706. Every Flower Here Has Killed Me

Old Eggplant led the charge and walked into the Black Forest.

The surrounding light was absorbed by the trees, growing dim.

His target was that whatever flower had killed a player earlier.

In Old Eggplant's view, monsters near the forest were generally not too strong.

Besides, most players currently had no equipment or weapons, so if this was normal game design, these starting monsters would definitely be beatable. They couldn't be too strong.

Even the Tree Sentinel could be parried and executed at level one by a skilled player. Old Eggplant still had a sharp longsword in his hands, so there was no reason he couldn't beat some mobs from the beginner village.

Then, after more than ten minutes, Old Eggplant understood Lu Ban's malice.

What that unlucky victim had seen was only one flower from that patch. There were at least ten more flowers with terrifying, savage appearances waiting for them.

There were also countless writhing, thorn-covered vines, giving off miasma that reeked of corpses.

The only thing worth celebrating was that these creatures couldn't move. They stayed where they were, waiting to ambush careless prey, such as Old Eggplant and the others.

The battle lasted about five minutes.

It could hardly even be called a battle.

With no combat techniques or magic, relying only on the club-fighting skills he had inherited from his parents' joint beatings back in elementary school, Old Eggplant might not have been able to deal with so many monsters even if he had been holding a laser sword.

A moment later, Old Eggplant and the group of players he led crawled out of the mud pit.

"What the fuck, this is way too hard! Is this even beatable?"

"These are beginner-village monsters? I play plenty of games, so don't try to fool me."

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