Standing on the unfamiliar land, Athir lowered his head slightly and looked at the three bodies lying on the ground, which had turned into mummies.
"He's been dead for at least three or four years," he said to himself.
The chip in his mind was running quickly, analyzing the time of death of these mummies and the exact cause of death.
After a while, he shook his head, picked up the black and white photo from the ground, wiped it clean and put it on his body.
"At least someone will remember what you look like."
He said this softly, then left the spot and walked slowly towards the street ahead.
This city is weird.
All around the city, there was a dead silence, not a single sound was heard.
This situation is rare.
Under normal circumstances, even if all the people in this city were dead, there should still be some scattered lives around. It is impossible that there would be no sound at all.
Unusual silence like the one now often indicates greater danger.
Athir was able to think of this, so he walked very lightly, making almost no sound as he walked on the street.
Before he knew it, he had walked outside a tall building.
It was a tall building, and it was obvious that it was built very magnificently, with a few words written on it.
This is the language of this world. Athir doesn't recognize it, but he can vaguely guess that this place should be a public place.
Because there were a lot of corpses left at the entrance of the building.
Many human-shaped corpses lay there, with most of the flesh gone, leaving only horrible skeletons.
It can be seen that at some time in the past, some sudden accident must have occurred, causing these people to flee from inside, so that all the corpses are facing outwards.
But judging from the fate of these people, they obviously ran into something and finally fell down at the door and could not escape.
Athir glanced to the side.
With this building as the center, there are many corpses around and everywhere along the way.
Hiss!
A slight sound suddenly came from a distance, attracting Athir's attention.
He looked in that direction, and his powerful eyesight allowed him to see clearly what was happening there.
In the distance, there was a corpse that looked relatively fresh, and must have died not long ago.
It was a female corpse, the whole body was broken and bitten into pieces, leaving only some flesh and bones.
Something was wriggling on the bits of flesh that remained on the corpse, making a slight sound.
After standing there and thinking for a while, Atier took a step and walked slowly towards the corpse.
Not long after, he walked there and saw a disgusting scene.
There are a lot of tiny holes on the minced meat, and there are green worms wriggling inside, which looks very disgusting.
"The target organism is detected to be highly toxic! Do not come into contact with its body fluids!"
The mechanical sound of the chip in his mind sounded, reminding him.
This is a pre-set program. Once something that may threaten Athir appears, the chip will prompt it to prevent Athir from touching it accidentally.
The face of the corpse in front of me could no longer be seen. Its flesh and skull were covered in blood, and it was very bloody. Only the long hair on the ground and some features of the remaining flesh and blood allowed people to barely identify the gender of the corpse.
Athir watched the scene quietly, with no sadness or joy in his eyes, and walked to the side.
He walked towards the building with many corpses, hoping to find something inside.
This world looks very strange. I wonder what it has gone through to become like this.
At this time, Athir hopes to find a survivor around to understand the situation of this world.
Carefully walking into the building, Athir looked around.
There were quite a few dead bodies around, wearing the same low-quality clothing. They looked like they were employees of this place.
Walking quietly towards the front, there are dozens of rooms, each with a sign hanging on it.
Walking carefully to a room on the side, Athir's right hand slowly reached to his waist, grasped the hilt of the sword, and then pushed the door open.
Click!
There was a slight sound, and the door was opened.
The imagined unexpected situation did not happen. The room was empty, without even a dead body. Apart from some dust, it looked very clean.
Athir walked forward quietly, and the light footsteps sounded in the closed room and slowly echoed.
Squeak!
At a certain moment, a rat squealed and the sound of a sword being drawn rang out at the same time, and then a huge object flew out from behind Athir and hit the wall.
At some point, Athir's sword had been pulled out by him.
He turned around and looked behind him at the object that he had just knocked away.
It was a rat-like creature, as big as a human head, with a pair of red eyes. Half of its body was almost cut open, and all its internal organs and intestines had flowed out.
Even so, it has not died yet. It has been struggling there and looks like it is still very strong.
"What a strong vitality."
Seeing the life in front of him still struggling, Atier frowned and stepped forward without hesitation to deal another blow with the sword.
The creature in front of him was cut into several pieces by him, and then it stopped moving.
Just as Athir was about to leave, a mechanical voice suddenly sounded in his mind.
"An unknown force is acting on the subject, causing the subject's physical fitness to improve."
He looked at his physical fitness, and it had indeed improved compared to before.
However, this improvement is very slight. If there were no chip monitoring his body's condition at all times, Athir would never have been able to discover it.
"Could it be…?"
He couldn't help but frown and looked down at the dead creature on the ground, with a guess in his mind.
After standing there and thinking for a while, he looked into the distance.
While the creature on the ground was struggling, other lives in the room were also awakened and were now walking quickly towards Athir.
The opponent was very fast. He arrived in front of Athir in just a moment, pounced on him from the wall, and opened his mouth full of fangs.
Atier didn't even move, he just swung his sword with his right hand and split the opponent in half.
Taking into account the opponent's terrifying vitality, Atier walked forward and added a few more sword strikes, cutting the opponent into several halves, and that was the end of the matter.
When the other party completely lost his life breath, the familiar chip prompt sound rang again in his mind.
"It is true." Feeling the prompt in his mind, Athir thought to himself.
For some unknown reason, after the life in this world is killed, it will bring some unknown power to Athir, which will improve his physical fitness.
This improvement is very small and most people cannot feel it at all. According to the chip's detection, if you want to improve the physical fitness by even 0.1, you may need to kill thousands of these creatures to do it, but it really exists.
Thinking of this, Athir ordered the chip in his mind: "Chip, can you analyze the principle behind this?"
"Insufficient data for analysis!" In an instant, the chip gave a negative answer.
Athir was not surprised by this answer.
Although the analysis function of the chip is powerful, it is not omnipotent. In order to obtain sufficient results, it also requires certain data and information support, which cannot be achieved out of thin air.
(End of this chapter)