It's so dark here, yet I can actually see?
Dudian slapped his face. The slight pain made him realize that he wasn't dreaming. He couldn't help but look up at the hole above the pile of stones. The light was dim, only casting a faint glow on the pile of stones, while the elevator shaft remained pitch-black.
However, in his current field of vision, he could see everything on the ground clearly.
Dudian blinked. Suddenly, he thought of the blood-red worm he had seen before losing consciousness. The hair on the back of his neck stood up immediately. He quickly lifted the soft armor on his chest and took a look. The white gauze was still wrapped around the wound, and the seeped blood had stained the gauze red. The bloodstain had already dried.
Dudian gently touched the wound but didn't feel any pain. He then began to unwind the gauze layer by layer.
When the gauze was peeled off, Dudian saw the scar on his chest. To his astonishment, the dagger scar that should have been obliquely vertical was now completely healed, leaving only a faint white scar. In addition, on this healed scar, there was a half-finger-long dark red blood mark running across it, like a blood vessel protruding outside the skin, solidified there.
Dudian's face changed slightly. He gently reached out and touched it.
A slight sensation came from the blood mark. Dudian thought of the blood-red worm that had drilled into the gauze, and his face turned grim. Could it be that the worm had burrowed into his body?
Anyone would feel creepy at the thought of an unknown worm getting into their body.
Dudian thought of his dagger and immediately picked it up. He slashed towards the blood mark on his chest. He suspected that the worm was living inside this blood vessel-like blood mark.
The dagger gently pierced the blood mark, and dark red blood flowed out from it. At the same time, Dudian immediately felt a sharp pain transmitted to his brain nerves. His whole body couldn't help but tremble, especially his heart on the left side, which hurt the most, as if it was being dug out. This was a real "heartache."
His hand trembled, and he immediately stopped stabbing further. He felt that if he continued, he would die from the pain!
When he released the dagger, the pain subsided a bit. Dudian was already sweating profusely from the pain. Panting, he looked down and saw that the cut blood mark was healing rapidly at a visible speed. Before long, it returned to its previous state. Only the blood that had flowed out onto the skin of his chest proved that he had stabbed this place before.
As the blood mark healed, the intense pain gradually subsided.
Dudian's face looked rather grim. Could it be that the worm had merged with his body?
His face changed for a moment, but in the end, he didn't have the courage to try piercing the blood mark again. He just thought to himself that if he could find a microscope in the ruins outside the Wall, or if he could build one himself based on the knowledge in the super chip, he would be able to understand the changes in his chest. For now, he could only leave it as it was.
This feeling made him a bit uncomfortable, but there was nothing he could do about it. However, thinking that he had narrowly escaped death this time and was lucky to be alive, the uncomfortable feeling in his heart lessened a bit.
"My vision, being able to see clearly in the dark, is mostly caused by the previous bacterial infection. And that blood-red worm is likely one of the bacteria, and it's the strongest one, even going beyond the concept of bacteria. It's a new type of mutated microorganism that can live in the blood of other creatures!"
Dudian regained his composure and thought about what had happened before he lost consciousness. It was obvious that the blood-red worm had crawled onto his body from the blood of the huge black beast. Perhaps before the monster died, it had lived in its blood. After the monster died, it found him... a new host!
This also explained why he had been infected with the monster's blood but hadn't been infected by the virus and turned into a walking corpse.
Because there were likely a large number of such tiny blood-red worms in the monster's blood that crawled into his body along with the blood! These little creatures that originally lived in the monster's blood had already developed antibodies to the virus. So when they entered his body, they also enhanced his resistance to the virus, which was why he hadn't been turned into a walking corpse.
However, this was just Dudian's speculation. Only by finding a microscope and conducting research could he understand what was really going on.
Dudian looked at his hands and feet, moved them a bit, and felt that there was no problem. Then he felt a little more at ease. He turned around and climbed up the pile of stones. As soon as he exerted force with his foot, he suddenly felt as light as a swallow and jumped high onto the hole outside the pile of stones.
Dudian was a bit surprised. He looked at his hands and feet again. Remembering how swollen they had been before, he suddenly had an idea. He bent down and grabbed a half-meter-large stone. He hugged it with both hands, and to his surprise, he picked it up easily.
Dudian thought to himself that it sure enough was the case. He casually threw the stone away and jumped lightly on the spot.
With a swish, he jumped three to four meters high!
And this was without him using his full strength.
You must know that three to four meters high wasn't the height of his head but the height of his feet. This was far beyond the physical ability of an ordinary human. Even someone who had trained extremely hard for decades might not be able to reach such an inhuman level!
"Sure enough, my strength and speed have all increased, and not just a little bit. My vision has also evolved, allowing me to see in the dark. However, the most remarkable change is in my sense of smell..." Dudian landed gently. Before, he had felt that the smell in the elevator shaft was so strong that it was almost unbearable. Now that he knew about the changes in his body, he immediately closed his eyes.
Instantly, he felt countless smells wafting into his nostrils.
In the darkness with his eyes closed, he seemed to be able to see clusters of things emitting various smells, spreading everywhere with his body as the center. He could directly smell the source of the smell and judge the distance. Even with his eyes closed, he could know the surrounding environment just by detecting the smells!
Dudian opened his eyes. He was a bit shocked. The improvement in his sense of smell was too terrifying. It was just like that of a hunting dog!
"The proportion of the improvement in my sense of smell is completely out of proportion to my physical constitution. It has improved far too much. That monster before also had an extremely strong sense of smell. Could it be that when the blood-red worm crawled into my body, it also brought some of its abilities into me?" Dudian was taken aback for a moment and couldn't help but feel excited. This sense of smell was like a super radar to him. He could smell any monster with a strong smell moving in the distance!
It could be said that this was an extremely powerful perception and life-saving ability!
With this super sense of smell, Dudian suddenly had much more confidence in surviving. Now he believed that he could directly kill an ordinary walking corpse. Even if he encountered a monster as terrifying as the huge black beast again, he could sense it from a distance and avoid it in advance.
At this moment, among the countless smells, Dudian suddenly smelled his own sweat, which was coming from his backpack. And the position was in the pile of stones 26 meters away at the front bottom.
He was overjoyed. He immediately grabbed the damaged wall and jumped to the bottom of the building. This was the original second floor. Now, all the things in the office were piled up at the very bottom.
Dudian jumped over. Although all his injuries had healed now, he was still extremely hungry. There were dry food and water in the backpack, as well as the deep blue sphere.
Thinking of the sphere, he suddenly remembered that he still had one in his hand. He was taken aback for a moment. He hadn't seen it when he woke up. He had looked at the ground at that time and was sure that he hadn't remembered it wrong. It wasn't on the ground.
"Is it gone?" Dudian looked at his two hands. Suddenly, he noticed that his left palm was sticky. He hadn't paid attention to this before as he had been focused on the blood mark on his chest. There was a layer of light yellow sticky substance on his palm, emitting a stinky smell.
He was stunned for a moment. He suddenly remembered that he had still been holding the deep blue sphere in his left hand before he lost consciousness. Why was the sphere gone?
Suddenly, he thought of the scene when the deep blue sphere melted in the head of the walking corpse when it was burned by fire before. He couldn't help but be stunned. He had had a high fever before. Could it be that... the temperature was so high that the deep blue sphere had melted?