Ancient Eden

of efforts, she managed to open a small slit.
That was enough.

She pressed her mouth close to the slit and slowly sucked the juice that flowed from it.
Although she wanted to drink it all in one gulp, but then, her body would eliminate the excess water after she was done drinking, it would be a complete waste of water for nothing.
And she couldn’t afford to waste it.

She took a few sips, kept the liquid in her mouth and slowly swallowed it, after a while, she took a few more sips, and closed her eyes to feel the comfortable sensation of her mouth and throat being slowly moisturized by the liquid.

She put the fruit, which also contained water inside, back into her backpack.
After resting just now, she felt that her body had also recovered some strength.
She was about to get up again to resume walking towards the south, when suddenly she smelled a heavy foul smell, like a gust of wind assaulting her nose.

In the dense forest in front of her, a giant bird suddenly appeared from nowhere.

Even in her wildest dreams, she could never have imagined that such a giant bird could exist in this world.
Its body was gray, standing over there, it was at least two meters high, its head was as big as a horse, under its wings, there was a pair of feet with sharp claws, and its beak was even thicker than her arm.

She noticed that its abdomen seemed to be wounded, some dark red blood was running down its legs that had claws thicker than her waist.
But this would not affect its ability to come up to her and use its claws to hold her down and tear her apart with its long beak that had a curved hook.

Mu Qing was a little scared.
The big bird had already spotted her, and its pair of dark eyes were gazing at her grimly right now, as it slowly walked towards her.

She only had the Swiss knife in her hand.
But using this kind of knife, to deal with this bird, would appear like a tale from One Thousand and One Nights.

Her mouth, which she felt had just been a little moisturized, became dry again.

Mu Qing slowly stood up, trying as best as possible not to let the giant bird notice that she was intending to try to escape.
Then, when she was ready, she suddenly turned around and started running, wrestling her way out of there.

She went towards the direction where the vegetation was the bushiest.

The huge bird’s body was too huge, it might be obstructing from advancing forward by the bushy vegetation, while she could escape, using the advantage of her smaller size.