With the help of Spade's whip, Bai Liu and his companions successfully passed through the fog without encountering any monsters.

But after they passed through the fog, the scene they saw was completely different from before. The rainforest, which was originally full of towering trees, was now filled with gray fog. Trees were burning in a large area, and ashes from the burning flames were floating everywhere in the air. The sky was so gray that only a faint light could be seen, making it impossible to distinguish between day and night.

A strong, pungent smell of gunpowder explosion hit my face, and the bitter taste of carbon could be tasted the moment I opened my mouth.

Tang Erda coughed twice and covered his mouth and nose, saying, "What happened in this war world during the more than one hour we were away?"

"The speed of time in the war world is different from that outside." Bai Liu looked around. "The timeline here fast-forwarded to the end of the war after we left."

Liu Jiayi waved her hand at the tip of her nose and looked up at Bai Liu: "——Is it the node that Iliana mentioned, where everyone died after the explosion?"

"Usually, at this point, an excellent horror game will have some very exciting climaxes." Bai Liu looked at the misty rainforest, "For example, a large-scale chase."

Tang Er was stunned: "Why is there a chase? Isn't everyone at this node dead and about to enter the next seven-day reincarnation?"

Liu Jiayi took out the poison from behind her waist, took two steps back cautiously, and narrowed her eyes slightly: "It is precisely because these people are dead that this is the most dangerous place before entering the next seven-day reincarnation."

Bai Liu stared at the rain forest that looked like something was about to emerge: "Because this means that, except for us players, this war dungeon map is full of monsters and the living dead."

Tang Erda also became alert. He paused before drawing his gun and subconsciously turned his head to look at Hei Tao who had been standing silently beside him.

Hei Tao looked at Tang Erda silently, his hand on the whip handle behind his waist. His fingers seemed to be ready to move, as if he still wanted to stop Tang Erda from drawing his gun.

Tang Erda: "..."

As if sensing the silent confrontation behind him, Bai Liu turned around and glanced at Hei Tao casually.

Hei Tao froze for an inexplicable moment, then silently turned the whip handle that was aimed at Tang Er.

Tang Er heaved a sigh of relief, then dared to pull out his gun and aim at the gray mist rain forest that kept shaking, as if something was about to emerge from it.

But the rain forest just trembled, nothing came out, and the only sound was the crackling of burning leaves and branches.

Just as Tang Erda was looking at Bai Liu in confusion, Hei Tao suddenly swung a whip from Bai Liu's side and smashed it hard into the ground, causing the ground to cave in and split open.

The dirt flew to both sides along the lines on the ground. Not only dirt but also several fingers were splashed out. Tang Er looked at the ground from the lines created by the spade and his expression froze.

The patterns under the ground were buried with countless shattered limbs covered in blood and gunpowder that had been blown to pieces - half a head, a hand with exposed wrist bones, a twisted waist, all of which were looking at Bai Liu and the others with their broken ends like eyes.

These fragments that could not be pieced together into a human body were squirming densely in the soil, as if they had smelled prey and were hiding underground and approaching.

Countless burnt hands suddenly emerged from the mud under Bai Liu's feet, grabbed his wrists and dragged him down. Tang Erda shot at the limbs without hesitation and accurately opened a big hole in the center of the palm.

But it didn't help, the things kept twisting and dragging.

"The attack is ineffective." The captured Bai Liu analyzed calmly, "These shattered limbs are already in a state of living dead. They can't be killed. We have to find their weaknesses."

Hei Tao swung his whip and caught the zombie's hand, trying to pull it off Bai Liu's foot, but he only pulled it once and quickly stopped, then slowly raised his head to look at Bai Liu.

Bai Liu looked back at him calmly: "It can't be pulled off."

Liu Jiayi suddenly lowered her head to look at Bai Liu's ankle. She squatted down and wanted to take a closer look, but was stopped by Bai Liu.

Bai Liu lowered his eyes and looked at the several broken limbs on his feet: "These things are grown together with me, and I can't tear them off."

"Growing up together?!" Tang Er lowered his head in shock.

The dark blue fingers on Bai Liu's ankle pinched into the ankle, half of the knuckles sank into it, and the skin was perfectly glued together, as if a hand had suddenly grown from Bai Liu's ankle. At the same time, half of the knuckles at the end of Bai Liu's left hand also turned dark blue.

"This monster's attack method is called [Fusion of Life and Death]. As long as the corpses touch the player, they will become part of the player's body." Bai Liu raised his head, "When I am attacked by all the corpses of a person's body parts, these corpses will completely merge into my body, turning me into a living dead."

As soon as he finished speaking, the hand on Bai Liu's foot disappeared, and his entire left hand turned blue-black and hung motionlessly at his side.

The corpses kept approaching, but they all seemed to have a target in mind, passing over other people and rushing straight towards Bai Liu.

Tang Er knocked several corpses flying. Liu Jiayi used poison to draw a circle. Hei Tao used a whip to sweep out a clean area in the circle. He looked straight at Bai Liu: "What did you do? Why did these corpses only attack you?"

Bai Liu shrugged: "Maybe it's because I'm the player with the lowest overall panel rating here? Do they think I'm easy to bully?"

Spade retorted without hesitation: "You are lying."

"Don't worry about what Bai Liu did for now!" Liu Jiayi interrupted Heitao's questioning, "These things are indestructible. If we keep wasting time here, we will all be completely turned into corpses. Don't let Bai Liu touch the ground, carry Bai Liu on your back and go first!"

As soon as Liu Jiayi finished speaking, Tang Erda and Heitao, who were standing on the left and right of Bai Liu, almost simultaneously attacked to grab Bai Liu, who was standing in the middle.

Both of them were a head taller than Bai Liu. If they grabbed Bai Liu's shoulders from the left and right and pulled her up at the same time, there would only be one result -

——Bai Liu's feet left the ground and he was suspended in the air like a primary school student, his feet swung left and right in the air twice.

Spade: "You're so short, Bai Liu."

Liu Jiayi: “!!!”

Tang Erda: "!!!"

It's over, Bai Liu will definitely be angry!

Bai Liu slowly raised her head and smiled at Hei Tao: "Really?"

On the way to escape, Tang Erda lowered his head and covered his mouth, not daring to look up. He looked around and swept the nearby corpses on the ground. Liu Jiayi took a deep breath, held back the twitch of her mouth, turned her face away professionally, and used poison to disperse the corpses following behind.

Liu Jiayi approached Tang Erda and whispered, "Did you take a picture?"

Tang Erda said in embarrassment: "It's not very good..."

Liu Jiayi rolled her eyes: "Don't you think it's funny?"

Tang Erda tried his best to be serious: "Fortunately, I have received strict training and will not easily laugh at the tactician of my team..."

Spade took the lead and used his whip to smash the ground and clear the corpses in front of him.

Bai Liu spread her legs and rode on Hei Tao's shoulders, while Hei Tao carried Bai Liu and staggered forward.

"Am I still short now?" Bai Liu asked Hei Tao slowly.

Spade paused: "No, you are very tall."

——Riding on someone else's shoulders to increase your height is really childish, especially when it is done by Bai Liu, who never shows his happiness.

This is so funny!

Tang Erda, who was behind him, finally couldn't help laughing.

Liu Jiayi was speechless and said, "Unless you really can't help it, right?"

The Spade in front of him quickly cleaned up the approaching corpse. After a long while, he asked Bai Liu: "Are you angry because you are not tall?"

Bai Liu was silent for a second, and said indifferently: "No, I won't care about such a small matter."

Spade took a deep breath, swung the whip, wrapped it around the trunk of a big tree nearby, and pulled it up suddenly. Spade and the white willow on his body were pulled upwards by the whip.

He stepped lightly on the tree trunk, used the momentum to swing the whip and wrap it around the trunk of another taller tree. At the same time, with a clear eye, he knocked down several corpses that fell from the shaking tree trunk.

After several jumps back and forth, Spade jumped smoothly to the top of the tallest tree in the rainforest, overlooking the entire rainforest.

Bai Liu swayed a bit before steadying herself sitting on Hei Tao.

Hei Tao's chest rose and fell slightly, and his voice was very serious: "Now you are the tallest person in the world."

Bai Liu's expression slightly changed. Just as he was about to speak, he heard Hei Tao continue to speak calmly: "——We can use these external things to make up for our innate deficiencies. Bai Liu, don't be angry with yourself for your physical deficiencies."

"It's not your fault that you're so short." Spade said word by word.

Bai Liu: “…”

Bai Liu let out a long breath slowly and whispered a few words quickly.

Heitao seemed to understand what was said: "Bai Liu, what are you talking about?"

Bai Liu said calmly, "I am reciting an ancient doggerel poem that has been handed down to this day."

Spade: "What kind of doggerel is that?"

Bai Liu smiled: "Don't Get Angry."

Spade slowly said: "? Why do you want to read this?"

"Because it can repair the decline in my mental state caused by my emotional fluctuations." Bai Liu said.

Spade nodded.

He understood that this was a poem of spiritual bleaching, and he would learn it if he had the chance in the future.

But the priority is something else.

Hei Tao carried Bai Liu here, on the one hand to comfort Bai Liu for the emotional damage caused by his short height (...), and on the other hand to see what changes had taken place in the entire rainforest map.

The originally lush green rainforest scene turned into a gray-black color. There were huge craters everywhere on the ground. Cracks kept appearing on the ground, and broken limbs kept crawling out of the cracks, approaching the big tree where Bai Liu was. From a bird's-eye view, it looked dense and black, like a bunch of ants looking for nests and food.

The closer Bai Liu got to the town, the source of the explosion, the more broken body parts he saw, and the closer he got to the lake, the more intact bodies he saw.

These intact corpses were gathered in a place on the other side of the lake, seemingly jumping and cheering around something, with their limbs and heads swinging wildly as if they were about to be thrown off at any second.

Bai Liu narrowed his eyes, took out a telescope from the props and looked over. He adjusted the focus and finally saw clearly what was in the middle of the group of corpses.

A pieced-together sculpture of an evil god, five wooden stakes, and five people being tied to the stakes.

There was a pile of black stuff under the five people tied to the stakes. It looked like firewood, but Bai Liu looked carefully for a while and found that the pile of black stuff was moving.

Bai Liu stared at it for a while and finally confirmed that the pile of things was not firewood at all, but broken arms and calves that had been blown as dry as the firewood.

These charcoal-black, dry limbs were piled like wood under five wooden stakes, with a bucket of red paint next to each stake. Surrounding the five stakes were six "firewood" piles - piles of limbs.

These fragments were constantly moving, struggling, trying to climb onto the person on the woodpile, but they were stepped on again and again by the dancing corpses. Every time they stepped on them, red paint was poured on these firewood-like fragments.

——This is clearly a bizarre human sacrifice ritual in progress.

Bai Liu further adjusted the focus, trying to see clearly who the five people tied to the wooden stakes for sacrifice to the evil god were, and then he raised his eyebrows subtly.

"Spades, I saw your four teammates being tied up by monsters."

Spade nodded without any reaction, indicating that he understood, and then asked: "I saw five stakes, and who is the one tied to it?"

"It's someone we never expected." Bai Liu smiled, "It's Alex."

The author has something to say:

It's like this, let me tell you a secret, 6 is 176cm tall, the shortest person in the whole story except Liu Jiayi and Phoebe ()

6 Smile, draw your gun and aim: Only the dead can keep this secret for me