Game of the World Tree - Chapter 174

Chapter 174: Players Being Spied On

On Tomato Fried Tomato led the team of the “First Legion” guild to explore deeply along the rocky path.

While walking, the players would perform identification on the newly seen species and compete to collect detailed information about the underground world.

This is the branch quest of the main quest [Explore the Underground World] – [Monster Detection], which requires players to identify various species including monsters, plants, animals, etc., and a total of 10 identifications can be completed to complete the quest.

The players have also identified that the giant fern that preys on small monsters is a magical plant called “Dark Purple Fern”, which can prey on animals that stray into it, and is a great threat to creatures below the upper strength of Black Iron.

Of course, as a magical plant, they are also excellent magical materials, but with the strength of the players, there is no way to obtain them.

However, they also kept their eyes open and planned to go back to see if they could ask the NPC for help after the exploration.

In addition to [Monster Detection], there is also a branch quest [Map Drawing].

This is easy. Whenever a player passes through an area, a small map will be opened, and the system will automatically record their path. They only need to use [Reconnaissance] to scan the surrounding terrain regularly, and then upload it to record it in the system.

As long as they can record a map with an area equivalent to one kilometer in radius, they will complete the task.

These two tasks seem simple, but they also test the hand speed.

Because once a new species or map is recorded and uploaded to the game system by a player, the other player cannot record it again, and must find new species and new areas.

This is Eve using the players’ hands to explore the underground world in depth.

Although Eve got some information about the underground world from the spider queen Rose, it is actually limited, and it is far less detailed and more than the players’ personal exploration.

And this place is far away from His body, not within Eve’s control, and there may be other true gods, so He cannot scan directly with divine power without scruples, and can only rely on players.

And because the players’ consciousness is connected to Eve’s game system, the information they collect will be reflected to Eve in the first time and recorded by Him, so this mode is quite useful.

Anyway… the players were having a lot of fun exploring the underground world.

Win-win, win-win.

If players want to complete the main quest [Explore the Underground World], they must complete 50 side quests in total!

Eve has calculated that with the maximum exploration distance He now provides to players, 50 [Map Drawing] can just cover all the underground world areas that players can reach…

However, 50 side quests are not easy to complete. This number cannot be completed by just two people.

At this time, the benefits of a large guild are reflected, with more people and a larger team!

In order to complete this task, Tomato Fried Tomato organized all the senior players of the “First Legion” guild, a total of more than 100 people, and specially chose a night on Blue Star to go online and explore together.

He led the guild members and walked about three kilometers, and finally bypassed this strange dark purple forest.

However, as he explored, the inexplicable feeling in Tomato Fried Tomato’s heart became stronger and stronger. He always felt as if something was secretly spying on him…

As the highest-level player in the guild, he still believed in his sixth sense.

After hesitating for a while, he asked the hunter player in charge of the front-line exploration in the team:

“Xiao Ba, have you detected any creatures nearby? Why do I always feel that something is watching us?”

A hunter player with the green Chinese characters “Ba Ba” on his head cast a few [Detection Techniques] and said:

“President, there are a lot of creatures around here. Maybe… a monster has noticed us. But it seems that there is no strong breath, I don’t think there is any need to worry.”

“Is that so…”

Tomato Fried Tomato muttered.

After speaking, he took another look at the name above Ba Ba’s head, and his mouth twitched:

“By the way, I suggest you change your nickname, otherwise I always feel at a disadvantage when I call you by your name…”

Ba Ba:…

“Hahahahaha!”

The other players laughed.

The whole team moved forward in a cheerful atmosphere…

After bypassing the dark purple giant fern forest, they saw a huge mushroom forest blocking their way.

The smallest of these mushrooms was three meters high, showing a strange light blue color. The mushroom caps also flashed a deep light, reflecting the surroundings in an exceptionally beautiful way. Under the mushrooms was a piece of soft brown-black soil.

When they came here, the players also saw traces of monsters.

They were all very small and ran very fast. They shuttled between the mushrooms and looked at the elves passing by vigilantly.

Unlike the monsters on the surface, the monsters in the underground world tended to be dull in color as a whole, as if they wanted to blend into the environment, and they generally looked very ugly.

A player was inspired and also entered the mushroom forest to hunt.

He was a hunter, very fast, and caught up with a monster in an instant and killed it. Then he found that the strength of these monsters was not very high.

This surprised him a little.

“Isn’t it said that there are many monsters in the underground world? It feels… very peaceful.”

He said puzzledly.

As soon as he finished speaking, the ground suddenly shook, and the soil where the player was standing suddenly turned over, and a huge pincer stretched out.

Under the horrified gaze of all the players, a hideous giant scorpion-like monster came out, clamped him in half with its pincers, and his blood and internal organs were scattered all over the ground, and dragged his body into the soil…

All this took less than a few seconds.

And in the distance, there were more and more identical giant scorpions popping up, and it seemed that there were nearly a hundred of them!

But after discovering that the target had been preyed by their companions, they quickly drilled into the soil again and restored everything to its original state…

And those vigilant small monsters rushed forward one after another, scrambling to devour the blood, flesh and internal organs that the player had spilled on the ground, and soon wiped out all traces, and continued to shuttle leisurely in the mushroom forest…

as if… nothing had just happened.

“Fuck!”

“Fuck!!”

The players were stunned.

Tomato Fried Tomato’s expression was solemn, and then his eyes lit up slightly:

“It’s not that there are no powerful monsters, but they are hiding… Those monsters on the surface are left by them on purpose, as bait to attract prey!”

When the giant scorpion appeared just now, he identified that the opponent’s strength should be above the black iron level.

With this strength, if it is a monster without wisdom, it is not impossible for the players to defeat it with more people after finding its weakness!

Taking a deep breath, he said excitedly:

“Brothers! Work! Lure one or two out to test the water first!”

One of the goals of exploring the underground world is to find more monsters to upgrade!

Not to mention, these giant scorpions are blocking their way!

Hearing Tomato Fried Tomato’s order, the players of the “First Legion” suddenly became excited, and they began to form teams according to the usual battle mode of hunting monsters in the Elf Forest.

The mage first chanted a spell and released explosive magic at a corner of the land to try to anger the monster.

Of course, the players were also prepared to run away at any time, because sometimes it might not be just one monster that was enraged, but a group of them, and then it would be a competition of who could run faster.

But this time, the players were lucky.

A fireball spell was cast, and a big hole was blown out in the soil, and three giant scorpions were immediately enraged.

The monsters have no wisdom, they rely entirely on instinct. They immediately drilled out of the soil, no longer hiding their bodies, and attacked the players…

Tomato Fried Tomato’s eyes lit up:

“There are three! Everyone divide into three teams, each find one to fight!”

“The main tank holds the monster! Druid prepares to heal! Melee roaming attack interference, long-range assistance!”

“Change people after a round, change to long-range burst attack, melee roaming support!”

“Come round by round, see which one has the highest damage! In addition… magic prioritizes fire and light attributes!”

Fighting monsters every day, the First Legion has a lot of experience. Although they have never seen this kind of scorpion-like monster, and don’t know its habits and combat mechanism, as long as they try it a few times according to the opening routine of “Elf Kingdom”, at most some people will die, and they will always find a way.

There are so many giant scorpions hidden here, enough for them to develop collectively!

Hundreds of players quickly divided into three teams according to the usual battle mode, and each team faced a giant scorpion and started fighting…

While the players were fighting, in the darkness, on the cave wall on the side of the rocky path, a pair of piercing eyes appeared in a small cave.

There… seemed to be a narrow tunnel hidden there, and someone was hiding there, always watching the players.

It was a short figure dressed in dark gray clothes. He looked at the players who were excitedly fighting with the giant scorpion, with surprise and astonishment in his eyes.

But soon, his figure flashed and disappeared.

The players who were immersed in the battle did not notice that someone was watching them just now.

But Eve, who kept switching between the players’ perspectives, noticed:

“Just now, was that… a dark dwarf?”

He felt a little interested.

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