"Ah..."
Among the bold villagers watching, someone nearly let out a scream, but the person beside him promptly clamped a hand over his mouth and dragged him indoors.
They immediately began trembling together.
Gao Linzhi was speechless at the sight. They were natives long accustomed to aberrations, so why were they, like Xiao Lan, always screaming at the sight of corpses?
"Damn it!" The Knight Leader knew there was no way around it.
"Retreat! Let's go!"
They quickly formed up and ran toward their base in the village, intending to go offline and hide.
The three knight squads surrounding the West Wolf Village caravan also hurriedly fled the mist-shrouded area.
After killing fifteen elite knights, the Faceless Man did not vanish. Instead, it wandered around where it stood.
"I'm the CEO, I'm the CEO! You all deserve to die!"
Yet everyone else was unharmed.
The Old Leader hurriedly led the caravan into the village to take shelter as well.
For a time, the tense standoff between the players and the village was forcibly calmed by an even greater deadly threat.
Gao Linzhi could not help nodding. Sure enough, this was not a single-player game.
These NPCs were highly intelligent.
That Old Leader had just used a Three-Body Problem tactic: I may not be able to beat you, but I can call in someone stronger to crush you from a higher dimension.
That whistle was a coordinate beacon, drawing in a more powerful existence.
Gao Linzhi had the urge to test the Faceless Man's strength.
But he had not been hit by a stupidity-reducing aura, so he naturally understood that testing it meant dying.
So he merely observed from afar.
He believed Liang Corporation would come out to deal with this.
Otherwise, they could only hide inside the village, unable to