In the dark building, several Bone Biting Rats were gnawing on the corpse of a three to four-meter-long python. Their sharp claws chiseled open the python's scales, scooped out the half-rotten flesh, and gnawed on it with relish.
Dean put his hands on the ground and suddenly jumped out.
Whoosh!
Several Bone-Biter Rats heard the movement, turned their heads vigilantly, and suddenly screamed.
Puff! Puff!
Dean stopped, holding a few mice with their skulls crushed. He glanced at the corpse of the python next to him. There was a fatal wound on its head that was so deep that the bone could be seen. The claw marks were large. It should have been injured by other monsters. After escaping here, it unfortunately became food for his former food.
He put the corpses of several Bone-Biter Rats into his backpack and continued to look for other Bone-Biter Rats.
After a while, he filled a bag full of Bone-Biter Rats and came out of the dilapidated building. He took some dead branches as fuel and returned to the square pool.
As soon as he got close, a stench floated from the water. It was the corpse of the underwater monster surrounded by strange insects.
Dean glanced at it and went to the other direction to enter the water. He swam quickly along the drainage channel and soon returned to the hole in front of the ice cave. He climbed out of the water and threw the backpack and the dead branches on the shore. Then he stood on the shore and shook off the water stains on his body. He only felt a chill.
"Are you okay?" Aisha had noticed that Dean had turned back. Seeing his pale face, she asked worriedly.
Dean shook his head slightly and smiled at her. He bent down to open the backpack and poured out all the Bone-Biter Rats inside. He said, "I haven't eaten for a few days. I'll eat these little guys first. I'll look for other things later."
He put the Bone-Biter Rats aside, and then picked up the soaked dead branches and shook them. After shaking off the water, he peeled off the dead skin on the surface of the dead branches and crushed them into filaments.
In this cold ice cave, the water on the dead branches evaporated quickly. After kneading them into hair-like filaments, he broke off two dead branches and sharpened them with Aisha's dagger. One of them was thicker, and the other was tapered. He used the oldest method of making fire, wood drilling.
In the hole, he covered the dead skin filaments and quickly rubbed them. After a few minutes, smoke slowly floated up, and the hot temperature further evaporated the moisture on the wet filaments. After another seven or eight minutes, the smoke was getting bigger and bigger. Suddenly, a flame emerged from the hole.
Dean's eyes lit up, and he carefully took care of it with his hands. Then he took out other dry silk and piled them up. He cut the dry branches into thin pieces and put them on top of the flame. Soon, the flame quickly burned and grew into a cluster of small bonfire.
Aisha squatted next to Dean and stared at him. When the flame burned, her eyes lit up, revealing a bit of joy. Feeling the faint heat brought by the flame, she was a little happy. She never thought that this simple cluster of flame could make her feel happy.
After the flame stabilized, Dean said to Aisha, "Come here and warm yourself. Take care of it and add some firewood."
"Okay." Aisha nodded gently. She squatted and moved to the front of the fire. From time to time, she added the dead branches on the ground to the fire. At the same time, she turned her head to look at Dean. She saw him pick up the Bone-Biter Rats on the ground, quickly cut their bodies with a dagger, and peel off the dirt. His movements were very skillful.
After peeling off the fur of these Bone-Biter Rats, Dean took out their internal organs, and then dug a deep pit on the ground with his hands and buried all the internal organs. This was a habit of hunting in the wilderness, so that the bloody smell of the internal organs would not attract other monsters. It could also greatly slow down the decay of the internal organs and avoid the breeding of parasites in the rotten organs.
These Bone-Biter Rats were as big as rabbits in the old era. After peeling off the skin and dirt, only a bloody skeleton was left.
Dean took out the dead branches and put them in front of the fire. He handed two to Aisha and said, "If you roast them a little bit, you should be able to eat them."
Aisha glanced at the bloody Bone-Biter Rats and didn't feel any bad. She took them and put them on the fire to roast. With her physique, there would be no problem even if she ate them raw. Her body's immune system could resist the bacteria hidden in the blood of the Bone-Biter Rats. After all, in terms of strength alone, she could be regarded as a monster among the monsters.
Blood dripped along the Bone-Biter Rats' bodies into the fire. After roasting for more than ten minutes, the blood on the Bone-Biter Rats' bodies completely dried up and turned into a thin layer of blood film sticking to their bodies. A faint smell of blood slowly drifted out of their bodies.
Dean felt a little greedy. He was already hungry.
Half an hour later, all the Bone-Biter Rats were roasted. Dean didn't stand on ceremony. He used a dagger to make a few cuts. Seeing that the flesh inside was completely cooked, he immediately moved his mouth to eat.
After eating two roasted Bone-Biter Rats, he felt a trace of warmth coming from his abdomen. His stiff body seemed to have recovered some flexibility.
Aisha also ate heartily. She didn't pay attention to the way she ate. Although there was no salt and cumin, but she still felt that it was very delicious even though she was starving.
"How does it taste?" Dean looked at her wolfing down the food and smiled.
"Delicious." Aisha swallowed the meat in her mouth and said contentedly.
Dean smiled and turned to the side. He found a few small jars among the saltpeter, bandages, and other first-aid items. There were tiny worms crawling in them. They were the Parasitic Soul Worms he had collected before. He didn't have the opportunity to absorb them before. Now this ice cave was a relatively safe place. He didn't have to worry about being attacked by monsters during the absorption process.
"What are you going to do?" Aisha saw Dean holding a few bottles of Parasitic Soul Worms. She seemed to think of something and asked.
Dean picked up a long box from the side and opened it. There was a syringe inside. He had specially brought it. He replied, "I'm going to absorb these little things to see if my strength can have a breakthrough."
What he had experienced in the Barren Area made him understand that every bit of strength he gained here would increase his chances of survival. No one knew what he would encounter in the next moment. Maybe when he went out to look for food again, he would encounter demonic creatures that he could not escape from …
Aisha was startled and said, "You want to use these high-level Parasitic Soul Worms as nourishment?"
Dean nodded.
Aisha stared at him and nodded slightly. She said, "Although it's a bit extravagant and wasteful, it's also a way. Being able to survive is the most important thing. If I'm not wrong, your magic mark shouldn't be a rare magic mark, but the magic mark of the legendary monster 'Splitter', right?"
Dean had expected that she might see through his magic mark. He nodded and said, "Yes."
Aisha looked at him deeply and said, "Is it the magic mark of the child of the Splitter?"
Dean didn't expect her to guess it at once. He glanced at her and nodded. "Yes, after you killed it, I followed its trail and found the little Splitter it gave birth to."
"I see." Aisha nodded slightly. "No wonder you can persist for so long under Parna's attack. The resources provided by the family should be enough for you to barely reach the primary Frontiersman, right?"
Dean's eyes flashed. He nodded and said, "Almost."
"It seems that I underestimated you at the beginning." Aisha said softly, "If I had known it earlier, I would have taken you back to the Dragon Clan. At that time, I was still a Saintess. I could give you the best resources to cultivate. In this way, you are already a Pioneer. With the legendary magic mark, you can be completely independent."
Dean smiled and said, "If that's the case, I can't get this legendary magic mark."
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