The all-pervasive coldness invaded, the basent was pitch black, with the sound of water flowing through the pipes in the upper left corner of the room, water droplets seeped from the tal pipe walls, dripping down.
Not far away, faint light slanted through the scattered windows, illuminating the bent outline of a creature.
In the darkness, a nearly pungent sll of rust spread, like rust wetted by rain, mixed with a strong stench of decay.
Tat-tat, tat-tat, tat-tat.
The rustling footsteps echoed, as the creature moved, sensing sothing in the room, it paced back and forth. Its outline stood nearly two ters tall, with bones protruding prominently, spine elevated, occasionally pausing half-bowed, nostrils faintly flaring, with long whiskers swaying under the gray-white light, red eyes like a pair of strange lanterns, swiftly approaching Xu Xiaoyou.
Xu Xiaoyou said nothing, rather she was quite composed. She seed to be positioned in an underground clinic, evident from the surrounding dical infrastructure like scalpels, saws, and pliers, casually resting in the corners without any antiseptic awareness.
Nearby, the dicine bucket contained mint, citrus, garlic, and spicy pepper powder.
The thick rust sll was not emanating from its fur, but overflowed from the stacked earthenware in the corner, likely filled with viscous, foul-slling blood.
Not far away, that tall creature was the 'doctor' of this underground clinic. The slanting light stretched the shadow of the earthenware long, Xu Xiaoyou noticed, the creature had sharp long claws, with forearms slender as bamboo poles, hunched over, eyeballs bulging prominently.
Looked like a... an oversized rat?
The small basent was silent, only the 'tat-tat' noise from the creature's wandering and Xu Xiaoyou's faint breathing.
Xu Xiaoyou was in no hurry to break this silence, she was lying under a hospital bed, the dirty yellow sheet laid down flat, covering the gap between the bed and the floor, the creature seed yet to discover her, sniffing the air for her scent.
Clicked open the world chat channel, the world channel was lively, filtering out recruitnt information from the grand guilds, Xu Xiaoyou quickly scanned for useful content.
"Death Dao, co quickly, any guild will do, too many monsters, the newly captured stronghold can't be held!"
"Don't co to the botanical garden, there's, there's a huge flea ahh!"
The voice abruptly cut off, presumably the person sending this ssage faced misfortune.
"We've secured the stronghold brewery, the Love and Peace Guild is ready to station, guild leaders interested in cooperation and win-win strategy should add as a friend to discuss sharing stronghold rewards."
"Nanjia Wood: Lu Shuhang, are you shaless? Our Golden Navigators were clearing monsters just fine at Death Dao, what's the aning of Assassin's Creed sending people to ambush us?"
"Nanjia Wood: ?? Killed! Do you think our Golden Navigators are spineless?"
"Haha, Lu always doesn't speak, only always bullying the weak."
"Lu Shuhang: Last ti you blocked our people in the wild, I just wanted an explanation, your people made the first move, since you don't want civility, I'll help you keep it civil."
"Hahaha, this never-ending cycle of revenge."
At this mont, a full server broadcast from 'Golden Horn' caught everyone's attention.
"Smiling Knight: Silent Sequence intends to form a Guild Alliance, to first clear out a considerable safety zone, ensuring logistic transportation to the front line, what do you all think?"
Soon, many small guilds quickly responded to the call with loudspeaker ssages.
"Love and Peace Guild is in!"
"We're All have a Wonderful Tomorrow Guild has no problems."
"Sir, bring our Steel Ambition along."
"..."
Xu Xiaoyou waited roughly, realizing that most responses ca from small guilds, while the top grand guilds were silent, none took the lead to officially respond.
Understandably, people chase profit, those grand guilds are likely organizing internal mbers to capture personal strongholds, busy dividing that big cake, who has ti to aid in clearing a joint safe zone?
Watching the constantly fluctuating guild rankings, Xu Xiaoyou thoughtfully opened the 'Light Chasing Garden' guild channel, where several guild mbers were casually chatting energetically.
"Black Crow: @Silver Light, co to the brewery, clear out Love and Peace's people."
"You guys say, after this world instance ends, which guild will take first place on the ranking list?"
"Definitely Silent Sequence, they have big ventures and professional analysis and logistics teams, unmatched by other guilds."
"King Race might stand a chance, last ti during the Golden Creatures incident they nearly secured first if it weren't for being backstabbed by Heterogeneous Front."
"It's certainly not Golden Navigators."
"Strange, this season Empress announced a coback, why aren't they participating in this world instance?"
"Nakamura Yuri: Light Chasing Garden."
"Eh?"
"It's the president!"
"Nakamura Yuri: Light Chasing Garden will take first place on the ranking."
"Sigh, President, we know your ambitions are grand, but I believe we should consider securing a decent position first."
"Yeah, yeah, Dark Gold Rose also acknowledges we're just in the thirties, and Silent Sequence has nearly four hundred people, hard to compete."
"Dark Gold Rose must be jesting with us, didn't you get it?"
"Nakamura Yuri: I said this battle should win gloriously, I am at least your president, can't you give so confidence?"
"Mori Natsuki: Exactly! Can you give You so confidence?"
Looking at the half-joking banter among her guild mbers, Xu Xiaoyou sighed helplessly.
She truly intended to vie for the first rank, why did no one believe her?
If word got out, probably all of Oasis would think she's crazy, even if the Dark Gold Rose reputation is big, Light Chasing Garden is rely a fresh guild, unable to compare even with the bottom ranking Era of the Dead.
In this stronghold raiding war, mber count critically asures guild strength, her Dark Gold Rose might conquer one stronghold at best, her guild mbers' taking one or two strongholds would be fortunate.
Despite mbers' quality over quantity, like two hundred trained elite cavalry certainly can charge three thousand infantry formations head-on, defeating enemies decisively. But the premise is trained elite cavalry, her recent recruited guild mbers, except for 'Black Crow', 'Silver Light', those Three Tier strengths, the rest are no more than misfits.
No wonder her guild mbers weren't holding faith; such disparity is stark, let alone the cake, it'd be fortunate to have a share in this chaotic world.
But Xu Xiaoyou wasn't worried about these.
She stood up from beneath the bed, the creature sensing her presence instantly, screeching, leaped toward her.
Xu Xiaoyou's skirt rged into the ground shadow, two massive dark hands lunged, snapping the creature midair in half.
"HP—300! You dealt a piercing damage to the 'Life-Devourer'. "
The eerie chewing echoed in darkness, beautiful amber eyes opened, like ghostly candle flas.
Xu Xiaoyou naturally had her ans, achieving her goals.
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