Day 6

It was a new day and it would mostly consist of traveling. You wanted to test out your theory of prey density based on hyperloop stations. Assuming all prey is equally spread out but the hunters mostly stay in a certain radius of the stations then it would make sense to find less prey around the stations then anywhere else. And thats without mentioning prey themselves having an idea of where hunters tend to be.

So you had to travel away from the stations. To get a significant distance away would take roughly a day, packing time included. For most hunters this is probably a major inconvenience and simply wouldn’t bother. However if it meant more slaves for the harem no problem is to great to overcome.

There was always the risk of you being wrong and **** density to not increase further out making the entire trip a massive waste of time. Still you decided to go for it. And started packing (with help from Emma)

You packed a tent and bedroll for sleeping, food for a week and water for 3 days. You could always refill your water in one of the many small streams. You also had your foldaphone and solar powerbank. Your power supply would be limited but it was currently your only access to a map, it also gave you access to the point shop which might come in handy. Last came some standard camping equipment such as healing needles, bandages, lighter, flashlights, mini kitchen, toothbrush and an infinitly long list of boring objects. Luckily a lot of it was close-by or already packed so it didn’t cost you much but its always headache inducing to not forget anything important. After what felt like ages you were ready to depart. You gave your goodbye’s to Emma. Said your goodbye’s to the 2 girls in the closet (who responded with a long groan). You would probably let them out once you returned and give them something nice, they deserved it. Especially the masochist.

You went to the nearest hyperloop station and started walking. It would be a roughly 30km trip to your chosen location. normally you could walk that with relative ease but now you had a heavy backpack. Additionally the terrain while it did have a path for the most part also had parts where the terrain got rough. Still you continued on, you had all day and where in no rush.

The only real downside is that you couldn’t really chase after any prey you spotted due to your heavy backpack. Not that you would be spotting much anyway since being silent was rather difficult. It was at this point you realised you should have caught a girl and made her help carrying all this stuff.

After walking until late in the day you decided to take an extended break. You dropped your bag to the floor with a heavy thud, took out a strawberry flavoured nutrition bar and sat against a tree to eat it. After finishing the bar you closed your eyes and relaxed, just listening to the forest. There wasn’t much noise: a small breeze, some birds chirping (were they real birds or seed drones? You wondered), the sound of a distant waterfall. After listening for about 15 minutes you wanted to continue, however something stopped you. A noise, a twig being broken. It was suprisingly close but still far out of reach, and since you were in a seated position a chase would start with your disadvantage. However, you did have a lasso which gave you some extra range, if you were quick you could grab it before she got to far away.

On the other hand she might be coming closer, in that case pretending to sleep would make for a nice suprise attack and subsequently easy capture.