Volume 1 The Tower of Flesh Chapter 2 The Animal World

Wandering in the golden sea, a burst of warmth enveloped Li Ben, as if he was indulging in a bedding that had just been recovered from the sun, and fatigue made him forget himself. When he regained consciousness, scorching yellow sand poured into his mouth and nose with a small gust of wind.

Li Ben found himself in a completely different environment, empty and lonely.

It is a desert, full of large and small gravel, and the terrain is undulating and different, forming patches of valleys and highlands. Lee Ben is on the edge of a high ground, about 30 meters from the valley floor below.

He confirmed, still wearing sky blue shorts. In addition to basic clothing, there are also watches and pens and mobile phones in pockets.

Seeing the phone with a broken screen and a bent body, it is obviously scrapped.

Lee Ben realized that the bruises and wounds on his body were completely gone. He didn't waste time pondering this kind of thing that obviously couldn't find an answer, and combined with the analysis and judgment of the surrounding environment, the result was that he was dreaming.

Fujian, where he is located, is a southern coastal province and city, and there is no such vast desert terrain that can not be seen at a glance, and it is obvious that he has left the province. Su Xiaochuan, who beat himself up, would not have to spend so much effort to throw himself out of the province, just a medical incident.

But this dream is really terrifyingly real. The poisonous sun in the sky had made Li Ben sweat all over his body in just a few minutes, and the hot and sticky feeling always reminded him that it was unlikely to be a dream. People's consciousness in dreams is hazy and chaotic, and the same scene and thought will not last long.

I looked at the mechanical watch, and the watch was still rotating normally, and the time was 8:31. It should be night or morning, and the sun in the sky is in the middle of the day. As such, he has already gone abroad.

"Time. ”

Li Ben tried to find the key information, the wound recovered, and it must take a short time to be outside the country, that is, someone took advantage of his coma to heal his wound and then threw himself into such a broken place to fend for himself?

The answer is ridiculous. Due to the lack of information, Li Ben finally chose to give up and put his thoughts into reality.

"By the way, it's time to check if your body is abnormal. ”

Li Ben groped around himself, took off his clothes to check for external injuries, groped his invisible back with his hands, and moved his muscles and bones to confirm that his mobility was not impaired.

Everything works fine.

"Or maybe there's something weird implanted in you?"

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but put his hands on the back of his head and spine to feel it.

Li Ben breathed a sigh of relief, although he didn't understand what was happening, as long as his body was not abnormal.

Looking around, where do we go? He recalls the wilderness survival programs he had watched on TV, in which he should first find sparse vegetation and shrubs in the desert and march in their direction.

The presence of plants indicates that the water vapor is heavier than the surrounding area, and there may be an undercurrent from a nearby river that flows through the ground where the vegetation grows.

First determined the southeast and northwest through the changes in the shadow of the rocks, and then ran around on the high ground to look into the distance, and saw the presence of shrubs in the southwest direction, and Li Ben headed towards that place.

The distance was much farther than he had imagined, and he encountered a broken valley on the way, so he had to take a long detour. There were bumps and gravel along the way, and Li Ben was glad that he was wearing sneakers instead of flat leather shoes.

I can't see the end, and I don't know if I'm walking right, but I just walk like this, hoping to see the traces of biological activity. As the sun set, he walked to the bushes he had seen in the distance. At this time, the sky is cloudy and the wind is rising.

A sparse and shallow footprint came into view, clearly not human.

If you can confirm that there are traces of biological activity nearby, it means that this is not a lifeless place, and you are walking in the wrong direction. But it also reminds yourself that you must be wary of the threat of the beast.

Continuing to follow this footprint, Li Ben finally saw a small earthen house occupying the intersection of heaven and earth in the distance, as small as an ant, and his vision was firmly grasped by it before the night completely fell.

The rainstorm came suddenly, and there was no transition from small to large. Li Ben ran towards the earthen house. If there is a building, there should be people.

It was completely dark, and the little mud house rose in the darkness as the only light in the night. Li Ben's face was hit by a water drop the size of a bean, and he squinted, and there was nothing else in his vision except for the flames. Li Ben felt that it was the exit of the desert, and he was already preparing to communicate with the other party in English, hoping that the other party would understand.

As he wished, Tsuchiya was close at hand.

The earthen hut is made of large pieces of gravel and sand, and there is a low stone wall around it that can be crossed by one foot, and it seems to have been furnished to make it look like a small courtyard, but in reality there is not much difference between there and non. The room had two door panels that leaked out the dim glow of the fire.

"Bang", Li Ben knocked on the door twice, and by the light from the crack in the door, he saw something that made him regret knocking on the door.

When the rain was pouring down, the door of the earthen house, isolated here, opened its arms to the world, and inside stood a humanoid creature, which must be called a human form because it was not human.

He is about two meters tall, standing on both feet, with shoulders, waist and hands, but the support on his neck is not a human head.

It was a wrinkled, old pig's head, with two eye sockets curled behind the proboscis and yellow, cloudy. The creature was dressed in white skin, with only a few sparse strands of white hair on top, and was wearing a loose brown linen shirt, two blackened milk dice squeezed out of the fat flesh on its chest, a fat belly, a finger with only one moving joint, its feet replaced by wide black hooves, and its lower body hung with tattered fabric that resembled crotch cloth.

The old pig-headed man snorted and shook its pig nose, perhaps because of the rain or perhaps because of its old and sluggish age, and it did not smell Li Ben.

And Li Ben, who turned over and hid behind the low wall, peeked at the monster figure through the gap in the stone stack. His heart, which was shocked by this strange creature, did recognize one thing - this was not the world he knew!

Could it be that I was wrong? hallucinations? Or maybe it was just a patient with a deformity, and it makes sense to be excluded from society and live alone in this desert... Lee Ben tried to find a scientific explanation.

The pig-headed man didn't notice anything, he shook the door and made a clicking sound, thinking that it was a sudden strong wind blowing the loose door panel and making a strange noise, so he closed the door and went back to the house.

Although Li Ben was frightened in his heart, in an unfamiliar environment, it was necessary to confirm information and intelligence. He came to the door of the earthen house again in the dark.

It wasn't the pig-headed man himself that was seen in the afterglow, but the head that scared him away was the head placed in the garbage basket at the door.

It was undoubtedly a human head, and it happened that he knew that face, it was Su Xiaochuan, who beat him not long ago. At this time, his pupils were dilated, his mouth was slightly open, and his muscles were stiff. The skin is relatively intact and has not yet decomposed, and Li Ben judged that the time of his death should not be very long.

As a surgeon, Li Ben has been exposed to a lot of corpses in anatomy classes, and with many years of experience in medical surgery, his psychological quality is naturally much stronger than that of ordinary people. Enduring the discomfort, he picked up the head in the garbage basket and observed the section of his neck, which was very flat, and the spine was no exception, obviously cut off by a sharp weapon.

There were still some torn clothes in the basket, which were stained with blood, and Li Ben found a piece of paper in it, which was roughly the same as the leaflet he burned, the only difference was the text next to the magic wand, Su Xiaochuan's one read: If you want to go on an adventure in another world, please keep this ticket.

Seeing this, no matter how sluggish Li Ben is, he will understand that he will appear in this world, and he will definitely have nothing to do with this leaflet. If the contents of the flyer are true, then the world is ......

Forced by the status quo, he had to accept this unbelievable situation, but he still had many doubts in his heart.

Since Su Xiaochuan's head appeared in front of the door of the earth house, it is natural to see who did it. Whether the monster in the house intercepted him, or for some other reason, it is certain that the environment he is in is not friendly.

Li Ben had the courage to go around under the windowsill of the earthen house and peek inside, on the one hand, to make sure that he was not hallucinating, and on the other hand, because this extraordinary world had finally piqued his interest.

That's really not a human being, with a fat head and big ears, and if it's a human deformity, it's too symmetrical and regular. The several sharp butcher tools hanging on the wall made Li Ben subconsciously think of Oink.

The furnishings of the house are very simple. A wooden bed sticks to the left corner, covered with hay, a small wooden table and a low stool are placed in it, which is the width of one person, and with an earthen stove in the opposite corner of the bed, it is all the large items in the house.

At this time, the pig-headed man was cooking on the fire, with his back to the window, and Li Ben quietly poked out half of his head and looked around carefully.

The pig-headed man opened the lid of the pot on the stove, and a hot steam filled the house, rushed out of the window, and floated on Li Ben's face, the smell of meat was fragrant, making him feel a little hungry.

When the vapor cleared, he saw the boiling objects in the pot—human limbs and internal organs.

The uncontrollable feeling of vomiting welled up in his throat, and Li Ben's brain was a little numb from the impact, and he lay on the ground retching, but it was only because of the sound of the rain that the pig-headed man did not notice this.

He had to stay calm! His intellect tried to suppress fear and all kinds of negative emotions.

I never expected that!

And in this sea of intense and undulating emotions, Li Ben's heart, which stopped beating because of numbness to boring life, jumped quietly.

In order not to become a monster's bento when he first came to the other world, he quietly took steps and stayed away from this monster hut was the most correct choice.

Looking back, the heat from the window was still pouring out, and when he remembered the smell, Li Ben couldn't stop churning in his stomach. Even when he first entered the teaching and research room where human organ specimens were displayed, even if it was the first time he dissected the human body, he had never felt such a strong sense of discomfort.

A pig-headed monster who learns from humans in the house, humming and chirping to cook human flesh, drooling because he is eager to enjoy his meal. When the scenes in the dark story happen right in front of our eyes, people really understand what horror is.

Lightning lit up the sky for a moment, pointing the way for Leeben, who was running in the pouring rain, past the pig-headed man's house, and deeper to the southwest, where there were more luxuriant bushes and woods, and more houses.

It seems that the owners of these houses of different heights, lengths and widths are all monsters with beast heads and human shapes. In addition to the pig-headed man, there are also big-horned deer-headed spirits, scaly pangolins, fluffy and vigorous long-nosed vixens and colorful brocade spirits, etc., these creatures in the romance novels live in the forest, like a monster town.

Naturally, it was impossible for Li Ben to go back to the desert, so he could only use the night rain and thunder to try his best to walk through the forest, hoping to leave completely before dawn and avoid these creatures that would make ordinary people scream. Of course, the best-case scenario is to wake up at dawn.

"Goo-goo..."

A pair of bright green dots of light suddenly appeared in the dark night, making Li Ben's heartbeat rise a notch again.

"It turned out to be an owl, and it seems that there are some regular creatures here. After seeing Li Ben approaching, the owl flapped its wings in the rain and flew away.

I don't know how long I walked, I couldn't care about the slight wounds on my feet that were cut by thorns, and there was no exit to this forest, and the confusion and worry of being lost once again affected human sanity.

The sky was cloudy, the rain was lighter, and a thick mist evaporated from the forest, trapping Li Ben.

"Rustle..."

The sound of the creatures moving alerted him.

An upright humanoid black figure appeared in the obstructed view, with the outline of a dress on its body, and seemed to hold an umbrella in its hand, walking straight towards Li Ben.

It is impossible for the other party not to discover themselves within this range, and obviously their purpose is also themselves.

Do you want to run away or stay?

The black shadow's human attire made Li Ben hesitate, and the consequence of this hesitation was that when the shadow became visible, the hideous sharp teeth and claws did not hesitate to pierce Li Ben's throat and tear his intestines.

It was a werewolf, probably a female judging by the average human attire. This reminded Li Ben of Grandma Wolf. However, the characters in the cartoon book do not feel so horrible and brutal.

In terms of size alone, the werewolf resembles an adult one-meter-eight male, with thick arms concealed by knitted fabric, and some body hair peeking through the gaps in clothing. The claws of the fingertips are free to contract like a Wolverine.

The werewolf licked the blood from the corners of his mouth and hands, slowly picked up the umbrella on the ground, and opened it again.

The paralyzed Li Ben felt the heat in his body gushing out of his body along with the abdominal pressure, and his consciousness gradually dissipated.

It hurts... Its claws seem to have cut off a piece of the base of my lung...

An owl flew over, landed on Leeben's head and looked down on him, and then flew up the werewolf's shoulder.

So that's what happened... It was the last sentence that lingered in his mind.

The werewolf had no intention of eating directly in the wilderness, but dragged him to a small castle made of stone bricks by the ankle with one hand. Even pig-headed people know how to cook cooked food, and werewolves who look like nobles are no exception.

In addition to the werewolves, there are five wolf cubs and five star-nosed mole people who take care of them.

Wolf cubs are naturally humanoid, and the youngest one is not yet able to walk upright, and in this respect, they are basically the same as humans.

The molemen's claws are extremely sharp and nimble, capable of performing all kinds of tasks, and are about half the size of werewolves, who are half-coerced and half-lured to work. The world of monsters has no concept of money, so their reward is to be able to get a piece of the scraps of the prey brought back by the werewolves.

There is an underground ice cellar inside the castle. The werewolf lifted Li Ben upside down, made sure that the prey's blood had been drained, and stuffed his half-exposed small intestine back, and threw him into the ice cellar for storage.

The ice cellar is two meters high, with a total area of about thirty square meters, and at this time, a total of fourteen human corpses are stacked inside, including Li Ben. They were all dressed in modern clothes, most of which had been frozen and ossified.

After the werewolf closed the cellar door, the darkness completely eroded the place.

"Haaa......"

The voice was like a lament from the underworld, or like a terrible howl of the wind, low and long, echoing in the small ice cave.

When the sound died down, a row of faint green points of light suddenly appeared in the darkness, and these points of light condensed and intertwined into a figure, which fell to the ground and walked to Li Ben's corpse.

"Brother, brother, are you dead?" said an ethereal male voice.

Of course, it was impossible for Li Ben to answer him: "I'm already dead...", but the phantom didn't seem to give up, surrounding him, constantly trying to wake up the corpse, apparently it was just in vain.

Night has come again.

Above the cellar is the kitchen of the castle. Five mole people are cooking their own meals, and a human body outside the kitchen that has lost limbs explains their ingredients.

The werewolf and his five wolf cubs sat in front of the fireplace in the hall and closed their eyes to rest. They were waiting for dinner.

This mother, who is raising five children alone, can have an independent castle and servants in this monster forest, and her strength is naturally undoubted.

However, the smell of rancid smell wafting in the wind outside the castle made her eyes open suddenly, and she became extremely alert.

"Coo!" the owl outside the castle let out a short cry and then stopped moving.

The wolf cubs were still stretching as much as they could, but the female werewolf couldn't sit still anymore. In order not to frighten the wolf cubs, she strolled to the castle gate with pretended composure, trying to maintain the elegance worthy of the lady's dress.

Pushing the door open a gap, I looked at the moonlight shining in, and the corpse of the owl lying in front of the door was divided in two.

The werewolf subconsciously bared her teeth and stretched out her paws, sniffing with her nose in hopes of detecting the enemy's tracks, but her expectations were disappointed.

Looking back at the children, the werewolf walked out and gently closed the door panel.

As soon as these actions were completed, cyan flames erupted from three different directions, accompanied by a series of silver bullets that rained down on the werewolf, instantly tearing her costume into rags and exploding blood on her body, causing her to crumble in the metal rain.

When the gunfire stopped, the werewolf smelled of burning, and large patches of flesh and hair curled up, looking extremely miserable.

But she didn't fall. Instead, there was an incomparably shocking and long wolf howl, and even the tiger roar, known as the king of beasts, would be overshadowed by this sound.

The werewolf's body instantly rose to prominence in the moonlight, her muscles began to expand, her skeletal structure increased with it, and the clothes on her body were completely torn apart by her, revealing the wild nature of the beast.

At this time, the werewolf was already more than three meters tall, and its wrist joint alone was the thickness of an average adult's thigh. The wounds on his body had healed, and the hair stood erect like spikes.

She bent down, made a beastly run, and sprang out towards the nearest fire.

The hunters hid in the bushes thirty meters away, and it took less than two seconds for the werewolf to pounce on one of them with unerring precision.

She clearly felt the tactile feedback of her claws piercing into the flesh, and her angry eyes clearly saw the hunter's painfully twisted features.

Her next step was to tear apart the damned human being that had disturbed her life once and for all.

"Hold her, Thomas!"

The werewolf noticed a pair of hands on her back. I couldn't understand what the humans were saying, but the ridiculous gesture said it all.

Ignoring this useless struggle, the claws of her hands had already inserted into the human chest and abdomen, and began to tear outward, and she had foreseen the scene of this human flesh flying and internal organs raged all over the ground.

However, this did not happen, and the hands on the werewolf's back were already fingers crossed, locked together.

It stands to reason that a normal human's arms are not long enough to encircle a monster of this size. But the man in front of him did it, and the werewolf was aware of his anomaly.

The humans she had hunted many times in the past few days were so vulnerable, and she looked down on the human race from the bottom of her heart, and the joy of the harvest further solidified her thoughts.

Even the first wave of firepower sneak attacks taught her to be embarrassed, and the instant healing ability after revealing her full form made those injuries seem so insignificant. So much so that the caution and crispness of fighting other monsters in the past were all put down after facing humans.

Otherwise, she would never have given her a chance to hold her easily.

A human man named Thomas usually seems to be just a simple uncle. But at this time, all parts of his body began to emit thick black smoke, and his skin and flesh were decaying and shrinking at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Soon, Thomas's face was like a dried corpse, with no nose or lips, and the white spheres in the eye sockets were dyed a dark gray with black pupils. Out of thin air, the two arms grow a joint and an additional arm bone, intertwined like arthropods.

Not only that, but on his back, another pair of long arms reached out, piercing and holding the two nearest trees. Two other fellow hunters were approaching from both sides.

The werewolf roared again, struggling to break free, unable to destroy Thomas's body, but causing each of his hands to grasp a piece of wood on his back. Then he broke the man's hand from his back, thinking that he would be able to get rid of it, but he saw that the hands on his back had dropped the wooden block and embedded his shoulder blades with his fingers and claws.

The other two hunters were similarly alienated. The bones of one of them swelled as they had seen in the previous werewolf changes, becoming two meters tall and protruding from each joint with a bony sharp blade. The other was completely encased in black smoke from beginning to end, and except for the spread of his hands, which looked like a burning black flame, in which a pair of blood-red eyes could be distinguished.

The big man is called Brian Newt, the one who burns is Hooks Bass, and by the way, Thomas's full name is Thomas Andy Caesar.

Brian's attacks were simple and brutal, with little skill, and he used pure strength to fight the werewolf who couldn't stretch his hands and feet, his bone spurs pierced into the werewolf's body, and the werewolf's claws were able to penetrate his rotting flesh.

But for the werewolves, the biggest threat is Hooks, who is constantly throwing black flames from the sidelines.

The black flame, or mist, is a highly corrosive substance, and the werewolf's flesh and blood will become as wilted and corrupt as the three people in front of her when it comes into contact, and the super self-healing ability that she relies on most cannot restore the wound.

The other two people who were fighting with it were not afraid of this kind of thing, and even faintly gained more strength after contact, so they didn't have to worry about accidental injury.

Behind the werewolf is the castle, and the children inside the castle are the only reason why she can't retreat.

Unfortunately, she was unable to break the well-trained cooperation of the trio hunters, and after a long and fierce battle, the werewolf's power completely declined.

At this point in the battle, there is no suspense about the outcome of the battle.

The strong vitality supported the werewolf, so that she did not fall so easily, but her fur had basically been corroded clean, and now she looked like a toad, and her flesh and blood had shrunk in a whole circle, and her body had become the size of Brian.

"I'm dying!" shouted Hooks.

"Hold on one more time! she's dying!" Brian said as he wrestled with the werewolf.

"If you go on like this, you'll be completely devoured by it!"

"Aita!" Thomas called out the name of the fourth.

He was greeted by another series of gunshots, and these silver bullets became the last straw for the werewolf to crush the camel.

As the gunfire ended, the werewolf fell to the ground with a thud, convulsing and oozing a puddle of blackened blood.

At the same time, the three of Thomas also ended their alienation and returned to their original appearance, but at this time they were completely bloodless and pale.

"Ahh

Seeing this, Thomas and Brian did not step forward to help, but squeezed out what little strength they had left, each pulled out a dagger with beast teeth engraved with strange symbols from their waists, and approached Hooks in a preparatory gesture to stab him in the heart and brain.

Fortunately, Hooks gasped and gestured to stop, which made Thomas and Brian relax.

At this time, out of the woods came the fourth, which was Aita.

Aita is an extremely beautiful human female in appearance. But the other three knew that the real her was the soul of the poor man trapped in this mechanical body.

"The mission is not done yet. Aita's voice was unemotional, coldly reminding the three of them.

They were accustomed to this, and they didn't plan to rest, so they took three crudely made AK-47-style automatic rifles from Aita's hand, made sure they were all loaded, and stepped over the werewolf's corpse and walked towards the stone castle.

............

"Brother, I know you're not dead, get up, get up..."

"Dada-da..."

The sudden sound of gunfire from upstairs seemed to startle the ghost, and he disappeared in an instant.

"Crunch. "The door to the ice cellar has been opened.

Thomas and the others entered with torches and lit up the ice cellar. Looking at the corpses all over the ground, some of them mutilated, they showed a natural composure.

"There is no one alive. Thomas looked around and confirmed.

"Probably not here. Brian said.

"The hall, upstairs, all the places I can find, this is the last place. ”

"Could it be that the prediction was wrong?" Hooks interjected.

"No way, the Prophet never made a mistake. Thomas frowned.

"There will always be a first time. ”

"Ask Aita, Aita, what do you think is going on?"

Aita did not respond to them directly, but repeated a sentence in a language different from this world—Chinese, English, Russian and other Chinese: "People from another world, if you want to survive here, please show up." ”