Witch Special

This team of battle-hardened puppet soldiers did not perish together with the giant earthworm on the opposite side in the final big move. Although casualties were inevitable, more than 60 of them still came back alive.

Although there were serious casualties, Lin Zhenxi always felt that the temperament of these surviving puppet soldiers was different from those around him, and seemed sharper.

Perhaps Patchouli had also set up a hidden experience bar for each soldier, a promotion mechanism. These battle-hardened soldiers were likely already elite.

That's good... Then, let's go and meet up with the other team.

After multiple reinforcements, monsters at the Night difficulty level no longer posed a threat to Lin Zhenxi's army. Even hidden areas like the Old Hell and the Heaven Realm, where the monsters inside had been strengthened, only required a hundred soldiers to penetrate.

In the other direction, the team of one thousand puppet soldiers did not have Lin Zhenxi as a drag. They rushed forward without any moral ethics and slaughtered all the monsters in the ordinary ruins, which were not as strong as the hidden ruins.

So when Lin Zhenxi arrived at the foot of Monster Mountain, another team of puppet soldiers had already completed the occupation of Monster Mountain and were preparing to advance towards the magic forest, which was laborious and thankless, and the ruins were equivalent to a self-destructive effect.

The Enchanted Forest, Scarlet Devil Mansion and the Bavaru Library are the three ruins that have not yet been taken.

After comprehensively assessing the difficulty of both sides, Lin Zhenxi redeployed his forces. The Enchanted Forest was vast, and searching for the lord monsters there would undoubtedly require more troops. While the Scarlet Devil Mansion held fewer enemies, the nearby Lake of Mist meant there was a high probability of a formidable foe.

After all, it comes from the chaos in the deep sea.

But considering the average strength of monsters in the entire Waiting Night difficulty, even if the enemies at the Scarlet Devil Mansion are very strong, they should not be overwhelming. So Lin Zhenxi left a thousand puppet soldiers with him, and formed another thousand into another team, and then brought over another thousand produced at the Sunflower Field. A total of three thousand puppet soldiers explored the Magic Forest together.

With such abundant manpower, even if the magic forest is very large, it should be explored quickly.

After watching the golden army of puppet soldiers fly away in the direction of the Magic Forest, Lin Zhenxi rubbed his face, pointed to the largest unexplored black spot on the map, and ordered his soldiers: "Target Scarlet Devil Mansion, move out!"

In fact, you don’t have to say it out loud, just think about it in your mind, but Lin Zhenxi feels that this is more exciting.

A thousand little suns took off again, and Lin Zhenxi was among them, feeling that she was shining too.

But as they approached the Lake of Mist, the atmosphere seemed to become solemn, and Lin Zhenxi was sure that this was not an illusion, because the golden flames on the puppet soldiers around her also shrank a little, as if there was something in the air that hindered the spread of light, preventing the light from spreading out normally.

Lin Zhenxi thought about it, took out a constant ecosystem that looked like a bicycle rim from the space cube, and put it around his neck.

After all, the enemy was chaotic and disordered, more polluted than the dirtiest, smelliest sewage. A single touch could kill instantly, and even the air couldn't be taken lightly. Having reached this point, Lin Zhenxi didn't want to have to start over again because of a minor oversight.

Moreover, games can be played over again, but life only happens once. This celebration game was Patchouli's way of preparing Lin Zhenxi for the future. She couldn't just play it carelessly, but rather treat it like a real-world exercise. At the very least, she couldn't let laziness lead her to avoidable pitfalls.

It wasn't far from the Monster Mountain to the Mist Lake. If you went down from the Jiutian Waterfall and followed the stream, you would reach the Mist Lake. So soon, Lin Zhenxi and her puppet army arrived above the Mist Lake.

As they approached the Mist Lake, Lin Zhenxi stopped first, observing the dark mist that floated above the lake, which was darker than the night sky. She hesitated whether to first figure out its composition before going in. However, her puppet soldiers clearly did not have as many concerns as Lin Zhenxi. No matter what was ahead, they just rushed forward.

So before Lin Zhenxi gave a command, the legion of puppet soldiers around her crashed directly into the black fog, and used the expanding and boiling power of the sun in their bodies to pierce and disperse the black fog, and occupied a place in the mystery of the black fog, allowing Lin Zhenxi to see clearly the scene in the fog lake below.

Nest, what the hell is this? Lin Zhenxi immediately spotted a giant tentacle covered in suckers floating in the dark waters of Mist Lake. Although that tentacle immediately hid below the surface to avoid the light, Lin Zhenxi was definitely not mistaken; it was definitely something like an octopus tentacle.

But isn't that too big? Just from the fleeting glimpse she had just taken, Lin Zhenxi estimated that the tentacle was several meters thick, like a very thick sewage pipe.

Although they knew that there were monsters hiding under the water of the Mist Lake, it was obviously an extremely stupid choice to directly enter the dark water to fight the monster with giant tentacles underwater, so Lin Zhenxi decided to temporarily avoid the Mist Lake and directly attack the ruins of the Scarlet Devil Mansion.

I can't beat you underwater, but since I've shown my intention to occupy the ruins, you'll have to climb out from underwater in order to stop me, right?

As for the opponent's size, it wasn't a big deal. After witnessing the giant lava snakes of Old Hell and the giant earthworms crushed by rocks in Heaven, Lin Zhenxi had a high tolerance for large enemies in the Festival World.

How big can it be? I have seen snakes and earthworms that are hundreds of meters long. So, an octopus that is hundreds of meters long doesn’t seem like a big deal, right?

So Lin Zhenxi ordered his team to increase the flight altitude, maintain a distance from the surface of the Mist Lake, and then began to search for the location of the Scarlet Devil Mansion in the black fog.

The location of the Scarlet Devil Mansion is quite easy to find. It is basically in the center of the Mist Lake, and it is the only small island above the water in the Mist Lake, so Lin Zhenxi found it without any effort.

But after getting closer, Lin Zhenxi just took a look at the current Scarlet Devil Mansion and felt his scalp numb and he felt unwell all over.

Trypophobia, like acrophobia, gigantophobia, and thalassophobia, isn't something you'd notice unless you actually encountered it. Lin Zhenxi had never noticed that she felt nauseous because of overly dense barnacles.

This is too...

The Scarlet Devil Mansion at this moment was no longer the familiar sight that Lin Zhenxi was familiar with; not even its outline could be discerned. It was now infested with countless barnacles, large and small, and covered in these terrifying, spiky-skinned creatures. Furthermore, these barnacles were all alive, wriggling unruly within their shells, a truly eerie sight.

Even more terrifying was the moment when, as if sensing Lin Zhenxi's approach, all the barnacles stopped wriggling. Then, they flipped over, revealing their hidden eyeballs.

At this moment, countless pale, lifeless eyes were staring at Lin Zhenxi.

"Ah!" Lin Zhenxi trembled violently, a chill rushed to the top of his head, and he almost fell off the magic broom.

This is no longer as simple as intensive phobia. The level of mental pollution of these barnacles has risen to the level of entropy loss. Just by being looked at by them, Lin Zhenxi feels that his sanity value is decreasing rapidly.

What should she do? Lin Zhenxi was genuinely terrified. She didn't want to go down there and get up close and personal with those barnacles. But how could she capture the Scarlet Devil Mansion if she didn't go down? Was she supposed to stay in a safe place like she had in the previous difficulties, letting her soldiers help her capture the city.

Lin Zhenxi had no doubt about the strength of her puppet soldiers. They were so strong that it was unbelievable. She felt that if she were to fight them, she wouldn't be able to defeat a squad of them. She could definitely win in a one-on-one fight, but these puppet soldiers worked in groups. If their numbers increased, she wouldn't even be able to escape.

And she now has a thousand such puppet soldiers around her.

Letting these puppet soldiers go down should be enough to defeat the enemies in the Scarlet Devil Mansion, but this is not the result that Lin Zhenxi wants. She should witness the power of these monsters from a first-person perspective instead of hiding.

So she had to overcome her fear of those eyed barnacles, or at least have the courage to face them.

But I really can't do it...

Simply running away wasn't an option; it could leave a psychological scar, even a kind of post-war syndrome where the mere sight of barnacles would cause uncontrollable tremors. Lin Zhenxi couldn't accept this sudden mental weakness; she had to overcome it.

So, what should you do about those pesky barnacles?

Of course, I would smash them with my own hands. All the fear came from insufficient firepower. As long as I clearly realized that they were actually very weak and could be easily destroyed, and were not worth mentioning at all, all the psychological fear would disappear.

So Lin Zhenxi now needs something that can eliminate these barnacles on a large scale. Magic, technology, anything will do.