Chapter 968: Chapter 968: Sleeping Beauty 2

Tan Xiao followed the man in the hat for a short while before encountering two men and a woman.

The two men and a woman were part of the same group as the man in the hat.

They were a temporary team assembled by Willard, numerous in number, unfamiliar with each other, and without time to get acquainted. Now that they had met in the game, they immediately introduced themselves and exchanged information.

As the only enemy, Tan Xiao was naturally excluded.

Fortunately, his mental toughness was solid, and he remained unaffected.

Tan Xiao stood at a distance, chewing gum and listening to their conversation with perked ears.

The distance was too far to hear clearly, he could only vaguely make out the words “vines” and “the King’s sword,” and their tone was quite sharp, indicating this makeshift team was not united.

To be precise, it wasn’t that they weren’t united, but that there wasn’t a single person among them who could command everyone’s respect. Each person had their own ideas, so there were bound to be minor conflicts when working together.

One of them was clearly getting impatient and raised his voice, “No one knows what the King’s sword looks like, why not just find and check them all?”

Find and check them all?

Upon hearing this, Tan Xiao’s thoughts stirred: That’s a good idea indeed, there must be many swords in the castle, and if they could find them all, at least one had to be the King’s sword.

However, those vines were troublesome, tangled and wrapping around everything, if the King’s sword was ensnared among them, who could see it?

Thinking it over, he came up with no better plan.

He figured it was best to continue following these people, and as soon as they found a sword, he would snatch it! How clever indeed!

Tan Xiao silently commended himself and decided to just do it!

The group discussed for a while but didn’t begin searching for the sword immediately. Instead, they planned to meet up with the other teammates first.

When the game started, they were all scattered, located in various corners of the castle.

The man in the hat temporarily took the lead, meeting up with teammates one by one and gradually getting a grasp of the castle’s terrain.

After searching for a while, they were still missing a person. Supposedly, there should have been 10 of them, but no matter how they counted, there were only 9.

“Who are we missing?” the man in the hat asked.

The other eight looked at each other, clueless.

They didn’t know each other to begin with, so they had no idea who was missing.

“Clearly, 10 of us entered, how could one be missing? Could something have happened?” a tall, thin man with curly hair suggested, “We better search again carefully. If something really happened, it’s best to be warned in advance.”

Tan Xiao silently gave him a nickname, “Curly Hair.”

The man in the hat agreed with Curly Hair’s suggestion and divided the group into two teams to search.

“Whether you find anyone or not, everyone must return here in half an hour!” the man in the hat said.

Now, Tan Xiao was a bit troubled.

The team had split in two, and he didn’t know whom to follow.

But then he thought, since they’d be back in half an hour anyway, regardless of the results, they were bound to discuss the matter, so he might as well stay here and wait for them to return.

Having made up his mind, Tan Xiao stopped following them and found an open spot to rest.

His current location seemed to be the foreground of the castle, with straight pillars and an open space–it might have been used to train soldiers in the past, but now it was only dry weeds and sprawling thorns.

Tan Xiao saw a soldier in armor trapped in the vines and, recalling the man in the hat’s words, went over to forcibly pull out the sword the soldier was carrying.

It was a dull-looking, ordinary Iron Sword.

If only it was the King’s sword, since none of them were around, he would have been the first to get the King’s sword–Tan Xiao couldn’t help but dream of such a good turn of events.

He glanced around and found another vine that seemed to be wrapping around a body, he raised the sword and chopped!

A piece of the vine was cut away, revealing the inside of a gray modern-looking clothing.

Tan Xiao, holding the sword, stared at the piece of fabric, thinking: This isn’t right… Why does it seem like the body is wearing modern clothes?