Gulu.

The vice-captain swallowed hard, trembling all over.

A Black-rank intermediate… that was beyond anything he could handle!

Only the captain of Mo Village had the ability to deal with such ghostly things! As an outsider hunting group, they could, at most, suppress and kill Black-rank initial stage Weirds, and even then, only the weaker ones. Anything stronger was simply beyond their capabilities.

He subconsciously took two steps back…

Zzzzzzz!

The captain, recently possessed by the Weird, suddenly erupted with dozens of black thorns from his body.

The speed at which the black thorns shot out was too fast for the naked eye to follow.

Before anyone could react, the vice-captain and the others were already struck, their screams rising and falling as they collapsed one after another.

Seeing the scene of wailing, all the fallen members of the vice-captain’s group, Zhang Dashou’s mind went completely blank.

Too terrifying! This is too terrifying!

What was with this overwhelming power? The Weirds in the wild were too damn ferocious!

"Run! Cancel the previous orders! Everyone listen up, retreat back to Mo Village, as many as can survive!"

The vice-captain, lying on the ground, actually chopped off the black thorns with an axe, stood up, and shouted at the people who hadn't run far.

His face was extremely grim. This Black-rank intermediate Weird had overwhelmed him with just one move.

The difference in strength was too great!

"How did we get entangled with such a troublesome thing? When did it catch up to the hunting group? So many people were on lookout, yet no one noticed this Weird approaching…"

The vice-captain panted heavily. He wanted to escape too, but he was the closest.

If he dared to turn and run, he would definitely die instantly.

Unexpectedly, the Weird, which was being watched by the vice-captain, didn’t make any move.

"What is it waiting for, what is it…"

The vice-captain’s thoughts suddenly paused.

He was stunned.

Because he saw a small flower growing on his chest, where the black thorns had pierced him earlier. It was lush and green, very tender, like a small life just breaking out of the soil.

Immediately after, he felt… the loss of his yangshou (lifespan)!

His yangshou was draining away madly.

His originally middle-aged face aged visibly, his life force being rapidly extracted.

The tender flower on his chest seemed to be absorbing nutrients, growing rapidly.

When the flower bloomed, turning a blood-red color like a sacrifice, the vice-captain felt as if all his strength had been drained.

Then, the flower began to wither, like leaves falling after autumn.

Thump.

When the flower withered and the petals fell to the ground, the vice-captain lost all of his yangshou, turning into a dried corpse and collapsing to the ground.

Flower blooms, flower falls, and the man dies.

The Luohua Weird (Fallen Flower Weird) smiled.

And at its feet, a circle of humans had all turned into dried corpses.

The Meng Hunting Group, including the vice-captain and all of its members, were completely wiped out!

Greedily savoring the life force it had absorbed, the Luohua Weird sniffed and gradually turned its gaze in another direction.

Someone had chopped off their right hand, which had been parasitized by the Flower of Life, with an axe. Then their body followed suit, losing a hand, blood gushing out like a waterfall, flowing non-stop, ultimately leading to death from excessive blood loss.

Screams rose and fell.

Cries for help echoed throughout the Yuan Yuanqiu.

This was going to be a one-sided massacre!

Zhang Dashou was running, running fast.

Identifying the terrain, avoiding the large trees propagated by the black thorns around, and then sprinting with all his might, was his secret to survival.

But this secret was about to expire.

Because there were simply too many.

Starting with the Weird that possessed the captain’s body, it was spreading out in one direction like branching circuits.

The scope of the impact was so great that Zhang Dashou almost felt that the entire Yuan Yuanqiu had been covered by its black thorns.

The overwhelming sense of oppression came at him like a tide.

"Faster! Faster! I can't die here! I've cultivated this character for so many days, accumulated so many skills, how can I just give it all away like this!"

The longer a player survives in the game, the more they value their safety.

Because once they die, everything is reset, all their efforts are overturned, and they have to start all over again.

Zhang Dashou already had a foundation; he couldn't repeat the labor, re-develop his character, the frustration would be too great.

So, he kept running, frantically escaping.

Relying on his hunter's instinct and familiarity with the terrain, he frantically avoided the large trees that had been propagated by the black thorns.

But hope was gradually fading.

He didn't know how far he had run, only that the endless terror behind him was still spreading.

The flame on the Renhun Torch (Human Soul Torch) was shaking violently as he raced along.

If he hadn't infused it with yangshou, the Renhun Torch would probably have been extinguished at the first moment in such a violent run.

Closer! Closer! That thing was catching up!

Feeling the black thorns getting closer and closer, a sense of despair gradually rose in Zhang Dashou's heart.

Opening his mouth, he let out a final shout: "Help!!"

Boom!!

The black thorns rushing towards Zhang Dashou exploded in the middle, shattering into several pieces and falling to the ground.

Wha- what happened?

He's- he's saved?

Turning back and seeing this scene, Zhang Dashou gasped for breath.

He noticed that, in addition to the black thorns that had fallen to the ground and broken into sections, there was also a small hole pierced through a large tree not far away. Through the small hole, he could see a fist-sized stone embedded in the trunk of the tree behind it, stuck there tightly.

A… stone?

Zhang Dashou was a little confused, and just then, footsteps sounded from the darkness.

Tap, tap.

Accompanying the footsteps, a figure walked out of the darkness.

It was a guy he had never seen before.

He didn’t have outstanding looks, but he was exceptionally calm. He was wearing a black robe, a hood, and a knife at his waist. Despite facing such a bizarre situation, he was unusually calm.

"What was that thing just now?"

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The guy spoke, his voice surprisingly ordinary.

But this ordinary person used a stone to shatter the incredibly fast black thorns and save him.

"Weird, a Weird! That's a Weird's attack!"

Coming back to his senses, Zhang Dashou hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed the man's hand: "Go! Let's quickly escape back to Mo Village, tell them that a powerful Weird has appeared in Yuan Yuanqiu, and ask the Mo Village captain to send someone to deal with it!"

Zhang Dashou was not a good-hearted person.

He wanted to run with the black-robed man purely to have him protect him.

But when he tried to drag the man away, he found that the black-robed man didn't budge.

"You, why aren't you moving! Hurry up and come with me, those black thorns are terrifying, if you get pierced by them, you'll be planted with strange flowers and die on the spot!"

"Strange flowers?"

The black-robed man raised his eyebrows: "Tell me more."

"What 'tell you more'! Let's escape first!" Zhang Dashou said anxiously.

After failing to drag the black-robed man no matter how hard he tried, Zhang Dashou gritted his teeth, abandoned the black-robed man, and continued to run away frantically.

But the next moment, he suddenly stopped.

Because the scene before him was almost unbelievable.

Ahead, what was originally a forest with dense trees had now become almost flat.

Around him, more than thirty large trees that took two people to encircle with their arms had been cut down to the ground at some point, forming an empty space with only tree stumps.

Judging from the rough traces and methods, the trees had been chopped down in a haphazard way, and even the insides of the trees had been 'dismembered', as if someone wanted to study something from within the trees.

And all of this, without a doubt, must have been done by… the black-robed man just now!

Hiss…

So strong, it was almost incomprehensible!

Coming back to his senses, Zhang Dashou ran back into the forest almost without thinking, catching up with the black-robed man who hadn't gone far.

"B- big brother! Wait for me! I'll go with you!"

Rather than risking his life to run to Mo Village, it was safer to stay by the side of a strong person.

After all, Mo Village was still a long way away, while the strong person was right in front of him!

The black-robed man stopped and glanced at him: "Tell me what happened ahead, tell me everything you know, and I'll agree to let you follow me."

Zhang Dashou didn't hesitate and directly told him everything that had happened before.

"A Black-rank intermediate Weird!"

The black-robed man's expression became a little serious, but within the seriousness, there seemed to be a hint of… excitement?

Zhang Dashou thought he was seeing things, but he really felt a surge of emotion from the black-robed man!

Was this guy's brain broken?

That was a Black-rank intermediate Weird!

He knew what that was, and he seemed to be preparing to meet that thing?

Wasn't this courting death!

Zhang Dashou, who had just decided to accompany the black-robed man, suddenly felt regret in his heart.

This guy was actually a madman! He was so unlucky! He was so strong, why did his brain have to be so bad!

"Big brother, you seem to want to find that Black-rank intermediate Weird for trouble?"

"That's right."

The black-robed man replied without hesitation.

Damn it! Was he going to be so confident in courting death! Wasn't this guy afraid of dying at all!

Zhang Dashou showed a smile that was more like crying: "Big brother, that's a Black-rank intermediate Weird, let's not provoke it, okay? The Meng Hunting Group must have been completely wiped out, we're also in a difficult situation, let's quickly go back to Mo Village, notify the captain, and let the captains handle it, that's the right way."

"Notify the captain?"

The black-robed man took off his hood. At this moment, the moonlight happened to fall on his young face, which looked vaguely familiar, but he couldn't recognize it.

"Right now, you've already notified the captain."

"Notified… the captain?"

"Let me introduce myself, my name is Ye Se Liming (Nightfall Dawn), one of the current acting captains of Mo Village. I already know about the situation in Yuan Yuanqiu, and I'm going to deal with the Weird now."

Wha- what?!

Hearing the black-robed man's words, Zhang Dashou's eyes widened.

Ye Se Liming, the god among players!

The number one player in Blue Sea, the first to solo kill a Weird, the first to walk out into the wild, the first village-level captain!

Among the players, the temporarily unrivaled number one player in the game!

He never expected that he would meet him, such a small figure, under such circumstances!

"Idol! Nightfall Idol, I'm your fan!"

Immediately, Zhang Dashou hugged Fang Yue's thigh.

"Let go, and lead the way ahead."

"Ah!"

Idol was idol, but letting him lead the way to his death was not okay!

Seeing him hesitate, Fang Yue couldn't help but frown.

"Don't worry, with me here, those black thorns won't be able to hurt you."

Even though they were both at the Houtian (Acquired) Third-rate realm, there was a big gap between strength and strength.

The captains in the big villages, even if they were at the Houtian Third-rate realm, were far from being able to be compared to by any outside hunting group.

Therefore, the vice-captain of the Meng Hunting Group, and the group of members led by the vice-captain, were just weak chickens.

At least to Fang Yue, their strength was simply not enough to be seen, and being wiped out by a Black-rank intermediate Weird was only to be expected.

But Fang Yue was different!

He had killed his way up to the Houtian Second-rate realm with full base stats!

With the Liehuo Xinfa (Fierce Fire Heart Sutra) in one hand and the Xinghuo Daofa (Starlight Saber Technique) in the other, he would cut out even the Black-rank intermediate Weird's shit!