615: Chapter 615 Strange Treasure, Can This Thing Be Eaten?

Fang Cheng slowly withdrew his right fist.

Golden light flames danced on his knuckles, instantly evaporating the few drops of tainted blood stained on them.

Afterwards, he lowered his head to look at his feet.

Due to exerting too much force just then, a shallow pit with a diameter of less than half a meter was stomped out of the scorched black ground.

"The power is still too small."

Fang Cheng shook his wrists, feeling the shackles of this realm on his physical power, and muttered softly:

"If it were in the original world... the shockwave kicked up by this punch could at least plow flat half a street."

He made a joke to himself.

He raised his eyes to look at the wall hole in the distance smashed through by the giant beast's corpse, and strode over.

Passing through the wall hole, the mutated monster's remains were paralyzed like mud in a pile of rubble.

Fang Cheng squatted down, his gaze sweeping across this corpse that looked like a skinned hound and was covered with an exoskeleton.

Under extreme radiation, the genes of the creatures in this world had long been rewritten beyond recognition, making it completely impossible to tell what species of beast it belonged to.

Let's tentatively call it a 'hound monster'.

Fang Cheng observed carefully, and suddenly remembered what the professor said during the Illuminati team-building.

When the professor was young, he participated in a mercenary group in Nanyang and had also entered a certain Other Shore World.

In that world, after killing monsters, one could obtain a certain red crystal from them.

That thing seemed to be a priceless treasure fought over by everyone.

Thinking of this, Fang Cheng did not hesitate at all, his five fingers joined together to form a palm blade, directly splitting open the giant beast's tattered chest cavity.

He rummaged bare-handed among the viscous internal organs and broken bones for a moment, but except for a hand full of foul-smelling tainted blood, he touched nothing unusual.

"It seems I thought too much, how could there be so many good things like dropping treasures from killing monsters..."

Fang Cheng shook his head in self-deprecation, and was just about to withdraw his hand and get up.

The corner of his eye suddenly caught a glimpse deep inside the giant beast's skull, which had half of it smashed, where a faint fluorescent glow flashed indistinctly.

Fang Cheng's movement paused.

He immediately extended his index and middle fingers, inserting them along the cracked skull gap, pushing aside the grayish-white brain matter.

At the location of the giant beast's pineal gland in the brain, two fingers pinched a hard foreign object and pulled it out hard.

That was a round precious orb stained with blood and filth.

Its size was so small that it was at most just a circle larger than a rice grain.

If Fang Cheng hadn't had sharp eyes, it would have been very easy to overlook it mixed in this pile of rotting flesh.

But even though the surface was wrapped in tainted blood, the interior of this tiny precious orb still emitted a faint red light.

Fang Cheng pinched it between his fingertips and leaned close to examine it.

Through his skin, he could clearly perceive that the inside of the bead was radiating an exceptionally pure strand of life energy outward.

Resembling a micro heart compressed to the extreme, it was emitting high-frequency warm beats between his fingertips.

This familiar energy fluctuation instantly reminded him of the ancient remains he obtained back on Yongan Island.

The aura emitted by the two was very similar.

That is to say, for the Martial Artist to Cultivate the Physical Body, it should likewise have a great tonic effect, and can be used to replenish True Qi consumption.

"There really are goods!"

Fang Cheng raised a satisfied arc at the corner of his mouth and muttered to himself in a low voice.

He rubbed it slightly with his thumb to wipe off the minced meat residue on the surface of the precious orb.

Then he unzipped the side pocket of his marching pack, threw this trophy inside, and stored it close to his body.

The strong smell of blood spread rapidly among the ruins with the gale-force winds.

Fang Cheng pulled out a tissue to wipe his fingers, his ears twitching slightly.

Creak, creak.

That was the sound of claws rubbing against concrete fragments.

He raised his head and looked around.

I saw that in the shadows of the collapsed buildings around, pairs of dim green or scarlet eyes lit up at some unknown time.

Dozens of aberrated monsters of various shapes were taking advantage of the cover of the ruins to surround him tightly.

Some of them had multiple arthropods, some were like enlarged versions of hairless reptiles, and some were hound monsters of the same kind as before.

These monsters were originally attracted by the smell of flesh and blood, each of them eager to move and salivating.

But the brutal scene just now where Fang Cheng blasted the hound monster to pieces with a single punch had clearly deterred them.

At this moment, they lingered at a safe distance of more than ten meters away.

It seemed they both feared that fierce inhuman aura and couldn't bear to give up a prey that looked "tender and delicate".

Looking at these eyes hiding in the dark, Fang Cheng not only did not fear, but his eyes instead lit up with a trace of excitement.

In his eyes, these were not predatory monsters at all, but moving precious orb ATMs one by one.

Swish!

Fang Cheng didn't give these monsters a chance to probe at all.

His legs suddenly kicked the ground to pieces, resisting twice the gravity, and his entire person was like a heavy chariot sprinting at full speed, slamming fiercely into the shadows of the ruins on the left.

The multi-legged monster closest to him hadn't had time to make a hiss yet before Fang Cheng's heavy punch had already torn through the air, carrying a piercing sonic boom, and heavily smashed to pieces its carapace-covered skull.

Following closely, he twisted his waist, his thigh muscles bulging, and swept out horizontally like a battle axe.

Bang!

Another reptile-shaped monster that couldn't help pouncing and biting was directly swept into a folded-in-half "V" shape from the middle by this mid-air whirlwind kick.

Its spinal cord shattered inch by inch, and even its miserable cry was suppressed in its throat as it flew out and crashed into a cement pillar.

The third mutant beast resembling a hyena saw that the situation was bad, opened its foul-smelling big mouth full of fangs, and attempted to bite toward Fang Cheng's back neck.

Without even turning his head, Fang Cheng delivered a backhanded elbow strike, accurately thrusting it onto its lower jaw.

The huge impact directly blasted its jawbone and half of its head into pieces.

The monster's heavy body smashed onto the ground, its four limbs twitching frantically like a nervous spasm.

In less than ten seconds.

Two dead and one severely injured.

Such pure violent crushing instantly crushed the greed of the remaining monsters.

They finally realized that this seemingly tender human was the top predator in this ruin.

Accompanied by a few panicked low roars, the remaining monsters instantly scattered like birds and beasts, tucking their tails between their legs and plunging into the darkness.

The decisiveness of their escape corroborated from the side that they not only possessed intelligence, but also possessed a considerable degree of reason.

Fang Cheng did not waste physical strength to chase.

He strode over to the still twitching hound monster, raised his military boot, and stepped down heavily, directly ending its suffering.

Next, Fang Cheng familiarly crushed the skulls of these three corpses and searched through the brain matter.

The result made him slightly disappointed.

Among the three monsters, only one had a precious orb condensed inside its body.

And its volume was even a circle smaller than the previous rice grain one, and the emitted fluorescent light was also much dimmer.

"It seems the formation of this thing is either linked to strength, or the longer it lives, the more energy it accumulates, and the larger the bead becomes."

Fang Cheng guessed inwardly, shook off the blood on his hands, and put away that tiny precious orb as well.

Just as he was about to change direction and continue "treasure hunting" in this city ruins.

The oppressive dark red sky overhead suddenly darkened without warning.

It was as if daytime had vanished and night had already arrived.

The thick volcanic ash clouds completely obscured the firmament, and the howling gale suddenly intensified accordingly.

The ambient air temperature dropped linearly at an extremely exaggerated speed.

In just a few minutes, the air, which was originally scorching enough to roast an egg, dropped to near zero degrees.

However, for Fang Cheng, whose blood and Qi were still surging wildly under twice the gravity,

this suddenly plummeted temperature not only didn't feel cold, but instead felt like turning on the air conditioner in the scorching midsummer, appearing exceptionally pleasant and cool.

Fang Cheng stopped his steps and looked out toward the depths of the ruins.

Visibility in the darkness was extremely low, and apart from broken walls and ruined structures, he didn't find any landmark buildings worth exploring immediately.

He thought about it; the physical fitness test in the outside world was currently underway.

Although it was still early before the end and time was sufficient, he temporarily didn't need to rashly go deep into the dark night with unknown circumstances.

Fang Cheng withdrew his gaze, and his sight naturally fell on those fresh monster corpses on the ground.

A bold thought popped up in his mind.

"What does the meat of these things taste like... Can it be eaten?"

Seemingly in response to this thought, a muffled rumbling sound came from his abdominal cavity.

Come to think of it, from arriving at the Xishan examination hall to wait this afternoon until the physical fitness test officially started at dark, he hadn't even drunk a sip of water.

Let alone eating a steaming, sumptuous dinner.

The so-called physical fitness test was of no difficulty to him at all, but his stomach and intestines had already begun to protest frantically.

Fang Cheng licked his lips, and his appetite gradually overpowered his reason.

In the eyes of ordinary people, these bizarre-looking aberrated creatures had many unknown viruses on them, and taking a single bite would definitely cause one's intestines to burst and stomach to rot, dying on the spot.

But Fang Cheng had absolute confidence in his Physique.

He could even swallow and peel alive filth like the crimson eye that was enough to pollute the spirit, let alone a few mutated monsters.

"Let's try it, consider it researching a new recipe."

Fang Cheng looked around and selected the hound monster with the most developed muscles and looking the most chewy.

Then dragging its corpse, he walked into a semi-enclosed building that was still considered intact.

He kicked away the rubble on the ground with his foot and simply cleared out an open space.

Next, he found a few dry and weathered wooden furniture remains from the ruins, piled them together, and built a campfire pile.

Fang Cheng extended his right hand and gently rubbed his thumb and middle finger together.

Snap.

A cluster of golden flames danced on his fingertips, like the flame of a windproof lighter.

He brought the flame close to the rotten wood, and the ultimate high temperature instantly ignited it.

A bright yellow campfire rose up, faintly illuminating the surrounding dark area.

After the fire was built, Fang Cheng walked over to the giant beast's corpse.

His hands clasped the giant beast's thick hind leg joints, and with a little force,

accompanied by a burst of fascia tearing sounds, he forcibly tore off a whole thigh weighing tens of kilograms.

Then, Fang Cheng found a rusty steel bar strong enough to skewer the meat and directly placed it on the campfire to roast.

Before long, the high temperature forced out the grease inside the mutated beast meat.

Pale yellow fat dripped into the campfire, stirring up bursts of sizzle sounds, and the flame suddenly shot up high.

An extremely rich meaty aroma quickly overpowered the sulfur smell in the air and dispersed among the ruins.

This aroma was undoubtedly equivalent to fatal poison on this barren land.

In the darkness outside the wall, pairs of greedy eyes emitting dim light soon lit up again.

Those bizarre-shaped mutated creatures were like demons and ghosts.

Gathering more and more under the cover of night, making hair-raising swallowing sounds and low roars in their throats.

Fang Cheng sat beside the campfire, turning the roasted meat in his hands, without even lifting his eyelids.

Watch if you want.

As long as these beasts dared to cross half a step over the boundary line illuminated by the firelight, he definitely wouldn't mind preparing a few more midnight snacks with his fists.

A dozen minutes later, the outer layer of the roasted meat had become golden brown and crispy.

Fang Cheng eagerly withdrew the steel bar, opened his mouth, aimed at the thickest piece of thigh meat, and bit down hard.

Hiss——

The rich aroma accompanied by scalding meat juice instantly exploded in his oral cavity.

This meat texture was much firmer and tougher than beef on Earth, and every bite required tremendous biting force to tear apart.

Fang Cheng chewed in big bites.

The moment the chunk of meat was swallowed down the esophagus into the stomach, no poisoning reaction occurred.

Instead, it turned into a scorching airflow, roaring and dispersing within the abdominal cavity like strong liquor.

Following closely, it was rapidly decomposed by the powerful stomach and intestines, turning into nutrients to nourish the Physical Body.

"Good stuff!"

Fang Cheng's eyes lit up.

This meat obviously also contained pure life energy, and could be completely absorbed by himself.

After confirming it was harmless, Fang Cheng completely let go of his restrictions.

Like a fierce beast starved for three months, he hugged that tens of kilograms heavy beast leg with both hands, tearing into it wildly in a sweeping, storm-like manner.

Even the fascia in the cracks of the bones was scraped completely clean, leaving only the sounds of big mouthfuls of swallowing and chewing.

Just a few minutes later, only a bare stick bone of the entire thigh was left thrown on the ground.

Fang Cheng burped, wiped the oil stains from the corner of his mouth, and only felt that it was still not enough.

But he didn't continue eating, instead sitting cross-legged with his body straight, closing his eyes, and entering a Meditation state.

In this harsh environment full of radiation, the flesh and blood energy just swallowed in his body was somewhat excessive, and must be completely refined as soon as possible.

The scalding blood and Qi made sounds like the surging of the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers inside his body.

Every breath could draw the subtle energy in the air into his lungs and viscera like pulling silk from a cocoon.

At the same time, several light blue prompt messages continued to float in front of his eyes.

[You consumed the flesh and blood of a certain unknown mutated creature, Physique increased by 0.001]

[You consumed the flesh and blood of a certain unknown mutated creature, Physique increased by 0.001]

...

I don't know how much time passed, but the flesh and blood energy was finally fully absorbed.

Just at the moment Fang Cheng was about to stop cultivating,

his extremely sharp hearing suddenly caught a trace of extremely faint abnormal movement from the howling wind outside the wall.

That wasn't a beast's heavy panting, but a kind of deliberately suppressed breathing sound carrying extreme fear.

Fang Cheng abruptly opened his eyes, his gaze casting like a blade toward the shadows at the edge of the firelight at the cave entrance.

He saw a thin, hunchbacked figure sneakingly hugging the base of the wall, with its gaze fixed dead on that gnawed-clean beast leg bone on the ground.

That silhouette, that posture, was clearly a human shape!

"Human?"

A trace of surprise flashed through Fang Cheng's heart, and he subconsciously spoke out.

This sudden sound was like a needle pricking a taut balloon.

That thin figure shuddered violently, letting out a terrified scream.

Afterwards, as if seeing some extremely terrifying demon, it bolted like a rabbit into the endless dark ruins.