Chapter 688: The Real Sifang Palace City
The sight of corpses sprinting was horrifying at first glance, but they weren't very dangerous. Many of them had such hollow upper bodies that they split in two halfway through their run. Still, there were so many of them that after holding out for a while, the players gave up on wiping out the entire horde and let the corpses rush past. They took the chance to move closer to the Eye Offering Festival.
Xu Huo slowed down. As he kicked away the corpses crowding around him, he watched the two players who had charged the farthest ahead.
They had covered their faces and most of their bodies with Defense Artifacts, but when they were less than five meters from the wooden eyes, one of them actually removed his artifact himself. Worse, he used his own artifact to open the other player's, making the player who had still been resisting fall into the same numb, rigid state as him.
The players who witnessed this hurriedly retreated.
"Even if you don't look at them or get caught in their red light, you still can't avoid the power of the Eye Offering from this distance!" Yi Pei said as she backed away. "Could the dungeon's mental influence be growing stronger? Or does putting so many eyes together double the effect?"
The corpse horde that had rushed out ahead had already passed the players. They were all heading to the same place, along with the living people, and didn't target the players at all.
The drumbeats and the sound of water both came from the direction of the pond. The Eye Offering Festival procession seemed to be heading there too.
"Thank goodness. Everyone's gone to the pond, so the county town is safe!" Wei Xian said,