Sui Ying glanced at her older brother speechlessly.
"You should definitely give it a try; you might even get a great look!"
"Hehe!" Sui Feng grinned.
Over here, Xiao Jin saw that the other party was secured, so he picked up the Broken Shadow and plunged it directly into the big mouth in the puddle.
The next second, blood gushed up.
The player who had been restrained felt a lightness beneath him, and his face lit up with joy. He quickly grabbed the rope in his hand and climbed out.
However, it wasn't until his lower body was completely exposed that Xiao Jin realized how miserable the other person was.
The right leg was completely gone from the knee down, revealing the stark white bone at the break, with the flesh at the edges jagged and uneven, clearly caused by being torn apart piece by piece.
The player with the broken leg was deathly pale, feeling dizzy and disoriented. Without delay, he quickly pulled out a recovery item.
After one injection, the patient's near-death symptoms finally stabilized.
Meanwhile, the creature in the puddle was furious to see the meat it was about to eat escape.
As a result, strange ripples appeared on the surface of the puddle, and Xiao Jin's long sword began to tremble violently.
She stared at the puddle of water, no bigger than a washbasin, in which the opening and closing mouth and the gaping maw of an abyss covered with spiraling fangs were constantly reflected.
An ominous aura spread.
"run!"
As if sensing something, the water surface suddenly swelled up as soon as Xiao Jin uttered his warning.
A tentacle formed from sewage flashed by, attempting to entangle Xiao Jin, but missed its target. The tentacle then retreated, tightly wrapping itself around the ankle of the last player.
The player with the dyed yellow hair didn't even have time to scream before he collapsed like an empty sack, his skin instantly turning paper gray.
Upon closer inspection, the sticky sewage, like a parasitic beast, instantly seeped into the skin of the blond player's ankle.
The other players were shocked and quickly took cover.
"Get out of the way." Xiao Jin hissed, and with a flick of her wrist, two stun grenades appeared in her palm, which she then threw into the puddle.
'boom!'
The ground around them was shaking, and the puddles were boiling.
The murky liquid, carrying fragments of bone and hair, surged out and condensed in the air into a three-meter-tall humanoid black shadow.
It has no facial features, only a huge mouth that keeps opening and closing, and half of the face of the blond player is embedded in its abdominal cavity—that face is still blinking in terror.
Xiao Jin's longsword sliced through his palm, and the blood dripped onto the blade, gleaming with a blue light.
As the shadow lunged, she spun to avoid the first wave of putrid water, her blade slicing precisely into the shadow's waist. The severed portion fell to the ground and transformed into hundreds of water fleas, rustling as they crawled back into her body.
"Physical attacks are ineffective!" Xiao Jin shouted upon seeing this.
Sui Ying and the others quickly understood Xiao Jin's meaning. The players who were closer temporarily abandoned the 'hair monster' in front of them and threw the supernatural items they had at the shadowy figure.
This time it's not like before when we were in the mourning hall.
As several beams of light slammed heavily into the dark figure, its body exploded, turning into a shower of raindrops.
The raindrops smelled foul, yet each drop seemed to contain a pained human face. Then, the raindrops transformed into sharp arrows, raining down on the crowd like a torrential downpour.
Feng Hao swung out seven copper coins, which formed the Big Dipper formation in the air, temporarily blocking most of the water arrows. However, a few still penetrated the defense and landed on his left arm, immediately corroding the white bone beneath.
The two siblings from the Sui family stood back to back, simultaneously striking the ground with their long-handled hammers.
With a loud 'boom,' a crimson halo exploded outwards from the two of them.
Flames engulfed the water jets with a loud, frying-like explosion, and the air was filled with the stench of burning flesh.
Xiao Jin then unleashed his spatial abilities, swallowing all the water arrows aimed at him into nothingness, and took the opportunity to coordinate with Sui Ying and Sui Feng to launch an attack.
The shadow twisted and reformed in the fire, eventually shrinking back to the size of a puddle, but its color had turned into a filthy blood red.
Xiao Jin seized the opportunity and lunged into the puddle.
As her long knife plunged into the water again, the entire puddle suddenly contracted as if it were alive, swallowing the fragmented image along with her right arm.
A bone-chilling cold, accompanied by a feeling of pressure, penetrated into the body.
Xiao Jin narrowed his eyes slightly, and the crystallized armor quietly appeared on his body.
"Xiao Jin!"
Suddenly, the claws in Yunye's hand extended, and then he lunged forward, plunging his weapon into the ground.
"Let's do it together!"
As soon as they finished speaking, the weapons in their hands began to shred the ghosts below.
Purple arcs of electricity leaped and danced, interspersed with golden-red flames.
When Xiao Jin suddenly pulled his arm out, he brought with him not only a long sword, but also a black mass of flesh wrapped around hair and nails, which was now writhing wildly on the tip of the sword.
The puddle emitted a shrill cry like a baby's wail. Xiao Jin flung the chunk of meat into the air, and Yun Ye's sharp claws sliced it in two in an instant.
The black blood dripping from the chunks of flesh sizzled as it corroded the grass and trees on the ground, eventually dissipating into wisps of smoke along with the dried-up puddles.
[Ding—Congratulations to the player for successfully defeating the "Shadow Eater" and earning 4000 points]
A system notification flashed across her retina. Xiao Jin frowned and knelt down on one knee. When she looked down, she found that her right palm was covered with bluish-gray lividity, and her fingernails were turning black at a visible speed.
I glanced at the panel; it was corpse poison.
Xiao Jin took the antidote and the symptoms quickly subsided.
Meanwhile, the battle against the 'Hair Monster' was not yet over.
A crisp metallic clanging sound came from deep within the dead forest.
Sui Feng's long-handled hammer caught a clump of human-shaped hair, revealing half of a rotting man's face within the hair, but his eyes lit up.
"I've found the core!" Sui Feng roared, tearing the skin wrapped around his face from his hair.
Upon seeing this, the three players behind him simultaneously thrust their weapons into the crowd.
With a sound like shattering glass, the "hair man" exploded. Tens of thousands of strands of hair burned in the sunlight, turning into gray ashes on the ground.
Now that we've found the weakness, it's easy to solve!
The other players followed suit, and in less than five minutes, all the 'hair monsters' were wiped out.
At the same time, the last wisp of gray-white mist drifted away with the breeze, and the thick fog that shrouded the mountain road receded like the tide, revealing the lush weeds growing on the gravel road.
Xiao Jin narrowed her eyes. It was finally over!
Looking down from afar, the ancient Xing Village in the morning light is as quiet as a model, with smoke rising from the green-tiled roofs and a few villagers working in the fields.
It was as if the terrifying figure whose neck had spun 180 degrees in the funeral hall last night had nothing to do with these villagers who were carrying hoes and chatting and laughing.
"Sigh, we're almost down the mountain, and we still have to lose a player!" Feng Hao used a small wooden stick and a long spear to pry open the roadside grass, revealing fresh bloodstains underneath—the very spot where the blond player had been devoured.
“That’s how survival games are.” Sui Ying looked into the distance. “No one knows if an accident will happen to them.”
For a moment, the atmosphere around them became somewhat somber.
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