"Woooooooooooo!" The little thing, as if he was very uneasy, kept shouting in one direction, but his voice was very low, as if he was deliberately suppressing his screams and not wanting anything to hear.

"Is there something over there?" Shangguan Xinyue was a little confused when she saw the dog's abnormal reaction.

"Isn't it better to go over and take a look?" Meilin held the dog and planned to walk by, but stopped after taking just one step. With his nose wrinkled, Meilin's face looked a little ugly: "What's the thing, it smells so bad?"

"What?" Tang Chen followed Meilin, frowned when he wanted to take a step: "Is this... corpse smell?!"

"Well, it's true that this taste is right." Sveriya nodded with a serious expression: "Be careful, this is not the simulation training you have done in the school! Be prepared and then go and take a look."

"Yes!" The three of them responded collectively, and then slowly walked towards the direction where the pungent smell came.

"The smell here is the strongest, it should be here." Meilin covered her nose and looked ugly. For the dragon clan, who has excellent five senses, this smell really made her nauseous.

Everyone looked around and there was nothing except the knee-length grass, just like the place before. No, it was a little different—

"There are no signs of animal activity here." Tang Chen carefully observed the surroundings and found that there were no signs of animal trampling or eating on the grass.

"It should be because of these grasses." Shangguan Xinyue also frowned. For some reason, she had a very bad premonition since the beginning.

"Hey!" Meilin suddenly screamed, and the dog in her arms also "whimpered" twice, attracting Tang Chen and the others' attention: "Come and see, there is something here!"

Tang Chen rushed over quickly and found a boot in the grass that was obviously a standard clothing. There was some blood on the bottom of the boot, and half of it was covered by the grass that could not be seen.

Holding the long sword in his hand, Tang Chen slowly pushed away the grass that was blocking his vision, and then he saw that the boots were worn on a rotten corpse, which was still holding a standard long sword in his hand. But it seems that it has been a long time, and the corpse has been beyond recognition.

"Are the garrison?" Meilin carefully observed the equipment monks on the body and their clothes that had not yet completely decayed, and found that it seemed very similar to the equipment of the garrison they saw in the fortress.

"Maybe something unexpected happened after being alone, so..." Shangguan Xinyue speculated that although the volume was not loud, the surroundings were quiet, and there was only the sound of a breeze blowing, so the few people could hear it clearly.

"If it's a person in the fortress, then it should be found on the list of missing or dead." Meilin thought for a while: "Would we bring it with us, or should we record the location and go back to report it?"

"Senior brother, what's wrong?" Sviriya looked at Tang Chen's brow that had been locked and unrelaxed, and asked in a deep voice.

"Something is wrong, but I can't say it." Tang Chen stared at the corpse in front of him, as if he was thinking about something, but it always seemed like something was almost there, and Tang Chen himself couldn't tell what was going on. Tang Chen always felt that he had missed something, but no one noticed it. This feeling always lingered in Tang Chen's heart, which made him care very much.

"Is it okay?" Meilin asked with some concern. As she said that, she hugged the dog and planned to get closer to see if she could find anything.

"Wait!" Tang Chen whispered: "Although I can't explain clearly, there is definitely something wrong. Don't get close to the corpse easily!"

"?" The three girls looked at Tang Chen in an unknown way, but no one went to get close to the corpse anymore. Shangguan Xinyue was a little confused: "Why are you so quiet? Where are the animals around?"

"Quiet?!" Tang Chen's head suddenly sank as if it was hit by a hammer, and then suddenly realized: "Yes, it's too quiet!"

"?" Meilin didn't understand what Tang Chen was sucking: "There are no animals around and no people, so it's certainly quiet, right?"

"Why are there no animals?!" Tang Chen asked back: "Before that, did you not find that it was abnormal to be quiet here?"

"What's wrong with that?" Meilin didn't know what Tang Chen wanted to express.

"You haven't really seen it, so you won't understand. Generally speaking, the corpse is not so quiet." Tang Chen narrowed his eyes and stared at the corpse: "There is at least one sound that is almost impossible to lack."

"Ah?" Mei Lin still didn't understand, but Shangguan Xinyue suddenly lit up: "There is no sound of flies here!"

"Fly?" Meilin tilted her head and thought for a while, then frowned: "You mean, even though this corpse has started to rot, there are still no flies next to it? Could it be that there are no flies here at all?"

"We have seen all the animals in the distance. It is obvious that flies are surrounding the animals. However, there are obviously rotten things here, but there are no traces of scavengers. Even flies cannot be found. In this case, the only judgment I can make is that there is a problem with the corpse." Tang Chen waved his hand: "No matter what, don't get close to this corpse easily."

"What should I do now?" Shangguan Xinyue put his hands on her chest and supported her chin: "If your inference is correct, then this corpse can be regarded as an unstable compound that may explode at any time. If you just throw it here..."

"That's definitely not possible." Tang Chen shook his head: "We are here to help. If you ignore this situation, it will be meaningless. But we can't act rashly, so we have to--" As he said, Tang Chen turned his gaze to the distance: "Let's do an experiment."

"I said, is this method really reliable?" Mei Lin looked at Tang Chen with some amusement and crying. No, to be precise, she looked at the flies pinching in Tang Chen's hand: "Can such a thing really be used for experiments? By the way, why don't you find a bigger one?"

"A bigger fly is still a fly?" Tang Chen glanced at her and said that Meilin was talking nonsense.

"I mean why don't you just catch an animal for testing, and have to use flies?!" Meilin looked at Tang Chen's contemptuous gaze, and always felt that she wanted to hit someone.

"It's rare that there are so many wild animals living," Tang Chen looked at the animals in the distance with a gentle smile: "If you want to eat it, it's too wasteful to do experiments."

"···" Meilin wanted to vomit blood.

"Be careful, if nothing unexpected happens, you should react." Tang Chen looked at Sviriya and found that the senior sister who had no sense of existence since the beginning did not express any expression at all. He smiled bitterly in his heart: Senior sister is really implementing dramaticism to the end! It seems that the senior sister did not intend to speak before the matter was resolved.

While shaking his head, Tang Chen used his glove-wearing hand to throw the flies he was originally pinching towards the corpse.

The flies fell on the corpse, and Meilin and others were on guard carefully, but there was no response.

After waiting for a while, Meilin looked at Tang Chen with a look of expression and said, "Is the thing I cast in the past too small?"

Before he finished speaking, a sudden change occurred!

The rotten corpse suddenly made a series of sticky sounds like mud stirring, and then the fly that fell on the corpse was swallowed by a mouth full of fine teeth that made people look numb!

"Hey, did I read it wrong?" Meilin swallowed: "Just now, the fly was swallowed? It was the belly of the corpse?!"

That's right, Tang Chen threw the fly on the belly of the corpse, but a creepy mouth suddenly appeared on the belly of the corpse and swallowed it. He even chewed it for a few times before swallowing it, and then the mouth disappeared out of thin air!

"This, what is this thing?" Mei Lin loosened her hand, and the little thing in her arms jumped into Tang Chen's arms after landing. Tang Chen took the dog casually and stared at the corpse: "It's true. It's not that there are no animals or even flies around the corpse, but that the animals close to the corpse were swallowed by the corpse! So there are no obvious traces of animals moving around, and even a fly can't be found."

"What the hell is that?" Melin looked at Sviria: "Senior sister, you should know, right? What's going on?"

Sviria just smiled and didn't answer.

"Senior sister?" Meilin called out again.

"Okay," Shangguan Xinyue stopped Meilin: "Since the senior sister didn't say anything, it means that the senior sister judged that this was something we should deal with, right? How can we rely on the senior sister for everything?"

"Huh..." Meilin let out a long breath and then calmed down a little: "Sorry, senior sister, I'm a little excited."

"It's okay, everyone's reaction was almost the same when they saw this kind of thing for the first time." Sveriya smiled gently, as if there was incredible magic in her smile, which quickly calmed down Melin's mood.

"Tang Chen, have you seen such things?" Mei Lin turned to Tang Chen.

"No, although I have seen a battle with the Chaos Army with my own eyes, this is the first time I have encountered this situation. However, if I expected it to be, this thing." As he said that, Tang Chen nodded to the corpse: "This should be our enemy."

"You mean..." Shangguan Xinyue hesitated a little.

"If the previous actions are considered eating, then you will wake up when you encounter an attack?" Tang Chen made a speculation: "It is already certain that this is some strange mutation. I think we have to consider whether to wake it up and try to make it."
Chapter completed!