Chapter 203: An Uneasy Night
“The plant you took out before, is it the Four-leaf Clover from the Go-kart Instance?”
The rainforest was silent all around, Shi Xu’s voice very soft.
“Mm.” Yu Jiang said confidently, “Useful, right?”
“.” Shi Xu nodded, “As expected of you, even being able to take things from inside the instance.”
“I got penalized with a 2-minute stop.” Yu Jiang’s mouth curved slightly.
Strawberry Candy, who was leaning on her shoulder, suddenly lifted her head, “No wonder it looked so familiar, it’s the thing from the instance that blew me away.”
Strawberry Candy remembered that time and felt her back ache a bit; she didn’t expect the Four-leaf Clover to also have a time when it got taken entirely!
Sister Jiang was still too strong.
From 8 to 12 was their three-person night watch; at 10 o’clock, Yu Jiang saw Strawberry Candy dozing off with heavy eyelids and let her go rest first.
At 12, Yu Jiang and Shi Xu went to relieve Han Jiang Gu Ying and Kuang Kuang Kuang.
The three people were in the tent; Strawberry Candy and Yu Jiang slept on the left side, Shi Xu slept on the right side.
Exhausted and sleepy, they couldn’t care less about the environment; Yu Jiang took off her raincoat and fell asleep as soon as she lay down.
Around 2 a.m.
Player 6’s team also left two people on night watch, Players 6 and 7; this was the most sleepy time.
Suddenly, a head poked out from the tent, pressing a hoarse shout at them; at first listen, it nearly scared them to death.
“Are you a bit crazy? You scared me!” Player 7 looked speechlessly at Player 10.
“I really need to pee, can you come with me…” Player 10 looked troubled.
“Fine, fine, lazy people have a lot of shit and piss.” Player 7 stood up irritably.
He had truly been scared just now; for some reason, for an instant, he felt his teammate was acting strange.
He didn’t want to go either, but the team had agreed not to go alone at night; anyway, it wasn’t far, just behind a tree, and if something happened, a shout would let everyone hear.
Players 7 and 10 walked together toward the back of the tent; behind a nearby tree trunk, their figures were swallowed by the darkness, then disappeared.
Half an hour passed, they didn’t return; an hour passed, they still didn’t return.
Player 6 woke the other two teammates; by now, even the most obtuse would realize something was wrong.
They couldn’t go look for them; Players 7 and 10, both with professions, hadn’t made a single cry for help from start to finish—the problem was big.
——
Yu Jiang felt like she had just closed her eyes when she was patted awake; facing the camping lamp in Kuang Kuang Kuang’s hand, she half-squinted her eyes, still a bit dazed.
Night watch was something where staying up without sleeping could be endured, but waking up halfway through was the most painful.
“Something happened!” Kuang Kuang Kuang lowered his voice, his expression tense.
Yu Jiang instantly sobered up, first checking the time: 4:05 a.m.
“What happened?” She also asked softly.
“It’s the other team next door; two of them separated from the team and disappeared.” Kuang Kuang Kuang answered.
Strawberry Candy and Shi Xu nearby also woke up at this time; after Kuang Kuang Kuang briefly explained what happened, everyone’s expressions turned somewhat serious.
“Player 10, the one with the unsteady steps?” Yu Jiang pondered for a moment, “Is it possible that someone in their team has a problem?”
To enter a Three-star Difficulty Instance, they must have at least one life-saving prop card; how could they disappear without a sound.
“That possibility does exist.” Han Jiang Gu Ying nodded, “Listen, the rustling sounds in the forest seem to be getting closer.”
Yu Jiang had just woken up, her senses not sharp yet, and she didn’t hear it, but after this incident, she couldn’t sleep anymore.
She directly downed a bottle of Qi Replenishing Drink and took out the brightest, longest-range flashlight she had.
She wanted to see what kind of ghost thing it was; if the target was them, cowering in the tent silently wouldn’t help—it would only make them paranoid and add psychological burden; better to strike first.
Kuang Kuang Kuang nocked an arrow on his bow, ready to shoot arrow at any time; Strawberry Candy also picked up her metal baseball bat.
Seeing this, the remaining 3 players from the other team quietly shifted closer to this side.
Yu Jiang turned on the flashlight and shone toward where the two players had disappeared; in the bright beam, there was just a deciduous tree, nothing else nearby.
She turned the flashlight, continuing to sweep and search around; this flashlight was good quality, but far inferior to a prop detection lamp.
After a sweep, besides two bats, nothing was found.
“You’re a Beast Tamer, right? Can’t you ask something from these small animals?” Yu Jiang looked at Player 9.
She had noticed his profession from the Mutated Millipede.
Player 9 said awkwardly, “You’re thinking too highly of me; I’m only level 4, can only control them briefly, and can’t communicate.”
“Damn!” Player 6 suddenly exclaimed, pointing toward the 10 o’clock direction, “There was something there just now.”
Yu Jiang immediately raised her hand and shone it over: wild grass and shrubs, nothing.
Facing her puzzled gaze, Player 6 explained, “Really, I definitely saw it just now.”
Yu Jiang casually turned the flashlight a few more times; suddenly, in the circular beam, whoosh, a figure flashed by.
That thing was a bit strange, no clothes, but also seemed to have no gender features.
It disappeared very quickly—not disappeared, but shrank back into the grass.
“You all saw it, right?” Player 8 asked in a trembling voice.
“Saw it, this is a Grass Sneaky Player!” Kuang Kuang Kuang answered calmly.
“They’re coming.” Yu Jiang reminded.
“Who’s coming?” Player 6 asked instinctively.
“The tribe’s natives.” Shi Xu said softly, “Didn’t you notice, the route we came in on is gone?”
The entire tribe was already surrounded by plants.
Predatory plants always lure prey in before killing; this instance’s must-pass tribe route was a huge trap.
As soon as Shi Xu finished speaking, countless point-like ghostly lights lit up in the darkness; only when the flashlight shone over were they seen as protrusions on giant flowers.
Under the gorgeous flowers, vines moved; several ‘people’ with vines and flowers growing from their bodies walked out.
They were bluish all over, with net-like plant roots under their skin, and a huge, almost transparent egg on their backs.
The light screen scan showed information:
[Plant Person: Monsters formed by tribe natives fusing with mutated plants; the back carries eggs of some symbiotic creature.
The instance’s biggest BOSS; you can choose to challenge or run, of course, the rewards differ.]
“True literal Plant Person.” Han Jiang Gu Ying commented.
Yu Jiang’s mouth twitched; she received a mission.
[Skill Weapon Level Up Mission:
Kill Giant Mutated Scarlet Centipede (0/1)
Kill Giant Mutated Rafflesia (0/1)
After completing the mission, your skill weapon can refresh its cooldown once within 24 hours, and Attack +15 points.]
Both were hard to kill, and they needed to be taken out all at once in the instance.
Yu Jiang’s eyes suddenly lit up: bring over the Mutated Millipede, then bring over Great Luck Chariot God and them, then just random attack—whoever gets killed is the unlucky one.
