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Boom, boom, boom…
Countless white mists rose, then vanished, and the beautiful layer of blood-red maple leaves on the ground was blown away by the explosions, revealing the accumulated white bones beneath.
"There's definitely more than just one or two entrances…"
He wondered how many people had died beneath this 'White Bone Plain'.
Right now, Yang Tao just wanted to see if he could chop them down faster than these maple trees could reproduce.
Just as he transformed into a bomber, a child's giggling sound suddenly reached his ears. Yang Tao frowned slightly and looked down at the forest.
He didn't know when, but some children's figures had appeared in the forest—tall, short, fat, thin—but from their backs, they all looked like children around ten years old.
Yang Tao controlled the magic broom to slowly descend from the sky. It was abnormal for a group of children to appear in the Bloody Forest, not to mention that these children had health bars as high as 300 above their heads.
"Uncle, let's play together…"
He didn't know when, but a child's figure appeared behind Yang Tao, floating in mid-air.
It was still a back view; Yang Tao couldn't see their faces, or perhaps… they had no faces at all.
Reaching out to grasp the small hand that was about to pour its heart out to him, Yang Tao smiled brightly: "Little friend, don't be in a hurry…"
"Uncle will definitely have a good time playing with you. Whoever runs away is a puppy~"
At the same time, he silently chanted 'accelerate,' and the magic broom shot out like an arrow from a bowstring. The powerful inertia sent the child Yang Tao was holding flying.
"Are you happy?! Uncle has something even more exciting!"
The magic broom changed direction and plunged straight towards the ground. A height of nearly a hundred meters was covered in an instant. Boom…
The powerful impact blew away the surrounding maple leaves.
Yang Tao emerged from the deep pit unharmed, carrying the monster whose health bar had been depleted.
"Heh heh, are you happy?"
He tossed it into his backpack and silently willed it to convert.
[Energy + 700]
"Quite valuable…"
[Horseshoe]
[Accessory]
[Immunity to Fall Damage]
A group of monsters with only backs had surrounded him. A series of bell-like sounds echoed through the Bloody Forest, creating an indescribably eerie feeling.
Click.
A bullet was chambered.
"Where are your adults? We shouldn't play too late…"
Bang… bang… bang…
Three shots easily took down one monster. Yang Tao's actions clearly angered them. They stretched out their hands, their bodies twisting as they crawled towards Yang Tao, their heads splitting open into flytrap-like mouths.
They ran towards Yang Tao, opening and closing their mouths.
The children's giggling sounds, which were originally innocent, also became eerie and piercing, but Yang Tao could control the volume…
Turning around, a monster had already appeared behind him. Bang…
Headshot.
With his other hand, he took out his revolver and continuously pulled the trigger, emptying the clip directly. The powerful impact caused the monsters to uncontrollably retreat rapidly.
"Fast attack speed means low damage, high damage means slow attack speed… Ugh, it's really troublesome. I'll install the miniature piston first…"
After complaining about Vick's modern weapons, Yang Tao equipped the miniature piston into his accessory slot. This time, when a monster appeared beside him, he didn't even fire a shot; he directly smashed the gun onto the monster's head.
With a whoosh, the monster flew back seven or eight meters until it hit a maple tree trunk and finally stopped.
"Knockback is this useful?"
Yang Tao's eyes clearly lit up. He held a Battlesign in one hand and a shotgun in the other. Any monster that got close was swung away like a baseball, and for monsters further away, he just raised his hand and fired a shot.
Soon, more than ten monsters lay dead in this Bloody Forest.
"Hey… don't go! Uncle just got into the mood, alright…"
These small monsters that had besieged Yang Tao all used their special abilities to leave the area.
Even if Yang Tao wanted to keep them, he had no good way.
"I still need to find a way to get a spatial anchor. Anyone who wants to run will have to use their own two feet honestly."
Yang Tao felt that his current attack power was not bad, but he lacked some special means.
He took out some more plants from his backpack and planted them on the spot. Soon, the surrounding Drenched Maple trees suffered increasingly fierce attacks.
Remounting his magic broom, Yang Tao flew towards the abandoned hospital. Returning to the hospital entrance, he looked at the remaining health of the Mutated Iron Golems below. It was clear they had also received a warm welcome.
He landed on the ground and took out some iron ingots and cobalt ingots from his backpack. He used the iron ingots and cobalt ingots to repair the bodies of these 'severely damaged' Mutated Iron Golems.
He glanced at the dense forest around him.
Walking forward, he collected all the scattered experience points into his body. Instantly, his experience bar shot up like an audio bar.
In the blink of an eye, his level broke through three digits.
"There's indeed a lot of experience here."
Just as he was sighing, a touch of emerald green appeared in his line of sight.
In a blood-red forest, a green maple tree suddenly appeared. It had no health bar and was just an ordinary maple tree.
"Is this a compromise?"
He was certain there had been no green maple tree there just now. He had flown a large circle around the area earlier and hadn't seen any green at all; only the blood-like red entered his eyes.
He looked up at the red glowing health bar above his head, then looked at the emerald green maple tree and murmured:
"Could the notebook the beast mentioned be up there?"
Yang Tao walked over and looked up at the maple tree's canopy. Sure enough, a brown notebook lay quietly on a maple tree branch.
He flew up and took the notebook in his hand.
He flipped through it, examining its contents.
Mysterious characters. He could understand the meaning, but it was completely meaningless; translated, it was full of characters that seemed to have no use.
Nearly a hundred pages were filled with numbers.
"What is this?"
However, the fact that this item was hidden in such a ghostly place clearly meant it was not a simple item, and the beast specifically asking for it added another layer of mystery.
He tossed it into his backpack.
"If I don't understand it, then I don't understand it. When I find the beast later, I'll naturally know what this thing is for."
Just after he tossed the notebook into his backpack, the surrounding maple trees began to tremble. The original murmuring and the wailing sounds from being cut down all disappeared, replaced by a voice that seemed to come from all directions.
"You should leave!"
Yang Tao showed no surprise at all, a smile curling at the corner of his mouth as he said: "I thought you wouldn't speak. Do you want to drive me away?"
"Alright! But mark out the area from the hospital to this green maple tree as a radius for me, and also leave me a path leading to the outside world."
The voice was silent for a moment.
"Alright!"
Yang Tao nodded and ordered all the Iron Golems to return to the vicinity of the hospital.
The surviving maple trees slowly moved, leaving the area around the hospital. At the same time, a path leading into the depths of the forest appeared within the dense woods.
"Then we'll be neighbors from now on…"
Yang Tao looked up at the moon.
And the health bar that had reached five hundred thousand.
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