To them, happily playing together with friends in their own little patch of land was already enough.
The reason they chased the blue-robed villager was also because they felt it was too rare.
After the villager faction rose up, basically what you could encounter in the wild were either fool villagers, or fully armed villager soldiers, or villager scouts with the profiteer trading system.
Those villagers with excellent trading systems were all protected.
After the villager faction began to take shape, players never saw villagers with advanced trading systems again.
They had only heard rumors about blue-robed villagers on the forums. Never thought they'd actually run into one by chance, so naturally they had to chase and find out more.
Unexpectedly, they ended up encountering HIM.
At this moment, this group of players had already prepared to be infected by HIM.
But they weren't panicking at all. Even though they were retirement players, they still knew that after being infected by HIM, dying once would turn them back into players.
Not long after players prepared themselves mentally, they saw HIM walking toward them.
HIM had just gotten closer, before they could even see HIM's face clearly, they suddenly felt darkness in front of their eyes.
When they woke up again, they found they had already been infected, but were not too surprised.
Everything was within expectations.
Later they'd just suicide or hack each other to death once, then it'd be fine. It was just a pity about those pieces of equipment, and the blue-robed villager they had just run into.
As this group of players were thinking, the HIM in front of them opened his mouth and poured cold water on their hope.
"You all will never turn back again."
After hearing HIM's words, all the players were a bit dumbfounded.
"Huh? What do you mean??"
"Never turn back again? We'll be zombies forever from now on??"
"Hah? This infection got upgraded?? It's not a one-time thing anymore??"
"…"
While the players were chattering noisily, HIM waved a hand and one player's head was instantly chopped off, rolling to the ground.
The player's body also collapsed with a bang.
Seeing this, all the players gasped, and only then quieted down.
They saw that the beheaded player's body slowly faded, and just as it finished fading, the same player suddenly reappeared in place.
And now, he was still covered in that greenish hue.
Only then did the group of players finally believe HIM's earlier words. At this moment, they didn't feel happy at all.
"What the hell? What is this?!! Why not let us turn back?!!!"
"Is he sick?! Who the hell wants to be a zombie!"
"Damn it, I can't even have my own choice in a game? I don't give a damn about being a zombie!!"
At this moment, these players felt not even a bit of fear toward HIM, but instead grew a feeling of disgust.
They were never the kind to follow the crowd. They just wanted to play the game in their own way. And now, HIM had directly stripped away their right to choose, so of course they were upset.
They had nothing left to lose, didn't care about HIM's power, and naturally had nothing to fear.
HIM's actions had completely ignited the players' rage, and they all began unleashing a barrage of insults at HIM without holding back.
Seeing this group's behavior, HIM was immediately puzzled.
'There actually exist people in this world who don't crave power?'
In his mindset, turning these weak players into zombies, giving them power, giving them a chance to become stronger, was a kind of grace.
They should have been like Xiaodao earlier, loyal and grateful to him. He never thought they'd talk back to him.
HIM really couldn't understand how these players thought. Naturally, he also couldn't tolerate the things they had just said to him.
With a few waves of his hand, all that could be heard was "pa pa pa pa".
The players' brains exploded like fireworks with crackling pops from inside their skulls.
The players instantly all collapsed to the ground.
Not long after, they all revived again, but the sky had started raining lava at some unknown time.
Screams and the smell of burning flesh and bones instantly filled the whole space.
The players once again died in pain.
When they revived again, the area they were in was suddenly flooded with water…
After enduring more than 10 rounds of brutal torture, this group of players finally couldn't take it anymore.
You should know, the game is in full-immersion mode, every bit of pain is real.
Even with the pain setting at the lowest, these 10+ rounds of torture were enough to break anyone mentally.
Some players even tried contacting family to forcefully unplug the device, but after logging in again, they still found themselves stuck in this space.
They also understood one thing: without HIM's permission, they could never leave this place.
Now, there were three choices in front of them: Either obey HIM to leave this place, or stay here and keep getting tortured, or quit the game entirely.
After enduring so much, the players had already found their answer deep inside.
A player named Bai Lou, after reviving again, immediately knelt in front of HIM.
"We… we were wrong!!"
"We're willing to follow you! Please, no more!!"
As Bai Lou knelt down, the rest of the players also one after another knelt in front of HIM.
"We're willing to follow you…"
Seeing the players finally submit, only then did HIM stop torturing them.
At this moment, on the side, the mustard who witnessed all of this couldn't stop trembling.
But it wasn't from fear—it was from excitement.
"His power… can help us!!"
The blue-robed villager that Bai Lou's group had been chasing was precisely Mustard, who had been cast out from the Villager Kingdom by the Villager King.
After being banished from the Villager Kingdom, he understood the Villager King's true intention.
He clearly knew his mission was to save the Villager Kingdom. But all along the way, he never had time to actually think about how to save it.
All along, just surviving had already been hard enough. Though Mustard was clever, he had grown up under the protection of villager soldiers.
In the Villager Kingdom's faction, blue-robed villagers didn't need to learn how to fight. Because they were born with excellent trading systems, which made them rare resources of the Villager Kingdom, from birth, they were well protected.
After reaching adulthood, villagers with excellent trading systems would be directly brought into the Villager Kingdom.
The location of the Villager Kingdom was very hidden, and guarded by heavy troops.
These blue-robed villagers who had always been well protected, not to mention combat experience, even survival experience was very lacking.
Though Mustard didn't have the same excellent trading system as the others, he was favored by the Villager King because of his intelligence and big-picture thinking, not to mention possible blood relation.
Mustard was the same as other blue-robed villagers, completely lacking in combat experience.
Though Mustard had three purple-tier Ender Eyes on him, he didn't dare use them carelessly. He knew exactly how precious those three Ender Eyes were.
They were the hope of saving the Villager Kingdom, so naturally, he didn't dare to use them recklessly.
All along the way, he had been hunted by all kinds of things, players, monsters, zombie players, disaster villagers…
It was his first time witnessing how cruel the world was. Danger was truly everywhere.
From the moment he left the Villager Kingdom, he had been in constant escape mode, with no time to even think about how to save it.
And at this moment, it seemed the heavens had given him a chance.
When he heard from Bai Lou's group that this powerful person with glowing white eyes in front of them was HIM, he finally saw hope for saving the Villager Kingdom.
Mustard naturally knew about HIM. In the Villager King's diary, HIM had been mentioned. It was precisely because of discovering HIM's existence that the Villager King felt threatened.
That's why he desperately chose to cooperate with the Void, which led to the Villager Kingdom falling under the Void's control.
Actually, Mustard didn't have a good impression of HIM.
Although the current state of the Villager Kingdom wasn't entirely caused by HIM, no matter what, HIM was still the trigger.
But right now, he couldn't care about all that anymore. After everything he had experienced, Mustard knew clearly, he had no other options.
Relying on his own power to save the Villager Kingdom was as hard as ascending to the heavens.
So he could only rely on a strong person to achieve his goal.
And now, that strong person was right in front of him.
As Mustard was thinking, HIM finally stopped torturing Bai Lou's group. Seeing that they had all finally knelt and begged, HIM finally showed satisfaction on his face.
"Only through unconditional obedience, will you get what you want."
"Understand?"
After hearing HIM's words, Bai Lou's group didn't dare delay and quickly nodded.
"Understood…"
"Got it, got it…"
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