Stepping on the hot ground, Roy carried a strange creature the size of a rabbit on his shoulder. As he ran, he carefully looked around.
Walking through the dark forest, he carefully avoided the hanging branches of the twisted and hideous trees because these trees were demon trees. Once the hanging branches were touched by living creatures, they would immediately wrap around them crazily to capture prey.
Between the dark trees, there were many dense white spider webs. These spider webs were something he had to be careful of. When he saw these spider webs, it meant that he had entered the hunting range of the spider demons.
A strange cry suddenly came from above the forest. Roy quickly fell to the ground, placed the strange creature he was carrying on his back, and then lay motionless.
A huge black shadow swept past him, but fortunately, it did not seem to notice Roy lying on the ground and flew straight past him.
Roy was very lucky. He had already planned to give up on his prey. If the black shadow noticed him swooping down, it would definitely grab the prey on his back first …
After avoiding all kinds of dangers with great difficulty, Roy finally came to a huge tree at the edge of the forest. This giant tree had long died and decayed, but there was a naturally formed hole at its roots, which had become Roy's residence.
After arriving at the tree hole, Roy did not enter immediately. Instead, he carefully looked at the camouflage he left before leaving. After finding that the camouflage had not been touched, he pushed aside the rotten branches and leaves at the entrance of the hole and carried the prey in.
In the cave, Roy put down the prey on his shoulder and heaved a long sigh of relief.
It had been more than a week since he came to the underground world, and he had finally adapted to life here. Although there were still many dangerous environments and species here, he could still avoid them as long as he observed carefully.
In this more than a week, Roy's greatest progress was learning to hunt. It could not be helped. Any living creature needed to eat to survive, and Roy was naturally no exception. But for now, the prey he could catch was quite limited.
In addition to demons living in the underground world, there were also many monsters. These monsters were equivalent to the beasts in the human world. But to be honest, it was difficult for Roy to distinguish the difference between low-rank demons and monsters just by looking at their appearance. According to his observations, many low-rank demons acted according to their instincts most of the time — hunting, killing, and destroying. These behavioral characteristics did not show much intelligence at all, and they were no different from monsters and beasts.
In other words, they had low intelligence …
But having low intelligence did not mean that they were easy to bully. In fact, demons were the rulers of this world. Even low-rank demons would become stronger and stronger as they gradually advanced from infancy to adulthood. If they could survive for a long time, they would gradually become existences at the top of the food chain.
If infancy demons were only low-rank existences, then adults would slowly upgrade to middle-rank low-rank until they finally became adults. Then they would be at the top of the low-rank. Further up, if the demon bloodline was not too complicated and relatively pure, then there might be a chance to promote to middle-rank demon …
Roy did not know what a middle-rank demon looked like because he had not encountered one so far, so he had always suspected that there was a lower world in the underground world that could be entered through some entrances. However, Roy's exploration range was limited, and he had not found these entrances yet.
These were the conclusions that Roy guessed while observing. Even if there were some deviations, it was not far off …
Similarly, during this time, Roy's body was also growing. His body became slightly stronger, and he grew a lot taller. Although he still had not broken through 1.2 meters, in the attribute feedback of the system interface, his strength increased by 2 points, and his speed increased by 1 point. His magic energy did not increase, but his activity increased the fastest. It increased by 5 points, reaching 18 points.
Strength, speed, and magic energy were easy to understand, but Roy was a little confused about the activity attribute. According to his experience during this period, he found that this activity might refer to his vitality!
The strength of his vitality represented the degree of damage he could withstand and the time it took for him to recover after the injury …
Roy put down the prey in his hand and began to prepare his dinner.
Roy did not know what this strange creature he caught should be called, but it should be some kind of monster, and it was an infant monster. Roy only caught it when he saw it crawling out of the ground and trying to climb up a tree. In his impression, only certain insects would have similar behavior.
This strange infant monster looked like a fat bug, but it had four hook-like legs, like an ant without pincers. However, there was a large hole in its head, which Roy had shot with his gun.
Roy did not upgrade the revolver in his hand. He only spent some time to draw and supplement the details of the gun. Now, this revolver was very similar to the Colt Python revolver in Roy's memory. After modifying the lines of the gun and making the barrel straight, Roy found that he could guarantee a certain degree of accuracy even if he fired from a long distance, unlike when he only dared to fire at close range with the fifty-cent special effect …
As for why he did not continue to upgrade this weapon, it was because Roy found that it was not worth it!
During this time, Roy encountered a few adult low-rank demons. Although he saw them from afar, he found that the defenses of these adult demons had greatly improved. In particular, he saw an insect-type low-rank demon whose body was covered with a chitin carapace that gave off a shiny metallic feeling. Just by looking at it, Roy felt that it would be difficult for bullets to penetrate such a carapace.
Unless Roy was willing to spend a lot of money and consume his souls to add attributes such as' Armor Penetration 'and' Armor Penetration 'to this gun, he would die a terrible death when he encountered this kind of defense-type demon with just this gun alone.
After realizing that the use of pure external weapons was becoming limited in the future, Roy began to change his mind and wanted to try to transform his body.
True strength was strength, especially for creatures like demons. But Roy still needed some time to reach adulthood. According to the system's evaluation of him, he would probably reach the top of low-rank in this life. Promotion had nothing to do with him at all because his demon bloodline was too heterogeneous. Not only him, but even most oviparous little demons could only reach the top of low-rank at most.
But now, due to the existence of the system, Roy had another choice.
In fact, Roy could have used his souls to exchange for braised beef, Dongpo pork knuckles, and other human foods to eat instead of risking his life to hunt like now. But he still did so without hesitation because he was accumulating souls now. His next plan to transform his body required a large number of souls.
The monsters he killed also had souls, but their quality was not high. The quality of souls seemed to be linked to the intelligence the species had when they were alive. The higher the intelligence, the richer the emotions, the higher the quality of the soul formed after death, and the more souls it could contain. The souls that Roy could obtain now were relatively low-level, so he could only make up for the lack of quality with quantity.
Roy had caught four prey and obtained four souls in more than a week, but they were much smaller than the four-eyed demon's. Even so, Roy felt that it was almost enough.
Enduring the discomfort in his heart, Roy ate this insect monster. He did not dare to light a fire to roast it because he was worried that the smell of roasted food would attract powerful enemies. On the contrary, he did not need to worry too much about the smell of blood because it was everywhere in this forest …
Before he had the capital to protect himself, he had to be afraid …
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