From a country cook to a master chef

Upon hearing Lin Jue's questions, the woman didn't think much of it and answered them one by one after a moment's thought.

This place was originally called Qingmo Island, and there were dozens of islands of various sizes around it. Lin Jue was currently on the southern beach of Qingmo Island.

There are several villages on the island with tens of thousands of residents. Gulimina and her people live in Shicun, a few miles away from here.

They didn't know the origin of Chingmo Island, only that they had lived there since birth.

Every sixteen years, some new faces appear on the island.

As a result, the residents here have mastered not only their own language but also the languages ​​and scripts of those who came from elsewhere.

Gulimina just turned sixteen this year. Because she had never seen them, she always thought that outsiders did not exist.

"Is the Da Wu you mentioned the place you came from?" The woman asked with a hint of doubt in her eyes.

Lin Jue nodded and smiled slightly. "Let's tell you first, what exactly are those monsters?"

The thought of that fast-moving, brutal, and ferocious black-armored monster filled Lin Jue with lingering fear.

Before Gulimina could speak, Lin Jue's expression suddenly changed drastically, and he pulled her to her feet and fled into the forest.

The next second, a ferocious beast with a hideous appearance pounced out of the forest and chased after the two of them relentlessly.

Gulimina had injured her foot and fell to the ground after running only a short distance. Seeing that the monster was about to catch up, Lin Jue had no choice but to carry her on his back.

The woman's body was extremely supple, with some parts that were very elastic, but Lin Jue was busy escaping and had no other thoughts at the moment.

A ferocious beast was chasing after him, but he was holding a stunningly beautiful stranger in his arms. It was truly an unprecedented experience.

The monster was very fast, but Lin Jue's speed was just as impressive. Whenever the monster was about to catch up with him, he could always speed up and create distance.

"You're going the wrong way! There's a cliff ahead!" Gulimina anxiously warned, pointing ahead.

Upon hearing this, Lin Jue abruptly stopped in his tracks. Just then, the roar of a monster came from behind him.

With no way to escape to either side and ferocious beasts lurking behind them, they were caught off guard.

Without much thought, he noticed a large number of vines growing on the edge of the cliff and immediately had an idea. He took the woman and jumped straight off the cliff, using the vines to hang on the cliff to avoid the monsters that were chasing them.

Gulimina clung to Lin Jue's back, her arms wrapped tightly around his. The two of them hung there on the edge of the cliff. Lin Jue remained silent, inwardly lamenting that this couldn't go on.

The monster stood on the cliff, staring at the two of them, and let out a series of deep, muffled roars.

The two people and the beast were locked in a stalemate. Gulimina began to feel weak in her limbs and became delirious. In a moment of carelessness, she let go and almost fell off the cliff.

Fortunately, at the crucial moment, she grabbed a vine that wasn't too long.

"you?"

Lin Jue felt a sharp pain in his lower body. He endured the pain and reminded the woman that she had grabbed the wrong place, then reached out and grabbed her.

Realizing something was wrong, Gulimina blushed with embarrassment and didn't dare to look at Lin Jue.

Seeing that the monster above him probably wouldn't leave anytime soon, Lin Jue didn't want to sit and wait for his death. After a moment's thought, he decided to activate the Spirit Summoning Seal to control the mutated black snake in the Spirit Beast Bag.

Unexpectedly, at that moment, the sounds of fighting came from above the cliff.

"Great! Aka and the others have come to rescue us!"

Gulimina was overjoyed; she had already heard Aka's voice.

In the blink of an eye, the monster was pierced through the body by several spears and died. A dark-skinned, burly man came to the edge of the cliff and pulled up the two who were struggling to stay afloat.

"Aka, my elder brother and the others are all dead. It was this outsider who saved me."

Gulimina stood in front of the burly man and explained the whole story, while introducing her tribe to Lin Jue.

"My name is Kahn, Gulimina's brother. Thank you for saving her."

"Lin Jue".

"It's dangerous here, this isn't the place to talk. Let's go back to the village!"

As he spoke, Kahn signaled to the tribesmen behind him to deal with the monster's corpse. They quickly peeled off its black armor with knives, then cut off some fresh flesh and stuffed it into a leather bag.

Seeing this, Lin Jue was somewhat surprised. He had personally witnessed the monster eating the woman's tribesman, and judging from their manner of cutting off the flesh, they clearly intended to eat it.

Gulimina's people are all exceptionally tall, each one a head taller than Lin Jue, with robust physiques and well-developed muscles.

Like Gulimina, they were all dressed lightly because of the hot weather. They had bare arms and upper bodies, and their lower bodies were wrapped in unknown animal skins, making them look quite like savages.

Kahn severed the monster's head and strung it on a spear as a symbol of his successful hunt.

Before long, the group ran wildly toward the village.

Almost simultaneously, on the blood-soaked cliff edge, two enormous and terrifying figures slowly approached, sniffed the remaining severed limbs and remains on the ground, and then let out several angry roars.

……

Stone Village.

"Brother Lin, please stay at my house for now. After tonight, I will take you to see the village chief tomorrow morning."

While starting a fire, Kahn introduced Lin Jue to Stone Village and the black-armored monster they had encountered.

"Those monsters all came out of the sinkhole in the center of Chingmo Island; we call them Nether Corpses."

The undead have no intelligence and rely solely on instinct to attack and devour any living creatures they encounter. They are incredibly resilient and can only be killed by piercing their heads with a spear.

There are dozens of villages of varying sizes on Qingmo Island, and our Shi Village is considered one of the smallest, with only a little over two hundred people.

After dinner, Lin Jue sat blankly on the cold stone slab, recalling what he had seen and heard when he entered the village that day.

Stone Village is not large. It is surrounded by a stone wall built of huge black stones, with a villager standing guard every hundred steps to keep watch and watch out for the surroundings.

Aside from the local villagers, Lin Jue did not see any disciples from the six sects in the village. Clearly, he was the only outsider in the entire Stone Village this time.

"The teleportation array jointly activated by the six factions couldn't possibly have transported everyone separately into the Netherworld. Given this situation, where exactly did things go wrong?"

Lin Jue fell into deep thought, a strange light flashing in his eyes, and he couldn't help but feel uneasy. "After I see the village chief tomorrow and find out some things, I still need to find some other people."

Having made up his mind, Lin Jue picked up a piece of bone from a corpse devoid of flesh and blood, filled with questions.

Before setting off, Uncle Zhong mentioned that they should hunt down strange beasts and collect beast crystals containing a large amount of blood and qi. If he guessed correctly, the so-called strange beast was probably this black-armored monster, which was the Nether Corpse that Kahn mentioned.

As for the beast crystal, it is a special crystal hidden in the spine of a zombie, but not every zombie can be born from it.

"The Nether Corpse is extremely ferocious. It is impossible to hunt it down alone without three to five people working together."

Lin Jue's heart sank, and he became even more determined to find other people.