When the amber crystal was presented to Tailun by [ Zhongde ], the tall and imposing priest also showed a look of surprise:
"You... you even have this kind of skill?"
[ Zhongde ] said with a smile:
"They are merely experiences from the depths of the soul."
Tailun asked with a hint of disbelief:
"Could you elaborate on how you got him to confess?"
[ Zhongde ] shrugged, saying nonchalantly:
"Actually, it's nothing much. We just repeated what he did on those experimental subjects a few times. We were short on time and had a heavy workload, so we might have gone a bit overboard. Anyway, he'll need to recuperate for a while."
Hearing that it was such a simple operation, Tailun felt a mix of emotions, while the young experimental subjects standing beside him, who had been confirmed to be homeless, showed a hint of joy at having gotten their revenge.
Tailun looked at the children, then at [ Zhongde ]:
"That bishop, along with the rest of them, can be handed over to you to deliver to White Wax Town."
Zhongde nodded:
"Understood. In a couple of days, a Soul Returner called [ Concrete Mixed with Spaghetti ] will come to take over from you."
Tailun asked in confusion:
"In a couple of days? What about these two days?"
[ Zhongde ] grinned:
"The road between the two towns has been impassable for the past two days."
Is it Blood Corpse?
Tailun seemed thoughtful:
"So they'll leave after a while?"
[ Zhongde ] shook his head:
"Three days later, at this time, they were all dead."
Outside the Weeping Willow Town, deep in the dense forest.
Although the late autumn sun was not scorching, it still deterred the Blood Corpse.
At this moment, in the dense forest, almost every tree had one or more Blood Corpse lurking in the shadows of its canopy.
They rested motionless, just like tired humans, their physical condition no different from a computer in standby mode.
A rustling sound came as two vines continued to move forward through the soft humus on the ground, and would immediately make way for any plant that occasionally seemed to have developed an instinctive Aberration.
A Strangler Fig branch covered with small thorns climbed up the trunk of a large tree. Although the tree had already undergone slight Aberration, it was unable to move to avoid the Strangler Fig and could only let it entwine around its body.
Fortunately, the branches weren't targeting the tree, but rather the Blood Corpse leaning against it. The Strangler Fig's branches didn't choose to start climbing up from the Blood Corpse's ankles, but instead aimed at the Blood Corpse's neck from the very beginning.
After gently wrapping around twice, the Strangler Fig tightened instantly, its barbs, almost invisible to the naked eye, digging deep into the Blood Corpse Blood Corpse's skin, rendering it unable to make a sound.
It immediately clawed at its own neck, its sharp nails tearing jagged gashes into the flesh, but it couldn't completely sever the Strangler Fig that was still growing.
Two minutes later, the Blood Corpse's legs twitched weakly, and it logged off completely.
The Blood Corpse certainly didn't die from suffocation. Its true cause of death was that the Strangler Fig, tightening like a plastic cable tie, had broken its cervical spine. The connection between its brain and body had been physically severed. So even though the Blood Corpse wasn't theoretically dead, its brain could only truly control a few muscles around its mouth.
Having confirmed the state of the Blood Corpse, the Strangler Fig slowly loosened its grip and crawled toward another Blood Corpse that was waiting nearby. At the same time, a Deadwood Vine pulled on the ankle of the half-dead Blood Corpse and gently dragged it into the depths of the dense forest.
The sounds of the entire process were completely drowned out by the rustling of leaves in the autumn wind. Even after the Blood Corpse disappeared from his companions' sight, the figure sitting upright in the shadows on the high-backed chair did not make a single move.
Dozens of meters away, the three people who couldn't possibly team up breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing this.
It goes without saying that the manipulation of the Strangler Fig was done by [ Pond Fish and Old Abyss ], a "silver-level adventurer" with one of the best [ Plant Compatibility ] attributes among the current players. Meanwhile, the "silver-level adventurer" [ Dark Archmage ] was responsible for observing the Earl's movements a hundred meters away. As for the "gold-level adventurer" [ Howling Pothos ], who stood silently with a sullen face on the side, he served as the two's backup.
The reason why the three people, who would normally never team up, acted together was actually because they were at the request of [ Gill's Cuisine ].
He worried that the battle the previous night might have angered the Count and caused changes to the plan, so he assigned several men to secretly follow the Blood Corpse group during the day to observe and prevent any situations that [ Aluode ] might not have time to report.
Blood Corpse are monsters that can enter nightmares and wake up the natives, but for these players who are currently in the first and second tiers, they are basically just groups of wild monsters.
Faced with unwanted wild monsters, the three of them naturally didn't hold back and immediately began stealing them.
The half-dead, Blood Corpse was dragged in front of the three. A polite exchange of pleasantries ensued, reminiscent of Kong Rong offering pears, between the shy college student, the socially awkward gamer with a narrow social circle, and the introverted former professional gamer:
"You eat, you eat."
You eat.
You eat first.
"You guys eat first, I'll observe for a bit."
"..."
After a mysterious ritual before the meal, the three finally decided on the order of eating. The first Blood Corpse was silently killed by [ Howling Pothos ], causing his experience bar to increase by a barely perceptible amount.
The second Blood Corpse was brought before the [ Dark Archmage ]. Seeing the monster still breathing, this expert in reconnaissance and infiltration swiftly and decisively ended its life.
The third Blood Corpse was [ Pond Fish and Old Abyss ]. Since it was a monster assigned to her, there was naturally no need to pull it back.
Two vines dragged the Blood Corpse into the bushes, and soon the hardened ends tore apart the Blood Corpse's brain along its eye sockets.
As time went on, the three of them became like a sophisticated machine: one kidnapped, one executed, and the other observed the BOSS's movements.
As dusk approached and the Blood Corpse began to roar, the three of them had already executed more than a hundred Blood Corpse, an efficiency that was hard to imagine.
Although the cooperation between the three people looks simple, it actually requires the right timing, location, and people.
A clear day, a dense forest, and a relatively elite team—without any one of these elements, this silent, one-sided crushing victory would not have been possible.
Seeing that the Blood Corpse were becoming more active, [ Pond Fish and Old Abyss ] decided to stop while he was ahead and did not attempt any more risks.
[ Howling Pothos ] also agreed with her approach, after all, the three of them were still far weaker than a vampire count, and safety should be the priority in all actions.