When Liu Shou and the others came in, they saw Cao Tengjin looking at them with a nervous expression.
He was all too familiar with that expression. When he was a kid, he would get into trouble and his parents would come home with that same look on their faces.
"What happened?" he asked in a deep voice.
Cao Tengjin glanced awkwardly to the side, "The stone... the stone is gone."
He had expected to be met with Cao Tengjin's fury after saying that, but to his surprise, Cao Tengjin merely glanced at him indifferently and said, "Okay, I understand."
After saying that, he paused for a while and then asked, "How did you lose it?"
Cao Tengjin thought of several excuses, but when it came to the last word, he told the truth: "I was chatting with some of my men next to the rock, and then somehow the rock just disappeared into thin air. We don't know where it went. We've searched the whole camp, but we haven't seen it."
He regretted it as soon as he said it.
Isn't this just handing over your head and waiting for Liu Shou to wield his knife?
However, to his surprise, Liu Shou calmly nodded and said, "Alright, I understand. You can go now."
Cao Tengjin even pondered in his mind several times where this "going out" meant.
A quick glance out of the corner of his eye revealed that Liu Shou showed no signs of anger, so he slowly retreated to the side.
Cheng Cheng and the others exchanged glances with Liu Shou, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
They were just wondering what to do with the pebble, and losing it was exactly what they wanted.
However, their relief was short-lived, as an alarm suddenly sounded at the camp gate.
A subordinate rushed in to report: "Something terrible has happened! There are so many charred corpses outside!"
Liu Shou and the others' expressions changed slightly, and they hurriedly took the medicine and went out.
"What's wrong with Luo Jiao Shi? Why did he suddenly send people to attack us? Does he think the stone has already worked and is coming to finish us off?"
The group strode out.
Mr. Luo personally led the team. When he saw the group, he greeted them warmly, saying, "It's been a few days. It seems you're doing well, and you haven't lost any limbs or anything."
Liu Shou sneered, ignoring his words, and instead asked, "What are you doing here? Do you think the losses last time weren't heavy enough?"
Mr. Luo shook his head and looked towards the interior of their camp. "I lost a crystal, and everyone in the chat says it's in your hands. I've come to ask if you can return it to me?"
Upon hearing this, Liu Shou and the others looked very displeased.
Want the crystal back?
But not only did the crystal turn into stone, they can't even produce the stone now.
He even suspected that this so-called "crystal" was actually a pretext created by Luo Jiao Shi to launch an attack on them!
Thinking of this, he snorted, "Whether it's crystal or not, you know it in your heart. As for where the crystal is now, you should also know!"
Upon hearing this, a hint of doubt flashed in Mr. Luo's eyes, "Not crystal?"
"If you don't want to pay it back, just say so. Don't make up these ridiculous excuses."
He stopped wasting words with the people from Tengyun Pavilion and directly ordered the army of charred corpses behind him to attack, saying, "Whether you return it or not, once you're gone, the item will naturally fall into my hands."
Faced with such a menacing horde of charred corpses, Liu Shou's side was almost completely unprepared. Left with no other choice, they had to bring in the people who had been appointed to the Investiture of the Gods to take their place.
They, meanwhile, moved among them, seizing every opportunity to spray the charred corpses with medicine.
Yun Jian hadn't gone far. They had intended to leave, but after only a short while, they encountered a massive army of charred corpses. She instinctively felt that Luo Jiao Shi was up to something, so she simply turned back to see if she could "contribute" to the cause.
Sure enough, the two sides started fighting after exchanging only a few words.
Bai Yu said gloatingly, "Fortunately, Tengyun Pavilion has attracted most of Luo Jiao Shi's attention, otherwise we would be facing such a predicament now."
Yun rolled her eyes at him and glanced at his hands.
"Even if he's busy dealing with Tengyun Pavilion now, do you think he'll let us go later? He just hasn't had time to deal with us yet."
Seeing them fight, Yun felt a little itchy to join in.
After thinking for a moment, she opened the system and sent a message to Jiang Zifan, "Luo Jiao Shi and Feng Shen have started fighting, almost all of them have come out. Why don't you bring Xiao Shizi over and collect some Jiao Shi to prepare for what's to come?"
She swore that she only wanted to cause a little trouble when she sent Jiang Zifan that message.
but……
She hadn't expected that Jiang Zifan would bring all the members of the Dark Gang with him!
When Fengshen saw the Dark Gang members appear, his heart sank even further.
Regardless of whether the other party was friend or foe, Liu Shouze directly greeted them, "Seeing that you are also a major force on the grasslands, it's perfect that you've come to help. Otherwise, once we are wiped out by the charred corpses, you will be next. If we can't hold on, this grassland will eventually belong to the charred corpses!"
Luo Jiao Shi didn't care which side the other party was on; as long as the other party was human, they were destined to stand on the opposite side.
Without even exchanging glances, he used a portion of the charred corpses to deal with Jiang Zifan.
Jiang Zifan was angered by this move. Without caring about anything else, he flipped his hand, took out a small stone, and in a few moves, he collected the charred corpses that surrounded him.
Then he took out a second and a third pebble.
Not long after, Yun Jian received a private message from Jiang Zifan: "Quick, do you have any more pebbles? Give them to me first, put it on my tab, and I'll settle the accounts after this battle is over."
Yun Jian hadn't entered the battle yet. Although Jiang Zifan bought a lot of stones last time, he distributed them all to the Dark Gang members, and he didn't have much left in his own possession.
She immediately called out to Bai Yu and Xiao Zhen, asking them to cover for her while she focused on copying the pebbles.
Because of the constant supply of pebbles, Jiang Zifan could simply collect any charred corpses that dared to approach without even glancing at them. Over time, he managed to hold his own.
The potions from Tengyun Pavilion were also quite good; they were spread over the charred corpses that approached, and Mr. Luo's charred corpses were unable to subdue these people.
As time went on, the battle gradually reached a stalemate.
Mr. Luo can't do anything to the people from Tengyun Pavilion and the Dark Gang, and the people from the Dark Gang and Tengyun Pavilion can't do anything to Mr. Luo either.
Both sides have reached a bottleneck.
There is an urgent need for a third party to break this balance.
The person who was enshrined as a god was the first to call for reinforcements in the public chat: "We are currently evenly matched with the charred corpse. If someone comes to our aid, we might be able to completely annihilate the charred corpse and restore peace to the grassland. This is an opportunity that must not be missed. If we miss this chance, there may be no place for us to survive on this grassland."
These past few days, everyone has been driven mad by the charred corpses, and their hearts have accumulated a lot of resentment.
Upon seeing this message, a hot-blooded individual immediately responded in the public chat, "I'll take it! I'm fed up with dodging charred corpses every day. If I win, I'll no longer be bothered by charred corpses; if I lose, I'll be dead, so who cares about charred corpses!"
Once there was a first one, there was a second, a third...
The fighting spirit in the public chat gradually rose.
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