Chapter 28 Battle Royale
Squatting on a rock, Xu Daming shook his head and sighed, "Lorraine... so what's the situation on your demon side right now?"
"Um... this... that... the Black Death is spreading too fast, our capital has fallen..." Lorraine stammered for a while, then pretended to be sad.
Upon hearing this, Xu Daming pinched the bridge of his nose and sighed even more heavily. In his view, apart from the human capital, almost everything else was doomed.
"What do I do now? Am I really going to end up in a doomsday game?" Xu Daming complained, turning his gaze to Lorraine again.
His eyes darted around as he took a step back, scratching his head somewhat awkwardly: "Let's just take it one step at a time... Anyway, it's not like we're the ones having a hard time, the top players are in the same boat."
"bump...!"
The black ratman that had been killed earlier exploded, splattering black blood everywhere, and a black aura spread from the ground.
Looking at that scene, Xu Daming suddenly thought of something, "By the way, what level are you at?"
After a moment of confusion, Lorraine pursed her lips and said, "A 5th-tier mage, what about you?"
"Third-tier mage".
Xu Daming responded almost instantly, but a look of surprise quickly crept onto his face:
"No, I was thinking you were playing a demon race character, which doesn't have any flaws, and you weren't being used as a masochist by those extreme sadists, so why didn't you become a mage?"
He chuckled sheepishly and patted his stomach. "Don't even mention it. In this dazzling world, I don't have the same self-control as that idiot Ye Feng."
"You, you've been doing this in the game all these years?" Xu Daming's lips twitched upon hearing this, staring at the guy in front of him in disbelief.
"hold head high?"
"Good heavens..." Xu Daming couldn't help but marvel at the fact that even those players who were just giving up had a seventh-tier mage.
Lorraine rolled her eyes at him, biting her lip in exasperation, "Don't look at me like that. We're all men, you know better than me! Why are you acting like that beast Ye Feng, such a country bumpkin?"
Seeing that Lorraine kept mentioning Ye Feng, Xu Daming couldn't help but ask curiously, "Do you have a grudge against him...?"
Lorraine quickly shook her head and immediately sneered, "Of course not, that's our Akainu..."
The cold snort was cut off by the sound of the wooden plank being overturned. The two immediately turned around and looked. A pair of golden-brown fox ears first emerged from the gap in the cellar cover, and slender fingers covered in coal dust gripped the edge.
As the figure climbed up completely, the already charred and tattered clothes accidentally snagged on a nail.
With a tearing sound, it ripped open all the way to the knee, revealing the pristine white inner thigh, untouched by the smoke and dust.
She was a fox-girl with beautiful golden hair, and her golden eyes were trembling slightly with nervousness.
"Xu...—um, do you need food? Do you...do you want...something to eat?" She stammered for a moment, swallowed a word, and then looked at the two of them with some fear.
Through the tattered fabric, Xu Daming could vaguely see scars below her collarbone, and her face was also covered in scars…
After a moment of stunned silence, he knelt down and pinched her earlobe: "A fox spirit girl? Where did you escape from to get here? You were beaten so badly, you couldn't be from the north, could you?"
Upon feeling the sudden touch, the fur on the girl's tail immediately bristled.
But her hand holding the wooden board remained steady, without even trembling despite the scabbed burns on her wrist. She simply replied timidly, "Yes... I ran away from Daedalus's manor..."
"Oh, just a native, and she didn't even get killed by that guy...tsk." Having caught the familiar keyword, Lorraine poked the base of her tail with his sword sheath and teased her subconsciously.
"Caw! Caw caw! Caw!"
The circling flock of crows suddenly took flight, the unexpected noise startling her.
Her drooping eyelashes obscured her pupils, and beneath her burnt bangs, her golden hair swayed, yet a unique fragrance still wafted from her.
Xu Daming casually picked up a piece, took a bite, and then suddenly grabbed her chin: "This? What's this taste? Something's not right!"
The moment his thumb brushed against the corner of her mouth, the girl's gaze instinctively darted away, and her lips pressed into a straight line with shyness.
"But...maybe it's a little...overcooked..." She suddenly became uneasy, and her voice stammered.
He bowed apologetically, revealing a series of bluish-purple wounds on his exposed lower back.
"hiss..."
Upon seeing these wounds, Xu Daming suddenly felt a sharp pain in his back.
You have to understand, when I was hit 700 times, I felt nothing but pain!
To put it in perspective, this game has been running for 35 years, and Xu Daming is only 28 years old, having lived for over 60 years. He has never seen such a miserable NPC!
After struggling for a long time, Lorraine finally picked up a piece and ate it...
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"Holy crap, run, streamer! A huge horde of black rats is coming from the east of the city, and they're incredibly mutated..."
"They all use magic, damn it! The guards of the Zepel nobles are all dead! They've become their own kind! Run! So many mages, I can't even imagine what it'll be like if they throw a bunch of fireballs at me..."
"Damn! This game is like Resident Evil now, damn it, this thing is way scarier than zombies!"
"Well, it seems Ye Feng and his group are doing the best right now..."
...
Just as the two were about to take a short break, the live stream chat exploded with comments urging them to leave quickly.
The two of them didn't hesitate and acted quickly. Lorraine packed up quickly and was about to run away, but he was stunned when he saw Ye Feng go to inform the natives.
"What are you doing? Why did you bring these animals with you?" Lorraine grabbed his hand and frowned in surprise.
Qianqian turned his head slightly, and Xu Daming took a deep breath, looking at him earnestly: "They are not livestock... but my compatriots."
His eyes widened as if he were looking at a shockingly foolish person: "Are you obsessed with playing games? Those are NPCs! We players need to stay alive!"
"No… I can't abandon them…" Shaking off his hand, Xu Daming didn't look back and immediately rushed into the cellar.
"You're so stubborn..."
"snort…"
Seeing that he was beyond saving, Lorraine simply ignored him and turned to run away into the distance.
Even while running, he didn't forget to take out paper and pen, and after hurriedly writing something down, he jumped up and stuck it on the highest point.
"Hurry, everyone! Assemble all the horses and carts! Be quick—!"
"I'll repeat myself! A horde of black rats will be here soon, everyone hurry!"
After blasting open the cellar door, Xu Daming quickly restored order to the scene and directed them to assemble the carriage in an orderly manner.
After dozens of carriages were completed, everyone scrambled to squeeze in, instantly filling every carriage to capacity…
Xu Daming carried several children, preparing to carry them on his own two legs.
"Has everyone gone up? Is anyone behind?!"