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Chapter 8 The First Night

After everyone calmed down, a man with a sincere face called himself a "bishop" stood up and prayed for the dead on the ground. Sonia, who was also a believer, also prayed softly for the dead.

The traveler and Xiao Yan lit two bonfires away from the body together, and the exhausted people fell to the bonfire and were silently baking the fire.

"No one should leave the bonfire." The traveler looked around. "We have no idea about this forest at all. There may be any danger in the darkness. Be careful."

"Let's take a break and set off along the path tomorrow morning." Xiao Yan stood up, "Let's arrange a night's post, two people are in groups, and they rotate every hour. Never act alone."

After 22 people are grouped, they can still ensure sufficient rest.

Xiao Yan arranged for himself to be on duty at 2 o'clock in the middle of the night. At this time, he was the most sleepy, and Xiao Yan felt that he was the most reliable.

After entering this world, something called space mark is stamped in the depths of everyone's consciousness, from which you can retrieve the previous battle record setting to check the time. Although there is no alarm clock, Xiao Yan, who has always been vigilant, woke up by himself when the time is approaching.

After checking the time through the plane mark, Xiao Yan found that it was already time for him to be on duty.

Sonia was on duty with him, but the girl had not woken up yet. Xiao Yan glanced at the delicate and beautiful woman who was still asleep, and felt that she was enough by herself, so she did not wake her up.

Speaking of wake-up, why didn’t the people on night come to remind themselves in the previous wave?

Xiao Yan's heart suddenly became tight, he raised his shield and pulled out the iron axe so nervous that he was vigilant everywhere.

The night is quiet, and there is no sound except for the crackling sound of the fire, and the slight snoring sounds. The two night-time people are completely gone.

Hell!

There was no sound around, and there was no sound of insects.

This is the forest in the wild, how could there be no trace of insects and birds crying? Xiao Yan hurriedly woke up the traveler and the bishop. These two were more reliable, and then went to push Galadia.

"I can't eat it anymore~ Let's order desserts for me!" The girl hugged her head and rolled on and continued to go to bed.

...

"Don't talk about such classical dreams! Get up quickly!" Xiao Yan found her good friend Mars patted her head, "Good boy Mars has gotten up!"

"It hurts so much!"

Galadia struggled to sit up, rubbed her long and messy hair with her hands, and actually straightened it out.

"Are the people who are on duty missing?" The traveler looked around carefully, "There is no sign of them."

"The darkness here is very evil and cold." The bishop said, and found that others looked at themselves inexplicably, and then added: "A kind of darkness similar to the cold and dampness in the grave. After leaving the fire, I could even feel the darkness penetrated into my bones."

"Well, it's so cold to leave the bonfire." Galadia nodded. Xiao Yan felt her teeth tremble when she spoke, but it seemed not just because of the cold.

"We are not sure how long they have been missing, but if there is any danger, it seems safer to stay by the fire." Xiao Yan was not afraid of ghosts and gods, but the feeling of not knowing where the danger was still made him very uneasy.

"Isn't it a way to waste this? We need to rest for the next day." The traveler shook his head and said.

Xiao Yan nodded in agreement: "Adjust the order of the night, Jialadiya and I will watch the night first, you can rest first, and change every two hours."

But there seemed to be something terrible in the thick ink-like shadows away from the bonfire, which made the night people feel chill from the bottom of their hearts, and spent the next night in a strange silence. At a certain distance from the bonfire, several corpses left behind during the fight during dusk were lying at a certain distance from the bonfire. It made people feel sad when they thought about it.

Xiao Yan and Galadia were on the first duty post, and something seemed to be peeping at them in the quiet darkness. Galadia seemed very nervous and looked around in a high concentration.

"You can just not fall asleep on night shift. You can't hold on for long." Xiao Yan shook his head speechlessly and patted the grass beside him, "Sit down, if you run out of energy, it will be troublesome."

"Two people have been missing! If any monster comes to attack, we will just play.                                                     �

"Ah~Ha~ You're scared!" Xiao Yan suddenly realized.

"Hmph!" The girl glared at him, but she still came over to sit back to back with Xiao Yan. After holding on for a while, Xiao Yan felt a sank behind her back, and turned her head to find that the girl had fallen asleep with her body leaning against her back.

"Are you a primary school student? I'm sleepy after making a fuss." Xiao Yan complained a few times in his stomach.

After about an hour, there were bursts of clamoring sounds in the quiet forest, as if the sound of a skeleton with only bones hitting while walking, and like animals walking through the forest, plucking the plants and gravels.

Xiao Yan hurriedly woke up the contractors one by one. The 20 people were half asleep and half awake, and the sound of chewing was getting closer and closer, and more than one place.

"What's going on?"

"Are we surrounded?"

A strange sound appeared in all directions, and everyone in horror was crowded to the fire.

"Hiss...ah!" A strange scream sounded beside him. Everyone looked over in surprise and saw a shadow as big as a puppy appeared from the darkness and rushed towards the crowd.

When we approached the bonfire, we found that this black thing had six legs and a pair of big pliers, covered with long black hair, and a big mouth occupied half of the area of ​​the torso...

A huge black spider.

Just as this thing appeared in the field of vision, a piece of information poured into Xiao Yan's consciousness.

"Jumping spider. Race: Spider. Attributes: Strength 2, Agility 2, Physical 3.

Special ability: jumping, developed limbs allow jumping spiders to jump out 2 meters after charging up their energy."

The prompt to emerge from Xiao Yan's vision, as if the words floating in the air.

The girls who saw the spider screamed together. The ugly fluffy thing like spider is usually scary, but now the big ones are like puppies, so it would be nice if they didn’t feel scared on the spot.

The traveler quickly pulled out a thick wooden stick from the bonfire and hit the spider. He encountered similar situations in the wild many times, and this move was really without hesitation.

The burning wooden stick hit the spider, paused it, then opened the huge mouthpart, let out a "hiss...ah!" and pounced on it.

The traveler flashed to the side, raised the wooden stick and beat it hard, the flames burned the hair on the spider's body. The little monster screamed and turned over and died.

"It's okay!" the crowd breathed a sigh of relief, and someone said in a relaxed tone, "It's easy to deal with."

"Hiss...ah!" As soon as the words finished, a creepy scream sounded nearby. Along with a burst of chewing sounds, a large group of spiders emerged from the shadows.

The crowd screamed, and the brave men took out their weapons to fight the spiders. The timids fought desperately into the crowd. Two men even screamed and fled into the darkness.

"Don't leave the bonfire!" Xiao Yan and the traveler shouted at the same time, but could no longer stop the two people who were running away.

Galadia shot an arrow, but did not hit the spider close at hand, but instead attracted its attention and rushed towards the girl. Galadia didn't have time to shoot the second arrow, and she panicked and retreated. Unfortunately, she stepped on a tree root and tripped to the ground.

"Hiss...ah!" The spider actually jumped up like a spring and rushed towards the girl's face.

Xiao Yan took a step sideways and blocked it with a round shield. The spider hit the shield with a thud and turned dizzyly on the ground. Xiao Yan caught up with it, raised his axe and chopped it. Xiao Yan's basic attack reached 18 points (10 strength 8 agility), and combined with a one-handed axe with 3-7 attack power, the damage of a single attack was between 21-25.

This time, the spider's skin was chopped open, revealing white flesh and green juice. Xiao Yan didn't know what they had to do, so he chopped the spider three times in a row and chopped it into pieces.

"Are you not injured?" Xiao Yan turned his head to look at the girl sitting. Galadia was so scared that she looked at Xiao Yan in a daze. She didn't know what to say.

Screams came from the crowd. When these spiders approached the target, they would jump up and jump onto the target's face and body. This action completely scared the contractors.

"Don't panic! Their bite won't hurt!" The bishop slapped a spider and pulled the other one off his body, tearing off a piece of flesh.

Although several people had been knocked to the ground, Xiao Yan saw that they were not bitten badly, but were just injured in flesh. These weird spiders had a clear pause before taking off. Be careful enough to avoid it.

Several people who were able to keep calm took action continuously and killed the spiders one by one. Galadia also recovered a little. She skillfully avoided a spider that was rushing towards her and poked her with her longbow bow tip, which actually broke several of the spider's black hair legs.

As time went by, more and more contractors were calmed down, and these black-haired spiders were constantly killed. But after the spider corpses on the ground reached a certain number, these strange monsters suddenly retreated like a tide.

Looking at the spider corpses all over the ground, the contractors felt creepy and had no joy of victory at all.

"Two people are missing." The traveler said after counting the number of people.

When they were attacked just now, two people ran into the darkness in a panic and never came back.

"What is it in the darkness?" The traveler looked at the endless darkness outside the light range of the bonfire.

"These spiders are not strong, but they are enough to cause chaos." Xiao Yan picked up a spider that was cut to death and said, "Maybe, they are just used to drive us into the darkness."

"No matter how powerful the darkness is, it cannot exist in the light." The bishop added some branches to the bonfire, "We don't have to worry about that weird threat before the bonfire is extinguished."

After a while, the contractors with only 18 people left felt that there was nothing to do, so they could only arrange laid-off posts and rest separately.

In addition to the two missing persons in the attack just now, 7 or 8 people were injured, but the wounds were not serious. The data-based body quickly stopped bleeding and began to heal, which is rare good news.

Until the next day, there was no new attack in the darkness. In order to complete the mission and to get rid of this weird forest as soon as possible, the group hurriedly stepped onto the mountain path and set off.
Chapter completed!
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