Judging from the distribution and size of these camps, the tribes that lived here were small, with a population of about 100 people.

Climbing a high rock and crossing a small chasm, Lee found a special tent that was the residence of the tribe's prophet.

As far as he knew, every tribe had a habit of recording important events that occurred within the tribe, and the person responsible for writing it was the prophet. So he wanted to find the books in the prophet's tent and find clues to the mystery.

Inside a wooden box under the Prophet's bed, he found what he was looking for.

There were a lot of recorded books, piled up in wooden boxes, but the top one was the latest record, and Li Ben didn't have to rummage down.

The opening page reads:

Day 1325.

We came to a new settlement. This is an underground karst cave in the Zhongming Mountain Range, with an erosion degree of less than 3%, and it is a very hidden pure land. The glowing ore inside the cave is beautiful, and we have found that it contains a mysterious substance that can make a soul-enhancing potion, but this is not in the information provided by the Navigator Organization, is it due to the negligence of the investigators? We set up small chicken farms and outposts outside the cave. Hopefully this will give us peace of mind for a while.

Li Ben turned directly to the last page of the record, and found that the handwriting on it was extremely sloppy and frenzied, and he could not distinguish the contents, so he turned back again.

Day 1408.

There is no way. No, there's another way, I'm going to make this hell go away.

Day 1407.

I tried my best. I tried my best...

There has been only one sentence for the past two days, and it seems that the origin of everything is still far ahead. He flipped a dozen pages forward.

Day 1389.

Had a bad dream last night, which could be a portent. Today I did a divination. Nothing was seen. Everyone lives in this place quite well, much better than in the snowy mountains before.

Day 1390.

Nightmares again, not a common occurrence for prophets. I did divination again. Or nothing. I approached Gueva and discussed it with him. Gvar said to wait and see for two more days, while reminding other hunters to be more vigilant.

"This man named Gvar should be the second-in-command of this tribe, the leader of the Chaos Hunters. Li Ben said to himself.

Day 1391.

Damn, if it's not that I'm entangled in something, it's something terrible coming. My third divination is still inconclusive. Gvar had the hunter double the range of his vigilance, and the intel showed that everything was in order.

Day 1392.

I didn't dream last night because I couldn't sleep at all. Gvar performed an exorcism for me, which didn't put me at ease.

Day 1393.

The next day of insomnia. One of our chickens mutated, pecked another to death, pecked two more villagers, and was beaten to death with a stick. Heavy losses. The situation is very bad. The fact that the level of erosion has not changed just means that something worse is happening. I had to pay some price and go to fate for answers.

Day 1394.

Fate denied my request. This is unprecedented. Anyway, now must leave. I gave this order to the people.

Day 1395.

We didn't get out there. People wander around the mountains with their bags and finally return to this place. The exhausted people were terrified, and we had to hide back for the time being. I asked Gvar to send someone to find a way out.

Day 1396.

Chris didn't make it back. Gwa told me that we were already surrounded. It shouldn't be like this, it doesn't make sense. I hope those monsters will leave soon.

Day 1397.

People got the news. We can't restrict them from going out and tell them nothing is happening. Fortunately, the food was sufficient, and we were able to last at least a month.

Day 1398.

Anna asked me, are we finished? I couldn't answer her, my foreknowledge was completely broken. It's not my problem. The rules have changed again. Gvar said that the outpost was no longer usable, and the hunters had to move around the entrance to the cave.

Day 1399.

Jerry and Brand, who were scouting at the entrance of the cave, died. We only found some fragments of them. The erosion finally started to change, and the test result was 40%. We used all our strength and materials to draw a circle and call on Weston's name. God ignores us.

Day 1400.

The excipients used to craft the Soul Enhancement Potion have run out, and those ores alone are of little use. Most of the potions were given to the hunters, hoping that they would find a glimmer of life for the tribe outside.

Day 1401.

Three people went crazy. Wall, Angelina, Louis, they're all just kids. Gewa settled and buried them. People are miserable. Some people wanted to go out but were prevented.

Day 1402.

The children's graves were dug up and their bodies were nowhere to be found. We suspect that it may have been the work of their parents who couldn't stand the stimulation. I wanted to send someone over to inquire about the situation, but people thought it was human and should be understood, and they would bury the child again.

Day 1403.

Gwa told me that he was now the only hunter left in the tribe, and that everyone else who had gone out had not been heard from. A few more people went crazy today, and Gvar leveled them down. People called him an executioner, a butcher, and a monster.

Day 1404.

I saw the villagers eating meat. The graves that were dug up were not filled. They say it will bring the dead back into our ranks. I know, we're done.

Day 1405.

Angry people flocked to Gewa's camp to have him put to death on charges of murder. Gwa committed suicide. They ate him.

Day 1406.

Madness has taken over the place, people are doing unreasonable things, saying inexplicable things, they are no longer human, they have all become aliens. I was completely isolated.

"Hmm... The key part is still not mentioned, the method of the prophet should be the key to making everyone disappear, and what is the culprit of all this, even they themselves have not been able to figure out... Forget it, let's see if we can find something useful. ”

It doesn't matter if you don't figure out the cause of the incident, what matters is how you can continue to live. Originally, they had intended to find a way out of this, but according to the accounts of their prophets, they had stepped into an extremely dangerous area, and the outside was not necessarily safer than the inside. And the "gluttony" encountered earlier illustrates this.

Lee Ben named the unknown monster he met "Gluttony" because it only had one mouth, and it was almost like it was made to eat.

He had now changed his mind, intending to explore the ruins of the tribe first to get the supplies he needed. So he walked out of the prophet's tent and went in search of the storehouse and the hunter's camp.

Although the place has fallen, no monsters have ever been here, judging by the situation at the scene and the accounts of it. Li could have used this entire underground space as a shelter for the time being, but due to the high level of chaos erosion in the tribal ruins, he had to get the things and return the way he came.

Outside the tent was illuminated by luminous plants and glowing hedrons, and even if the brightness was low, with the blessing of the hunter's senses, the place was no different from the sun to him.

It didn't take much time to find supplies.

"Why is there such a plant in the material storage?" "Li Ben rummaged through herbs and food as he found glowing plants mixed in the rotten pile of ingredients.

"Is this something to eat?" but he thought about it, and it didn't end well to eat indiscriminately.

He then found the Chaos Hunters' camp, where he retrieved two bottles of pure water and a silver sword stained with black blood, as well as a steel sword that had been broken and corroded.

"This is supposed to be Gvar's sword. Sympathizing with Gvar's plight, he turned to the silver sword and said, "You can follow me from now on." ”

There is no such thing as a machine spirit in this world, and what he holds in his hand is just an ordinary alloy steel sword doped with silver, and nothing strange will happen.

After Li Ben did this, the effect of water purification had passed, and the pressure brought to him by chaos had risen to a notch again.

It's not a good place to stay for long. By the way, the prophet's account mentions that the glowing crystals on these rocks can be used to make soul enhancement potions, so you should take a few pieces and study them.

As soon as he thought of this, he used his sword to try to cut a small piece of the rock mass.

"Boom!" came the steel sword in his hand with a wail and a concussion.

"Is it so hard? It looks like we have to dig slowly, forget it, there's one outside, go out and get it first." ”

Lee Ben packed some of the books and dry food from the Prophet's house into a sealed bag and swam back from the bottom of the water.

As soon as he returned to the outside, the pressure of chaos instantly reduced several times.

"Why is there such a big difference between the inside and the outside? It stands to reason that if it was the same at that time, the people inside would have moved outside. If it was lowered later, why wasn't it lowered along with it?"

There are so many mysteries.

Li Ben used his dagger to buckle a glowing hedron from the rock.

Strange to say, this kind of ore should be closely integrated with the rock layer, Li Ben could not cut a gap in the spar with a steel sword, but he could use a dagger to cut holes in the ordinary rock around it, and the two were distinct, as if these spars were embedded in it.

The hardness of the hedron has been tested before. All he had to do now was use the Chaos Hunter's magic extraction to refine the substance inside the hedrons. Because the Prophet had mentioned its function, Lee wanted to know if it was what he had imagined.

If you want to live in this world, you can't be a reckless man. To do this, it is necessary to equip oneself with the power of foreknowledge and to make oneself a prophet.

This idea arose after Lee Ben entered the tribe's prophetic hut, and he deliberately took out the books from it for this purpose, intending to find a way to become a prophet from it.

Prophet is also a profession in this world, and it is a more difficult profession than becoming a Chaos Hunter, and generally speaking, being able to become a Chaos Hunter is the basic requirement for advanced Prophets.

To become a prophet, you have to make a contract with the god of fate and pass the soul test, which requires extremely strong soul power. The Chaos Test that those Chaos Hunters had asked Li Ben to do before could also be used as a means to enhance the power of the soul.

Now, though, Lee felt that these hedrons might be a key to his path to the Prophet.

After carving an extraction circle on the ground, Li Ben put the spar on it. This method of extraction is one of the few supernatural effects discovered by humans that does not rely on the gods.

At the same time, he also carved a drainage groove on the side, because the material extracted in this way is most likely in liquid form.

The process went smoothly, and only a tiny drop of liquid was extracted from the palm-sized hedron. But for some reason, after the extraction was completed, Li Ben felt that the air flow coming from the cave seemed to increase.

The droplets flow into the small grooves, giving them a clear sky blue color, while the hedron that has lost its droplets also loses its luminous effect.

What if you drink these liquids directly? Maybe it will strengthen the soul directly?

Other excipients are needed to make soul enhancement potions, which are obviously not available at the moment.

From the perspective of general potion making pharmacology, substances that can act on the human soul should be harmless, but it does not rule out the possibility that the substances are harmful and can be removed by other excipients.

Of course, Li Ben would not be stupid enough to actually drink it and try it.

If this thing is harmful, it will be fatal to drink it rashly. Unlike physical damage, you can recover with your own special abilities. If there was any problem with his soul, he would probably have died.

The key is the formula, and if you find the formula, you will know the nature of the thing.

The recipe for potions is generally in the hands of the Chaos Hunter Leader, but unfortunately Li Ben didn't find it when he went to search the Chaos Hunter camp.

Things seem to be at an impasse.

The Prophet's account says that they have run out of excipients for making soul-enhancing potions. Then you only need to find the list of materials in the material warehouse from yourself, and then go to the material warehouse to compare and see what is missing. Based on the nature of the missing materials, it is possible to roughly determine whether the potion excipients are used to enhance the properties of the potion or to reduce toxicity. "Li Ben found a breakthrough.

As a qualified Chaos Hunter, mastering these basics about potions is a must.

"It seems that I need to go back again, I just hope that there are no things in those materials that I have never seen or heard before. He looked forward to it.

A tribe's supply list is usually in triplicate, given to the Prophet, the Chaos Hunter Leader, and the Storekeeper.

There was nothing in the hunter's camp, and the storekeeper's residence was unknown, so he had to go back to the Prophet's house to take a look.

The remnants of this tribe still give people a strong sense of oppression and discomfort. After knowing the tragedy that happened here, in a sense, it brought new pressure to Li Ben.

He searched the Prophet's hut with ease, but he could not find what he was looking for.

"Dead end... How could there be nothing?"

In order to find a way out, he began to think about other key information.

It's really strange to say, the people in this place seem to have disappeared out of thin air, and many things that should have been there have disappeared for no reason.

What did the prophet do in the end? Did he kill them all and dispose of all the bodies? Neither in power nor emotionally, it is impossible for a prophet to do such a move to his own tribe.

Could it be that all of them went out and were eaten by monsters?

The Prophet is not a legendary great magician, and as far as Li Ben knows, human beings have not mastered any magic, and they can make people disappear into thin air without a trace.

I should have missed something...

Walking out of the prophet's tent, Li Ben stood on the high ground and looked around, and there was nothing around but glowing hedron and plants.

Why do these plants emit light? Are they the same substance as those hedrons?

Why is this plant never mentioned in the Prophet's account... Could it be...

Li Ben was instantly creepy.

The more I think about it, the more likely it becomes.

If so, it seems like a lot of things make sense, but... How, exactly, is it magic? It should be unlikely, humans can't use this kind of magic.

But judging from the last few words in the prophet's account, it is highly likely that this phenomenon was written by him.

By the way, those notepads, maybe the answer is in an earlier record.

Thinking of this, Li Ben immediately turned around and entered the camp tent, picked up the notebook, and quickly rummaged through the relevant records from back to front.

Day 1317.

Soon we will be at the shelter. We passed by a woodland in the Komoki Mountains and were going to camp in this place. But several of them were sick and suddenly weak, and we had to leave and change places.

Day 1318.

The people who had contracted the strange disease suddenly grew green plant rhizomes. At first we thought it was chaos erosion, but under the painful pleading of the patients, we set them free. In the process of disposing of the corpses, it was discovered that they seemed to have been parasitized by something. Gvar dissected the corpses and found some seeds from various parts of their bodies. We intend to take these seeds to the shelter and let the navigator's people analyze it. It's something new that has never been seen before.

Day 1319.

When I woke up in the morning to get ready to go, it was reported that colored light was emitting from the place where the bodies of the infected were buried. The Chaos Hunters went to check and found that the corpses had turned into plant-like things. These plants are beautiful, but the thought of what they are made of makes people shudder. We took some of these cut-offs and prepared to take them to the Vault to study.

Day 1320.

The results of the Vault's research are in, and their efficiency is still surprisingly fast. Surprisingly, the parasitic seeds were not entirely malignant products of chaos, and the seeds could be processed to undo the physical mutations caused by the erosion of chaos. And those branches and leaves of plants that grow after parasitism are edible... I seem to feel the malice coming from Chaos.

Seeing this, Li Ben already understood what the key elements of the prophet were to turn the tribesmen into plants.