Chapter 697: Chapter 53: Retrospection Bell
Shortly after the monster left, there was movement around again. A woman wearing goggles and carrying a brown leather backpack moved towards the pool of blood.
A small bronze bell was left in the blood, and it was clear that her target was that bell.
Su Changxing was also extremely surprised, having not felt anyone else nearby at all.
This woman had clearly been hiding nearby before, and witnessed the entire battle just now, knowing that the bell was a valuable artifact.
Su Changxing also knew, but he didn’t care as much, as this bell’s ability was similar to his White Feather Flashing, both involving spatial transfer.
The players participating in this game were indeed extraordinary, and if this woman kept hiding, he might truly not have discovered her.
Unfortunately, she seemed too greedy.
Su Changxing watched her approach step by step, his left hand placed on the Silent Spear, ready to take action.
Of course, he couldn’t just stand by and watch the other party take his spoils; the bell was still useful to him.
Although its ability overlapped with White Feather Flashing, the two could be used together.
The fact that the warrior was able to evade the monster’s attack with the bell already proved the power of this mysterious item.
The warrior’s strength was actually very formidable. Even now, Su Changxing had no complete assurance of defeating him.
It should be noted that after entering the Land of Slaughter, he had been strengthened by Inheritance Power thousands of times, pushing his Physique and Spirit to the limits. His Power, Speed, and Perception had also significantly improved, all approaching a value of forty.
In this process, he became at least fifty percent stronger than before, especially the increase in Spiritual Power, which could directly amplify the potency of certain abilities.
The woman in goggles took the bell in her hand, smiling with satisfaction at what she had picked up. Her body once again became half-transparent, as if she was about to disappear.
However, Su Changxing took his finger off the trigger. Just as he was preparing to act, from God’s Perspective, he saw a shadow in the distance rushing toward their location.
It was the monster; it hadn’t gone far. It knew there were still people nearby, using the bell as bait and pretending to leave.
At that moment, Su Changxing felt cold sweat on his forehead. Luckily, he hadn’t rushed to act, otherwise, he would definitely have been discovered by the monster.
This was no brainless beast; it was clever beyond compare, indeed.
Su Changxing realized his previous judgment was completely wrong. Where did this erroneous judgment come from?
Thinking back, it seemed to stem from seeing the monster charge out of the red light barrier, believing it wasn’t very smart.
If it were smarter, it wouldn’t have been caught by the red light barrier.
Hmm, it might also be that it didn’t perceive the threat from the red light barrier. That thing indeed didn’t cause it much harm, as it rushed out and took down a Tier Six Extraordinary.
A long shadow swept across the wasteland, dashing straight for the goggle-wearing woman, a circular explosion forming in the air around it.
The monster’s full-speed run was too loud, and the woman saw it from afar, her face showing panic as her body disappeared from the spot, running in another direction.
But at this moment, hiding was no longer effective. The monster had already spotted her.
With a heavy crash, the woman who had just climbed a tree was pulled down by the monster and slammed heavily onto the ground.
Debris flew, leaving a pit over ten meters across on the ground.
Her abdomen was suddenly hollowed out, her intestines and such clenched in the monster’s hand, then stuffed into its mouth to be chewed.
"Ah!"
Watching her own innards being eaten by the monster, she screamed in terror, attempting to struggle, but completely unable to move, held firmly in place by the monster’s claws.
Meanwhile.
She didn’t give up resisting. Many spiked iron wires interwove around, wrapping around the monster’s body and limbs.
With exertion, the wires sliced multiple bloody marks into the monster’s body.
But this seemed to have little effect on the monster, which shook its body forcefully, breaking the spiked iron wires.
"Delicious!"
It cackled, biting down on the woman’s head, savoring the texture of chewing it whole and the sweetness of her blood, which fascinated it greatly.
Su Changxing fell back into his previous state of stillness, preventing the monster from noticing him.
Still, with his previous experience, he felt more confident, certain that the monster wouldn’t discover him.
After consuming the woman’s corpse, the monster scanned the surroundings with its triangular nose twitching, then swaggered away unhurriedly, as though this place was its domain.
"Did it really leave?"
Su Changxing whispered to himself, still unsure. The monster’s behavior made his scalp tingle.
The cycles of day and night in the Land of Slaughter.
Where it was day, it remained day, and where it was night, it stayed night. The passage of time wasn’t easily felt.
But unlike the Celestial Gate, where time was frozen, here only the light remained unchanged.
Quietly waiting until the red light barrier began to move again and the monster still didn’t appear, it was likely truly gone, heading elsewhere.
Only then did Su Changxing cautiously crawl out from a gap in the rocks, taking a deep breath as the pallor on his skin gradually faded.
He approached the bell amidst the pool of blood. The woman in goggles had been devoured completely, leaving only the pool of blood on the ground.
In a way, the monster was quite frugal, at least not wasteful, following the concept of a clean plate.
Su Changxing wiped the blood off the bell, using "True Knowledge" to analyze its information.
[Retrospection Bell: Rank A Crown, Lower Rank, capable of returning to the position from one second ago, and during the instant of using the bell, the body is in an unreal state, usable once every five minutes.]
"No wonder it wasn’t hit by the monster just now."
Su Changxing showed a thoughtful look. From its function, it’s a very practical mysterious item, greatly aiding in combat, but the downside is each use drains a large amount of Spiritual Power.
After using the bell, the warrior’s movements visibly slowed down, leading to him being bitten to death by the monster.
The bell instantly drained a large amount of Spiritual Power, exhausting the little remaining spirit he had, causing his actions to lag.
Su Changxing picked up the bell, shaking it in front of his chest, and at the sound of its pleasing ring, he appeared in a different position nearby the next moment.
"Not bad, it doesn’t affect me greatly."
Feeling the bell’s mental consumption, though significant, was bearable. After all, he had 49.3 Spiritual Power.
Such Spiritual Power was probably only possessed by some Tier Five Extraordinary, far exceeding the limits of Tier Seven.
This time, the red light barrier moved much slower than before, indicating the next red circle was nearby, just a short walk ahead.
Ahead was more wilderness, but the view wasn’t exactly open, with significant terrain variations, and in some places, tall wild grass could completely cover a person.
In the distance, a large fire burned on an open space, a large area charred black, with some weapons left behind, indicating a chaotic battle happened here not long ago, but people seem to have vanished.
No, they didn’t vanish, but were eaten by the monster.
The bloodstains left on the ground were proof, crushed flesh squeezed out the fresh blood.
