Episode 39

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**Battle Royale in the Forest of Giant Trees** (巨树之森的大逃杀, *Jù Shù zhī Sēn de Dà Táo Shā*) is the 39th episode of *The Legend of Luo Xiaohei*.

## Description

Alone, Xioahei heroically fights against seven players above level 100. He puts a good fight and manages to defeat four of them, but is eventually defeated. Before he can be killed, however, Wuxian appears and interrupts the fight, telling Xioahei he's lost his mission.

## Plot

Xiaohei is alone and surrounded by seven players above level 100. His hair has turned white, and his eyes are now a bright green. Hissing like an angry cat, Hei manages to get away from them with quick movements, and begins to run away. He returns to the forest, but his enemies don’t follow him, since they have time to spare. Due to “Pursuit”, Xiaohei won’t be allowed to leave combat for 20 minutes. Sansan says to open the gates to the warded zone for the entire team. One member argues that they could leave Xiaohei and join a turf war that’s about to start, but Sansan answers that it wouldn’t be fun at all. She accepts that if it wasn’t for her special equipment, she’d have died hundreds of times already. She’s interested in the risk Xiaohei presents, and realizes that if Hei manages to defeat all seven of them, he’ll become the highest level player on the server…

The forest is warded by a series of magical barriers. Xioahei can’t get out of it. He’s hiding in its shadows… He tries to log off, but can’t do it. He hears enemies walking around the forest, looking for him. They mention that “pursuit” traps the objective inside a hundred meters range, so it isn’t too precise. However, Tuobi finds Xiaohei, using special glasses that can find his heat patterns. The enemies know they won’t be able to catch him once the warded zone disappears, and that his agility makes catching him in the woods unlikely. Liusuan, Luanbu and Xiaorui and tasked with locking him down, after which Sansan will act as the tank of the team. Geshao, Axian and Tuobi are tasked with slowing down the area, applying three stacks for safe measure.

Back in the real world, at night, Shanxin, A-Gen and Xiaobai watch Xioahei’s game using the console. He’s now level 51. He has 18 minutes left on the tracking skill, and they’ve used a warding item that makes it so that he can’t leave the area for half an hour. Xiaohei doesn’t know how to read the menu, but he’ll be able to log out if he survives 18 minutes. Sadly, none of them can tell him that. They can only watch him do his best… However, Hei has one advantage: since they aren’t sharing XP, he’ll level up very quickly.

The enemy players get ready to make their move, and Sansan admits that she wants too add Xioahei as a friend once the battle’s over. Walking around, Xiaohei realizes the forest is blocked by a magical barrier, and he can’t get out. He notices low level players looking for him, and realizes that they’re bait to draw him out. However, before he can make any move, big beams of light being to appear around the forest. Hei barely manages to avoid them, unaware of what they actually do. They’re created by expensive items Tuobi is applying all over the map. They are a mere distraction… Confused, Xiaohei is led into a trap, and multiple light beams hit him at once. This gets him affected by some magic ability, but Shanxin can’t realize what it does.

Hei falls to the ground and begins to kill the low-level enemies, but he doesn’t level up. Tuobi appears and begins to attack him with a big ninja star. Xiaohei evades him, until he takes control of the star and defeats Tuobi with his own weapon, which leaves six strong enemies in the area. However, after defeating Tuobi, Xiaohei was affected by a passive ability, which gave him added weight. While Xiaohei feels the added weight to his body, he watches Tuobi astonishingly come back to life, and all the other high level players appear around him.

Xiaohei begins to nervously evade everyone’s attacks. They only have five minutes before the level blockade disappears! Liusuan manages to hit Xioahei with five magic spells, which add more weight into his body. Having become slower, Xiaohei can’t run away anymore, and begins a direct confrontation. He almost defeats Xiaorui, but Axian heals him with a healing arrow. Still, seconds later, Xioahei moves their weapons and manages to kill Xiaorui once and for all. In a frenzy, Tuobi is the next to be killed, but a high cost. Xioahei is trapped in a weight-spell once again, becoming to heavy to move. He disappears using his spatial abilities, and the enemies get ready for his incoming attack.

Hidden somewhere, Xioahei removes a small strand of metal from a sword, which he uses as a lethal arrow. There are five enemies left, and less than five minutes until he can level up. Axian uses fire arrows to set the forest ablaze, but Hei intercepts one of the arrows with his metal strand, covering everyone in a dust cloud. His first target is Axian, who has good ranged abilities, then Liusuan, and then Geshao, but he manages to catch the metal strand with his fingers for a few seconds. After that, everyone manages to avoid the strand and fight it off. Sansan heals Axian, who then goes to heal Liusuan, while Geshao leaves to search for Xioahei. The strand hits Axian again, but Sansan gave her the magical shield, so her body’s left intact. Desperate to find his enemy, Geshao destroys the forest. Sansan is hit by the strand, but Axian heals her immediately. Realizing the situation is extreme, Axian leaves Liusuan’s injured body and grabs her bow, determined to stop the metal strand once and for all.

With one swift shot, the strand is hit by an arrow, and then Luanbu hits it with his sword, destroying it. Meanwhile, Xioahei is found by Geshao, who applies multiple weight-increasing spells on him. Axian tries to attack him, but Hei teleports himself away, and the attack hits Geshao. Xioahei appears above Liusuan, killing him upon contact, then disappears again. Luanbu goes to find him, and Axian is left alone with Sansan and Geshao’s knocked out bodies. Hei is so heavy he can’t run anymore, and is found by Luanbu in no time. Xiaohei attacks him directly, getting caught in yet another weight-spell, and both Xiaohei and Luanbu loose an arm. Healed, Sansan gets back up, and Axian throws a healing dart towards Luanbu, but Xiaohei manages to catch it for himself, recovering his arm and killing Luanbu the moment after.

Now, Hei is alone against Sansan, Axian and Geshao. He’s tired, and too heavy to properly move. He grabs his sword, but he’s too slow, and the enemies proceed to throw weight-gaining spells on him, again. In pain, Xiaobai and the rest can’t do anything more than watch him struggle. Hei is now so slow that nobody needs to run: his attacks are easily avoidable by moving slightly backwards. Eventually, he looses grasp of his sword, and falls to the ground. Smiling, Sansan tells Hei that he’s very strong, and that she would love to have him as his friend. Hei was one minute away from gaining the XP from everyone he defeated.

Sansan gets ready to deliver the killing blow, but then… she’s surprisingly stopped by someone. Her sword breaks apart, and Xioahei recovers his normal weight, jumping back. It’s then that he sees that his master came to his rescue. Wuxian is there, and, with a smile, he tells Xioahei he’s lost his mission.

## Features

### Characters

* A-Gen
* Xiaohei
* Xiaobai
* Shanxin
* Wuxian

Enemy players:

* Sansan
* Xiaorui
* Geshao
* Liusuan
* Luanbu
* Tuobi
* Axian

### Items

* Sansan's protective barrier
* Axian's bow
* Multiple swords and knifes

### Locations

* All Living Creature's forest

### Abilities

* Xiaohei's metal-control (inside All Living Creatures)
* Xiaohei's spatial powers (inside All Living Creatures)
* All Living Creature's "Pursuit" skill
* All Living Creature's weight-increasing skill
* Tuobi's leveling-stopping ability (inside All Living Creatures)