720. Second Playthrough Speedrun

At that moment, Lu Ban's gaze pierced through the clouds, as if he could see the Old Ones above the moon.

He was tightly bound up there, and his crimson blood seeped into the moon's soil, dyeing half of it blood-red.

That blood pierced through the vastness of space and dripped onto this planet, becoming soil that nourished monsters. Even the Old One's gaze alone could cause contamination and mutation.

Whether he could become a node in the magic web, Lu Ban did not know.

But he knew that what needed to be done now was to establish a suitable defensive system as quickly as possible, recruit more players, and solve the problem of the magic web at the same time.

He first summoned the players.

In the crude town square, the players who had just endured a small-scale monster attack felt like survivors of a disaster. Although most of them had died in the attack—some who ran back to their corpses quickly might even have died twice—the sensation of being torn apart, gnawed on, and stabbed by insects still lingered in their minds.

In the Otherworld, under normal circumstances, merely witnessing the corpse of one of one's own kind would cost one or two points of sanity. Being killed by monsters probably reduced even more sanity. Of course, generally speaking, once someone had been killed, sanity no longer mattered. But players were different.

Players could experience death an unlimited number of times, learning combat skills and experience from death and figuring out the monsters' patterns.

When death and resurrection were possible, humans could sometimes be far more ridiculous than one could imagine. Out of curiosity, players might try every possible method to see what was on the other side of a cliff, dying hundreds of times just to jump