22: Chapter 22 The World Beyond the Dormitory Board.

Descending from the 9th floor to the 1st floor, the team did not encounter any crises.

In the pitch-black stairwell, apart from the scent of blood and stench, there wasn't a single living creature.

"Open the door." Lin Qing stood in front of the first-floor main entrance, his chin slightly lifted.

Wang Qiang swallowed hard, quickly stepped forward with the three cannon-fodder males, and jointly pushed open the thick wooden door that was over three meters tall.

Pale sunlight poured in.

Lin Qing narrowed his eyes. Su Xixi, Su Mengmeng, and An Mumu behind him stepped across the threshold one after another.

Outside the door was a suffocating panorama of another world.

A pale sun hung in the sky.

Building 0, where they were located, was a rough wooden building up to a hundred meters tall.

Around it, hundreds and thousands of similar giant wooden buildings rose from the ground.

The world was roughly split into two halves here.

On the right was a dead Black Sea, its viscous seawater lapping against scarlet gravel, exuding a chilling aura of death of the same origin as the "Vermilion Gate."

On the left, a dark purple primeval forest stretched endlessly, with dull beast roars rising one after another.

"That Black Sea on the right... looks so eerie..." An Mumu tightened her wooden armor, getting goosebumps all over.

The four cannon fodders were even more terrified, their calves trembling as they cowered near the door, not daring to take a step.

Lin Qing only glanced at the direction of the Black Sea before shifting his gaze to fixate on the left side. "To the forest. Where there are monsters, there is meat; where there are trees, there is timber."

He lifted his foot and walked. As he passed Wang Qiang, he coldly dropped a sentence: "You four, lead the way in front. Be smart about it."

The four of them had no choice but to bite the bullet and plunge into the dark purple woods.

As soon as they stepped into the woods, the damp smell of rotting leaves hit their faces.

"Activate." Lin Qing thought to himself.

Protecting the Crowd activated!

A pale gold halo, invisible to ordinary people, suddenly expanded, instantly enveloping the three girls within a ten-meter radius.

"Hoo—" An Mumu was so comfortable she almost cried out. The fatigue of carrying the heavy toolbox was instantly cleared, and her physical strength and speed directly doubled!

"This feeling is so exhilarating!"

The four males walking in front didn't feel anything at all, wading deep and shallow through the mud.

Swish!

The tree canopy above their heads shook violently.

Three hunting-dog-sized mutant poisonous spiders, waving their barb-filled limbs, hung upside down and lunged at Su Mengmeng on the flank of the team!

"Ah—!" Wang Qiang and the other cannon fodders were so frightened they hugged their heads and screamed miserably.

Su Xixi flicked her wrist, just about to draw her blade.

But Su Mengmeng's fair, tender hands pushed horizontally upward a step ahead.

"Clack!"

Heart of Frost erupted! The moisture in the air instantly condensed, and three streams of extreme cold Qi accurately slammed onto the poisonous spiders' faces!

The poisonous spiders in mid-air were instantly covered with a thick ice shell, turning into three ice sculptures that smashed onto the dead leaves with a series of bangs, their eight legs shattering into pieces.

Su Xixi exerted force under her feet, her speed turning into afterimages under the halo's blessing!

Puchi! Puchi! Puchi!

Blade lights flashed consecutively, three spider heads instantly relocated, and green body fluid splashed all over the ground.

"Nice." Lin Qing praised. The life energy was shunted, and 20% directly poured into his body.

Wang Qiang and the other four in front were dumbfounded.

What the fuck? These seemingly soft girls could instantly kill monsters with a wave of their hands?!

"What are you dazing for? Cut off the usable materials and keep moving!" Lin Qing kicked Wang Qiang.

After advancing five hundred meters.

Firelight shone from behind the bushes ahead, accompanied by harsh gibberish.

Lin Qing made a hand gesture, and everyone took cover.

On the open ground, seven or eight crude wooden tents surrounded a campfire. An entire skinned beast was mounted over the fire, dripping with oil.

Beside it were piled more than a dozen bundles of high-quality timber.

Twelve thin Goblins surrounded the campfire in a circle, drooling down their chins from hunger.

Two burly Goblin chieftains sat side by side, brandishing their spiked clubs nonstop and shouting instructions to their underlings.

"It's meat!" An Mumu's eyes turned green.

"Listen up." Lin Qing spoke at an extremely fast pace. "Mengmeng, freeze that circle around the campfire. Xixi, reap the frozen ones. Leave those two chieftains to me."

"Then what about me?" An Mumu raised her sharpened wooden stick.

"Keep your eyes on any that slip through the net." Lin Qing turned his head to look at the four shivering boys. "You four, go out as bait and lure those two chieftains over!"

"Brother Qing! People will die!" Wang Qiang was on the verge of crying.

"If you don't go, you'll die right now." Lin Qing raised his short crossbow.

The four had no choice. They scrambled out of the bushes and howled at the top of their lungs: "Grandsons! Look at your grandpa here!"

The Goblin camp instantly exploded! The two chieftains roared angrily, grabbing their spiked clubs and rushing over.

At that very instant, Su Mengmeng clapped her hands together.

A cold current roared!

The campfire instantly went out, and six Goblins didn't even make a sound as they were frozen into ice sculptures on the spot!

"Kill!" Su Xixi darted into the enemy formation like a ghost, her blade stirring up a whirlwind of death. The sound of "crack" echoed endlessly, the ice sculptures shattered, and a hexakill was achieved!

On the other side, the two chieftain monsters had already approached Wang Qiang and the others.

Wang Qiang was so scared he closed his eyes, activating Hardened Skin to prepare for a hard hit.

Swish—!

A silver coin vanished. Lin Qing pulled the trigger of the short crossbow, and an arrow pierced through the left chieftain's eye socket!

"Aow!" The blinded chieftain clutched its face and wailed miserably, rolling all over the ground.

The other chieftain, with red eyes and swinging its spiked club, bypassed Wang Qiang and smashed straight toward Lin Qing's face!

"Clang—!"

A luxury large round bed slammed down out of thin air, horizontal in front of Lin Qing!

The spiked club smashed into the mattress, producing only a muffled thud. The bed body remained completely motionless!

Lin Qing flashed out from the side of the bed, the muscles of his right leg like a fully drawn great bow, delivering a fierce whip kick squarely onto the Goblin's knee!

"Crack!" Bone shattered, and the Goblin wailed and fell to its knees.

Lin Qing smoothly snatched the spiked club and swung it backhanded.

Pfft!

Its skull shattered, and green blood splashed all over the ground!

On the other side, the blinded Goblin had just climbed up when it was pierced through the throat by an icicle from Su Mengmeng.

The remaining ordinary Goblins were frightened out of their wits and turned to run.

"Eat this lady's stick!" An Mumu rushed up excitedly, poking one over with a single stick.

The battle ended in less than three minutes.

The four grown men of Wang Qiang collapsed on the ground, looking at the corpses all over the floor, and then at the three girls who hadn't even caught their breath, their worldview completely collapsed.

"Are these weak women? They're a bunch of god-killers!"

"Clean the battlefield. Wang Qiang, carry the meat and timber on your back." Lin Qing put away the bed shield.

Fifty catties of meat, more than a dozen bundles of timber. The four males became ruthless moving machines.

Just as everyone was preparing to evacuate.

"Thud! Thud! Thud!"

The ground suddenly trembled.

Thick tree trunks were forcibly snapped, and a stench so strong it was nauseating hit their faces.

"Retreat!" Lin Qing's eyes turned sharp.

A Berserk Orc over three meters tall, its entire body covered in blue-gray bristly hair, crashed through the bushes!

It dragged a thick iron pillar in its hand, its crimson eyes staring fixedly at Lin Qing and his group.

"Roar—!"

The sound wave blew away the fallen leaves on the ground, and Wang Qiang and the four of them were directly shocked into tumbling and sitting heavily on the ground.

"Mengmeng, control it!" Lin Qing shouted angrily!

Su Mengmeng received the order and urged her talent with all her might.

A thick icicle directly blasted towards the Berserk Orc's chest!

"Crack, crack, crack!"

The cold air erupted, and the thick ice layer instantly froze the Berserk Orc into a huge block of ice.

But after only one second—

"Bang!"

The Berserk Orc's muscles suddenly bulged all over, and the ice layer shattered with a roar! Ignoring the freezing, it ran wildly with large strides.

The iron pillar in its hand, carrying a whistle that tore through the air, swept horizontally toward Lin Qing's head!