Underground Level 3
"Those are... plants?" Wan Yunrong asked uncertainly.
Just a few meters away stood a "mound." Tall-stemmed plants of varying heights were arranged like trees, but every one of them was white, including their crowns. At first glance, it looked as if mushrooms had sprouted from their tops. A closer look revealed that those "mushrooms" were made of overlapping, enveloping petals. With each breath of the "mound," a little white powder drifted down from them.
"Everyone, don't move!" Ge Pan said. "These must be the plants that sprayed the powder earlier!"
The Players moved cautiously, daring only to edge along the "mound." Mounds like this covered nearly the entire Underground Level 3.
Xu Huo followed the plant stems down to the "mound" beneath them. After studying it for a while, his expression shifted slightly. The so-called "mounds" were actually filled with corpses!
Their gas masks kept them from smelling anything outside, so it took a moment for someone to react. "Unless I'm seeing things, that looks like a human head."
As Chu Yuan spoke, he directed his light at the spot he meant. Everyone followed his gaze and saw a black, fuzzy, round object caught in the roots of a plant near the edge. The black fuzz was unmistakably hair. Looking more closely, they could make out a face turned downward, purplish and somewhat dried out.
"They haven't been dead long. A lot of their flesh has been eaten away," Miao Yu said.
"Hey, it looks like there are corpses under all these plants!" Chu Yuan exclaimed, pointing at the "mound."
They could already see seven or eight mounds. If each contained thirty corpses, that meant at least two hundred bodies.
Even in a game where they frequently killed and were killed, seeing so many corpses piled together