Absolute Death Game

Chapter 148 - 132: Rock Golem Colossus_3

Hua Yueying shook her head, saying earnestly, "I absolutely didn’t lie to you, but to be honest, I don’t quite remember how I advanced my Taoist Heart to LV2. Anyway, it was just meditation, meditate and then suddenly my Taoist Heart was upgraded. Maybe if you meditate for a while longer, you might succeed."

Seeing her sincere words, Xiao Buli had to temporarily believe her. (Might as well find time to meditate all night, he thought to himself.

"I’m telling you, Old Xiao, I’d bet my bottom dollar that the Golden Dragon Legion’s vanguard has been wiped out. Do you believe it?" Wu Tao suddenly spoke up, sitting next to Xiao Buli.

Xiao Buli nodded, "That I do believe."

Such missions were generally corpse retrieval. The so-called loss of contact was often a euphemism for annihilation. With some luck, one or two survivors might escape, and when players arrived to take on the mission, these survivors would suddenly appear to explain the situation. But if luck was not on their side, there would simply be some corpses left behind as answers for the players.

Xiao Buli had seen this happen all too often.

After about half an hour’s journey and still no sign of monsters, not a single member of the Demon Clan or demonized beasts was in sight. This eerie situation led to whispered discussions among the team.

Xiao Buli frowned, feeling that something was amiss, "Wu Tao, have you been here before? Why aren’t there any monsters?"

Wu Tao looked unconcerned as he replied, "Is it not good that there are no monsters? Saves us the trouble."

Xiao Buli glanced at him, unsure whether he really didn’t care about the situation or was just playing dumb. Ever since their restroom meeting, he had felt that Wu Tao was more cunning than he let on.

"Boss, there’s a situation!" While the two were talking, Li Chuang, who was scouting ahead, suddenly shouted over the microphone, followed by Ma Long’s shout, causing the team to instantly become chaotic.

"Time to fight some monsters finally!" someone yelled, "My axe has been craving for this!" The person added dramatically.

The remark elicited laughter, but Xiao Buli didn’t join in, his heart tensing up, fingers on the keyboard, ready to strike or flee at a moment’s notice.

"Stop, everyone stop, assume defensive formation on the spot!" Zhang Yaoyang yelled, and the team immediately halted.

Ma Long and Li Chuang came scrambling back from the forest ahead, shouting as they ran, "It’s terrifying, boss, you guys need to come see this."

Xiao Buli’s heart skipped a beat, wondering what had happened, but Zhang Yaoyang had already given the order to move forward.

As they approached the scene, Xiao Buli heard sharp intakes of breath over the headset. Crossing over the hill, some stumps appeared on the ground, remnants of trees presumably chopped down by the Golden Dragon Legion soldiers to set up camp. When they passed through the forest and arrived at the camp, Xiao Buli immediately understood why everyone had such an intense reaction.

Dozens of wooden stakes were neatly lined up on both sides of the clearing, each impaling a corpse. These bodies, stripped of their clothes and hands bound behind their backs, were affixed to the stakes that penetrated from the anus and emerged through their mouths, their faces turned heavenward, eyes bulging in an agonizing expression of death without closure.

Beside them lay piles of severed limbs and flesh, and the ground bore traces of the battle—broken weapons, armor, tattered flags, and the stains of dried blood. The scene was so gruesomely realistic that it surpassed anything typically seen in horror movies.

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Clearly, these soldiers were from the Golden Dragon Legion. Despite anticipating this, the horrific sight still sent a chill down everyone’s spine, especially those who knew the true nature of the game.

(If I die like this in the game, will I die the same way in reality?) Xiao Buli couldn’t help but think as he observed the corpses. This fear was extremely immersive, completely different from any horror movie or game he had previously experienced.

He wasn’t the only one with such thoughts. Seemingly unconsciously, the players began to huddle closer together, as if seeking safety in numbers, especially the tank classes who should have been defending the perimeter, even they began to back away. Zhang Yaoyang yelled a few times to no avail.

"There’s something in the forest!" Suddenly, someone shouted. Startled, everyone looked toward the forest ahead, nerves taut. Indeed, with the sound of clashing trees, a group appeared to be rapidly approaching.

"All hands ready for battle, if you don’t want to die, get your spirits up!" Zhang Yaoyang barked forcefully, and everyone tensed up instantly.

"Ranged firepower, get ready! Battle pets, get ready! Those who can summon, get moving."

Xiao Buli quickly summoned his Talisman Soldier, and he was apparently not the only one capable of Summoning Skills. Du Yibo’s robe fluttered without a breeze, rustling as if an invisible force was swirling around him.

Suddenly, he thrust his Magic Wand into the ground with force, creating countless cracks in the earth. Rocks and clods of dirt seemed to lose their gravity and were lifted by an unseen force, coalescing in midair to form a massive Elemental Creature about four meters tall—a Rock Golem Giant, summoned: far more powerful than Xiao Buli’s Talisman Soldier by more than one level.

The appearance of the Rock Golem Giant had an immediate calming effect on the team, giving them a sense of backbone, as they took shelter behind the massive figure, watching the opposite forest intently. (