Hearing the announcement from the system, the girls who were originally listless suddenly jumped up.

"The Lord is defeated!"

"We can go to the sixth floor now!!"

“Let’s go!!”

Cheering, the girls came to the teleportation crystal and were quickly teleported to the starting town on the sixth floor. This was also Fang Zheng's order. Although the passage would be opened directly after each battle, most players would not go to the upper floor immediately because no one knew what was on the upper floor. Therefore, many people would rather wait a little longer for others to go up and explore the way first, and then go after getting accurate information.

The girls under Fang Zheng were naturally the most adventurous. They were skilled and courageous. Not to mention that Fang Zheng had specifically instructed Asuna and the others to go to the sixth floor to explore as soon as the fifth floor lord was defeated. Anyway, they didn't need to fight the boss, so they just needed to rest and gather their strength. Naturally, they gathered their energy and came to the sixth floor.

"Don't accept the quest yet. Let's go explore the surroundings first to see what kind of monsters spawn here."

Everyone was already familiar with Fang Zheng's search process, so after arriving at the sixth floor, Asuna immediately gave the order. Then she thought about it and quickly made a decision.

"Ms. Esther, take Aoba, Nanami, Sinon, Leafa, and Lingyin to take care of the swamp. I will take the rest of the people to the woods. Don't stray too far from the safe zone. If you encounter an enemy, return immediately after confirming the situation. We will gather here in thirty minutes."

"knew."

Hearing Asuna's order, Esther nodded, then led her people out of the town and walked towards the swamp. Asuna also took a deep breath, then led another group of people towards the woods.

The map of the sixth floor was different from the previous ones. It was foggy everywhere, just like entering a haze. The visibility was only two or three hundred meters at most. Things in the distance were shrouded in the fog and appeared and disappeared. Fortunately, this was a game and everyone had their own game map. Otherwise, if you got lost in it, you might not be able to get out.

"Wow... this place feels so weird... the swamp is so disgusting..."

Walking on the slippery swamp, Leafa also had a bitter face, and Esther looked at her.

"Be careful, there might be a bottomless swamp here."

"Why?"

Hearing Esther's reminder, Leafa was stunned.

"Is there such a thing as a bottomless swamp?"

“In reality, there are.”

Esther said calmly while looking around.

"But it's not clear in this world. But it's better to be careful. We have seen a girl being dragged into the bottomless swamp before, and she almost couldn't come back."

“Woo…”

Hearing what Esther said, Leafa trembled a bit, and then carefully looked down at her feet. Although it was unlikely that a bottomless swamp would appear in the game world, but considering the nature of this game... who could say for sure?

"Esther is right. Just be careful."

Lingyin also smiled and patted Leafa's shoulder, and at the same time she looked around speechlessly.

"However, the fog on this floor is really thick. I don't know what kind of monsters are on this floor..."

"In short, it's better to be careful."

Shi Nong, holding the spear, remained silent. She turned her head and looked behind her from time to time to check on the safety of those behind her, while whispering reminders.

"Our vision here is very poor, and the swamp conditions are not very good either. The ground is very slippery and soft, and it is not suitable for rapid action. I need to write this down and report it to Mr. Fang Zheng."

“Woo…”

Nanami, on the other hand, looked half asleep and half awake, sleepwalking around everyone.

"Monster, please come out soon. The longer you don't come out, the more worried I feel..."

Leafa muttered to herself, then took another step forward. Suddenly, she felt that what she was stepping on was not the soft and sticky swamp, but something that moved...

What exactly is it?

Leafa lowered her head curiously, then raised her foot to look down, and then her face suddenly changed. She saw several huge centipedes crawling around under Leafa's feet, and some of them had already crawled onto her shoes! !

“Centipede aa ...

With a scream that almost pierced her eardrums, Leafa jumped up as if she was installed with a spring, and she swung her feet desperately, trying to shake off the centipedes on her feet. However, the centipedes did not care about Leafa's struggle and resistance at all, but slowly climbed up along her legs.

"Help! Help! Save me, Shi Nong!!"

Feeling the touch of the centipede on her skin, Leafa felt her whole body go limp. She hugged Shi Nong tightly, with such strength that she almost strangled her to death.

"Wait, wait, don't use so much strength..."

Shi Nong struggled to get out of Leafa's "bear hug" while slapping the centipedes on her body. However, these centipedes seemed to have set their sights on Leafa and she couldn't get rid of them.

"Qingye, come and help me pull her away!!"

“I’m coming, I’m coming!!”

Hearing Shi Nong's cry for help, Qingye hurried over, but just as she was about to go forward to help, suddenly, a faint sound emerged from the thick fog not far away.

“Click, click, click…”

What is that sound?

Hearing this sound, everyone was stunned, and then they turned their heads to look - and then they saw three or four centipedes as big as a person crawling out of the fog. They raised their upper bodies, and dozens of densely packed legs kept swaying, coordinated with the centipede's extremely realistic mouthparts and swaying tentacles...

“Centipede ahhhhhhhh!!!”

Qingye also screamed at this moment. She swung her weapon desperately and retreated backwards, directly bumping into Lingyin. Lingyin was knocked headfirst by Qingye and almost couldn't get up... She was also scared to death, okay?

"……?"

It was not until this time that Nanami tilted his head blankly as if he had just woken up from a dream, turned his head to look around, and then picked up his weapon.

"...Want to fight?"

"Prepare for battle."

Esther glanced at the chaos behind her and gave the order, but...

"Go down quickly!! Don't climb up!!!"

"Don't hold me. How can I fight if you hold me like this?"

"Centipede!! Centipede!!! What a huge centipede!!!"

"What should I do? What should I do? What should I do?"

At this moment, the people behind were in a state of complete panic.

“…”

Esther silently glanced at the back of the extremely chaotic team, then raised the sword in his hand.

"Nanami, you protect them, I'll deal with these enemies."

Before he finished speaking, Esther lowered his body and rushed towards the centipede monster in front of him.