Blood Epiphyllum's vines seemed like tentacles reaching out of an abyss. In a single instant, they surged outward, breaking through the darkness like a beast baring its fangs and spreading in every direction until Su Bai and the others were safely enclosed within them.
The sight left Xie Ying astonished beyond words.
She had seen plenty of Players with all manner of special abilities, as well as many inconceivable Strange Creatures, but the blood-red vines before her still made her heart tighten.
Looking at the sharp barbs on the vines, Xie Ying was certain they were more than a visual deterrent. They were instruments of slaughter, terrifying things that could truly pierce flesh and crush bones.
Just like the Withered Branch controlling those nurses.
As Su Bai had said earlier, and as she herself had admitted, Xie Ying was not a Player who had entered the game normally. Long before Su Bai and the others were pulled into the game, she had already been wandering the lower floors of the Newborn Ward in Hospital No. 666, and her hearing had been taken from her back then.
The one thing Xie Ying was grateful for was that the Newborn Ward was not in the heart of Hospital No. 666. With the help of a few special items, she had managed to skirt around the Strange Creatures in the hospital's other areas and enter the Newborn Ward. Yet its lower floors seemed to be no more than the outskirts. Xie Ying wandered as though trapped in a maze, unable to find any route into the heart of the Newborn Ward.
The game scenarios Players entered were generally located at the heart of a Strange Creature's territory. Although Players who chose to remain in the Nightmare World after clearing a game could walk