Chapter 94, Becoming a Monster
It's more reliable to accumulate life points. Zhong Bingxuan has already decided that after sending Linlin away, she will focus on accumulating life points so that she can earn a ticket to the new world as soon as possible.
"Damn it, there's nobody here, and I'm so hungry."
Upon hearing a man's complaint, Zhong Bingxuan immediately hid behind a tree and did not approach.
Even though it's currently a safe period for players, Zhong Bingxuan hasn't acted recklessly. What if it's not absolutely safe? Wouldn't she be risking her life?
"If I find one more person, I can open the treasure chest and fulfill my dream of becoming rich overnight."
The man's ramblings made Zhong Bingxuan wonder if he was driven insane by the quiet atmosphere and was talking nonsense.
Just remembering the original owner's strange behavior, she immediately followed the madman.
A suicide hotspot—if a normal person returns, there must be something fishy going on, and maybe that's when the problem will be discovered.
The fact that they survived the mission for three days and escaped the forest demonstrates the extreme danger of the area.
Taking advantage of the relatively low danger during the safe period, Zhong Bingxuan felt that exploring the secrets of this place would increase her chances of surviving later.
"Found it."
While Zhong Bingxuan was figuring out how to knock the man unconscious and extract the secrets of this suicide hotspot from him, the man discovered another person's presence.
That person wasn't as lucky as Zhong Bingxuan; he bumped right into the man and was grabbed by the burly man.
"No, brother, don't sacrifice me. I can bring you more prey."
"Hehe, it's too late. You're the only prey I need. I don't need your help."
After saying this, the man took out a wooden box from his body, took out a rope from it, put it around the man's neck, and hung him directly from the tree.
Could it be that the forest legend, in which all those who enter within three days commit suicide, is all man-made?
Seeing the man's actions, Zhong Bingxuan couldn't help but think of the legend of that suicide hotspot.
The man hung the person from the tree and left the scene immediately, without staying to watch his prey die.
Zhong Bingxuan was worried that the other party was using a trap. After waiting for a while, the man returned once, carefully checked the surroundings, and left again. She remained motionless and did not make any rash moves.
After waiting a few more minutes and seeing that the man hadn't returned, Zhong Bingxuan prepared to follow the trail he had taken.
But when Zhong Bingxuan passed by the hanged man, she was shocked to find that the man's body was stiff.
This unusual situation caused Zhong Bingxuan to stop chasing the man and stand below the hanged man, carefully observing his changing appearance.
Normal human skin, which begins out of the body, gradually becomes a wood-like material as time passes after death.
This reminded Zhong Bingxuan of the faceless mud monster in her first dungeon that assimilated humans, and it looked just like that.
This means that the person who hanged himself will transform from an ordinary human into a monster in this instance. Zhong Bingxuan guesses that it will be a wooden figure, and the name of the instance explains everything.
With important news at hand, Zhong Bingxuan wasn't as interested in men, just in case the monster woke up and targeted her.
Zhong Bingxuan found a tree, quickly climbed up, and hid in the shadows to observe the changes in the hanged man.
The skin of the body had turned completely wooden. The hanged man suddenly opened his eyes and with a forceful effort broke the rope around his neck.
Without a rope to suspend his body, the person who attempted suicide simply fell from the tree with a loud thud.
Zhong Bingxuan clearly saw a huge crater below where the hanged person fell, and deduced that the body was very heavy and not light.
Continue watching the first monster that appears and try to find its weakness.
Then, the wooden figure that had hanged itself pulled down the rope, casually swung it, and flung it away.
Because the trees here are so dense and so close together, the rope that the hanging wooden figure swung out struck a nearby tree and snapped it in two.
The hanged wooden figure uses the rope that caused its death as a weapon, which is very powerful and can snap a hundred-year-old tree in half. Judging from its appearance, it must be quite strong, and it is not easy to confront it head-on.
Given the fragile structure of the human body, it might not even be able to withstand a single blow from a hanging wooden dummy, and would be directly whipped in two and die.
After testing the effects of the weapon in his hand, the hanging wooden figure below Zhong Bingxuan walked forward with heavy steps.
Zhong Bingxuan calculated the movement speed of the hanging wooden figure and found that it was more than twice as slow as a normal person.
That means that if you turn around and run the moment you see the hanging wooden figure, without letting it find your trail, and throw out the rope in your hand, the chance of successfully escaping is as high as 80%. The remaining 20% is just bad luck in encountering the hanging wooden figure going berserk and greatly increasing its strength.
On the first day, they found out the characteristics, origins, and weaknesses of the monsters in this dungeon, making a great start, but Zhong Bingxuan was not happy at all.
According to the description of the forest suicide hotspot in this instance, quite a few people hanged themselves.
Zhong Bingxuan could not guarantee, under the limited conditions, that a person who hangs themselves would only turn into a wooden figure if they were murdered.
We can only prepare for the worst: all those who hang themselves will be turned into wooden figures under the influence of this forest, possessing immense destructive power and moving at a slow speed.
In this situation, Zhong Bingxuan couldn't imagine how many wooden figures were in this instance.
If one or two wooden figures have a chance to dodge successfully, how can they dodge when there are thirty, forty, or even hundreds of them?
Zhong Bingxuan even considered killing these wooden figures to accumulate enough points to send Linlin out ahead of time.
In this situation, one has no choice but to confront an unknown number of wooden figures, possibly hundreds or thousands, which greatly increases the danger level. Zhong Bingxuan felt like her head was about to explode.
After the hanging wooden figure left, Zhong Bingxuan climbed down from the tree and followed the traces left by the man.
Now that the situation here is clear, we need to investigate the man's situation.
Does leaving early really affect the wooden man's pursuit?
Or rather, the wooden figure that was killed and transformed by the man will not attack the man who started it all.
According to what the man just said to the hanged man, that person had killed quite a few humans, and we can find more information from that.
Zhong Bingxuan thought the process would take longer, but she didn't expect that as soon as she ran along the man's trail, she would find another wooden figure's trail.
It wasn't the wooden figure Zhong Bingxuan had just seen. Even though the two looked very similar now, their outward appearances were different.
That's a wooden figure that hanged itself, with a rope in its hand that can stretch its body infinitely.
However, the wooden figure in front of Zhong Bingxuan did not have these characteristics. Instead, its body was swollen and liquid was constantly oozing out. It should be a wooden figure that had transformed from a state of drowning.
The man didn't notice the wooden figure behind him; the drowned wooden figure splashed the liquid from its body onto the man.
"Ouch! That hurts! Damn it, it's catching up again."
The seemingly gentle and harmless liquid, once it touched the man's body, directly corroded a large hole in his skin.
Zhong Bingxuan couldn't help but take a deep breath; this liquid was comparable to sulfuric acid.
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