underground.
In the chaos, Xia Ning almost got separated from Greta.
A huge rock blocked their way. Just as Xia Ning managed to find a barely flat spot to stand on, Greta also crawled over, covered in dust.
"Let's go quickly."
As she spoke, she glanced at the owl perched atop Xia Ning's head.
Xia Ning caught Greta's fleeting gaze out of the corner of her eye. Almost at the same moment Greta looked away, she drew her Greatsword and slashed straight at Greta's face.
The first strike failed to kill.
Players with special abilities carry at least one [Substitute Doll] item to protect themselves from damage.
Xia Ning made a quick judgment.
Yan Xiaoqin did not remove her disguise. She narrowed her eyes and asked, "How did you discover me?"
She had used a precious stealth tool, lurking behind the two of them, seizing the opportunity to steal their place. She didn't think Xia Ning should have found a weakness so quickly in such a chaotic situation. Could it be that owls possess reconnaissance abilities? Yan Xiaoqin was certain Xia Ning was an animal tamer.
Xia Ning: Naturally, it's because Greta sees her sister as the embodiment of the gray mist and doesn't dare to look at it directly.
However, Xia Ning wouldn't tell the other party any of this. Since ancient times, villains have died from talking too much, even though she wasn't a villain.
"because……"
Xia Ning verbally agreed to distract the enemy, then directly used the skill [Ancient Awakening] and took out a [Reinforced Crossbow Bolt], using her hand as a crossbow to pierce the opponent's left chest.
Yan Xiaoqin completely lost the mood to tease her prey.
The passive health loss from the dungeon, coupled with Xia Ning's unexpected attack, caused her health to drop to 60 in an instant. The system automatically determined that her life was threatened and used up her last life-saving item.
A single life-saving item is more valuable than all the medical kits in your backpack.
Yan Xiaoqin immediately transformed into a vampire.
The younger sister stared at the female vampire with her big eyes, then suddenly let out a sharp scream.
Owl, owl, bird of ill omen.
The eerie and mournful cries echoed like ghosts from the ground.
Yan Xiaoqin was horrified to discover that her vampire skills had been suppressed.
Under the all-seeing, clear gaze of the Soul-Chasing Bird, she could not transform into a bat or a black mist to move through walls, nor could she make Xia Ning fall into a mesmerizing illusion.
In a life-or-death situation, even the slightest hesitation can be fatal.
Xia Ning, an unlicensed animal tamer, had no idea that her sister had this ability. She didn't have time to think about it. In the instant the other person was stunned, three crossbow bolts pierced her body.
Then, wielding her long sword, she swiftly severed Yan Xiaoqin's life force.
Xia Ning watched expressionlessly as blood gushed from the point where the blade met the flesh.
This is her first direct confrontation with players, and it certainly won't be the last.
She spent more than twenty days preparing mentally for this battle.
Xia Ning forced herself to keep watching, to see how she would kill another player.
She can uphold moral principles and refrain from actively killing players, but she must possess the ability to retaliate and make decisive decisions.
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On the ground.
A fog descended, and a torrential downpour began, the heavy rain tinged with blood.
The town's residents seemed to be summoned by the heavens, collectively leaving their homes and orderly arriving at the central square, standing straight on the bluestone pavement, gazing up at the sky at the same angle.
Under the red moonlight, two enormous figures were locked in combat.
Amidst flying sand and stones, buildings in the town were continuously destroyed, yet the people seemed oblivious.
Hit on the head by stones flying from the side, pierced through the chest by seemingly tangible mist... they died again and again, only to rise again and again, dragging their broken bodies in pursuit of the shadow of the sky.
The stench of blood mixed with the putrid smell of rotting corpses filled the air of the small town.
Beneath the dark rain, sweeping across the broken grasslands and collapsed walls, Aug gazed into the distance. The inky black sky was tinged with fiery red. Not far away, the corpses gradually dissolved in this strange rain, mingling with the water and merging into the earth.
He shuddered instantly, a phrase the priest had once spoken flashing through his mind—
Death is ever-present, and the world will end here.
Aug quickly turned around; he had to leave the town and find a new divine kingdom.
However, just a second before he stepped out, a scorching wave of fire swept across the land and engulfed him in an instant.
Aug would never have imagined that the priest had secretly colluded with Albert to plant explosives deep underground in the town, enough to destroy the entire town.
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Xia Ning hadn't expected this either.
She had just heard the system notification that Blood Night reduces stamina by 30 points per hour, and had just used a [Medium Medical Kit] on herself, when she heard a deafening roar.
Her [Peace Charm] -1, the tree of death before her eyes transformed into a burning tree of flames.
Who would have thought that the Misty Town would turn into a sea of fire? What was thought to be a battle royale game turned out to be a crossfire game.
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Xia Ning tried her best to escape, but to make matters worse, under the double debuff, her stamina kept dropping rapidly, and she had to keep replenishing her potions.
Upon returning to the ground, she immediately released the off-road vehicle from her spatial storage.
As soon as I sat in the driver's seat, my sister made two "cooing" sounds.
Given that her sister was a major contributor to the battle, I followed her gaze and saw Greta struggling to climb up, her body covered in blood.
At that moment, an astonishing will to survive erupted from her.
Xia Ning: "You want me to give her a ride?"
Little sister: "Gurgle~ Gurgle~"
Kill one person, save one person.
Xia Ning blinked, then stepped on the gas, stopped in front of Greta, opened the car door, and pulled her inside.
If she hadn't taken a medical kit beforehand and been in her "Gorilla 2.0" state, Xia Ning might not have been able to pull her away.
The SUV drove recklessly forward, with scorching flames burning the air behind it, almost incinerating everything.
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Greta, covered in blood, stared blankly at the fiery red night sky, the tension that had been building for so long finally snapping.
She looked at Xia Ning in the driver's seat, her face covered in hair, one hand gripping the steering wheel, the other peeling a banana, completely devoid of any mysterious aura.
Greta said, "You are not a messenger of the gray fog, but one of those strangers, aren't you?"
“Oh dear, you caught me,” Xia Ning said without looking at him. “I thought you were very devout.”
“I am very devout,” Greta said weakly. “I believe in all the gods that can keep me alive…”
Xia Ning laughed: "No, I only believe in myself. So don't say anything like 'you are my god'."
Greta murmured, "You are not my god."
“That’s right,” Xia Ning slammed on the brakes. “Get out of the car. I can only take you this far. The rest is up to your God’s will.”
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