"Get ready for battle."
Wang Meng's expression became extremely solemn as he unfolded the shoddy large shield in his hand.
Just now, on their way here, they had taken a few minutes to rest halfway, and their health and mana values had almost recovered.
Originally, the beautiful girl Lin Liyu, who was holding a staff, was still brooding over the fact that she hadn't been able to add Qin Feng as a friend just now.
"He must have disliked me because I was covered in mud. Boohoo..."
The girl was on the verge of crying.
But before she could be sad for long, the scene in front of her shocked her, and she immediately held her staff, ready to engage in the battle.
More than ten Crawlers!
In just a few seconds, they had killed all six players in a team!
At first, Wang Meng was preparing for the battle with a solemn expression.
However...
Those ten or so Crawlers looked back at their team. It seemed that they sensed that Wang Meng's team was different from ordinary teams and were all a bit wary. Then they turned around and left.
Of course, before leaving, they absorbed all the non-tradable lifespan dropped by those six players.
Although it took time for monsters to digest lifespan.
But they could absorb and store it very quickly.
After that, the ten or so Crawlers turned around one after another and fled into the depths of the forest...
"They ran away?"
Wang Meng and the others were all stunned for a moment.
These monsters...
They didn't play by the usual rules at all!
Moreover, the speed of those Crawlers was really quite fast.
Although they weren't as fast as the Sprinter, Wang Meng and his team couldn't catch up with them either.
"If they want to run, we really can't catch up."
"These monsters also know how to bully the weak and fear the strong?"
Wang Meng, Lin Liyu, and the other four people all found it a bit unbelievable.
They once again felt a sense of awe towards this "Abandoned by the Gods" game.
The monsters in this game...
They were completely different from those in ordinary online games that just stupidly waited for players to kill them!
Instead, they would form teams to hunt players!
To plunder players' lifespan!
As for what the monsters did with the players' lifespan, Wang Meng and the others didn't know for the time being, but just this fact was enough to make people feel scared.
"Let's go."
Wang Meng led the team and continued to move forward.
Soon they saw another six-player team. Three of them were already dead, and the remaining three were fleeing for their lives.
Unfortunately, they were too slow. Five Crawlers were chasing closely behind them, constantly attacking them, and it seemed that they were about to be killed...
"Arcane Orb!"
"Triple Shot!"
The two ranged players in Wang Meng's team attacked the five Crawlers from a distance.
Each of them hit a Crawler and knocked out about one-tenth of its health.
"Surround them. Don't let them run away!"
Wang Meng rushed forward with his shield, jumped up, and smashed down heavily. With a loud bang, he stunned the five Crawlers in place...
Around Shell Town, things like this were happening everywhere.
Originally, in people's impression, the monsters that should have been killed by them and turned into experience points were actually teaming up and gathering together to surround and kill players instead!
At the resurrection point in the town square.
White lights were constantly flashing, almost without stopping for a moment.
Every player who was resurrected had a very ugly expression on their face.
"We thought it would be easy to reach level 3 and return to reality, but we didn't expect..."
"The monsters even know how to team up. How are we supposed to reach level 3?"
"I have a question. If we can never reach level 3, won't we be trapped here forever?"
"Then in the real world, won't we become vegetative?"
"No, we have to gather more people. If a six-person team doesn't work, then we'll go with two teams or three teams together!"
"No way. If there are too many people, it will attract BOSSes. Just now, a team of forty people attracted a 'Curser', and one of its skills killed more than thirty of them in an instant..."
...
Countless people were terrified.
And at this moment, they suddenly saw...
On the level ranking list of Shell Town, the level of "Shadow", who was ranked first, had become level 3!
"Damn it, is this Shadow really that awesome?"
"We can hardly kill even a small monster, but he upgrades so easily?"
"It seems that the Shadow big shot is leveling up alone! After all, he's the only one with such a high level on the list."
"Definitely solo leveling. How fierce is that?"
People were all amazed.
By now, many people had left the town.
They had deeply experienced how fierce the monsters outside were.
Under such circumstances, "Shadow" could level up alone and keep upgrading. How powerful was he?
At this time.
The girl with the code name "Yali", Sister Pear, was resurrected at the square again with her teammates.
The face of this girl in a black short-sleeved shirt was as black as coal.
Because...
This was already her third death!
Her non-tradable lifespan, which was originally eighty years, had now been reduced to only ten years. It could be said that she had suffered heavy losses...
Although, for the time being, she didn't know whether this lifespan was real or not.
But it still brought her a heavy psychological pressure...
The soft and cute long-haired girl who was resurrected with her now had her hands trembling a little!
"Sister Pear... What should we do now?"
The soft and cute girl looked worriedly at her experience bar.
Their team had killed four Crawlers so far, and each person had received less than ten points of experience. They were still far from the 100 experience points needed to reach level 2, let alone level 3!
Even killing these four Crawlers had been very difficult.
Because...
When they were low on health, they would run!
Fortunately, Sister Pear, who was the leader, had some skills. After all, she had a hidden profession and managed to deal with the Crawlers that were running away with low health by using the longbow in her hand.
Otherwise, they wouldn't even have been able to kill these four Crawlers.
"All in all, we can't die again."
The girl in the black short-sleeved shirt, "Yali", had a very ugly expression. Suddenly, she saw on the ranking list that the level of "Shadow" had reached level 3...
This situation made her eyes light up.
"Everyone, spread out and spread the news."
Yali said in a deep voice: "I'll offer ten million RMB to let Shadow take me to level 3. Anyway, let's get back to reality first... He upgrades so quickly. It should be easy for him to take me to level up, right?"
Thus, such a piece of news quickly spread in Shell Town.
There was a young lady who was willing to spend ten million RMB to ask the "Shadow" big shot, who ranked first on the ranking list, to help her level up!
...
Meanwhile, Qin Feng was just on his way back.
After killing the Sprinter, he had killed more than ten Crawlers in succession in the dense forest. Finally, he managed to obtain 1 Evolution Point by using the "Greedy Hand".
He directly evolved the Greedy Hand!
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[You have consumed 5 Evolution Points, with 0 points remaining.]
[Greedy Hand (Platinum → Emerald): Assassin-type Skill. Can be used on monster corpses, with a 110% → 160% probability of obtaining an extra piece of loot as a reward. There is a 20% probability that the obtained extra loot will be upgraded by 1 grade.]
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The Greedy Hand had evolved to the Emerald level and unexpectedly had an additional special effect.
There was a 20% probability that the extra loot would be upgraded by one grade!
"Invincible!"
Qin Feng's eyes lit up.
This effect was really great.
"If it continues to evolve... Wouldn't it be a 100% chance of upgrading the grade?"
"By killing a Bronze BOSS, we could obtain Silver equipment."
"By killing a Silver BOSS, we could get Gold equipment?!"
Coincidentally!
Qin Feng had now remembered the location of a BOSS.
That BOSS was named "Curser", a monster in the form of a withered tree man. It seemed that it had killed dozens of players and was hiding somewhere in the dense forest, digesting lifespan...
Soon, that Curser would be promoted to a Silver-level BOSS!