Kyle kept consuming the corpse.
He didn’t know how much time passed since he couldn’t see the sun from his new position.
He couldn’t consume the corpse in the open?
Well, what if he weren’t in the open?
He felt quite smug when he came up with the solution.
BANG!
But then, he felt something heavy hitting the corpse, and Kyle’s body was flattened.
CRK!
The next moment, the corpse above him took to the sky, and Kyle could see huge wings stretching out from behind it.
Kyle had been below the corpse and had been eating it from its underside.
But well... this huge bird apparently had other ideas.
It lifted the corpse right off Kyle’s body, leaving him lying on the ground.
’Well, there goes my food,’ Kyle thought as he kept lying on the ground.
He sighed and stood up.
By now, it was evening.
Sadly, the corpse had been too big, and a couple of hours hadn’t been enough to consume the entire thing.
Otherwise, Kyle might have been able to advance.
"Guess it’s time to continue," he commented.
Theodor didn’t answer.
The next moment, he looked around the dark canyon.
As always, nothing moved.
"Hey, Theodor, how dangerous is it to travel during the darkness?" he asked.
"It’s not less or more dangerous," Theodor said. "You will not encounter stronger opponents. Just different ones."
"Alrighty then," Kyle said.
He grabbed his iron ore wall and approached the wall of the canyon again.
This time, he walked forward slowly.
Well, slowly for him.
His speed was still equivalent to that of a running person’s speed from Earth.
After a couple of minutes, he traversed another kilometer.
Surprisingly, nothing had happened.
"What is this?" Kyle asked. "No beasts?"
"Areas like these are mostly controlled by a few beasts," Theodor said. "The fast beasts with the iron hide and the big one from just now are probably the rulers here. They consume most of the other beasts."
"You fought against the two apex predators of this canyon, and they don’t want to attack you anymore. You were not silent nor subtle when you killed that big beast. Everyone noticed it."
"Huh," Kyle commented. "So, I intimidated them?"
"In a way," Theodor answered.
Kyle smiled when he heard that.
It felt good to show his dominance over the local wildlife.
His chimp brain really liked that feeling.
He continued walking for a couple more minutes, and he finally reached the end of the canyon.
’By now, I should be about three miles away from the Cradle.’
’1% of the journey is done.’
’Only one fucking percent,’ he thought with a groan. ’How am I going to survive the remaining 99%?’
Kyle slowly peeked out from the canyon and looked around.
"Looks flat," he commented.
There was a long and flat plane of sand in front of him.
It looked just like a desert, except that the sand was brown, not yellow.
One had to remember that a wasteland and a desert were different things.
"You’re either lucky or unlucky," Theodor commented. "You see all the sand?"
"Kinda hard to miss it, Boss," Kyle said.
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