Monsters Are Coming
Chapter 418 - 156: Black Tide Easter Egg, Arrival of the Spring

Chapter 418: Chapter 156: Black Tide Easter Egg, Arrival of the Spring

In order to execute the resource theft plan better, the Earth Thought Evil Spirit manipulated the Black Tide to join the battle.

However, this time the target of the Black Tide’s attack was not the players, but the fleeing Evil Armor tribe.

The Earth Thought Evil Spirit didn’t know why the players were fighting the Evil Armor tribe, nor did it want to know; it only knew that the Evil Armor tribe had caused its resource theft plan to stall.

For this reason alone, in the eyes of the Earth Thought Evil Spirit, this tribe no longer had a reason to exist.

In the players’ eyes, the Black Tide was a poor monster, but in the eyes of the Evil Armor tribe, it was an unstoppable, terrifying natural disaster.

Even in terms of life structure, they were completely countered by the Black Tide.

When the Qi-Blood Life was strangled by the Black Tide, it was like a deep-sea whale swallowing small fish swimming in the sea, with no power to resist; this was not only a numerical crushing of Evil Spirits, but also an absolute dominance of high-level energy over low-level energy.

It’s like ink dripping into clear water, quickly turning the entire pond black.

The Evil Armor tribe’s breakout resistance not only didn’t diminish the Black Tide’s strength, but instead quickly strengthened and increased its reserves of Black Tide Energy.

This was a completely asymmetrical war.

More accurately, this was a gluttonous feast for the Black Tide, merely a war in the eyes of the Evil Armor tribe.

In fact, the Earth Thought Evil Spirit had never considered such a small force as the Evil Armor tribe to be worthy of its consideration.

Since descending into Monster World, the only forces it found worthy of being called opponents were two.

One possessed the ability of rapid evolution, necessitating constant updates of troops to counter, the Combat Insect Clan.

The other being the Player Clan, where death couldn’t be devoured, and the Evil Spirits they killed couldn’t feed back into the Black Tide.

The rule characteristics mastered by these two forces were nearly unsolvable, putting immense pressure on it.

As for the Evil Armor tribe, not to mention their overall strength greatly inferior to the Black Tide under projection control.

Even if the overall strength of the Evil Armor tribe was stronger than the Black Tide under projection manipulation, it could easily defeat them and convert this force into nourishment for the Black Tide’s growth.

In a protracted battle, the Black Tide always grew stronger.

And the Small World Level war was the drill ground for new Evil Spirits of the Black Tide, starting from disadvantage until growing into the horror Black Tide swallowing the entire world.

So, in the eyes of the Earth Thought Evil Spirit, aside from the main battlefield of the ultra-large world, the Black Tide has always been fighting from a disadvantage.

Small forces like the Evil Armor tribe could only be considered small snacks for the Black Tide, unworthy of being called opponents.

This battle, the Earth Thought Evil Spirit’s focus was not on the Evil Armor tribe, but on the Player Clan members chasing from behind.

After covering the Evil Armor tribe’s warriors with the Black Tide, it swept directly towards the players.

Familiar emotional manipulation tactics were once again unveiled.

Sure enough, the Catastrophe Series Soldiers at the front inflated like balloons, then gave a thumbs-up towards the players, slowly flipping it upside down:

"Yo~ aren’t you the players? Are you chasing, or giving these weak sheep an aerobic workout? Look, they’ve run themselves thin in circles, can you even catch up?"

Other Evil Spirits chimed in with taunts:

"Surely you aren’t actually chasing; you’re enjoying the chase process, right? Kind-hearted as you are, you want these weak sheep to live a bit longer, don’t you? Hmm, I believe you’re deliberately holding back."

"Chasing? They’re giving the monsters a tour, showing them around the map!"

"Let me nudge you, achievement unlocked: Best Accompanying Runner Award."

"Have you recently switched to being fitness coaches? They seem almost muscle-bound from being chased so hard."

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The Black Tide Demonic Spirits initiated the face-to-face taunting mode.

Many of the lines were previously unheard, and although some of the phrasing was less than coherent, most managed to pinpoint the players’ points of anger accurately.

This made the players realize that the Earth Thought Bully had advanced again.

It even started creating taunting lines based on player behavior.

It was certain that during this process, the Earth Thought Evil Spirit was collecting players’ feedback data, recording effective taunts.

Various taunts infuriated players, leading to bursting quarrels, both fighting and cursing as they clashed.

Only the Giant Python Clan and Night Demon Clan players were still passionately engaged, the harsher the Black Tide taunted, the more ferocious their state, evidently enjoying this combat environment.

Meanwhile, the players knew that taunting the Evil Spirits was useless, their taunts were all directed at the Earth Thought Evil Spirit.

Including cursing at the Evil Eye together.

As for the Evil Eye, hidden behind the scenes, it was always indifferent, but the Earth Thought Evil Spirit listened with blood pressure rising.

Especially one player’s words:

"You coward hiding in the rear, have the guts to come out and fight your grandpa for three hundred rounds. Oh... with your timid nature, you can only hide in the rear: you’re not fit for frontal warfare, keep hiding, crying under the wings of the Evil Eye, begging for hugs, seeking comfort."

This remark truly hit the sore spot of the Earth Thought Evil Spirit.

Before becoming the Black Tide Commander, he was a frontline warrior in the war, in charge of leading the local Evil Spirits of the Black Tide in assault.

This was also why he chose to take action personally when he first descended into Monster World.

The development of command awareness was also gradually achieved with the help of the Evil Eye, learning a wealth of command techniques.

But deep down, it had never forgotten the exhilarating feeling of charging head-on on the Small World battlefield.

It clearly remembered using similar words to taunt a god hiding behind tribespeople in a small world, without expecting similar words would be used against itself.