The nascent sun rose above the clouds, and sunlight spread evenly down, casting shadows across the sparse forest and tinting everything with a faint, bright golden hue.
As the temperature gradually recovered, clarity began to dawn in everyone's hearts.
Of the fifteen contestants, not a single one chose to set off immediately; instead, they searched for materials right where they'd been dropped.
Perhaps many had originally planned to cross the wilderness directly, but the severe chill of the previous night had brought everyone to a stark realization, scrapping all initial plans.
Surviving in the wilderness was far from as simple as they had imagined.
Bi Fang hadn't brought everyone here by airdrop until evening just for this reason—to let them understand their own strength after surviving a night, which served as a cooling-off period. Otherwise, had they been dropped during the day, many might have rashly chosen to traverse the wilderness only to run into trouble later on.