More than three hundred years ago, there was a human who wanted to explore the entire coastline of the Dark Continent by himself.
Three hundred years later, this human is still on his journey to explore the coastline of the Dark Continent.
During his exploration of the Dark Continent, he also wrote a book titled [New World Travelogue: East].
This book was once published in the Six Continents.
What it documented were his experiences exploring the Dark Continent.
At first, few people paid attention to such a book filled with absurd imagination.
But as times changed, people became more accepting.
Therefore, this book, which is once dismissed as a work of fantasy, ultimately provided the humans of the Six Continents with invaluable information.
It could also be said that-
It was the book, New World Travelogue: East, that brought Pandora's Box to humanity.
Every voyage organized by the V5 nations, which poured immense resources into these expeditions, essentially sent hundreds or thousands of people to the Dark Continent.
However, every voyage ended in failure, and the people who were sent there naturally died on that vast land.
It must be known that there were as many as 149 officially recorded voyages to the Dark Continent.
Even if we disregard the unofficial voyages, these 149 failed attempts were built on countless lives.
This was the price of opening Pandora's Box.
Through this, the humans of the Six Continents have already deeply understood the dangers of Pandora's Box.
But humanity will never stop on the path of exploring destruction.
The man who wrote New Continent Travelogue, the book that brought Pandora's Box to humanity, was named-
Don Freecss.
Now-
He is still alive.
Thanks to the healing herbs that can cure all diseases and the Nitro Rice that extends life, Don Freecss, over 300 years old, is still active along the coastline of the Dark Continent, still using his feet to measure the infinite land.
Because-
Humans have a limited pace and speed.
And the vastness of the Dark Continent is unimaginable. If a human wanted to measure this land with their feet, even just along the coastline, it would take hundreds of years.
Today, Don Freecss has not yet completed this journey, but with the support of Nitro Rice, he has ample time to finish the remaining distance.
And now-
He has arrived on the endless white, rough land, only to unexpectedly find traces left behind by Moses when he drained the lake water.
"Fish and plants from the Six Continents..."
There was a look of surprise in Don Freecss's eyes.
Although there was a lack of information, seeing the scattered remains of fish and plants from the Six Continents, as well as the obvious dried water marks, he roughly understood what had happened.
'Has an Ancient Pipeline been activated... Was it triggered by accident, or intentionally?"
To transport not just lake water but also freshwater fish and aquatic plants to this land, Don Freecss could think of no other possibility than the Ancient Pipelines left behind by ancient humans.
Having seen much of the world, he had also encountered the ancient Divine Scripts left by ancient humans during his travels.
It was precisely by relying on these Ancient Pipelines hidden beneath the harsh environments that he could, when necessary, travel through them to quickly return to areas where Nitro Rice and other 'hopes' were located.
Otherwise, if he relies solely on his feet to walk, a single round trip would take an immeasurable amount of time.
Including the time he returned to the Six Continents before, he also relied on the power of the Ancient Pipeline.
This saved him an unknown amount of time.
Furthermore, if one returns to the Six Continents through the Ancient Pipeline, they do not have to bring 'a calamity' back with them.
Slowly moving his feet, which were wrapped in green vine-like tendrils, Don Freecss stepped over the slightly rotting fish and walked around the area, gathering more information.
If Moses were still here, he would surely be surprised to find that-
Don Freecss's body was actually covered in vines of varying sizes.
These vines were woven around Don Freecss's body, but rather than looking out of place, they gave off a sense of harmony.
But the problem is-
These vines actually pulsed rhythmically, like a heartbeat, subtly syncing with Don Freecss's breathing.
Obviously, the existence of these vines is not just for the purpose of covering Don Freecss's body.
If Moses could see this, he might be curious about the relationship between these vines and Don Freecss, as well as what effects they have.
But before that, he would first realize the seriousness of the situation.
Because as someone from the other world, he knows that Don Freecss had already explored the eastern coastline of the Dark Continent, which is why the book [New World Travelogue: East] was born.
In other words-
Since Dong Fulisi is here, it is highly likely that this white land is one of the areas along the western coastline of the Dark Continent.
And the Nitro Rice that Moses was searching for was located on the eastern coastline of the Dark Continent.
The two are in opposite directions.
This meant that Moses had no way of confirming his approximate location and direction based on the information in the book, New World Travelogue: East.
So, not to mention traveling to the swamplands of the eastern coastline to find Nitro Rice, even figuring out how to traverse the western coastline region was an extremely tricky problem.
Don Freecss slowly walked a large circle among the scattered plants and animals, then looked in a certain direction.
He paused for a moment, then decided to change his course slightly and go to the specific location where 'a certain group of people' had came from.
Before stepping forward, he picked up a dead fish from the white ground and pressed it against his left arm.
Sizzle-
The vine-like tendrils pressed by the dead fish made a faint sound, and then the surface of the vines slowly cracked open, revealing numerous white, needle-like strands resembling golden mushrooms.
These strands quickly wrapped around the dead fish pressed against Don Freecss's arm, and with a slight pulsation, the fish's volume shrank at a speed visible to the naked eye, and then disappeared without a trace after a few seconds.
A dead fish that looked to weigh over two kilograms was completely consumed in just five seconds.
Don Freecss then picked up the second dead fish, and the third dead fish from the ground...
After some effort to feed the vine-like tendrils, Don Freecss finally set off, heading in the direction he had determined earlier.
After walking for about twenty minutes, Don Freecss suddenly stopped and looked at the ground in front of him.
There was a person lying on their side.
From Don Freecss's angle, he could only see the person's back.
"…"
Don Freecss lowered his eyelids, realizing that the traces he had observed earlier were left by this 'human'.
This made him momentarily unsure whether the 'direction' he had chosen was correct or not.
Although as long as he travels all over the white land, he will definitely find the Ancient Pipeline that transports the things from the Six Continents here, but if circumstances allowed, Don Freecss preferred to pursue efficiency, or rather, he didn't want to waste time.
Time-
It's not about how much you have, but how you use it.
It's precious.