Chapter 249 – Fountain (1/2)

Fatty set up the ballista, about to let this “Cheng Xiong” have a taste of it when suddenly…

BOOM! The ground violently shook and ruptured. From the rifts, an army of skeletons strode out in groups.

Tens of thousands of Skeletal Soldiers, Skeletal Knights, as well as numerous Skeletal Assassins, emerged. At the very center of the army was a tall and bulky figure riding a mount and wearing a golden mask.

A golden cape fluttered at his back, the Hellfire Stallion under him let out a long whiny. As the figure swept his eyes around, all of the monsters in the vicinity fled in terror. Even the Dark Unicorn pack got on their hooves and left, not wanting to oppose him at all.

“Lei Ting!”

Fatty was dumbstruck as he instantly recognized this figure as none other than the strongest boss he had met, Lei Ting.

“This isn't real anyway.” Fatty consoled himself.

Hooo… A black sphere of light appeared around Lei Ting and quickly spread out in all directions.

Shrouded in the expanding sphere, Lei Ting’s subordinates stood still in solemn silence, not being affected in any way. However, the monsters that couldn’t run in time and got caught by the sphere was plagued with all kinds of consequences.

Some began to stagger in their steps, some quickly aged, some lost their sanity, screaming and wildly attacking the monsters around them.

“Nation of Darkness.” Fatty pocketed the ballista and slowly moved back.

This place was boundless without a sky, the earth was all dark brown soil. Chilling winds screamed all over, striking fear into people’s hearts.

After musing for what seemed like half a day, Fatty could affirm that this area wasn’t a real existence, because all of the monsters he’d come across here so far were all those that he had seen outside.

Moreover, Fatty recalled that he didn’t gain any experience from killing the monsters in this place.

“What a fantastic mirror!” Fatty praised.

The monsters weren’t real, yet were able to kill the players inside. This ability was much more formidable than the usual Celestial items.

If this wasn’t the Celestial item that Sallip mentioned, then Fatty figured he should reassess that Celestial item that hadn’t made its appearance.

However, this wasn’t time for Fatty to delve into this. His priority was to come up with a plan to get out of here.

Fatty tried logging off and found out that this function wasn’t restricted. He informed Liu Lan to not touch the mirror, then logged back on to explore the place.

An hour later, Fatty estimated that he had walked for several hundred kilometers. Yet, he hadn’t seen any special objects at all.

The scene stretching out before his eyes were still brown soil and a skyless space, plus monsters that he was familiar with.

BOOM!

Upfront, a towering pillar of fire flared up, and within it was a hazy figure. Fatty's heart jumped as he recognized the figure: Advanced AI boss, West the Flame Ruler.

“Lil’ Bro, you’re here!” West flew out from the fire pillar with a hearty laugh, his face full of delight.

“Big Bro, you’ve ranked up?!” Fatty asked.

“Ranked up?” West was very confused.

Fatty instantly understood. When he parted ways with West, the latter still hadn’t ranked up. Since Fatty hadn’t seen how West looked like after he ranked up, the ‘West’ that appeared in this place was the pre-ranked-up version.

Of course, there was a possibility that the real West still hadn’t ranked up at all.

“What is this place?” Fatty asked.

“What? You already forgot? This is the Fire Valley, your old bro’s hometown.” ‘West’ laughed loudly and pointed around. Fatty suddenly fell the temperature spike up as the surroundings transformed into an area in the Fire Valley.

At the center, a familiar lava pool was still bubbling with heat. As the bubbles burst, some kind of red gas drifted up.

Fatty casually asked some more questions and ‘West’ answered all of them. The two chatted happily.

Fatty started to feel respect for the design staff. Whoever was capable of designing such a game like this was definitely not just your normal genius.

Bidding farewell to ‘West’, Fatty continued along his path, where he met the Ancient Camphor Tree Spirit, demon general Moretta, and even the God of Misfortune illusion, who chased him up to the sky and down on the ground without a hiding place and nearly killed him.

Whoosh! A white light beamed at Fatty as he ran from the illusion. It was ‘Cheng Xiong’ again.

“That’s not right!” Fatty halted his steps. He suddenly remembered something. Why can I recognize Cheng Xiong, but ‘Cheng Xiong’ doesn’t seem to know me at all?

Losing ‘Cheng Xiong’ with Earthwalk, Fatty found a safe spot to log off. He then made a call.

“F*ck! I was nearly killed by ‘you.’” Cheng Xiong was even more irritated.

“So that’s why.” Fatty logged into the game again and searched everywhere. Finally, at the center of a monster mob, he found Cheng Xiong in the middle of a haphazard massacre.

“It’s not him.” Fatty nodded, then took out the Plenilune Ballista.

Zoom! The bolt ripped through the air and nailed ‘Cheng Xiong’ to the ground.

“AHHHHH!”

‘Cheng Xiong’ screamed and waved his staff as if his life depended on it. Healing light streamed out from the staff and quickly restored his health to full.

“He didn’t die?!” Fatty was appalled. Without hesitation, he fired another bolt.

Puff!