Chapter 9: Monster Battle

In Xiao Fen’s hand, he held a Revolver and a strangely styled dagger. The dagger had 4 blood grooves. Even though the surrounding light was very faint, this dagger, which looked more like a small scimitar, still reflected a dazzling light.

At the same time, the World Tree control screen was still constantly displaying text with a rough introduction of all the supplies.

“Yggdrasil Supply Crate Series (Small)”

“Weapons, clothes, coins, and other supplies will match the actual era and region of the Trial World.”

“Revolver”

“Quality: Ordinary”

“Base Damage: Can cause 50 damage effects at a distance of 30 meters, decreasing as distance increases.”

“Usage Requirement: None”

“Self-defense Knife”

“Quality: Ordinary Quality”

“Base Damage: 15”

“Usage Requirement: None”

Besides this, the supplies sent by the World Tree control screen included a thick woolen coat, a full set of clothes, plus an exquisitely crafted lambskin wallet containing 62 pounds, 19 shillings, and 11 pence.

This amount of money was considered a considerable fortune in London in 1888. In London in 1888, 62 pounds was equivalent to the annual income of a middle-class family, enough to ensure that Xiao Fen could live happily in London for a few days.

In addition, among those wooden boxes, there was a strange mask. Xiao Fen did not know what the raw material for making this mask was, but strangely enough, when this mask was held in the hand, it had no sensation of temperature.

Or rather, this mask could constantly remain consistent with the surface temperature of Xiao Fen’s palm, neither cold nor hot. If it were not for the certain texture when holding it, Xiao Fen would have even thought that such a mask was more like it was made of air.

“Hidden Mask”

“Quality: Excellent”

“Effect: Can conceal one’s original face and voice very well.”

“Usage Requirement: None”

Xiao Fen liked this; concealing himself meant that trouble would be reduced as much as possible.

He quickly changed all his clothes, put on the mask, and followed the prompt of the World Tree control screen to squeeze the air between the mask and his skin empty. After ensuring that he had indeed changed, he packed the clothes he had taken off on the ground into that small leather suitcase as well. Then, he glanced around again and calmly walked downstairs.

The small leather suitcase provided by the World Tree control screen solved many problems.

“Void Suitcase (Small)”

“Quality: Excellent”

“Effect: Can carry matter not exceeding 15 cubic meters.”

“Usage Requirement: None”

These were all good things, including that Shooting Talent just now, but considering that these good things would be taken back upon settlement when leaving this world, Xiao Fen felt somewhat lost.

Walking to the entrance of the dilapidated house, Xiao Fen took a long breath, preparing to face those monsters in the fog head-on.

Just then, he suddenly heard a familiar sound. It was the rustling sound that had just disappeared overhead. Just this sound made Xiao Fen’s scalp tingle. Right now, he really did not have the strength to escape the attack of these ropes.

Just as Xiao Fen thought his end was near, the Web overhead suddenly stopped making any sound again. That was a sign of an imminent attack. The next second, with a “hiss”, a rope broke through the air and rushed fiercely towards its target.

Xiao Fen closed his eyes, not daring to look at his outcome. However, the sense of relief brought by death did not arrive for a long time. Instead, a terrible roar came from the front of the street Xiao Fen was facing.

Xiao Fen opened his eyes and discovered that the target of those ropes overhead was not him, a minor character, but those moving things behind the fog.

Unlike the repeated failures in attacking Xiao Fen just now, the rope this time accurately hit the target.

In front of Xiao Fen, after that roar, an extremely dull sound followed. It sounded like the sound of some creature falling from the air onto the ground.

Almost at the same time, a red light suddenly flashed in the body of the hit target. Then, huge flames suddenly appeared from the wound. In the blink of an eye, the target was surrounded by balls of flame.

It was a huge humanoid body, about 4 meters tall or even higher. Its four arms swung in all directions due to the huge flames, and its head struggled with all its might due to the terrible high temperature. Its mouth was emitting a hoarse roar, and its entire body was still slowly moving in Xiao Fen’s direction.

The flames became more vigorous with the monster’s movements. Terrible fire licked every inch of the monster’s body surface, and finally burned off all four of the monster’s arms and its legs.

The monster crashed to the ground just like that. Except for its head which was still screaming hoarsely, this immobile giant monster had turned into a torch.

Even at a distance of about 30 meters and blocked by heavy fog, this torch was still clearly visible. Around the monster, the firelight further highlighted the surrounding environment, where more monster silhouettes were slowly emerging.

These monsters were like huge zombies, completely disregarding the fact that their companion had been ignited and was about to be burned to destruction, and continued to walk persistently in Xiao Fen’s direction.

The fog was shrouding, and the faces of these monsters could not be seen clearly, nor could the body details of these monsters be seen clearly, but Xiao Fen discovered that on their bodies, one could not feel any sense of being “alive” at all. They were like puppets, without emotion and without thought.

The ropes above Xiao Fen’s head did not pause at all. After hitting the target the first time, more ropes were projected out like rain with “hissing” sounds. Every rope could hit a giant monster and cause terrible flames to suddenly ignite on the monster.

As for those black shadows that crawled quietly on the ropes and hunted loners together with the ropes, they had all disappeared now, presumably having been digested cleanly by those ropes long ago.

In an instant, in front of Xiao Fen, the wide street was completely blocked.

Further back, those monsters that had not been hurt by the ropes attempted to cross this fire line. However, the flames burning on the ground seemed to be able to sense the existence of these monsters. As soon as they approached this fire line, huge flames would suddenly erupt from their bodies, and then their whole bodies would fall into the flames.

Thus, when these monsters crossed that fire line, most of their bodies had already been burned.

Accompanied by the constant sound of bones breaking, these monsters, covered in fire, crashed to the ground one by one, making the fire line on the ground even more spectacular and even harder to pass.

“Do not rashly approach dangerous places, no matter what anomalies appear in these places.”

This was one of the several rules in the book “Awakened and Otherworld”.

Xiao Fen shook his head slightly. Even if he had not seen this rule, he did not intend to rashly approach that place, even though those flames looked very strange.