From the end of the world

Chapter 489: One after another 2
Among the deteriorated and dried bloodstains all over the surrounding amusement facilities, I found a relatively bright color. It was also a stain of blood, dotted on the ground near the "Pirate Ship" amusement facility not far away, and it was obviously fresh blood.

There were traces of shoes stepping on the bloodstains, extending all the way forward. There was only one type of shoe print, which could have been made by the person who was bleeding.

This also means that a living human may have passed by here not long ago.

As long as I find this living person, I should be able to get clues related to this place. With this expectation, I tried to follow the shoe prints.

Perhaps because the wound of the bleeding person was not big and he blocked his own wound, the fresh bloodstains stopped after a short distance. The blood-stained shoe prints also disappeared quickly. I used my superior vision to continue tracking the shoe prints based on the tiny traces of dust on the ground, but I could no longer track them after a while. The owner of the shoe prints disappeared as if he had evaporated from the face of the earth.

Was it because it was caught up in the spatial chaos and moved away from this abandoned amusement park? I tried to analyze it. If so, I'm afraid I won't be able to track it down. The transfer caused by spatial chaos is something I can't predict or control.

At this moment, I heard a sound like footsteps nearby.

The footsteps were very suspicious, reminiscent of people walking on muddy ground, but with an unusual nervousness. I immediately turned my head and looked in the direction of the sound. I saw a strange figure appearing at some point 20 meters away.

That was not a living person. Although it was alive, it was not a human. No matter how you looked at it, it looked like a bloody and terrifying monster.

I don't know how to describe this monster. If I have to describe it, I can first imagine a naked short human being, who has been turned inside out like a bullfrog that has been disemboweled. The muscles, skeleton, blood vessels, nerves, and other "inside things" are all turned over and exposed to the outside, and even the yellow fat and internal organs of different colors are hanging outside the body, spewing hot air. You can also see these internal organs twitching, jumping, and squirming, emitting evil vitality.

It could still walk for some reason, its skinless lower limbs trembling, as if it would fall at any moment as it staggered towards me. The rough ground rubbed its fragile skinless soles, leaving a series of bloody footsteps. Viscous tissue fluid was secreted from every part of its body, dripping onto the ground in threads.

This is another monster that roams around here.

I could sense the evil and greedy intentions coming from it, like a carnivorous beast drooling and ready to tear its prey apart and swallow it. Although I couldn't see where its fangs and mouth were, it was undoubtedly aggressive.

"Can you understand my language?"

I don't know if the conversation will work, so I'll just ask: "Have you seen anyone alive around here? He might be injured and was around here not long ago. If you're willing to tell me, I'll thank you."

There was no reply from the other party, nor any visible reaction in his movements, as he moved slowly but steadily towards me.

"Didn't you hear clearly? Or are you pretending not to understand?" I asked. "If you don't stop, I'm going to attack you."

The other party still didn't respond. Seeing this, I could only give up and raised my palm.

If this was just a demon hunter, I would probably stand still and "kindly" take two or three attacks from him to test his true intentions. But this is obviously a monster, so I won't be so kind. Even if it is a weak monster, it can sometimes show supernatural powers beyond human imagination. I am indeed unpredictable, but that doesn't mean I have any reason to be careless when facing monsters.

Without waiting for the other party to get close, I stretched out my finger and pointed it at the strange creature. The flames gathered at my fingertips and turned into a projectile, which shot towards the strange creature.

The flaming bullet hit the strange creature, but it did not penetrate it, but caused it to explode. It did not even make a scream, and it was unknown whether it had the ability to make a scream. The strange creature turned into ashes in the blink of an eye.

It seems very weak.

However, it is possible that he just didn't have enough time to show his supernatural powers, or it is possible that the other party has not finished yet.

I stood there and waited for a while. After making sure that the opponent really had no follow-up and there were no other enemies around, I walked forward and observed the footprints it left.

At least I was sure that the shoe prints I had found earlier did not belong to this strange creature. After all, it wasn't even wearing shoes.

I was relieved that the source of the clues I was looking for was not this disgusting monster that I couldn't communicate with. Then, I turned around and left this position to look for the owner of the shoe print. Although the other party was likely moved away, it was not necessarily moved to a place outside the abandoned amusement park.

Besides, as the saying goes, "If there is one, there will be another." Besides me and the owner of the shoe print, there might be other living people in the abandoned amusement park. It's too early to give up now.

I continued to wander around in the abandoned amusement park, but after searching for a long time, I was basically sure that I had searched all areas of the abandoned amusement park, but I still couldn't find any clues of living people other than myself.

It seems that it is useless to search here, so I should go to other places. I wonder if I can actively use the phenomenon of spatial chaos to transfer to other places in one go? However, that method can obviously only achieve random teleportation. Maybe it is better to leave the abandoned amusement park on foot? When I was considering whether I should try this a little bit, footsteps were heard nearby again. Turning around, another bloody and terrifying monster appeared, which was similar to the previous one.

The other party was like the monster just now, moving towards me tremblingly, exuding a vile and disgusting predatory intention.

I was about to release a fireball to destroy it again, but I noticed something unusual.

This monster... looks so similar to the one just now.

It doesn't look like the "same kind" as the one just now, but the "same" one.

I immediately called up my memory information and compared it with the monster opposite, and immediately became more convinced. The body shape, skeleton, exposed fat and internal organs, and the distribution of blood vessels and nerves of the two monsters are exactly the same. The duplication rate is so high that it is hard to believe that this is just a weird thing of the same type.

Out of probing, I cancelled the fireball on my side and quietly changed my position. However, this strange creature seemed to not rely on vision and was still able to lock onto my direction. After getting close enough, it suddenly accelerated and ran towards me. I was not going to kill it, as it seemed that it would be resurrected even if I killed it, so I might as well restrain it and observe it.

“——Stop.” I activated the power of words.

However, to my surprise, the other party did not stop. It was not that my power of words was ineffective on the other party. In my perception, the power of words seemed to have never been able to be truly activated from the beginning. Objectively speaking, I just said meaningless nonsense.

This strange creature suddenly leaped up, and its body opened in the middle. It seemed that the entire torso was a vertical mouth, revealing sharp fangs that grew in a disorderly manner.

I was going to burn it to ashes again, but I gave up the idea in the end. Because almost at the same time, there was a light shining from a distance, and at the same time there was a sound of wind breaking through the air, and an attack flew towards the strange thing in the air. It was a steel bar. Like a sparrow hit by an arrow, the strange thing flying in the air was pierced by the steel bar that broke through the air, and its whole body was carried away, and then nailed to the side of the bungee jumping machine ten meters away.

"What are you doing?"

From the direction where the steel bars were flying, came the voice of a human being asking questions.

I turned my head and looked over. I saw a figure wearing a linen cloak and holding an old-fashioned kerosene lamp slowly approaching. As if to show that he was not a threat, he stopped in the distance and took off the hood on his head.

He was a man with a weathered face, about forty years old, with short black hair and freckles all over his face. If you look closely, you will find that they are not freckles, but countless tiny scars that look like they were cut by a blade.

Although he was the one who "rescued" me, he looked at me with a wary look. Rather than saying he had met someone of unknown identity, it was more like he was doubting whether this person was human. It seemed that he didn't approach rashly because he was wary of this.

I am very happy that I finally met a living person with whom I can communicate in this inexplicable place.

"...Can you speak?" the man said warily, "Please say a few words to let me know that you can communicate."

"Of course I can talk," I said.

The man's expression relaxed slightly.

"And, regarding the previous question, I'm lost," I said, "Excuse me, where is this place?"

The man seemed to be observing his surroundings with his peripheral vision, and said, "I can't answer this. This is my first time here, too. It looks like this should be... an amusement park? I've only read about it in books about old civilizations..."

"—'Old civilization'?"

This word cannot be ignored. After thinking for a while, I said, "Let me put it another way. According to my memory, I used to live in a peaceful and bustling city with complete public facilities.

"But for some reason, the city suddenly became strange and dilapidated. There was not a single living person. Moreover, there were these terrifying monsters and strange and dangerous phenomena..."

Hearing this, the man interrupted me in astonishment and said, "You... even forgot about the 'end of the world'?"

(End of this chapter)