For the criminals, the next few days were like living in a nightmare.
Fang Zheng led Esther and Restia to patrol the three floors, killing all the orange players they saw without hesitation. At first, these orange criminals did not notice anything unusual, but as their companions became fewer and fewer, and their names were crossed out on the monument of life one by one, they finally became panicked and fearful.
Since Fang Zheng and his companions hardly communicated with anyone during the operation, even when they encountered players surrounded by criminals, they would just walk up to them, take away the criminals' heads, and then leave. Soon, rumors about "PKK" (player killer killer) began to spread among the players.
Some people think that this is what some high-level players did because they were fed up with the actions of criminal guilds like the Smiling Coffin. Some other players think that this is another form of punishment for criminal players in the game system, and those who killed the orange players were not players, but NPCs controlled by the system.
But no matter what, after the massacre by Fang Zheng and others, the originally chaotic game environment began to become stable again. No one dared to blatantly block people in the leveling area and gathering area. Although conflicts still occurred from time to time, they were basically quarrels, and there were rarely any fights.
After all, no matter whether PKK is a player or an NPC, no one else would want to be hacked to death while walking outside because of such an emergency, right?
This is exactly what Fang Zheng wants to achieve. The reason why those criminals dare to commit crimes blatantly is, on the one hand, due to their inner evil desires, and on the other hand, they adhere to the mentality that the law does not punish the masses. After all, there is currently no GM in the game, and it is impossible to convict. Having broken free from the shackles, they naturally feel that they can do whatever they want.
And once they clearly understood that no matter how many of them there were, they would be killed without mercy, then these soft persimmons that were originally blown up would immediately wilt.
The situation in the lower area did not have any impact on the Dark Moon Sword. They continued to do what they were supposed to do, or rather... they did not have time to care about other things now.
"That's it. Take an hour break."
As Fang Zheng finished his words, the girls, who were already panting, suddenly fell to the ground like broken dolls.
Fang Zheng is a man of his word. He doubled the training as he said. In order to never have to fight on the sixth floor again, these girls fought for their lives.
"I really envy Nanami and the others..."
Lying on the ground, Ying Lili rolled over and started to complain - Fang Zheng did not make everyone train twice as hard. Those girls who were not afraid of insects were thrown into a team to explore the sixth floor. Only those who were determined not to go stayed behind to be punished.
In other words, Esther, Restia, Nanami, Yuki and Gabriel were trained as normal, while the others were trained with double the punishment. Fang Zheng was also merciless, training Eriri and the others to the point of ecstasy, almost to the point of reaching heaven.
"Then should I send you to the sixth floor?"
Hearing Ying Lili's complaint, Fang Zheng glanced at her, and Ying Lili trembled all over and shook her head desperately.
"No, no, no, no, I won't go even if you kill me!!"
Although the intensity of double training is much greater than that of ordinary search on the sixth floor, Eriri would rather continue double training than go to the sixth floor. The reason is simple. As Gabriel and the others go deeper, the entire sixth floor map environment is basically unfolded. In addition to the forests and swamps in the early stage, the middle and late stages are basically caves, and there are all kinds of insects and monsters in the caves.
Like bats, or even slugs or something...
After listening to Yuki and the others' description of the situation on the sixth floor, Asuna and Eriri were unwilling to go there again.
"Speaking of which... have you heard about it?"
As if to relax the atmosphere, Aoba took a sip of water, clapped his hands and started a new topic.
"There seems to be a ghost in the forest near our base recently?"
"Alas--!!?"
Asuna's body tensed up instantly when she heard Aoba's words, but Eriri, Lingyin and the others became interested.
"What what? Ghost? What's going on?"
"Sophie told me this when we were chatting before."
Seeing that everyone was interested, Qingye chuckled and continued talking.
The Sophie she mentioned was also a member of the Darkmoon Sword Guild, a production player, but unlike the others, Sophie's time difference between day and night was reversed, she always slept during the day and got up at night. So basically Sophie was a fixed night watch member of the Darkmoon Sword.
This girl was also very strange. She called herself an "ordinary vampire"... So within the Dark Moon Sword Guild, people also called Black Cat, Gabriel and Sophie the "Second and Third Swordsmen"...
Okay, let’s stop talking about this.
"The story goes like this. Two days ago, when Sophie was on guard duty, she accidentally discovered a white shadow in the nearby forest. Out of curiosity, Sophie went out to take a look. But what she didn't expect was that as soon as she approached the forest, she saw a little girl in a white dress..."
"Alas!!!"
At this moment, Asuna was curled up in a ball and shivering, but the others didn't seem to notice her. They just stared at Aoba, waiting for her to continue.
"Then what?"
In response to Eriri's question, Aoba continued.
"Then Sophie went to call the little girl, and then she found out..."
"Just discovered?"
Hearing this, everyone swallowed involuntarily.
"No...identifying arrow appeared."
"Eh? Is this true?"
Mimi also screamed at this moment. You know, in the game world, no matter if they are looking at NPCs, players or anything else, there should be an arrow indicating it. But there is no arrow indicating a little girl wandering in the forest in the middle of the night?
"That's what Sophie said. She thought she was dazzled, so she rubbed her eyes and looked carefully again. As a result... there was indeed no arrow. Then she heard Sophie's shout, and the little girl with her back to her slowly turned her head..."
"Then what?"
"…Then Sophie ran back in fear."
“…Huh?”
After hearing this anticlimactic description, everyone was speechless.
"that's all?"
"I can't help it. That's what Sophie said..."
Facing everyone's complaints, Qingye also shook his head. But soon, everyone started discussing.
"But can this be true?"
"It must be fake. This is a game world. How could there be ghosts?"
"But it's not impossible, right? Aren't there ghosts who have cursed the videotapes? Maybe the ghost of a player who died in the game is unwilling to leave and is still wandering in the game world..."
“Waaaaaahhh, stop talking, this is so scary!”
“I have a great idea!”
Just as everyone was talking, Eriri stood up as if she had thought of something.
"Everyone, why don't we hold a courage test in that forest!!"