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Chapter 144 The Four Heavenly Kings Besiege the Novice Village

Outside the Devil's Woods, the weather was clear and sunny.

But once you enter the forest, the light suddenly dims, the atmosphere becomes hazy and cold, and the temperature drops to the point where you exhale white mist just by breathing.

Under normal circumstances, there would be the sounds of birds and other insects in the forest, but the Devil's Forest was completely silent, so quiet that one could hear one's own heartbeat, as if this was a forbidden zone where no life existed.

As we went deeper into the Devil's Forest, the appearance of the surrounding trees gradually became twisted and strange. A hideous face appeared on each dark tree trunk. They opened their mouths wide as if screaming silently, and the withered branches extended in all directions, showing a ferocious posture.

“Is this the devil tree?”

Zhou Yuan stroked his chin and looked at the strange black tree in front of him.

[Devil tree, a deformed tree formed after being corroded by evil spirits. Although it looks scary, it is actually no different from ordinary trees. Of course, each race will have a few mutants. There is a mutant devil tree king in this forest. It is not difficult to find it if you look in the direction where there are more devil trees.]

"Erosion by demonic energy..."

Zhou Yuan noticed this key information. The demonic energy in the game is related to the big devil. It is obviously the devil's work that the forest has become like this. As for the motive... it must involve a hidden plot.

"There is a monster nest about 21 meters to the west. The monster is called Shadow Leopard, level . Its main attack method is melee. You need to be careful of its tail. It's not difficult to deal with it." Orc Will said, holding the phone.

After the abnormal incident occurred, the Control Bureau quickly found the game company and asked for the world view details and game strategies. It also asked the first batch of investigators who entered the game world to bring them in and transmit them to temporary branches in various places through the established communication network.

This includes crucial information such as the dungeon map, hidden item distribution locations, BOSS locations, and powerful equipment item locations.

——Although "World Hunter" became popular for its realistic co-op VR game mode, it also has a traditional game mode that can be played on computers and game consoles, which is why the above strategy exists.

The birth of this game dimension is based on the traditional game mode, and only a few places are affected by the VR mode and overlap with reality, so the strategy can basically be used normally.

Everyone followed the map and walked towards the BOSS, and soon came to a fork in the road.

"The boss room is on the left, and a treasure chest can be opened on the right," Will said while looking at the guide.

"Of course I'll open the treasure chest first!"

Zhou Yuan decisively walked to the right. The task given by the system was to collect everything and the treasure chest could not be missed.

As the group was walking in the woods, suddenly, the ground around them bulged up, and skeleton soldiers wearing tattered armor and holding swords emerged from the ground, with dark demonic energy swaying in their skulls.

[LV5 Skeleton Soldier]

[LV9·Elite Skeleton Soldier]

[LV12 Skeleton Soldier Leader]

A series of titles appeared in Zhou Yuan's eyes. They were suspended above the heads of the skeleton soldiers, with a line of blood bars.

"Let me do it." Huo Yanluo snapped her fingers, and several flaming arrows shot out, easily defeating the bone soldiers. Only the highest-level [Bone Soldier Leader] was not killed instantly, but was killed by the second flaming arrow in the next second.

A golden light suddenly burst out from Huo Yanluo's body, and her level became [LV12].

Even though her cultivation was suppressed, she was still a 7th-level deity after all, so killing a group of miscellaneous soldiers was easy for her.

The group walked forward and soon came to a dead end. The way ahead was blocked by rocks, and under the rocks was an iron treasure chest.

"What a classic scene." Jiang Wuming complained.

This is too classic. It would be even more classic if it turned out to be a fashionable little piece of garbage.

As he said this, he was about to go up and open the box.

[Only smart people can see that this is actually a treasure chest monster. ]

"Wait a minute."

Zhou Yuan stopped Jiang Wuming, picked up a stone from the ground and threw it at the treasure chest.

when.

The treasure chest was dented by a rock.

Then, the treasure chest opened automatically, revealing a dangerous interior full of sharp fangs.

Two pairs of slender arms with sharp nails stretched out, along with thick tongues. If you look closely, you can see that the teeth are covered in blood, and there are still fresh pieces of clothes and flesh and blood in the gaps between the teeth.

Then, he pushed the ground with his hands and pulled his tall and thin lower body out of the ground.

[LV25 Treasure Box Monster]

"Mimic?"

Orc Will was startled and quickly checked the guide. He was surprised and said, "The guide said that this place can get a good quality glove equipment. How can it be a treasure chest monster?"

"Has someone else come here and replaced the treasure chest with a treasure chest monster?" Bai Lang analyzed.

"No, someone has tested it. The treasure chests in the game have the characteristics of [cannot be moved] and [cannot be destroyed]. It is impossible for them to be replaced..."

As he was speaking, the treasure chest monster swooped over with its bloody mouth wide open.

Zhou Yuan clenched his fist——【Condensed Qi Fist】!
boom!
The treasure chest monster was blown away by the huge fist of energy and fell heavily on the mountain of rubble. The health bar above its head was reduced by one third.

Zhou Yuan took out the Iron Rose and fired three shots in a row. The explosive bullets punched three bloody bullet holes in the treasure chest monster.

The others launched an attack at the same time, and after a round of bombing, the treasure chest monster was left with only a little blood.

"Let me finish off the enemy." Huo Yanluo fired a fireball, flames rose, and the treasure chest monster fell to the ground.

The upgraded special effect appeared on Huo Yanluo again - [LV17]!
Others also gained experience and leveled up a few levels.

The treasure chest monster's body gradually turned into nothingness, and then a lot of equipment and props exploded on the ground.

Everyone was stunned. There must be more than ten pieces, right?
The quality of game props is the same as that in "Children of the Stars", which are divided into ordinary, excellent, rare, perfect, epic, legendary, and mythical. Each quality has a corresponding color. Most of the equipment here are white, but there are also a few green and blue ones.

How come there are so many? !
"Hmm?" At this time, Huo Yanluo's eyes focused, she squatted down, and picked up a badge with a green glow.

After receiving it, the light quickly dissipated, revealing an exquisite and gorgeous fiery red badge with a flame symbol printed on it.

This is the identification card of the Church of the God of Fire.

"This..." Everyone immediately realized what was happening.

Many extraordinary people came here before them, but they were all eaten by the treasure chest monster!
"How insidious." Orc Will frowned. "A level 25 treasure chest monster can kill even a level 30+ Beyonder if he's not careful. If it's placed in a place that was originally a prop, it can kill a large number of people with less vigilance."

At this point, there is no need to guess what happened. It must have been done by the big devil. He used his reality-distorting ability to modify the settings here and turned the treasure chest that originally stored props into a ferocious treasure chest monster, in order to kill as many extraordinary people as possible!
"Now I can't trust all the strategies." Jiang Wuming sighed. He didn't feel scared at all because of his lack of vigilance. After all, he could be resurrected if he died.

"I have already notified everyone. Fortunately, the Control Bureau's technology is powerful enough to receive the signal in this damn place." said the orc Will.

This piece of news can save many lives.

Everyone simply divided up the spoils, then returned to the fork in the road and walked left to the BOSS room.

"The next step is the boss battle. I'll give you an amplification equipment." Bai Lang said as he took out an ancient white jade pendant. "It can provide a 5% bonus to all attributes and also give you the ability to fly."

"What a good thing." Zhou Yuan took the white jade and put it on. He immediately felt that his strength had increased and he could fly as he pleased.

"this is for you."

Huo Yanluo took out a pair of fingerless gloves. The gloves were reddish brown in color and carved with fiery red fire patterns.

"This pair of gloves can store fire skills in advance, and when you need to use them, you can release them instantly without any reading time. There are three skills stored in it, namely [Flame Sword], [Purgatory Fire Ring], and [Burning Sky Star Palace]. If you can't beat the enemy, use [Flame Sword], and don't use the others." She warned.

"Okay." Zhou Yuan nodded. Soon, everyone was about to arrive at the area where the Shadow Leopard was, and at this moment, everyone smelled the strong smell of blood in the air, and their faces changed slightly.

With this level of blood, at least a hundred people must have died!

"I'll go ahead and explore the way."

Zhou Yuan looked solemn. He motioned for everyone to stay where they were. He jumped onto the tree branch and rushed forward like an arrow.

After a while, the view ahead suddenly became clear and an open space appeared.

On the open space...

Corpses littered the fields and rivers of blood flowed.

All I saw was scarlet.

Countless mutilated corpses were piled together, forming several small hills of flesh and blood.

A black panther was sleeping soundly on a bed of bones.

Zhou Yuan was silent.

The teleportation locations into the game plane are all random. Although most people will be teleported to safe areas such as towns, the number of more than 30 million is still too large, and some people will definitely be teleported to the dangerous wilderness.

Even for extraordinary people, there is a high probability of death when their cultivation is sealed, not to mention ordinary people living in a peaceful society, who have no ability to deal with crises at all.

And these people... were unfortunately teleported to the Devil's Forest, and unfortunately encountered the Shadow Leopard.

I'm afraid there will be blood everywhere at the other BOSS's places as well.

Zhou Yuan didn't think any more and started to act.

[Shadow Killer Cloak] Equipment;
【Avenger】Title changed.

A faint blue light lit up in Zhou Yuan's hand.

Condensed into a gorgeous blue crystal bow.

——【Loretta’s secret weapon】.

Four giant arrows with a faint blue glow were placed on the bow. As the power was accumulated, the bow and arrows expanded a little, becoming more visually impactful.

let go.

shhhhhhhh!

Four dark blue arrows flew through the air, exploded with a roar, and burst out with a bright moonlight.

The combined special effects of many equipment items caused this attack to cause extremely terrifying damage, reducing the Shadow Leopard's health by two-thirds.

It was awakened and let out a painful roar. There were several big holes in its body caused by arrows and it was bleeding profusely.

Bang, bang, bang, gunshots rang out, accurately hitting the Shadow Leopard's limbs, breaking bones and causing blood to splatter.

Since the Shadow Leopard had not yet discovered Zhou Yuan's location, these shots were still counted as stealth attacks, triggering the critical strike effect of the "Avenger" title.

The Shadow Leopard's health bar dropped to the bottom almost instantly, its limbs were pierced, it lost the ability to move, and collapsed to the ground unable to move.

"That was a close call. It almost happened in seconds."

Zhou Yuan hurried back and called a few teammates, but after seeing the sea of ​​blood and corpses before them, everyone's face looked unhappy.

Jiang Wuming, Bai Lang and Will each launched an attack and inflicted some damage, and finally Huo Yanluo made the finishing blow, killing the Shadow Leopard with a fireball.

Her level thus rose to level 19.

The levels of the other three people reached 16.

After killing so many monsters, Zhou Yuan's level was raised to LV30, but this was not his real rank level, but the player level of this game plane, which would disappear if he left the game plane.

After the Shadow Leopard died, a piece of excellent quality equipment called "Bloodthirsty Shadow Boots" dropped. Wearing them can increase the movement speed, and the skill can greatly increase the movement speed in a short period of time.

No one really needed this prop, so Zhou Yuan kept it for himself and waited to sell it later.

"I'll burn them." Huo Yanluo sighed as he looked at the sea of ​​blood and corpses.

The brilliant flames ignited and soon spread across the entire area, burning the corpses and blood to ashes.

"Oh, abnormal. Oh, extraordinary. Oh, this world."

Jiang Wuming felt a little melancholy. He didn't know how many people would die in this abnormal incident. They were all living beings with their own lives, but the extraordinary and abnormal were so cold, cruel and ruthless.

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After killing the Shadow Leopard, everyone continued to move forward, exploring the area very carefully along the way, and several major BOSSes in the Devil's Forest were killed one by one.

Zhou Yuan’s game level has risen to level 34.

[Collection progress in this area: 87%]

Only the final core area is left.

Zhou Yuan did not feel relieved, but instead became extremely alert.

The special plot hidden in the Devil's Forest can only be triggered by killing the Devil's Tree Queen and entering its interior.

The Devil Tree King is a level 36 BOSS, 2 levels higher than Zhou Yuan’s current level, so it will probably be very difficult to kill him.

The group carefully entered the core area and saw the devil tree that blocked out the sun from a distance.

As we continued walking forward, the density of the devil trees became higher and higher, and at the same time, a smell of blood wafted over.

In the open space in front of the Devil Tree King, dozens of corpses were seen lying on the ground, their deaths were extremely tragic.

In a place that was not stained red with blood, a figure slowly stood up holding a curved flaming hunting knife.

It is about three meters tall, wearing a gorgeous metal armor, and crouching like a beast in hunting mode.

A ferocious red light flashed in the gap of the helmet.

[LV65 Demon Hound, one of the Four Heavenly Kings. ]

Zhou Yuan’s eyes went dark.

Holy shit, level 65!
The other side has no moral principles!

The Four Heavenly Kings surrounded the Novice Village, who can withstand this?

"run!"

Bai Lang acted decisively and used his wind magic to summon a strong hurricane to carry everyone into the air - all the bosses here had been killed, so there was no need to worry about being attacked after taking off.

The Demon King Hound slashed with his sword, and a scarlet sword energy dozens of meters long flew over, disrupting the rising airflow. The sword energy then exploded, blasting everyone in all directions.

"Flame Sword!"

Zhou Yuan steadied his body and shouted loudly. The fingerless gloves on his hands lit up with flames. The next second, bright flames lit up from the sky. The shining hot light rolled and spread, evaporating the fog that had shrouded the sky above the Devil's Forest all year round.

An incomparably huge giant sword of fire, as big as a mountain, stabbed fiercely downwards, like a waterfall of fire pouring down from a volcanic cave!

(End of this chapter)