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The New World: The Drowned Earth
Chapter 17 Peeping Runes

Chapter 17 Peeping Runes

This huge eyeball was almost split in half by his kitchen knife, and black and white mixed juice flowed out. Unexpectedly, it withered and shrank at a visible speed, and in a blink of an eye, it became the size of a marble, flew out of the eye socket, and flew towards Harry.

The incident was sudden, and Harry was startled. It was the first time he had encountered such a situation. However, the shrinking eyeball flew too fast, and he didn't have time to dodge it, only feeling like a needle prick on his forehead.

Busy touching it with his hand, but there was nothing.

"What's going on? Is this eyeball also a spiritual source, but it seems different..."

At this moment, new information suddenly surged in his mind again.

Obtained a broken "Peeking Eye Rune".

"Ability: Can peep into the spirit source beasts and obtain basic information about them."

"The broken 'Peeking Eye Rune' can evolve and eventually form the 'Third Eye'."

"The 'Third Eye' has mysterious abilities..."

As Harry was thinking about what mysterious abilities the Third Eye possessed, the message suddenly disappeared.

He gently stroked his forehead, digesting the various messages he had just received. There was surprise, shock, and mostly delight.

He never expected that besides getting two spirit sources after killing the terrible giant frog, he would also obtain something called the "Peeking Eye Rune".

"Although it is a broken 'Peeking Eye Rune', according to the message, it can be used to view information about spirit source beasts. The spirit source beast...should be the guy in front of me."

While thinking about it, Harry activated the "Peeking Eye Rune".

Immediately, several red lines appeared between his eyebrows, forming a blurry vertical eye-shaped pattern that looked like a faint eye-shaped tattoo.

In the state of the "Peeking Eye Rune", Harry looked at the huge body of the giant frog in front of him, and new information appeared in his mind again.

"The One-Eyed Frog, an elite among the first-level spirit source beasts, feeds on low-level corpse beasts, is brutal, never gives up on prey it targets, and can evolve into a higher-level One-Eyed Frog King. There is a certain probability of obtaining the special skill 'Peeking Eye Rune' by killing the One-Eyed Frog."

Feeling the information in his mind, the thin lines on Harry's forehead slowly disappeared.

"It's interesting. So this guy is called the One-Eyed Frog. No wonder it is known as the elite among the first-level spirit source beasts. In terms of strength, it is stronger than me. Fortunately, its brain is not clever enough."

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Harry moved the body of the One-Eyed Frog that was stuck in the bathroom to the living room and threw it on the ground. Looking at the destroyed body of the One-Eyed Frog, he felt lingering fear.

The strength of this One-Eyed Frog was definitely higher than him. He was able to kill it because he was lucky and occupied the geographical advantage of the bathroom. Otherwise, in an open area, he and another person might not be able to deal with it.

While thinking, Harry picked up the hammer that was thrown on the balcony and walked to the door. He looked through the peephole and saw that the corpses were still piled up in the corridor.

After thinking about it, Harry opened the door and stared at these corpses, activating the "Peeking Eye Rune".

The vertical eye-shaped lines appeared again between his eyebrows.

He only wanted to try it out, but he didn't expect new information about these corpses to appear in his mind.

"Corpse Beast, the lowest-level spirit source beast that has been infected. There is a certain probability of evolving into a high-level corpse beast by eating each other. Other: None."

“Have all these dead humans been infected and turned into zombie beasts? It seems they can still evolve.”

Harry pondered for a moment, realizing that leaving this pile of bodies here could attract more monsters like the one-eyed frog. “If it attracts low-level zombie beasts, I can kill a couple more to break through to the spiritual source. But if it's another monster like the one-eyed frog, it will be troublesome.”

Although Harry successfully killed one, there was an element of luck involved. If another one came, it was hard to say who would win. He didn't want to take that risk.

Harry originally wanted to throw these bodies into the water outside the corridor, but he realized that doing so might attract more danger.

After much consideration, he decided to stack all the bodies on the roof. Even if it attracted monsters, it would be safer to attract them to the roof than leaving the bodies in the corridor or throwing them into the water.

With his increased strength, Harry found it easy to lift the bodies. He could hold two bodies at the same time with his arms.

Soon, all the bodies were piled up on the roof. By now, the sky had darkened and night had fallen.

Harry looked at the nearest building, another thirty-story building like his own. He occasionally looked over, but hadn't seen any movement.

“Regardless, I have to check it out. Even if I can't find any survivors, I might find some food.”

It was completely dark now and the night meant the environment had become more dangerous. Harry didn't want to delay, quickly went down the stairs, closed his own door, and looked at the one-eyed frog's body left in the living room.

He had originally planned to take the body to the roof, but he was reluctant to do so as the large number of bodies on the roof could attract monsters.

Although the bodies of those humans had turned into zombie beasts, he dared not eat them. But the one-eyed frog was different. In his eyes, it was a pile of edible meat.

“Food is scarce now, and this one-eyed frog looks like it has a lot of meat. Maybe I can eat it. I'll leave it here for now.”

Harry decided to leave the one-eyed frog's body for now. It was mid-October, and the temperature was not low. The average temperature during the day was about 20 degrees Celsius, while at night it was around 10 degrees Celsius. However, he did not know if it was due to some changes in the rules of this world or because these bodies were spiritual source beasts, but the rate of decay of these bodies was delayed compared to normal bodies. At least when he carried those zombie beast bodies just now, he did not smell any rotting smell or see any signs of rotting. Otherwise, with these temperatures, the smell should have already appeared if it were a normal biological body.

From this detail, it seemed that the one-eyed frog's body should not rot for the time being and could be preserved for some time.

Because there was no electricity, the living room was completely dark.

Harry had originally intended to dismember the one-eyed frog's corpse with a kitchen knife and cut off some of its meat, but the darkness of the situation made him abandon the idea.