Tokyo underground city

Chapter 195 The Tree of Human Faces

"How are you? Are you feeling okay?" Yuan Ximu looked at Lin Huai'en's pale face and black air all over his body, feeling slightly worried.

"The skill level has been improved and some new features have been obtained. I just tested it and there is no big problem."

Lin Huai'en smiled and did not tell her the characteristics of [Curse of Loneliness]. After all, he had not yet figured out how to deal with the relationship with Yuan Ximu's teammates next.

On the other hand, Ziyuan looked at him playfully and said nothing.

Sitting back where he originally sat, Lin Huaien took a deep breath and opened his skill selection list.

"After having [Curse of Loneliness]... I don't need [Drawing Sword Technique] anymore."

As long as he can enter the state of [loneliness], he will be like a chariot, invincible.

If there are monsters that he can't solve in this state, then in the red card stage, not many explorers can solve them 'alone'.

"On the other hand, if the premise is to fight 'alone'... [imitation]..."

Lin Huaien turned his attention to the last skill.

Although [Elemental Cutoff] is also a good skill, in comparison, [Curse of Loneliness] is more suitable to be paired with [Imitation].

First of all, [Imitation] consumes a lot of mental power. For him who enters the [Loneliness] state, the upper limit of mental power and the recovery speed of mental power are multiplied three times, which is only equivalent to normal consumption.

Secondly, [Loneliness] means that unless a teammate's skill range exceeds 50 meters, he is absolutely alone. And [Imitation] can greatly improve his limitations of fighting alone.

"Although [Curse of Loneliness] is powerful... it is just like the [Scar of Pain] after having [Curse Return], which makes people love and hate..."

Thinking of the curse return, Lin Huai'en tried the loneliness curse version of the curse return. As a result, neither "Spider Face" nor the split-head monster seemed to regard the "companions" around them as "friendly creatures".

"For monsters, are 'companions' just neutral creatures..."

Lin Huai'en frowned and cut the split-head monster in front of him in two.

After having the [Curse of Loneliness], the core of all his problems was how to get himself into a state of [loneliness].

"Increased mobility? Or a teleportation effect that can leave teammates 50 meters away in an instant? Or a powerful grabbing and throwing skill that can take the enemy with him and leave teammates?"

"No matter how you think about it, it's a bit too deliberate... Maybe giving up teammates and summoned creatures is the most correct choice?"

Lin Huaien sighed, thinking of Li Muen who was pursuing [Superior Speed].

He doesn’t want to pursue [loneliness] for the sake of [loneliness].

Everyone knows how far an explorer can go in the dungeon without his teammates.

On the other hand, even though 25% of his attributes were cut off by the Curse of Loneliness, he could still easily deal with ordinary shadow monsters with his sword skills and curse return skills.

The amount of [Alienation Crystal Ingot] dropped has been reduced by half.

However, neither Shion nor Hara Yumu noticed this abnormality.

Because they were getting closer and closer to the center of the forest.

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"Is this "Dark Forest"..."

"That's really the core of Darkwood."

Faced with Lin Huai'en's emotion, Ziyuan corrected him.

Lin Huai'en nodded and clenched the martyr's sword in his hand.

In order to avoid the attribute penalty of [Curse of Loneliness], he got the Martyr Sword back from Hara Yumu. In addition to not being able to use Curse Return, his combat ability was actually enhanced by about 50%.

After all, the Martyr's Sword is also a second-level relic with many added attributes.

Holding up a sword flower and slicing open the split-headed monster's head, Lin Huai'en looked at the giant tree in the distance.

In the shadow of the entangled vines, one can see a giant tree that only dozens of people can surround.

Although it is not as exaggerated as the hundreds of meters in diameter of the [Giant Wood], it is still more than ten meters wide.

But on such a huge giant tree, all of them were densely arranged with human faces. From a distance, one after another wailing sounds could be heard.

"It's like an aggregation of shadows, isn't it..."

Ziyuan looked at Lin Huaien with a solemn expression and pretended to be relaxed.

"What I'm thinking about now is how we can get in."

Lin Huai'en shook his head. At the root of the giant tree, there was a deep hole like a tree hole. If Ziyuan's statement was correct, that should be the place they must pass to escape the "Dark Forest".

However, at this moment, two "Specialized Slaves" stood at the door of the small pit.

One is covered in a steel shell, like a tin knight from Western Europe; the other has three heads and six hands, looking like Wu Laosheng with a flag in a drama.

""The Tin Woodman" and "The Cowardly Lion", the former is extremely hard and not afraid of pain; the latter is fierce and cruel, bullying the weak and afraid of the strong."

Lin Huai'en recalled the knowledge he gained from Dr. Crow Face and thought for a while:

"Besides its hardness and solidity, "The Tin Woodman" should have nothing else to praise; and I will lure the cowardly lion away, and you will take the opportunity to enter the tree cave."

"What are you going to do after luring the lion away?" Yuan Ximu asked worriedly.

Lin Huaien nodded and said: "When you enter the tree cave, I will follow you - I will ask Coco to follow you. If there is any problem, you will notify me immediately through the intercom."

Having said this, he tapped the pendant on his ear.

"Okay." Yuan Ximu and Ziyuan looked at each other and nodded.

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Lin Huai'en took a deep breath and inserted the martyr's sword back into his waist.

When he made this battle plan, he was naturally preparing to use the [Curse of Loneliness].

Before setting off, he had poured a bottle of the newly purchased bait from Dr. Crow-faced on his body, and a sour, plum-like feeling spread on his shoulders. Come, the "Tin Woodman" and "Cowardly Lion" in the distance also noticed his actions.

Lin Huai'en estimated the distance between himself and Yuan Ximu and the others in his mind——

30 meters, 20 meters, 10 meters...

alright!

For a moment, Lin Huai'en felt himself inflating like a balloon, while the "Tin Woodcutter" in the distance had just stood up and turned his head towards him.

The "Cowardly Lion" on the side was eager to rush towards him at first, but when he felt Lin Huai'en's sudden aura, this scary-looking monster with three heads and six arms suddenly ran towards him without looking back. far away.

"ran away?"

Lin Huai'en was stunned for a moment, but "Tin Woodcutter" was already coming towards him.

He had no choice but to bite the bullet and aim the gray fury at the woodcutter's hatchet.

"cut!"

Facing the hatchet falling from the sky, Lin Huai'en took a deep breath and ran so fast that his speed reached a terrifying level. He just adjusted his direction slightly, missed the woodcutter's attack, and stabbed Huiqing Fury. into its heart.

"Bang——" There was a loud sound, and the gray-green fury pierced out from behind the woodcutter.

But almost instantly, he felt something serious strange——

"empty!"

Apart from the iron shell, he didn't feel any touch piercing into the flesh.

He jumped back suddenly, and the next second, the tin woodcutter had already hugged his afterimage!

"Fortunately, I ran fast...otherwise I would have been broken by it..."

Lin Huai'en took a step back, but couldn't help but staggered.

He felt his knees and elbows groaning. Before he could react, the woodcutter had already grabbed the hatchet stuck on the ground and continued to rush towards him.

"Damn it... my strength has become stronger... but my body strength has not kept up... especially my bones..."

Lin Huaien suddenly remembered the scene when Li Muen used [Super Speed] to circle around him.

The same dilemma as Li Muen happened to him——

The strength and speed became so exaggerated that the bones and soft tissues of the body could no longer bear it!

Taking a breath, Lin Huai'en slowed down the roughness of his movements, took a step back, and avoided the iron woodcutter's attack.

But for some reason, even though his body had been slightly damaged, he still felt that he could deal with this empty iron monster.

"It's just hard enough...no big deal!"

He took a deep breath, used the most comfortable angle possible to avoid the woodcutter's attack, and then put his body into the most correct structure——

Then he aimed at the woodcutter's steel-shelled arm and hammered it hard!

"Bang!"

There was a loud noise, and half of the steel-shelled woodcutter's arm was broken.

"Bang!"

With the second loud noise, the arm of the steel-clad woodcutter was completely chopped off by him!

"Damn, my hands are numb..."

The backlash from the woodcutter made Lin Huaien a little paralyzed, and just when he was about to correct his posture and take advantage of the situation to pursue, he heard Yuan Ximu's exclamation suddenly coming from behind -

"Captain, be careful!"

Lin Huai'en suddenly turned around, but it was the "Cowardly Lion" who had escaped before unknown time! It had already followed the giant human-faced tree and circled behind him, rushing towards him!

"Sun Ray!"

Bright rays swept across his eyes.

The corpse of the monster cut off at the waist turned into a rain of blood in the air, and the golden-white beam continued to sweep over the tree of human faces. Wherever the laser passed, human faces and heads were torn apart, and the sound of crying and howling surrounding the forest suddenly rang out. How many times!

"Run!"

As the shouts came from far away, Lin Huaien's body instantly weakened.

He glanced at the steel-clad woodcutter behind him and rushed into the tree cave without hesitation.

And ten seconds later, Coco carried Yuan Ximu and Ziyuan on her back and rushed into the crypt!

"Let's go!"

Lin Huai'en threw most of the Molotov cocktails on his body towards the outside of the cave. The next second, countless burning "Spider Faces" and Split-Head Monsters were already howling and rushing into the cave!

"Bang——"

The grenade pulled away by Lin Huai'en went off, and the severed hands and limbs were flying everywhere. In the distance, Yuan Ximu and Coco were holding up a stone door, calling him loudly: "This way! Hurry!"

Lin Huai'en changed into the martyr's sword without hesitation, his body suddenly accelerated, and he rushed into the stone gate before "Night Shadow" could catch him by the collar!

And the next second, the stone door closed, and a dozen rotten arms that had already reached halfway in were suddenly pinched off!

"Scared me……"

Lin Huai'en and Yuan Ximu looked at each other. The girl suddenly patted her chest and wiped her tears with some emotion: "I thought I was going to die in there."

"Have you been asking the light-catching goblin to follow me just now?"

Lin Huai'en thought for a while. The sudden ray of sunlight was the special ability of the light-taking fairy. It consumed a lot of magic power, but the distance of the spell was very far. However, with Yuan Ximu's control ability, he could not accurately cast it from a place fifty meters away. It hit the flying lion, so it could only be that the skill was activated at a very close place.

"Neutral creatures...or they cannot be called creatures, they can only be counted as props..."

Lin Huai'en glanced at the dull-eyed light-catching fairy and nodded secretly.