Fang Ling and the others nodded one after another, their eyes filled with confidence. After a cheer, Congxue waved her hand and led fifty people into the night.
One kilometer away from the Newbie Village, everyone was completely immersed in darkness. Apart from the brightly lit Newbie Village, only the vague outlines of things could be seen around them.
However, they couldn't see clearly, but some things could see them very clearly!
Congxue whispered, "Everyone, be careful. When you see a rabbit, don't act rashly."
"Don't worry, Sister Xue, we are stea... hmm!" One person hadn't even finished speaking before there was no more sound.
"What happened?" Congxue quickly looked back, and so did everyone else, but the spot where that person had just spoken was now empty!
"Be careful, something's wrong here." Congxue immediately realized something.
But the next moment, she saw a shadow suddenly emerge from under someone's feet, lock their throat, then yank them headfirst into the ground. A flash of white light, and they were dead!
"Watch out, there are ambushes underground!" Congxue shouted, but it was already too late.
Shadows sprang up all around, and the players tried to dodge, but their pitiful 18 attribute points were not enough against the snakes.
With the ambush and their unpreparedness, in the blink of an eye, only three people were left from the original fifty.
Congxue quickly led the two remaining people to retreat rapidly, dodging here and there, barely avoiding the snakes' fangs with their combat skills honed in real life.
They were drenched in cold sweat!
"What the hell are these things?!" Congxue asked, panting heavily.
The other two shook their heads, "Couldn't see clearly, just saw a shadow appear and then disappear."
"Too fast, our speed isn't enough... watch out!" One of them had just finished speaking when the ground under another person's feet tightened.
At the same time, a shadow sprang up behind another person. He jumped sideways to avoid it, but there was another shadow on the other side that grabbed his arm and dragged him into the ground hole!
The piercing screams tore through the darkness, echoing with the cold wind toward the Newbie Village.
Fang Ling and the others heard the screams, their faces suddenly changing.
Fang Ling couldn't help but shout, "Congxue?!"
Yun Ying said, "Go to the Resurrection Point and ask what happened. Hopefully, not everyone is wiped out..."
Meanwhile, in the underground hole, a groundhog glared angrily at the snake in front of him, "I told you to catch them alive, why did you kill them?! You stupid snake!"
The snake looked at the groundhog with a face full of grievance, obviously realizing his mistake.
The Snake King was also roaring. He had promised Yi Zheng he could catch someone alive to bring back, but in one strike, he had killed forty-nine out of fifty!
It nearly ended in disaster.
The Snake King gave a low growl, telling them to get lost, while he himself set his sights on the lone surviving human player entering the village.
"Only one left, I must be careful not to accidentally kill her too. Hmm, I'll be gentle..." The Snake King muttered, waiting for the right moment!
Boom!
The ground exploded, and the Snake King emerged from the hole, opening his jaws wide and biting down on the player's waist.
Congxue was startled by the sudden explosion, and in her panic, she was caught. She instinctively hit the snake, but...
"-0!"
"No damage!"
Congxue was dumbfounded. She could even forcefully deduct 1 HP when hitting a rabbit, but this creature took no damage?
She finally saw the creature's appearance. It was a giant, mottled snake, three or four meters long, with its bloody maw biting her waist, as if a slight pressure would cut her in half.
Girls have a natural fear of snakes. In that instant, Congxue felt the world spinning, and a breath from her lower abdomen burst to her throat, "Ah!! Help!"
A sharp scream echoed across the grassland...
At that moment, a red light flashed on the Snake King, -1!
The next moment, Congxue went wild, swinging her fists and clawing at the snake, but the Snake King just stared at a series of -0, -0, -0, -0, and walked towards a distant tree. There, Yi Zheng was still waiting for him.
"It's Congxue!" Fang Ling and the others heard Congxue's scream.
With the scream combined with the prairie darkness and the unknown threats lurking in it, everyone felt a chill in their hearts...
Even the always confident Yue Wei instinctively pulled his clothes tighter.
In their eyes, it seemed as if there was an immensely terrifying presence in the darkness of the night.
Before long, the scouts had revived.
Chen Chuanwen, Wang Mingchen, Zhang Mei, and Fang Ling met them immediately.
They expected to find out something, but...
"Didn't see clearly, just felt a big hand grab my throat, then blacked out."
"I didn't see clearly either, it was too dark."
"I think it wasn't a hand but more like teeth biting. But if you say a rabbit jumped up and bit me, I find it unlikely. After all, rabbits are only about 1.6 meters tall, and I'm 1.5 meters."
"I think it was a tentacle monster, like those from Japan!"
"Shut up, if it were really a tentacle monster, you wouldn't be dead yet, hmm... and wouldn't have a chance to speak."
...
Based on everyone's descriptions, the smart guild officers were even more confused.
"The situation is more complicated now. Those rabbits not only lure their enemies into traps but also conduct ambushes," Wang Mingchen said, rubbing his temples in frustration.
Zhang Mei said, "The biggest problem is not their strength but our complete ignorance about them. They seem to know us very well, calculating our every move. That's the scariest part."
Everyone nodded, but they were at a loss.
After all, the game had just started a day ago, and they hadn't even fought a single monster. They knew nothing about this world.
As they were discussing strategies...
Yi Zheng, who was teaching the rabbits, saw the Snake King carrying a girl back from a distance. As a rabbit, he still had night vision skills.
Yi Zheng quickly hid behind a wooden stump.
"Boss, I brought you a person!"
Hearing this, Congxue immediately perked up.
She always thought these rabbits were off, their actions coordinated and orderly. There must be a mastermind behind them.
So, she widened her eyes to see who was controlling these rabbits from the shadows. This was a huge secret!
What she saw next truly shocked her.
On the vast grassland, sat a group of rabbits. These rabbits were muscular and ferocious, looking at her like she was a lamb waiting to be slaughtered.