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Chapter 194: Wails in the Night (Please Subscribe, Bookmark, and Vote for Monthly Ticket)

Chapter 194: Chapter 194: Wails in the Night (Please Subscribe, Bookmark, and Vote for Monthly Ticket)

According to the data collected from the Research Institute, the passages of the ruins seem to select relatively safe places for Explorers to enter.

Taking the point of entry into the ruins as the center, an area with a radius of about one and a half kilometers appears to be a safe zone for beginners. In this area, during the first day, there wouldn’t be any exotic beasts too strong, the highest being only of E grade.

Of course, once time exceeds a day, or one leaves this area, what kind of exotic beasts one might encounter becomes uncertain.

If lucky, one might directly enter an even safer area full of weaklings, but if slightly less fortunate...

He Ao lowered his head, looking at the small segment of withered yellow bones at his feet, and fell silent for a moment.

In front of him seemed to be a massive square, where fragments of yellowish-white bones mixed with dark dust idly scattered across the dark square, presenting a somewhat spectacular sight.

Among these bones, human remains were not abundant. In fact, human bones that could last for hundreds of years were few; most were the remains of larger creatures not of human origin.

Some animals had left behind complete skeletons.

At this moment, the sky had nearly darkened, the light from the three suns of Heaven was gradually fading, descending towards the horizon.

He Ao squatted down and grabbed a handful of the black mud beneath his feet, and a faint smell of humus came to him.

This pitch-black soil once had a large number of creatures die upon it, their carcasses decomposed by microorganisms, turning into this humus-rich soil.

Soils rich in humus are generally exceptionally fertile, suitable for plant growth.

He Ao looked up only to see the vast expanse of dark earth gradually blending into the dim night sky, almost devoid of any greenery.

This did not conform to common sense; even if the soil was overly fertile, there still should’ve been some plant growth.

He Ao let the soil in his hand fall back to the ground and took two steps back.

He planned to bypass this large square.

As night approached, although there wouldn’t be any terrible creatures that covered the entire ruins at night, there were still some powerful beings that roamed only in the darkness of night.

Compared to daytime, the ruins were a bit more dangerous at night.

Moreover, human vision tended to diminish in the dark, and even though He Ao had received a Transcendent ability enhancement, he could only see better than an ordinary person and could not compare with his daytime self.

Therefore, he intended to find some streets that appeared safer, take a little more time, and circumvent this area of black earth.

And, he was feeling a bit hungry by now.

He Ao glanced at the gradually dimming sky, carrying his case and turning into a nearby street that was relatively well preserved.

These streets were unnervingly quiet; in some of the dark buildings lay the remains of Giant Lizards, their bodies already incomplete.

He Ao furrowed his brow and bypassed these corpses, continuing forward.

After moving forward for about a kilometer, his field of view began to show some simple living creatures, a few hyenas hunting in the twilight.

He looked around, collected some dry twigs, and climbed onto the rooftop of one of the buildings.

"Hoo—"

A cry of an eagle came from the sky, He Ao looked up to see a giant eagle with a wingspan of over three meters soaring past above him, flying towards the direction away from a tall tower.

It looked quite tasty.

He Ao took a deep breath, pitying that the eagle had flown away too quickly.

He had chosen this building because it was the tallest nearby; standing on the rooftop surrounded by low walls, he had a commanding view with broad visibility, enabling him to see most of the street scenes around.

Moreover, there was a slightly shorter building next to it, not too far away to jump across.

If He Ao were to be besieged in this building, he could directly leap to the adjacent building to break free.

He Ao tidied up and set up a grill on the stairwell of the rooftop, starting to cook meat.

After half a day of travel, the food inside his body had been almost consumed. After practicing Martial Arts, his appetite had grown, and his digestive abilities had enhanced.

He usually didn’t notice it without heavy physical exertion, but once he started moving, he got hungry very quickly.

Soon, the grilling meat sizzled, exuding the scent of fresh, juicy fats.

The meat of this giant lizard is truly exceptional, tender and smooth, fatty yet not greasy, perfectly complemented with a variety of barbecue seasonings, and finally topped with a handful of cumin.

Exquisite.

Indeed, there is nothing in this world that a good barbecue can’t solve.

After sterilizing his dagger over the fire, He Ao started to feast with great relish.

It didn’t take long before he had devoured half of the large piece of meat.

At this moment, the energy in his dantian was fully replenished.

He paused his actions, controlled his mind, and with a firm press, the Five Elements Qi transformed into Yin and Yang Qi, which quickly converged and formed a whiff of faint, transcendent breath.

The moment this breath materialized, He Ao felt something within his heart stirred, and he lifted his head to look at the sky.

The world was responding to him.

Unlike the feeling of returning to the embrace of a mother that one gets in the main world, the sense of intimacy from the ruins was faint, but in the moment that feeling arose, He Ao felt an improvement in his affinity with the surrounding energy and an increased efficiency in energy absorption.

This feeling...

Was like the difference between a biological mother and a very wealthy godmother.

However, the most indifferent was the copy world; when He Ao, using Regit’s identity, made a breakthrough to Qi Induction, he basically felt no feedback from the world.

Of course, it might also be that the copy world was incapable of providing feedback.

He Ao took a deep breath. He had not expected that refining his essence and transforming his Qi in the ruins could also improve his affinity with the ruins.

The power of Martial Arts, perhaps, was not so simple after all.

But for now, as he was just at the stage of Essence Refinement and Qi Transformation, it wasn’t yet time to consider this.

He quickly finished the remaining grilled meat, practiced for a while, then opened his personal attribute panel.

At this moment, his physical condition had risen to 201. In just over half a day, less than ten hours, his physical condition had increased by 18, and he’d acquired a whiff of Innate Qi within his body.

The ruins were indeed a good place.

However, since his physical condition had broken through 200, growth had become slower; it was likely that such rapid increases would not continue, and the upper limit of the D-grade physical condition remained unknown.

Watching the flames slowly die out, He Ao pulled a red fruit out of his backpack, took a bite, and the sweet juice burst in his mouth.

This was from the fruit tree that the giant lizard attacked earlier in the day, and He Ao had picked and packed every intact fruit he could find into his backpack when he left.

Now was not his first time tasting this fruit.

During his trek in the afternoon, he had carefully sampled one.

The fruit carried a slight contamination, but it wasn’t a concern, as it was weaker than that from the lizard meat.

And overlooking this contamination one would find that the fruit’s flesh was extraordinarily sweet and tasty, and it even had the ability to refresh the mind and restore physical strength to a certain extent.

Regrettably, He Ao hadn’t encountered another one of these fruit trees afterwards.

While enjoying the fruit, He Ao stepped out of the rooftop staircase and now, the evening sky had gradually dimmed, and the pitch-black night enshrouded the entire Central Earth.

In the sky were some bright objects resembling stars, yet the distribution of these ’stars’ was irregular, resulting in large clusters and vast empty spaces, akin to a partially broken LED strip with spots lit and others dark.

Among these stars, a not too bright ’moon’ hung high in the sky.

He Ao walked to the edge of the rooftop, chewing on the fruit while contemplating whether to continue traveling at night. If he did travel through the night, he should be able to reach the tall tower by noon the next day.

But traveling at night carried greater risks than during the day.

Woo—

As He Ao munched on the fruit, lost in thought, a mournful wail arose from below his feet.

He looked down.