Chapter 604: Player Snake Lord Is Dead, Special Mission "Spirit of the Underground Palace"
"Kill him." The Broken-Browed Burly Man made a snap decision.
Although Snake Lord had a Mythical skill, his combat system was clearly incomplete, and he had no teammates supporting him. The man was confident he could kill him within two seconds, preventing the Mythical skill from activating!
"No!" Green Shadow shouted urgently to stop them.
However, these players from Hunter Building weren't going to listen to her. They were well trained, and the moment the Broken-Browed Burly Man gave the order, several skills were already used to control Snake Lord.
Even if an individual player is extremely strong, they still dare not fight when outnumbered.
The reason is that reality is different from the game. It’s not just about comparing stats!
In a flash, Snake Lord's head flew off!
The Broken-Browed Burly Man showed no expression and remained silent.
Green Shadow stared at the Eye of Mora embedded in Snake Lord's chest, her mind going numb.
She felt like she had just killed a teammate!
"He also accepted the 'Kill the Cheater' mission..." Green Shadow opened her mouth and, despite herself, said it out loud.
The Broken-Browed Burly Man and the other six faces turned cold. When they suddenly heard this, they all crumbled inwardly!
Everyone knew there was no friendly-fire protection in the real world.
If you shoot a teammate with a gun, that teammate would actually die!
"Why didn't you say so sooner!" the Broken-Browed Burly Man exploded in anger.
"I only just saw that Eye of Mora," Green Shadow's lip twitched.
An item as important as the Eye of Mora wouldn't be openly displayed; Snake Lord had tucked it inside his thin garment.
The Broken-Browed Burly Man's name was Jingzhe. He was one of the seven Hunter Kings of Hunter Building and the leader of the team Green Shadow once served.
This time she had used various secrets inside Mad King Building and an epic-level mission to invite Jingzhe's team over.
They hadn't even been in Mad King Building long before they angrily killed a teammate.
And that teammate had a Mythical skill.
This blunder was huge!
"Ah, ah, ah, Snake Lord, my brother, what's wrong with you? I told you not to trust strangers so easily!" At that moment, a sudden voice came from outside the bungalow.
Then Wu Man walked in with a look of regret.
A red-haired Hunter Building player’s expression flickered, and he said in a low voice, "There are still many people on the way."
Missing even one like Wu Man had already made him wary, and now even more people were coming...
"Plan suspended. Find a chance to break out." Jingzhe stretched his muscles, his eyes sharp, and shot Green Shadow a glance.
Green Shadow was bewildered.
She had heard of Wu Man and had even seen him before; on the surface he looked like a player who came out of the Gate of Ten Thousand Lies and liked to visit others' rooms. She hadn't expected him to be so deeply concealed.
"Heh heh!" Wu Man raised both hands and shouted, "We mean no harm, we only want to talk with you."
"Then tell your people to stay back for now." One of Jingzhe's team coldly ordered.
Hearing this, Wu Man actually called to his companions.
Jingzhe glared at Wu Man. "What are you after?"
It was strange that this Mad King Building player had discovered their secret yet hadn't immediately alerted others, and now he was acting as if he could negotiate.
That was intriguing.
"Maybe our goals are the same!" Wu Man smiled slyly, like a big rat wrapped in a robe.
Jingzhe did not seem surprised. He smiled faintly and said, "Then have all your people come over. Let me see what they're made of."
"Bold!" Wu Man gave a thumbs-up and, as instructed, summoned the others.
Before long, dozens of people had crowded into the small bungalow. A black veil rose, covering the door, windows, and other openings.
Inside the bungalow, the two groups mingled. The more they talked, the more they hit it off, until finally they laughed heartily.
Snake Lord's headless corpse and its head had been kicked into a corner by someone. Its eyes, still unseeing, stared fixedly in this direction.
...
"What are those players doing? Using isolation skills with such high defensive power." In a cellar a kilometer away, Zhang Dahai watched through layers of barriers, looking toward the bungalow.
When the black veil went up, his Clairvoyance couldn't see inside.
Unnoticed, his Edgewalker sequence had been promoted to the True Spirit Stage, with an absurdly high degree of compatibility between the two.
This was the third stage of the sequence, one step away from final Awakening.
"Make a note of these people, then tell Ye Fan and the others not to provoke this group during the Building Wars." Zhang Dahai shook his head in puzzlement and stopped paying more attention to the matter.
Alliances among players before Building Wars were normal.
Only...
"There seem to be a few unfamiliar faces... I should tell Lang Ge about this." After sending a private message to Ye Fan, Zhang Dahai muttered softly.
...
"Brother!" Inside a dorm room in Mad King Building, a fragile, delicate girl suddenly woke from sleep.
"It was only a dream..." Her voice was extremely sweet. She brushed the sweat from her forehead with her pale wrist.
In the darkness, the glow from the girl's fair skin seemed to light the room.
The bedroom was neither large nor small, cluttered with pink items collected by her brother.
"So sleepy... I want to keep sleeping... Brother should be coming back, right?" The girl murmured, and the entire room filled with a plaintive atmosphere.
She lay back down, opened private messages, hesitated about messaging Snake Lord.
If she messaged him, perhaps he was busy fighting.
If she didn't message him, she felt uneasy.
In the end, she sent a message.
Immediately her eyes filled with a gleam, guilt flooding her heart.
She truly felt selfish and terrible. If Snake Lord were fighting now, or in some critical moment...
Thinking this, she felt the sky collapse.
How could she make such a terrible mistake?
[Player "Snake Lord" is dead, message delivery failed]
"Huh?"
She snorted lightly and did not understand what had happened.
The next second, her eyes widened, breath stopped, as if she had died instantly.
Clear tears poured from her eyes like a waterfall. She writhed like a shedding snake, collapsing toward the ground.
She flailed helplessly. Her body doubled up like a chrysalis. She used all her strength to crawl to the door, then lost the ability to move.
"Cackle, cackle..." Her long neck stiffened like wood, producing strange sounds.
Suddenly she vomited on the floor, as if trying to bring up her soul.
Soon after, the room echoed with her heartbreaking cries!
"I told you I was a burden!"
"It's my fault my brother is dead!"
"No, brother, how could you die!"
Down, down, down!
The girl's SAN value plunged wildly, finally dropping into single digits!
In an instant her breath surged, and her physical state visibly improved.
At the same time, a vast torrent of Chaotic Knowledge poured out of the void and into her mind.
This made her thoughts even more confused.
At this rate, within seconds she would transform into a Mad Vanguard.
At one moment her body seemed to hit a critical threshold, then with a cracking sound she fainted.
After fainting, her body continued a dramatic transformation. Her flesh became more crystalline. Her slender, beautiful legs turned into a single snake tail. Her scales gleamed white like the finest jade.
She did not notice that a mission panel had begun to flash before her.
[Special Mission "Spirit of the Underground Palace"]
[Mission Difficulty: Unknown]
[Mission Status: Not Accepted]
[Mission Objective: During Building Wars, follow the guidance to enter the Underground Palace, use the power of the Ancient God to help the Spirit of the Underground Palace break its seal and annihilate the enemy forces. This mission is strictly confidential; disclosure equals mission failure]
[Mission Reward: Resurrection Card x1]