"Eh?" Luo Yuan stopped and looked at the pile of bones in the bushes.
Skeletons were nothing special as they were everywhere in the forest. Be it humans or mutated beasts, the whole forest was almost covered with skeletons. What really caught Luo Yuan's attention was a wooden stick that had obvious traces of being cut. Of course, it was more like a pillar than a wooden stick. It was as thick as a big bowl and was about four meters long when put together. Luo Yuan weighed the smaller part of it and estimated that it weighed about a hundred kilograms, so the whole thing probably weighed about three hundred kilograms.
This was obviously not a human's weapon!
Luo Yuan frowned. He endured the stench and cleared the bushes. The bones inside were completely exposed. Only the upper body was left, the lower body was gone. Apparently, it had been eaten by a mutated beast. Fat maggots the size of a thumb were crawling in the eye sockets of the skull. As Luo Yuan released his aura, countless poisonous maggots crawled out from under the bones and fled in all directions.
The skeleton belonged to a primate, but it was much bigger than a human's. Its upper body was already two meters tall. Including its lower body, it was estimated to be four to five meters tall. Its head was the size of a washbasin. Luo Yuan turned the head over and was surprised to find that its head was not round like most creatures. It was slightly slanted like a cylinder with a long scoop at the back of its head.
Coupled with the rotten beast skin next to it, Luo Yuan knew without guessing that it was an intelligent race.
Luo Yuan stood still with his eyes closed. He gently sniffed with his nose. The stench of bones, the fragrance of various plants, the smell of animal skin, the smell of rotting leaves and many other smells entered Luo Yuan's nostrils.
Luo Yuan's nose had far surpassed that of a hunting dog's. Even the fragrance of plants in the air could be divided into hundreds of different types.
The corpse had already decomposed into bones. He did not know how long it had been, but as there had not been rain for a long time, he soon caught a weak scent. Based on this scent, he could vaguely determine the traces of the owner of the corpse.
Following the scent, Luo Yuan walked for a few hundred meters and found three more corpses. There were traces of a fight in the bushes nearby. Luo Yuan noticed that the scent was suddenly stronger when he got there. It was obvious that it was not just one "person", but a group of "people" that came out. When they arrived, they split into several groups and headed in different directions. Luo Yuan guessed that there were about eight of them. Perhaps they had come out to hunt and were suddenly attacked when they arrived. One of them died very quickly, and then a fight broke out. However, the creature that attacked them was very strong, and two more of them died in the end. Their morale collapsed and they fled in all directions.
However, these guesses were useless. Luo Yuan only had one thought in his mind. The only good news for him was that the air was thick here, so he did not have to spend so much effort looking for it.
He suddenly sped up and jumped onto a tree branch. Like an ape, he silently advanced through the forest like a ghost.
There were more and more signs of human activity in front of him. Many of the trees showed signs of being felled. At this moment, he suddenly stopped. Using the branches as cover, he looked ahead. With a rustling sound, a group of ten odd giants entered his line of sight.
The group of giants was muscular and exuded a strong aura. The shortest one was about four meters tall, while the tallest one was more than six meters tall. Their bodies were smooth and hairless, and their skin was greenish-black. Their cylindrical heads made them look like they were wearing chef's hats.
Unlike ordinary mutated beasts, they had rough animal skins around their waists and weapons in their hands. Of course, to humans, these weapons were extremely simple. Most of them were replaced by thick wooden sticks.
However, what surprised Luo Yuan was that the leader of the group was holding a steel axe with a blade that was about a meter wide.
This steel axe could be said to be crudely made. Apart from its shocking size, the craftsmanship was simply not worth mentioning. Not only was the surface uneven, even the edge of the blade was uneven. There were notches and sawteeth everywhere, and there were even a few fine cracks on the body of the axe.
However, it was indeed steel. The greyish-silver luster of the axe made Luo Yuan look serious.
The Stone Age, the Bronze Age, the Black Iron Age, and then the Steel Age during the First Industrial Revolution. The history of human civilization was a living evolution of using materials. Although this conclusion was a little biased, being able to use steel meant that this intelligent race had a certain level of metallurgy.
He felt a chill in his heart. The last time he met an intelligent race, they could only use fire, but this time, they could already smelt steel. The evolution of the intelligent races was so fast that it sent chills down his spine. Humans had evolved for hundreds of thousands of years to reach this step, but the intelligent races after the end of the world seemed to have no hindrance and were advancing by leaps and bounds.
Could humans really suppress these intelligent races?
He stared at the group of giants, his heart filled with killing intent. No matter what, he was still a member of the human race. If the reconstruction area was destroyed, even if he could escape, he could only wander around and struggle for survival.
Luo Yuan gently took out his sharp sword and quietly landed from the tree branch.
"Humans! #% # "The leader of the giants shouted when he saw Luo Yuan suddenly landing in front of him. The group of giants quickly became alert.
The clear word "human" shocked Luo Yuan. He squinted his eyes and looked at the giants. Luo Yuan could feel that the giants were afraid of him when they first saw him. However, when they realized that he was alone, they suddenly relaxed.
"Surrender, live; resist, die!" The leader of the giants grimaced and said with a fierce face. His accent was not fluent, and his voice was deep and heavy. As he said this, he waved his hand and the rest of the giants quickly surrounded Luo Yuan.
Luo Yuan looked around and did not care. He smiled coldly and said, "You can talk?"
"Surrender, live! Resist, die! "The leader of the giants repeated again.
"It seems like you only learned one sentence. Go to hell then." Luo Yuan shook his Zhanmadao and an invisible force gushed out of the blade, extending about two meters away. It was not the light of the Will, but the sharpness of the newly synthesized Zhanmadao.
"# ¥% # @!" The leader of the giants lost his patience when he saw that Luo Yuan was about to resist. He roared and was ready to capture the "human" alive.
However, the giants under his hands did not move. While he was confused, he suddenly realized that the small human had disappeared. The next moment, he felt a slight pain in his throat. He subconsciously touched his throat, and just when he moved, he suddenly felt that he was flying and began to spin.
More than ten heads fell to the ground, and a pillar of blood rose up like a fountain around Luo Yuan.
He gently put his sword back into the sheath and continued to walk forward.
He frowned all the way, and his face was pale. Even among the intelligent races, it was impossible to learn the human language without a teacher. In addition, the giants had tried to make him surrender, and the steel axe had appeared out of nowhere. He had a faint premonition that something was up.
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