Five Frozen Centuries

The monkeys’ arrival brought liveliness into Wei Huo’s life. Besides practicing his crafting and archery skills, he also taught the monkeys how to use human tools.

However, those monkeys were very mischievous. They would leave the tap running just to let water flowed and messed up the surroundings by leaving open and unfinished snacks everywhere.

After getting used to being around Wei Huo all the time, the monkeys were not afraid of Wei Huo anymore. They would even hop onto Wei Huo’s head and pick lice from his hair. They would occasionally runoff, and brought back fruits for Wei Huo after sunset.

Although those fruits tasted a bit sour, Wei Huo was still grateful.

Animals have a sense of gratitude. They would for sure repay Wei Huo since he helped them.

On the 20th day of living together with the monkeys, a few pheasants appeared within the service area. Some small snakes would also emerge from the nearby bushes from time to time.

A weird idea came to Wei Huo’s mind when he saw those pheasants…

Morning of the next day, Wei Huo grabbed a coop and propped it up with wooden sticks. He secured them with ropes and scattered some chips in the coop. His hands were clutching on the rope as he hid away.

The monkeys looked at Wei Huo curiously, clueless on what he was up to. Wei Huo stared at a pheasant. Little by little, that pheasant was strolling towards the trap. Unaware that was a trap, that same pheasant sprint towards that coop as it laid eyes on those familiar chips.

Right when that pheasant was in his trap, Wei Huo tugged that rope which dragged the wooden stick away. In a flash the coop confined that pheasant, leaving it in a daze.

The pheasant was befuddled.

Wei Huo fished out his hunting knife and walked towards the coop grinning. He flipped over the coop and gripped that pheasant’s leg.

Wei Huo grabbed its head and slashed its neck with his keen hunting knife without caring how hard that pheasant was struggling. Blood spurted out from its neck. That pheasant’s struggle only caused it to lose more blood and in the end bled to death.

Carrying a dead pheasant, Wei Huo returned to the service area with monkeys scrambling away in fear.

Wei Huo was speechless. “…”

As the saying goes, kill a chicken to scare the monkeys¹.

Wei Huo plucked and cleaned the dead pheasant. He built a bonfire and pierced through the pheasant with a shaven wooden stick. Before grilling the pheasant, he grabbed some salt and oil from the restaurant in the service area. With all ingredients at hand only then he started grilling the pheasant.

Although he had never grilled a pheasant before, he saw it many times on videos. In order to prevent the pheasant from burning, he brushed a thin layer of oil over it. He then sprinkled some salt for seasoning and flipped the pheasant from time to time. Not long after, the fragrance of grilled pheasant infiltrated his surroundings.

The smell hit his nose and made his mouth water.

Damn! It has been so long since I last ate a pheasant.

The monkeys could not hold themselves back from the smell too. The fear inside them subsided, and they started closing in on Wei Huo. Defeated by gluttony, they gathered around Wei Huo with their mouths’ watering.

Wei Huo ignored them as he gulped down a drumstick which was only half-cooked. It tasted so good that it brought tears to his eyes.

‘Yummy!’

The drumstick was delicious despite being half-cooked. Wei Huo was so engrossed in eating the pheasant that he even overlooked the task accomplished notification.

He only noticed it after he finished that drumstick which the monkeys were gawking with drooled saliva.

Wei Huo guffawed at the scene. He cut up half of the pheasant and hurled it towards them. They scrambled madly for the pheasant. A few stronger ones even fought against each other.

Whilst watching them, Wei Huo whipped out the Equipment Menu. It was then that he heard the quest completion notification.

“Quest ‘Survival and Food Continuity’ completed. You have been rewarded with ‘8x Scope’.”

Wei Huo was speechless. “…”

‘Was this not supposed to be a game item? Why did they give me an 8x Scope? What should I do with it?’

What connection is there between eating pheasant and the 8x Scope?

Even though he was surprised, he still fiddled around the 8x Scope. He could see quite far with it. Perhaps it could be used as a telescope since he did not own a gun.

While the monkeys were still jostling over that half pheasant, Wei Huo hurriedly gobbled down the rest. He did not want to see those monkeys’ yearning gaze.

Right at that moment when he just finished his meal, God’s voice coincidentally appeared again.

“Human’s limiter removed.

“Evolution limit increased to infinity.

“Ranking System implemented.

“Applicable to all creatures. Ranks are respectively Normal, Rare, Epic, Legendary and Mythic.

“Dragon-type monsters added.”

Wei Huo was speechless. “…”

Why did that seem like a game version update?

However, that was not a bad thing for Wei Huo. The limiter name suggested that it was a mechanism built to protect the human body. It could prevent pulling their muscle from using too much strength, or preventing the brain from drawing too much strength and accidentally breaking a glass whilst drinking water. It even might be able to prevent a guy from accidentally collapsing the wall when he ‘kabedon

Martial arts experts always dazzled people by chopping up bricks with their bare hands on television. The actual fact was that many people could do the same thing.

At the same time, the limiter had another definition which was the irremovable limitation. No matter how hard a human works out, there would always be a limit on the number of push-ups and chin-ups which can be done. The strength and number of cells were limiting human growth in a sense. Removal of the limiter meant that a cell’s strength could be developed unbounded.

The limiter’s absence would have made it possible for humans to be stronger than bears or faster than leopards. Anyone could achieve that with sufficient training. For example by doing 100 push-ups, 100 sit-ups, 100 squats and 10 kilometers of jogging, and so on every day.

As long as the training period was long enough, it would not be surprising if humans were capable of blowing up the earth with just one punch

Wei Hou was fueled with confidence. ‘Farming? Hunting? Are you joking? Without the limiter, I could become a superhuman by training sufficiently!’

Wei Huo then looked at his rank.

‘Rank, Couldn’t Be Any More Normal.’

Wei Huo was speechless.

Was it necessary for the word ‘Normal’ to be stressed?

The human body’s quality indeed could not be any more normal. Humans could lose their lives with just a single natural disaster, an accident, or even an unforeseen calamity. The human body was really fragile!

However, the removal of human limiter indicated that humans could also be superhumans!

Wei Huo decided to give up on his archery practices, and go all out with an intensive training regime starting tomorrow.

‘I had spent three years in kindergarten, six in primary school, three in middle school, three in high school, and two in university. I am a total expert when it comes to learning and perseverance.’