3 What is this place?

Under immense pain, Edward's eyelids twitched slightly. His body was screaming in pain, and he felt his head aching. His eyelids felt heavy as he groaned. He felt as if something soft and furry was moving around his body. Still, he was too disoriented to figure anything out.

'Is that Billy?'

As he tried to open his heavy eyelids, what greeted him was a furry ass. Two plump red ass checks where there to greet him the moment his eyes regained a bit of vision. His mind was filled with confusion and uncertainty.

As he regained more of his senses and vision, he saw that it was actually a monkey squatting on his chest but had his back towards him. From the corner of his eyes, he could see a few others were hopping jubilantly, making their usual monkey noises. He could feel and hear something being torn apart, a sound that resembled fabric being ripped.

'Is it my shorts?'

He wanted to get up straight, but his limbs had no strength.

He couldn't figure out if he was in a dream. He could barely shake is body slightly before he was so exhausted that he fell asleep again.

The moment his eyes closed, a sound whispered intermittently in his ears:

"System...system....fault...system failure. System...fault..."

This voice kept repeating the same sentence, like a broken radio with a bad signal. Edward's head was dizzy, and he was confused. It was impossible to tell whether it was a dream or a reality.

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At the same time, on the nearby high cliff, there stood something or someone tall that cast a shadow over Edward's body. A crisp and pleasing shout was heard before the monkeys screamed and fled.

When Edward regained his consciousness again, he felt that something sweet flowed between his lips and teeth. Suddenly, being aware of his parched throat, he pouted and greedily started to swallow.

He regained some bits of his energy, enough to finally open his eyes. Bright sun rays blinded his vision white for a moment before his iris adjusted themselves. What greeted him was a sight of a clear blue sky. The sun high up in the sky, and the air felt fresher than what he was used to.

This time, thankfully, he saw no monkeys.

Under the clear diamond sky, he saw to his side, a girl holding a handful of berries in her hand above his lips. Her fingers covered with red juice as the liquid flowed from her squeezing fingers onto his lips.

"Are you awake?" The black-haired beauty asked him.

Her dark eyes revealed pity directed towards him. Edward saw the clearest, brightest, and purest eyes have ever seen in his life.

It took him a few moments to reorient himself as his senses returned. He could feel something soft behind his head. He suddenly realized that he laid on her lap. A cold breeze passed through the green forest he found himself in. His body shivered, and he found himself totally naked.

A mixed scent of the berries along the girl's smell on whose lap he laid entered his nose. His body heated up a bit from the intimacy. His body slightly reacted to it.

It was said that men have at least a dozen dirty thoughts every day, let alone how such a scene could not induce a reaction in him?

He hurriedly rolled to the side and stood up. Squinting his eyes, he asked:

"You...who are you?"

'After Billy and I rolled off the cliff, I had lost consciousness. Was I saved?'

But the girl in front of him was dressed "differently." Her lower body was covered with a leopard print skirt while her upper body was covered in animal skin.

'How can a girl be so strangely dressed? There are no ethnic minorities in this neighborhood, nor is it a wild style show on the Paris fashion catwalk? What exactly is going on?'

The leopard skirt girl stood up and looked at him blankly, not seeming to know how to answer his question.

Edward noticed that although he was on a cobblestoned riverbed, the landform was utterly different. The hillsides were full of giant trees thick enough that a single person couldn't even embrace them. He heard the sound of water falling just like that of a waterfall.

In short, the image that was being painted in his mind was that if a wild forest similar to that of ages ago, untouched by humanity. He had seen such forests in movies like Jurassic Park.

'I don't even have to think about it. I am sure this is definitely not the suburb of the city that I am familiar with. This is no forest that I am aware of. Even in the whole country, I haven't seen a place like this.'

He was confused about the sound he had previously heard when he lost consciousness but decided to think about it later.

"Since you are fine, I should leave."

His train of thought quickly came to a halt when he realized that the girl was speaking in a strange language, never heard before. Yet Edward could understand whatever she spoke. In fact, it was already a miracle that he could converse with her in the same language.

He carefully looked at the slender girl in front of him. The long hair of hers was like a shawl, a little messy but had the thickness. Her delicate face was unruly and full of wild beauty. There was no trace of artificial decoration on her body.

He noticed that even though the woman was a rare natural beauty, she still dressed differently and was actually barefooted.

A thought came to his mind whether he was in a dream or another world, but he quickly dismissed it.

Before he realized, the girl was turning around ready to leave.