Eventually, Benjamin's exploration had to be interrupted due to insufficient backpack capacity.
At first, he just flew all the way north. No matter what undead creatures he met on the way, he would kill them and obtain their bodies, ready to take them back to the academy for research. After exploring for more than half a day, they also left the wasteland and flew into an endless swamp.
Whenever they get close to the swamp, more undead creatures will crawl out of the mud-like ground and glare at them with bared teeth and claws. This is probably the legendary instinctive hatred of the dead towards the living.
As for these various undead creatures, Benjamin has never seen the reason.
"It's so boring. Why are the undead a group of beasts who only know how to act instinctively?" The system couldn't help complaining, "Can't a wise and powerful undead monarch appear from nowhere and punch you to grandma's house? "
"...What good will that do to you?"
"Very interesting."
“…”
Benjamin returned to the conscious space, kicked the system a few times, and returned to reality. Dick on the side didn't even realize what happened.
In fact, apart from fear and nervousness, Dick couldn't notice anything at this time.
"I beg you, please go back quickly, okay? This place... this place is really scary." His cry-like murmur almost ran through the entire exploration, "And... can you please stop putting those ghosts in my bag?" The corpses of things? I always feel that they are secretly moving around in the bag... "
Benjamin smiled and continued flying as if he hadn't heard.
In fact, he had already built a wall of air to block Dick's voice inside, so that even a single word of complaint could not be heard.
However, just as Dick expected, all explorations will eventually have an end, and most of the reasons are due to overloading. Benjamin can certainly build a huge refrigerator to hold the remains of the undead, but he still has to consider the issue of mental strength.
Entering the realm of the dead, their feet never touched the ground again. Obviously, as long as the breath of living people approaches, these undead souls will break out of the ground and rush toward them tirelessly. Benjamin had to maintain a flying state throughout the whole process, which also caused his mental energy to be continuously consumed, and he could not find any space for him to recover.
Moreover, the potential dangers of exploring an unknown world are still very high.
So far, the undead he has met are not very powerful. But as he flew deeper into the swamp, the density of the undead became higher and higher. If this continues, it is very likely that some difficult character will appear. He must keep his mental energy strong at all times, otherwise he will be out of luck if something unexpected happens.
Therefore, when the mental energy consumption reached half, Benjamin had to stop moving forward.
"Can we finally leave?" Dick almost cried on the spot.
Benjamin also quietly removed the silent air wall, nodded, and showed a kind smile. But in his heart, he still felt quite regretful.
The corpses of the undead had already piled up into a big blister. According to his calculations, even just flying back to the academy with this blister would consume a lot of his mental energy. Otherwise, he wouldn't turn around and leave just because of Dick's pleading.
He hasn't explored enough of this world yet!
"Do you think... the real secret will be hidden underground?" Benjamin asked in his heart on the way back.
"Why do you think so?" the system asked.
"Because all the undead there crawled out of the ground." Benjamin recalled what he saw along the way and said slowly, "Also, although I have not carefully sensed the quality of the soil here, it seems that the dark elements in the soil are much stronger. few."
"It's a very interesting idea. However, the dark elements in the ground are originally stronger than those in the air. This is a normal phenomenon and does not mean anything."
"Then just think I'm just imagining things." Benjamin shrugged and said, "Anyway, I didn't see any undead moving on the ground. Every time they sensed possible food, they crawled out of the ground. This shows that underground is where they spend most of their time."
"You can try to dig it out next time you come. Of course, the premise is that you don't get annoyed to death by those skeleton zombies that come one after another."
"I see… "
Benjamin touched his chin, showing a somewhat troubled expression.
Of course, digging is not a difficult task, but there are really too many undead creatures! At present, they are only close to the surface, and the ghosts that are drilled out are as dense as maggots emerging from corpses. If they dig deeper... how scary will the scene be
He feels that the task of exploring the world of the dead is really not something that ordinary people can accomplish, and it requires a bit of a psychopathic element.
Just like that, flying out of the swamp in a hurry, they soon returned to the abyss that led to their fate. They flew eastward along the abyss, and after flying over the border of Hori Kingdom, they turned around, crossed the abyss, and entered the territory of Ikol.
And here, they were completely safe.
I don’t know what the situation is like at the church...
Lost a seemingly very important key, and even sent out an army to block the border, frantically chasing Benjamin and Dick. However, during their diligent search day and night, Benjamin made an unexpected adventure, cracked the secret of the Scaife Mountains, discovered the world of the dead, and captured a ghost along the way, and finally walked away happily. Back to safety.
How would the church feel if they knew what happened in the past few days
Benjamin couldn't help but sympathize with the priests who were ambushing the border mountains.
Of course, sympathy is sympathy, and he doesn't intend to let the world of the undead leak even a little bit. Judging from the teachings of the church, those people definitely disdain to obtain power from the world of the dead, but it is also good to keep an extra trump card for themselves.
It may be difficult to keep a new continent completely secret, but at least, until the academy takes the lead, everything can only be kept in the mouths of a few people.
Including Dick.
"You should know... I have seen so many things along the way, is there anything I should or shouldn't say?" After entering the territory of Icol, Benjamin suddenly turned his head and said to Dick with a smile.
"Don't worry, of course I know!" Dick was so frightened that he nodded vigorously and shouted like military training.
"But, I'm worried." Benjamin tilted his head and thought for a moment, then said, "Well, if you stay outside, you risk being assassinated by the church. It's better to stay in the academy and be a guest for a while. Wait until the limelight passes. , are you going back to inherit what your father left you?"
"Then...how long will you stay?"
"I don't know, half a year? A year? It could be three years or five years. Don't worry, we can entertain guests well. At most, we can't move around at will, and we won't starve you."
“…”
Dick had a sad face, facing Benjamin's devilish smile, and finally chose to nod in humiliation.