Chapter 104 The Game Begins
raging!
The moment the flames rose, the skyline lit up with neon lights.
That was the phantom of "God" condensing. Even if it shattered in the next second, it still left behind a little halo, flashing in the void like sequins.
"It's not a high level. No... This isn't an evil god at all. It's just an ordinary monster, right?"
The scout lying on the hillside gestured to his classmates. The ring on his finger lit up with an arc of light, conveying the message "Low level - can try" in the mist.
"Do you want to fight?" Qian Xiaomei waved the hilt of the sword.
Xing Shuyao pondered for a moment, then pointed at the dot of light in the sky and said, "The strange shadow's descent failed. These people have been frightened by Chen. They will definitely use sacrifices to directly summon its true form..."
As soon as he finished speaking, the crowd below became agitated as if to prove Xing Shuyao's guess.
"Hey, come here!" The leader gritted his teeth, twisted the shoulder of one of his deputies, threw him to the ground, and cut off his arm with two clangs.
"Ah--" The man lying on the ground struggled desperately. Having lost his arm, he twisted like an earthworm, scaring the people around him to scatter.
But no one dared to run too far, or even flee from the bonfire, for the ritual continued. The leader's actions weren't madness, but rather a call to the divine being, using their already existing connection to flesh and blood.
This behavior is pure suicide in the orthodox summoning ceremony.
Abyssal creatures that can be called "gods" often refer specifically to great beings below the fourth level. Their temporary arrival will destroy everything around them in a very short time, including the fools who summoned them.
However, these people were of low god status. They came and went at will, and even left on their own after eating. Their practiced demeanor revealed how many times they had randomly summoned them.
"God, please come quickly, there are fresh blood food everywhere for you!" The leader raised his bloody sword. The people around him trembled under his malicious gaze and had to continue jumping on one leg on tiptoe.
Xing Shuyao looked at the frantic scene below and said calmly, "Low-level summons don't have the teleportation effect. That monster will have to fly over here on its own. We have plenty of time, let's set up all the weapons first."
"Okay~"
The students responded simply and quickly took the high ground.
They skillfully assembled weapons and rare items. Those with physical fitness were responsible for splicing, transporting and setting up the second layer of protection, while other people with special abilities input their special abilities and recharged them in advance.
Sizzle, woosh.
Several strange objects were aimed downwards at the same time, and under the calibration of the classmates, the crosshairs were moved upwards a few spaces to predict the possible routes that the monsters might take when flying.
After aiming for five minutes, the monster still didn't appear.
"No spatial ability..." the investigator muttered to himself, and no one let down their guard.
The large monster had eaten at least hundreds of abyss creatures. Even if it had nothing to do with the true God, it was still much stronger than the small anomalies they had just hunted.
Moreover, there are cores inside the anomalies, some are solid, some are liquid or fragments. Large monsters of this level should have energy cores of good quality.
The higher the level of anomaly cores, the greater the difference in value. This is because low-level cores can only be broken down to provide energy, and only mid- and high-level cores can be processed into rare items or transplanted to humans.
For a mid-to-high-level core, they would be willing to lie on the ground and wait for a whole day.
Time passed by minute by minute. Zheng Lu suddenly moved. She moved her binoculars to look into the distance and said, "Xiao'e and the apostles escaped from the seal. They encountered two underground people."
"Ah? And then?" Lin Lang quickly moved the telescope and focused his sight on the other side of the square.
The crowd outside the bonfire was very sparse, with only a few guards patrolling. Chen Xiao'er encountered a pair of relatively young children.
They cautiously hid in the gap between two houses, retreating step by step as the apostles approached.
…
"Don't come over here! I, I'll call for help."
Yan's voice trembled, clearly unable to conceal his inner weakness. He stepped back, protecting his sister, his heart pounding with nervousness.
He was not an ignorant brat, and he fully understood how destructive the earthlings who could swallow large amounts of toxins and her murderous companions could be.
He patted Yu's hand quietly several times, but his sister held her brother even tighter and was unwilling to turn around and run away.
"Um~ We are not bad people."
Chen Xiao'er quickly poked her head out from behind her senior and waved at the children, her palms facing outward, indicating that she wasn't hiding any terrifying weapons.
But the children were still very nervous. The boy was holding a craft knife in his hand, but his expression was so nervous that it looked as if two guns were pointed at his forehead by bad guys.
After a few seconds of confrontation, Chen Xiao'er took out a piece of fruit candy from her bag.
She first approached the boy, but the boy stared at her without saying anything, so she had to move her hand away and try to seduce the little girl behind her.
"Baby, do you want some candy?"
"She doesn't..."
"Food!" Yu's eyes sparkled, and half of her body popped out from behind her brother.
The rock drooped like a deflated ball.
He suddenly realized the predicament he'd been in. Protecting his sister from harm? I couldn't even feed her.
He watched his sister run out and take the candy from the people on the ground, and he had no strength to stop her.
Yu crushed the candy with her teeth, sucked it eagerly, put her fingers into her mouth and rummaged around, then took out a larger piece and handed it to her brother.
"Brother, you eat!"
Seeing the brother and sister's natural behavior, Chen Xiao'er's scalp tingled: she originally thought that their previous cautiousness was an acting act, a performance taught by the staff to the children to embarrass customers and ask for more money.
How could such a natural performance be a performance? At least a child who has never been hungry cannot perform it.
She couldn't help but take out a whole candy bar, gently placed it in the girl's palm, and whispered, "You guys take it and eat it, I have more."
"Really!"
The girl's eyes were big and round, set in her thin little face, as crystal clear as two pieces of glass.
Jade swallowed her saliva and took the candy. She simply couldn't refuse such good food, just like a starving little mouse couldn't refuse a little bit of cheese on the clamp.
Yu carefully tore open the wrapper, glancing at their faces from time to time. Seeing that Chen Xiao'er had no objection, she stuffed the candy into her mouth and mumbled "thank you".
Yan stood in the shadows and looked at his sister's happy expression. His mood suddenly became complicated and indescribable.
He was silent for a long time, and finally made some kind of decision.
"On the ground... honorable lady."
The boy used words that were completely unfamiliar to him, even rubbing his teeth against his tongue in protest. "If you can, if you're willing to do us a small favor, I'll take you to get the boss's treasure. There's plenty of it, and you'll be satisfied."
He finally thought it through and realized that staying here would mean death.
The clan leader had to feed the gods every few days, so it was impossible for him to catch abnormalities and outsiders every time. Therefore, after their parents died, he and his sister became the first tier of reserve food.
In this situation, everyone in the tribe may become food, and no one will have enough money to protect the orphans.
If I could go to the earth and become a human, there would at least be a chance of recovery.
Treasure? Oh~ This is a quest.
The script that the young actors received must have been very simple: complete the task, get the scoring props, give them to the school for extra points, and achieve a perfect cycle.
Chen Xiao'er took the little girl's hand and smiled at the boy in a friendly manner: "Okay, go ahead. I'll go with you to get the treasure~"
Yan bit his lip. Now that his sister was under her control, there was no way he could turn back.
He walked towards the edge of the village, where there were many half-collapsed houses. Most of them were used to process garbage and live in "waste", but there was one house that was special.
"The boss has buried treasure there. He has set a trap, but I'm sure you can handle it, sir."
Yan walked forward with heavy steps, his eyes fixed on the ground. "I don't want any treasures. I just want you to take me and Yu with you when you go out. You don't have to go up, just take us to a place far away."
Go up? Take the elevator.
"Okay~" Chen Xiao'er just listened to it. After all, the little actor must go back after the performance. It would be terrible if he ran too far and got lost.
…
"They went in."
Zheng Lu put down the telescope, walked quickly to Xing Shuyao, and looked at him with an urgent, inquiring look.
Xing Shuyao couldn't make up her mind for the moment. The monster would soon fly over, but classmate Chen seemed to have encountered something as well, so should she go over and meet up with him?
When he was hesitant, Ye Xiaoyu said quietly: "I saw the illusion that classmate Chen came out with good things."
As soon as she said this, the atmosphere around her suddenly relaxed.
Just as Xing Shuyao was about to say, "Then let's stay here and wait," he suddenly realized something... a great opportunity!
Now Chen is leading the apostles to dig out the treasure buried by the underground people, and the underground people are summoning monsters. The scene that follows will definitely be very chaotic.
The church sent us down here to explore for energy. Since they are all energy, why can't we just plunder the underground people's warehouses?
"Everyone, I have a suggestion."
Xing Shuyao raised her head and slowly scanned the surrounding classmates. "I want those skilled in ranged attacks and defense to stay here and wait for the monsters. Everyone else, except those with less mobility, will go down the mountain—empty the underground people's warehouse!"
He pointed his finger to the other side, which was exactly opposite to where Chen Xiao'er was.
"After we clear out the area, we'll immediately light the fire. No matter whether they rescue first or fight first, we'll retreat immediately." Xing Shuyao's face flickered in the mist. "Except for the students I specifically asked to stay, those who oppose please stay. Those who agree, follow me."
He quickly called out eleven or twelve names, and the others slowly split into two groups after looking at each other.
Not many people chose to stay. Some walked towards the assembled crossbows and bows while explaining, "I'm not against it, I just have to stay and protect my companions!"
Whoosh, whoosh.
The students reorganized the team within 5 minutes. The holders of long-range weapons remained almost unchanged, still lying in place waiting for the monsters to arrive.
Whoosh——
A gust of cold wind blew towards us, and the bonfire at the foot of the mountain gradually turned from red to green, making a crisp popping sound.
It's coming.
Everyone's eyes were focused on the top of the campfire, where three underground people had already died.
So many "believers" in the link died one after another in a short period of time. How could "God" come to take a look and eat these fresh foods?
The sky lit up with a pale green, and with a splash, the skyline was covered with the shadow of a tuna fish like splashing water.
Creak, creak—the crankshaft turns and the sight is aimed.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, a rain of arrows shot out!
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