The wind brushed past their ears, the caws of crows grew distant, the air thick with the smell of blood, mixed with another indescribable odor.
The Human Pupa Master circled around, “No one? Did you really hear them?”
The Vampire frowned, “Don’t doubt the sensitivity of someone who takes pride in their speed when it comes to running.”
But they went around in a circle and indeed saw no one.
In this eerie, dense fog, apart from the dead leaves underfoot, there were only the surrounding trees, not a single human figure to be seen.
The Human Pupa Master took another look around, she approached a sturdy tree, and to prevent anyone from hiding behind the tree, she circled around it, relieved and yet regretful, “Indeed there’s no one here, what a pity, it’s been five minutes since I’ve killed anyone.”
The moment she finished speaking, in that second when her guard was down, a figure suddenly appeared from the tree trunk behind her.
The Bone-carving Knife was only a centimeter away from the Human Pupa Master’s arm when the fine hair on the back of her neck stood on end.
The Vampire, a few meters away, and the pupa inside the canister, both leaped into action simultaneously.
But no matter how fast they were, they were no match for Shi Tianzhu, who had been prepared and waiting behind the Human Pupa Master.
The branches of the big tree blocked the fastest human pupa.
Blood splattered on the Vampire’s face, and he instinctively licked it.
Shi Tianzhu skillfully moved along the narrow tree branch, using her arms to maintain balance as she climbed swiftly and gracefully.
Shi Tianzhu gripped the Human Pupa Master’s arm in her hand. Blood still seeped from the severed limb, dripping down onto the dry, yellow leaves scattered on the ground.
Her eyes were cold and clear as she watched the Human Pupa Master’s face contorted in pain.
All the players watching were stunned.
The players who had just said that this dungeon world would be the world of the Yongming Guild, all shut their mouths at this time.
Zhu Shuangshuang: “She actually hid inside the trunk of that tree?”
Ning Su: “She summoned that tree, not the same tree found in Mist City.”
Su Wansheng: “Wonderful, there are already trees in this fog, and she rarely summons plant monsters. This hidden surprise is amazing.”
Vampire: “Shi Tianzhu, when did you contract such a tree?”
Shi Tianzhu liked long-range attacks, her usual weapons were all long-range type, and the monsters she summoned were also octopus monsters, flying birds, etc.
Although trees could also be long-range, this tree looked too ordinary. It was really not like something that Shi Tianzhu, who was often in high-level dungeons, would contract.
Shi Tianzhu didn’t answer him. She had no obligation to answer.
The Human Pupa Master gasped for breath and said, “Shi Tianzhu, you, you could have killed me just now when you were behind me!”
But she only cut off one of her arms.
Shi Tianzhu looked down at her and said coldly, “Last time you bit off one of my feet. This time I’ll take one of your arms.”
The Human Pupa Master gritted her teeth, to be able to kill but not to kill, it was even more humiliating than being directly eliminated from the competition.
“Shi Tianzhu, you will regret not killing me in the competition!”
She picked up the human pupa canister with her remaining left hand, and more than ten human pupae rushed towards Shi Tianzhu, their heads stretching out like snakes, hissing.
The Vampire’s veins were throbbing, and he shouted at the Human Pupa Master, “Stop the bleeding first! If you don’t stop the bleeding, you’ll die!”
But Xue Wei didn’t care. She looked like she was going to fight Shi Tianzhu to the death.
Blood flowed down, and the human pupae flew out one by one.
The Vampire was faster, and in a blink of an eye, he was already beside Shi Tianzhu. Shi Tianzhu crushed the Human Pupa Master’s arm, threw it into the pupa’s mouth, and jumped to another branch.
As soon as she landed on the thin branch, she sensed something was wrong.
She looked down and saw that dense Gu insects were eroding the trunk.
She waved her hand, and the big tree disappeared from sight. She looked up and saw the white-haired Gu Witch walked out of the gray fog.
Xue Wei laughed loudly, “Shi Tianzhu, you sent away the tree you summoned yourself. It will take time to summon it again, right?”
The Vampire laughed and said, “Let’s not waste time in the dungeon anymore. How about we finish the final in half a day?”
Dozens of human pupae turned their heads towards Shi Tianzhu. Dense Gu insects gathered around Shi Tianzhu from the sky and the ground. The Vampire was so excited that his whole body was trembling.
Zhu Shuangshuang was so nervous that her breathing became shallow, “What to do? It feels very dangerous.”
Ji Mingrui said: “The Human Pupa Master’s pupae were able to bite off Shi Tianzhu’s foot last time, which means that these human pupae are even stronger than the players. The Gu Witch’s Gu insects are specially used to deal with Shi Tianzhu, and they will never be the level we have seen in the dungeon. The Vampire is full of deadly poison - indeed, it is very dangerous.”
“Dealing with one is manageable, but three? That’s nearly impossible to defend against,” Su Wangsheng complained, feeling a headache coming on.
Ning Su stared fixedly at the screen, lips pressed together.
A purple scarf fell on Shi Tianzhu’s head. It was the weapon she used to fight Ning Changfeng on the game base’s river.
The light purple transparent veil completely enveloped her. She lowered her head slightly, her long hair half covering her face, blocking her expression.
The Bone-carving Knife in her hand turned into a long fiery stick, with a large and eerie blue flame on it.
Ning Su asked Ling Xiao, “What could be the reasons for someone to prefer using long-range weapons?”
Ling Xiao explained, “They naturally enjoy solitude. They’re aloof and don’t like people getting close to them.”
“They may have relatively poor physical attributes, making them unsuitable for close combat.”
“If they’re often surrounded, long-range attacks are safer, allowing them to deal with opponents over a large area before they get close.”
“They may have many people behind them who need protection, so they habitually stand in front to block enemies.”
Ning Su lightly murmured in agreement.
Human pupae flew toward Shi Tianzhu from all directions, and Shi Tianzhu’s blue fire stick swiftly spun, knocking away a swarm of human pupae.
The purple veil covering her body was swarmed with countless gu insects. The blood-red ones were gnawing through the normally impenetrable celestial silk, about to burrow inside.
At this moment, the Vampire was already close behind, his deep purple claws breaking the wind as they attacked Shi Tianzhu.
Shi Tianzhu swiftly bent down, executing a maneuver akin to a cicada shedding its shell. She wrapped the gu-infested purple veil around the Vampire, swiftly tightening it with silver threads.
“Damn it!” The vampire couldn’t help but curse loudly.
Dealing with Shi Tianzhu, they didn’t hold back, directly using their strongest skills.
The gu insects used by the Gu Witch on Shi Tianzhu were the most vicious corpse gu insects, capable of corroding Shi Tianzhu’s celestial silk veil. Just as they were about to corrode an opening, they were wrapped around his body.
The Vampire, whose entire body was covered with deadly poison, upon encountering the Gu Witch’s most malicious corpse gu insects, immediately emitted a “sizzling” blue smoke.
Thicker than dense fog.
The intense stench, even after being weakened countless times by the time it reached outside the dungeon, could still be smelled by the players in the base.
Ning Su’s eyes lit up.
Shi Tianzhu wrapped herself entirely in the purple veil, and others thought she was just protecting herself from the gu insects.
She was indeed using the purple veil to protect herself, but she was also “borrowing a boat to cross the river with borrowed arrows”. (T/N: This is a Chinese idiom that refers to using others’ resources to achieve one’s own goals.)
But this was much harder than that. If she delayed even a second, the corpse gu would penetrate her body; if she acted a second too early, the veil wouldn’t have been bitten through by the corpse gu, and she wouldn’t have been able to use them to trap and counterattack the Vampire.
Zhu Shuangshuang was already excitedly standing up, looking at Shi Tianzhu’s calm and composed demeanor, exclaiming, “Amazing! If it were me, I would have panicked long ago.”
Barrages of messages slid off Shi Tianzhu, and she took off the veil around her neck, lit it on the fire stick, and swung a swarm of gu insects at the human pupae charging towards her.
A dense swarm of gu insects descended from the sky, so numerous that they made people’s scalps tingle, reminding them of the horror of a locust plague.
The swarm of insects, which covered the sky and the sun, gradually shrank, and the exit for Shi Tianzhu to escape became narrower and narrower.
She turned and waved away a swarm of gu insects with her blue fire stick, but she didn’t expect the Vampire, who was covered in blue smoke and in extreme pain, to erupt in speed, even faster than usual, and flash over like a phantom.
Before Shi Tianzhu had even turned around, she could already feel the scorching and poisonous blue smoke, and her heart jumped.
Just as the blue smoke was about to engulf her face, a green snake tail darted out from the thick fog, swiftly swatting away the rolling Vampire engulfed in smoke.
At the same time, a silver snake tail wrapped around Shi Tianzhu’s waist and lifted her away from the surging gu insects.
“President Shi, you know the beauty trap and the chain trap, but don’t you know the thirty-six strategies of running away when you can?”
Ning Changfeng’s long snake tail curled around Shi Tianzhu’s side, and as she looked up at him, she saw his tightly clenched jaw and heard him utter these words. Blood flowed from the wound on his face.
All the players watching wanted to rub their eyes, unable to believe what they saw.
Ning Changfeng had actually come to save Shi Tianzhu.
He knew he had to come and save his wife and score points in the process ðŸ¤
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