Dudian thought for a moment, and it seemed that there was only this one explanation.
"Could it be that the melted deep blue sphere can be absorbed by the body? Is it this blood-red worm or the deep blue sphere that enhanced my physical constitution?" Dudian pondered slightly. Perhaps he could get the answer by asking the people in the consortium after returning to the Great Wall.
He jumped to the bottom of the building and moved aside the piled-up stones and other broken debris. With his current physical strength, these heavy stones were easily lifted away. Following the smell, he quickly found the backpack hidden under the stones.
The dry food in the backpack was flattened, and the water bottle was crushed, with all the water drained out.
After Dudian ate the dry food, the hunger in his stomach immediately subsided, and his physical strength seemed to recover a bit. He followed the smell and found the bundle of deep blue spheres scattered in another place. In addition, not far from this bundle, he also found the hunter's bow and arrow.
Dudian picked up this black ancient bow. The previously heavy ancient bow now felt just right in his hand. He gently pulled the bowstring and immediately pulled it into a half-moon shape. He couldn't help but feel delighted. This bow and arrow was the hunter's weapon, and its lethality was naturally extraordinary. Although he couldn't take it back to the Great Wall, at least he could secretly use it outside the Wall.
After packing up his things, Dudian draped the bow and arrow with cloth and hung it on his back. It wasn't noticeable. Then he carried the backpack and left the collapsed building.
"I wonder where Mekin and the others are." Dudian came to the street outside and looked at the sun. It was already noon. He returned to the place where he had separated from Mekin and the other two. He immediately smelled the lingering smell of them on the ground and then followed the smell to track them down.
The Eighth District was no longer a safe area. Walking corpses were lurking around, and Mekin and the others were in danger at any moment. Dudian was anxious. He followed the smell all the way. Suddenly, the smell disappeared in front of a street.
Dudian was taken aback for a moment and then smiled bitterly. Could it be that those three brats had used the method he had taught them to eliminate the smell?
At this moment, the roars of walking corpses suddenly came from the front of the silent ruins.
Dudian was slightly stunned and quickly sneaked over to find the source. Soon, he came to the street where the sound was coming from. Looking around the corner of a house, he saw seven or eight people gathered together in front of a store. On both sides of the street around them, walking corpses were gradually approaching, pouncing towards them with their claws outstretched.
"Scott? Zach?" Dudian recognized these people and was taken aback.
Among these seven or eight people were Scott and Mia, as well as four young scavengers from the consortium. The other two were Zach, who had been separated from him, and another young scavenger boy from the same batch.
At this moment, Zach and the scavenger boy were protected in the middle of the group. Scott and Mia held short swords and looked at the approaching walking corpses with ugly expressions. With their skills, they could barely fight a walking corpse one-on-one, at most two. But there were six or seven walking corpses in front of them, and it seemed that more walking corpses were being attracted by the roars from a distance.
"Retreat, retreat!" Scott said in a low voice with an ugly expression.
The group of eight people retreated towards the store behind them.
The walking corpses roared and pounced forward. The first walking corpse pounced towards Scott. Its ferocious appearance made the four young scavengers from the consortium behind Scott turn pale, and their hands holding the short swords trembled slightly.
Scott let out a roar and swung his sword to chop.
With a puff, the short sword struck the walking corpse's neck, but the blade wasn't sharp enough and got stuck in the cervical vertebra.
Scott's face changed, and he quickly kicked out.
At this moment, Mia beside him was just about to come to his aid when two other walking corpses rushed over from the side. Mia was so scared that she quickly turned back to block, holding one of the walking corpses at bay. The remaining walking corpse, however, pounced towards the four young scavengers from the consortium.
The four young scavengers from the consortium were extremely nervous and rushed out in despair. One of them was just about to swing his sword to chop when the walking corpse quickly grabbed his arm and pounced on him. Its huge mouth bit into the young man's throat, and blood spurted all over his face.
The three people behind were so scared that their legs trembled. They could only keep retreating, even abandoning Scott and Mia who were fighting the walking corpses in front.
The young scavenger boy also ran away in fear behind the three of them. Zach stood there, looking extremely anxious but not knowing what to do.
At this moment, the walking corpse that was biting the young man suddenly turned its gaze towards him.
"Run!" Scott roared.
Zach's face was pale, but suddenly, he summoned up the courage from somewhere. He held the short sword and rushed forward. When he was close to the walking corpse, he suddenly ducked and rolled, sweeping his feet towards the walking corpse's ankles. With a thud, the walking corpse was tripped.
Zach took the opportunity to get up and was just about to stab with the sword when a roar suddenly sounded from behind. It was another walking corpse that had rushed over.
Zach's face turned as white as a sheet. Just then, a stone suddenly flew over and hit the walking corpse's head, knocking it to the ground, and it didn't move anymore.
Scott, Mia, and Zach, who were fighting the walking corpses, couldn't help but look over. They saw a figure approaching rapidly, chasing after a walking corpse that was heading here from behind. The moment the walking corpse heard the commotion and turned its head, the figure jumped up and kicked out, hitting its spine. The walking corpse immediately crawled forward, its chest rubbing against the ground for two or three meters.
Before it could struggle to get up, the figure caught up quickly, stepped on its back, and held a fire axe in its hand, chopping down on its head.
With a puff, the walking corpse's head was immediately chopped off.
Scott, Mia, and Zach were stunned. The three young scavengers from the consortium and the young scavenger boy who had fled into the store heard the commotion and looked back, also being taken aback.
They saw that the one who had quickly killed the walking corpse was none other than Dudian.
Just after chopping off the walking corpse's head, Dudian quickly ran towards Zach. The moment the walking corpse just got up, he threw the axe in his hand. With a puff, it struck the back of the walking corpse's neck, knocking it to the ground.
However, this didn't damage the walking corpse's head, and it continued to struggle to get up.
Taking advantage of the time, Dudian had already caught up. He grabbed the handle of the axe and chopped down with all his might.
With a bang, the walking corpse's head fell off, and the handle of the axe also broke.
Dudian exhaled lightly. Fortunately, he had made it in time. He hadn't used the hunter's bow and arrow to shoot them for fear of revealing himself. When he saw that Zach and the others were surrounded, he immediately hid the hunter's bow and arrow under the chassis of a nearby scrapped car and then rushed over with the fire axe he had casually taken out from the building. It was a pity that the handle of this fire axe was too decayed and broke after just two strikes.
"Is, is that you?" Scott was a bit shocked. Killing two walking corpses in just two breaths, what kind of skill was this?
"Be careful!" Dudian shouted in a low voice and grabbed the axe and threw it.
With a puff, the axe, like a metal brick, hit the walking corpse that was pouncing towards Scott in the chest, knocking it down, but it didn't cause a fatal injury.
Scott came to his senses and quickly stabbed with the short sword, nailing the walking corpse to the ground.
Dudian said to Zach, "Go and hide inside." He turned and rushed towards Mia beside him, picked up the short sword of the young scavenger who had been bitten on the ground, and stabbed it towards the walking corpse's head.
The previously extremely swift movements of this walking corpse now seemed clear and visible in Dudian's eyes. The short sword stabbed in from its lower jaw, and with a sudden force, it penetrated into the head.
The walking corpse made two "er er" sounds in its throat and fell down weakly.
"Thank you." Mia panted and said to Dudian. There was a strange luster in her eyes as she looked at Dudian curiously. Such strength was definitely not something a scavenger should have. However, she also knew that the situation was critical at the moment, and there was no time for her to ask questions.