Old Eggplant led the way and walked into the Black Forest.

The surrounding light was absorbed by the woods and became dim.

His target was the flower that had killed a player before.

According to Old Eggplant's idea, monsters near the forest are generally not too strong.

Moreover, most players are now without equipment and weapons, so if it is a normal game design, there must be a way to defeat these initial monsters, and they will not be too strong.

Even the tree guards can be killed with a level 1 shield counter by an expert. Now he has a sharp sword in his hand, so there is no reason why he can't defeat the monsters in the novice village.

Then, more than ten minutes later, Old Eggplant understood Lu Ban's malicious intentions.

The unlucky guy who was killed saw just one flower in the bush. There were at least ten more hideous-looking flowers waiting for them.

And countless wriggling thorny vines, emitting the stench of rotting corpses.

The only thing to be thankful for is that these creatures do not move, but just stay where they are, waiting for careless prey, such as Old Eggplant and others.

The battle lasted only about five minutes.

It can't even be called a fight.

With no fighting skills or magic, Old Eggplant could only rely on the stick skills he inherited from his parents' mixed doubles team when he was in elementary school. Even if he had a laser sword in his hand, he might not be able to eliminate so many monsters.

A moment later, Old Eggplant and a group of players he led climbed out of the mud.

"Fuck, this is too damn hard to fight, is this a fight between a human and a human?"

"Is this a monster from the Novice Village? I play the game a lot, don't lie to me."

"Lu Ban, have you learned bad things? You've started to do things like putting the boss next to the spawn point. Are you still human?"

"It feels so good, so exciting. I think my heart rate may have exceeded 200 just now!"

"How can we fight without any skills? Should we find someone who has practiced martial arts in real life to help us fight?"

The players were talking about it, but Old Eggplant discovered a serious problem.

"Family, where is my sword?"

"Your sword is my sword?"

"No, where did my huge sword go?"

Old Eggplant hurriedly searched around him, but found no trace of the sword.

"Could it be... this game has death drops?"

His heart skipped a beat.

Sneaking together with other players towards the place where they had just died, Old Eggplant suddenly saw that the long sword with brilliant silver light had fallen into the flowers and was entangled by a bunch of vines.

"Shit, it really is a death drop!"

In ancient online games, it was very common to drop equipment upon death. At that time, players not only farmed but also PKed with other players. After killing the opponent, they could pick up the equipment dropped by the opponent. This made PK very fun, and the big guys would continue to spend money and use various means to strengthen themselves and prevent themselves from being killed.

However, such a setting was too frustrating for players, so it was gradually cancelled in subsequent games, and even a pickup-binding setting was developed later, making it impossible for equipment to circulate.

Of course, there are also some online games that implement the law of the jungle and attach great importance to death penalties. It's not just one or two pieces of equipment that will drop, but even your skill level and all the money on you will drop. It's a huge loss if you die once.

I didn't expect [Cage] to be so hardcore?

Old Eggplant suddenly felt that the difficulty of this game had increased.

Fortunately, this game doesn't seem to have an experience value setting. The penalty for death is pain, in addition to losing all your equipment. However, under the normal immersive experience of [Morning Star], this pain is still bearable, even for some guys with special fetishes.

"Listen to me. If we want to kill these monsters now, we have to get the weapons. The weapons have already fallen into the monster pile. So, we should send some people to attract the monsters' attention, and others to retrieve the weapons. I just checked, and besides the sword, there is also some metal. It may be the equipment of the explorer who died here before."

He analyzed that under normal circumstances, this action is very dangerous and one can lose one's life if one is not careful.

But this is a game, and when the only penalty for death is equipment drop, players without any equipment are simply like those barefoot who are not afraid of those wearing shoes, and they are all very brave.

"no problem."

Everyone expressed their agreement with Lao Qiezi's idea.

After all, there seemed to be a lot of treasures in the flowers, so I just picked up one and gave it away.

"Everyone, the rise and fall of the Kingdom of Night depends on this one move. I hope you can all work together. I'm going to do it!"

Old Eggplant said this, and then he and the players rushed into the flowers again.

A few minutes later, a hand stretched out from the mud.

Old Eggplant crawled out, gasping for breath.

"Fuck, I can't beat him."

They obviously underestimated the strength of those monsters. Not to mention using a few people as bait to attract attention, one flower of those monsters was more than enough to deal with ten people. All their strategies were futile in the face of absolute power.

"Wait, I just lived for a minute. I feel like I've become powerful."

"Just luck, eh?"

"No, I also noticed that I can see the movements of the vines clearly. Is this growth?"

"Is this true? Why do I feel like I was killed instantly?"

"Again?"

The players rushed into the flowers again.

After a while, Old Eggplant crawled out of the mud again.

“It’s a bit difficult.”

He concluded.

"But I was almost getting the sword just now. There's nothing wrong with our lineup. It's just the operation that made a mistake. Let's try again!"

Until the evening, Old Eggplant still couldn't get the sword back.

He came to the flowers.

Every flower here had killed him before. Coming here, he felt as familiar as returning home.

He looked at the other players and knew clearly that everyone had reached their limit.

Just like a BOSS, normally it would take players dozens of minutes or an hour to get stuck, which was already very long. But this one was stuck for the entire afternoon, with various ways of dying, which made everyone feel exhausted and some of them began to want to back out.

"Let's try it one last time. If it doesn't work, we'll just go back to picking up branches or helping to farm to save money."

Old Eggplant encouraged.

Everyone cheered up.

After all, I have spent so much time here. It would be a big loss if I give up.

Moreover, players gradually developed their reaction speed through repeated deaths, and summarized some rules of these monsters' attack modes.

If ordinary games provide feedback from the character's numerical growth, then this game provides feedback from the player's own growth.

Old Eggplant even felt that if he took off his helmet and returned to the real world, his brain would probably remember these experiences, which would make his reactions even better.

"Let's go!"

Old Eggplant led the players towards the flowers.