Building a sect from scratch.

Chapter 291 Vines and Stone House

Before he could think, Nietzsche threw two True Fire Thunder Talismans at the vines. The flames engulfed the vines as soon as they touched them.

Then, an extremely piercing shriek rang in their ears, followed by even more vines attacking the players!
"Fuck!"

Everyone was startled. Players threw spells, swung swords, and tossed talismans at the vines, using almost anything they could find. Unfortunately, their movements were too slow, and in the blink of an eye, they were all entangled by the vines, bound like beads, and Nietzsche was no exception.

Only Wu Ke, who reacted the fastest, darted far away and dodged it.

"Old Wu, save me—"

Before he could even utter the word "fate," the sea turtle Qi Chun was dragged deeper into the ruins by vines, stumbling and bumping along the way, unable to utter a single complete sentence.

The others were equally astounded; everyone was stunned by this turn of events, and for a moment, no one could react.

Except for Wu Ke, all the players Nietzsche brought were dragged to an extremely strange house.

The house had no windows, and it was almost pitch black inside. Nietzsche turned the game screen to its maximum brightness, but he still couldn't see clearly. He could only vaguely make out that the house seemed to be full of people.

Fortunately, Nietzsche knew how to communicate via group microphone. She calmly analyzed in the group microphone: "Wu Ke, take a screenshot and ask Senior Sister what this is. Maybe it's a wild mini-boss that we don't recognize. Even if we have to fight it, we have to find its weakness and deal with it accordingly!"

"no problem!"

Wu Ke flew far away in the sky, not daring to approach the spot he had just been. He nodded and replied, "I just examined it, but I couldn't find anything. I'll ask someone to inquire with Senior Sister right away!"

Except in special circumstances, Fang Xianyu's alias, Baili Shuang, has basically maintained a fixed whereabouts to facilitate players reporting special events.

Even so, Wu Ke himself couldn't leave for the time being. Everyone had worked so hard to get here, and if they were all wiped out and had to run it all over again, wouldn't everyone be devastated?

So, Wu Ke set up a teleportation array on the spot in a place relatively far away from the ruins, and asked someone to find Baili Shuang and describe the matter of the vines.

"This... I'm sorry, I don't recognize what this is either."

Unexpectedly, Baili Shuang's answer was that she didn't know either!
This is troublesome!
Not only Wu Ke, but Nietzsche was also a bit lost.

But she quickly changed her mind and said, "It's okay, anyway, this thing is probably a plant spirit, or at the very least, it's related to plants, since it's a vine! If all else fails, we can burn all the trees in this area, and we'll find it eventually!"

One player questioned, "What if this isn't a tree?"

Nietzsche choked: "Hiss... We'll talk about it later!"

Having made the decision, Wu Ke didn't waste any time. He immediately took out a lot of talismans, preparing to blow up all the trees here one by one.

To avoid being caught by the vines, Wu Ke flew extremely fast, throwing various talismans one after another under every tree he could see.

However, the trees didn't seem to have anything to do with the vines. Instead, every time Wu Ke flew lower, several vines would shoot out and try to tie him up. But Wu Ke's reaction speed was ridiculously fast, giving him no chance at all. The most dangerous time was when a vine just brushed against Wu Ke's robes and waved around, looking rather impotent and furious.

But this couldn't go on. They burned many trees, but no health bars or red names appeared, and the situation reached a stalemate.

The deadlock was broken by a piercing scream.

"They're all zombies! Aaaaaah!" It turned out that although Guantangbao was tied up tightly, she habitually kept a few stones in her backpack to temporarily use as lighting tools. So, the first thing Guantangbao did when she remembered this was to find a way to take out the stones.

The sudden bright light made everyone squint, and the first one to see his surroundings clearly was none other than the soup dumpling!

The scream filled with terror drew everyone's attention, but soon, others joined in the scream.

There was no other reason than that the stone house was filled with all sorts of corpses, some resembling humans, others resembling birds and beasts, each different from the others.

Most of the humanoid corpses were headless, and they looked similar to the headless people underground. Only a few of the corpses had heads, and they were dressed in gorgeous clothes and adorned with a lot of jewelry and jade.

Moreover, all the corpses looked like they had been there for a long time. Whether they were birds, beasts, or headless people, their flesh and blood had long since dried out and were tightly stuck to the bones, making them look quite gruesome. The soup dumpling even had its eyes tightly closed and kept muttering something like "prosperity and civilization."

Nietzsche, as the president and leader of the group, was a bit bolder, but he still didn't dare to look at the corpses for long—where in the harmonious society of Earth had anyone seen such terrifying things? Moreover, the game "Ten Continents Chronicle" was just too realistic, making even such terrifying things seem so real!
She forced herself to look elsewhere and gritted her teeth, saying, "Send me the coordinates! Old Wu, go and find out where this stone house could be!"

Wu Ke immediately responded and flew towards the group member markers on the minimap.

But when he flew to the place, he was dumbfounded—there were only bare stone pillars and broken walls, and no stone houses at all!
Now, everyone is starting to feel confused.

"How is this possible! Is it a game display bug?"

"No way, I've never heard of this game having such a display bug!"

Amidst the commotion, Guantangbao, who had finally calmed down and forced himself to treat the surrounding corpses and monsters like cabbages, suggested a possibility: "Could they be underground?"

Some players disagreed: "A stone house built underground? Don't be ridiculous!"

"It might not be a stone house. It could be a cellar, but we've already assumed it's a stone house!"

This guess makes some sense, and Huangzhucao chimed in, "In that case, it's not impossible!"

"Old Wu, you've worked so hard! You're the hope of the whole village!" Hai Gui Qi Chun shouted in the group chat, "Let's dig right here! I think it'll be a cellar!"

The other players chimed in with their terrible ideas: "Old Wu, you're out of options, why don't you call in some outside help? Find a player with an earth elemental root to help you dig?"

"If you ask me, just blow it up! It saves time and effort!"

"What if we get blown up? It would be hilarious if our teammates killed us instead of the world boss!"

"So what if I die? I can just wait for the resurrection cooldown!"

"No! I don't want to wait for the CD in a dark room!"

"Anyway, it's no different from being locked in a dark room waiting for the CD!"

"..."

(End of this chapter)