Chapter 559: Unknown Warrior
Xu Yichen didn't know the exact location of Wind's Breath, he could only make sure that he was on the right track, and the footprints left by the Tyrannosaurus Rex had been guiding him.
After leaving the Tyrannosaurus rex's cave, he had been walking alone in the forest for three days, but he still hadn't completely stepped out of the hunting range of the Tyrannosaurus rex.
The deserted forest made the demon hunter feel like he was free from the invisible shackles, and the pressure caused by the chaos and various games in reality had dissipated a lot unconsciously.
Every day when he wakes up at the temporary rest point, Xu Yichen will act according to his predetermined plan, obtain food, and look for traces left by nearby creatures.
He even took pains to identify the traces left by each animal, and through these traces, it was determined that the surrounding creatures were still in a healthy state or had been infected by the plague.
The first few days went well, he checked every water source he passed, it had just rained, the water was not very clear, but it was not polluted in any way.
Although there are not many animals around, no lesions have been found.
This is much better than Xu Yichen expected.
Originally, he thought that there were corpses everywhere in this direction, and there were corpses all over the place.
It seems that the human undead may have slipped into the forest by mistake and was swallowed by the Tyrannosaurus rex as a snack.
After cleaning up the plague-infected lizard, the Demon Hunter carved a mark into the trunk of the tree, intending to search the surroundings to see if there were any more infected creatures.
Experience in reality has taught him that the sooner he starts killing this zombie virus or plague, the better the effect.
However, if this plague really broke out from Storm's End and spread all the way here, then no kind of epidemic prevention measures would be useless.
The plague had infected enough living beings to face any blow on any level.
However, this has become Xu Yichen's occupational disease, and the thought that there is likely to be a nest of infected creatures around him, and if he doesn't clean it up, it feels like an obsessive-compulsive person seeing an untidy cup.
Xu Yichen wasted an entire day around the tree where the lizard zombie was found, and finally he found a polluted waterhole more than a kilometer east of the tree.
The waterhole had apparently existed before the heavy rains, and there were many animal paths scattered around the waterhole, and many of the bones that had been eaten could be seen on the way from the demon hunters.
There are many insect corpses floating on the murky surface of the waterhole.
A humanoid creature in armor collapsed next to the pool, only its thighs exposed, and most of its body was soaked in water.
Around the waterhole, even the never-ending sound of insects in the forest disappears, and it seems extremely quiet.
Xu Yichen pierced the calf of the corpse with the [Graceful Ripper], and a foul smell emanated along with the wound, making the already very bad smell even worse.
The feeling of the long sword entering the body is not like the feeling of piercing human muscles, but more like cutting some rotten fruit, without any sense of strength.
Xu Yichen exerted a slight force and tried to drag the corpse out of the pool, but the sharp blade directly cut the calf muscle groups of the corpse.
The demon hunter had to take two steps forward, grabbed the belt of the opponent's armor, and dragged the corpse back a few meters, away from the range of the waterhole.
He was afraid that some large animal would inhabit the waterhole and suddenly attacked.
Wrestling with wild beasts in stagnant waters soaked in corpses is a job that even demon hunters don't want to face.
The corpse was intact, except that the head had been soaked in water for a few days, and the entire face was so swollen that it was impossible to see its original face.
In the previous dragging process, a lot of dirt was stained, which seemed to be quite a test of the SAN value at this time.
The lace on the armor looks slightly similar to the one in the belly of the previous Tyrannosaurus Rex, but it has been simplified a lot, and it can be determined that this corpse is from the same force as the previous undead.
Without a helmet, it is likely that he was abandoned while crossing the forest before, or left in too much of a hurry and lost his helmet.
The owner of the corpse seemed to have wanted to drink in a pool of water before dying, and then lost his life in the same way.
No fatal injuries were found all over the body, and two severe cuts to the ankles directly cut the hamstrings, and from the point of view of the knife edge, these two knife wounds seem to have been cut by the owner of the corpse himself with a knife.
With his bare palms and many scratches on his neck, it seems that this person has been crawling in the forest for a long time.
"I don't want to become a puppet of the plague after death and hurt others, so I cut my hamstrings to limit my mobility?" Xu Yichen glanced at the swollen face, this was the corpse of a brave man.
"But why didn't you become an immortal?" The Demon Hunter remembered the undead that had been swallowed by the Tyrannosaurus Rex, and even though only a small part of its body remained, it remained alive.
And the corpse in front of him, quiet as if it were a real corpse.
"Sorry, brave!" Xu Yichen took out a dagger, cut the restraint belt of the corpse's armor, and then threw off the armor without hesitation and cut the corpse along the central axis.
Inside the corpse, various organs and intestines had become black and carbonized, the entire stomach had disappeared, and a small piece of metal residue had been pulled out by the demon hunters in the rotten fluid of the abdominal cavity.
The metal residue was gently crushed by the fingers, turned into powder, and fell into the stagnant water on the ground, and suddenly a lot of bubbles bubbled out as if it were boiling a pot.
Xu Yichen put his finger into the stagnant water, and suddenly felt that the water reacted with the powder remaining on his finger, and the temperature rose sharply.
The demon hunter seems to see a desperate warrior who in the last moments of his life, desperately ingesting a special potion in the forest.
The potion was not developed to save his life, but to completely destroy his body in order to prevent his body from rising again and becoming an enemy of humanity.
The potion required a lot of water to ensure its effectiveness, and when he spotted the pool, the warrior made a final choice.
However, the potion may not be so stable, and to be more secure, he cut his hamstring with his dagger at the waterhole to make sure he wouldn't get back up.
The demon hunter ripped open the warrior's mouth, and there were burns on his mouth and tongue.
Whoever invented this method of self-judgment is a test of the user's courage and patience with pain.