Chapter 20: Food hunt

Chen fell asleep immediately he hit the ground, he was so exhausted his sleep was dreamless, morning came quicker than they expected and soon Feng came back into the tent to wake everyone up, it seemed like Feng hadn't slept at all, others had gotten up but Chen still remained asleep.

"Did Chen stay awake through the night watching out for us?" Bryan asked

"He didn't I sent him back to the tent to get some rest, you guys should get prepared quickly we till have a long day ahead of us" Feng replied

"When did you become so nice, did you get hit in the head or something?" Bryan teased Feng

Feng didn't reply and left the tent, he felt that the boys had done enough for the day, so he decided to let them have a moment of rest, he wasn't bothered about sleep or the biting cold since he didn't need a lot of sleep to survive he could stay for days without sleeping and would still function better than a lot of other people, the could did not bother him since he could regulate his body temperature easily.

Everyone was out, and they folded folded the tent and waited for Feng to return from wherever he went to give instructions on how the training was going to be, Feng eventually returned from his morning walk and instructed the group to begin the meditation exercise as that would become a routine practice for them, to help in prove their blood and muscle control.

After a while, the meditation class came to an end and everyone left to get something to eat, since the group had already consumed all the coconuts on the coconut tree the previous day they had to seek other alternatives, Romeo and Bryan had already found some fruits that looked edible and proceeded to bring it back to Feng, after appraising the fruit it turned out that they were not consumable by humans, since they are highly acidic.

Feng decided not to participate in the food hunting exercise because he wanted them to experience things for themselves, all he did was check out whatever fruit was brought back and verify if it would be consumable.

"I actually did think it would be easier getting food here since we are in the jungle, but why does everything here seem poisonous to human beings" Chen asked while moving away a branch that seemed to be hanging too low.

"Look over there, I see what looks like a banana tree, seems like we are in luck" prince exclaimed happily

Chen and prince rushed quickly towards the tree but suddenly there was a blur towards the right of Chen, he acted instinctively and summoned a knife then threw it in one breath, all of these happened in less than a second, there was a swishing sound and then a bang.

"Wow! That was impressive bro, I wouldn't have believed it if I wasn't here, how did you manage to do that" prince asked with enthusiasm

'i don't know I just reacted, come let's go over and check what it was that attacked us" Feng replied calmly and started striding towards the area where his knife flew to.

By the time they got to the area the saw a red large frog impaled in the chest by a knife and pinned to a tree, the frog looked to be about two meters long and was also secreting a disgusting white slime. Chen summoned his knife back to himself and turned to leave since the frog was dead and they still had to get food to eat.

"Good thing it was a weak, harmless frog I wonder what would have happened if it was something more dangerous" prince kept rambling, but Chen paid him no heed, his mind was still preoccupied with the previous event, it seemed as if he had a premonition of the intending danger before he heard the sound, irrespective of the frogs speed get still saw it with clarity, but the precision of the strike was completely instinctive.

"Seems like the morning meditation is finally paying off, won't be long till I can defend myself properly" Chen thought with joy in his heart.

Chen and prince went back to the area where they found the banana tree and discovered that it bore no fruits, disappointed, the kept on searching but did not succeed in getting any, they eventually headed back to where Feng was.

Feng was already getting frustrated, since he could not understand why one of them could find any edible fruits that they could eat, when he saw Chen and prince coming out from the jungle, he smiled in approval then he saw that they came back with nothing.

"Do you mean that there are no fruits in the area you searched, that jungle had a lot of fruits that people can consume, I think you guys are not very interested in eating before beginning the second part of your training today" Feng queried angrily

"If you think we are not serious about it you can go back there and search to see it you would return with anything meaningful" Chen retorted angrily

The situation seemed to be getting a bit heated so prince had to step in to douse the situation, he explained to Feng about how they came across numerous trees but they all seemed to bear no fruits, Feng nidded in acceptance and went back to his previous position while waiting g for the last two.

Klays and Victor had searched everywhere they could and still couldn't find anything they could eat, Victor even suggested killing one of the smaller sneaking around, but Klaus reminded him about the rules of the temple, they eventually came across a tree with a very black bark, and blue leaves, it had blue fruits that were shaped like the pawpaw fruit, they hurriedly took as many as they could and returned to Feng.

Feng split open the fruit, it had the same blue colour on the inside as it did outside, Feng tasted it and told everyone they could eat it since it was safe, Klaus was the first to take a bite into the flesh fruit and claimed that the fruit tasted like soursop after everyone had gotten a taste of it, they couldn't help but agree with him.

Everyone was done with eating and Feng decided to let them rest for a few minutes before resuming training.