The Post Sky Tipping Era
Chapter 665 - 468: Gold Mouse

Chapter 665: Chapter 468: Gold Mouse

Li Yi learned through inquiry that there is such a corpse in each building here, and only buildings with corpses can be inhabited. If the corpse is gone or completely decomposed, leaving only bones, the building will be marked as a dangerous area, prohibiting living people from moving in.

The corpse is like the guardian of the building, protecting everyone in this dark world.

Xuan Yuezi was constantly observing the colossal corpse hundreds of meters high at this moment. In her eyes, the giant corpse before her was not something eerie. On the contrary, these gigantic corpses once belonged to powerful beings, and it’s unknown why they fell. Even after death, the corpses retained some form of spirit, but over time, the spiritual essence inside the corpses severely diminished, eventually leading to the decay of the flesh.

Moreover, such a huge corpse decomposed without emitting any corpse odor; instead, the air was filled with a natural fragrance.

Li Yi noticed someone appearing on a certain floor upstairs, trying to pick the fruit growing on the corpse. Those fruits seemed edible, and most of the fruits near the stairwell had been picked, with only the ones growing in the middle surviving due to the inconvenience of picking them.

However, relying solely on the fruits from these trees would not be enough to sustain the survival of everyone in a building, as the food supply was inadequate. Besides, there were various other issues like clothing, food, shelter, and transportation.

He couldn’t figure it out after thinking for a while.

Perhaps he had been here too short a time and still didn’t understand enough about this place.

"There are few people here. If you want to live in this building, just find an empty room and settle in. But be careful; some places are not particularly safe. If you encounter danger, just move to another floor. The shop is on the tenth floor, provided you have money." Liu Ming remarked at this moment.

"Okay, thank you very much."

Li Yi decided to stroll around inside the building to take a good look and better understand this bizarre place.

The two wandered around inside the building.

There were many graffiti on the stairs and corridors, indicating that many people used to live here, but for various reasons, the building had lost its past vitality and looked somewhat dilapidated. However, what piqued his interest was that there was still a shop in such a desolate place?

What does the shop sell?

Moreover.

The building wasn’t entirely safe; there existed some dangers.

This also kept Li Yi vigilant.

He casually entered a room.

The room was empty, covered with dust, and had nothing in it, seemingly because the furniture had long been removed. But it showed signs of previous habitation, with traces of life on the walls.

Li Yi said nothing, observing as he walked.

He walked up a few flights of stairs.

There was no elevator here, and going up and down was entirely dependent on stairs, but there were many stairs, as many as four, one in each direction. Moreover, the stairs were wide enough that even with many inhabitants, they wouldn’t feel crowded.

When Li Yi reached the fourth floor, two families lived there.

Although the doors were tightly closed, there was light inside, and the white light stood out in the somewhat dim stairway.

Of course, it wasn’t just the fourth floor; other floors also had lights on, scattered haphazardly without any order. It was unclear why these people didn’t live together, or if, in such an environment, people were full of vigilance against each other. They had to guard against not only the dangers inside and outside the building but also conflicts between people.

After all, this place didn’t look orderly.

But without order, why did someone have to act as a guard?

Li Yi looked at the entrance,

The man in the suit named Liu Ming was sitting at a wooden table, staring at the kerosene lamp on the table. Although his expression seemed slightly uneasy, he still fulfilled his duty, diligently guarding the entrance. Even with no one supervising him, he remained loyal to his duty, not shirking his responsibilities.

"A strange world, strange people." Li Yi thought to himself.

He continued to climb a few more floors.

On the eighth floor, Li Yi saw a young girl standing in the corridor, about eighteen years old, slender, wearing a dark red dress. She was staring blankly at the giant female corpse in front of her, seeming somewhat odd.

However, Li Yi’s arrival seemed to attract the girl’s attention.

The next moment, the girl in the dark red dress immediately turned her head to look at Li Yi, then gave a pale, weak smile, "Are you a new tenant? Hello, my name is Bai You. I’ve been living here for a long time. Few people move here now; most people go to the buildings in the center where life is safer and there are more resources."

"So why don’t you leave?" Li Yi asked.

Bai You replied, "Not everyone will abandon their building to leave. There are quite a few willing to stay, and for now, this building is still considered safe, not to the point where it has to be abandoned and left."

As she spoke, she looked again at the gigantic corpse before her.

As long as the corpse isn’t decomposed, it will always protect the building’s safety. But this giant corpse’s state isn’t good, and its protective power is not as strong as before, thus maintaining a relatively fragile balance and safety.

"If you want to stay long-term, you should check out the shop on the tenth floor. It’s still operating, and it might have something you need," Bai You said.

Li Yi nodded at her words. It seemed that this shop was vital to the building. He decided it was necessary to check it out.

"By the way, how’s your strength?" Suddenly, Bai You asked again.

"Not bad, why?" Li Yi asked, "Is there something that needs to be done?"

Bai You pointed to a room not far away, "There’s a rat in there. The tenants here have been trying to get rid of it, but they’ve failed, and several people have died. If you can kill that rat, you will earn a considerable reward, as it’s quite a rare creature."

Li Yi looked over.

He saw a room indeed tightly locked, covered with steel plates, warning of the danger inside, urging people not to open it lightly. Moreover, the door still bore many dried bloodstains, suggesting that a lot of effort and cost were expended to trap the rat inside.

"A rat, a monster... interesting, let me take a look." Li Yi thought for a moment and decided to check it out.

"You’ll need a weapon," Bai You reminded him.

Li Yi replied, "My weapon is my fist."

"Alright, I wish you success..." Bai You said, then turned and walked upstairs, seemingly too afraid to remain on this floor any longer.

After watching her leave, Li Yi said nothing further and headed straight toward the sealed room, then unhesitatingly chopped with his hand.

Gang Qi erupted, and the sealed door shattered with a thunderous roar.

Inside, it was dark, and a strange foul odor hit him in the face.

Suddenly, something in the darkness was disturbed, moved swiftly, and charged towards Li Yi.

Li Yi’s silver eyes gleamed brightly, seeing everything clearly in the dark environment.

He was somewhat surprised.

It was indeed a rat.

However, this rat was astonishingly large, charging like a buffalo; this couldn’t just be a rat anymore, it ought to be a rat spirit.

Moreover, the rat’s fur was entirely golden yellow, marked with numerous scars, seemingly from battles with past residents here, but unfortunately, they all lost, their corpses becoming food for the rat, and their weapons serving as tools for the rat to gnaw on.

"Courting death."

Li Yi felt no fear, facing the huge charging rat, he didn’t use Daoist Skill, but relied on his own strength, raising his hand to strike with a punch.

Fist Power instantly shattered the air, creating a booming thunder, causing the walls around to tremble; had the force been a bit stronger, this punch could easily have shattered the walls and penetrated the building.

The giant golden-furred rat took just one punch, let out a wail, and collapsed on the ground, then rolled over from the corridor straight down to the first floor, blood staining the ground.

Yet, something eerie occurred.

The blood beside the rat’s body seemed drawn in, flowing towards the pale, decaying female corpse in the middle.

It just took a moment.

The giant rat’s body rapidly shriveled, its blood completely absorbed by the massive female corpse, leaving only a soft, intact giant golden rat skin, appearing quite extraordinary.

Such a huge commotion immediately attracted the attention of many curious residents in the building.

They stepped out of their rooms, onto the corridor, poking their heads out to look below.

These people varied in gender, age, including elders and children; though residents of each floor differed, collectively there were over a hundred.

Yet, compared to the number of people the entire building could accommodate, this seemed negligible.

"They killed the golden rat on the eighth floor, that’s great."

"Finally, someone took notice of that rat; I knew such a rare golden rat would be hunted by someone. When was the last attempt to hunt it? Three months ago, right? That time they used the few adventurers they had, but unfortunately all failed... Thought the building would fall into total decline, didn’t expect a miracle."

"Who hunted the golden rat? We haven’t received any notice of such actions lately."

These people started discussing.

Their eyes searched everywhere, finally someone across the building spotted Li Yi and Xuan Yuezi.

"It’s an outsider guest of the building," someone shouted, pointing at Li Yi.

Hearing the commotion, Liu Ming, the guard, also came over. He saw the intact golden rat skin on the ground, then looked up at Li Yi on the eighth floor, and immediately widened his eyes in surprise.

Then, as something crossed Liu Ming’s mind, he approached the golden rat skin, grabbed it, and shook it vigorously.

Large amounts of dried blood and flesh were stripped off. These scraps seemed to have lost all essence, quickly crumbled and scattered.

But from within the massive rat’s stomach, numerous gold coins clattered out, scattering all over.

"Gold coins, lots of them."

The building’s residents were instantly excited upon seeing this, rushing down the stairs, seemingly eager to scramble for those gold coins.

Li Yi was also taken aback by this scene.

Such a large number of gold coins piled in the stomach of the giant golden rat.

These gold coins were familiar to him.

Previously, at a junction room, there were also stacks of gold coins.

"This should be the currency of this world," Li Yi thought, flipping and leaping directly from the eighth floor.

Then, he landed gracefully back on the first floor.

He ignored Liu Ming’s ghostly expression, casually picked up a gold coin from the ground, and examined it.

This wasn’t the gold Li Yi was familiar with.

Though these gold coins were golden yellow, they were made of an unknown metal and seemed to carry some special aura.

He squeezed hard.

Even with Li Yi’s strength, he couldn’t crush them.

Clearly, this was another anomaly.

Li Yi then looked again at the tall, decaying female corpse. Perhaps it was a trick of his eyes, but after absorbing the giant rat’s blood, the corpse seemed to regain a bit of vitality.