After the carcass of the huge black beast cooled down a bit, Dudian stepped forward with a dagger in hand. Looking at the bloody head that had been burned, he began to cut along the edge of its eye socket. His technique was a bit clumsy, but the dagger was extremely sharp. After expending a great deal of effort, he finally managed to cut open the beast's head just before he was exhausted and collapsed.
Inside the head was warm brain tissue, exuding a strange fishy smell that made people feel nauseous.
Dudian endured the strange smell and mustered his strength to rummage through the brain tissue. Suddenly, the dagger touched a hard object. He was taken aback for a moment and quickly pushed aside the piece of brain tissue. However, he only saw a piece of the skull bone inside. He felt disappointed and then continued to rummage.
Soon, all the brain tissue inside the huge skull was turned out, but there was still nothing suspicious to be seen.
"It seems it's really different from the walking corpses..." Dudian smiled bitterly. He had thought he could find a sphere like the one in the walking corpses' heads, which might have some great use. It seemed he had been thinking too much.
He shook the bloodstains off the dagger, took a few steps back, and plopped down into the nearby elevator shaft. He felt his hands sore and weak, and his physical strength completely exhausted. He could only stay in the same room as the charred corpse of the monster and take a rest for the time being.
Fortunately, although the smell of the charred corpse was stinky, after smelling it for a long time, he didn't feel too uncomfortable.
Dudian leaned against the wall to rest. Suddenly, he felt his palm a bit numb and tingly. He raised his palm and took a look. The numb and tingly sensation came from the wound on the back of his hand. This was a wound scratched by a stone when he rolled down. There were such wounds all over other parts of his body.
"It's actually a wound infection. It's a pity that there's no clean water, and I didn't bring that hunter's first aid kit. It's probably already pressed under the pile of stones," Dudian smiled bitterly. He spat a few mouthfuls of saliva on the wound. Saliva could disinfect, and he hoped it would have a little effect.
He leaned against the elevator shaft, closed his eyes, and rested, trying to recover his strength as soon as possible to search for food.
However, soon he felt that it wasn't just the wound on his palm that was infected. There were also bursts of numb and tingly sensations coming from other parts of his body, and this numbness and tingling became stronger and stronger, gradually turning into sharp stabbing pains!
Dudian couldn't help but open his eyes. He was a bit nervous. In this desolate place, a severe infection was equivalent to death! He quickly lit the spare torch that had been extinguished before. When the torchlight shone on his body, he immediately saw his right hand clearly and was startled.
His right hand was swollen as thick as a thigh and completely lost its sensation. Moreover, yellowish-white pus was continuously seeping out from the wound on the back of his hand. In addition, he felt that the other slightly stinging parts of his body were also slightly swollen. His thighs, chest, left hand, shoulders, and even his face had bursts of stinging pain. Although there was no mirror, he didn't need to look to know that his face was probably swollen extremely strangely.
"Bacterial infection!" Dudian's scalp tingled, and he was a bit flustered. Such symptoms were too terrifying. In just a short moment, his body had become like this. He couldn't help but look at the corpse of the huge black beast. Could it be that he was infected with the bacteria from it?
However, he had been very careful during the dissection and hadn't touched its brain tissue with his limbs!
Suddenly, Dudian thought of something and looked at the place under his buttocks. He saw a layer of thick blood flowing in the elevator shaft, which was the blood of the huge black beast!
"Could it be that the bacteria are contained in this blood? But my soft armor isolated it, and my body didn't come into contact with this blood!" Dudian didn't dare to sit here any longer. He quickly stood up, but his legs were completely numb and wouldn't obey his commands. At the same time, the stinging pain became more and more intense, coming from all parts of his body.
He gritted his teeth tightly and dragged his body towards the outside. He stopped when he reached the hole smashed by the stones.
The beast's blood hadn't flowed here. He leaned against the stones and panted slightly. He looked down at his body and immediately saw that there was a scratch on the soft armor behind his buttocks. He didn't know when it had appeared. Most likely, the blood that had flowed under his body had seeped in through this scratch and infected his body. It had happened unconsciously, just like a leech sucking blood, without him having the slightest awareness, and he didn't even feel his skin touching the blood!
Dudian's face turned pale, and he felt a trace of regret in his heart. If he hadn't come back to kill this monster, he might not have been infected!
"I didn't expect that I managed to escape the hunter's pursuit and the beast's attack, but in the end, I still couldn't escape the retribution of fate..." Dudian felt bitter in his heart. Thinking of the saying "Forgive others when you can," perhaps if he hadn't come back, this beast would have starved to death here. Now, he had ended up being buried with this monster.
Dudian leaned against the stones. The sharp stabbing pain all over his body had made his body tremble, and he didn't have the strength to climb up anymore. He pinned his last hope on the fact that he hoped this bacteria wouldn't take his life.
But things didn't go as he hoped. In addition to the stinging pain, he felt his consciousness becoming more and more blurred. He raised his left hand, which still had a little sensation, and touched his forehead. He immediately felt that it was burning hot, and despair welled up in his heart.
However, at the moment when he was about to fall into a coma at any time, he suddenly remembered that the deep blue sphere on his body could absorb heat. He immediately raised his left hand, struggled to take out the deep blue sphere from his waist bag, and stuck it to his forehead.
A cold sensation immediately came, making his muddled thinking a bit clearer. He looked up, but his eyelids felt extremely heavy, and the already dim elevator shaft in front of his eyes became even more blurred.
Suddenly, he felt a slight movement at the soft armor on his chest, as if something was struggling there.
He couldn't help but look down. With great effort, he raised his left hand and slightly pulled open the soft armor. In his blurred vision, he immediately saw a small blood-red worm like an earthworm wriggling at the wound wrapped in the gauze on his chest. The front half of its body seemed to have drilled into the gauze, and the back half was still struggling to wriggle.
"Worm, a worm..." Dudian was dazed in his heart. He raised his hand to grab it, but the burning sensation in his brain made him completely unable to muster any strength. His eyes, which he had managed to open with great effort, slowly closed. The last thing he saw was the worm outside the gauze on his chest, which seemed to have finally broken through the obstruction and drilled in.
With a thud, Dudian fell face down and fell into a coma.
After he fell into a coma, his palm still held that deep blue sphere.
However, this cold sphere gradually melted in his palm and turned into a light blue transparent liquid, seeping into the wound on his palm as if it were countless living creatures.
In the darkness, time passed quickly without him knowing.
When Dudian regained consciousness again, he was awakened by hunger.
He opened his eyes blankly and saw the familiar scene of the elevator shaft. He was taken aback for a moment. He actually wasn't dead?
He immediately thought of the high fever before he fell into a coma. He quickly touched his head, and his body temperature was normal. At this time, he noticed his swollen palm, which had actually returned to its original state. Not only had the swelling subsided, but it had also regained its sensation.
He quickly sat up and looked at his whole body.
There was no change in his body. There were many small scratches on the dusty black soft armor. He subconsciously looked back at the huge black beast and saw that its charred corpse was still stuck there, and its head was cut open.
Dudian was taken aback. Could it be that the infection and high fever of his body before were all just a dream?
Was it just a dream that he had fallen asleep here out of exhaustion after dissecting this monster?
Suddenly, he opened his eyes wide and looked around in surprise.