Deng Xis has been under a lot of pressure during this period. On the one hand, he needs to rebuild the town that was destroyed by the holy spirits, and collect food so that the people under his command can continue to live.
On the other hand, they must regain control of the island and offer Brand Island a supreme battle.
Jiang Qiao's speculation was not wrong. Brand Island was a living being and was still in its infancy.
But as carriers of the crystal disease, they are Brand Island’s eyes, skin, ears…taste.
It is equivalent to the 'collective consciousness' of all those infected with Crystal Sickness.
In short, everything that the crystal disease infected people experience can also be experienced on Brand Island, so Jiang Qiao will let players go crazy licking the NPCs recruited from the talent market.
But... Brand Island's appetite has changed recently. Compared to delicious food and the care of family and friends, Brand Island desires more for strength and the pleasure of winning in battle.
Deng Xis knew the reason for this transformation. The flesh and blood resonance he implanted in the bodies of the fifty-three civilians abducted by the Holy Spirit took effect. The effect of the flesh and blood resonance not only turned the crystal infected people into monsters on the island, but also... implanted the seeds of bloodlust into the consciousness of Brand Island, making the entire island aggressive.
Of course, only fifty-three people could not affect the overall consciousness of Brand Island, so the Law Thief reluctantly sacrificed three hundred civilians under his command to the island.
Therefore, this attack on Deng Xis has three purposes. The first is to destroy the base of the Holy Spirits as much as possible and devour their power. The second is to recapture his apprentice Ye Lina. Her ideas alone are enough to defeat tens of thousands of people infected with the crystal disease.
If Brand Island can be likened to a beehive, then Yelena is the queen bee and the other crystal disease infected people are just worker bees.
The third, and most important purpose of this attack, was to please Brand Island, to please the island with highly spectacular battles and killings.
This plan was very successful at the beginning. When Deng Xis left you behind and followed the monster army on the island to break through the stronghold of the Abyss Temple, Deng Xis could feel that Brand Island was watching them, and not only watching them but also cheering for the battle.
A true island soul delight.
In less than half an hour since the attack began, Deng Xis's assimilation value rose from forty-five to fifty.
If the war continues at this pace and the entire Spirit Forest and all the strongholds of the Holy Spirit are ignited, Deng Xis will have an absolute advantage in this battle for the island.
This advantage lasted until Deng Xisi walked out of the cave of the Abyss Temple...
"Holy Spirit! Don't you have any sense of shame at all?"
Deng Xis wiped the dirt off his face with his hands. At this moment he was truly furious.
Even if Deng Xis was seriously injured or killed by the enemy... he could remain absolutely calm in the battle, but no one could tolerate the humiliation of being smeared with such filth.
The players around who were throwing stink bombs didn't notice Deng Xis's words at all, and another stink bomb hit Deng Xis' face.
No matter how strong Deng Xis's physical skills were, he could not avoid such a dense bombardment of smelly bombs.
In anger, Deng Xis released the mind shield to block all the smelly bombs thrown by the holy spirits.
"Stand up! Face me!"
One of his apprentices shouted angrily at the holy spirits in the distance.
No matter how Deng Xis thought about it, his side had the advantage in this attack. Whether it was victory or defeat, the benefits brought by the assimilation value were visible to the naked eye.
But he never expected that this group of holy spirits would not only refuse to fight with him, but also use such despicable means to disgust them.
"retreat."
Deng Xisi finally gave this order to his apprentices who were still able to fight.
"Why? Master... it's just some filth! We are not harmed at all."
The situation of Deng Xis's apprentices was not much better than his. Basically everyone was contaminated with some of these strange things.
This is the crux of the problem!
"There's no fighting atmosphere now! Get into the portal now!"
Deng Xis summoned out the portal that he had secretly learned from the Holy Spirit, and threw one of his apprentices directly into the portal.
The moment the Holy Spirits began to use the stink bombs, Brand Island's consciousness, which was originally immersed in the battle, instantly changed from joy to... crying.
If Brand Island was a baby now, he would probably cry out loudly...
So Deng Xis could clearly see his apprentice, and the assimilation value of the apprentice was rapidly decreasing at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Deng Xisi's apprentices were also very quick in execution. Under Deng Xisi's cover, they quickly ran into the portal opened by Deng Xisi...
After Deng Xisi confirmed that all his apprentices had evacuated, he opened another portal and prepared to enter...the ground veins under his feet suddenly rose with extremely cold frost.
Almost at the moment when the frost magic circle appeared, the ice began to spread rapidly from under his feet to his entire body. At this moment, Deng Xis looked back and found that Canxin had run out at some point and released a skill called Extreme Ice Feast.
"It's just this little bit of ice!" Deng Xisi lifted his feet and broke free from the freezing effect of the Extreme Ice Feast.
"Damn! I wanted to say this before... isn't the resilience of this BOSS too high?" When Canxin instantly interrupted the release of his Extreme Ice Feast and wanted to transform it into the annihilation black hole skill, Deng Xis had already rushed towards him.
Deng Xis didn't mind killing one more Holy Spirit before evacuating, but the moment Deng Xis took the first step, a black and white hound with a chain on its body bit Deng Xis' leg.
The giant dog turned into a huge black rock and bound Deng Xis's feet again.
The Exorcist's skill, Shikigami: Xuanwu!
"Oh! Old Mou is awesome!" Canxin saw the president of the Gray Eye Club, Huibaitong, who appeared behind Deng Xis. It sounds a bit like a tongue twister, but Huibaitong is the undisputed number one exorcist among the Holy Spirit.
Gray-eyed threw out another talisman, and another hound-like creature rushed out of the talisman and bit Deng Xis's left arm.
At this moment, the power of waves burst out from Deng Xisi's body, and the two shikigami were completely torn into pieces by the wave explosion...
"Are you finally going to fight seriously? Holy Spirit!" A smile appeared on Deng Xisi's face again, but his smile did not last for a few seconds... Another stink bomb was thrown accurately at his face.
"You..." Before Deng Xisi could finish his curse, dark purple smoke rose from under his feet, and a translucent sphere appeared from all sides of Deng Xisi and imprisoned him in the center.
The elemental blaster's skill, dark imprisonment!
"As expected, President Bubble is still loyal!" Canxin looked at the bubble on the other side that released the dark confinement.
"Stop talking about loyalty! Does anyone have any stink bombs left? I've already thrown away all of mine! I'll take one for a hundred bucks! We can negotiate the price!" At the moment Bubble released the dark confinement, he also skillfully posted a message on the current channel about collecting stink bombs.
Stink bombs are really...fun. Anyway, Bubble likes the thrill of hitting the BOSS in the face with stink bombs.
But the moment he finished speaking, the dark confinement released by the bubble shattered into debris, and Deng Xis appeared in front of the bubble with the force of a sky-breaking slash.
The next second, he used his hand as a knife and wanted to kill the most threatening bubble first.
But at this moment, Deng Xis heard a tiger roar in the sky.
Zhao Mingwei jumped down from the top of the canyon. Behind him, the shadow of a tiger appeared and roared, biting directly at Deng Xis.
Deng Xisi took the Tiger Shock attack head-on, then jumped back a step to avoid Zhao Mingwei's subsequent skills.
Zhao Mingwei also landed in front of Bubble and stared at Deng Xis not far away.
"Master Xiao! Do you have any stink bombs left?" Bubble asked hurriedly.
"Yes, we'll talk about the transaction later, Moonlight! Don't hide anymore!" Zhao Mingwei shouted at the shadow where Deng Xis landed.
"I'm not hiding! Master Xiao, not everyone can use their skills like you can summon a beast."
Another strange voice came from behind Deng Xisi. Deng Xisi was slightly startled. Suddenly, a giant hand made of purple death energy emerged from his shadow on the ground.
The ambition of the necromancer and tyrant Barak!
This giant hand made of death energy suddenly grabbed Deng Xis, and exploded instantly before Deng Xis could struggle... The breath of death poured into Deng Xis' body, and his body began to become covered with scars at this moment.
"Damn it? Moonlight, didn't you cancel your post?" Canxin looked at the Cruel Moonlight who appeared out of nowhere. Before, when he tagged all members in the Holy Spirit quarrel group, Cruel Moonlight just sent a dove emoji and didn't respond.
"I've given up on saving you, but...our guild must be included in the BOSS fight!"
The cruel moonlight commands the phantom of Tyrant Barak floating behind him. It is a heavily armored knight wearing a giant sword, and is the special summoned beast of the Necromancer.
The shadow of Tyrant Barak raised the giant sword in his hand and slashed at Deng Xis who was kneeling on the ground, but in the next second, the same giant shadow suddenly floated behind Deng Xis and blocked the attack of Cruel Moonlight.
"Are all the elites among the Holy Spirits...all...here?" Deng Xisi knelt on the ground and took a deep breath...At this moment, the power of the undead, the power of mind, the power of elements, and the power of the four gods gathered in his body.
Even with his extraordinary talent, it would be a bit difficult to copy so much power at once.
When Zhao Mingwei wanted to rush towards Deng Xis again, the power of mental energy completely erupted with Deng Xis as the center. The violent power of mental energy destroyed the ruins on the ground and stopped Zhao Mingwei from moving forward.
“Then come and take a look…” Deng Xis slowly stood up from the ground, but what he saw when he raised his eyes was not Zhao Mingwei, but a pair of cold pupils under the helmet.
Mo Shigui immediately started with a shield strike that hit Deng Xis in the face. Deng Xis himself was a BOSS without a domineering body, or rather... his domineering body was only available when he released skills.
So Mo Shigui can regard him as a player with three million health points and who knows all the holy spirit skills.
Since you are a player...then it is easy to solve!
The next second after Mo Shigui's shield hit him in the face, the long sword in his hand was against Deng Xis's neck. After adding the tearing skill, he wanted to cut off Deng Xis's neck.
But Deng Xisi held Mo Shigui's sword-holding hand... and used his other hand as a shield to release a shield strike that hit Mo Shigui in the face and instantly knocked him away.
"Old Song, you actually came? Okay! I've decided that I won't bully you for this week!" Canxin looked at Mo Shigui who also jumped down from the top of the canyon, and for a moment he was actually a little moved.
"Don't worry about whether he is evil or not. We still have seven minutes... We have to get rid of him within seven minutes." Mo Shigui got up from the ground and looked at the presidents of the other five guilds, and Zhao Mingwei who represented Jun Lin Tian Xia... Except for Nan Feng Xiao... all the members of the remaining seven guilds of Holy Spirit have arrived.
"I won't doubt your abilities, because I can sense that you are the strongest among the Holy Spirits, so come on... come on!"
Deng Xisi's eyes swept over the presidents of the seven major guilds that surrounded him one by one. His left hand began to emit the light of mental energy, and his right hand released inscriptions of elements. Behind him was the shadow of the tyrant Barak, representing the power of the undead.
Originally, Deng Xisi thought that his plan would... fail like this.
But these holy spirits were just as he thought, although they would use despicable means, they were all heroes and warriors with cool skills.
The soul of the island was now extremely happy, even trembling with excitement.
Deng Xis could clearly feel that... Brand Island's consciousness was now focused on him.
The entire Brand Island is looking forward to...looking forward to this exciting battle!
This will be an epic battle! An absolute epic that will be recorded and praised by future generations.
Deng Xis felt the assimilation value in his body begin to soar rapidly, and the consciousness of Brand Island was constantly pouring into his body.
For this battle, even the surrounding monsters were consciously moved away by Brand Island.
"I won't run away until I kill all of you, Holy Spirits! Use all your strongest power to try to kill me!" Deng Xis' pupils were gradually covered with scarlet color.
The power of blood!
"Damn it! Why are you still hesitating when the boss is provoking you like this? Kill him!" Canxin had already gathered the elemental power in his hands and was ready to attack Deng Xis.
Mo Shigui also silently pulled all the people on the battlefield into the voice chat of the Holy Spirit Guild’s quarrel group.
But at this moment... a female voice suddenly came from Cruel Moonlight's voice channel, "You are still playing games even though you are resting today! How long do you plan to play? It's time to eat!"
Hearing the female voice, Zanxin closed his mouth and listened carefully, and the other members of the guild did the same.
"Sorry, sorry! You guys fight first, I'll go eat first!" Cruel Moonlight rubbed his ears, and it looked like someone had pulled his ears hard in reality.
Then the next second, Cruel Moonlight went offline, and the shadow of Tyrant Barak behind Deng Xis also disappeared.
“Damn it! I knew that Yue Guang was a dead end! Old Mou, you can’t possibly…” Canxin turned around and looked at Huibaitong, the most trustworthy of all his friends. However, when he turned around, Huibaitong had disappeared.
"There's a power outage in his home." Zhao Mingwei said in the voice channel.
"Ah? Is it such a coincidence?" Canxin was a little confused.
"What's even more coincidental is that the venue staff are calling us, and it's time for us to log off." Mo Shigui looked coldly at Deng Xis in the distance.
Although he really wanted to kill Deng Xis right now, the problem was... his real job did not allow him to do so.
Mo Shigui made a gesture as if he took off his helmet, and his figure disappeared in front of Deng Xis.
"Wait... Holy Spirit! Where have you all gone?"
Deng Xis became a little panicked when he saw Gray-White Eyes, Cruel Moonlight, and Mo Shigui going offline one after another, and realized that something was wrong.
"Old Song has gone offline? Should I go offline too? Shit... Sprite said she would shut me down! Xiao Ye! Sell me your stink bombs before you go offline?" In fact, Bubble was not very interested in the BOSS Deng Xis. He came here purely to... throw stink bombs.
"Wait! Holy Spirit! I'm right here."
Deng Xisi heard that the holy spirits disappeared instantly after saying the word "offline". When the bubbles said the word "offline", Deng Xisi actually panicked.
And the consciousness of the island gradually dominated him at this moment, making his mind a little hazy. Now Deng Xis's mind was full of thoughts about having a good fight with this group of strong men.
so…
"Come and kill me!" Deng Xisi shouted to the holy spirits, "I destroyed all your strongholds! Don't you hate me? Hey!"
"Thank you, Mr. Xiao. See you at the departure ceremony later." Bubble didn't listen to what Deng Xis said at all. After completing the transaction of Zhao Mingwei's stink bomb, he looked at Deng Xis again.
"Yes! That's right, come and kill me. Isn't that what your God taught you? Come and win your honor and reward."
Deng Xis saw Bubble walking towards him slowly and was ready for a fight, but what greeted Deng Xis the next second was not Bubble's fashionable elemental blaster skills... but another stink bomb.
Bubble took out the smelly bomb given by Zhao Mingwei from his backpack, pulled the ring, and threw the bomb in one go, hitting Deng Xis's face accurately.
"It's really fun to throw this thing! Damn! Sprite pinched my kidney, it's gone!" Bubble felt that his belly in reality was a little painful. It must be his secretary pinching him in reality.
Under Deng Xis' desperate gaze, the bubble's figure disappeared in front of Deng Xis.
Zhao Mingwei weighed the current situation and after confirming that Deng Xis would no longer threaten Ye Lina and the base, he directly opened the game's main menu and chose to exit.
When Zhao Mingwei went offline, the power of mind energy in Deng Xis's hand also disappeared.
In the end, only Deng Xis and Zanxin were left in the ruins of the battlefield.
"Elemental Mage, look behind you. Everything you built was destroyed by me! Now is your chance for revenge!" Deng Xis shouted at Canxin.
But now Canxin didn't pay any attention to his lines at all. Instead, Canxin saw a link in the Holy Spirit Fighting Group not long ago, a link to an official website notification called "Cat Repair Team".
The notice on this official website is very simple... It is 'Please rest assured, all the Holy Spirits whose bases have been destroyed, after the monster siege is over, we will work hard to repair all the destroyed bases! This repair benefit is only limited to the monster siege activity of the whole server. If a personal guild is attacked by monsters, it will not be available, so please cherish your bases.'
The system automatically restores the base!
Canxin said how could this game be so orphan, and suddenly more than 300 lord monsters appeared. It might take Canxin a star destroyer to kill so many monsters.
"President! We are back from running away from the corpses! The final boss is still here? Fight him?"
While Canxin was reading the announcement, all members of the Abyss Temple had returned from their corpse runs, so they all ran out of the cave.
Now all the members of the Abyss Temple are holding their breath... Deng Xis humiliated them when he killed them before.
"Come on, try to kill me! Holy Spirit!" Deng Xis shouted to the members of the Abyss Temple in the distance.
"What the hell! The expedition ceremony is about to begin, and the stronghold system will be rebuilt. This BOSS will probably go back after two hours of siege, so there's no benefit in beating him. You can still go online to find some powerful looking lord monsters in the Spiritual Forest. Who knows, after the two-hour monster siege is over, these monsters may become recyclable NPCs. What about you?"
Zanxin is still very smart, mainly because he is an opportunist who likes to take shortcuts. Although the Abyss Temple paid a heavy price for this monster siege, there are both benefits and risks.
These three hundred monsters represent three hundred recruitable NPCs, and the largest number of monsters gather near the Abyss Temple.
"What about you, President?"
"Us? The power is turned off." Canxin said.
As expected by Canxin, the next second after he said this, his figure froze in place. Ten seconds later, Canxin's figure disappeared in front of Deng Xis.
The elemental power in Deng Xis's hand also completely disappeared... Seven members of the Abyss Temple in the distance also chose to log off. After the president's organization was gone, a small number of the remaining players chose to log off, while the others ran after those lord-level monsters and threw stink bombs.
"Stop! Where are you going!?"
Deng Xisi shouted at the Holy Spirits who were running away...as the Holy Spirits went offline one by one and left.
Brand Island was also very disappointed with Deng Xis. His assimilation value dropped rapidly, and Brand Island's attention to Deng Xis gradually disappeared.
At this moment, Deng Xis regained his composure... and a familiar voice sounded in his ears.
"Your BOSS doesn't drop any good equipment, nor does it have any titles or quests. What's more, you have a lot of health, fast movements, and can kill people instantly with just a wave of your hand. That player must be crazy to kill you first."
Deng Xis was stunned for a moment, then his gaze quickly turned to the ruins of a building in the Abyss Temple. Jiang Qiao was sitting on the ruins, looking at him with a smile.
"It's you!" Deng Xisi realized that Jiang Qiao's identity was not just a simple holy spirit.
"But fortunately... the holy spirits don't want to kill you, I think." The moment Jiang Qiao finished speaking, an arrow comparable to a missile pierced the air and hit the ground vein under Deng Xis's feet.
The arrow exploded instantly, and the impact caused Deng Xis's body to lose balance, but he dodged the arrow. However, the next second, a figure wearing an orange cat mask appeared behind Deng Xis.
At this moment, Deng Xisi felt something piercing through his chest...
He looked down and saw a chain blade that could be freely extended.
From the moment the consciousness of the island poured into his body, Deng Xis's brain became abnormal, and naturally he could not continue to think about the current situation. It was the same now, but the desire to survive still made Deng Xis hold the chain blade in his hand.
The moment he wanted to draw out the chain blade, a huge sword engraved with a wolf's head was pressed against the left side of his neck, and another huge axe was pressed against the right side of his neck.
What caught Deng Xisi's eyes on both sides was... a black cat head mask and a husky head mask.
"You can't kill me like this...God of Devouring Gods." Deng Xisi turned his gaze to Jiang Qiao who was sitting on the ruins in the distance and shouted, "You can't kill me like this!"
"I don't want to kill you. I can't even design a BOSS as good as you, so of course I have to...reuse it."
Jiang Qiao used his thumb as a knife to cut his neck, and gently made a neck-wiping motion. The swordsman wearing a black cat mask and the wolf knight wearing a husky mask swung their weapons at the same time.
Deng Xis’ head flew high into the sky... but he was not really dead. His consciousness was shared with the entire island, so Deng Xis was so fearless.
This body of his is not his original body at all. Even if Jiang Qiao kills the current Deng Xis, his consciousness will appear in any crystal infected person on the island.
So a system book with sharp teeth appeared behind Deng Xis, bit his head as it flew into the sky, and swallowed it.
"So the hive consciousness of Brand Island is so desensitizing? Fortunately, Hailan and Brand Island were not allowed to have contact for a long time."
Jiang Qiao looked at the headless corpse lying on the ground. When the System Book swallowed Deng Xisi just now, Jiang Qiao felt that a part of Deng Xisi's consciousness or soul had successfully escaped into the soul group of Brand Island...
During this half month, Jiang Qiao's understanding of the existence of Brand Island has become increasingly profound. This thing is actually a beehive that controls the collective hive of crystal disease infected people, although the infected people will not be affected by the consciousness of Brand Island in their lives.
But this vague connection between them still exists, and the fact that Deng Xis's IQ suddenly dropped when he was surrounded by the Four Horsemen also shows that Brand Island will affect the thinking of people infected with Crystal Disease.
"But this is not the problem right now." Jiang Qiao opened the Tiangong live broadcast gadget. After such a long delay, the departure ceremony for the controversial intercontinental competition finally began.
But with the start of the Intercontinental Championship, the online public opinion condemning the four major teams for dereliction of duty will probably explode. Jiang Qiao does not think that the truth about the postponement of the Intercontinental Championship ceremony will be concealed.
"The enemies in the game have been dealt with, but enemies in reality have popped up? They are not enemies... competitors? Or... black fans? Anyway, let's see how the situation develops." Jiang Qiao took a look at Weibo and Tieba.
Most of the news now is asking why the Intercontinental Championship departure ceremony has been delayed for so long...things still need some time to ferment.
PS: I originally wanted to divide this chapter into three chapters, but after thinking about it, I decided not to do so~ The first stage of Brand Island is considered to be over, and the next part is the inner world. In fact, Brand Island is equivalent to the foundation of the inner world and also the foundation of the main line_(:з」∠)_. In short, thank you all for waiting for a long time!
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