Chapter 78: Struggle and Salvation.

The various wounds on Xiao Fen’s body still hurt a little, but the pain was much better than before.

Walking to the side of those piles of dry bones, Xiao Fen stared at the Voodoo Snake. The two sides confronted each other for a while. Perhaps out of fear of Xiao Fen, the Filth Life began to retreat gradually.

Theoretically speaking, since the reward had already been obtained, he could completely ignore the subsequent changes.

On the other hand, the higher the initial level of the quest, the higher the difficulty of the subsequent quests that would unfold.

In other words, the current Xiao Fen could completely walk away, without having to worry about the follow-up quest of Abandoned Shadow, and without having to consider looking for the clue mentioned in the quest prompt among the remains of those monsters.

The Abandoned Shadow, which was now an A-Rank difficulty quest, would not result in a subsequent quest difficulty lower than A.

With such a difficult quest, succeeding once or twice was already not bad. Expecting to complete it every time would really be underestimating the Trial World.

However, Xiao Fen still couldn’t control his thoughts. He wanted to find that only remaining clue and then finish this quest.

If there had to be a reason for it, it was probably related to the painful howls of those monsters before they died.

Xiao Fen could hear very clearly that when these monsters died, they would all let out a miserable crying sound. The sound sounded like they were shouting “Mommy”. They were all very, very childish sounds, like a group of children crying in final despair.

This made Xiao Fen feel unbearable. Nuclear war could not avoid casualties, and children were no exception.

But as he judged just now, this basement was built after the nuclear war. If the original forms of these monsters were pitiful children, Xiao Fen felt that he could not forgive the initiator no matter what.

He wanted to find that clue, he wanted to advance this quest, and he wanted to find the real mastermind behind the scenes.

He also wanted to forcefully cut off that black hand and completely destroy it.

Even if this was just the Trial World, not the Real World.

He did this for no other reason than to let himself have a clear conscience.

Yes, a clear conscience.

Since he had become a Trialist, he had to have the awareness of a Trialist. Since he possessed more powerful abilities, of course, he should step forward at the most difficult time.

From the appearance of modern humans until now, countless Awakened have stepped forward to prevent Humans from suffering Apocalyptic Disasters. In the darkness where no Human remembered them, they gave their lives, letting these Apocalyptic Disasters brush past the Real World.

Awakened have the awareness of Awakened, and of course, Trialists do too.

Facts proved that Xiao Fen’s blood had a strong blocking effect on Filth toxin. He felt this clearly the moment he left his own pool of blood and entered those black shadows.

Level 1 versus level 1, those toxins could not cause effective damage to Xiao Fen’s body, but every step Xiao Fen took was very painful. His feet and even his legs, losing the protection of the blood pool, were suffering in the black shadows.

The feeling of countless sharp long needles stabbing fiercely made Xiao Fen almost want to give up his previous plan.

He didn’t need to complete these side quests perfectly; this was just a Trial World, and an insignificant one at that.

What the World Tree considered was only testing who could survive in the end. Whether they solved more branch quests or helped the people of this city tide over the difficulties, these were not what Xiao Fen should consider.

What he needed to do was to find a safe nuclear bunker, then go in and complete the assessment task. There was absolutely no need to suffer here and endure pain that other Trialists could not bear.

However, a small sound made Xiao Fen stop his legs, which were prepared to retreat.

It was a “crack” sound made when a bone was crushed. It was the bone of a monster, very small, and having been polluted by the toxin, it appeared very fragile. Therefore, even though Xiao Fen didn’t use much force, it was enough to crush that small bone to powder.

After hearing this sound, Xiao Fen suddenly stopped his body. Standing in the increasingly steaming black shadows, somehow, he suddenly heard a fragile voice speaking to him in the void.

“Save me!”

That was an extremely tender voice, coming from under Xiao Fen’s feet, and also from all around his body. Almost everywhere where there were monster bones, a voice faintly sounded at this time.

“Save me, save us!”

Xiao Fen lowered his head, rubbed his eyes with his hands, then shook his hand and slowly stood up straight. He shouted angrily at that Filth Life: “Come on, you scum, come on! If you want to eat me, either do it now, or get the hell away from me right now!”

Accompanying his roar, a faint ripple suddenly appeared around his body. Although this ripple was not obvious, it was enough to sweep away a part of the black shadows.

This seemed to be the so-called “aura”, and Xiao Fen had a vague feeling about this.

Similarly, affected by this aura was the Voodoo Snake.

It did not expect that a Human would actually have such a powerful mental impact. In that instant, they, who had no emotion, even faintly produced a feeling known as “fear”.

This feeling made it retreat again and again, not daring to rush up and divide the seemingly teetering Xiao Fen into countless pieces of flesh and blood.

Xiao Fen bent down and shone the flashlight on the ground again and again. After a while, two keys and a strange crystal appeared before his eyes. He reached out and held these things in his arms, striding towards the lead door.

Before opening the lead door to leave this room, he looked back deeply at the basement, then suddenly pulled open the lead door and slammed it shut heavily before the black shadows at his feet could rush outside, locking the Voodoo Snake inside.

Filth Life craved blood food; they needed to constantly eat to maintain their Health Value. Once they lost their food, their lives would also come to an end.

Following Xiao Fen’s sudden closing of the lead door, a huge crashing sound suddenly came from the other side of the lead door. This sound was so violent that it could be heard clearly even through such a thick lead door.

The Voodoo Snake was crashing against the lead door desperately for its final survival. Hearing this sound, Xiao Fen suddenly thought of those monsters.

Before those children were infected, were they also scratching desperately behind such a lead door until the apocalypse arrived?

He let out a long breath, sat at the lead door for a few minutes, determined that the strength in his body had recovered slightly, and then slowly stood up, walking towards the top of the dark passage.

“Who?”

Sabova asked alertly after hearing the sound of walking.

“It’s me, Captain. Don’t shoot.”