Chapter 1150: Strange Fragrance, Winning a Prize

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Standing before the crude spiritual energy tower, Lin An curiously watched the burning corpses.

Seeing as they were thrown into the spiritual energy tower, these few Heavenly Eye People seemed to spontaneously combust, and while burning they continually emitted specks of blue starlight. It looked rather nice. Like candles, their bodies gradually withered and dissolved, while at the same time a stream of pure energy flowed into their bodies.

"Quite impressive.."

Ignoring the surrounding grief-stricken gazes, Lin An took a deep breath, feeling only that the spiritual energy within his body was rapidly replenishing.

He had only felt this sensation when advancing in rank.

Pure, with no impurities, it could be absorbed almost instantly. Compared to spiritual energy nodes, Lin An even doubted that a six Fourth Rank node could possibly refine such pure energy. If used to boost strength, it was practically on par with hunting mutants.

"One person, %..."

Silently estimating the restored spiritual energy, Lin An couldn't help but be slightly moved.

Seemingly this ratio is extremely low, but that's for him!

His spiritual energy reserve had already reached several dozen times that of his peers! If converted to the initial level, that would be a hundredfold gap!

Speaking bluntly, if we compare spiritual energy reserves to water, a typical three Fourth Rank initial is just a cup, while he is a swimming pool!

"Calculating this way, the spiritual energy provided by one Heavenly Eye Person is enough for an ordinary three Fourth Rank to recover to about 1%, even a bit more."

"One hundred people, and the spiritual energy can be fully replenished. This amount of slaughter is hardly anything..."

"But if it were me, I would probably need around ten thousand people.."

Instinctively directing his gaze toward the Heavenly Eye People within the gathering place, in Lin An's emotionless gaze, these tightly embraced humanoid beings were now no different from firewood.

Noticing the killing intent that flashed in Lin An's eyes, many Heavenly Eye People instinctively shivered.

"Ten thousand people, replenishing all my consumption, is easily achievable."

"Taking this gathering place as an example, there are still one or two thousand people. Larger, a scale of several tens of thousands is also quite normal.."

In his low murmurs of thought, Lin An couldn't help but feel an impulse arise.

He could openly capture Heavenly Eye People to serve as his backup battery. As long as the fuel is plentiful, he could even be stronger than in the real world! After all, in reality, his recovery speed is also limited!

There was no waste at all.

As the three corpses finally burned into curled black lumps, Lin An's eyes flickered slightly, and his heart became somewhat resolved.

Although compared to combat consumption, this bit of replenishment is still a little lacking. But at least he need not worry about short-term spiritual energy problems for now.

But he also realized something: the competition for resources.

The larger the gathering place, the more Heavenly Eye People there are, and the more spiritual energy is recovered.

The longer one persists, the more points they accumulate.

In other words, once all Awakened Ones discover this, they are likely to directly massacre Heavenly Eye People in bulk, turning them into 'reserve grain'.

Carrying this grain, these Awakened Ones will begin to frenziedly attack the gathering places occupied by other Awakened Ones.

Plunder, massacre, and plunder again.

The entire apocalyptic battlefield will completely turn into a bloody slaughterhouse. Any newly compassionate Awakened One will, under spiritual energy depletion, become a lamb awaiting slaughter.

The worm offspring will attack, Awakened Ones will attack!

In order to replenish spiritual energy, even if someone does not want to use Heavenly Eye People as fuel, they will be forced to do so!

One could say the fate of the Heavenly Eye People, ever since the day they failed to resist the apocalypse, has been destined to be extraordinarily tragic, without even a chance to garner sympathy.

Whoever pities them dies! Whoever is soft-hearted will perish together!

Having figured all this out, Lin An couldn't help but sigh inwardly at the ruthlessness of the Doomsday System, which truly manifests in every aspect.

After suppressing his chaotic thoughts, Lin An simply left the spiritual energy tower, preparing to wait for the next wave of worm attacks and for Zhang Tie's arrival.

With Xiong Hanzi's talent, he is actually extremely suited to this scene.

Anyway, that guy hardly uses spiritual energy in combat, relying purely on his indestructible physique plus a brand-new outfit. In this situation, he might even adapt better than Lin An.

Patiently waiting, he rummaged through the remnants left behind by the Heavenly Eye civilization.

Lin An continuously recorded the information.

For this failed civilization, lessons can clearly be drawn from their history. Regarding the true cause of the Heavenly Eye's demise, Lin An also harbored a cautious, investigative mindset.

For some unknown reason, as time passed, he continually faintly smelled a fragrance.

This scent was just like the aroma emitted when Heavenly Eye People were bled.

But..

It became increasingly tempting.

In doubt, Lin An somewhat solemnly lifted his head, searching all around for the source of the fragrance.

Was someone bleeding inside the gathering place?

His throat instinctively convulsed.

Under the temptation of this aroma, he actually found that a desire was continually welling up in his heart.

Could it be the scent emanating from the Heavenly Eye People?

Quickly recalling the anomaly, Lin An, while remaining vigilant, couldn't help but feel somewhat uneasy.

With his willpower, not to mention a fragrance, even the most delicious food in the world could not possibly disturb him in the slightest. This feeling, this inexplicable hunger, was rather like the sensation a zombie feels upon seeing a human.

That was a desire arising from deep within his instincts.

A bit..

Hungry!?

Like a phantom, he shuttled through the camp.

Lin An swiftly probed every corner, and after a moment his expression turned somewhat unsightly as he stopped.

None.

No Heavenly Eye People were bleeding. In fact, these people did nothing at all, merely sitting numb in fear.

"What is this taste, exactly where does it come from?"

"Is it from when I started burning corpses?"

"Almost instinctively, Lin An faintly sensed a hint of unease."

"He seemed to have missed something."

"So many insect corpses.."

"Be careful, there should be a Third Rank. And probably more than one person.."

"All along following the insect swarm's traces, the Brahma Squad's bald-headed leader lowered his body, carefully examining the battle's traces."

"The more he looked, the more shocked he felt, yet amidst the surprise, a hint of joy appeared in his eyes."

"Killing this many, the spiritual energy consumption is definitely high!"

"If we go now, perhaps the enemy is exactly at their weakest moment!"

"Before even entering any gathering place, the leading Third Rank confidently made a judgment, and, excited, he practically saw the points beckoning to him."

"Along the way they hadn't encountered any Heavenly Eye People, nor received any hints. Naturally, they were unaware that Heavenly Eye People could be used to replenish spiritual energy."

"The only information they knew was that someone in the previous war zone had sent a brief message via special Props, urging them to seize the gathering place quickly."

"Imran Khan, are we really going to ambush them?"

"I looked at that deep pit, feeling the opponent's strength wouldn't be bad.."

"With a hint of worry in his eyes, another dark-skinned A San obviously felt some concern. The gathering place ahead surely had a Third Rank. Looking at the effects of various combat skills on the ground, the opponent had at least two people."

"One appeared to be a melee Awakened One wielding a longsword-type weapon, the other appeared to be a spellcaster."

"A very typical conventional combination, but very practical."

"As a Third Rank, he still possessed the most basic discernment ability."

"What's there to fear? If the enemy is numerous, we'll just run first and talk later! But I estimate at most two! With such a huge battlefield, the probability of running into many Third Ranks together is too small!"

"And think about it, after killing so many insects, how much spiritual energy do you have left?"

"Full of confidence, Imran Khan proceeded with a solemn analysis, directly using his own strength to evaluate."

"They too have fought the insects; although not hard to kill, the spiritual energy consumption is indeed real."

"With so many insects, the battle situation so intense, these traces of damage could only have been caused by using a huge amount of spiritual energy!"

"Not to mention anything else, at least half was used!"

"In the entire war zone there were only two Third Rank Intermediates; at this moment, Imran Khan never imagined that the opponent might not be a Third Rank Initial."

"After all, in his understanding, everyone was a Third Rank Initial. Among millions of Awakened Ones, the chance of encountering a higher rank is smaller than buying a lottery ticket."