However, just at that moment, a line of text suddenly appeared in Ren Aoi's mind:
Newbie Task (Phase Task): Escape the Trash Can.
Task Details: Because the black-hearted owner Tsuruta threw the young you into the trash can. The nights here are very cold. If you don't want to freeze to death, you'd better escape the trash can within three hours!
Task Reward: Kunai Throwing (Beginner).
Task Time Limit: Three hours.
Escape the trash can within three hours!
It sounds simple, but Ren Aoi carefully observed his surroundings. This trash can was a large one, two meters long and one meter high. The four walls were smooth, with no place to gain purchase. With his height of less than half a meter, it was practically a prison.
"Tsuruta, is it?"
Ren Aoi lowered his body, trying to feel around the trash can for anything useful.
"He's really given me a difficult problem!" After groping around for a long time, Ren Aoi only found a huge fish bone in the trash can.
No need to try...
The fish bone, combined with his height, was still less than a meter long.
"It looks like I can't escape by relying on my own strength."
This was also the reason why Tsuruta left without worry after throwing him in here.
Ren Aoi casually discarded the fish bone and sat down to think. Conserving his strength would allow him to last longer.
"In that case..."
Ren Aoi reached out and opened the wooden treasure chest in the system.
He could only hope that he would get an item that would allow him to escape. Unfortunately, things often don't go as planned...
The wooden treasure chest slowly opened, and a faint glow flashed.
Lowest Grade Treasure: (Automatically Returning Space-Time Kunai)
Character: Ren Aoi
Item: Automatically Returning Space-Time Kunai (Sharper than an ordinary kunai, with the magical power of automatic return).
Chakra: None
Ninjutsu: None
Ren Aoi held the black, glowing kunai in his hand and sighed helplessly. "Although it's a good thing, it doesn't help the current situation..."
Although this kunai was sharp, Ren Aoi's current strength was simply too weak. It was too difficult to use this kunai to cut open this thick iron plate.
More importantly, as time passed, Ren Aoi's limbs were so cold that he couldn't muster any strength. Unknowingly, two hours had already passed...
"That is to say, in the remaining one hour, if I can't escape, I will freeze to death!?"
Now that things had come to this, Ren Aoi no longer cared whether he would attract Tsuruta's attention. He slammed his fist hard against the iron plate.
"Help! Help me!"
In this situation, he could only hope that someone would hear him and rescue him.
"Bang, bang, bang...!"
In the quiet alley, the sound of impacts from inside the trash can sounded somewhat muffled. Ren Aoi tilted his head back, raised his arms, and slammed them against the hard iron plate, one after another. Most of the last hour had already passed, but Ren Aoi felt that he might not last the full three hours.
Although he had tried his best to conserve his strength, calling for help was too exhausting.
"Someone, please come..."
Ren Aoi felt the warmth in his chest slowly fading away. The life of a one-year-old infant was so fragile, like a pitiful stray cat. Before long, he would be frozen into an ice cube, then taken away by the garbage collectors and sent into the raging fire.
"Someone, save me..."
Ren Aoi desperately tilted his head back, using the last bit of strength in his body to hurl himself against the iron plate...
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