superpower, its already wind-like speed surged dramatically.

In the blink of an eye, the ten-meter gap between the young man and the Mutant Beast vanished.

SKREE!

Having instantly caught up to the man, the giant rat Mutant Beast leaped, swiping its razor-sharp claws at his head.

With no time to dodge the Mutant Beast’s attack, the young man made a split-second decision to protect his vitals.

The gleaming claws grazed the hair on his forehead, tore through his camouflage uniform, and carved a deep gash across his chest.

"AAAAHHH!"

Blood gushed from the wound. Excruciating pain shot through the young man’s entire body, and he couldn’t help but let out a blood-curdling scream.

’It hurts so much!’ Having never been so severely injured, the young man felt the pain in his chest was so intense he was about to pass out.

But he knew he absolutely could not succumb to the pain.

If he couldn’t bear the pain and passed out, he would never wake up again.

The giant rat Mutant Beast with the eerie, glowing red eyes would surely bite his head off the moment he lost consciousness.

"Argh..."

’Can’t pass out. If I pass out, I’m dead.’ Snot and tears streamed down the young man’s face from the pain in his chest as he instantly activated his awakened Superpower.

Superpower, ’Pain Reduction,’ activated.

A faint golden Spiritual Light flashed over the young man, who had bitten through his own lip from the pain.

As the ’Pain Reduction’ Superpower took effect, the young man’s face, which had been contorted in agony to the point where he was about to faint, instantly became calm.

If it weren’t for his split lip and the snot and tears covering his face, you might have mistaken him for a hardened tough guy who didn’t give a damn about his injuries.

Although his Superpower meant he could no longer feel much pain, it did nothing to increase his combat strength. It was of little help in escaping the ferocious giant rat Mutant Beast.