Nevertheless, he understood that it was only his speculation. Unless he had the right equipment to research it, he would never ever understand what was really going on.
Dudian looked at his hands and feet. He didn't feel anything strange. He wanted to climb up from here. He used a bit of force to jump to catch onto a stone when he suddenly felt as light as a feather. In a single jump he had already reached the top of pile of rocks outside the hole.
Dudian was stunned, once again he looked at his hands and feet. He thought of something so he bent over to a half-meter large stone. He hold with hands and gently picked it up.
Sure enough it gently bounced up.
He made a swing and was already 3-4 meter high!
And he knew that he didn't use full force.
Three or four meters high was not where his head reached but the soles of his feet. It was way beyond the ordinary human's physical capabilities. Even if you had gone through an extreme hard training for decades, you may not be able to achieve such a non-human result.
"Sure enough, the speed, the power, everything had improved. My eyesight is over the top and I can see in the darkness. But the most powerful change of all, is the smell... ..." Dudian lightly fell. He closed his eyes to concentrate.
Dudian could feel different smell float into his nose.
As he had closed his eyes, he was able to exude variety of things because of their smells. He was like a radar. He could smell the source and could determine the distance. Even if his eyes were closed, with the smell alone he also knew the surrounding environment!
Dudian opened his eyes. His heart was in shock. This smell enhance was god-like power. He felt as if he was a hound!
" Enhancement of the sense of the smell is completely out of proportion with the other physical improvements. There is just way too much difference. The previous beast also had very strong sense of smell. Could it be that this worms had brought some of the beast's capabilities into my body? "Dudian was startled. He felt very excited. This sense of smell was a super radar for him. He could smell the undeads and other monsters from the distance!
It was a life-saving gift!
Duddian suddenly bursted out with confidence with this super sense of smell. Now he was assure that he would be able to kill ordinary undeads at a whim. And the monsters as horrible as the previous beast, he would just percieve them in advance and avoid.
Dudian was percieving countless smells. He smelled something sweet that was distributed from the backpack. The location was twenty-six meters away, in front of the pile of stones.
He grabbed the broken walls and jumped to the top of the building. Originally this place was the second floor. At the moment, all the things in the office were piled in the bottom.
The body injury was healed but he felt very hungry. Backpack had dry food and water, moreover dark blue balls were in it too.
Thinking of the dark blue balls, he remembered that he was clutching onto one before he went into coma. When he woke up and he hadn't seen it. If it was on the ground he would have seen it for sure.
"What happened then?" Dudian looked at his hands. His left palm was stickly. He was pre-occupied with the bloodstains on his chest previously so he hadn't noticed it. There was a layer of pale yellow sticky material on his palm. It exuded a stenchy taste.
So what happened to the ball?
When he thought of burning the undeads, he remember that the dark blue ball melted in high temperatures. So because of his high fever... was the temperature so high that the dark blue ball melted?
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Chapter 70: Release
"It seems that it is the only explanation." Dudian thought.
"Could it be said that after it melts the dark blue ball could be absorbed by the body? Whether it is the worms or dark blue ball, are they able to enhance my physique?" Perhaps he could get information out of people from consortium after he gets back into the giant wall.
He easily removed the accumulated stones and broken debris as his physical strength at the moment was enermous. He moved the heavy stones very easily. Following the smell he quickly found the backpacks hidden under the stones.
The dry food and water container were crushed under the stone. Although he could still eat the foot but the water containers were dry.
His hunger subsided as he ate the dry food. His physical strength seemed to recover as he ate. In addition he found dark blue balls in another place. Also he found hunter's bow and arrows.
Dudian grabbed the bow. It was very heavy for a normal person to carry but he could carry it with one hand and not feel tired at all. He gently pulled the bowstring. It was pulled for almost a meter length. Hunter's bow and arrows were not trivial but very lethal in nature. Although he could not take them back to the giant wall, but at least he could secretly use it outside.
He took the bow, arrows and backpack, while inconspicously left the collapsed building.
"I don't know where the Mason and rest are." Dudian was in the middle of street. He looked at the position of the sun, it was already noon. He checked the place where he had separated with the Mason and other two. He could smell them and immediately he followed the located the smell took him.
The area no8 was not safe and it was infested with undeads. Mason and the other two could face a dangerous situation at any time. Dudian was quickly following after the smell until he reached a track. Suddenly, the smell disappeared as he reached the street.
Dudian could not help but be surprised for a moment and then wryly smiled: "Did these three brats came up with their own methods and eliminated the body odors?"
At this time, the silence of the ruins was torn apart by the sudden bursts of undead growls and roars.
Dudian quickly chased towards the source of the sounds. Soon he reached the street where the sounds originated. Through the corner of a house he checked the street. Around seven or eight people had gathered into a circular formation in front of a shop. The undeads were coming onto them from both sides of the street.
"Scott? Zach?" Dudian identified them.
They were Scott, Mia and four consortium scavengers. Moreover, including Zach there were another 2 newly graduated scavengers.
At the moment, Zach and the other scavenger were protected by the team while they were staying in the middle of the formation. Scott and Mia were holding their daggers. However, Scott's face turned ugly as he checked the approaching undeads. With their skills they were barely able to single out one undead. They could manage to stand on their own maximum up to two undeads. But there were six or seven undeads approaching them. There seemed to be more undeads attracted and coming over because of constant roars.
"Back, back!" Scott whispered.
They receded towards the shop.
The first undead that reached them attacked Scott. Its hideous face made the four consortium scavengers behind Scott turn pale. Scott's hand slightly shivered while deflecting undead's claw attack.
Scott roared, snarling and waving his dagger.
Puff! His dagger had cut onto undead's beck. But the blade was not sharp enough so it got stuck in the cervical spine.
Scott's face changed as he kicked.
Mia was about join him in support but two more undeads rushed onto her. Mia turned around to block. She could stop one of them while the second passed by her and attacked the four consortium scavengers.
The four consortium scavengers were extremely nervous and desperate. One of them waved his dagger to retort but the undead grabbed onto his arm. It pulled the scavenger and bite onto youth's throat. The blood sprayed onto undead's face coloring it red.
The other three scavengers shivered in fear as they continued to retreat. One of them even abandoned them to run away.
The new scavenger boy who was with Zach, stood there his face anxious as he didn't know what to do.
The undead who was bitin the scavenger looked at the boy near the Zach.
"Run!" Scott snarled.
Zach was pale but
suddenly summoned all the courage and rushed up holding his dagger. As he was about to reach the undead he bent his body and went for a roll. As he was about to stand up from the roll, he used the dagger and hit the undead's ankle. Thump! Undead's body tripped.
Zach took the opportunity to get up and was about to stab the dagger onto undeads head when another roar echoed from behind.
Zach's face paled as he saw that he was late to block the undead. But a stone flew over and hit the undead's head. It was knocked to the ground as it stopped movement.
Scott, Mia and Zach couldn't help but look towards the source of the stone. They saw a figure approaching quickly as he caught up with the undeads that were rushing over to them.
As he reached the undead he jumped and kicked onto undead's spine. The undead fell down and rolled but he didn't stop and caught with it.
Before the undead could stand up that figure used his foot to hold it while hit it with double-edged fire axe on its head.
Puff! The axe smashed undead's head.
Scott, Mia and Zach were shocked. The three consortium scavengers and the new recruit who had fled into the shop looked back. They were stunned at sight.
Zach saw that the person who beheaded the undead was Dudian.
Without losing a moment, Dudian ran towards Zach. The undead was about to stand up when he threw the axe. Puff! The axe slashed undead's head from back of its neck.
However, it was not enough to kill the undead as it was struggling to stand up.
Dudian took advantage of the time and chased over. He grabbed the haft of axe and swang it to cut undead's head off.
Bang! The undead's head fall off while the axe's haft broke up.
Dudian took a light breath: "Fortunately I caught up!" He didn't use the hunter's bow to shoot because he didn't want to expose himself.
When he saw Zach and the others surrounded, he immediately hid the hunter's bow and arrows under the chassis of a scrapped car. Moreover he managed to grab axe from the fire hose box (fire protection caibet). Unfortunately, the haft of the axe had decayed so badly that it broke after few swings.
"Dean, is that you? " Scott was horrified at sight as Dudian had killed two undeads.
"Be careful!" Dudian screamed as he grabbed the axe's head and threw it.
Puff! The axe head like a metal brick smashed on the undead's chest which was in front of the Scott. It knocked it down but didn't cause fatal injury.
Scott recovered, hastily stabbed the dagger onto undead's head.
Dudian said to Zach: "hide inside." He grabbed the dagger of the youth who was bitten by the undead. He turned towards Mia and threw the dagger. It stabbed onto undead's head which was fighting with Mia.
The dagger pierced undead from its jaw and thrust into its skull.
Undead made "uh uh" sounds twice and fell down.
"Thank you," said Mia to Dudian as she curiously glance at him. Power shown by him was not on scavenger level but she knew that they were in a critical situation so she didn't have time to ask.
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Chapter 71: Return
puff! puff!
Dudian with the help from Scott and Mia, quickly killed the few undeads that were coming over.
He smelled the odors of distant undeads so he said: "This place is not safe and we should not stay for long. We have to leave as soon as possible."
Scott knew that sounds of fighting will lead the other undeads over. So he refused to take a break. He picked up few sheepskin scrolls from his backpack and opened them one by one to find them map and determine their current location: "It's no longer safe in area no8. We have to go back to area no 9.", he said to Dudian and rest.
Dudian nodded in aggrement and raised his hands to call Zach and rest.
Zaki ran quickly as he was pleasantly surprised: "I knew you will survive." He wanted to ask many questions. As he saw Dudian blinking his eyes, he stopped but there was a wide smile on his face.
Three consortium scavengers and the new recruit saw that the danger had gone so they followed Zach out together. The new scavenger recruit from the training camp saw another scavenger's bloody dead body and his expression turned complex.
Mia noticed their eyes as she spoke in disgusted tone: "Cowards! Previously, you should have taken the opportunity to kill the undead while it was biting onto his neck! Instead you run away in fear! You are not even as good as that child! Shameful! " The child she referred to was Zach who had turned back to fight earlier.
Three scavengers were ashamed as they clenched their teeth. They didn't dare to answer.
The new boy, his head down, ran towards them. Secretly he glanced at Dudian. He wanted to say something, but changed his mind.
Scott looked at them. He sighed and shook his head. : "Let's go!"
Dudian nodded as he glanced at the surrounding environment. He secretly took note of the location so that he could come back later to take bow and dark blue balls.
Everyone quietly followed Scott along the edge of the street.
Dudian along the way maximised the benefits from his sensitive sense of smell to the best possible. As he would smell group of undeads he would suggest Scott to take a deout. If there were two or three, then he would kill them directly.
Scott didn't dare to overlook Dudian because of his young age and youthful voice. He knew that something extraordinary had happened to Dudian. So Scott adopted each proposal given by Dudian about detour options. After half a day of travel, they finally got out of area no 8. They had taken detaours at least for 10 times.
Scott finally relaxed at they came into the area no 9. However, he didn't dare to stay near the border so they continued to move forward. Scott was completely assured down as they came deep into the middle of area no 9.
Inside the area no9, they didn't meet any undeads. Even the monster rats were not present.
In addition to broken stones, they didn't see anything of value through the broken shop's of area no 9.
"At last," Scott breathed out in relief. He was not in hurry as he sat in a clean place to rest.
Mia put her backpack on the side over the gravel. She looked curiously at Dudian: "You have just joined the scavenger group of consortium. I have heard that you were the seed from the camp so you got two blessings. Only, how you got so strong with two blessings? Were you supplied with anything else?"
Scott, three consortium scavengers as well as the new scavenger recruit looked over. They had long been curious about the issue but were surrounded by the undeads. They were worried to speak because it could lead the undeads to them so they held back their words.
There was another reason that tempted the inquiry. But they held back because they were worried that it will result in Dudian's displeasure and he would abandon them in the area no 8.
Dudian had already prepared an answer in advance: "I was in coma. When I woke up, I felt my strength was much stronger than before." It was half-side of the truth.
Scott and Mia glanced at him in doubt.
Suddenly, Mia spoke out the thing which all of them were worried to ask: "You! You have not been bitten by the undead, right?"
Three consortium scavengers who were sitting next to Dudian, immediately stood up, and distanced themselves from him.
Dudian was curious: "If I was bitten by the undead, would not I become an undead?"
Scott's face turned ugly: "But there are different speeds of turning into an undead based on the different injuries. If you are bitten on throat, chest and other parts the effect of the infection will be instant. However if you rub blood over the skin, then the speed of infection will be a lot slow... How long has it been that you have awaken from coma?"
"not long time."
"The slowest infection is usually three days." Scott looked at Dudian and said: "That is if you are infected, in the next two and a half days, you will completely turn into an undead. If there is not affected afterwards, then it shows that there was no infection."
Dudian nodded slightly. He
was aware that it was not an undead infection.
However, after hearing what Scott had said, there was a bit of uneasiness in his heart. Is the worm counted as an infection?
"We have come out for four days. After six days we will return to the wall." Scott looked at Dudian in hesitation and said: "We should separate for the time being."
Dudian looked at them. Except the Zach who had a worried look, the rest had fear reflected in their eyes. It was normal as they were afraid that Dudian could turn into an undead. He couldn't help but smile and speak soft: "It's alright, but I would like to borrow your map. I'm afraid I won't be able to find my way back after the separation."
"OK." Scott did not hesitate and immediately agreed.
Dudian looked back at Zach and said: "I will go to look for Mason and Sham. You shouldn't be worried, nothing will happen to me. Just wait over here!"
Zach eyes reddened as he clenched his teeth and said: "blame me! We drag you behind, Dean! I'm sorry..."
"What nonsense are you blabbering, we are brothers." Dudian laughed.
Zach could not help but burst into tears and sob softly.
Scott, Mia and others were silent.
Dudian took the map from the Scott and turned away.
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Dudian immediately ran at full speed and disappeared from Scott and rest's sight. He went along the previous route back to area no 8. He killed the undeads which he met and collected the dark blue balls.
It didn't take long before he reached the located where he had hidden bow and arrows. He took them and dark blue balls from the bottom of the chassis of the car and began to search for Mason and Sham's smell.
Along the way he met few single undeads which he directly killed.
Although his fighting skills were still immature, but with the speed and strength boost he was fully able to avoid undead's attacks.
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