Chapter 60: Will LV1

After all, besides this Zhang Dadan, there had been two other people at the scene back then.

Baichuan, who had rarely come into contact with the humans of this world, could only be careful—careful again and again!

Thinking of this, Baichuan also crawled over slowly, a pair of sharp claws reaching out to grip the corpse, then slowly dragging it to the shore.

There was no helping it—he was already injured. Even though it wasn't the most important front half of his snake body, it still seriously affected his crawling speed.

Especially since snakes crawl with their bodies in an S-shape, left and right; if he crawled even a little faster now, the broken bone would definitely hurt so much that his entire snake body would go numb.

From now on, every movement could only be done slowly.

After reaching the shore, he shoved it into the river in one go, letting it drift slowly along with the current.

As the corpse entered the water, countless crystalline splashes flew up; soon the blood that had already coagulated and dried from the toxin and the long passage of Time dissolved once again, slowly spreading out across the water's surface.

In an instant, all kinds of small fish and shrimp floated up to the surface one after another, feeding nonstop, causing the water's surface to shimmer with ripples.

Baichuan looked on with satisfaction, then turned around once more to go search for Zhang Dadan's head.

And this made his pupils contract.

"This is?"

He saw that at this moment, countless fine, dense red Light Points were slowly drifting out from Zhang Dadan's head, these Light Points seeming to have no mass at all as they floated lightly upward.

Without time to think, he instantly turned his head to look back.

At this moment, a huge mass of densely packed red Light Points was also floating up from the river's surface, instantly dyeing the entire stretch of river bright red, like a river of blood!

Added to that were the countless fish and shrimp flopping and leaping out, and the evening glow from the setting sun about to disappear in the distance—for a moment, it gave off a strangely beautiful aesthetic.

This peculiar scene left Baichuan completely dumbfounded.

"What's going on here? A corpse coming back to life? Or is it the same kind of substance as the Ice Frost power within my body?"

Baichuan thought subconsciously.

"Or could it really be ghosts?!"

So should he go closer to take a look right now?

Unable to make up his mind, he thought it over, and finally decided to go check it out.

"I wasn't afraid of you when you were alive, so how could I be afraid now that you're dead? Even if there really are ghosts, what could they do in such a short time?"

Of course, thinking is thinking. The necessary probing still had to be done.

After eating and drinking his fill, he was no longer stingy with his energy. He once again puffed up his neck, aimed at the target's head, and a thin wisp of ice element was instantly spat out.

In an instant, it transformed into a cold current that shot forth.

Accompanied by a series of faint cracking sounds of ice and a sizzling noise, the slowly drifting red Light Points immediately wavered and swayed, and quite a few vanished within the white mist.

"Did it work?"

Seeing this, Baichuan, who now had some confidence in his heart, slowly approached; he wasn't afraid of things he could hit, only afraid of those illusory things he couldn't hit.

The distance between the two wasn't far; a few seconds later, even though Baichuan's speed was extremely slow at this moment, he had already arrived.

He looked at the light still continuously drifting out before him, tentatively extended a sharp claw, and slowly reached out to touch a Light Point that happened to drift by.

The instant he made contact, he froze.

A stream of information was transmitted into his mind.

And after this Light Point, countless other Light Points also touched his claws to varying degrees during their drift.

After a long while, he, who had come back to his senses, lowered his head to look at the light still continuously drifting away, smiled knowingly in his heart, and murmured:

"So that's how it is."

At this moment, he already understood exactly what these lights were.

He silently opened the human ability model he had just obtained—the human model belonging to Zhang Dadan.

"Race: Human."

"Abilities: Wise Brain LV3 (King), Endurance LV2, Strong LV2, Symbiosis LV1 (Ape Transformation), Dexterity LV1, Information Communication LV1, Will LV1…"

Among these abilities, his eyes were immediately drawn to that extremely special ability, one he had never seen on any other creature: Will LV1.

This was the first ability he had encountered that had no information explanation.

From some point on, he had noticed that whether the explanation behind each ability was detailed or rough was connected to a certain extent with his understanding of that creature.

Just as when he first checked his own Sedu ability, and when he checked the Ice Silkworm's Symbiosis ability.

The level of detail varied.

But the explanation of every ability was always something he could understand to some degree after looking at it.

Yet among so many abilities, this one alone had not a single bit of information explanation.

At that time, it was because the situation was too urgent, so he hadn't thought that much about it.

But looking at it now, perhaps this ability represented a field he had never come into contact with until now.

However, he seemed to have a bit of a clue now.

This might be an ability that every truly intelligent creature carries, or perhaps it has a certain connection with that profound and mysterious Spirit.

As for whether the Spirit exists or not, Baichuan maintained an affirmative attitude; otherwise, how could he possibly be standing here.

And what had just happened also, to a certain extent, confirmed that his thinking wasn't wrong.

Because just now, when he touched those Light Points, various voices of gratitude or beauty actually surfaced.

Those were the residual Spirits left behind by the countless lives Zhang Dadan had killed and devoured before—the last glimmer of Spirit remaining in those creatures at the moment of death, after being devoured.

It was also the factor that had caused him to go mad and lose his reason; perhaps one or two residual Spirit bits of information wouldn't matter to him, but he had devoured countless people, so many small ones added up.

How could he possibly bear it!

If this thing were to be described according to the terminology of fantasy cultivation and the like, it might be called "sin," or perhaps "karma"?

He could bear the sin of ten or a hundred people, but how could he bear the sin of a thousand or ten thousand people.

This heavy burden ultimately crushed him!

Now that this fellow had been killed by him, the resentment those Light Points had been clinging to at the very last moment had lost its target, and so they were naturally released.

At the same time, because the resentment had dissipated, all that remained was that faint, almost negligible trace of goodwill, and that goodwill was now thanking him.

At this moment, as countless Light Points brushed past him while drifting away.

Baichuan was astonished to discover that the number of origin Light Points representing his Frost Ability had grown by quite a lot.

Before this, although the total number of Light Points for his Frost Ability wasn't impossible to increase, the rate of increase had been far, far too slow.

But now, in just a short span of Time, he had easily gained nearly as much as he used to accumulate in an entire month.

Although in terms of raw strength this wasn't all that great a boost, one had to remember this was only from a single person.

Perhaps this was one of the reasons that Zhang Dadan killed people and massacred villages?

Having realized this much, Baichuan once again opened up the Will ability.

Unlike the last time he had opened it, this time the ability he opened actually displayed an explanation.

【Will LV1: A spark of Spirit possessed by sentient beings, containing that being's information.】

Seeing this, Baichuan smiled.

(End of chapter)