Team Fight Practice (Part 2)

After the Bone-Cleft Whisperer was pinned down and unable to move, it began to undergo a bizarre transformation.

Its arms rapidly softened and lengthened. The bone fragments that had originally been tightly fitted together spread apart, revealing unknown black fibrous matter within.

The entire transformation was completed in two seconds. By then, its arms had turned into two long whips covered in sharp bone fragments!

"Fall back!"

Xie Xu shouted, but it was already too late.

As the aberration spun its body, its whip-like arms indiscriminately attacked everything around it. At the tips of the whips, where its fingers had been, sharp sonic booms rang out.

The three nearest people raised their blades to block, but unlike before, even if they stopped the incoming arms, the flexible whips would still lash viciously across their backs.

In just a few seconds, their good-quality clothes were shredded by the bone fragments. If those sharp whips struck them directly, they would tear off huge chunks of flesh.

To cover the other two as they retreated, Zhang Zhen took two lashes across the back, leaving it a bloody mess.

The situation took a sharp turn for the worse, and Tang Zheng could no longer stay still. Watching the five flee in disarray, he prepared to go support them, only to be stopped by Bai Yi.

[Psychology: Anxiety 77/100]

This was already the third time Bai Yi had stopped Tang Zheng.

"Brother Dog, they're really in mortal danger this time!"

Years of military life had made it impossible for Tang Zheng to watch his teammates face danger while doing nothing himself.

Bai Yi did not turn around. He focused intently on observing the battlefield, one hand resting on the hilt of his blade.

"Have more faith in them. Don't forget Xie Xu's talent ability. If things truly become critical, he'll signal us.

"Besides, calm your mind. If it reaches 100, you'll be in even more trouble."

"Ugh!"

Tang Zheng understood this as well. He could only force himself to calm down and continue watching from the side.

By now, the Bone-Cleft Whisperer had long since stopped spinning. It waved its soft arms, relentlessly attacking the people in front of it.

Sonic booms rang out without pause. The five continuously used the trees to avoid the lashes, darting and weaving through the ten-meter-wide illuminated area. They had no chance to fight back and could only endure the assault.

"No, I have to get close to its face!"

Xie Xu kept thinking, and before long, the outline of a plan formed in his mind.

After dodging another lash, he rolled over to Li Zihua, handed him the fog lamp and pistol, took the bone blade, and shouted:

"I'll find a chance to get close. Seize the opportunity!"

Then Xie Xu dashed out from behind the tree.

The moment it saw a living creature enter its sight, the Bone-Cleft Whisperer focused its attention on Xie Xu. The hand-whip whistling toward him was stained with someone's blood and flesh.

Xie Xu bent low, dropped to the ground, and leaped into the air, continuously evading the attacks in strange yet casual movements while gradually drawing closer.

As Xie Xu got closer and closer to the aberration, its attacks became increasingly dense. Some were impossible to avoid, so Xie Xu could only take some of the less damaging blows head-on.

Fortunately, his teammates had already adjusted. Wang Ziyi and Li Zihua kept harassing it from afar, while Zhang Zhen and Wei Fen also entered the aberration's attack range to ease Xie Xu's pressure.

Finally, after taking seven or eight lashes, Xie Xu successfully reached the Bone-Cleft Whisperer's face.

By then, his clothes had been torn to rags by the whips, and wounds of all sizes covered his body. His back was the worst; the skin had been ripped and shredded, exposing bright-red muscle.

[Sanity: 97/200]

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Xie Xu's eyes had long turned bloodshot. The continuous, high-intensity precognition had left his head splitting, and his sanity had fallen below 100.

But once he reached the aberration, the attacks suddenly slackened. Its bone whips could not threaten Xie Xu from this position at all.

The aberration tried to retreat and open up distance, but the others endured injuries to pin it firmly in place.

The instant he closed in, Xie Xu did not hesitate. Two flashes of blade light swept across the aberration's shoulders, which had no bone-fragment protection.

As its two arms were severed, the dense barrage of lashes abruptly ceased.

In an instant, Zhang Zhen and Wei Fen charged at the aberration's face from either side, while the bow and gun muzzle in the distance had already locked onto the target.

Xie Xu thrust his blade forward, piercing the aberration's chest; Zhang Zhen and Wei Fen each swung a blade, cutting the aberration into three pieces; then the gunshot and the whistle of an arrow through the air rang out in succession, pinning the aberration's head firmly into the tree trunk behind it.

The Bone-Cleft Whisperer was dead!

Blood flowed from Xie Xu's nose and mouth. His body went limp, and just as he was about to collapse to his knees, Zhang Zhen caught him.

Li Zihua rushed over from afar and first made Xie Xu drink two bottles of Sanity Recovery Elixir.

Then he began disinfecting, stitching, and bandaging his wounds before finally injecting Xie Xu with a Wound-Healing Injection.

Bai Yi and Tang Zheng also came over to treat the others.

No one present was seriously injured. Their wounds were merely superficial injuries that looked frightening, and under the effects of the injections, they began healing at a visible rate.

After drinking the Sanity Recovery Elixir, Xie Xu gradually recovered as well.

The group began resting where they were. During that time, only a few Rotting Corpses wandered over, and Bai Yi casually took care of them.

More than ten minutes later, Xie Xu had mostly regained his ability to move. He refused Tang Zheng's suggestion to return to the shelter to rest and chose to continue searching for treasure chests.

Led by Bai Yi, they continued onward and arrived at the location marked with a "bright gold" treasure chest.

As they approached, a glittering golden chest came into view. They did not rush to open it, instead having Bai Yi store it in his ring, intending to open it together after returning to the shelter. Bai Yi had already shown the spatial ring in the group chat.

At this point, the two treasure chests on the map were safely in their possession, and they began heading toward the other three.

After this battle, Wang Ziyi, Li Zihua, Zhang Zhen, and Wei Fen's combat abilities had abruptly risen to a whole new level.

The confidence they had gained from slaughtering Rotting Corpses was completely wiped away by this battle, and everyone visibly became more cautious.

Bai Yi took note of these changes and nodded in satisfaction.

Their excellent logistical support had allowed them to acquire large amounts of supplies through trading from the very beginning, sparing them the dangers of exploration and leaving them with virtually no sense of crisis.

Mu Mu's death was the best example. Although they had conducted practical combat training afterward, their reluctance to risk their lives and fear of death meant they had only fought the weakest aberrant demons, such as Rotting Corpses.

It was precisely because everyone had recognized this that they agreed to this operation.

It had to be said that this practical combat training had been a great success!

The three dark-gold treasure chests were collected one after another. By now, they had been exploring outside for over an hour. Under Bai Yi's lead, they encountered no surprises while obtaining the three chests.

They had also figured out a pattern: aberrant demons lingered around every treasure chest, and the rarity of the chest was directly proportional to the strength of the aberrant demons.

Rotting Corpses surrounded dark-gold chests; aberrant demons as powerful as Bone-Cleft Whisperers surrounded bright-gold chests. Then near that brightest chest, there had to be even more powerful aberrant demons.

After a brief discussion, everyone reached an agreement.

Toward the final treasure chest, they advanced!

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