Drax continued to explain: "This is a magical crystal containing soul power. It can repair equipment and can be absorbed by people to replenish the loss of mental power,
replenish our ability to use innate skills, and restore physical strength to a certain extent."
"That is to say, after our skills and spells are used to the limit. After absorbing the power of the soul gem, we can quickly restore the missing mental power, thereby restoring the ability to use skills and spells?"
"You can say that you can just think of it as a magic potion in the game." Drax nodded, "In addition to the function of repairing equipment and restoring mental power.
Soul gems can also be used to charge most magic items, such as the Explosion Ring. Under normal conditions, the Explosion Ring needs forty-eight hours to recover, but if it is charged with the power of the soul gem, the recovery time of the Explosion Curse can be greatly shortened.
However, charging magic items is not cost-effective due to huge consumption. Unless you have to, it is best not to use it easily."
Ophelia: "I really can't see that a small stone has so many uses. I think this will definitely become our most important thing in the future "Soul gems are practical consumables. In fact, with the development of the future, soul gems will be used as currency. This low-level soul gem is more than enough to exchange for a low-quality gray equipment." "Ah, this thing is so valuable?" Ophelia opened her eyes wide. In her impression, equipment is a very precious thing. "So, we get three pieces of gray equipment?" Drax did not deny it. "You can say that, but soul gems cannot be used as currency in transactions in the short term. However, these three soul gems are very valuable to us. It's just the right time. We have all been depleted of mental energy, so we can just replenish it. "
Finally, Drax took one of the three lower-level soul gems, Ophelia took one, and gave another to Seraphina. The three of them had huge energy, and they could quickly replenish their energy by extracting the power from the soul gems.
It took only more than ten minutes to absorb a lower-level soul gem, and the three of them directly recovered about 30% to 40%, which was enough for Drax to maintain the "Eye of Insight" for half an hour. Ophelia used blood sacrifice twice, and Seraphina could barely use the "Psychedelic Powder" once.
The surrounding burning flames gradually extinguished, and dozens of minutes passed.
Everyone didn't dare to rest for too long, so they simply packed up their things, each ate a small half piece of chocolate, and set off before dawn.
After this battle, the team's strength was raised to a new level. The weakest of them killed six or seven monsters. Among them, there were several outstanding people like Louise, who had killed fifteen or sixteen stronger zero-level monsters, reaching the late level of zero-level and about to break through to the peak of zero-level.
If there were two or three more primary-level monsters for her to kill, another primary-level master would be born in this team!
It was precisely because of this that although there were often sneak attacks from monsters on the road, many times Drax and the other five could easily get rid of them without them taking action.
Along the way, they did not encounter any primary-level monsters. The existence of zero-level monsters, Drax and the other five were too lazy to take action, and tried to leave it to the others in the team to kill.
It is worth mentioning that Huang Jianmin himself is not weak. After the fight last night, his strength can also be ranked in the middle and upper among the crowd.
The weather on this day was relatively cool. Thick clouds piled up in the sky, blocking the scorching sun, and there was less stuffiness in the forest. Such a climate environment is suitable for trekking.
After about three hours of arduous journey, Huang Jianmin finally found the forest in the area where the police station was located.
"This is the mark I left behind." Huang Jianmin found a cross-shaped mark on a tree. He pointed to the woods ahead and said, "It will definitely not be wrong this time. Everyone walk in this direction. At our speed, we will probably arrive in more than 20 minutes.
But it has been so many days. I don't know how the people there are doing and whether they have been attacked by monsters."
"We will know after we go in and take a look. Let's go. Try to slow down as much as possible and don't be careless."
Drax led everyone into the woods, but before they walked out for five minutes, Seraphina suddenly found something strange, "Everyone, look, there is something lying on the ground in front, it looks like a monster!"
Everyone was shocked, and Drax and others rushed over immediately.
There was indeed a corpse on the ground. It was a one-eyed ape man, more than two meters tall, with a hideous face, a very burly body, gray-black hair all over his body, and a pair of very sharp claws.
But there was no threat because it was dead.
Seraphina was a little surprised, "Drax, how come there is a dead gorilla here?"
"This is not an gorilla." Drax squatted down to check, "It's called Cyclops, it's a primary monster.
Its strength is relatively advanced among primary monsters. The body is still warm, so it should have died recently."
Blake asked, "How could a powerful primary monster die here? This is too abnormal. If it was killed by other monsters, they should have taken the body away or eaten it directly."
"The body is intact, with no signs of being bitten." Drax checked the wounds on its body, "There are several gunshot wounds, but the power of the bullets can't kill this monster.
Its fatal wound is in the heart, as if it was pierced by some sharp weapon, piercing from front to back, clean and neat, obviously killed by humans, but it's not easy for me to cause such damage."
"Even you can't do it?!"
All the people were shocked.
Huang Jianmin suddenly found that everyone's eyes were focused on him, and some of them even looked unfriendly. He quickly explained: "Don't look at me, I am also very puzzled by this matter!"
"You didn't tell us this..." Ophelia's eyes were a little defensive, and she asked: "There are obviously very powerful masters in your team. Are you deceiving us? Let us come here to fall into the trap."
"I swear I definitely didn't, really!" Huang Jianmin was also very confused. "Although there are many people hiding there, most of them are refugees, old people, children, and women. The young and strong have joined the advance team, and only a few are left to protect everyone.
But among those people, let alone Drax, any one of you is much worse than him. I can absolutely guarantee this!"
Blake pointed at the one-eyed ape man on the ground, "He can put the one-eyed ape It can not only break a person's heart, but also pierce the extremely tough body from front to back. Even the four of us don't have such ability.
That person's attack power is obviously higher than ours. How do you explain this? "
"Sorry, I can't explain it!" Huang Jianmin remained calm in the face of questioning, "But everything I said is true, there is absolutely no deception. If you don't believe it, I can't do anything."
Seraphina stood up and said, "I believe Uncle Huang Jianmin. He used to be a criminal police captain who hated evil and was also a pioneer in fighting against crime in this city! I don't think he will do anything to harm us."
"No need to say more," Drax stood up, "We don't have enough physical strength to return. Since we have come here, let's go in and take a look. We will know the situation once we explore it.
The piercing of the body of the one-eyed ape man does not mean anything. Have you forgotten the explosive ring?"
Everyone was certain when they heard this.
At this stage, there are very few people who can reach the initial strength, but if you are lucky enough to get a certain magic item, you can indeed exert superhuman attack power.
If the other party killed the one-eyed ape man with the help of a magic item, then everything can be explained. The powerful blast ring is several times stronger than this. The recovery time of magic items is very long, and it will not pose any threat in a short time.
Ophelia was a little worried, but it could only be so. The group continued to walk for more than ten minutes. There were more and more traces of human activities. It seemed that they were about to reach their destination. They even vaguely saw the ruins of some buildings through the dense tree trunks.
The crowd bypassed several big trees and finally saw the ruins of some buildings, and even a road full of cracks. It should be that several streets were moved here together. There are many shops, including bakeries, fruit shops, etc., and there should be a lot of food.
But when everyone's eyes fell on the trees closest to the ruins, their faces all changed.
There were a total of seven big trees, and there were four or five corpses nailed to them by wooden thorns on each tree. Each of them had a distorted face and a painful look on their faces. They should have been nailed to the trees alive, and the trunks were soaked in blood and turned dark red.
There were old people, children, men and women. The only thing they had in common was that they were stripped naked. They all had signs of torture and were covered with wounds. Some people even had their hands and feet chopped off alive, or had pieces of skin and flesh peeled off alive.
A group of black strange birds were landing on the corpses, pecking at the flesh with relish.
It made people's scalps numb.
Among them was a little girl who was only twelve or thirteen years old. She had died not long ago and her body was basically undamaged. She looked pretty and pretty, but now she was stripped naked and nailed to a tree.
The tender body was full of marks of whipping, the snow-white skin was torn, the small chest was full of teeth marks, and the lower body was bloody. It was obvious that she was nailed to death alive after suffering unimaginable humiliation!
Seraphina couldn't bear it and hid behind Drax and didn't dare to watch anymore.
"Beast, beast!" Huang Jianmin's eyes turned red when he saw this, and he shouted angrily: "What happened during the time I was away!"
Ophelia warned: "The people here are really not good people, everyone be careful!"
At this moment, footsteps suddenly came from the front, and five or six people with various homemade and crude weapons rushed over. The two leading them also held a 64-type pistol in their hands, pointing the muzzle at Drax and others.
"Everyone stop, who are you!"
When everyone heard the voice, they immediately grasped their weapons and were ready to fight at any time.