Chapter 2862: The Strongest Part-Time Worker Comes Online

The time limit for the promotion mission is a total of five days, which indicates one thing: the area of 'Holy Land·Chiliad' is not small, and just penetrating to the central region warrants a five-day time limit.

Su Xiao took out a metal rod as thick as an arm from his storage space, pulled it open, and a swarm of mechanical bees flew out.

A total of 36 mechanical bees flew toward the deserted village, and through the feedback from these mechanical bees, Su Xiao discovered that the village seemed to have no danger, at least on the surface.

After recalling the mechanical bees, Su Xiao walked toward the deserted village, where wild grass grew thick on the dirt road leading to it, indicating no one had entered or exited for a long time.

Stopping before a stone house at the edge of the deserted village, though the house was dilapidated, its unevenly stacked stone walls were neat, and there were iron-drawn patterns on them, showing that this place had once prospered.

Pushing open the wooden door of the stone house, sunlight streamed into the room, where a withered corpse sat leaning against the head of the bed.

Entering the stone house, Su Xiao observed near the withered corpse; from the sketchpad nearby and the rotting oil painting on the wall, it was likely that of a painter.

A yellowed small booklet lay on the bedside table, with a line written in red oil paint on the table, in the ancient script of the Gaul Kingdom.

'Do not touch my corpse, or you will be burned by the sun; we do not regret following the king, for he and we are the same, merely craving the sun. If you are an outsider, stay away from the Holy Seal Sect, the Healing Divine Church is trustworthy, and remember to appreciate my paintings, provided they remain intact.'

Su Xiao picked up the yellowed booklet on the table, which was an album; upon opening it, he found it was actually an adult album, with no signature, indicating the painter had drawn these for a living.

Su Xiao threw the album toward the painter's corpse; as soon as it touched the corpse, it burst into flames with a whoosh, and then the entire bed caught fire. Su Xiao quickly stepped back, and the floating embers around him caused his sun potion's consumption rate to increase by over tenfold.

Leaving the stone house, Su Xiao began exploring other houses; when he entered a blacksmith's shop, he saw a long sword plunged into the forging table, piercing the black, stain-covered surface.

Su Xiao, with a crystalline layer wrapped around his hand, touched the sword with his fingertip.

【You have obtained the Gaul Knight's Sword (Holy Spirit Grade).】

Su Xiao's face showed a moment of astonishment; he had just been casually strolling and ended up acquiring a Holy Spirit Grade weapon rated at 829 points.

This weapon is fire-elemental; when attacking, it can consume bodily energy to ignite flames on its surface, each attack adding 85 points of true fire damage.

Although the damage intensity is not high, the true damage's armor-piercing and defense-breaking properties give this weapon considerable value.

Storing the 【Gaul Knight's Sword】, this item can be used to enhance the rank of Dragon Slayer Flash, as the Supreme Blade has surpassed its limit, allowing longswords, shortswords, short swords, longswords, etc., to be used to increase the blade value of Dragon Slayer Flash.

Continuing exploration, not long after, Su Xiao found another legendary-grade armor, but it was severely damaged and beyond repair.

Half an hour later, Su Xiao stopped before the largest stone house, which was built against the city wall and located in a shaded area.

【Tip: You have entered a safe building; being inside this building allows you to avoid the 'sunlight' scorching.】

The furnishings inside the large stone house were mostly rotted, leaving only the metal strip table against the wall still relatively intact.

A recliner was inside the large stone house, on which lay a figure completely wrapped from head to toe, appearing very bulky, holding a long wooden stick that was thick at the top and thin at the bottom, pointing toward the left-side wall.

'Outsider, if you throw me outside, I can, tell you a secret.'

The villager, wrapped in various cloth strips that had weathered and hardened, spoke.

'I damn, turns out I'm not dead.'

Bahah flew up in shock, having just thought that thing was already dead.

'I am, the scholar of the deserted village, Rimans; you all, did you drink the Healing Divine Church's secret medicine? They... finally succeeded.'

The consciousness of Scholar Rimans was somewhat unclear, his voice hoarse and intermittent, but basic communication was possible, and due to his condition, he directly ignored the influence of low charisma.

'It's too late; we are already... no longer needing rescue, this is what we wanted. When you throw me out, do not touch me, or you will be burned, and throw the chair away together with me.'

Upon hearing this, Su Xiao gestured to Bahah to lift the scholar outside, along with the recliner.

Bahah grabbed the recliner and flew outward.

'There is, a door.'

Scholar Rimans, using the wooden stick in his hand, pointed to the left wall, leaving these words, then was lifted out of the large stone house and exposed to the sunlight.

Hiss~

White smoke rose from his body surface, the ragged cloth strips on him quickly burned to ash, revealing a withered face.

'Hope... you can, survive, O pursuers of the sun.'

With a whoosh, flames ignited, and Scholar Rimans turned to ash and vanished, leaving only a wooden stick; no one knows his story, but he does not need sympathy or rescue, for he merely craved the sun, and all this now is the price.

Su Xiao stood inside the large stone house, brows furrowed, feeling these people were likely mentally固化 by sun exposure, commonly called being dim-witted, all due to the so-called 'sun' in the sky.

Su Xiao was certain that the thing in the sky was not the real sun, which remained motionless in the high sky, and this place likely had no concept of night.

This large stone house was a rare safe point; Su Xiao had Bahah clean it up, then he went to other houses outside to find usable chairs and other items.

Ten or so minutes later, the effect of the sun potion wore off, and the large stone house became a true shelter; once Su Xiao stepped outside, he would be scorched by the 'sun' and die quickly.

Sitting by the metal strip table against the wall, Su Xiao took out various tools from his storage space and arranged the place into a simple alchemy laboratory.

Two bottles of sun potion remained; previously, Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Bubu Wang had followed the guild leader Rogesh and taken one bottle, which meant Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Bubu Wang would face no danger in the following five hours.

After a moment of thought, Su Xiao picked up a bottle of sun potion, divided it into six portions, and poured them into six test tubes, intending to analyze its composition.

The priest was also in the large stone house; seeing Su Xiao take out the sun potion, his eyes seemed to glow.

'A full meal, meal after meal, you choose.'

Bahah stared at the priest; upon hearing its words, the priest sat in the inner side of the large stone house, closed his eyes to rest, and to this day, the damage inflicted by the Sun Warriors on him continued, his recovery supplies having been consumed by more than two-thirds.

Su Xiao's analysis went smoothly; the composition of the sun potion was too simple; if not for his unfamiliarity with the world's materials, he could have finished the analysis in at most one hour.

Ten hours later, Su Xiao completed the analysis, clarifying the several material properties needed for the sun potion, two of which were irreplaceable.

One was 'adaptive substance,' namely the local organisms that could resist sun scorching here; the other was 'assimilated substance,' which would appear in places strongly scorched by the sun, and likely existed in the nearby warm forests.

Being harmed by the organisms here would incur a considerable cost; unless necessary, Su Xiao would not go into the warm forest to fight the supernaturally mutated beings caused by the sun, which made him think of the priest.

Whether Su Xiao could freeload in 'Holy Land·Chiliad' depended on whether the priest could find the 'adaptive substance' and 'assimilated substance' in the warm forest; with these two materials, Su Xiao could formulate the sun potion.

Su Xiao turned his gaze to the priest, smiling and saying: 'Priest, let's make a deal.'