The fact that he was able to survive without being manipulated by the will of the underground existence was entirely due to the mysterious power of the victim, and this will that almost killed him was probably just a trace of his obsession, and it was still asleep.

The victim is not a dead thing, but a chaotic life, an existence that has reached some kind of symbiotic relationship with itself. For now, it seems to be able to grow itself by absorbing the forces of Chaos.

"Sometimes, ignorance makes life more comfortable..."

Lee Ben now understood why the god of fate said that he would never be able to escape this place without His gift. Because without that increase in soul power, I will never have the opportunity to discover the truth, and I will indulge in a moment of stability and gradually become paralyzed, and choose to escape when encountering difficulties.

Of course, he also had no chance of holding the victim.

"The gods... They see much longer than humans..."

Li Ben exhaled, he planned to go underground and take his packed bags with him. But at this moment, he took a step forward and fell into the abyss. I knew there was no immediate threat from below, but I was still trembling with fear.

"It's like walking on a glass boardwalk..."

So he took the victim in his hand again. He never thought that this kind of paralysis of ignorance could make him so reassuring.

This effect should be called "immune to fear", or "blessing of courage", but it is actually "becoming a reckless man".

After a short time, Li Ben came out of the hole with a large bag on his back, a leather coat that reached to his ankles, and a bowler hat.

"Calm down, calm down! It's better to wait until dawn before you go. ”

He leaned against a tree and began to meditate, clenching his sword and waiting for the dawn.

This time, any creature that stands in front of him, if he can fight, will not dodge, and if he can't, he will have to find a way to break through.

The geographical location of Li Ben belongs to the north side of the mainland.

He calculated with the hands on his watch and the position of the stars, the dead wood forest when he arrived should be on the other side of the mountain, and the green forest he was now on the south side of the mountain range, the mountain range ran from east to west, and all he had to do was go straight to the south, away from this sealed place.

When the sun rose in the east, the orange-red slanting light shone on the left half of Li Ben's body, making him feel some warmth. He wanted to bask his right side in the sun as well, but the presence behind it forced him to abandon the idea, which was something that would make people feel chilled just by facing it.

"If you are poor, you will think about change, let's go together. He said to the victim in his hand.

On the next road, there are terrifying things such as human-headed snails, which are extremely mentally polluting, strange trees that bleed with branches as weapons, hideous beasts alienated from wild beasts, and dark clumps that appear out of thin air.

Moving corpses pounce on travelers, haunting spirits day and night, burrowing centipedes spit green phlegm-like venom from their mouths, and white-fleshed caterpillars in ancient trees spray foul-smelling rotten water......

The hunter wielded a scarlet sword, holding a flame and churning in the night, his leather clothes torn and mended, and his broken flesh and bones were constantly reborn... Pain and will intertwined, and the curse of chaos leaves indelible scars on the skin.

Hunger and thirst cannot kill the body, it becomes a part of the tribulation, terror cannot destroy the soul, it is the hammer that beats the spirit.

The hunter understood his humility, so he did not dare to relax in the slightest. He endured, waited, persevered, befriended by the sword, and spoke of loneliness......

Li Ben didn't know how far he was from the sealed land, and the two months of running did indeed get him out of there, but that didn't mean that he was safe and troubled.

The first is the monster that has been following him, an annoying crow head, with a physique no different from a human, can fly, can be invisible, because he accidentally broke two eggs in its nest when he fought with other Chaos, and was chased and killed by it that happened to come back for half a month.

It is estimated that its level should be around level 5, but Li Ben, who has absorbed most of Mandela's herbs during this time, is not afraid of it, because his strength and speed have long exceeded the limits of normal creatures.

And the victim in his hand also continued to grow with the battle, and the chaotic energy on it became more and more intense, so that the sword body grew bone joints and nerve flesh similar to the spine of a fish, which could be contracted, elongated or bent to a certain extent.

But this crow's head has intelligence that is not weaker than that of a human, and it will not go head-to-head with Li Ben, and it knows that this human has great strength and ability.

So it has been following Li Ben, relying on its ability to stealth and fly, sneak attack and harass him in the dark, everything that humans want, it takes away and destroys, and everything that humans hate, it often brings.

For example, he grabbed some disgusting monsters alive and threw them away, extinguished the bonfire that had been raised with mud, and screamed at night to prevent Lee Ben from resting......

"If only there were bullets. The hunter looked at the empty revolver and sighed helplessly.

In addition to the monsters, Li Ben's food and water have long been exhausted, and the water is okay, there is no shortage of water in the dense woodland, as long as it is boiled, it can be drunk. The focus is on food, and there may be no ordinary wild animals in this world.

At one point, he was so hungry that he tried to eat the flesh of a slightly normal-looking chaotic creature, only to have his skin turn black that night, and a baby's calf suddenly grew on his stomach, which he felt intensely burning when he was cut off by a victim, and finally ate a Flaming Heart to get rid of.

After that, he really learned a lesson, every time the hunger pang tormented him, he could only comfort himself with "just starve to death...", and even symbolically swallowed as he watched the victim absorb the energy of the chaotic creatures.

After a few more days of trekking, Lee came to a forest swamp where the water was generally up to his knees.

"This place is surprisingly low in Chaos erosion, and you might be able to find some normal food in it, and in this terrain, it should be impossible for the crow to get close by stealth. ”

With all this in mind, he decided to head out for a place full of mangroves and water-growing plants, hoping to get rid of the crow monsters.

The water here is extremely turbid, with countless duckweed, green algae and broken branches and leaves floating on the water, and it is impossible to see what is going on underwater. In the dense bushes, the cane and knife that Li Ben carried were more convenient and practical than the long sword.

"Don't worry about any powerful chaos creatures here... Seals like that shouldn't be everywhere..."

All kinds of insects and birds are full of wilderness.

Li Ben hadn't heard such a sound for a long time, those places with a high degree of chaos erosion were always dead silent, and whenever he heard a strange noise, it meant the arrival of a monster.

"Is there a crocodile? I heard that crocodile meat is a mixture of chicken and fish, and it doesn't taste bad. He licked his lips, looking forward to the crocodile's arrival.

The hunter climbed a tall tree and looked around, hoping to find a pine tree that only grew on dry ground as a way forward, but it backfired, and there was nothing but cypresses, metasequoias, and quercus trees.

Except for swamps, or swamps.

In swampy terrain, dry land is generally higher, and if you can find a clear flow of water, going backwards is an option.

After observing for a while, Lee Ben headed westward.

He used his cane to probe the bottom of the water so as not to run into the cannibal "swamp sludge", which resembles the quicksand of the desert and the deeper he struggles to sink into it.

When he encountered a dense patch of sawgrass blocking the way, he pushed his cane across his chest.

When night was approaching, he cut down a dozen small ash trees, laid a small platform on the branched trunk of a large tree, weaved grass and vines to fix it, and took out the small tent in his bag and supported it on it.

"Just go find some palm fronds to use as a bed—" He carefully watched for the crow's attack, but it didn't seem to follow.

In this dense forest, even if it is invisible, its movement in the water will cause a noticeable abnormal sound, and when it approaches in the air, it will make a clearer flapping sound.

There were dry weeds between the trunks of the palm trees, and Li Ben used them as ignitions, but he didn't expect a small spotted snake to be entrenched in it, and he grabbed it and bit him hard.

"Gurgle...," Leeben's stomach rattled.

He ignored the wound on his hand, looked at the little snake and said, "You look so beautiful... It's also normal. ”

Wet mud was placed on the platform, broken twigs were lit, and a headless meat skewer was added to the night's campfire.

At night, mosquitoes are rampant, and Li Ben's bare neck and face are endlessly harassed and attacked.

This is a good thing, it means that the ecological environment here is very good, and so far I haven't met a single chaotic creature, maybe I can meet the tribe that settled here... But even if there were, would I be an enemy or a friend to them?

In the middle of the night, the meditative Li Ben was half-asleep and half-awake, and he noticed the movement above his head and pretended not to know.

Here it comes!

In an instant, the hunter burst into flames and slashed with his sword at the same time.

The crow bird that lunged out from the bottom of the water took a hard hit from its victim with its head, and its sharp beak pierced Leeben's chest.

Lose both.

"I won't let you run away again, bastard!" he roared, his left hand gripped the bird's beak to prevent it from opening between the sternum or pulling it out, while his right hand controlled the victim to frantically stab the bird in the neck.

The crow whined fiercely in its throat, and seeing that it could not break free, it simply flapped its wings and strung Li Ben up, flying diagonally into the air together, and then bowed and clawed to cut his flesh.

"Long!" Li Ben shouted.

The sword body of the victim skyrocketed, approaching three meters.

"Broken!"

He slashed at the base of the bird's wing, pulling off a large patch of flesh and black feathers.

The crow smashed down with Li Ben.

In the dirty swamp water, Li Ben was fighting to the death with the crow and the strange bird, and he felt his abdomen open with the tearing of the crow's claws, and into a lot of water, maybe some intestines were exposed, and his thighs were scratched to reveal white bones.

"Why the fuck are you so hard!"

But the monster under him was no better, and the victims were not enough to cut off its head directly, so Li Ben slashed the sword across the crow's neck as a saw. At this time, it could not make any sound, because the throat and trachea had long since been severed, leaving only the spine attached.

Who the hell is the monster?, the crow thought.

It is a forest lord-like being, having seen humans, eaten humans, and fought against some Chaos Hunters, and in its worldview, humans are nothing more than delicious bait until this terrible creature appears in front of it.

In the first battle with Li Ben, the crow, who saw his own broken eggs, rushed at him with endless rage, and naturally pecked open his chest, ripped off his left arm, and threw him out like a rag doll.

Far from subduing its anger, it was about to rush forward to dissect the body again, but saw the human who had fallen in the dirt rise with his sword, instantly recovered his injuries, and held the sword against him with both hands, as if he was about to fight the trapped beast.

I've seen some special humans, they have the same aura as themselves, and it's terrible.

At that time, the crow thought that the people in front of him were just like them, just useless shows.

As a result, in the ensuing battle, the crow's belly was cut open, and one of its claws was cut off, almost giving it to him.

At that time, it fled in embarrassment, and the bird was born for the first time.

It was angry, it was unwilling, so it followed Li Ben all the way, used his stealth ability to sneak attack him, tortured him, and wanted him to die one day under his own attack... Until this swamp, the strange bird knew that this terrain was not good for him, not only was his stealth ability useless, but in the environment of low chaos erosion, his strength had dropped significantly.

It hesitated to follow up.

Resentful desires took control of it, and its intellect told itself that it had to be over, either let the human go or fight to the death here.

Its method of attacking the west did not deceive Li Ben, and Li Ben had already decided to solve its trouble, so there was this primitive beast-like fighting scene at the moment.

The feeling of blockage coming from the hilt of the sword was getting bigger and bigger, and Li Ben knew that this was a sign of the blade of the sword.

"Die for me!" he shouted.

With a "click!", the blade slid into the mud and sand at the bottom of the water, and the monster's body gradually lost its movement, leaving only a twitch that did not flow for a while.

Li Ben straightened up, climbed the trunk of the tree with difficulty, and used his abilities to reconstruct all the damage.

Gasping for air, he shivered, and he asked himself, "How many times has this made your body so tattered?"

While fighting these monsters, he often forgets his human identity and becomes indistinguishable from his opponents.

He sighed again at the shredded clothes, and when he returned to the small camp, he dried himself and his clothes by lighting a campfire, and took out a needle and thread to sew them.

After dawn, the crow's head, which was a whole circle larger than a human head, floated over, and Li Ben scooped it up and looked at its four dead eyes.

"Why bother, why do you have such a hard head? Your head is really hard when you say it...", he mocked the loser, to dilute the memories of the hardships and pains along the way.

This crow was the first fifth-level Chaos creature he had killed, which also proved that he had reached the level of a high-level Chaos Hunter himself.

Lee Ben wanted to keep a souvenir.

"Feathers are too ordinary...", he was inspired when he shot a mosquito that flew into his cheek.

So it took a lot of effort to remove the fur and flesh of the crow's head, and burn it with fire, which was considered to have removed the fishy smell.

"Judging from the chaos induction, the chaotic energy on this braincase is not ordinarily thick, if it weren't for the victim's ability to devour the chaotic energy, it might not be able to be cut down. ”

Grabbing the beak, Li Ben used the victim to cut off the back of the crow's skull and throw it away, leaving the front half to carve a few grooves inside.

Finally, he took out the spare leather from the backpack and made a mask that could be put on his head, and the nostrils and four eye sockets of the crow's skull were windows for observation and ventilation.

"Hmm... Medieval Bird's Beak Physician... Get some spice to filter the air in your nostrils, perfect!"

After working for a long time, before I knew it, it was already afternoon, Li Ben put on a mask, packed his bags, and started to hurry.

He came to an open meadow, saw a crocodile floating on the surface of the water basking in the sun, happily killed three in a row, found a nearby open place to make a fire and barbecue, had a long lost full meal, and then wrapped the remaining meat in the lotus leaves on the surface of the water for storage.

"Hiccup..."

It was getting dark again, and Li Ben found something unexpected - a raft.

"There are intelligent beings in this area, and the only ones who can use tools are those who are mythical. ”

"Elves are unlikely, they generally live in the deep mountains and old forests, and survive in this environment... Lizardmen are more likely... However, the Chaos Erosion in this place is very low, which will make it difficult for them. ”

Li Ben searched along the river and saw a paved road with wooden planks in the mud, and he followed the road to a small village with many wooden houses on stilts.

"It's human... But it doesn't seem to be a wandering tribe, otherwise it would not be possible to be guarded by Chaos Hunters, and judging from the architectural style, it doesn't look like it can be moved at will... There are still settled villages in this world?"

"Unless it's... parasitism..."

The parasitism here does not mean that some kind of chaotic existence is parasitic on the human body, but that some people live under the protection of those powerful beings with rational wisdom in order to live in the world in peace.

There is no such thing as a simple good thing, and people have to pay for it.

But what can humanity give?

As a weak person in this world, it is impossible to cling to a race like the elves, and the orcs will eat all the humans in an instant.

Only those powerful individuals who crave human flesh and blood will do so.

Parasitic humans are their domestic animals, and only then will they protect humans.

In other words, the small village in front of you is the ranch of some powerful chaotic creature. Every once in a while, a monster is bound to come and ask for a tribute.

Do you want to go into the village and talk to them?

Most of the villagers' costumes are made of crocodile and black bear skins, some fruit trees are planted around, and there are people eating barbecue meat in front of their homes, which looks much better than the wandering tribes.

But Li Ben hadn't seen anyone smile, and the Wandering Tribe was much better than them in this regard.