Everyone's playing hide-and-seek: This crazy beauty has maxed-out third eyes.

Having gotten used to his new body, Lin Sui'an moved in a southeast direction.

That place is close to a water source, and it's both where Lydia is hiding and where another treasure chest is placed.

She controlled her roots to crawl alternately on the ground, at a considerable speed.

The road ahead was strewn with blood.

In this forest, humans have become the most vulnerable supplies.

The further southeast you go, the more humid the air becomes.

Soon, Lin Sui'an found the pond. She stopped at the edge of the woods and used the ice tree's senses to explore it.

The water temperature is very low, which can insulate against body heat.

In the center of the pond, two reed stalks protruded from the water, and two people were hiding underwater.

A person was lying in the reeds at the edge of the pond.

It's Lydia.

Its head was covered in mud, and most of its body was submerged in shallow water, with only its eyes and nose showing.

Upon seeing the "Ice Tree" approaching, Lydia held her breath and slowly sank her body, submerging her nose and eyes completely in the water, without exposing a single inch of skin.

Lin Sui'an continued to crawl forward, making a rustling sound as he walked, creating a great deal of noise.

The gray bark, the branches covered in thorns, and the corpses picked up from the road hanging from the branches created a very oppressive atmosphere.

The two people at the bottom of the pond heard the noise, and even the reeds trembled as they sank down a little.

Lydia held her breath, afraid to move. The oxygen in her lungs was being consumed rapidly. She prayed silently, "Go quickly, go quickly, go quickly."

However, things didn't go as planned! Several thick branches of the ice tree drooped down, reaching straight into the water, heading straight for Lydia's position.

She continued to shrink downwards, the branch not pausing, precisely parting the duckweed on the water's surface.

With heat blocked by water, how does this monster find its target?

Lydia gritted her teeth, reached into her pocket, and gripped a dark red book tightly.

This is the item she just stole, the [Book of True Names].

Simply open the book and silently recite the eerie name in your mind to force it to obey once, provided the name is correct.

The thorns on the branches brushed against the water running down her cheeks. She closed her eyes and screamed inwardly: Tree! Ice tree! Strange tree! Eerie tree! Gray-skinned tree! Big tree! Man-eating tree!

No response.

A branch wrapped around her waist, and Lydia was pulled out of the water, mud and all.

Air rushed back into her nostrils, and she coughed violently, reaching with her hands to pry open the gray branches that had tightened around her waist.

Blood dripped from the fingernail, seeping into the wood grain, impossible to tear! Unbreakable!

The two players hiding in the deep water looked up through the gaps in the water plants and saw living people hanging upside down in the air on the shore, with three mutilated corpses strung on tree trunks.

That was a cover that Lin Sui'an picked up on the road.

Now there's another living person joining the fray! The reeds of the two people underwater rippled in circles, bubbles rose from the bottom, and their breathing became completely disordered.

The gray tree on the shore did not linger; its roots turned and wrapped around Lydia before it turned and left.

The sound of fallen leaves being crushed again gradually faded away. The two people underwater surfaced at the same time, opened their mouths wide and inhaled deeply. They looked at each other and scrambled to the bottom of the pool to hide among the pile of rocks.

This is terrifying! Before, the strange creatures didn't care about things in the water, but now they're grabbing people from the water!

Lydia was suspended in mid-air, not pierced, and her waist was not bleeding. The branch that had wrapped around her had retracted all its barbs and was smoothly supporting her as she moved forward.

She stared at the gray bark so close to her, then looked down at the three corpses below, which were swinging back and forth in mid-air as the tree roots crawled along them.

The splinters pierced through the dead bodies, but she was safely wrapped up on the other side, avoiding the damage from the branches.

Why wasn't the tree killed?

She recalled the previous game, where the girl from the Dragon Kingdom dressed in black, carrying a scythe several meters long, transformed into a bizarre creature and darted around in front of all the players.

A thought flashed through her mind, and she tentatively opened her mouth: "Lin?"

The rustling crawling sound didn't stop. The massive tree trunk shook, and a very thin gray branch detached from the main trunk, slowly bypassing the area of ​​thorns, and landed on her head to pat her down.

Once, twice.

Lydia's eyes widened, her heart pounded in her chest, she turned her head and spat out a mouthful of muddy saliva, her limbs completely relaxed in mid-air, letting the enormous tree carry her wildly through the forest.

Back at Lina's hiding place, the four mud-covered pits were quiet.

Lin Sui'an stopped at the edge of the pit. The branches loosened, and Lydia landed lightly on the pile of fallen leaves. As soon as she landed, she rushed to the pit next to her and reached out to remove the branches covering it.

"Lina! Come out!" Lydia called out in the Russian language.

The camouflage in the pit was largely torn away, and Lina emerged covered in mud. She saw Lydia standing at the edge of the pit, also covered in mud. Looking further back, a huge gray ice tree stood two meters away, with three mangled corpses hanging from its trunk, swaying in the wind.

The scream got stuck in her throat; her eyes rolled back, and she fell backward.

Lydia reacted quickly, grabbing her collar and pulling her out of the pit. She then pointed towards the ice tree.

"Forest."

Lina followed the finger's gaze and saw the ice tree raise its thickest branch, bending it downwards in mid-air as if in a greeting. Lina's mouth remained slightly open. "Sui...Sui An?"

The other pit behind him also moved. Sergei poked his head out, his head covered with dead leaves, and froze for a moment when he saw the huge ice tree trunk.

Lydia didn't give the two any time to process what was happening; she spoke very quickly, a string of Russian words tumbling out.

Lina stood still, patting the mud off her head, and quickly turned to Lin Sui'an.

"Sui An, Lydia said she almost drowned at the bottom of the pool when you swept her over."

The branches of the ice tree swayed in mid-air.

Lydia pulled the dark red book from her pocket, strode up to the ice tree, and began speaking in a rapid-fire, babbling language. Lina listened while scratching her head, quickly switching languages.

"She said she snatched a treasure chest item by the pond."

"It is called the Book of True Names."

"Simply open the book and silently recite the eerie name to briefly command the eerie thing once."

"It can restrict its movement, or it can be commanded to go to a designated point."

"But she just tried out some names in the water: tree, ice tree, strange tree, eerie tree..."

"None of it works. Isn't this thing a tree? Or what's it called?"

"Does it have a name like a person? How could anyone know that?! Then this tool is useless! How am I supposed to use it?!"

Lin Sui'an was stunned for a moment as she listened to Lina's rapid-fire translation. She scratched her head with a branch. Even though she had transformed, she still didn't know what this tree was called.

As for whether it's a real name, you'll find out once you try.

After figuring it out, she pointed to herself with the twig, then to the book.

"Sui'an, you mean, have Lydia open the book and call your name?"