Chapter 27: The Plague Cemetery

  Although it is daytime now, the road to the plague cemetery is gloomy, and you can often see residents infected with the plague lying on the side of the road, their eyes dull and weak, making faint sounds. In the grass by the roadside, there are piles of black bones everywhere, the harm caused by the plague to the people is really too deep.

  I marveled at the game's realism while cautiously gazing out at the disappearing highway, where nothing but a plague-infested forest lay before me. The dark earth was covered in a lush carpet of greenish-black grass, and in the distance, several level 18 forest spiders lurked in the underbrush, watching this unwelcome visitor.

  I took a look at myself who is about to reach level 17, so I'll just use these few spiders as the final sacrifice!

  "Hmph!"

  System Prompt: You have contracted the Forest Spider's Plague Virus. Within 10 minutes, your HP recovery speed will decrease by 50%. You cannot use any beneficial potions.

  I couldn't help but gasp, this plague virus is too over the top, without a priest's words, I reckon anyone here would be dead as a doornail, not even getting any medicine. But then again, now there aren't many people who can afford to use the medicines sold in stores, Mu Rong Xiang Xiang that spendthrift MM should be an exception.

  Quickly cut down the third spider, at this time I had less than half of my blood left. Fortunately, I also successfully leveled up to 17, and what made me overjoyed was that the plague virus was also washed away by the light of leveling up. Immediately took out a bottle of ketchup and drank it down, next time encountering spiders won't be so passive.

  Pick up a small blue bottle of Spider Bomb, although there is no clear price tag now, but on the black market, this small blue bottle has already been sold for 5 RMB per bottle, which is very expensive, but there are many rich people, and buyers are everywhere.

  Going further forward, there were no more spiders, not even any living organisms. The atmosphere was increasingly oppressive, and occasionally the wind would blow by, carrying a blood-curdling scream that made one's hair stand on end.

  I'm not a brave person at all, I was trembling all over, and immediately connected Xinyu's intercom: "Beauty, what are you doing?"

  Xin Yu's tone was still ambiguous: "What, thinking of me?"

  "No, it's just that I'm a bit bored now, why don't you sing a song to ease the atmosphere?"

  "Come on, I can only sing 'Eighteen' and nothing else, do you want to listen?" Xinyu said with a sly smile.

  "Never mind! Just remind me at lunchtime."

  "No need, Snow will call you, such a trivial matter is not worthy of me"

  “……”

  Hang up the phone, although I didn't hear the song, but my mood has improved a lot. For a moment, I feel that Xin Yu is still quite cute sometimes.

  After walking west for nearly half an hour in the desolate forest, the gloomy plague cemetery finally appeared before my eyes. The trees gradually decreased and were replaced by rows of tombstones. From a distance, I could see skeletal warriors with white bones patrolling back and forth in the cemetery.

  A dilapidated old house stood on the highest hill in the cemetery, surrounded by some excavated graves, and even the skeletons of the dead could be seen inside. A faint stench wafted over, I struggled to hold back the nausea in my stomach, while Skull Warriors were inspecting their distribution from a distance. These level 22 monsters weren't something I could easily take on alone.

  Slowly approaching, when I drew out my sword, a skeleton warrior discovered me!

  The Skull Warrior moved at an extremely fast speed! So fast that I hadn't even reacted yet and it was already in front of me, when I raised my sword, its sword had already heavily chopped down on my body.

  “55！”

  I was shocked by this strange attack, which was a bit exaggerated. A 21-level BOSS couldn't have taken that much blood from me in one hit, could it? My sword also slashed down...

  “184！”

  No mistake, I didn't misjudge it, it's not a fatal blow but can still deal that much damage! The blood of the 22nd level skeleton suddenly decreased by nearly half, and then another sword.

  “196！”

  A level 22 skeleton warrior was instantly killed by me with just two knives!

  I suddenly understood that although this undead creature's attack was high, its physical defense and blood were pitifully low. The experience I gained from killing it earlier was three times what I would have gotten from killing an 18-level monster. Isn't this exactly suitable for a swordsman like me with high attack and defense? Generally, mages can't withstand such abnormal attacks, while warriors with low attack power don't have the strong output to quickly defeat the monster, and instead are likely to be trampled to death by it.

  With the blessing of tomato sauce, I can slash out a sword before the skeleton warriors attack with my reaction speed. In this way, each skeleton warrior can only attack me once, and I can barely keep fighting like this. Before long, I cleared a piece of monsters in the graveyard, and the experience of level 17 actually increased by 30% within an hour! At this rate, I will reach level 18 before lunch!

  The plague cemetery is divided into nine major sections, with the old house at the center forming a huge circular array. Such a vast leveling resource almost made me drool.

  I opened the ranking list and found that I had suppressed Crazy War to become the first in this city. I happily ran towards a nearby cemetery, where I had just cleared a group of monsters that gave me four medium-sized blood bottles, each of which can restore 500 points of health. The current market price is 1 gold coin per bottle, it's all about money!

  Just as I was planning how to get rid of the monster, I suddenly saw a small broken house on the nearby hillside, and vaguely saw someone's shadow inside.

  Slowly pushing open the door, I found an old man lying on the bed who was already on his last breath. His chest had festered and rotted due to the plague virus, with only a faint breath left to prove he was still alive.

  This must be a mission!

  I immediately walked over to talk to him, he looked at me and said what happened here: "I am the guardian of this cemetery, unfortunately three years ago a group of necromancers came here, they brought death and also brought terrible plague, since then no one dared to come here again. The dead in the cemetery were all summoned into mindless skulls. Half a year ago, I was also infected with the plague. Although a traveling practitioner told me that a kind of Qingyu flower growing in the cemetery can cure this plague, but I have no strength to get out of bed now. Young man, can you help me find the Qingyu flower?