Volume 1 The Tower of Flesh Chapter 10 Undercurrent
Isn't it time to lament that your luck is particularly bad?
When he first came to this world, he was killed by a werewolf, and after narrowly escaping the catastrophe, he spent a relatively peaceful year in the tribes of this world. Unexpectedly, as soon as it came out, it bumped into a monster that could not be provoked for long-distance foraging, which was about to become its meal. Li Ben, who was bored, thought so.
Moved.
Two adult flemin woke up from their sleep, and the male got up and walked to the cave to check on the situation.
There were no clouds tonight, and the huge moon rings cast a bright and soft halo that covered the forests of the entire mountain range.
In this silvery world, an untimely speck of blazing light flickered in the distance, and thick black smoke rose from it.
Flamin reacted when he smelled the scorching heat in the air.
This own forest, its own territory, which bold guys dare to set fire?
The strange bird turned its head to look at the human corpse on the ground.
Is it his companion who has come to find someone? If that's what you want, let these stupid fellows make him their own delicacy.
The male freak bird flew out of the hole, and no matter what, it wouldn't allow the fire to spread.
Just above Flamming's lair, Hooks and Brian waited for the bird to leave, and then immediately lowered the rope and prepared to enter its lair and obtain the "Flamming's Heart".
They didn't use the Chaos ability in case the "Pure Water" failed and were detected by sensitive monsters.
However, as Brian approached the hole, he was keenly aware that something was wrong.
Female Flamin stood at the entrance of the cave with her neck tilted, three vertical eyes of different colors meeting Brian's gaze.
Blood pressure rises instantly, and the heart begins to beat wildly.
Brian did not hesitate to use his chaotic powers, and there was nothing else to do but escape.
Ditch the rope and climb up the steep rock face on all fours as he yells, "There are two! fucking two!"
"Damn! that's not what the information says!" Hooks immediately transformed.
For Chaos Hunters, the fatal mistake is a mistake in intelligence.
The female Flamin hesitated whether she should go out and chase them, the desire to hunt was rising, but the maternal protective instinct was suppressing it.
Looking at the panicked looks of those people doesn't look like they're trying to distract themselves.
It twisted its neck, flipped its wings, and chose to strike.
If they don't catch it before they run too far, go back for themselves. This is the choice of the mother of the strange bird after weighing it up.
Inside the cave, little Flamin was still asleep.
It was Brian and Hooks' voices. They were going to find a medicine for their comrade's wife. Judging from what they shouted, they didn't know the specific situation here, and it seemed that they were also in danger.
But this is an opportunity for myself. It should be about the same.
Li Ben struggled to get up from the ground, his body still very stiff. He began to move his body, using the heat released to speed up the thaw.
In the darkness, his vision system has failed, and he can only keep a close eye on Flamin's movements through his chaotic perception ability. The sensation is somewhat like a nighttime thermal, but more indistinct than that, with only a faint faint cloud of black fog.
On the left side of the black mist, there were some small black dots densely packed, and Li Ben guessed that they were probably the anti-spell medicine that Anne neededβthe Heart of Flamin.
Take it before you leave.
So he went in the dark. Sure enough, when the right hand touched those black spots, there was a clear feedback touch of plant branches and foliage and fiber skin. Touching the melon along the vine, he held a faintly beating tender meat in his hand, very small, similar to a strawberry.
That's what it should be.
Li Ben tore off the fruit, and then thought about it, and felt that since he had come, it was better to take more, so he ripped off three more and pinched them in his hand.
Then, there was a sharp pain in his legs, followed by a numbness sensation, and the strength from the waist down was rapidly draining.
That guy woke up!
Little Flaming's snake tail wrapped around Leeben's feet, dragging him to the ground with a single pull, and the vertical eyes that opened emitted a faint colored light, allowing him to see the thief and at the same time allowing him to locate his head.
Stuffing the four fruits into his mouth first, Li Ben groped out a bullet on his body with his only right hand and held it tightly in his hand. It was a special bullet from Maria.
The fierce young bird opened its beak wide and pecked straight at Li Ben's head.
He used his mutilated left hand to hold the beak against it, and then took the opportunity to burrow his right hand into the mouth of little Flaming, through the throat, and leave the bullet in its body.
After all, the baby bird is only a baby bird, and if it is allowed to compete with the black hedgehog on its own, it will definitely lose. It has some innate abilities that have not yet grown and developed, and its strength is far from worthy of its fierce and sadistic nature.
The bullets that remained in its body began to glow and burn, and the pain was excruciating. But the human arm was so gripping at the base of its tongue that it could not even wail.
Li Ben felt that his right hand had been peeled open, and the snake tail wrapped around his leg was writhing wildly along his waist and abdomen to bite him.
Sensing the threat of death, little Flamin couldn't care so much anymore, his beak snapped into his beak, and then his whole body fell to the ground and rolled.
"Click!"
After Li Ben's right arm was twisted off, it was completely ripped off again.
It wants to spit out bullets.
Li Ben naturally didn't let this happen, and propped up his body with the bare wrist of his left arm, pounced on the little monster bird that was struggling to vomit, and clamped its beak with his left arm.
"Bang!" a muffled sound came from the little Flaming's abdomen, and a gap exploded in its back, and several pieces of flesh flew out, including fragments of its internal organs and Li Ben's fingers.
It all came and ended quickly, without too many bells and whistles, life and death were only a thought.
Li Ben couldn't see what the situation was now. If there was light here, he would see that his legs and waist had become purulent rotten flesh, oozing a black, fishy liquid, and a large amount of red liquid and flamen's blood from his right arm had accumulated on the ground into a small puddle, a bleeding amount that would have been too dead for a normal person to die again.
But he still remained conscious, even though his internal organs had stopped working, even though he could no longer use any strength in his body.
One last step. He thought.
As Li Ben's consciousness condensed to control himself, his soul will appeared in the distant forest, and he sensed the distance from the left hand that he had thrown away.
Li Ben in the cave exploded, blood splashed everywhere, and then all dissolved.
In the No. 2 hunting ground, Li Ben's left wrist was lying quietly in the bushes, and suddenly, a huge amount of red mucus gushed out from the root of his palm, which first coalesced into an arm, and then intertwined in the air, drawing the muscles, bones, blood, and various internal organs of the human body. After the heart is built, a large amount of red blood gushes out of it again, turning into muscles and skin.
In this way, Li Ben realized his rebirth. This kind of operation, if it is not a surgeon who is familiar with the structure of the human body, will definitely not be able to do it by someone else.
The first thing he did after recovering was that Li Ben spit out three fruits from his mouth, and the other one was accidentally swallowed by himself.
I hope nothing happens, or I'll have to take my stomach out and wash it. He thought.
Judging from the previous operation, he is afraid that he will really cut a knife in his stomach.
As for the idea of carrying the fruit, it was based on his ability to study it over the years. He found that anything that entered his body would be reproduced when his flesh was reassembled. But it also means a weakness, if there is an excess of foreign matter in one's body, or if it is cursed by chaos erosion, even if it is reborn, it cannot be shaken off.
Lee Ben now has two difficult problems to solve.
Get a set of clothes, at least cover the vital parts.
Then there's the quest for the Hunter, who wanders around the neighborhood and picks up the dropped Human-Faced Spider Head.
With no weapons, it would be too difficult to hunt the second one, but the mission time was two days, so it was the right choice to go back to the tribe to rest and start again.
He took a few slips of paper from the surrounding vegetation, broke off a large number of leaves, woven a simple grass skirt to cover his lower body, and made a foot pad out of some bark to put under his feet, and began to rush back to the tribe.
Encountering aggressive plants and vines on the road again, Lee unceremoniously ripped them off and strengthened his grass skirt.
By the time we returned to the tribe, it was already dark, and some of the early risers were starting their daily activities to prepare breakfast.
As he walked past them, his odd outfit caught the attention of most of the people without any suspense, and of course, the human-faced spider head in his hand.
Instead of returning to his tent, Lee went to find Jeffrey first and borrowed a set of hunter equipment.
"What are you doing here?"
He told most of what had happened to him, but he obfuscated the specifics of how he escaped, saying only that when he regained consciousness he heard the voices of Brian and Hooks, and they lured the strange bird away, and he killed little Flamin himself and took some fruit, and climbed up the rope they didn't have time to take.
"You know what I'm capable of. He stretched out his hand, opened his palm, and gave the two Flaming Hearts to Geoffrey, keeping one for himself.
Jeffrey didn't ask him why he knew he needed it, thinking he had overheard it the day before.
"I'll prepare you a new set of equipment, and you won't have to hunt a second one, these two fruits and the information you brought back are enough to graduate. β
The instructor picked up the fruit and looked at it for a moment, then got up and walked out of the tent to see if Brian and Hooks were in the camp. Li Ben followed him.
Enter Brian's residence, and in addition to Brian and Hooks, there is also Zhou Haomiao.
Brian was missing his right arm, and Hooks and Zhou Haomiao bandaged his wounds. However, I am afraid that his strength will be greatly reduced in a short period of time, unless he gets used to practicing his left hand.
Seeing Jeffrey come in, the two of them looked awe-inspiring, and then they were a little ashamed and didn't dare to face him.
Jeffrey said expressionlessly, "What do the two big heroes have to gain?"
He stepped forward, pushed away Hooks and Zhou Haomiao, and glanced at Brian's severed arm, which had been stopped by herbs, which had been cut off by a sharp weapon.
"Ah, I see, is petrification magic, right? You cut off your own arm, or did they help you?"
"I cut it myself. β
"Amazing!" Jeffrey nodded and said, "You're such a tough guy!"
Everyone knew he was making a mockery.
He patted Brian's wound with his hand, causing him to break out in a cold sweat, but he still held back and didn't say anything.
Jeffrey looked at Zhou Haomiao again and asked, "You also passed?"
Zhou Haomiao said with a little weakness: "No, I met them halfway." β
"So these two pieces of waste got rid of Flamin's pursuit on their own?"
"Uh... I guess so..."
"Hmph..."Jeffrey grabbed Zhou Haomiao's shoulder.
"Take me in, to your space. β
"Instructor, I was wrong, I did pass, but I just wanted to see it, and I didn't plan to risk it. Because of the long journey in another space with Brian and Hooks, Zhou Haomiao was so tired that he could no longer activate his ability, and he had to be honest.
"Fools! You three have forgotten even the most basic hunter rules!"
Do not approach danger unless it comes to the door.
None of the three people present dared to answer Jeffrey's words, who was angry.
"But it was probably the best outcome, and they saved my life. Only Li Ben, who has a low emotional intelligence, interjected inappropriately.
If the adult Flamin hadn't been lured away, he would most likely not even have had the opportunity to activate his abilities.
Jeffrey glared at him and said to Zhou Haomiao: "You are not qualified, go back and practice with me." β
He also issued an order to Brian and Hooks: "You two are temporarily deprived of the qualifications and treatment of hunters, and are not allowed to leave the tribe for three months. Li Ben, you come with me. β
Walking out of the tent, Geoffrey took out another Flaming Heart and handed it back to Li Ben, saying, "Since you got it, you can give it to her yourself." β
After saying this, he departed and went to the Prophet's house.
Zhou Haomiao poked his head out of the tent and came out after confirming that Jeffrey was not there, first looked at Li Ben's outfit, and then cut to the chase and asked, "What the hell is going on? You are also over there?"
"I was caught. β
is another brief narrative, and Zhou Haomiao understands the cause and effect.
"Damn, awesome brother, can you show me the fruit?" He argued with Li Ben for a while before asking Li Ben to go back and change out of the primitive cosplay costume.
He was replaced with clothes from his original world, which had been tattered due to the first werewolf attack, and was later barely repaired and sealed.
He hadn't worn the short-sleeved shorts since he had taken root in the tribe. Usually, there are only two sets of clothes to wear and wash back and forth, but now one of them is gone along with the hunter's equipment, and the remaining set is not dry, so I can only take out this set of memories, which are full of memories, and use them first.
Sometimes I forget that I came from that world, and I wonder how everyone is doing now?
Brushing aside these emotions in his heart, Li Ben walked to where Anne lived.
Chaos Hunters have very little communication with ordinary people, and only when recruiting Reserve Hunters will there be more intersections.
However, the residents here all recognize Li Ben, and they will nod their heads when they see him on the road.
He stopped in front of a camp of ordinary residents, and people passing by around him would subconsciously stay away from it.
The small heart in Lee's hand had a clear rhythm, as if sensing the cursed patient in it, knowing that he was about to be eaten.
"Anne Caesar, are you in there?" he asked.
Because of the accent, people in the tribe knew who he was when they heard his lingua franca.
The little girl walked out, looked up at Li Ben with an indifferent face, and asked, "Is there something wrong?"
"Here's to you. You know how to use it. β
"It's!" Anne excitedly took Flamin's heart, holding it in both hands and placing it on her chest.
"I'm leaving. Li Ben turned to leave.
"Wait! Did you get it?"
Li Ben frowned, stopped and turned back and said, "I didn't mean to take it, you don't need to thank me, you should go and see Brian and them, they are the ones you should thank." β
"I see! Thank you!" Anne's eyes were already moistening, and her voice was a little unsteady.
"Hmm. He replied lightly, and took another step.
Remembering the excitement of being overjoyed after receiving the gratitude from the patient for the first time in the hospital, Chen Yan said at that time: "The doctor successfully treated the patient, I have heard a lot of such thanks, but in fact, it is just like that, after being happy for a while, it is nothing special." Sometimes you see him on the road, but he doesn't know you anymore. β
Since then, Li Ben has received words of thanks from anyone, and there will not be a little wave in his heart. I don't know if it was because of his personality that he lost interest, or if Chen Yan's words changed him.
This time is no different from before, but I don't and don't want to be a doctor anymore. He said this to himself in his heart.
After the break, early the next morning, someone brought a brand new set of hunter equipment, which was kept in the warehouse.
At the same time, another piece of news came out - the Prophet foresaw an imminent danger and that the tribe was about to migrate again.
After inquiring with Aita, she learned that the reason was due to the death of little Flamin, and now the two strange birds are constantly searching for revenge on all the living creatures they see, and the tribe is instantly precarious.
"I didn't expect the situation to change all of a sudden, why is there so much to do, if only it could be a little later. Zhou Haomiao complained.
"What are you planning?"
"I was going to do it again after graduation, but now it seems that Instructor Jeffrey won't let me go easily, and the result is okay, so I managed to save those two people. β
"You guessed they were going, right? β
"What do you know from Aitana?"
Lee Ben was noncommittal.
"Why don't you think I'm trying to get that fruit?"
"You're not that kind of person. β
"Ho ho, sure enough, it's still the fellow who knows the fellow best. β
Li Ben knew that Zhou Haomiao was preparing something, and Zhou Haomiao didn't deliberately hide this. He often goes out at night, but he doesn't let Li Ben know the specific content.
As mentioned before, there are very few intersections between Chaos Hunters and ordinary people, but Zhou Haomiao is an outlier. From the very beginning of his settlement, he would often help ordinary people with some work, even if they did not speak the language, and was able to convey simple meanings through gestures.
People feel the kindness of this person, compared to Li Ben, who doesn't smile all day long, this visitor from another world can be regarded as a deep win of the heart. Zhou Haomiao's lingua franca can be mastered faster and more accurately than Li Ben, and it is inseparable from these exchanges.
"Soon, soon, you'll know when the time comes, don't worry. Zhou Haomiao hummed a little song, briskly packed up his things, and prepared to evacuate with the large army.