The pioneering efforts were in full swing. Li Shuwen stopped pretending and brought Li Wenwen directly to the edge of the Blood Mist to reinforce equipment for warriors about to enter the Blood Mist World.
Because everyone was heading into the Blood Mist World, people came in an endless stream to have their gear reinforced by Li Wenwen.
She was basically taking medicine with one hand while reinforcing equipment with the other. As her blacksmith proficiency skyrocketed, she became like a money-printing machine, accumulating wealth crazily.
To ensure Li Wenwenâs safety, ten veteran players were always assigned to protect her.
Unless a Floor Leader wanted to start a fight with the third floor, Li Wenwen was absolutely safe.
Not long ago news spread from Dorm 49 that players on the third floor could get reinforcements from Li Wenwen for free.
Li Shuwen himself already had a good reputation, and this completely cemented his status as a Floor Leader.
âYou, you, you!!!â The short-haired man trembled with rage, pointing at Li Wenwen.
That was his main weapon. He planned to reinforce it to +10 and then head into the Blood Mist World.
He had been absurdly lucky, never failing a reinforcement all the way, which led him to indulge in some unrealistic fantasies.
Li Wenwen still couldn't fully adapt to the scene. She looked a little embarrassed but didnât say much.
âThese are your own choices, you canât blame others.â One of the players protecting Li Wenwen said coldly.
The short-haired manâs face was furious.
Suddenly he took out a backup weapon.
âContinue reinforcing it for me. It must be reinforced to +11!â
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The Safe Zone was full of all kinds of people. Every class had its variety, and each building overflowed with oddballs, prodigies, and geniuses in numbers that defied counting.
After Xu Langâs team set foot in the Blood Mist World, everyone had dialed their vigilance to the maximum.
Ginkgo Avenue was tens of meters wide, and ginkgo trees on both sides formed a canopy that blocked the sky. Nourished by the Blood Mist, they looked like giant fans, creating an especially desolate and eerie atmosphere.
Zheng Kai walked slowly.
âLang Ge, thereâs at least one treant behind every ginkgo tree. Because this type of monster is so predictable, we chose to pioneer here along Ginkgo Avenue.â
âIâm just not sure how far the Floating Life Play group and Zhai Ren have pushed forward.â
âI pushed to seventy meters before and ran into wild wolves.â
Strictly speaking, it was a monster the Dorm Survival Game named a âGinkgo Wolf,â worth about twenty thousand Copper Coins for skin and flesh combined.
âLang Ge, if the space hasnât mutated, Ginkgo Avenue is one kilometer long. Maybe the outpost is at the end of the road.â A dark-skinned man said.
He wanted Xu Lang to lead them further in.
Although this was Xu Langâs first pioneering run, they all trusted him implicitly.
As long as Xu Lang wasnât part of a hostile faction, he made them as calm as if protected by angels!
Just walking behind him made the player feel like an angelâs wings were guarding him.
Zheng Kai glanced back at that man, secretly sharing some of the same hope.
âSpeed up!â Xu Lang suddenly increased his pace.
Everyone hurried to catch up, and before long they saw a battlefield appear faintly ahead, several players being surrounded and attacked by more than a dozen treants.
Zheng Kai was astonished.
Xu Langâs eyesight was incredible!
In the Blood Mist World everyoneâs vision was obstructed, yet Xu Lang had spotted the anomaly long before they did.
No wonder he could be the leaderâtruly powerful in every aspect!
Wang Yazhi and Xu Lang were at the forefront, Tong Qi and Cao Yaxuan flanked the group, and Zheng Kai was at the rear.
Xu Lang didnât abandon the group just because he was fast;
he arrived at the battlefield in step with the others.
âLang Ge, be careful, those are treants!â Zheng Kai warned.
The moment he finished speaking, Xu Lang charged without hesitation. With agile turns and bursts of movement, he sliced ten or so treants dead on the spot, as if afraid someone else would steal the kills.
Zheng Kai stared at the pile of corpses and gasped.
In the Dorm Survival Gameâs ranking, these treants were level ten monsters, noted for high defense and strong regeneration. Once surrounded, escape was almost impossible.
Many players pioneering early were literally pulled down and killed that way.
But with Xu Lang, thick hide? Not an issue!
One slash, even if not struck at a vital spot, would cause bleeding and turn fatalâan effective full-body assault!
Besides, with Xu Langâs swordsmanship, it didnât seem like he missed vitals.
âItâs Xu Lang!â
âLang Ge, thank you!â
âKeep all these treant corpses for yourself!â
âNo, no, no, we still owe you a life-saving fee, please donât kill them all!â
The rescued players clamored incessantly. Xu Lang ignored them and rushed toward another battlefield.
âStop picking up that trash, hurry up and follow!â Zheng Kai shouted to the accompanying players.
They looked regretfully at the treant corpses but didnât linger.
The front section of Ginkgo Avenue had already been searched;
they wanted to follow Xu Lang deeper where the good loot was.
Within just a hundred meters there were four battle sites.
Wherever Xu Lang saw combat, he stepped in to help.
The Blood Pelican Blade was becoming sharper and sharper.
But inside the Blood Mist World he couldnât check its attributes, so he didnât know exactly how much it had increased.
âLang Ge, the end line stops here. This is as far as other players have pushed, probably left by Zhai Renâs squad!â Zheng Kai pointed at a marking on the ground and said discontentedly.
End lines were markers cut into the ground with a sharp instrument to confirm how far players had advanced.
âLang Ge, monsters are coming, so many!â A player cried out.
A large number of treants appeared in the Blood Mist ahead, and treants were also approaching from three other directions!
If this continued, everyone would be surrounded and killed!
âCharge forward with me!â Xu Lang said, then buried his head and dove into the cluster of monsters. A horizontal Ghost Slash instantly killed a large number of them.
Everyone else broke into cold sweat.
Donât retreat, but charge forward? What kind of tactic was that?!
Zheng Kai didnât have time for questions. He leapt past the nearby accompanying players and sprinted after Xu Lang.
The others followed suit.
From above it would look like Xu Lang had cut a hole straight through the monsters and then ran back in a sweeping arc.
The whole team resembled a snakeâXu Lang the head, everyone else swaying behind.
This tactic avoided everyone fighting separately. Xu Lang didnât want to behave like a firefighting team that ran here and there helping different spots.
Players ran with their heads dripping sweat, and when the team finally stopped, they discovered the ground covered in monster corpses!
The bodies were piled so thick, it was almost a heapâat least several hundred of them!
Cao Yaxuan and the other women werenât surprised.
Monster carcass piles were common in front of Dorm 200 each round of the game.
âI can see why Lang Ge developed so fast.â One player swallowed hard.
If they could take all the resources from the monsters in front of them, he was confident he could form a frontline pioneering team.
And that was just a small result of Xu Langâs casual slashes!
âTake whatever you want yourself.â Xu Lang told the accompanying players.
Although they hadnât spotted a Ginkgo Wolf, his mood was still pretty good.
This Blood Mist pioneering felt kind of fun.
Because of the recent slaughter, the Butcher Sequence was delighted, like a child who had been trapped for years suddenly going on a spring outing!
Farming small monsters here all the time actually seemed pretty enjoyable!