“If you can’t walk, just wait for me here.”
“Aren’t you afraid the other monsters here will eat me up? What if the Undead Queen comes after me?”
Alex was puzzled. He had helplessly discovered that she really had the upper hand against him. After that, he carried Phoenix in his arms just like that, whereas Phoenix hugged Whitey. On two feet, the two people and a cat quickly sneaked toward the place where the huge corpse fell just now.
That place seemed so near, yet it was so far away.
Alex could not exert any strength right now, so he had no way to speed up. In addition, this place was bizarre and unfamiliar. After walking for a few hours, they finally approached that place.
During that time, Phoenix had already taken a nap. After waking up in a daze, she asked Alex, “Did you hear a sound?”
Alex replied, “Are you referring to that?”
He fixed his gaze straight ahead.
Phoenix followed his gaze and took a look. She clearly saw the thing ahead at once. It was an enormous city, and a gigantic grinder was constantly rotating in the center of the city.
It was a grinder larger than a mountain!
It was grinding something unknown and emitting a whirring sound.
“Is it a rotating grinder? What is it grinding?”
Phoenix looked shocked as she had never seen such a huge grinder.
Alex said, “Do you still remember that Ignatius Rowan said there’s a place called the Flesh Grinder? After one dies, he has to experience the Flesh Grinder on the path of reincarnation if he wants to retain the memories of his past life.”
Phoenix’s eyes widened. “This is the Flesh Grinder? This place is the path of reincarnation?”
Alex shook his head. “I don’t know either.”
Phoenix frowned as she looked at Alex. “Do you think we are already dead?”
Alex walked into the city. That huge grinder’s sound got louder and rumbled like thunder. As he got closer, the powerful sense of coercion from antiquity became more and more intense. He even felt a powerful heavenly might, as if an energy was passing through his body… However, it did not have an effect.
At that moment, Alex suddenly saw a hint of goldenness.
At a closer look, it turned out to be the Five-clawed Golden Dragon’s corpse earlier. However, only a portion of the Five-clawed Golden Dragon remained compared to the one he saw previously. Only the dragon head and a portion of the upper body were left behind, whereas the rest was gone.
The incision was very neat. Furthermore, its size was huge.
Alex guessed that the Five-clawed Golden Dragon’s head was left behind most probably because it had struggled desperately before it died, but it still failed to escape the grinder’s suction force. Only a head escaped, whereas the rest of its body entered the grinder.
Alex said, “Jeez! This Five-clawed Golden Dragon just died. The blood on its body is still fresh, isn’t it? We didn’t see any water source along the way. I’m thirty as hell. This dragon blood is drinkable, right?”
Phoenix said, “A Five-clawed Golden Dragon’s blood should be very nourishing.”
Alex immediately decided. “Drink it!”
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