Fantasy Game: Infinite City

“Uh…”

The depth of the swamp seemed to be about the same, but it might be that Garcia did not go deep into it. In this swamp that was submerged up to his belly, Garcia had no accurate clues and could only use the most basic method to search inside little by little.

During this time, she also saw many other creatures, most of which were herbivores, with the occasional carnivorous predator that seemed to be active only in specific areas.

"Strange, logically, in a place like this, there should be crocodiles or something like that hiding underwater, why haven't I seen any?"

As soon as she finished speaking, Garcia saw several ripples appear on the water and quickly approach her.

"throat!"

Several amphibious creatures that looked like rotten tree roots suddenly jumped out from the underwater mud, opened their long, nail-like mouths, and prepared to pounce on Garcia. Garcia's speed in the mud was not fast, so it was difficult for him to dodge. However, Garcia did not panic. He immediately squatted down and dived into the water, avoiding the first attack.

Holding the bone fragment tightly in her hand, Garcia stood up again, bent over, curled up her shoulders, and placed the sharp side of the fragment diagonally on her shoulder. Surrounded by several of these creatures, it was completely impossible for her to avoid any injury. However, this action could prevent her from being bitten and having no ability to fight back.

"The mouths of these creatures are open to the left and right. They are slightly smaller than buffaloes. If I am careful, I might be able to avoid them."

He muttered to himself, boosted his morale, and prepared to fight these creatures. Garcia couldn't help but think that if Han Zu was still there, with his strange strength and physical fitness, it would definitely be easy for him to deal with these alien creatures.

"Don't think like that, Garcia, you are not a guy who will only hold us back!"

The strength and destructiveness of these amphibians are indeed very strong for ordinary people, but in fact they pose no threat to Garcia. However, as a researcher, Garcia has no combat experience except for occasional shooting practice, which is why she is so nervous.

After becoming a member of the guard, although the power obtained through Han Zu was weakened due to Han Zu's injuries, most of it was actually retained. However, Garcia, who had never experienced a major crisis, did not think about it at all.

"These creatures have formed a circle. I have to find a way to get rid of one of them so that I can have a chance to escape. Calm down, Garcia, and think carefully."

However, those creatures did not seem to be prepared to give her the chance to think. They attacked again, but this time they did not attack by leaping out of the mud and ambush. They just swam over and bit her with their mouths. Garcia found the right moment and swung out the bone fragments, piercing half of the mouth of the creature swimming in front.

Using the weapon in his hand as an anchor, Garcia struggled out of the water, lying on its back, and lowering his body to avoid several leaps from other creatures. However, his insides were cut by the creatures' hard skin, and blood flowed down the curve of its body, dripping into the colorful strange liquid in the swamp.

Although these creatures are powerful, it seems that their endurance is not very good. After each leap, they need to rest for nearly a minute. However, the smell of blood seems to have aroused their ferocity. They soon surrounded and started biting, even their injured companions became targets of attack.

However, these guys are still very resistant to damage. The creature controlled by Garcia was only injured. It began to twist its body, trying to throw Garcia off. Garcia, who was injured in the attack, also got angry. Every time the monster moved, he stabbed it several times with the bone fragments in his hand, stabbed and chopped, and even held the fragments tightly and turned them around on the creature's wound several times.

"Roar!!!!" The creature let out a painful wail and stopped twisting temporarily. Garcia took this opportunity to find the creature's eyes and used bone fragments and fingers to frantically attack its eyes. In a flash, the creature became blind.

"Roar!!!!"

I don't know if it's because their eyes are very close to the brain, but with the last stab, the bone dagger was deeply stabbed into the last eye of the creature under it and turned a few circles. This action seemed to destroy its brain. After a miserable roar, the creature was killed and floated up belly up.

Garcia got off it in advance and cut a deep cut on its relatively soft abdomen. A large amount of internal organs and blood flowed into the swamp. This time it was completely dead.

There were still four creatures left. Garcia felt that she was in okay condition. In the previous battle, she found that these predators actually attacked mainly by biting with their mouths and whipping with their tails. Their endurance was not very good, so the frequency of their attacks was not very fast. As long as she could avoid being bitten, her chances of survival were still very high.

Just now, she was lying on the back of the dead creature. Since she had shortened the distance, it was difficult for the creatures' tails to hit her. The skin of these creatures was much more fragile than it looked. It might also be because the bone fragments in her hands were incredibly sharp. Garcia remembered the fatal position where she had killed the creature just now and decided to take the initiative to attack.

While they were preparing to leap, Garcia suddenly dived into the water, using his hands and feet to close the distance between him and one of the creatures, but this creature did not leap, but simply opened its mouth. Garcia took this opportunity to stab a dagger at the place where he killed the previous creature, but this time the force was a little smaller, and he failed to kill it in one go. Garcia quickly punched the left hand holding the dagger, and smashed the dagger into its head, killing the second creature of the same kind.

However, due to nervousness and lack of control over strength, Garcia used too much force this time, and the bone fragments were embedded in the body of the dead creature, making it difficult to pull them out for the time being. While Garcia was trying, another creature rushed up from behind, successfully bit her, and began to drag her backwards.

Garcia hurriedly held up the creature's big mouth with both hands, trying hard to keep it open and prevent it from closing completely. The sharp curved teeth in the creature's mouth pierced her palms and skin. The intense pain made Garcia utter a brief cry.

"Ugh!!!!"

However, the injured Garcia was also aroused. She began to exert force, trying to pry open the creature's mouth, but the creature's bite force was not small, and she fell into anxiety for a while.

Fortunately, Garcia was bitten, and the remaining two creatures had no chance to attack. They could only circle around them, which gave Garcia some opportunities.

As we learned before, these creatures have limited endurance. Garcia found the right opportunity, and as soon as the creature biting her loosened its grip, she stretched out her arms and successfully escaped from the creature's mouth. However, she did not leave it too far, as there were two other creatures around her, and it was not wise to be attacked in the abdomen.

Garcia quickly thought of a countermeasure. It was unwise and unrealistic to pick up the weapons. While thinking, Garcia suddenly realized something that he had overlooked.

Logically speaking, it would be completely impossible for Garcia, who had lost Han Zu's power, to pry open the mouths of these creatures. Even if those creatures had poor endurance, they would not be able to do it with Garcia's original strength alone.

Moreover, when he killed the second creature, all the wounds he had received on the back of the first creature had healed.

"It turns out that the power and ability he brought to me have not disappeared, but have been weakened!"

After figuring all this out, Garcia suddenly felt confident. She glanced at her palm full of holes. In order to confirm this matter, Garcia took the initiative to rush forward again and punched the creature that had just bitten her. This punch actually made a dent in the creature's body, and the wounds on the body could be heard growing flesh and blood, and were slowly healing.

After confirming this, Garcia's nervousness eased a lot, but she did not let her guard down. Her abilities were weakened, so she could not kill these creatures easily with her bare hands. If she wanted to avoid any trouble and eliminate them quickly, she still needed bone fragments.

Spreading his fingers, Garcia quickly attacked the eyes of the creature in front of him with both hands. The creature learned its lesson, closed its eyes, and turned its head to avoid Garcia's attack.

However, Garcia's main goal was achieved. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Garcia swam back a few steps and came to the place where the bone fragments fell. He turned the creature's corpse with its belly facing up, lowered his head and bit the end of the bone fragment that was embedded in the creature's corpse. With a force, he pulled it out again and held it in his hand.

After dodging a leap, Garcia killed another creature, leaving only two, surrounding her from the front and back. The one in front of her suddenly dived underwater, as if preparing to launch another leap. Garcia was ready to avoid it and was ready to dodge the attack at any time.

"Paji!"

However, this attack was beyond Garcia's expectations. A ball of mud was suddenly thrown up from underwater and hit Garcia in the face, blocking her vision. While she was wiping the mud, the creature behind her suddenly bit one of her legs and dragged her backwards. Garcia lost her balance and fell to her knees in the mud. The water level instantly reached her throat.

"Roar!!!"

The creature in front also rushed over, trying to bite Garcia's head directly, but because the angle was a bit off, it bit Garcia's right shoulder instead, giving her an opportunity to take advantage.

With an unstable center of gravity and being dragged by the two creatures in the swamp, Garcia was about to be dragged into the water and become the two creatures' food for the day. An extreme anger quickly surged into Garcia's mind.

"Ugh!!!"

Garcia used the leg that was not bitten to exert force suddenly, and actually dragged two buffalo-sized creatures and stood up on one leg from the swamp. He exerted force with his left hand that was not bitten, giving the bitten right hand a little space to exert force. The right hand holding the bone fragment pulled backwards, and while a lot of flesh was torn off, he broke free from the restraints. Garcia stabbed the bone fragment deep into the creature's throat.

The monster felt pain and opened its mouth with a roar. Garcia was not ready to let it go. He grabbed the corners of the creature's mouth with both hands, roared and exerted force, and actually tore off half of the creature's mouth. Then he stretched out his palm and pulled out the bone dagger that was stabbed into the creature's throat from the huge wound like a hand knife. Then he smashed it with his backhand and stabbed the dagger into the creature's brain from the eye, killing it.

Pulling out the dagger, Garcia stabbed it into the body of the creature that was biting his leg, broke free from the restraints, turned quickly, found the position of the bone dagger again, punched the end of the dagger, stretched out his hand to pull the creature's head out of the water, and attacked the end of the dagger with punch after punch. After several attacks, the dagger was deeply embedded in the creature's body and stabbed out from the other side.

Pulling out the bone dagger in reverse, Garcia stabbed it into the creature's eye, killed the last creature in front of him, fell into the water gasping, and floated on the surface.

After resting for a while and waiting for all the wounds on his body to heal, Garcia returned to the last dead creature, took back the dagger, and took off the pieces of clothes on his body, which were almost covered with cloth. He prepared to return to the shore to rest for a while and find some plants to make some temporary clothes.

However, just as she turned around, before Garcia took a step, the system suddenly gave a prompt, and she seemed to have found what she needed.

After walking a few steps, Garcia saw a bird squatting on a lotus leaf-like plant tissue. It died here. It looked like a featherless owl, but it had bat-like wings.

The bird had no external injuries, but its mouth was open, so it must have eaten something poisonous.

"It can absorb and restore??? activity"

Looking at the abrupt prompt from the system, Garcia was a little confused for a moment, and she had no equipment on hand that could allow her to study the data of this creature. Staring at the bird corpse in front of her, Garcia didn't know whether she should trust this system.

But soon, she remembered a conversation she had with Han Zu when she was in the research institute. It was a discussion about how Han Zu first obtained the Gift of the Realm of Death.

A few days ago, in the lounge of the institute.

"So you just...drank it straight away? Without checking first to see if there was anything wrong with it or anything?"

"It was my first time entering the Infinite City, and I simply thought it was a game. It's a game, so you can do whatever you want. But then again, if I knew this information at that time, I think I would still make the same choice."

"Why? Aren't you afraid that it's poisonous and will kill you?"

"As for me, although I like stories about ghosts, monsters, fate, etc., I don't actually believe in them at all. However, I do believe in one thing, and that is the timing of death."

"What do you mean? Are you trying to say that you believe in death or have a worship mentality towards death?"

"No, no, no. What I mean is that I believe in the timing of death. For example, if a person deserves to die, then no matter how safe a place he is in, he will die when he deserves to die for various reasons. If a person does not deserve to die, even if he jumps into the lava to swim, at most he will get a free hair removal."

"You are... quite open-minded. Most people don't like death very much and will try their best to avoid discussing this topic."

"Maybe I understand it differently. I think death is not the end of everything, but a new beginning."

Time returns to the present.

Garcia looked at the bird corpse in front of him, raised the bone dagger in his hand, cut it into small pieces, used a lotus leaf-like plant as a plate, picked up a piece, closed his eyes, put it in his mouth, and began to chew.

However, this dead bird did not seem to be unpalatable, it just had no taste, like sashimi without dipping sauce. Garcia opened his eyes and relaxed his frown.

After some effort, the bird was eaten by Garcia except for the bones. Garcia suddenly had the idea and picked up a bone and put it in his mouth.

"Click it."

The bones are not as hard as they look. The texture is a bit like bread that has been left for a while and has lost moisture and become a bit hard, with a light salty taste.

"I miscalculated. I should have eaten it with meat. Now it's a bit salty."