Jinjiang City

The journey went smoothly, without any obstacles.

Cheng Luoyi became taciturn again, and the atmosphere was exceedingly quiet.

Only Chen Ming kept taking out the liquid from a small bottle in his hand and smearing it over his body. It could disguise his scent as that of a monster, making them think he was one of their own.

"I need to put on more. They tricked me before, so this time I'm tricking them and getting revenge for being fooled!"

Chen Ming continued muttering, but when he sniffed the liquid on his hand, the pungent smell made him frown slightly.

"Why does it smell kind of pissy?"

"How could it not? Researchers extracted that liquid from an organ similar to a human bladder inside a monster's corpse."

Sun Yuhang explained.

"What?"

Chen Ming's eyes widened, and he suddenly felt a little nauseated.

But for the sake of safety...

He had to keep applying it...

They arrived by the river and traveled upstream along its bank. The current was swift, and floating corpses and bleached bones drifted past from time to time.

Some of the corpses even had mutated birds with red eyes and sharp beaks perched atop them. The birds kept bobbing their heads as they pecked worms out of the bodies, then tilted their heads back and swallowed them.

But this bird's good fortune did not last long. A large fish with a mouthful of sharp teeth suddenly shot out of the water and bit down on it.

No matter how the bird shrieked and struggled, it was useless.

It was quickly dragged beneath the river's surface.

After a burst of bloody water splashed up, it fell completely silent...

Jinjiang City was a little farther away than Linshan City. They passed through a stretch of wilderness on the way,