readease #662 - Real fellow players
#662 - Real fellow players
Thanks to Li Nian's [Item], the extremely tense situation was momentarily relieved by the mermaid's singing.
As expected, the [Item] from 'Kress', produced in the 'Purified Ruins', was no ordinary object. Despite the spiders looking extremely horrifying and numerous, they were unable to break through this barrier.
Of course, even though these spiders can't break through the defense, it doesn't mean the three of them can rest easy.
After all...
For the three of them, the [Item] would eventually run out.
The mermaid wouldn't sing indefinitely, but these spiders seemed endless.
More importantly...
At this moment, the three of them had already reached the summit of Double Saw Mountain.
Lin Yu had once wondered what would happen if they hadn't stopped at Chen Family Fort and had stubbornly made their way to Five Springs Village.
Now, he knew the answer.
Although the spider was directly below the Taoist temple on Double Saw Mountain, the...
The white spider silk covered the surrounding hundreds of miles like a snow-capped mountain—Chen Family Fort and Five Springs Village were now trapped in that vast ocean of white spider silk.
They were located in the very center of this terrifying ocean—escaping in any direction meant an endless distance as far as the eye could see.
"This place is too scary," Li Nian said, looking at the dense spider silk and the large spider demons wandering within it. "But... the humans and demons in this world are evenly matched. With such a big commotion, there should be native experts from this world to deal with it, right?"
"There will be, otherwise that guy wouldn't have been hiding underground for so long. If it was recuperating, it means something injured it before. If it was hiding from something, it further proves it's afraid," Lin Yu said calmly. "Moreover, its previous behavior was consciously avoiding human detection—the fact that Chen Family Fort wasn't investigated several times shows that it still has some fear."
Feidao became somewhat optimistic upon hearing this: "Then wouldn't we..."
"Impossible, relying on those natives is no different from waiting for death," Lin Yu interrupted him coldly. "It's been hiding for so long, which means its intelligence level is definitely not low. But now it's making such a big commotion, which means that, at least in the eyes of this demon, there's a chance to achieve its goal before someone comes to 'clean it up'."
"And its goal is definitely related to us, at least to this 'remnant body'."
Feidao was on the verge of collapse: "Then why are you still carrying it? Why don't you give it to the spider?"
"Giving it to it might not let us go, and besides, this thing is also the key to our completion... What's the difference between not completing the game and dying? You saw the Little Fire Dragon trio in the underground arena!"
Lin Yu said, suddenly realizing something.
"Wait... I understand!"
Lin Yu said, looking at Li Nian: "Those three players weren't lying when they said their completion condition was 'reaching Willow Town'... But those escorts just entered here—in other words, unless this 'Xie Chong's Remnant Body' is repeatedly used, then..."
"There's likely another part of the 'remnant body' near their mission location!"
Li Nian said, and then Lin Yu pulled out the map.
"According to this map, we should head northwest of Double Saw Mountain to reach the location of the 'Taoist temple' marked on the map."
He looked up in the direction indicated on the map, wanting to identify the specific location based on the marked terrain.
But...
The mountain was a vast expanse of white, making it difficult to distinguish one place from another.
"No matter what, the direction is right, we should at least go and see."
"The density of the spider silk isn't that high... Although it looks like a vast expanse of white from afar, you can still recognize the terrain once you get close."
Lin Yu thought, preparing to give the order to set off and take things one step at a time, heading in that direction first...
Suddenly, in the northwest, an anomaly occurred!
A complex totem flashed in the sky, with intersecting gold and red lines forming a huge phantom of a human body with an eagle's face and tiger's claws, decorated with exaggerated feather outlines.
Then, the statue-like phantom opened its hands and let out a sharp scream and roar, and burning meteorites cut through space from the sky and fell out of nowhere!
"What kind of method is this?"
Lin Yu asked in surprise.
Feidao stared blankly at this scene, but Li Nian whispered the answer.
"The ancestral spirit witchcraft of the Black Marsh World... That's where the real remaining three players of this game are."
"But looking at this posture, even if it's not 'Tier 3', it's probably an outrageously strong type within 'Tier 2'... What kind of heaven-defying matchmaking mechanism is this?"
Hearing Li Nian's words, Lin Yu felt it was reasonable.
Although his 'Zhu Ming' identity was 'Tier 1', he was actually 'Tier 2'.
And according to Lin Yu's self-assessment, although he had just been promoted to 'Tier 2', with four [Professional Items], his assessment in the 'Death Game' would definitely not be too low.
When the 'Death Game' assesses its strength, it doesn't just assess the superficial strength of the identity it entered the game with.
"Then I think they should indeed be the players we matched with..."
Old Zheng's words also echoed slowly.
"Oh, this little girl has really good eyes. It is indeed the ancestral spirit witchcraft of the Black Marsh World, and it's from Xia Jin's Condor Division. This kind of ancestral spirit witchcraft can only be taught by the upper witch of each division, and the upper witch of the Condor Division is also one of Xia Jin's three great witch priests, Lu Gu."
"So that player over there... should be 'Tier 2', after all, if it was 'Tier 3', and they were forced to use ancestral spirit witchcraft so quickly, they probably wouldn't have been accepted as a disciple by Lu Gu and taught ancestral spirit witchcraft."
Hearing Old Zheng's more specific words, Lin Yu couldn't help but sigh.
"Although you're based in Mist Island, you really know enough about the Black Marsh."
"Ahahaha, do I?" Old Zheng chuckled. "In short, the other party's 'profession' should be 'student'."
"There's such a powerful 'student'?"
Lin Yu asked in surprise.
"Don't be so harsh, 'student' is indeed the most frustrating 'profession', and [Professional Items] hardly provide any direct abilities... But the 'ancestral spirit witchcraft' he just used had such a great momentum, he should have used a combination of [Professional Item] and [Occupation Item], which is why I recognized the other party's 'profession'."
Old Zheng introduced.
"[Study Guide] plus [Student ID], which allows the 'student' to record and release a gift of power from someone else once without consumption!"