The Ultimate Evolution - Chapter 311

Chapter 311

The ladder was crafted with a commonly seen vine and could hold the weight of 3 people . But it looked rather antique, and slightly decaying . Grabbing and tugging it, a tense creak could be heard, as the soil rolled off the ropes and dissolved into the lake . Sheyan cautiously began to ascend the rope, like treading on thin ice, finally ascending it without a hiccup .

The similar sight of a mountain valley clamped in by a towering precipice greeted them, the same sparse pine trees grew here . It was already daylight . Due to the trauma of their previous poisoned experience, they felt a rush of anxiousness to their heads . Not daring to delay due to fear and panic, they sprinted crazily forward .

Only when Sheyan finally heard the chirping of birds, and realised that there were soft pine shoots on the ground did he halt his footsteps and collapse to the ground . Panting deeply and heavily for a long time, he finally recuperated .

Compared to the deserted and forsaken pine forest from before, this pine forest was brimming with life . After being dragged up the snowy peak, they hadn't eaten a single thing except for that half a fish the previous night . Their energy had been thoroughly exhausted; and since they had escaped from the danger zone, they instantly felt the gastric pangs of hunger .

As they walked and searched, they found several pine nuts . These pine nuts were birthed out of the extremely harsh winter climate, its shell was tough and ordinary people had to smash it with rocks . Instead, this was as easy as peanuts to Sheyan and Reef . They barely filled their bodies to recover some strength, before regaining vigor to search for other prey .

Reef had previous experiences with hunting in the present world . While Sheyan was still trying to scheme against a skinny looking bird, Reef returned after capturing a plump as hell, snow badger .

The snow badger was incredibly vicious; to capture one in the present world, a shotgun would be necessary . During the hunting process, it was hard to tell if you'd be the one hunting it or becoming its meal . Fortunately, Sheyan and Reef weren't ordinary people . Reef directly twisted its neck, very easily snapping it off without a drip of blood . They didn't bother draining the blood, allowing it to remain in the meat would give it a savoury roasted taste . (In the present world, there are many that like to butcher pigs without draining their blood, producing a more flavourful gamy taste for the meat . )

Reef's eyes radiated with hunger, cutting away furiously at the snow badger . The table salt and tinder they acquired from the uruk-hai's corpses were finally beneficial . They devoured the greasy meat ravenously, not even bothering to chew properly . Finally, they were full, their body status had recovered to roughly 80% .

After eating, the two hurriedly disposed of the blood traces, bones etc . Naturally trying to avoid the rotting stench from attracting other wild beasts, to prevent unwanted troubles .

As they buried the remains, Sheyan suddenly claimed in surprise . Amidst the organs of the badger, was a bloodied mutilated object . After identifying this object, their faces changed .

It was a shocking freshly mutilated finger!

The two glanced at each other, their filled bellies churned . With an ashen face, they continued rummaging through the organ mess, but discovered nothing else .

With this sudden occurrence, a tremendous doubt appeared amongst the mysteries and vileness of this place . Looking at the freshness of this finger, perhaps there were humans ahead? How would they dare to continue staying here foolishly, they hurriedly continued advancing .

After several kilometres, the forest became sparser . Suddenly, Reef who was scouting ahead abruptly prostrated to the ground, before a leopard crawling behind a pine tree . Sheyan instantly reacted upon seeing Reef's movements, immediately hiding with Melody .

As they two hid cautiously for a brief moment, nothing happened . Casting a confused expression towards Reef, Reef signalled over with a heavy expression . Sheyan then crept forward, instantly waves of chills swept through him .

Just a few hundred metres away from them, a simple yet crude campsite appeared . Although the campsite was carelessly constructed, one could clearly tell from its style, that it was done by the movements of uruk-hais and the ocean-freaks . Inclining by the side of the camp was a sturdy looking uruk-hai, who seemed to be vigilantly on guard . 7-8 other uruk-hais were currently resting within the camp, leaning randomly and disorientated around .

After a cautious and sneaky surveillance, they discovered an identical uruk-hai campsite to their west . The location of the two campsites completely sealed off the narrow mountain valley, nothing could slip past it . It was impossible to try and sneak around the campsites, to probe and explore further .

Sheyan and Reef had braved through tremendous risks and adventure just to escape from the pursuit of the uruk-hais . Yet in a cruel twist of events, they actually encountered such a huge scope of uruk-hai encampment once again! It seems that there were at least several dozen of uruk-hais who had established a temporary camp here! No clue as to how they traversed through the previous desolated pine forest!

They both held their breath, unwilling for even a tiny breath to escape . Sprawled flat on the ground, they inched backwards . But at this moment, the elf maiden that was placed not far away suddenly unintentionally twitched; knocking against the pine tree beside her!

The tree wasn't huge, its crown accumulated with numerous snow . After Melody's accidental knock, the snow crumbled down resoundingly, creating a slight ruckus . Within this peaceful and still pine forest, unless the uruk-hais were all blind and deaf, they definitely wouldn't miss out this sudden commotion . Their faces turned deathly pale as they laid on the ground without daring to move .

After a long precautionary pause, they could only hear the rustling of the pine trees . Ahead of them was the lonely forest, the uruk-hais hadn't the slightest bit of movement . Sheyan's heart stirred, as he raised his head to probe . He then issued a low voice .

"That sentry didn't even move . "

Reef suspiciously raised his head to look, curiously asking .

"Right, is he asleep?"

Sheyan then continued .

"Even those uruk-hais laying around in the camp, not even a twitch of movement . "

Sheyan's eyes glittered with a crazy glow . He stood up and started to creep closer towards the campsite . Reef murmured to himself .

"Perhaps . . . . . . . "

Sheyan's face exposed a surreptitious sneer as he approached the campsite without disguise . Still, the sentry remained motionless . Sheyan strolled to his side, stretching his hand to pat him . The sentry maintained its vigilant posture, its rigid self horizontally crashing to the side; before shattering in fragments, just like a toppled ice sculpture .

The two campsites, were fully filled with rock-solid frozen corpses, a hollow rattle emitted when they knocked against them . . . . . . . .

These uruk-hais should've been in the same predicament as Sheyan . After cruising through the lake, they hooked up a rope ladder up and set up camp here . After Sheyan and Reef inspected the area thoroughly, they discovered a peculiar triangular shaped wound on these corpses .

Oddly, these wounds were sustained on the lateral sides of the corpses . Though deep, the wounds weren't located at vital spots . According to the norm, these wounds couldn't possibly be fatal to these healthy and mighty uruk-hais .

They glanced at each other . Despite uncovering the truth of the two campsites, they had once again sunk into the tremendous mystery . Looks like, mystery was the title of this adventure . Reef suddenly realized something, frowning as he sincerely exclaimed .

"There's a survivor here!"

Sheyan's pupils shrank, instantly recalled the crux of the matter . That was the mutilated finger they discovered earlier! The corpses here seemed to have died a long time ago, they were all frozen solid, their skin as tough as steel . The corpses had no indications of being ravaged by wild beasts . Yet even if the snow badger was here, those icy cold fingers couldn't have possibly returned to its fresh bloodied state .

Fear lodged deeply in their hearts . They then carefully rummaged through the camp . The most beneficial items were some warm leather coats . Though torn and tattered, it provided some warmth as they uncourteously stole it for themselves .

In a wooden chest, they also found two pouches of spirited alcohol - authentic alcohol not polluted by blood . Drinking them down felt like a tiny dagger slicing down into their throat, their boiling intensity sizzling into their limbs .

Apart from that, they discovered another unusual wooden product . This thing had an appearance of an overturned stool, with its 4 legs pointing towards the sky . Two long wooden clubs were tied parallel to it, as though trying to support something . After deliberating for a while, they were still perplexed and couldn't find a reasonable reason to it . Mystery, everything was a mystery . . . .