Chapter 301: Dense Forest Borderland

With the help of Spades' whip, Bai Liu and his team made it through the fog without encountering any monsters.

But after they crossed the fog, the scene in front of their eyes is completely different from before, originally everywhere is the rainforest trees filled with gray fog, a wide range of trees are burning, the air is scattered everywhere in the ashes after the fire, the sky is so gray that can only vaguely translucent light, indistinguishable from day and night.

A strong, pungent odor of exploding gunpowder hit his face, and he could taste the bitterness of carbon the moment he opened his mouth.

Tang Er Fight choked and coughed twice, covering his mouth and nose, "What happened to this war world in the hour or so we were out?"

"Time flows differently between the war world and the outside." Bai Liu looked around the room. "The timeline here fast-forwarded to the end of the Great War after we left."

Liu Jiayi waved her hand at the tip of her nose while looking up at Bai Liu: "--is that the node Elena was talking about, the one where everyone died after the explosion?"

"Usually, at such points, a great horror game will design some very exciting climactic plot." Bai Liu looked toward the foggy rainforest, "like a big chase."

Tang Er struck a blank stare, "How can there be a chase? Isn't this node where everyone is dead and about to enter the next seven-day cycle?"

Liu Jiayi removed the poison from the back of his waist and took two steps back vigilantly, his eyes narrowing slightly, "It is precisely because all of these people are dead that this is the most dangerous place to be until we enter the next seven-day cycle."

Bai Liu looked straight at the rainforest that seemed like something was about to come out, "Because it means that, apart from us players, this War Replica map is full of monsters living dead."

Tang Er fights also alert, he pauses before drawing his gun, and subconsciously glances back at Spades, who has been silent all the way at the side.

Spades silently looked at Tang Er fight, hand on the whip handle behind his waist, fingers seemed to be a little stupid, as if he still wanted to stop Tang Er fight to pull the gun.

Tang Er typed: "......"

As if sensing the silent exchange of words behind him, Bai Liu glanced back at Spades in a casual glance.

Spades inexplicably stiffened for a moment, and then silently put in towards Tang Er to beat the whip to turn a direction.

Tang Er fought a sigh of relief before he dared to draw his gun out and aim it at the gray misty rainforest that kept shaking as if something was about to emerge.

But the rainforest just quivered, and nothing ever emerged but the crackling of burning leaves and twigs.

Just as Tang Er hit Bai Liu in confusion, Spades suddenly threw a whip from Bai Liu's side and slammed it hard into the ground, causing the ground to sink and bloom.

Along the ground bloomed ripples of dirt splattered to the sides, splattering out not only dirt, but also a few fingers, Tang Er hit the ripples from Spades smashed out towards the ground, and stared blankly.

Buried in the ripples beneath the ground were countless blasted and torn apart, white with blood and gunpowder-stained, shattered limbs-half-heads, hands with exposed carpal bones, writhing waists, all aiming their severed mouths, as if they were eyes, at Bai Liu and the others.

The broken pieces, which could not be pieced together into humanoid limbs at all, squirmed densely in the dirt, as if they had sniffed out their prey, and hid in the ground as they approached.

Numerous charred hands burst out of the dirt beneath Bai Liu's feet, grabbing his ankles and dragging them downward, Tang Er hit without hesitation, firing at the limbs with uncanny precision, opening a large hole in the center of the hand.

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

"The attack is ineffective." The captured Bai Liu instead analyzed calmly, "These shattered limbs are already in the state of the living dead, they can't be beaten, we have to find their weaknesses."

Spades throws a whip over and circles the living dead palm, trying to rip it right off Bai Liu's foot, but he only yanks it for a moment before he quickly stops moving and slowly looks up at Bai Liu.

Bai Liu looked back at him calmly, "It can't be ripped off."

Liu Jiayi looked down sharply at Bai Liu's ankle, and she crouched down to get a closer look, but Bai Liu stopped her.

Bai Liu looks down at a few crushed limb hands on his feet, "These things grow with me, they can't be torn off."

"Growing together?!" Tang Er hit bowed his head in shock.

The greenish-black fingers on Bai Liu's ankle pinched into the ankle, half of the knuckles were sunk in, and the skin was perfectly bonded together, as if a hand had grown out of Bai Liu's ankle, while at the same time, half of the knuckles at the end of the fingers on Bai Liu's left hand had turned greenish-black as well.

"This monster's attack method is called [Fusion of Life and Death], as long as the corpse pieces come into contact with the player, they will become part of the player's body." Bai Liu looked up, "When I'm done being attacked by all the corpse pieces of a person's body parts, those pieces will completely merge into my body, turning me into a living dead person."

As soon as the words fell out of his mouth, the hand on Bai Liu's foot disappeared, and his entire left hand turned a greenish-black color, hanging motionless at his side.

A steady stream of corpses approached, but they all seemed to cross over the others as if they had a target, lunging straight at Bai Liu.

Tang Er strikes a few corpses, Liu Jiayi draws a circle with poison, Spades sweeps a clean area in the circle with a whip, he looks straight at Bai Liu: "What did you do, why are these corpses only attacking you?"

Bai Liu shrugged, "Maybe it's because I'm the player with the lowest overall panel rating here? They see me as a bully?"

Spades retorted, almost without thinking, "You lie."

"Don't worry about what Bai Liu has done for now!" Liu Jiayi interrupted Spades' questioning, "These things can't be killed, we'll all be completely corpsified if we keep on spending time here, don't let Bai Liu touch the ground, carry Bai Liu on your back and go first!"

As soon as Liu Jiayi's words left his mouth, Tang Er and Spades, who were standing on Bai Liu's left and right sides, almost simultaneously shot out to grab Bai Liu, who was standing in the center.

Both of them are taller than Bai Liu by a full head, and the result of grabbing Bai Liu's shoulders by the left and the right and lifting him up at the same time can only be one thing---

-- Bai Liu, with both feet off the ground, was lifted up into the air like a schoolboy, and his feet swung from side to side in the air.

Spades: "You're short, Bai Liu."

Liu Jiayi: "!!!"

Tang Er hit: "!!!"

It's over, Bai Liu will be absolutely furious!

Bai Liu slowly, slowly looks up at Spades and smiles, "Yeah?"

On the way to escape, Tang Er fought with his head lowered to cover his mouth, not daring to look up at all, looking left and right, clearing the ground of approaching body parts, Liu Jiayi took a deep breath, holding back the upturned corners of his mouth, and respectfully turned his face away from dispersing the body parts that were following behind him with poison.

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

Tang Er 打为难道："Not so good ......"

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

Tang Er fights trying his best to be serious: "Luckily, I'm highly trained not to mock my team's tactician so easily ......"

And Spades went ahead and smashed the ground with his whip, clearing the body parts in front of him.

Bai Liu, with his feet spread out, rides on Spades' shoulders, who carries Bai Liu along on his back as he staggers forward.

"Am I still short?" Bai Liu asked Spades slowly.

Spades paused, "No, you're tall."

--It's childish to make yourself taller by riding on someone else's shoulders, especially when it's the same thing Bai Liu, who can't stop smiling, did.

This is just too funny!

Tang Er hit in the back finally still couldn't hold back his laughter.

Liu Jiayi said breathlessly, "Unless you really can't help it, right?"

Spades in front of him flew to clear the approaching body parts, and he took a long interval before he opened his mouth to ask Bai Liu: "Are you angry because you're not taller?"

Bai Liu was quiet for a second and said nonchalantly, "No, I wouldn't count such a small thing."

Spades took a deep breath as he threw out his whip and wrapped it around the trunk of a large tree next to him, pulling it upward so hard that Spades was pulled upward with Bai Liu on top of him.

He stepped lightly on the trunk, lending his strength before whipping out his whip to wrap it around the trunk of another, taller tree, all the while clear-eyed and knocking off several body parts that had fallen from the swaying trunk.

After a few back and forths, Spades jumped in style to the top of one of the tallest trees in the rainforest, big enough to look down on the entire rainforest.

Bai Liu shakes it before he can stabilize his position sitting on top of Spades.

Spades' chest rose and fell slightly, his voice serious, "Now you're the tallest man in the world."

Bai Liu looked slightly moved, just about to open his mouth, when he heard Spades continue to say flatly, "--We can make up for our innate deficiencies with such external things, Bai Liu, don't be angry with yourself for your physical deficiencies. "

"It's not your fault you're short." Spades said word for word.

Bai Liu: "......"

Bai Liu let out a long, slow breath and whispered a few quick words.

Spades listens in confusion, "Bai Liu, what are you talking about?"

Bai Liu faded, "Reciting an old limerick that has been passed down to this day."

Spades : "What's the limerick?"

Bai Liu smiles, "Mirthless."

Spades slows down:"? Why are you reading this?"

"Because it can repair my mental values that have dropped due to my emotional ups and downs." Bai Liu said.

Spades nodded.

He gets it, it's a spiritual bleach poem, and he'll learn it sometime in the future.

But the priority is something else.

Spades carries Bai Liu here, partly to soothe the emotional damage Bai Liu has done to himself by being too short (......), and partly to see how the whole rainforest map has changed.

The original thick green rainforest scene turned into a gray and black, the ground is full of huge craters, the ground is constantly being arched out of the fissure, the fissure is constantly broken limbs crawling out, close to the big tree where Bai Liu is located, from an overhead viewpoint, dense and black, like a bunch of ants looking for nests and food.

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

And these intact corpses were clustered in one place on the opposite side of the lake, and seemed to be leaping for joy around something, their limbs and heads swaying epileptically as if they were going to be thrown off in the next second.

Bai Liu squinted his eyes as he looked through a telescope from his props, adjusting the focus to finally see what was in the center surrounded by the group of corpses.

A cobbled together sculpture of an evil god, five stakes, and five people who are being tied to the stakes.

The pile of black stuff piled up under the five men tied to the stake looked like firewood, but Bai Liu looked closely for a moment and realized that the pile of black stuff was moving.

Bai Liu stared at the pile for a while, and finally determined that the pile was not wood fire at all, but broken arms and legs that had been blown up to the point where they were as dry as wood fire.

The charcoal-blackened, dry limbs were stacked like wood under five stakes, each with a bucket of red paint, and around the five stakes were six piles of "wood fire" - piles of broken limbs.

These broken limbs were moving, struggling, trying to climb up to the men on the stake, but were trampled down again and again by the dancing corpses, dumping red paint on these faggy broken limbs with each step

-- This is clearly an in-progress, bizarre ritual sacrifice of the living.

Bai Liu adjusts his focus further, trying to see exactly who the five people bound to the stake used to sacrifice to the evil god are, and then he raises a subtle eyebrow.

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

Spades nodded without much reaction to indicate that he knew, and then asked, "I see five stakes, and who's the other one tied up?"

"It's someone we wouldn't even think of." Bai Liu smiles up slightly, "It's Alex."