Chapter 1409: First Need
Facing the two monsters lunging at her from either side, Shen Xixi first retreated half a step, leaving herself enough room. Then she swung the high-carbon steel sword in her hand. In the next instant, both monsters' heads were cleanly severed. After dealing with the enemies before her, Shen Xixi chopped off the hind leg of a Deep One clinging to the gun turret.
However, when she thrust at a larger Deep One to her left, its body covered in barnacles and looking like some sort of leader, her strike hit nothing.
Shen Xixi immediately realized it had only been an illusion. She wiped the rain from her face, caught her breath during the lull in the fighting, and looked around.
The battle on the deck was still raging. Corpses lay everywhere she looked. The players had already given up most of the deck, and those still alive had gathered together of their own accord around the stairs leading below deck, fending off the monsters' assault.
Shen Xixi also spotted the Man in the floral shirt. He was still at the very front of the fight. Like her, every inch of his clothing had been soaked through by the downpour, and the bloody water on his high-carbon steel sword seemed impossible to wash clean.
At least a dozen Deep One corpses lay around him, every one killed with a single strike. There were human player corpses as well. To spare someone whose throat had been bitten through from further suffering, the Man in the floral shirt had had no choice but to end his pain early.
After pulling out his sword, he seemed to sense something as well. He looked back toward Shen Xixi and smiled at her.
Even with the situation this dire, the Man