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My journey through the wild turned uneasy after killing a venomous snake that bit Arthur first. Later, the swamp revealed darker dangers, a knife wielding ambusher and ruthless bandits. On another night, a strange fortune teller spoke in riddles about the end of man’s age, leaving Arthur unsettled and wary.

I went out of the camp and noticed a venomous snake on my way. I could leave it as it was but it could harm someone so I decided to kill it.

And I got a bite from it before I killed it using my knife.

After killing it, I picked it up first, and then I skinned it. Arthur kept the skin in his bag, throwing the rest of the body away.

Then at night, I was riding through the swamp area and suddenly I heard crying of a lady. So I stopped there. I tried to look at the face of the lady in the photo, but I couldn't get a clear view.

I decided to check her out and at the same time I was careful thinking this could be an ambush so I was carrying my weapons while going towards her and then I then Arthur asked her to talk to him.

The lady suddenly attacked me with a poisonous knife that drained most of my life and then she escaped. There came her crew to rob me and I planned to try fist fight with them.

But they were no mere peoples, they're bandits so they attacked me with machetes and they took me down before I could act.

I was looking for that group at the restart but this time I saw another lady, an older one who was in the forest with a lamp. She was trying to attract people with her words.

When I was walking towards her, she insisted me to get to her mentioning she may not speak the whole truth but she speaks some of it. The stranger offered to tell my fortune for $2 and tried it.

She talked in riddles, and I couldn't really understand the meanings. She said, "This is now the time of machines, the time of things. The time of man came and it went as all things pass."

When she was done speaking, she asked me to travel safe and it was all for $2. I was not satisfied so I lurked around her hoping she'd talk more but she didn't. I decided to check how she'd react if I point my gun at her and she just escaped leaving her lamp behind. No, I didn't shoot her.