The Game with Fairies

【Blood Energy +30%】

As the zombie roared and chewed up the creature’s heart, a prompt also popped up in Li Muyang’s field of vision.

At the same time, he regained control over the zombie’s body.

Smelling the strong, pungent scent of blood in the air, Li Muyang sighed.

The zombie’s skills were all well and good, but the attack mode in a berserk state was too bloody, always leaving a bloody mess.

However, two Demon-Suppressing Masters from the Imperial Astronomical Bureau had turned into demons?

Or had all the missing Demon-Suppressing Masters become demonized?

Li Muyang looked up at the night sky and shouted again.

“Shan Xiaolian! Are you dead? If not, make a sound!”

Instead, sounds came from the streets not far away.

Li Muyang immediately turned his head to look at the alley on the left.

It was several hundred zhang away from the Imperial Astronomical Bureau, where many people had been watching the procession of prisoners being paraded through the streets.

Li Muyang had come from that direction earlier.

He remembered it was very lively, with a crowd full of indignation.

However, when Li Muyang looked over now, he found that although the street was brightly lit, just as before, there was not a single person in sight, eerily silent and empty.

The people who had been crowded on the street, shouting in anger, had all disappeared without a trace, as if they had evaporated.

On the empty street, only two dark red health bars were wriggling under the dim light of the lanterns.

【Demonic Sorcerer】

【Demonic Sorcerer】

Seeing the sinister shadows emerging under the distant lanterns, Li Muyang’s heart skipped a beat as he suddenly noticed something was off.

–The city of Sanhe had become quiet without notice.

The previously noisy and bustling Sanhe was now silent, especially the street outside the Imperial Astronomical Bureau.

But now, standing at the highest point of the Imperial Astronomical Bureau, Li Muyang looked out over the city and found that although the city was still brightly lit, with many streets decorated with lights, the angry shouts of the citizens and the wailing pleas of the nobility were gone.

Under the dark night sky, Sanhe was brilliantly lit yet deathly silent.

This quiet scene under the dark night was somewhat eerie.

Li Muyang suddenly felt a chill.

“…Where did everyone go?”

Where were all those people?

Why had they disappeared?

This strange and inexplicable situation sent shivers down one’s spine.

However, the two sinister creatures that had wriggled into view under the distant lantern light didn’t give Li Muyang time to think.

After the two creatures appeared, they suddenly opened their mouths wide to a horrifying extent like pythons.

Balls of dim yellow flame were spat out by the two creatures.

A series of fireballs flew towards Li Muyang, who immediately dodged.

However, in the moment he dodged the fireballs, Li Muyang felt a chill in his heart as a claw pierced through his chest from behind.

–Those two creatures had somehow crossed the distance of several hundred zhang and appeared behind him!

【You died. Game Over】

Li Muyang, who opened his eyes in the private room of the tavern, whispered in astonishment.

“These two creatures can perform Instantaneous Teleportation?!”

Just a second ago, they were hundreds of zhang away, but in the blink of an eye, they appeared silently behind him.

Li Muyang didn’t even have time to use his skills before he was sneak attacked and killed.

He frowned slightly, feeling the situation was tricky. The entire city of Sanhe had become eerie and sinister, with no sign of where the citizens had gone, as if they had vanished in the blink of an eye.

And the demonized warlocks that emerged in the city were getting stronger and more unpredictable.

This game, which was supposed to be completed in three days, seemed simple at first.

But the opening instance had given Li Muyang a big job.

“What happened to rescuing Fairy Liuli? Why did I run into evil spirits again…”

Li Muyang was somewhat irritated.

Although he knew that encountering strange and eerie things was part of the local flavor of the Heavenly Origin Dynasty, where even the imperial palace could experience strange disasters, compared to that, it was not surprising for strange disasters to occur at the Imperial Astronomical Bureau.

But with time pressing, could these damned evil spirits stop making their presence felt at such a critical moment?

Once entangled with evil spirits, would it really be possible to complete the game in three days and rescue Fairy Liuli?

Li Muyang closed his eyes and said through gritted teeth, “Start!”

He entered the game again, but this time, Li Muyang didn’t make a fuss after entering the game.

He leaped to the highest point of the Imperial Astronomical Bureau and looked down from above.

The situation inside the Imperial Astronomical Bureau was extremely strange, and now the city of Sanhe also looked gloomy and foreboding.

However bizarre the situation, as long as it’s related to evil spirits, it seems to make sense.

The ancient gods from beneath the Ancient Grudge Well cannot descend to the present world, but their power continues to corrupt and poison this land.

Li Muyang, overlooking the silent, deserted city, becomes more certain with each observation that indeed there is not a soul to be found.

No living people and no dead bodies in sight.

Only in the shadows of the city, it’s unknown how many 【Demonic Sorcerers】 are lurking in hiding.

The mission in the system bar remains unchanged.

Li Muyang trusts the system. Since it directed him to find Shan Xiaolian, then Shan Xiaolian must be alive.

But in this silent and lifeless Sanhe City, how should he go about finding Shan Xiaolian?

Li Muyang frowns slightly, continuously scanning the city in front of him, trying to pick up any clues.

He doesn’t make a sound to alert the evil creatures, so he stands on the rooftop for a long time without being attacked.

But Li Muyang’s quiet doesn’t last too long.

He had only been on the highest point of the government office for less than five minutes when suddenly a dull and terrifying thud resonated from the night sky above.

Boom!

The dull sound, like a giant drum being struck in the heavens.

The drumming echoes throughout Sanhe City, and Li Muyang instinctively covers his chest, feeling dizzy and breathless even though he’s clearly a zombie.

Li Muyang’s heart chills as he guesses there might be some terrifying existence in the night sky above!

Just the sound of the drum is making him feel so uncomfortable!

He stiffly clutches his chest, standing still, and it takes a full thirty seconds for the dizzy, suffocating feeling to dissipate.

However, as his vision clears, Li Muyang is stunned.

Four silent shadows have appeared on the rooftop of the government office where he stands.

These four shadows no longer resemble humans, with their long robes and pale faces with sagging, dry skin hanging down to their chests.

They are scattered around Li Muyang, encircling him.

As Li Muyang regains his sight and sees them clearly, the four eerie shadows let out a chilling, synchronized laugh.

The next second, the four shadows with sagging skin on their faces fly directly at him.

【You died. Game Over】

“…”

Back in the private room of the tavern, Li Muyang opens his eyes and sits up after a moment of silence.

“The things from the Heavenly Origin Dynasty are getting more and more sinister…”

Li Muyang mutters to himself.

He can clearly feel that as time goes by, the pollution from the ancient gods of the Ancient Grudge Well is becoming more terrifying, and the things on the land of the Heavenly Origin Dynasty are getting more and more sinister.

Although it’s just in the game, he’s still shocked by those underworld things.

“Good thing I didn’t transmigrate to the Heavenly Origin Dynasty…”

He can’t imagine the mental state of the people living on that land.