Chapter 169: Fork in the Road
Su Ming hoped that the other party would hit him, because if the infected person did not resist, he was not sure whether it could be considered a fight.
Not long after, new tender flesh began to grow on his skin, but the growth rate was very slow, just as the introduction of the supernatural power said - the injury took a long time to transfer.
Slowly, smoke began to come out of the infected person's body, his skin began to dry, pus evaporated, and slowly flickering sparks flashed on his body.
It was dark, and Su Ming was still pressing on the infected person.
As his injuries continued to recover, Su Ming had long since gotten out of the state of [Return from Hell]. Although his burns were still severe, compared to before, these injuries were not worth mentioning at all.
The process of physical recovery is painful, especially the stage of remodeling the pain nerves, but compared with the desire to survive, enduring this pain is nothing.
In addition, Su Ming was even more fortunate that he met an infected person. This kind of immortal cockroach that would survive until it was killed by force was the most suitable target for transferring injuries.
The infected person was completely immune to the virus due to Su Ming's highly toxic body.
Now, apart from being a little disgusting, Su Ming looked at the guy under him like a good friend.
After a few more hours, the infected person who was suppressed by Su Ming had suffered severe burns. His throat was pinched and he could not utter a word. The burns on Su Ming's body had completely healed, and the symptoms of severe ischemia had completely disappeared...even the herpes caused by the previous infection had disappeared.
Su Ming stood up, stepped on the infected person's head with his foot, and a ball of fire flew out from his palm, completely igniting the infected person.
The infected were bathed in flames and howled miserably because of the fear of death.
Su Ming stood aside expressionlessly, muttering, "This is what it feels like to be alive."
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After burning the infected people to death, Su Ming found some leaves to cover himself, and then quickly rushed in the direction where Flora and the others had left.
He had no shoes, no clothes, and only a grass skirt to cover his body.
Su Ming rushed all the way and felt like a savage. His healthy body and strong physique made Su Ming know that he had been reborn, but his heart was heavy. The victory of this battle was the result of the efforts of him and Anthony.
He paid with his will to die, Anthony paid with his life...If it weren't for Anthony, everyone would die.
Su Ming shook his head and stopped thinking about these heavy things. He couldn't be tripped by such sad emotions now. He still had more things to do.
Su Ming kept on walking under the moonlight, and finally reached the end of the mountain road after a few hours. He saw two forks in the road in front of him from afar, and a straight cliff like a sword divided the mountain road into two parts.
A gust of wind blew, and Su Ming slowly stopped. He smelled the pungent stench of corruption in the air.
He was ready for battle and continued to move forward, climbing up a low hillside. Looking down from above, he saw corpses lying all over the slope.
The flesh of the corpse has turned into a black sticky liquid, clinging to the bones like jelly. Only the human shape can be barely seen. The horse and human flesh are stacked together, with the body shape twisted, reminiscent of some abstract dark art.
Su Ming's heart suddenly tightened. He took a deep breath, walked forward with a serious expression, and carefully identified each body.
After checking around and finding no trace of Flora and Xia Xiaoyu, he breathed a sigh of relief.
"They are all dead. Judging from their postures, they must have been crushed by something heavy." Su Ming whispered to himself and looked around, trying to find some clues for him to associate.
He noticed a steep cliff nearby with trees growing diagonally on it. At this moment, all the trees had been crushed, as if a huge stone ball had rolled down from it.
Su Ming could imagine what happened here at that time. When Flora and her group walked here, a huge poisonous creature on the cliff next to them rushed down the steep slope like a falling rock, and then crushed both the people and the horses.
Of course, it is impossible for the stone to be poisonous, let alone decompose the corpse to this extent. The huge body and deadly toxicity easily remind people of the corruptor mentioned by Sarah.
"I don't know if Xia Xiaoyu caught up with the main force at that time. I hope she is okay." Su Ming murmured to himself.
He looked at the forks in the road before him, chose one of them, and continued forward.
The sky was dark and the moonlight was dim, so Su Ming slowed down a little.
After running on the mountain road for more than ten minutes, Su Ming encountered a break in the road and had to stop.
The mountain road was cut off here, leaving a gap of ten meters in the middle. He was sure that the gap had appeared not long ago, as it could be seen from the difference in color of the rocks on the cliff.
There seemed to be red writing on the ground on the opposite side of the mountain road. Then, looking carefully under the moonlight, the words could be vaguely recognized.
"Not... this one, not this road?" Su Ming frowned. He believed that the words were left by Xia Xiaoyu.
This road should not be the road leading to the next village, but why did Xia Xiaoyu take this road?
Also, why didn't she write the message here, but instead wrote it on the other side of the broken mountain road?
Su Ming retracted his gaze and looked at the broken cliff next to him. He saw two climbing nails nailed on the rock wall about one or two meters away from the opposite side, but there were only two of them. The subsequent climbing nails were not nailed all the way up, which proved that the person who originally planned to climb gave up and turned back halfway.
The image of Xia Xiaoyu climbing the rock wall emerged in Su Ming's mind . She wanted to come over at first, but for some reason, gave up halfway, turned back to the wrong path, and left her last message on the ground.
Looking at the ten-meter gap in front of him, Su Ming frowned.
Although his strengthened body has reached the peak that ordinary people can reach, it is still very difficult to jump over a distance of ten meters, not to mention that he cannot even run in a straight line on this road.
But he couldn't give up, he had to go over there, Xia Xiaoyu was right across the way, and her condition must be very bad.
Su Ming closed his eyes, imagined carefully, and constructed an iron chain with a lock in his mind.
As Su Ming imagined, blood flowed out from his hands and finally solidified into the shape of a chain. He successfully created this "weapon" that did not look like a weapon.
"Great, it can be made!" Su Ming breathed a sigh of relief. He had a way to get through.
Next, all you need to do is make some strong nails and a hammer to get through.
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Deep in the dark cave, an orange-yellow light was flickering.
Xia Xiaoyu sat alone next to the campfire, holding a mirror and looking at her face. Her face in the mirror was as pale as paper, and the whites of her eyes were bloodshot. In the flickering light of the fire, she could vaguely see the tiny blood vessels under her skin beating slightly.
She suddenly felt her eyes were a little dry, so she rubbed them gently and felt a little blood on her fingertips... Her eyes began to bleed and her vision seemed to be deteriorating.
"Damn it." Xia Xiaoyu's voice was rough and dry, as if there was no moisture in her throat, as if it was filled with thick phlegm.
She weakly put the mirror aside and moved closer to the campfire to warm herself. Her cold body finally warmed up a little, but the itchiness under her skin made her want to scratch. She had to concentrate to suppress the urge to scratch.
"That thing should be the corruptor."
Xia Xiaoyu recalled the huge monster she had encountered before...that monster could actually see her.
If she thought about it carefully, she could have handled the situation better at that time, but the corrupt person appeared too suddenly.
At that time, she had just caught up with the large group that Flora was in. They were planning to take the fork in the road on the right, but after the first half of the team entered, the Corrupted rolled down the hillside and cut the entire team in half. Many people were directly wrapped and smashed to death by the Corrupted.
She was at the end at the time, and Flora had already entered the right path, and the first action taken by the Corruptor was to pursue Flora and the others.
In order to prevent the corrupt from chasing the main force, Xia Xiaoyu tried to attack the corrupt with firearms. Although the kinetic energy attack of the rifle could not cause significant damage to it, the corrupt did respond to her.
It noticed her presence and targeted her, forcing her to take another route.
Even now, Xia Xiaoyu still couldn't believe that the ghost thing moved so fast. Its speed was not much different from that of a horse. Although its body was huge, it was just a rolling slime. Its size did not affect its movement at all.
If the weight of the corrupt officials had not collapsed the mountain road, Xia Xiaoyu believed that she would never have survived.
She had no way to fight the monster, not even to get a little closer.
During the entire chase, she didn't come into contact with the Corruptor at all. She just inhaled a little bit of the foul odor emitted by the other party, and her body became so bad.
The horse she was riding had died, and now it was her turn.
Originally, Xia Xiaoyu planned to return to the correct road. She carried rock climbing gear with her so that she could cross the broken mountain road. However, her physical strength was not enough to support her to climb the short distance of ten meters. She tried and almost fell into the abyss and was crushed to pieces.
The only thing I could do at that time was to leave a secret signal for Su Ming, telling him that this was not the right path.
Can Su Ming see the code? If he gets there at night, will it be too dim to see clearly?
But since the mountain road is broken, he should go back and take another road. I hope he can catch up with Flora and the others. In this strange world, it is impossible to survive alone.
As she thought about it, she took out the canned food she carried with her. The food had no taste when she put it in her mouth. After a few bites, she couldn't eat anymore.
Her body was getting colder and colder, and the itching sensation slowly turned into a dull pain. She could clearly feel the changes in her body. Her sensitive and itchy skin slowly became dull and numb. Now she wouldn't feel any pain even if she pinched herself lightly. The tip of her tongue was numb, and her fingers couldn't contract freely.
Damn it, I really can't rely on my own immune system to fight it? I was too naive before.
Xia Xiaoyu leaned against the stone, staring at the flickering campfire, with a lot of thoughts in her mind.
