Despair

The stone troll's body was massive and solid, almost occupying the entire mountaintop.

Its pitch-black iron-like stone body gleamed with a strange luster in the sunlight, making it difficult to look at directly.

The moment it appeared on Qiuming Mountain, the entire mountain trembled.

Roar!

After the stone troll formed from the pile of rocks, it seemed to notice Jiang Cheng and the others. Its head, assembled from stones, shook slightly, revealing a somewhat humanized expression.

Then, opening its stone mouth, it roared fiercely at Jiang Cheng's group.

In an instant, countless leaves, small creatures, stream water, branches mixed with mountain soil and rocks formed an air current that swept toward everyone.

Splat! Splat! Splat! Splat!

The violent air current was swift and fierce, forming a straight line. No one could dodge in time. The moment the air current reached them, hundreds were immediately pierced through by branches or had their skulls penetrated by rocks, falling motionless.

Hundreds of splendid blood flowers bloomed along the path of the air current, instantly triggering a series of terrified screams.

"Huahua is dead!"

"Xiamo she..."

"This Mountain God is terrifying, let's go!"

"Everyone hurry down the mountain! Quick!"

Seeing this, Su Xiaolou, Huo Silou, and Luo Cheng immediately gave retreat orders.

One confrontation had already killed over three hundred people. Huo Silou had absolutely no desire to fight.

Her face changed drastically as she quickly led everyone away.

But the next moment, as the Mountain God spread its arms and opened its terrifying giant mouth, it inhaled violently toward those in front of it.

A vortex-like air current appeared in its mouth, forming a black hole that began frantically swirling everything around it.

In an instant, everyone's bodies involuntarily lost control, caught by the vortex current, lifted into the air, and screaming as they were sucked into the Mountain God's giant black hole.

"It's over, Qionglou is completely wiped out."

As Huo Silou was pulled into the black hole, this desperate thought flashed through her mind.

She truly hadn't expected that her people, who hadn't died at the blue skeleton's hands, would die at the hands of this damn Mountain God.

So unfair.

With a dizzy sensation, Huo Silou immediately passed out.

When she woke up again, she was in a strange place so dark she couldn't see her hand in front of her face.

Huo Silou's head still hurt, and her consciousness was somewhat hazy. "Am I dead?"

In the darkness, she felt her own body and found it was still there.

"Is death in the Great Wasteland like this?"

"Sigh, this old lady's first time, gone just like that. I really can't accept it... and I won't be able to log in for three days. How annoying."

Huo Silou felt quite upset.

The mechanism of having to wait three days to log in after death was deeply hated by all players.

But there was nothing they could do. It was a rule, unchangeable, and they could only passively accept it.

However, Huo Silou was surprised to discover that she seemed to be... not dead.

"Ugh... it hurts, where is this?"

"Huh? Qinshou's voice, you're not dead?"

"Hmm? Huatai's voice, are you here too? Where are we?"

"Um, seems like none of us died, we were just sucked in."

Once someone spoke up, almost everyone began to rise and greet each other.

"Not dead? Wait, everyone report in, let's see how many of us are here."

Huo Silou called out with excitement.

Her Qionglou members weren't dead. That was truly fantastic news.

"Guild Leader? Guild Leader, you're not dead either? That's wonderful! With Guild Leader here, I feel much better. I'm Susu."

"Where are we? I can't see anything. Ah... I think I touched something slimy, so disgusting!"

"Ah... it hurts, what's going on? Something fell from above, ah... my eyes!"

Before Huo Silou could organize her members, as strange liquids began falling from above, the entire black hole suddenly erupted with screams of pain.

"What's happening? Everyone, don't panic! Don't shout or scream. Everyone, move toward your right side. If you find a wall, follow along it. Don't worry about anything else, just see if you can find each other."

In the darkness, Su Xiaolou's voice also began to sound, calming everyone a bit.

Darkness always somehow instilled fear.

Especially with disgusting slime occasionally falling from above, corroding their bodies upon contact, making everyone extremely anxious and uneasy.

"Damn, who's touching my chest? I'm a grown man, can't you all be a little more decent?"

"It's me, it's me, don't make a fuss. Being touched by me is your honor."

"Ah... who's touching me? You're all taking advantage of the situation! I quit!"

When people began following Su Xiaolou's orders, this situation inevitably arose. Many female players were groped in the darkness, immediately causing a commotion.

But when a knight player was suddenly grabbed by some mysterious force and squeezed into bloody pieces, spattering onto nearby players, they no longer cared about such trivial matters.

"Ah... what is that thing! Get away, get away from me!"

Whoosh

The sound of wind whistled.

Splat!

"Ugh... Guild Leader, save me... I think my heart's been pierced..."

Thud. That player hadn't finished speaking before falling to the ground, startling everyone.

"Ah... help! There are killer vines!"

The scene was chaotic. Huo Silou wanted to control the situation, but it was clearly futile.

Even she herself felt something constantly approaching her from all sides.

"Killer vines... where exactly are we?"

Huo Silou suddenly felt a trace of despair.

"Sigh, if the blue skeleton were here, it probably wouldn't be like this, right?"

"Wait, where did the blue skeleton go?"