Am I going to be controlled by the players too?

After saying that, Cheng Cheng realized that he was on a battlefield, with monster corpses everywhere and the smell of gunpowder in the air.

Sylvia and Freya have both reached level 50!

Level 50? When did you reach that level?

Cheng Cheng was overjoyed, then shook his head and looked at the faint black mist in the distance: "What happened?"

"It's a beast tide!"

Cuckoo, standing nearby, laughed and said, "A massive beast tide suddenly attacked today, and Navel asked us for help. It's normal that you didn't know since you just arrived, boss."

"Oh, it's a beast tide."

Cheng Cheng nodded, seemingly lost in thought.

He then broke out in a cold sweat and drew his sword to slash at the cuckoo!

"Om-!"

The sword stopped at Bugu's neck. The girl with short, gray-blue hair smiled and tilted her head slightly: "Boss, why are you trying to kill me?"

"You monster who alters perception..." Cheng Cheng gritted his teeth, "Didn't I just kill you?"

"Sigh... As expected, the boss is special."

Bugu sighed, took a step back with her hands behind her back, and then chuckled softly, "But just now... did you see something wrong?"

Cheng Cheng was slightly taken aback.

He looked toward the spot where the cuckoo's body had been.

There lay the remains of a kingdom soldier.

The dark green military uniform, head and body separated, head rolled to one side, eyes still open, full of astonishment.

Li Xianyu was trying to sew him into the body of the newly created undead, while Freya complained, "Sylvia, I know you have a legal license to kill, but you can't just kill randomly... This soldier was just bringing you a cup of coffee that was bitter, so killing him is a bit too brutal, isn't it?"

The image of Sylvia in his mind also looked puzzled: "Cheng Cheng, why did you kill him?"

I... killed the wrong person?

I clearly killed the cuckoo, and everyone was just angrily condemning me for killing the cuckoo, how could this happen...?

Could it be that I really misread it?

Cheng Cheng looked at the cuckoo in horror.

The monster girl grinned smugly, her lips curving upwards to reveal two small fangs, and walked closer step by step with her hands behind her back.

Cheng Cheng couldn't lift his sword—he didn't know if he would misjudge again!

“Boss, look!” Bugu held up two fingers and said with a grin, “You can’t kill me, and I don’t want to hurt you either…”

"So let's pretend nothing happened, fool ourselves, and get along well, okay?"

As she spoke, a blood moon seemed to rise in her blue-purple eyes, and between her two fingers, a phantom card was clearly visible!

The card spun around and then disappeared, but it was enough for Cheng Cheng to see the image on it clearly—

The moon hangs high in the night sky, its phases shifting. In the moonlight is the silhouette of a pensive face. Beneath the moon, two dogs gaze at the moon and bark softly. The crayfish in the pond seem to yearn for the moon palace, struggling to climb out of the water, preparing to follow the winding yellow path to the place they have longed for.

Moon brand.

It symbolizes illusion, lies, ambiguity, and delusion!

This monster that suddenly appeared beside me... is it a legendary figure with a hidden identity?

Chapter 84, The Bodhisattva of the Jingguan

What a legend...

Cheng Cheng thought about it and realized he couldn't win, so he slowly lowered his sword.

With her legendary strength, she wouldn't need to go through all that trouble to harm us... Besides, so far, she hasn't shown any malice towards us.

What was she doing infiltrating the team? Was she just looking for fun?

Although I have the Spring and Autumn Cicada, this guy has been following me since the fourteenth floor, and I will still encounter him even if I reload the game—unless I skip the Abyss buff and jump directly to the fifteenth floor, but then I won't be a match for the beast tide in front of me.

More importantly, the game event is about to start, and if there's a rollback, we might not be able to catch up!

After pondering for a moment, Cheng Cheng decided to keep an eye on her and see how things went.

If anything goes wrong, immediately quit the game, restore your memories, and then commit suicide to revert to a previous save!

“That’s more like it~” Bugu smiled. “Look over there, we’re going to be busy today.”

As she spoke, she clapped her hands.

"Snapped!"

The Kingdom soldier who had just been lying on the ground with his head chopped off was now a broken piece of wood, the shavings of which were a ghastly white.

Li Xianyu, who was originally trying to transform into a necromancy, scratched his head and stood up in confusion.

As Cheng Cheng watched this scene, his fear of Bugu deepened.

Both being legends, Villette's "justice" is ruthless and unreasonable, while Karen's "temperance" weakens her opponents into weeds, but both are typical examples of direct combat.

The cuckoo's "moon" is too eerie and terrifying, like a dark and gloomy deity that blocks out the sun. One moment it's laughing and chatting, and the next moment no one knows if they will be tricked without their knowledge.

At this moment, the beast tide had already surged eight kilometers away, entering the range of long-range strikes.

The silver-rank mages drank the potion to replenish their magic power, and then began to chant. Flames descended from the sky once again, scorching the beast tide.

The air smelled burnt.

The roars of beasts, mixed with the sizzling sound of burning flesh, surged from afar.

Cheng Cheng glared at Bugu, then picked up his sword and walked towards the beast tide.

…………

“Behold, the tide of beasts is as numerous as the sands of the sea.”

They surged forth from the cracks in the earth, filling the entire land, roaring like surging waves, their hooves shaking the earth.

The king's army arrayed its battle lines to turn the land into blood and fire.

The warriors' bones were scattered like pebbles, and the warhorses' intestines were spread out like ropes.

Finally, a loud voice came from the sky and said: It's done.

Then death came riding on a grey horse, and with him was given power to kill a quarter of the earth by sword, by famine, by plague, and by wild beasts.

This war, this disaster, this desolation.

Everyone who has eyes has seen.

Everyone who has ears hears.

"For the land is full of violence, and the city is full of wailing..."

Outside the battlefield.

Dozens of men in black robes watched the battle silently. The leader spoke softly:

"The Vicious Rose implanted a spell within her body, willingly sacrificing herself in exchange for the greatest death feast in the history of the entire fifteenth floor—"

"Now, it is time for us to be martyrs—to bring death and destruction to the kingdom's army!"

They all extended their right hands to make the sign of the cross on their chests:

"I declare to the original source, the reason for suppressing the soul, that I may perform the incantation to summon demons and gods..."

As the first lines of the sacrificial inscription were finished, their arms suddenly disappeared, as if being gnawed by something invisible, then their legs, torso, and internal organs—one piece after another vanished into thin air.

However, they seemed unaffected, their faces calm, their lips moving as they continued chanting:

"...awe and fear of divine might, trembling with trepidation..."

"The offerings indicated by the oracle have been gathered. In the name of the Vicious Rose, offer the flesh and soul within the ring of fire to the Primordial Demon God—"

"Welcome, Daughter of Death, the great demon 'Grim Reaper'!"

As the last sentence fell, all that remained of the black-robed figures on the ground was their laughing mouths in the air before they vanished completely, leaving no trace.

The wind blew it away, and nothing was left.

…………

battlefield.

Hundreds of thousands of magical beasts suddenly stopped and looked up at the sky, all their roars ceasing.

Cheng Cheng stopped his sword and looked up at the sky, but he saw nothing but the yellowish-white sun.

The sunlight was blinding. He squinted.

"Ding~ The limited-time event 'The Wasteland Where Gods Witnessed Their Death' has begun. Please do not log out of the game during the event!"

Huh, it's only just started?

As soon as Cheng Cheng logged into the game, he saw a horde of hundreds of thousands of beasts in the distance and thought the event had already started.

If a beast tide of this scale isn't considered an event, then what level of event would a real one be?

Cheng Cheng found out very quickly.

"clang--!"

The huge and far-reaching chimes resounded through the sky, echoing throughout the fourteenth floor for several tens of seconds.

At the same time, the scorching sun disappeared, and a huge, irregular black hole appeared in the sky, as if the sky had collapsed, twisting and deforming. Blood-red light pressed down, dyeing the entire level blood-red.

Under the crimson light, the monsters fled in terror, but the mountains of corpses came to life, emitting a thick red mist that then gathered together within it—corpse parts piled up, stacked, and merged, with hundreds of faces roaring and howling in agony on the surface of the fleshy walls, only to be pulled back by pairs of humanoid arms.

Finally, a huge Bodhisattva statue appeared before everyone's eyes.

The statue is at least 500 meters tall, pure white, with its head bowed, eyes closed, a half-smile on its face, and a compassionate expression that seems to pity all living beings.

Its right hand is in the Abhaya Mudra (gesture of fearlessness), and its left hand is in the Varada Mudra (gesture of wish fulfillment). At its base is a bright red lotus pedestal.

The demon of "Death"—the Jingguan Bodhisattva—has descended.

The moment it arrives marks the beginning of the "Jingguan Festival".

Dozens of enormous and extremely long humanoid arms extended from behind the huge Bodhisattva statue, supporting the lotus base, and then crawled slowly toward the kingdom's army camp!