Thick weeds crowded the gaps between the stone slabs where the injured rested, like a square that had been abandoned for hundreds of years and was once again occupied by the wild.
Despite the fact that the wilderness only grows disgusting and horrific weirdness that resembles plants.
When the injured players were no longer seriously injured, Lu Li gathered the light of the projection, and the original coldness of the place once again enveloped the people who were still lingering.
Ignoring the complications and thanks from the contestants, Lu Li and Claire returned to the tent.
"Thanks to your tips, I didn't waste too much time on the second level."
Claire, who had just entered the second level, received a note from the unknown source "Congratulations on coming to the second level" brought by the businessman Anthony, and then gathered her teammates from the Giant Tree Academy to cooperate with each other and leave from the sky.
She didn't even die twice: the terrifying body control made her accustomed to sensory inversion,
This is the correct way to pass the second level. Death deepens the connection with the rotten sewers. Silence and killing, and the dead will eventually be lost in false illusions.
Lu Li led Claire to the Gray Stone Monument just like Ole Lorenzo led him. On the way, Claire told about the current situation of the strange jungle.
The sparse forest cabins make the competition in the third level always fierce. The cabins are occupied by the camps that arrive first, absorbing their companions and eliminating other camps, but they will eventually move on.
Therefore, the cabin closer to the exit has an advantage, because the players behind always have to move forward. They only need to stay in the forest cabin and eliminate the players who are forced to approach.
The fighting gradually became more intense, and what was worse was that in the front part of the Horrible Forest, a dozen people from the Khorne Fury Gods and the Bloodline Family Alliance fought to disturb the shadows, and they were destroyed together with the forest hut.
Lu Li remembered the precautions on the wooden sign of the forest hut. Four of the five requirements required keeping quiet. The forest hut was just a place to stay, and it did not mean it was completely safe.
This incident seems to prove that the Contest can restore everything and no camp will agree to this meaningless and stupid internal friction.
The destruction of the forest hut on the only way sounded the alarm for the players. They slowed down the intensity of the fighting and avoided fighting in the forest hut. And then came the key information that the fourth level was to prevent half of the players from being buried in the treacherous place.
The strange dense forest becomes nourishment.
Claire was walking through the horror forest at this moment, and the wound on her cheek was caused by this.
"Speaking out the name will record you."
Before Lu Li spoke to remind Claire, she was already standing in front of the gray stone monument.
"Claire."
Claire reads the name, and the performance of the first three levels appears.
The first level: perfect. The second level: perfect. The third level: perfect.
Claire's name appears at the front of hundreds of names. Although she performed perfectly in the first three levels, it was not enough for her to surpass the players who came to the surface earlier to gain contributions.
"17th place? It seems that this level is the key."
Claire shook her head, tied up her ponytail and shook it, feeling dissatisfied with her results, and then found Lu Li at the end of the gray stone monument.
"Are you waiting for me? Then hurry up."
If it were Lu Li before, he might have refused the cursed title. But after his memory gradually recovered and he witnessed the original color of the world...
Lu Li's gaze fell on those light-colored eyes.
"What do you want to do?"
…
Bloody Farm.
Before primitive darkness enveloped the surface and people hid underground, people called it bloody farmland.
Although it is also ominous, the latter makes people more familiar: the bloody farmland is a farmland where alchemical technology combines plants and weirdness, allowing them to grow under plant disasters and produce wheat that humans can eat.
The former is weird.
A strange tribe that migrated from the eastern part of the wasteland has taken over the Bloody Manor. The leader calls himself the farmer, and their servants, the parasites, are assigned to the Bloody Farm to take care of the farmland.
The lower parasite irrigates the earth with flesh and blood, and the bloody wheat is deformed to the height of a person. The straw climbs the blood vessels as if it has become a living thing, and when mature, it produces deformed wheat ears in the shape of a child's hand.
Fortunately, it's March now, and the height of the bloody wheat is only at the legs, so it won't block the vision or too much movement.
The southern camp has now advanced to Bloody Manor, and when Lu Li and Claire are about to set off, good news for them and bad news for them comes.
The players captured the Bloody Manor and their servants were killed. Only the farmer fled into Midnight City and screamed that the Viscount would not let them go.
The "Viscount" is obviously a higher-ranking being than the farmer.
Progress may slow down in the future.
Claire planned to get close to the front line to observe the situation and clean up any fish that slipped through the road.
The blood-red wheat fields replaced the dark, rancid, and filthy soil that had long been soaked in dark red and remained indelible.
In the distance of the wheat field stood the outline of a barn and a scarecrow. It was the same as what Lu Li had seen in the "Scarecrow Village". After death, the real head shriveled up like a balloon, leaving only the skin stuck together.
They are the guards of the farm, and the closer they are to the barn, the denser they are. Even after three days of cleaning and a large number of scarecrows and lower parasites were uprooted, there are still some scarecrows standing alone around the wheat fields.
They were either ignored because they were too far away, or... they were players contaminated as scarecrows.
Approaching the scarecrow wearing the religious uniform of the Conspiracy Spider Web God. The expressionless head stared into the distance, quietly watching over the bloody farmland.
When there is the sound of wheat being pushed aside around, the head will follow and turn, looking down at the intruder from a high position.
But if you stare at the head for too long, you may feel the sadness in the eyes looking down.
The contestants avoided the scarecrow not far from the camp out of grief over the death of the rabbit and the fox, but Claire didn't mind this.
"Straw is their weapon. It shoots out straw like a porcupine shooting out its quills. If it pierces the skin, it will be infected... The protective medicine can perfectly block these weak and intensive attacks. Poor guy, he must be so poor.
There is nothing left.”
Claire tilted her head and asked Lu Li: "Are you coming or am I coming?"
"I want to try [Crown of Knowledge]." Lu Li took out the protective potion and drank it.
The memory of half of "Eureka's Merits" was erased by an invisible hand, leaving only the title of the book in the back of my mind. The power that can be shaped at will emerged like an equivalent exchange.
"How do I release?"
"The body is our greatest weapon." came a reply full of Claire's style, clenching her fists and making the bandages "rattling".
Lu Li did as he was told, condensing the plastic power of knowledge transformation into his right hand, and then approached the scarecrow before the power passed away.
The scarecrow trembled, the hair-like straw falling down was blocked by the protective agent, and the power gathered in "Eureka's Merit" hit the scarecrow's body with its fist.
bang
The scarecrow shuddered, and a large amount of straw seemed to fall off from under the uniform.
Lu Li calmly felt the aftertaste. The damage was close to that of his left hand. But the power of his left hand always existed, and would become more harmful as his humanity increased.
Although the power of the crown of knowledge will also vary depending on the knowledge.
