Volume 10: Pride and Prejudice in the City-State Chapter 25: Shadow Kingdom
“?!”
It was as if the background picture in the two-dimensional world was suddenly replaced, and the familiar bastion disappeared without a trace.
Everything in front of the player suddenly flipped and deformed with the snap of the giant hand in the air, and the world was instantly replaced by another level. It was a world that no one wanted to know, full of filth and disgusting, and could only appear in nightmares.
Twisted trees were spreading and growing wildly around them, and countless poisonous insects and animals were looming in the shade of the trees and the dark bushes. Some terrifying and strange creatures seemed to be inspired by something, and kept making shrill and creepy wails around them. Those monsters kept howling, and everything around them became dark and terrifying. Even the bravest players were startled and had no idea what was happening here.
'System prompt: You are affected by the forced transfer array!'
'System prompt: You have arrived at a special area, the nightmare world. Your spirit will become the source of power.'
'System prompt: According to the instructions of a certain being, the favorability of all players of the original inhabitants of the Nightmare World, the Wuwei League, is - hostile. If there is no special situation, all Wuwei League players will be hunted down endlessly in the Nightmare World. Regardless of day or night, time and place.'
'System prompt: It is useless to leave the Wuwei League. The breath during the transfer has stained everything on you. You have no way to remove such a horrible mark. If you want to remove this horrible and strange curse, perhaps the gods in the depths of the nightmare world can give you some help. But they are often not particularly easy to talk to. Perhaps you should pay attention to your attitude and don't provoke such enemies again in the future.'
After all, the players' adaptability is very strong. After getting through the initial panic, these players quickly calmed down, formed small groups and began to carefully observe everything around them.
"...A hidden quest chain?"
"You received it too?"
"We have been issuing warnings..."
The players looked at each other and felt that something was not right.
This series of developments really tested everyone's thinking ability. First they were isolated, and then they were almost wiped out by a finger that fell from the sky. After they finally managed to survive, they were transferred to this damn place because of a snap of the fingers. No one would believe that there was no one doing something behind the scenes.
But the problem is that the players can't think of the first player they just killed . Although they know that the first player is very good at fighting, after all, it has been shown in the video, but no one expected it to be so weird now. In previous games, there is often a distinction between buyer's show and seller's show. Most of the NPC's skills will be weakened when they come to the players, but no one has seen such a situation now.
In this strange world, it was as if their original thoughts and ideas were contaminated by something. Some players wailed and transformed into monsters, running around madly in the foggy forest, and constantly rushing into the darkness and disappearing. The bodies of other players also gradually mutated to some extent, and some extra limbs and eyeballs gradually spread on their bodies, causing waves of screams. Those mutated bodies could even be manipulated, which amplified the panic in the hearts of these players, and the place that was not very orderly to begin with became even more chaotic and disorderly.
Those players who had not mutated too much, or not mutated at all, tried to light torches or similar props in the forest, using themselves as beacons and calling out to each other. The private chat function was disabled, and communication basically relied on shouting. These players could only shout, hoping to call back their companions.
"Gather together first! Don't worry about so many things!"
"Stay together! Who's going to check the map?"
"Who the hell is going over there! I turned a good RPG game into a horror game! I'm a coward!"
The players were in chaos, watching the forest outside in constant turmoil with gusts of cold wind. From time to time, a few alienated players, under the influence of psychology and hormones, rushed into the forest howling, causing a lot of destruction like uprooting mountains and trees. However, when they reached the depths of the darkness, it was as silent as if there was a power outage.
Looking at the gradually expanding darkness, the players' agitation became more and more serious. Every player had just survived from the giant's finger, and encountered such a terrible horror scene. The hormones released in the nightmare world made the players excited, blaming each other and cursing each other. The team that was originally put together had a tendency to fall apart in a short period of time under the inexplicable pressure of the nightmare world.
"I don't care!"
Suddenly, a player stood out from the crowd and shouted at this person:
"It must be because one of you hid some crappy mission that harmed the entire guild. It was that bastard who did it! God knows what he has become now. He is in good shape, and we are in trouble! I will not walk with the murderer! I want to walk on my own!"
The player holding the torch confidently held up the eternal torch in his hand, exploring the twisted jungle of the nightmare world step by step, and soon walked into the depths of the jungle. Then, under the gaze of others, the player holding the torch swallowed the mist spreading in the darkness in one breath, and in the blink of an eye, a headless corpse sprayed with blood fell to the ground.
"According to the covenant, we Shadow Beasts will slaughter all of you..."
The leaping shadow let out bursts of creepy laughter, which spread on the ground and condensed into a human-like face.
"You are not innocent. I can smell the blood of innocent people on you... Compared to the huge and almost tangible aura of those adults, you are just some scum. You slaughter the old, the weak, women and children, thinking of venting your resentment and anger in your heart. You are good eaters."
"My Lord has promised us that we can live here, and he has even taken special care of us so that we can have food and drink. We will naturally act according to the promise and the covenant. We love to eat your flesh and blood, and just as you have been commanded, we will eat you up inch by inch, leaving no residue. You'd better not have any other distracting thoughts, because such messy thoughts will make your ugly souls no longer pure."
That wouldn’t taste good.
The dark fog formed twisted black monsters, which laughed at the players in the forest.
