Chapter 124: The Pig-Man and I Are Good Brothers

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Upon hearing Qin Fei’s words, Xie Nainan’s face darkened. “Sigh... oh, do you have any clothes?” she asked, pointing to the grass skirt she was wearing.

Qin Fei’s expression turned strange; her sigh was essentially a tacit admission to his earlier question.

Becoming a Fishman would forever remain one of Xie Nainan’s darkest secrets...

After a pause, Qin Fei pulled out a set of somewhat feminine clothes from his spatial backpack and tossed them to Xie Nainan.

Once she changed, Qin Fei learned from her about some events that occurred after her arrival in the world of Don’t Starve.

At first, when Xie Nainan had just arrived, the system assigned her a task to find parts of a portal on an island.

Qin Fei immediately recalled this: the portal quest was the storyline experienced by Wilson, the protagonist in Don’t Starve’s single-player mode.

Since the system only required Xie Nainan to assemble one portal to complete the task, it wasn’t particularly difficult.

However, because metal tools were unusable in this world, her strength was greatly diminished.

It took her nearly a year to search every corner of the island for the portal parts and finally assemble the portal successfully.

Through the portal, she arrived at the place where she and Qin Fei now stood.

Whether by coincidence or design, both Xie Nainan and Qin Fei landed near the Fishman village, in the surrounding swamps...

“So when you got here, it was already full of Fishmen?” Qin Fei asked, puzzled. He hadn’t expected that Xie Nainan’s curse had taken hold after the Pigmen had already transformed.

“Yes, by the time I arrived, my bag was already empty of food...” Xie Nainan continued.

She pointed with her right hand toward the altar. “I later went to that well and stole some sweet and sour pork from the Fishmen...”

The well she mentioned—the altar where food was kept—she had mistaken for a place where the Fishmen stored their meals.

That was quite daring...

After hearing Xie Nainan’s description, Qin Fei was speechless.

He roughly understood what had happened.

After arriving in the Don’t Starve world, with supplies exhausted, Xie Nainan came to the Fishman village where all the food had already been consumed.

Even her clothing had worn out, replaced by the grass skirt she now wore.

Driven by hunger, she stole some honey-glazed meat from the altar—the sweet and sour pork she mentioned.

Because of this theft, she was cursed by the altar and transformed into a Fishman.

In fact, the altar’s curse in the Fishman village was quite easy to break.

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Survivors only needed to find the diary at the Fishman king’s place, then follow its instructions by overturning the food in the altar, removing it in order, and finally summoning the goat to complete the task.

But since Xie Nainan had stolen a dish from the altar, Qin Fei had been misled before.

He had always thought that the missing honey-glazed meat was left out by the Fishmen during their ritual offerings.

This misunderstanding caused Qin Fei to waste several days...

However, upon reflection, it made sense that Xie Nainan ate the altar’s food by mistake.

After all, Qin Fei had managed to accumulate many survival supplies by virtue of his familiarity with each game world’s storyline and content.

In contrast, Xie Nainan’s backpack lacked such abundant provisions.

Hence, upon entering the Fishman village, she had no choice but to eat the altar’s honey-glazed meat due to hunger.

After clarifying the cause, Qin Fei and Xie Nainan confirmed their respective tasks.

As expected, Qin Fei’s main quest was identical to Xie Nainan’s:

“Survive 60 days in the Don’t Starve world.”

Currently, the main quest countdown had reached day 28.

Besides the main quest, at the bottom of the system messages, there was a warning: "Eternal Night is approaching."

Its countdown was also set at 28 days.

In other words, once the main quest ended, the “Eternal Night” mentioned in the system messages would arrive.

However, neither Qin Fei nor Xie Nainan had a clear understanding of what this so-called “Eternal Night” referred to.

Qin Fei analyzed, “Although the Don’t Starve world is dangerous, if our mission is just to survive 60 days, it’s actually not too difficult.”

“You mean the 'Eternal Night' mentioned by the system is a follow-up challenge?” Xie Nainan quickly caught on.

Qin Fei nodded. “The 'survive 60 days' quest might just be a preparation period for the ‘Eternal Night.’ The real challenge hasn’t even begun.”

To uncover the meaning of “Eternal Night,” Qin Fei and Xie Nainan began gathering information in the Pigman village.

However, the Pigmen did nothing but flaunt their physiques under the shade and constantly mock Qin Fei and Xie Nainan’s appearances.

They couldn’t get any useful information.

Moreover, if anyone approached too closely, the Pigmen would disdainfully flee.

Helpless, Qin Fei took out his last frog leg from his backpack.

He planned to cook a delicacy to win over the Pigmen.

This was leftover from when he cooked honey-glazed meat, and also the last piece of meat in his backpack.

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Qin Fei roasted the frog leg and drizzled some honey over it.

Then, he found a Pigman in the village who looked less foolish and less inclined to scorn them, and approached it.

Before the Pigman could run away, Qin Fei waved the honey-drizzled roasted frog leg before its eyes.

“Meat! I’m hungry...” Qin Fei said.

The Pigman’s eyes lit up upon seeing the treat, and drool began to drip from its mouth.

Seeing this, Qin Fei grabbed the Pigman’s right hoof and slapped the frog leg into its palm.

“This is for you! Buddy!”

“Hope it tastes good...” The Pigman quickly stuffed the frog leg into its mouth with lightning speed.

‘Chomp, chomp.’

The sounds of the Pigman eating were exactly like when Big Nose ate his meals.

Though these Pigmen were arrogant and gluttonous, always thinking themselves clever, they did understand the value of gratitude.

After eating Qin Fei’s honey-glazed frog leg, the Pigman looked at Qin Fei seriously and patted his shoulder.

“You, friend!”

...

“Good brother!” the Pigman affirmed with absolute certainty.

Qin Fei was speechless at how quickly the Pigman had changed its attitude. “Your brotherly affection is way too cheap!”

With this Pigman friend’s attitude improved, Qin Fei tried to ask some questions.

“Do you know what the ‘Eternal Night’ is?”

“Pigmen don’t know!”

“How did you become Fishmen?”

“Pigmen don’t know!”

Damn!

How come they knew nothing at all!

Qin Fei cursed silently and continued, “Then tell me, what do you actually know?”

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