The Fool of the Gods

Outsiders didn't know what the two had talked about. Anyway, after an unpleasant exchange, Honglin the big cat followed the group in the direction they were leaving, while Brother Niaomao disappeared.

He looked at Honglin's departing back and turned to walk into the thicker fog.

The hunter on the other side led the team very quickly. This hunter of [Truth] was very pragmatic. He kept a cold face and didn't say much. Only when faced with a fork in the road would he frown and whisper to himself:

"Left or right?"

After pondering for a moment, he made a choice and continued to pursue with everyone.

After following the traces that only hunters could see for a long time, the four people finally found a new clue under a twisted night python tree. This time the clue was no longer a footprint, but a human body!

A body that was torn and bitten and thrown away casually under the tree.

The hunter's eyes sank and he looked around vigilantly.

"This is not right. The wound is very fresh. Be careful around you. The real hunter may not be far away."

Everyone immediately tensed up, and even Cheng Shi secretly held a scalpel in his hand.

You can be a swindler, but you can't be blind. At least you can't let the big man hold you back when you are in danger.

On this point, Master Hunzi is very conscious.

At this time, the big cat also caught up. She had not yet turned back into human form. She turned over the broken body with her front paws, and her eyes sank and said:

"This man was chewed up and spit out. If we only talk about the bite force, the beast or monster that attacked him must be no less than me.

There were no easily recognizable traces such as saliva or hair left at the scene, which was very strange. It is impossible to determine the type of attacker based on this chewed corpse, but at least it can be confirmed that the unlucky guy who was attacked is a...

Fungus-footed man."

! ! !

Fungus-footed man?

How could it be a mushroom-footed man? How did they appear underground?

Cheng Shi was not the only one who had doubts. Seeing that others were frowning, Hong Lin turned over the corpse and continued to explain:

"Although his feet have been gnawed off, look here, you can still see mycelium-like blood vessels in the flesh on his knees.

This is the most recognizable biological feature of the mushroom-footed man.

And this, half a broken skull, you see the remaining hair is exactly the same as the mycelium.

He is indeed a mushroom-footed man, so this trial is very strange. Why would a mushroom-footed man appear in the Sighing Forest?

Even if this is His trial, this is something that does not conform to logic."

Indeed, this is too strange.

Cheng Shi has a little understanding of the mushroom-footed people. He knows that the mushroom-footed people are a group that believes in [prosperity] and live in the rainforest southwest of the Island of Hope.

This kind of people, like the wood elves, are born to be the most devout believers of [Prosperity]. They look basically the same as humans. If you don't look at their feet, you can barely distinguish them by their hair, because the hair of the mushroom-footed people is long and looks like mycelium.

But if you can see their feet, their identities can't be more recognizable.

As the name suggests, the feet of the mushroom-footed people are not flesh and blood soles, but countless mycorrhizae piled together to form mimic human feet. Their legs gradually transition from the knees to mycorrhizae clusters of varying thicknesses. This kind of fungus-shaped feet born in the land not only allows them to walk freely like ordinary humans, but also allows them to dig mycorrhizae into the ground at any time to absorb nutrients.

Therefore, the mushroom-footed people are a race that does not need to find food at all. They only need to "stand at attention" to feed themselves in the fertile soil, and even transform into real bacterial strains and sleep standing up.

In a way, they are somewhat similar to the twisted night pythons transformed by [Decay], and they are also two-state creatures.

But the problem is that the mushroom-footed people are too dependent on the rainforest ecology and fertile land, which leads to them almost never traveling far. Even if they appear in other places on the surface, it seems a bit incredible, not to mention that they appear underground now.

Hong Lin, who knows the [Prosperity] tribe well, frowned and never relaxed after confirming the identity of the mushroom-footed people.

Cheng Shi knew what she was thinking, or he could guess what everyone was worried about.

Everyone was worried whether the dead mushroom-footed person was the "spark" that was about to go out...

It shouldn't be so unlucky, right?

The beginning is the end?

Isn't [Destiny] on my side?

Before, he might have believed in his good luck, but now that he has regained his faith in [Fraud]... he is a little unsure.

But no matter what, at least now he is a believer in [Destiny] both on the surface and inwardly, and I hope that a certain benefactor will not be like before.How heartless.

Cheng Shi thought about it for a while, and then continued to look at the body of the mushroom-footed man.

"Where is that... bird-hair brother, why didn't he come back with you?

He is a believer of [Decay]. Does he know more about the creatures in the Sighing Forest? Maybe he knows..."

"He doesn't know."

"..." Cheng Shi looked at Hong Lin who directly denied the ability of bird-hair brother, and thought to himself, big sister, you won't really kill him, right?

Hong Lin sniffed and didn't say anything, and tilted her head to look around.

Cheng Shi saw that she didn't respond, and pointed to the hand of the mushroom-footed man's corpse.

"What is he holding?"

Zuoqiu leaned over to pick up the thing in the corpse's hand, studied it for a while and said:

"It's a lamp similar to an insect lamp, but the fluorescent insects are replaced with fluorescent liquids. The light blue fluorescent traces we saw earlier should have leaked from this lamp."

"But this fluorescence..." Cheng Shishi pinched a little with his fingertips, raised it up and looked at it for a moment, "It can't illuminate the fog of the Sighing Tide, so why is he holding a lamp that can only light but is useless?"

Everyone was silent after hearing this. Indeed, this behavior was too weird.

"Don't be obsessed with things you can't figure out. When we can't come up with an answer, it means we are missing clues. Hunter brother, can you still find traces?"

Zuoqiu wiped his hand that had touched the corpse on the rotten leaves, put away the broken small lamp and looked at the hunter. The hunter nodded very confidently, not knowing what means he had to track, and then continued to lead the way with a cold face.

Everyone followed with a slightly changed look. The players were now praying that the end of this road would lead to another new clue, rather than a dead end.

Cheng Shi was a step slower and fell behind. He walked side by side with Hong Lin the big cat, lowered his head and asked quietly:

"Don't you think it's strange?"

"Of course it's strange, the mushroom-footed man shouldn't be here."

"No, that's not what I'm talking about." Cheng Shi shook his head. Although his vision was limited by the thick fog, he still looked around.

"Are you talking about why the beast that attacked him didn't swallow him but spit him out instead?"

"No, don't you think his body is too complete?"

Complete?

Hong Lin was stunned, thinking that the body was chewed like that, how could it be said to be complete...

Wait!

The big cat paused and suddenly realized what Cheng Shi wanted to say.

The dead mushroom-footed man, except for the scars of being attacked and chewed, had no signs of [decay], aging and decay!

"You figured it out, right? It's strange, isn't it? The reason why we are safe is because of the baptism of new life you provided.

Brother Niaomao is a believer of [Decay]. It doesn't count as going home. As a hunter, he probably has his own little hidden tricks.

But how could a mushroom-footed man, a mushroom-footed man who believes in [Prosperity] in a place where there is no [Prosperity] will, not be affected by the Sighing Tide?

And how could he dare to walk alone in the Sighing Tide with a lamp when he was unarmed?

Who gave him the courage? There is no Fish Leong in the Isle of Hope."

"......" What does this have to do with Fish Leong?

Hong Lin was speechless, but she still understood what Cheng Shi meant. She glanced at him with appreciation and said, "The lamp is weird!"

Cheng Shi nodded and looked at the back of the historian in front of him.

"Zuoqiu had already discovered this, but he didn't say anything and even put away the lamp in front of us.

It looked like he was preserving props or collecting 'cultural relics', but he cut off this clue.

Our historian is not simple."

"Heh, it's a waste of time and effort to beat around the bush, just ask directly."

Honglin sneered, took a few steps, and slapped Zuoqiu on the shoulder with a claw, making the historian stagger.

"You..."

Just as she was about to ask Cheng Shi's question just now, she heard Zuoqiu exclaim at a thick fog not far in front of her:

"Fog gate! We actually hit the fog gate!"

The hunter's eyes tightened, and he retreated half a step and said: "The fluorescent traces of the mushroom-footed man disappeared from here. Be careful, the power of [decay] here is too strong."

Everyone stiffened when they heard the words, and their hearts immediately tightened.

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