Lantern Sister is still very capable.

Chapter 15 Cooperation

The superhumans, already scrambling around amidst flying sand and tentacled attacks, discovered things were getting even worse.

The hunters lurked silently on the beach under the cover of night, but delivered a fatal blow at the crucial moment. Even the tentacles that attacked in disorder became accomplices, working together with the hunters to slaughter the blindly running superhuman players.

Floating high above, Bai Hongxue saw the thin steel wires faintly visible in the moonlight. Just as she was about to warn the players below, she saw a superhuman rush forward as if fleeing for his life. He only had time to let out a scream before blood spurted from his severed neck, blooming into crimson flowers on the beach.

The man's severed head flew to the side and landed with a dull thud.

The mingled smells of the sea and blood inexplicably brought back to that unforgettable nightmare.

She suddenly lost her voice, and the flow of her supernatural power was interrupted as her brain was destroyed. She fell from the air and was about to crash into the still-dripping steel wire when an orange flower suddenly appeared, gently lifting the girl in her desperate situation with its petals, like the embrace of a mother in her childhood, making people feel exceptionally at ease.

"Hey! Are you alright?" Bai Hongxue's unusual behavior surprised Liu Hua, but he only assumed she was frightened by the gruesome scene of decapitation. This sudden action also gave him a chill, and he frowned. "How did this game even pass censorship?"

He sensed something was amiss, but didn't dwell on it, simply assuming the reviewers were being lenient and letting the game off the hook.

"N-nothing." Bai Hongxue, pale-faced, came to her senses, rolled off the petal, and touched the edge of the petal. She was uneasy, but she forced herself to stay calm.

Liu Hua didn't say anything more. "Then let's go find that lightning-type guy and see if we can take down the sea monster together, so we can log off and rest sooner."

He thoughtfully offered a solution, giving Bai Hongxue, who was having some wild thoughts, a goal. "Okay."

"Wait a minute, let me pick up the equipment that guy dropped." Liu Hua looked at the crystals and items scattered on the ground, and her collecting instincts kicked in.

He had just squatted down when frost, which was spreading rapidly from not far away, instantly covered his feet. Liu Hua's feet left the ground, avoiding the moment of being frozen. When he landed again, the surface was smooth ice. The friction between the sand under his feet and the ice caused him to fall flat on his face.

"what!"

"Are you alright?!" This time it was Bai Hongxue's turn to say this. In order to avoid ending up like Liu Hua, she carefully used the wind-type ability to float up and even used her wind blade to cut the steel wire in the air. However, she heard a "clang" sound, and the steel wire only trembled and was not damaged at all.

"Nothing much, it's just that I've hit my tongue." Liu Hua pointed to his tongue and mumbled a reply. When he landed, his chin hit his tongue, and his teeth knocked it out.

The two people who were talking heard the approaching footsteps and looked in that direction at the same time, their faces filled with a dreamy expression.

"No way? This actually works?" Liu Hua asked incredulously, having just swallowed the recovery medicine.

Bai Hongxue couldn't help but whistle, feeling envious. "Wow, so cool!"

There were two women and one man, one handsome and the other beautiful. The three of them were dressed in clean and neat combat uniforms and skates, gliding on the ice. Compared to them, the tentacles that were constantly flying around them looked particularly clumsy and stiff, and were left behind by the three of them, serving only as a background to highlight their ease and skill.

One of the women, with long hair, was particularly dramatic. She suddenly jumped up, spun four times in the air, and just barely dodged an attack that brushed past her. The sound of the blade hitting the ice when she landed was like a perfectly timed cheer.

Chu Deng, who could only slide forward and stop, was incredibly envious. Because she couldn't turn, Xingchen cleared away all the obstacles in her way.

The stars, busy laying ice, had no time to speak.

"That's right. I lived in the northern province when I was a child. I practiced figure skating there, and later I even participated in that variety show. The Olympic champion in short track speed skating personally taught me how to skate," Yan Mengqi said proudly. After speaking, she demonstrated a standard 5A, which is a jump with the front edge followed by five rotations in the air.

Chu Deng's eyes lit up.

"Be careful!" Xingchen noticed a bulge in the ice in front of Chudeng during a gap in the paving and hurriedly warned him.

Chu Deng couldn't stop in time. With Xing Chen's difficult intervention, she performed a flying maneuver on the ice slope that appeared before the road obstacle. During the descent, she relied on her strong physique to stabilize her leg muscles and landed safely on the ice.

Chu Deng turned her head and saw that the trap on the ice was the item dropped by the superhuman who had just died. It was sealed under the ice and had formed a small bulge.

"Are you alright, Deng?" Yan Mengqi stopped beside her, looking guilty and concerned.

"It's nothing, let's get down to business." Chu Deng waved her hand and glanced at the time on the panel. It was already 10:30 p.m. She needed to clear the level quickly, as Ms. Luo Xia would be urging her to go to sleep at 11 p.m.

Xingchen had already collected the crystals from under the ice and put them into the team's warehouse, just waiting to distribute them after everything was done.

He calmly looked at the two silent strangers beside him. "Kill them?"

"Forget it, I see there are still quite a few foreign friends on the beach, let's entertain them first!" Yan Mengqi glanced at Bai Hongxue and Liu Hua and said casually.

“Alright, let’s finish this quickly.” Chu Deng nodded in agreement.

Bai Hongxue and Liu Hua, who had witnessed the three people passing by from all over the world, fell silent, watching as the three walked away as if they had never seen them.

"Are we being ignored?" Bai Hongxue asked after a long pause.

"Hmm." Liu Hua put on fingerless gloves, casually responded, and pointed to the steel wire still hanging in the air. "Let's follow this thing to find Captain Lei (Yang Guizhou). I think it extends right towards the sea."

Bai Hongxue stopped hesitating, suddenly transforming into a gentle breeze that stirred the willow branches, and said with a smile, "Let's go!"

"boom--"

"Aaaaaaahhhhh!" Chu Deng twisted her wrist and snapped the screaming player's arm, then swept the person to the ground with her leg, giving them a clean and quick death. She didn't close the crystals dropped by the offline player, but instead looked out to sea following the huge roar.

The sky and earth seemed to change color, and the already dim moonlight was blocked by the strangely shaped sea monster. The shadow of the ocean overlord loomed over all the players on the beach.

The surging waves sounded like beating war drums, instilling in people a sense of impending doom.

The tentacles that had been relentlessly hunting their prey on the beach rolled around, their originally slow attacks gradually accelerating, as if they had been amplified by some kind of power.

"NienNienNien!!!" "Is the Thunder Frog dying from thunder?" "Oh my Goddddddddd!" "Holy crap, awesome!"

The players stirred, spewing out all sorts of languages, their inner excitement difficult to express.

This did not affect the three people who were stirring up trouble.

"Watch out, everyone! Someone's stealing crystals!" Finally, someone noticed something was wrong. Not only was there an ocean overlord that looked like an easy target, but there was also a trio taking advantage of the chaos to rob them.