Chapter 287: White Orchid Rain Festival (Seventy)
At the moment when the system prompt sounded, the Bai Lan City built by the evil god began to collapse layer by layer from the stamens to the petals like a withered white orchid. Black air flowed everywhere and was absorbed little by little by the nearby thorns, and soon dissipated in the world created by the evil god.
The moment the system sound rang, Nan Huan took the lead in putting his arm around Bei Xi's waist. Seeing this, President Barbie also stepped forward to help.
The moment the familiar feeling of dizziness came, several people breathed a sigh of relief at the same time, although they didn't know what the system was doing, nor did they know what this prompt meant.
But judging from the current situation, it seems that they can temporarily escape from the current stalemate, and leave the evil god's thorn bushes and evacuate from the opponent's base camp. This is enough for them to regain some ideas of fighting against the evil god. After all, they still have a large army left in the real world of the copy.
However, this thought only lasted for a few seconds before Nan Huan realized something was wrong, because she found that her body began to stiffen and something was stuffed into her arms without any explanation.
Perhaps other people had the same feeling, but this was not a good time to communicate. Fortunately, the operation of the system did not last too long, only a few minutes in total, and they felt that the dizziness disappeared, and was replaced by their feet standing on solid ground. At the same time, there was a burst of noise.
"What's going on? Weren't we still in the cocoon just now? And now we're out?"
"Oh my god, why can't I move? What the hell is this?"
"Why are you here all of a sudden? Is this an illusion?"
"Did you get kicked in the head by a donkey? Could it be a collective hallucination? Just now, each of us had our own cocoon. If there was a hallucination, it should be each person alone, not all of us gathered together?"
"Besides, didn't you just hear the system notification sound? It said something like 'Because the game process was forced to move forward, the dungeon timeline was directly fast-forwarded to the final sacrifice - the Bai Lanyu Festival', and look at where we are now?"
"Someone must have triggered something in the cocoon just now, which led to this result?"
"Who has such great ability?"
"I'm definitely not from our side. If you don't believe me, look at the Gambler Guild President and Miaojiang Guild President. They both look confused. Who else could it be? And look at why the president is lying on the ground?"
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The bustling noise made Nan Huan unable to react for a moment. The last time she remembered so many players gathered together was when they went to ask Manager Liu for clues. Then they were pulled into the cocoon. Later, because of the intervention of the wood carving, she saw the Dragon God and triggered the mission of The Evil God's Thorn Bush.
However, the mission was not smooth, because for some unknown reason, the evil god suddenly changed his attitude. He had raised the residents of Bailan City for so many years in order to take advantage of their malice, but in the end, he went against the system's wishes and completely eliminated these people. Therefore, the system had to step in and speed up the game process to ensure that the game could continue.
"Miss, Miss?"
The shouting beside her brought Nan Huan back to her senses from her analysis. She turned her head and found that Shijiu and Lingyue were not far away from her. They were looking at her with worry on their faces. They seemed to be anxious because they couldn't move and got no response when they called her.
"I'm fine," she responded, and habitually wanted to reach out her hand, but found that she couldn't move. Besides, she was holding a pot of flowers in her hand. Whether in terms of growth, the color of the petals, or the growth of the branches and leaves, it was very close to the small pot of white orchid that she was assigned. Then she followed the two people's gaze and saw Bei Xi who was placed on the ground. There was also a white orchid belonging to him beside him. "The president is fine for the time being, just temporarily unconscious..."
Nineteen and Lingyue were completely confused and had no idea what was going on. They were still in the cocoon a second ago, and then after hearing the system prompt, they were immediately teleported here. They were really scared when they saw the leader lying on the ground. However, the eldest lady had just given the beginning of her explanation when she was drowned out by other voices.
"Look, what's that on the altar?"
There are a total of forty people in this guild league. These forty people are the best in this game in any aspect. They are also the most powerful people in each guild. They have entered countless dungeons and killed enemies whose bodies can be piled up like a "mountain of corpses and sea of blood". However, no player has ever been seen in such a panic.
After all, the situation happened rather suddenly, and everyone had just opened their eyes and was still trying to figure out what was going on, so most of them basically had no time to observe where they were.
But there were still some players in the crowd who were accustomed to observing the environment, and then they sadly discovered that they seemed to be at a sacrificial site, and when they glanced at the altar, they were almost scared to death.
Because on the altar, two guys who could hardly be called normal people or normal NPCs appeared at some point. Near the left side was a mass of black gas that looked like a small tornado. Occasionally, two eyes like black holes could be seen wrapped in the black gas. Just looking at each other made the viewer shiver.
The player who spoke rashly was frightened when he saw this just now.
Compared to the situation on the left, the suspected NPC on the right is obviously in a slightly better condition. After all, in terms of appearance, it has already won a lot, so that even if its shadow is blurry, many players can still easily judge from its shape that this seems to be the Dragon God in the task description.
Isn't their mission to successfully hold the Rain Festival and allow the Dragon God to descend again?
What is the situation now? The selection of the Saint has not yet come to a conclusion, but the Dragon God has appeared first.
I don’t know if it was a psychological effect or the Dragon God’s body complaining, but all the players who saw this scene felt that the Dragon God was in poor condition. After all, its body appeared on the altar like a virtual projection shadow, and it was a little blurry.
"Miss, what's going on?" President Alice on the other side tried several times and found that she really couldn't move. She gave up and forgot about the mess. As a result, this glance almost scared her to death, "Why are the evil gods and dragon gods here too?"
The breath of relief she had just let out was forced to be lifted up again. She originally thought that the system was going to do something weird again and wanted to restrict their actions, but now it seems that this was not restricting their actions at all, but treating them as living targets. After all, they couldn't move now, and the evil god was on the altar.
Although some of the players on their side did not follow the eldest lady and the other guild leaders into the thorn bush of the evil god, under this circumstance, there were not many people who were guessed. In addition, the question raised by President Alice made it a foregone conclusion.
Naturally, they also wanted to take the initiative to attack, but unfortunately, everyone was like a puppet. They could only stand under the altar holding a pot of flowers and staring at the so-called evil god above, fearing that the other party would make a move. They could only watch helplessly.
Nan Huan's aura was relatively stable. After observing silently for a while, she opened the encrypted communication channel of their alliance.
"Don't panic, everyone. If the evil god wants to take action, he won't give us so much time to react."
In fact, when the players who had not entered the Evil God's Thorn Bush saw the captain fall into a coma, they were a little worried. After all, he was the number one player in the game. Now that he was in this state, did they still have a chance to leave here alive?
Although they had been through many battles, they still couldn't help feeling scared when they saw this scene, and the panic effect of the crowd would exacerbate the spread of this fear. However, after hearing what the eldest lady said, everyone felt a little more at ease.
The other party's words seemed to have some kind of magic, which made all the players in the alliance calm down.
"So what should we do now? What does the system want to do? Why can't we move?"
The Red Princess frowned her thin willow-shaped eyebrows. She didn't like the feeling of being bound, which usually meant that she could not do anything. Even if the evil god could not attack them for some reason now, they were still very passive.
"The system's prompt just now has already explained that the game process has been advanced to the final Bai Lanyu Festival." Nan Huan narrowed his eyes, looked at the location of the altar again, and then slowly spoke of his speculation, "You should not have forgotten our main mission this time, right?"
"The evil god broke a certain balance in our previous mission, so the system had to appear and try to create a fair situation for us. We have to complete the White Orchid Rain Festival and pray for the Dragon God to come and let the white orchid bloom again on this land."
The main quest of this dungeon was announced shortly after entering the dungeon, which shocked other players for a while. However, as time went by, this point was selectively forgotten by many people. It’s not that the main quest is not important, but that everyone has a scale in their hearts to measure the order of priority.
They were used to breaking down the tasks into smaller parts, and the housekeeper had always instilled in them an idea that only by becoming a saint could they participate in the Bai Lan Yu Festival, so they naturally focused here, and the subsequent process of participating in the Bai Lan Yu Festival was naturally not considered a priority. So now the game was suddenly accelerated to this point, and no one could react.
"But if we just want to complete the Bailan Rain Festival, I don't quite understand why the evil god would appear here. She won't have any effect on the subsequent process. And if only the faith of the Bailan City residents can make the Dragon God descend again, then don't we have no hope at all?"
The Red Pink President still didn't quite understand. "Just now in the evil god's thorn bush, weren't the consciousness of those Bailan City residents killed by the evil god? Now the residents wandering in Bailan City wearing human skin are all pythons transformed by the evil god using black energy, aren't they?"
She tried to sort out a clue from this, but after saying a few words, she felt that nothing made sense. She wanted to grab her hair in frustration, but when she realized that she couldn't move at all, she became even more frustrated.
Yes, what President Hongfen said was not wrong, because the system advanced the progress of the game, causing their focus in this copy to be completely wrong. After all, they had always believed that in this main quest, becoming a saint was the key to the Bai Lan Yu Festival, and their understanding of the Bai Lan Yu Festival was only that as long as they became a saint, the Bai Lan Yu Festival would be as natural as eating and drinking, and there would be no trouble.
But now that the game has progressed and fast-forwarded to the finale, everyone suddenly realized that the Bai Lan Yu Festival was the core of the mission, as if the direction they had been working in was wrong.
Nan Huan always felt that she seemed to have overlooked something important, but she couldn't remember it for a moment. However, she was sure of one thing, "The arrival of the Dragon God should not rely solely on the residents of Bailan City. Otherwise, our current situation would be a dead end. The system has finally used this form to create a fair situation between us and the evil god. It cannot be a dead end..."
Wait? Fair?
She finally realized something was wrong.
On the other side, the Gambler's Guild President and the Miaojiang Guild President were also confused about the current situation, but they did not seem to be very afraid of the panic of others. After all, the two of them had experienced the situation of standing on the side of the evil god in the mission. Although the mission was not successful, the spirit of cooperation was still there.
The Gambler's Guild President's mind worked quickly, and he soon realized that this was a perfect opportunity for the Evil God to completely get rid of the Guild President and the Young Lady, but the other party was slow to act, or was unable to act for some reason.
No matter what happened before, the two sides now seem to have reached a delicate balance to some extent. On the altar there is the Dragon God who needs to descend for the normal main quest, as well as the Evil God.
When the Gambler's Guild President thought of this, he suddenly raised his head, as if he understood something, but then a trace of doubt flashed across his face. He didn't quite understand. If his guess was correct, how could this be achieved?
After all, they can't move now, and the Evil God and the Dragon God don't seem to dare to act rashly. So how can they break the current balance?
Miao Jiang's brain wasn't as quick as the Gambler's, but she seemed to be able to feel a rough edge. Just when she was about to continue expanding on this line of thought, she suddenly felt that the intense burning sensation on her arm, which had disappeared last time, suddenly began to intensify.
It is like the seeds that have been buried in the body for a long time, finally after a long winter, begin to grow at a speed that is difficult for humans to understand, and the blood in the body is the nourishment for the growth of the seeds.
This burning sensation began to spread along the blood vessels to the limbs and bones. The blood vessels were forced to expand, and the blood flowed at the maximum rate in his body. Miao Jiang seemed to be able to hear the sound of the blood vessels in his body, like a rushing river, as if it was in a hurry to rush in a certain direction, one after another, out of his control.
She couldn't help but scream out in pain. If the system hadn't prevented them from moving, President Miao Jiang would have definitely fallen to the ground in an instant. She could hardly make any other sound except the sound of pain. Her body was extremely convulsed, and she was forced to appear in various distorted forms.
"Look, is there something wrong with the Miaojiang president?"
Her reaction was so big that the people around her seemed to notice it quickly. Doll had been calling the other party on the communication channel for a while, but seeing that it was of no use, she had already abandoned the confidential communication channel, "President, President, what's wrong with you?"
As everyone's attention was focused, they watched as President Miao Jiang, who was fine just a few minutes ago, suddenly seemed to have been hurt. His face wrinkled in pain, and even his body began to tremble uncontrollably. If the system hadn't made everyone stand and unable to move, I believe he would have rolled on the ground long ago.
But she had no external injuries, and the players hadn't seen her get injured before, nor did she seem to have any hidden illness. After all, when she first appeared here, she was fine. Why did she suddenly become like this?
When they thought of this, everyone became alert in their surroundings. However, apart from the two NPCs on the altar, the remaining players were unable to move, let alone launch any hidden skill attacks. In this situation, there was no condition for them to hurt anyone.
The condition of President Miao Jiang was even worse than before. Not only did she not respond to the doll's cries, but red blood began to spread on her skin. As it continued to overlap, it began to turn purple, and then completely black. At first, everyone thought that her skin had come into contact with something, but after careful observation, they found that it was her blood vessels. Her blood vessels were expanding little by little from the inside, and soon her body could no longer bear it and was slowly bursting.
At the same time, a sharp-eyed player caught a glimpse of the pot of white jasmine in her arms, which was growing the best. For some unknown reason, it withered in an instant. The strange color seemed to have lost its color in an instant. It only took a short moment for it to go from blooming to withering, as if its energy had been absorbed by something.
President Miao Jiang's skin had been stretched by the swollen blood vessels, but the strange thing was that apart from some horrifying muscle tissue, not much blood had flowed out, and the blood vessels were shriveled, as if they had been absorbed by something.
The players who were nearby couldn't help but gasp. This scene was too bizarre and didn't seem like a normal sudden death.
If President Miao Jiang could move now, she might ask the people around her to give her a quick death, but unfortunately, neither she nor others can do anything.
Just when everyone thought that President Miao Jiang might not be able to hold on, tiny sprouts popped out from his shriveled blood vessels.
Yes, the players who were close to it thought they were dazzled, but the emerald green buds were indeed very conspicuous against the red and purple skin, and there was no possibility of them being mistaken.
Especially this tender sprout, which is taking root and sprouting at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Yes, in full view of everyone, a black orchid was seen sprouting from the body of President Miaojiang.
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