The sun slowly rose from the horizon, and the thick fog in the forest quickly dissipated under the sunlight. A new day had begun.
On an empty grassland, a behemoth walked towards a strange tree with a giant's corpse in its mouth. The strange tree was surrounded by a hill of corpses, almost burying it.
These hills of corpses were only a small part of it. At the entrance of the corridor on the rock wall, there was an even larger hill of corpses, waiting for the behemoth to tirelessly move them.
Such high-intensity repetitive exercise, coupled with the hopeless workload, had obviously made the violent behemoth emotionally less docile and tame. For example, it would occasionally do some small actions to vent its agitation. It would use its thick limbs to trample the corpses, tear them into pieces with its sharp claws, and then violently swallow them into its mouth.
Of course, this kind of venting behavior had become less and less frequent over time. The frequency of this was proportional to the time when someone was around, and inversely proportional to the degree of its bloated stomach.
Of course, venting was an occasional behavior. Most of the time, it was still obedient and conscientiously doing the moving work. This was the survival wisdom it had learned from several bloody lessons, even if its unscrupulous and terrifying master was no longer here.
Sometimes, when the behemoth put down the corpses, it would look at the fruit of the strange tree. There seemed to be something there that was attracting it, causing it to look at it from time to time, but it never dared to approach it.
The soil near the strange tree had long been soaked in the blood of the corpses, and the air was filled with a strong smell of blood. As if awakened by the smell of blood, from three o 'clock in the morning, snow-white translucent filaments that looked like mycelium seemed to have smelled the aroma of food. They scrambled to extend from the knotted roots, tightly wrapping the nearby corpses. As time passed, more and more filaments emerged from the ground, as if to wrap all the corpses.
As the feeding began, the whorls on the trunk wriggled slightly. The yellow and purple whorls kept changing color. From a distance, it looked as if the entire trunk was slowly rotating.
… …
In a grotto halfway up the rock wall, heavy snoring sounds rose and fell, like a symphony orchestra playing.
After working through the night, everyone was exhausted and had already fallen asleep.
Nothing happened in the first half of the night, but in the second half of the night, in order to clean up their new camp, all the giant corpses were thrown down from the high stone walls.
Now that the weather was hot, the corpses would start to stink and rot in less than half a day. Not only would it attract all kinds of scavenging insects and parasites, but the smell itself would also not be pleasant. As their new camp, no one wanted to sleep next to rotten corpses every day.
The giant's weight was unknown. With a height of five to six meters and a sturdy physique, each of its heads weighed almost a ton. Even just moving it was not something that a single person could accomplish. At least two people would be needed to push it down. If it was a woman or a child, another person would be needed.
In the middle of the night, everyone's body was about to fall apart. They just hastily cleaned up the corpses in the corridor and fell asleep.
Even with Luo Yuan's inhuman physique, he felt a little tired, but he did not fall asleep. He opened the system notification.
"Current Mission: Level D Special Mission: Wipe out the Grey Man Tribe and kill all intelligent creatures in the tribe. Note: This is a special mission, the actual difficulty has been reduced by one level. "Time Limit: None, Mission Status: Completed, Evaluation: Perfect."
"Character: Luo Yuan"
"Degree of Completion: 100%"
"Basic Experience Reward + 9,600 * 100%"
"Evaluation: Perfect, Experience Reward + 9,600 * 100%"
"Experience: 5520153600"
"Battle Beast: Forest Monitor Lizard"
"Degree of Completion: 0%"
"Basic Experience Reward + 9,600 * 0%"
"Evaluation: None, Experience Reward + 4,800 * 0"
"Experience: 114019200"
"You have leveled up!"
Luo Yuan was stunned for a moment, but then he looked happy. He did not expect to level up. Two consecutive Level D missions had been perfect, and he had directly accumulated enough experience to level up. This was a pleasant surprise, and even the haze brought by the curse had been washed away.
He hurriedly opened the Attribute Panel and looked at the additional Attribute Point and five Skill Points. He looked at them over and over again and could not help but laugh out loud. It was not until five to six minutes later that he barely calmed down.
He closed his eyes and frowned, looking slightly serious.
"I didn't have such a strong mental fluctuation when I leveled up in the past. It seems like the existence of the curse has greatly affected my Will. A considerable part of my Will is restrained by the curse, and I can't use it. I can't control my emotions when I'm stimulated."
"This matter can't be delayed. I have to solve it as soon as possible. Otherwise, I don't know what kind of embarrassing things I'll do." Luo Yuan was speechless when he thought about how he would be sad and sad in front of everyone in the future, and how he would lose his dignity.
Calming himself down, he opened the Attribute Panel again and looked at the various attributes. Every attribute was roughly balanced. Excluding the bonuses from "Earth Special Ability" and "Haunted Locust Tree Heart", Strength, Dexterity, and Vitality were all 14 points. Among the sub-attributes, besides his Will, which was 15 points, the others were all 13 points, which were slightly lower. However, it did not affect them much. He already had other plans for his Intelligence. Perhaps it would have a breakthrough this time.
What made him hesitate was whether he should add the attribute point to Dexterity or Will.
He was now deeply affected by the curse. If he added the attribute point to Will, the curse would soon be suppressed or even disappear. On the other hand, the attribute of Will was already high enough, and it could be improved just like Sensory Perception. At least, he had never added a point to Will. He had always relied on himself to break through.
It was not worth it to put a precious attribute point on Will.
"Forget it. I just need to spend some time. I don't believe that I can't get rid of the curse." Luo Yuan smiled coldly and made up his mind.
The attribute of Dexterity was slightly blurred, and immediately became 15 points …
As the heat in his body subsided, he slowly opened his eyes. His surroundings became even quieter. Even his snoring became longer and more melodious. It was as if the world had suddenly slowed down by half a beat. It was as if he had entered a faster time dimension.
He stretched out his palm and carefully felt the touch of the air on his skin. He could clearly feel that the air was harder than before. It had a fluid texture. He gently squeezed it, and the air flowed out from the gaps between his fingers. He suddenly felt like he could grab it.
So, he did it.
He clenched his fist!
There was a loud bang, and the air around his fist was turbulent. It was as if he had squeezed the air until it exploded.
15 points of Dexterity was 7 points of a normal person. 5 times was equivalent to a normal person being 7 times slower. 5 times faster was equivalent to a normal person being 7 times slower. All physical phenomena began to gradually reveal their nature in this time dimension. It was like watching a movie. There were only frames, and everything was presented in front of him in a more realistic and clear manner.
He stood up and walked out of the cave. Although he did not feel that he was walking fast, his speed was equivalent to a normal person's jogging.
The outside world had become somewhat unfamiliar. The slowly falling dust in front of him, the gently swaying tree branches under the gentle breeze, and the ever-present sticky air made him feel as if he had jumped out of the world and was watching coldly from the sidelines.
Obviously, he needed to take some time to slowly adjust to the side effects of his high Dexterity. The symptoms this time were more serious than the last time, so the difficulty would probably be higher.
… …
Luo Yuan took some time to adjust to the feeling of his Dexterity and stopped. He wanted to take the time to get rid of the effects of the curse.
He sat cross-legged and closed his eyes, trying to completely calm his mind.
However, these simple actions, which were like eating and drinking, seemed to be extra difficult now. The existence of the curse made him see all kinds of horrible illusions when he closed his eyes.
The screams before death, the resentful eyes, the ferocious roars, and all kinds of horrible scenes appeared one after another. Of course, these things that ordinary people were afraid of did not affect Luo Yuan at all. However, it seriously affected Luo Yuan's meditation. It was like a person who was about to fall asleep but had a loudspeaker playing in his ears. It would be difficult for him to fall asleep.
Luo Yuan tried for a long time, but in the end, he still could not calm down. Instead, he felt a little annoyed. His thinking was simple. He could block out the external disturbances, but the curse went deep into his body and soul. It was not something that he could calm down easily.
He stood up and walked back and forth for a while. When he calmed down again, he sat cross-legged again.
He knew that this was a spiritual battle and a battle of Will. If he gave up, it would mean that he had lost the battle.
He thought for a while and sat cross-legged again. This time, he did not rush to meditate. Instead, he looked at the illusions with interest.
He found that the illusions of the curse were very simple. Most of them only had a short picture, and the picture was quite blurry and fleeting. Of course, there were some that were longer, and the picture was relatively clearer. Obviously, these people had relatively high Will before they died.
However, all the pictures were no longer than a second, and the range of changes was very fast.
In less than 10 minutes, Luo Yuan had watched all the curses.
He then watched them for the second time, the third time, the fourth time …
Each time, he watched them carefully and attentively. By the fifth time, he had basically figured out the basic pattern of the illusions. He knew every picture like the back of his hand. He could even recite the sequence of the pictures like the back of his hand.
He found that the effect of the curse was actually quite mechanical and rigid, as if it was carrying out a certain fixed program and pattern.
If the human brain was likened to a computer, then the curse would be a foreign virus. It could overload the computer and burn through the motherboard (death), or it could crash the system (madness). In the worst case scenario, it could also cause the computer to lag and decrease its performance (hallucinatory interference). Due to his strong defense and good performance, he belonged to the latter.
In the middle, he opened his eyes again and rested for a while before continuing to watch the illusions.
The fifth time, the sixth time, the seventh time … It was as if he had entered a demonic barrier. He looked at it over and over again, carefully and seriously, even though he had already memorized it by heart and could recite it backwards …
Until …
He became more and more sleepy. An indescribable feeling of annoyance and anger rose from the bottom of his heart.
He did not want to watch anymore.
The illusions continued to appear in his mind, but because they were too familiar, he could remember every detail of each illusion. It was so familiar that he almost wanted to vomit. It was as if he was hypnotized. He completely ignored the illusions. Gradually, there was not the slightest fluctuation in his heart, and he completely calmed down!
He finally meditated.
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