"Mother clucker! That hurt like hell, don't run away! Let's have a one-on-one duel!"

The next moment, Jiang Shang's 'corpse' rose up. A flash of white light shone, and the arrow that had been piercing his head disappeared.

He glared in the direction from which the arrow had come, and immediately spotted a bandit with a hunting bow. He let out a howl and pounced on him.

"Mountain God Grandpa, who is this person?"

Not far away, Hua Xiao'er put down his bow and arrow, mumbling nonstop.

He was an ordinary bandit from Woniuzhai, with excellent archery skills; his arrows never missed within fifty steps.

Just now, he was the first to notice four people preparing to attack, and with a casual shot, he had felled one of them.

But unexpectedly, that guy stood up the next moment, shouting incomprehensible words, and charged toward him.

Without thinking, Hua Xiao'er turned and ran!

He recalled the stories he had heard about legendary fierce generals who, even when shot in the eye on the battlefield, would pull out the arrows and keep fighting!

Now, this bizarre fellow seemed to possess the courage of an ancient fierce general!

What Hua Xiao'er didn't know was that he hadn't shot Jiang Shang in the eyeball, but right through the brain, killing him dead on the spot.

And as Jiang Shang charged, he also felt heartache.

His one perfect chance at resurrection was gone just like that!

He even secretly turned down his pain sensitivity to the lowest.

"Ghost, a ghost!"

Elsewhere, another bandit leader with a large machete had just chopped off Zhang Xuanyi's head. Then a flash of white light enveloped the girl, and she stood up as if nothing had happened.

The mountain people were largely superstitious, and witnessing such 'resurrection' firsthand, even the murderous leader was terrified, his legs gave out, and he suddenly shouted and ran away.

The other bandits, watching this scene, were also terrified and scattered like birds and beasts.

"Don't run!"

Wang Ziyang charged forward, accelerating towards the battlefield, only to be taken aback.

The bandits had disappeared without a trace, leaving behind only a bewildered Zhang Xuanyi and a few weeping women for them.

"Rattle..."

Looking at those pitiable women with barely covered bodies and half-exposed shoulders, Xu Ran and Wang Ziyang, very much the gentlemen, turned their heads away, letting Zhang Xuanyi go up to console them. They exchanged glances, both feeling that this game seemed to have some deep implications...

...

When Wan Donglin led a crowd, ready to sweep the area, he was disappointed to find that the enemies had already fled.

"Ah, where are my monsters? My monsters?"

'Unkillable if Wild' brandished his beloved little axe, bellowing in frustration.

"Alright, alright, stop howling!"

Jiang Shang gathered most of the players and explained, "Those bandits are from Woniuzhai. These days, they came down the mountain to collect 'dues' from several villages; these households are those that had no money and could only compensate with lives... Then their husbands couldn't bear it, and chased after to rescue the captives, and you've all seen what happened... The herbalist earlier was just unlucky, bumped into bandits who wanted to kill..."

"This game has a really detailed setting..."

'Evil Not' stroked his chin, "So does the NPC continue to issue tasks, asking us to attack Woniuzhai, to rid the people of this major nuisance?"

'Chen Tianxin' said, "Wait no... Boss, how do you know all this? Have you learned the alien language?"

'Foodie Lingling' eyes lit up, "Blind man, you've spotted the key point!"

"Yes, I've learned it, and not only that, I can also write the alien script..."

Jiang Shang nodded in acknowledgment.

"Boss, you're that fierce?"

'Chen Tianxin' felt like kneeling.

"No, I just opened the system shop..."

Jiang Shang shrugged his shoulders.

"Oh my..."

'Chen Tianxin' then realized that while they had been preoccupied with hurrying and fighting, they had not yet even opened the system shop, a big oversight indeed. He hurriedly made amends and opened the system shop.

Only to find it empty, hanging with only three lonely items:

[Perfect Resurrection ×1: 10 Experience]

[Otherworldly Language Mastery: 5 Experience]

[Otherworldly Script Mastery: 5 Experience]

…

"Only three items?"

"Playing games this long, and it's the first time I've seen items that need to be bought with experience points... At least change it to Gold Coins to sound a bit better!"

"Does the darn developer dare to open a recharge channel?"

Other players looked at each other and got angry: "Moreover, the main quest rewards of 10 experience points can't even level up our realm, it's just the character level..."

"This is just a language patch, and they actually want us to spend our experience to buy it? That's too much!"

Although they complained verbally, their bodies honestly purchased the language and script mastery, so they could go out and have fun thereafter.

Of course, some players simply despised interacting with NPCs, or planned to accumulate experience to buy later, and directly purchased what seemed to be a more useful one-time perfect resurrection opportunity.

"It's too much, too much!"

'Righteous Female Warrior' Biqi, looking at the corpses on the ground, got so angry her face turned red, and suddenly went out without saying a word.

"Wait, Biqi, what are you doing?"

Lin Chenxi and Luo Xiaoyi quickly grabbed her.

"I'm going to that Woniuzhai to slaughter those beasts!" Biqi shouted loudly.

"I agree! Let's all go together!" Jiang Shang recognized that was the guy from today's bidding but didn't play spoilers. Instead, he shouted loudly, "Everyone gather up, grab your weapons, set the pain to the lowest, let the natives lead the way, and take on Woniuzhai!"

"Ula Ula, kill kill kill!"

'If not dead, just be wild' and other players excitedly yelled: "Group battle! Group battle!"

A bunch of idiots noisily hit the road.

'Ke Shanru Meng' quietly came up to Jiang Shang: "Brother Bai, are we really going to fight?"

"Public sentiment can't be defied!"

Jiang Shang analyzed calmly: "Besides... we already have nearly a hundred players, food is running low, while Woniuzhai has only a little more than fifty people, and they just collected a large amount of supplies from nearby villages... so... we must fight!"

"You are indeed Brother Bai!"

'Ke Shanru Meng' said, utterly convinced.

...

Woniuzhai.

"Boss, boss!"

A former bandit rolled and crawled all the way into the village and ran wildly to the 'Hall of Righteousness'.

"Third Brother, what happened?"

The boss of Woniuzhai, known as 'Zhang Aniu', had wide shoulders and a powerful build, with arms that could easily wield two copper mallets, known as a fierce man in the area. Seeing the third boss come back empty-handed, he frowned.

"It's a ghost, a ghost!"

The third boss shouted: "It's a female ghost... I chopped off her head, but she just stood up again..."

"What the heck?"

The second boss, who called himself Jinxiu Scholar and usually played the role of a sly strategist, furrowed his brows and handed a bowl of wine to the usually sharp Hua Xiao'er: "Drink this, you explain."

Hua Xiao'er took the wine bowl, finished it in one gulp: "Boss, on our way back, we encountered a group of strange people with some bizarre tricks. One of them, I shot through the eye, yet he continued to fight fiercely, truly unstoppable! I think they're coming to attack the village, we need to prepare early!"

"So, there's an enemy, huh!"

Zhang Aniu patted the copper mallet next to him: "Watch me hammer them to death one by one!"

Just then, a sound of gongs and drums came from ahead.

"Boss, they're attacking the village!"

A scared underling ran in, shouting loudly.

"Afraid of what?"

Zhang Aniu picked up his dual copper mallets and yelled: "Men, follow me to face the enemy!"