Wilderness Survival with Druid System

The next three days of training went more or less as Chen Wen expected.

On one hand, there was the basic knowledge, including specific information about each challenge in the Eight Extremes Challenge.

And various basic survival knowledge.

Besides that, there were all kinds of practical survival skill exercises.

In short, it was an assessment of everyone’s survival skills and knowledge outside of the wilderness areas.

Finally, the list was decided on the afternoon of the third day.

Not a single person from the list was changed.

After all, for those not on the list, ninety-nine percent of them have been in the association longer than Chen Wen.

But up to now, none of them has won a survival competition, which says enough about their level.

Regarding the final list, no one had any objections.

During the past few days, people on the list had already shown their capabilities.

Especially Chen Wen.

Starting a fire with a drill effortlessly, finding directions with ease, throwing a long spear astonishingly...

When the long spear whistled through the air and hit a target the size of a rabbit at thirty meters with precision.

Everyone understood that Chen Wen was not going to be eliminated.

Moreover, Chen Wen was highly likely to become a strong contender for a seed player position!

Seeing Chen Wen’s performance, most of the association admired and envied him.

Only Feng Zhong’s small group watched with jealousy.

”This guy is too outrageous, can he really throw a long spear that accurately? Did he use some aiming assistance method?”

”Most likely!”

”But so what if he’s that accurate? There’s no way he’ll get the seed player spot!”

They spoke as such.

But Feng Zhong knew better than anyone, if he wanted to get that seed player spot, Chen Wen was definitely in his way!

With this thought, Feng Zhong gritted his teeth.

After the training on the third afternoon ended, he quietly slipped away.

...

On Chen Wen’s side.

After three days of training, he had nearly grasped the rules of the Eight Extremes Challenge.

The general rules are simple.

Players can bring tools; aside from the standard equipment provided by each association—a canteen, a knife, a fire starter, and a rope.

Players can carry three items of their own.

Aside from restricting firearms, there were almost no other restrictions on these three items.

And according to Liu Yu, these rules even do not restrict animals!

This made Chen Wen’s eyes light up.

No restriction on animals!

Then his animal friends, and various tamed animals could all be put to use!

Especially considering his first challenge location—Australia’s interior.

Chen Wen came up with an idea.

That’s how the tool selection stands.

Then there are the victory rules.

The competition doesn’t distinguish between first and runner-up; as long as you can complete the challenge, you are qualified.

The time limit is within one hundred and fifty days.

But most of the time, players finish the challenge without needing all one hundred and fifty days, or they get completed by the challenge.

There’s also team division, which is based on national teams.

Each country is divided into a first and second team, with the first team having the seed players.

There is no restriction on the number of participants for each challenge.

However, despite the division into teams, this challenge is truly an individual competition.

You can leave your team midway, or freely team up with foreign players, offering high flexibility.

Players can attack each other with no restrictions.

But you are not allowed to kill competitors actively or deliberately destroy their positioning devices and drones.

Which means you can deliberately injure or disable the opponent, cutting off their retreat, all within the rules as long as you don’t kill.

Extremely bloody!

For deaths caused by negligence, only certain humanitarian compensation is needed.

However, there is a hidden rule in Hua Country.

That is, you are not allowed to severely harm your own people, and if accidental death occurs among your own, Hua Country will prosecute according to the law.

But outsiders are not restricted by this rule.

These are the general rules.

Then there are exclusive rules for each challenge.

Which is essentially the winning conditions.

Each challenge is related to some explorers in history.

Take the Desert Extreme Challenge—Australia’s interior survival challenge that Chen Wen intends to participate in, for example.

This challenge’s origin is the very famous Canning Stock Route.

The Canning Stock Route was initially built to allow cattlemen from Kimberley to transport livestock to the southern markets.

In the late nineteenth to early twentieth century.

The roads in Australia were quite primitive, almost no decent roads existed.

Under such conditions, it was almost impossible for cattlemen to cross the desert interior of Australia with their cattle.

As a result, the beef trade in Australia’s western interior was long monopolized by the cowboys living there.

The disadvantages of monopolization are self-evident.

These cowboy groups raised prices arbitrarily, seriously harming consumers and herders.

To break this monopoly, the Western Australia government decided in 1906 to investigate the feasibility of establishing a stock route.

That’s when Canning took over the task!

The builder of the Canning Stock Route—Alfred Wornum Canning.

Canning was not originally a professional adventurer.

His father was a gardener, and his mother was a laundress at a workhouse.

After emigrating from the United Kingdom to Australia with his family, he became an apprentice surveyor in public works.

Not much connection to adventurers.

Before building the Canning Stock Route, he worked on Australia’s rabbit-proof fence No. 1 construction.

He was one of Australia’s top-tier surveyors.

Thus, Canning began exploring the Canning Stock Route.

In May 1906, Canning set off with 8 men, 23 camels, 2 horses, and a cook’s new dog from Day Dawn to start the arduous exploration journey to assess the feasibility of building a stock route through the desert.

During this expedition, Canning’s group encountered dangerous scrublands, spiky spinifex grass, over 900 soft sand dunes up to 15 meters high, intense heat during the day, freezing nights, deadly snakes, and ubiquitous poisonous insects.

They later suffered from scurvy due to insufficient diet, and his men were all irritable.

But with his rich survey and adventure skills, Canning succeeded in finding a feasible route.

And after returning to Perth in July 1907, he convinced the government of the feasibility of the stock route.

Thus began the construction of the Canning Stock Route.

This challenge became part of the Eight Extremes Challenge not only due to its extreme difficulty but also to commemorate Canning and his adventurous spirit.

Of course, the current Canning Stock Route is not suitable for survival.

Thus, through the explorations of predecessor adventurers, the exclusive rules for the Desert Extreme Challenge were born.

The exclusive rule for the Desert Extreme Challenge is simple.

Within one hundred and fifty days, starting from a point on the Canning Stock Route (camels are provided), head northwest along the aboriginal migration stock routes, passing four large oases and a large number of small oases, crossing the Great Sand Desert, and reaching Assembly Point No. 1 located below the Kimberley Plateau.

This is only half.

Next, players must enter the Kimberley Plateau from Assembly Point No. 1, find human settlements, and seek rescue.

The difficulty is extremely perverse!