The man thought that he was really going to die.

The moment the thought came to mind, the rat that missed his neck put a tooth in the man’s thigh.

When the situation came to this, the man used his only weapon left, without having any other choice.

He bit the neck of the rat on his forearm.

Wow!

The man’s teeth easily crushed the monster rat’s spine.

When their spinal cords were crushed, the monster rats helplessly fell off.

He did the same thing to the other rat and buried his teeth into its body.

The monster mouse biting the thigh was rather easy. This was because it could be solved simply by hitting it with a tree branch into the head.

The problem was a monster rat on his shoulder hanging from behind.

So, the man reached behind and dug through the monster rats’ eyeballs and succeeded in removing the troublesome creature.

Then, as he crushed the whole body, he stepped on the neck of the monster rat struggling with pain, he smashed it with the rock and broke the head as before.

“Ugh… Ugh… Heo… … .”

It was difficult, but he won, though his body wasn’t looking good.

The man took the phone out again with a trembling hand. However, despite having killed five monster mice, there were no new messages on the phone.

The man screamed at the sky that began to darken again.

“Are you making fun of me?”

But again, this time, the only thing he heard was the sound of wind and the echo of his voice.

“Hoo… Whoo… … .”

He was livid. He was in the middle of nowhere and was reeling from his injuries.

“Five rats… … .”

The man muttered like that and pulled the multi-tool out of his pocket. He also opened the embarrassingly small knife, barely longer than his fingers.

He was lost.

A mysterious text message….

But before that, he needed to find food and water.

Looking at the body of the miserable monster rats, he thought if its fleas were as strong.

However, the man laughed pitifully. That’s because he felt unsure if he was still alive or not.

Besides, he didn’t really want to know if they had rat fleas.

“Keuk… … .”

He had to stop laughing momentarily as he felt the pain coming back.

“Damn it… … .”

The man endured the pain to cut the carcass of the rats with his tiny knife.

The scent was bloody, but he was so desperate that it was enough to trigger his hunger.

Eventually, he finished dismantling the corpses, the damn text message finally arrived.

Start the tutorial.

1. Let’s practice the basics of combat.

―Collect five rat meat. (5/5)

→ Done!

Reward: a little experience

→ Would you like to receive your reward now? (Y/n) _

(Note) Rewards not received will be automatically deleted after seven days.

“It’s like a game.”

The man murmured, then pressed Y.

Suddenly, the blue vortex wraps around the body and disappears, and amazingly along with it, went his injuries.

“uh?”

The embarrassed man looked at the wound left from the rat bite, but it was cleaned, leaving only a light scar.

“This… … .”

He was shocked by his healed body, then another message appeared.

Congratulations!

Level up!

Reward: Random Card

→ Would you like to receive your reward now? (Y/n) _

(Note) Rewards not received will be automatically deleted after seven days.

“What’s a random card .”

The man sighed. It is not because he didn’t know how long he’d need to be here.

He understood that his wounds were healed when he leveled up, but it was still hard to believe that it was real.

It’s unlikely that this was a dream, the right bites from earlier felt very real, and he did not wake up when he pinched his thighs.

“Damn, what’s going on, and how is this happening?”

The man grumbled and stared at the cell phone message again. He didn’t know why the words were in English or what purpose it had for telling him to slay the rats then rewarding him for it!

The man raised his finger and pressed Y.

Then, on the screen was a picture of a card spinning like a coin. It had an appearance similar to training card games.

Congratulations!

Acquired the skill card’Bite’.

: The skill card can be mounted on a card slot to use that ability.

→ Do you want to install the skill card in the card slot? (Y/n) _

[Click here for card details.]

“Mount”

Somehow he just had to frown because the feeling of biting a monster rat was revived.

The man pressed the card details again to confirm.

[Card Information]

Name: Biting

Level: 1Lv

EXP: 0

Rating: Common

Category: Skill

Growth: premature (small)

Properties: None

effect :

1. Bite a target enemy and inflict a bite.

2. Basic attack power increased by 5%

Cost: 5

Seed: 1 slot

“… … .”

The man looked at the screen of the phone for a while.”

“It’s a game… ha… … .”

The man who sighed quietly closed his eyes and calmed his mind.

“okay… I’ll play this game.”

He mumbled like that then registered the skill card, but he doesn’t feel any different.

Biting? Is he going to fight with his teeth during the next battle?

While he was still thinking, another message came again.

Start the tutorial.

2. Let’s make a fire.

― Make the most of your tools and make a fire. (Unachieved)

“This time, it’s fire.”

It would have been a simple task if he had matches or a lighter with him; he slightly regretted quitting smoking.

First, he looked at his items again, the small multi-tool, and the paper receipt that he could throw into the fire later.

The items in his wallet were no help either, containing only cash, cards, and a lottery ticket that he couldn’t even remember what it was for.

He had watched a lot of survival documentaries, so he knew a few methods on building a fire, but those methods usually assumed you at least had basic tools

For example, collecting sunlight to light a fire requires a tool that can act as a convex lens or a concave mirror.

PET bottles, metal utensils, glass bottles, plastic bags, and even ice cubes may be necessary. Still, unfortunately, there is no trash available for it to work, and the sunlight itself is rare.

Another option is to use two batteries and silver foil, such as chewing gum paper, but he had none again.

There are several other methods, but in a situation where one is not adequately equipped, it’s almost impossible.

Eventually, all that remained was the primitive method using friction heat.

As the day was getting darker, the man rushed around the woods and began to collect firewood and looked for anything that could help him start a fire.

The man found a handful of thin bark, dead branches, and small mushrooms like those found in games, then piled them up.

He then started by picking two branches of moderate length and thick bark from the collected materials to drill with.

By untying the shoelaces and tying them to the long branches, He was able to make a bow. Then he had to select a thicker piece of wood to serve as the base.

The man cut a small groove in the bark with a multi-tool cork opener and then widened it with a knife. The important thing to remember is to make a passage so that hot ash can escape next to the groove.

If you just make a groove, the hot ashes will dissipate without combining, and the smoke will quickly turn off.

The tools are so coarse, and this was also the first time he’s actually tried them, so it took the man until dark to collect the materials he needed.

The man twisted the bow to the twig on the thick branch on the rounded groove.

It is challenging to ignite a fire from small and thin branches; bigger pieces of wood would’ve been better to use.