Chapter 9: The Maniac
As it darkened, the madman poked his head out of a hidden spot in the ruins.
The madman had no name, it had been a ruin for as long as he could remember, and the ruins didn't know how far they went, and the madman never finished exploring this place anyway.
Many of the ruins here are unrecognizable, more like remnants of ancient times, but some places don't look like them, at least in the eyes of the madman, this should be the remains of several civilizations superimposed on top of each other.
The madman never went to school, and no one really taught him anything.
It's just that I don't know when it started, and there was an unclear pattern on his left wrist. He thought it was just a scar or something in the ruins that stained him.
The traces of this pattern are smooth, as if the skin there was like that, not like an acquired scar. As for the pigment dyeing, it was not right, there were many times when he found the water source and he had carefully cleaned it, but the pattern was still the same, and even if he tried to cut it with the knife that he regarded as a treasure, it was generally made of steel and steel.
He also found that since he had this pattern, no matter how many injuries he suffered, he would recover the next day, and even if he couldn't recover, it would not affect his activities soon, and it was with this magical recovery ability that he was able to persist in living until now.
The ruins were mottled with blue-green algae that had clung to the surface, and where there were no remains, there were tall and majestic plants. In the distance, you can see a lot of red fruit on the trees.
These fruits are tempting to look at, but they can be fatal to those who live in ruins, because they contain a creature that is associated with plants.
It would be inaccurate to say that it was a creature, which was invisible during the day, and could only emit a faint glimmer at night, but this was barely visible at night when there was only starlight.
According to the legends of some old people in the dungeon, the creatures inside these fruits will grow into something similar to insects, but the madman has not found it in years.
This is not the food of madmen, but rather the creatures feed on all other animals that have flesh, and of course humans are no exception. Madmen have seen such creatures besiege a human in ruins, turning them into a visible stream of light, just like the creature's own, and then being sucked up.
This creature is called Shadow Kill by the people in the ruins.
Luckily, Shadow Kill couldn't leave the plant called Demon Brown, and it disappeared with the withering of the fruit. However, when it disappears, it leaves a crystal smaller than a tiny fingernail in the shriveled fruit.
There are many remnants of civilization in the ruins, but the only thing is that it lacks energy, and this crystal has not known when it was discovered that it could be used as the operating energy of dungeons. As a result, there are many adventurous people who climb out of the ground from the ground to avoid shadow kills to obtain crystals.
A madman is this kind of person, but he doesn't do it voluntarily, he is also forced to do it.
He also has a younger sister to support. The madman's sister, who is now only seven or eight years old, was picked up during a gathering outside the ruins.
Looking at the crying baby on the ground, the madman was moved by compassion at once, and did not delve into why there were human children in the treacherous ruins of the earth, so he brought the little girl back.
An adult can only barely survive underground, and if he doesn't work hard, he will starve to death, and there may be a glimmer of life if he works hard. The madman is one of these people who dare to work hard, he dares to explore where others dare not go, and he dares to go to the magic palm that others dare not collect alone, even if he crawls back every time he is dying, he will be alive again in a few days, which is why he is called a madman.
When he was picked up, he was just a baby, and in order to give his sister named Xiao Bu'er some rice cereal and minced meat soup, he had to go outside desperately and frequently to collect crystals, so as to discover his miraculous recovery ability.
This ability may not be remarkable elsewhere, but in this apocalyptic ruins, it is really the best gift from God, at least to feed the little ones.
The underground city is not an underground city, but I don't know which of the original ruins left the underground sewage system, which was later used and transformed. There is no perfect living environment inside, and it is full of stench.
The number of people in the dungeon is not very large, and the madman can only reach a few dozen people, and he estimates that there are no more than a thousand people at most.
With this amount alone, the dungeon has been overwhelmed, and everything that can be used in the ruins of the ground has long been looted, and the rest has been swallowed up by the passage of time.
The source of food is only fungi grown underground and lichens collected on the ground. As for the meat, it is almost always derived from a small scavenger underground. Slightly larger than a mouse, this animal is extremely agile due to its highly poisonous teeth and extremely difficult to catch, resulting in an extremely scarce meat in the dungeon.
It can only be obtained with a considerable number of crystals, but each crystal collected means the danger of death, which is the exchange of life for food.
As for the places where fungi could be grown, they were all occupied by a group in the dungeon, who seemed to be the owners of the dungeon, and although the madman was not afraid, he did not join them because of his sister.
He just hid at the edge of the dungeon with his sister, not wanting to provoke the group inside. The reason is also very simple, for these people who have a certain amount of resources, children are also the best source of meat.
Here, the weak are also part of the food.
By the light of dusk, the madman crawled out of the ruins, carefully covering the entrance to the ground. Although there are no large predators on the ground now, and most of the intelligence of Shadow Kill is not long after it is born from the fruit, there are some Shadow Kill who live longer and can follow the traces of humans into the ground.
Legend has it that once happened when thousands of humans in a dungeon were slaughtered by the Shadow Kill that entered.
As a rule of thumb, this is not a good time to collect, but the madman doesn't want to wait.
The days are extremely long and the nights are very short, so if you don't hurry up and collect them, you probably won't be able to get enough crystals. Not having enough food to get in exchange, the madman and his sister haven't eaten for three days.
Although she is older than other children of the same age at this time, and her skin is fairer, she has not been able to see the light in the dungeon for a long time, who is not like this.
The madman's body was tense, and he tied the already tattered skin of a scavenger known as a scavenger called a foul tooth with strips of cloth so that it would not interfere with his movements.
This kind of animal skin can resist the direct attack of Shadow Kill to a certain extent, but it can only resist direct attacks, and there is no way to do it for the ability of Shadow Kill to turn people into streamers.
He carefully moved between the bumps of the ruined ruins, trying not to make any sounds, he knew that it didn't work, and Shadow Kill didn't judge the location of the creature to be hunted based on the sound, but he still followed the experience he had summed up.
Although facing shadow kills is extremely dangerous, and it is basically a dead end, but after years of thousands of collections, the madman also knows some weaknesses of shadow kills, and they are not impossible to kill, as long as there is a suitable weapon that can penetrate their seemingly extremely thin transparent shells.
Now that he only has a short spear made of steel bars in the ruins, he is not sure that he can kill a shadow kill in a very short time, and if he does not kill, he may attract more shadow kills, and there is only one way to die.
The spear is not used for self-defense, but is a necessary tool for collecting crystals inside the shriveled fruit, and the fruit of the magic palm becomes very hard when it is shriveled and cannot be opened by hand, and only this hard short spear can pry open the gap.
The madman was quickly approaching the magic brown he was targeting, this magic palm was very large, much higher than the tallest wreckage in the ruins on the ground, and there were many bright red fruits on it, it seemed that this magic palm was still very young, and there were many new fruits.
This is not good information, and the more fresh fruits there are, the greater the chance of encountering shadow kills, and the greater the danger.
Ordinary collectors would not choose such a magic palm.
This is not a place where madmen often come to visit, the previous magic browns have been visited by him and the others many times, and there are no more crystals to collect. That's why madmen have to venture here.
I don't know if this magic brown is the original species on this planet that caused it to change into this shape, or if the ruins here were abandoned because of the existence of this creature.
The madman didn't care about this, he was already close to the Demon Brown, and although he was determined, he actually resisted the trembling of turning and fleeing in his heart, which was because he felt that there was a shadow killing activity nearby. It's not like seeing with the naked eye, it's an experience that has been experienced many times.
At this time, it is impossible to go back, the speed of the person is far less than that of the shadow killer, in the process of a collection, he clearly saw that a shadow kill almost with the naked eye of the streamer pounced on a person, and in the painful struggle of that person, several shadow kills were attracted again.
The madman resisted the fear in his heart and looked up at the magic palm, there were many bright fruits on it, but there were still a few ripe and shriveled fruits.
It's just a little high, the height is not difficult for a madman, the collector has adapted to this situation, and it is not too difficult to climb up the tree, there are many large protrusions on the branches of the magic palm, and these protrusions can develop into a new branch, but now they can become the fulcrum for the madman to climb upward.
The madman crept cautiously up the bumps, trying to get close to a shriveled fruit he found. I don't know if the shadow kill is directly conceived by this magic palm fruit or the shadow kill is caused by the invasion and parasitism of other things, and the companionship and symbiosis are just a kind of speculation for people.
The reason why he was careful was not for fear of attracting the attention of the shadow killer, the madman was a little strange, and he still had the mind to think about these at this time.
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