Chapter 156
Chapter 156
Fortunately, it was not long before Yun Youyou ran into Shamate and the others, who were searching for them.
The scene earlier had been extremely chaotic.
A huge swarm of plant spirits had surged in at once. When the others saw Yun Youyou and Su Gou run, they quickly fled as well.
“We finally found you!”
Shamate raced over in excitement.
He looked Yun Youyou up and down. “Good, good. All your arms and legs are still there. But why does your head look a little bald?”
Yun Youyou immediately covered her huge flower face.
“That’s not baldness. My brilliance just goes all the way to the top. It’s the mark of a genius; you wouldn’t understand!”
Su Gou interrupted their bickering. “Enough. We need to get back first.”
Everyone glanced at the sky and saw that the sun was about to set.
No one knew how many dangers lurked in the forest after dark.
Fortunately, these humans and plants were all extraordinarily carefree.
They felt none of the tension of a forest expedition. Instead, they strolled along as leisurely as if they were on a spring outing.
Lin Haomiao looked at Su Gou enviously.
“You finished your research assignment so easily. Mine is still nowhere near done.”
He looked back at Shamate with hopeful longing.
“When is my Pea Sprout going to grow into a Peashooter?”
Shamate said, “A Peashooter might be out of the question, but I could probably manage a pea assassin.”
As soon as he finished speaking, he used his terrible acting skills to imitate the classic pose of a cold-blooded assassin blowing smoke from his gun.
Yun Youyou caught it from the corner of her eye.
“You’re pretty good at blowing. In the next Instance, you can be a hair dryer.”
Shamate: “…”
He clutched at a heart that did not exist and cried out in pain, “Did any of you hear that bang?”
Yun Youyou said, “Why? Did the hair dryer short out?”
“…”
Even Su Gou laughed this time.
Red-haired Trendy Guy threw an arm around Shamate’s shoulders.
“It’s broken? Let me fix it for you!”
Shamate shoved the Cactus away in disgust. “Ow! Those spikes!”
Red-haired Trendy Guy had no idea how painfully sharp his spikes were.
Still grinning, he teased Shamate, “What’s with the high-pitched yelping? You sound like a palace Eunuch answering his master.”
Shamate said, “…Right now, I just want to stab you with a knife.”
Red-haired Trendy Guy said, “Oh-ho, love has turned to hate!”
Shamate remained silent for a long time. In the end, the only way he could express his fury was with a single word.
“Fuck off.”
Fortunately, the rest of their journey was peaceful.
They returned safely to the wilderness where everything had begun.
Night had fallen, and all was silent.
But the place seemed far too quiet.
Even stranger, the wilderness had become nothing but bare yellow earth as far as the eye could see.
Shamate muttered, “Why does it feel like something’s missing? We were only gone a few days. Did all the plants here die?”
Su Gou’s face darkened as he immediately realized something was wrong.
“Aah!”
A scream erupted in the distance.
It was like someone had pressed a start button. The frozen world suddenly began moving again.
The nearby dormitory was in chaos. Panicked Players kept sprinting out, terror on their faces as they repeatedly looked over their shoulders.
Su Gou hurried over and grabbed one of them. “What happened inside?”
The man clutched Su Gou’s hand in fear.
“Run! All the plants here have gone insane!”
The Players had never expected the plants, which had been perfectly normal during the day, to suddenly mutate at night.
With no time to prepare anything, their first instinct was to run and worry about the rest later.
The man tried to flee again. “Let me go! I need to save my life!”
Shamate snorted.
“Are you stupid? There are even more plants in the forest.”
The man thought about it.
Right! That made sense!
Even if he ran, he should head somewhere with fewer plants.
He looked up, intending to thank the kind person who had warned him.
Then he discovered that it was not a person at all, but a talking Pea Sprout.
The Player sucked in a sharp breath and fainted from terror. He toppled stiffly at Shamate’s feet.
Shamate jumped backward in fright.
“I didn’t do anything! He’s trying to frame me!”
Su Gou sighed. He had no choice but to move the unconscious Player somewhere relatively safe first.
The Players in the dormitory were gradually calming down from their initial panic as well.
An all-out war between Players and plants was now raging.
No one knew where Su Gou pulled two guns from, but he casually tossed them to Lin Haomiao and Lu Shenlin.
“Come on. Let’s take a look.”
The two men expertly chambered rounds. One glance was enough to tell that they were veterans.
Lu Shenlin gave Su Gou a hesitant look.
“Brother Su, if you give both guns to us, what will you use? Maybe you should–”
Su Gou pulled out a rocket launcher, then casually stuffed several grenades into his pockets.
He raised his eyes toward Lu Shenlin. “What did you just say?”
Lu Shenlin forcibly swallowed the rest of his sentence.
“Nothing. I think this arrangement is great! Absolutely perfect!”
Whether they were men or male spirits, it seemed all of them had a special fascination with firearms.
Shamate let out a long whistle.
“So cool! When is the Game going to give us NPCs gear like that?”
Why were the NPCs limited to their ordinary ghost bodies while these Players had gotten their hands on heavy weaponry?
Next time, the Game might as well give them an atomic bomb so they could blow the whole thing up.
Before leaving, Su Gou looked back at Yun Youyou.
“Stay here and behave. Don’t make trouble.”
Yun Youyou: ?
Where had that domineering-CEO line come from?
The three Players hurried toward the dormitory.
The three slacker plants lazed around nearby, taking advantage of the confusion and occasionally offering commentary on the battle ahead.
Explosions periodically thundered from inside the dormitory.
The entire building teetered on the verge of collapse.
The Player who had just fainted was shaken awake by the chain of deafening blasts.
He lay on a large rock and opened his eyes groggily, only to find himself staring straight at a Sunflower with a huge face.
A Cactus and a Pea Sprout were also craning their heads curiously beside her.
Yun Youyou leaned forward. “It looks like he’s awake.”
The Player stared at the three plants in terror.
Had the Players lost? Had he become a prisoner of the plants?
His heart could not take it. Better to stay unconscious a while longer.
Yun Youyou watched helplessly as the Player who had just awakened fainted again.
Shamate poked him, but there was no response.
“Sister Yun, you scared him unconscious.”
Yun Youyou said, “Nonsense. You obviously scared him unconscious.”
The moon climbed higher and higher.
Under the force of the war with the plant spirits, the dormitory finally reached its limit and collapsed.
Yun Youyou and the other two ghosts had been lounging on the ground and chatting from time to time.
But they had never expected the battlefield to creep steadily toward them. Now the fighting was almost right in front of their faces.
The plant spirits of the wilderness displayed an astonishing array of abilities.
Highly poisonous upas trees moved through the center of the battlefield. Anyone who accidentally touched one would be poisoned and die in agony.