Chapter 52: It's time to give humans a scare from the undead

On the other side, just as Mixi retreated with envy, jealousy, and hatred, Luo Yan, who handed the spoils to Sarah to manage, also turned and returned to his workshop.

When he lifted the curtain and walked in, a player was waiting there.

Seeing Luo Yan, the player immediately copied the sand sculpture strategy crawled from the official website, saying pretentiously.

"Respected Lord Demon King, I am your most, most, most loyal—"

"Spare the formalities."

"—servant. According to your instructions, I have already built your furniture; please take a look."

Looking at this guy who ignored him and insisted on finishing the lines, Luo Yan looked at him in surprise, then nodded.

Good guy.

Actually skipped his skip?

However, if he thought this could trigger a hidden mission or increase his favorability, that would be too naive.

Luo Yan brushed it off with just one sentence.

"Oh, hard work."

This skeleton ID is called 【Zheng Fangxing】, looks a bit like a real person's name, but maybe it's an old thing playing an old meme from the last century.

Unlike other players, this person is not very noisy, looking wooden and honest, and should be an office worker in reality.

As for carpentry, it should be a hobby in his spare time.

According to Hearing You You, upon learning that the Demon King needed a carpenter, this player erupted with extraordinary enthusiasm.

And just a while ago, he had just helped the "Great Graveyard's First Textile Factory" solve the problem of wooden frames for silk reeling, weaving tools, and tanning leather.

Seeing that even such things couldn't stump him, Luo Yan simply asked him to help build a set of furniture for himself.

Looking at the brand-new bed frame, table, and chairs, Luo Yan's face showed an approving expression.

Not bad.

It looks quite like the real thing.

"You did a good job; it would be even better if you could help me build a bookshelf and a door in a while... ah, and a bedside table, I plan to add a night light here."

Zheng Fangxing noted it down seriously and nodded.

"No problem, Lord Demon King... next, please allow me to introduce the functions of these furniture to you."

"Functions?"

Luo Yan was stunned for a moment.

"I still recognize beds, tables, and chairs—"

"I know, but my design goes far beyond that."

The player in front of him seemed to have his own ideas and didn't intend to listen to him.

I saw this brother walking to the bed and lying on it, then reaching out to pat the push-pull lever by the bed.

That push-pull lever was made very abstract, almost merged with the bed board.

If this guy hadn't pointed it out himself, Luo Yan wouldn't have even noticed that there was such a thing on his bed.

"This is a bed with an automatic wake-up function, which can effectively prevent oversleeping... please allow me to demonstrate how to use it."

Still not intending to listen to Lord Demon King, Brother Zheng pulled up the push-pull lever by himself.

Only heard a "click" sound, the whole bed was like a fully wound mouse trap, and the head and tail of the bed slapped together with great momentum.

"Clap—!"

Vaguely, besides the sound of the bed board colliding, he seemed to hear the sound of bones breaking.

Just by the standard of a trap, this thing was quite reliable.

If not prepared with spells in advance, or wearing magic armor, he would probably be embarrassed by this thing himself.

"Wait—"

"Damn..."

"Lord Demon King, please wait for me..."

Zheng Fangxing, who was caught in the middle of the bed boards, struggled for a while.

Finally, probably discovering that his spine was broken, he finally extinguished the soul fire in his skull peacefully, gave up struggling, and went to resurrect.

【Faith Value -1】

Luo Yan looked at the skeleton frame that lost movement with a subtle expression, then looked at the floor mirror on the side.

"Hearing You You... I only have one life; remember to find a normal guy next time."

Hearing You You, who appeared from the mirror, obviously felt very embarrassed, turning in the air and saying in a low voice.

"Okay, okay..."

Putting aside the bookshelf and bedside table for now, Luo Yan temporarily didn't dare to trouble the players to help him add household items.

It's better to ask Jack for help with such small things; what furniture can't be bought with money?

Not to mention he recently occupied a human church.

Listening to the news Mate replied, he seemed to have cleared out quite a lot of property from the remaining account books.

Not just cash.

There are also properties in Lei Ming City, as well as fields near Silver Pine Town, etc., adding up to a total of tens of millions of Ao Silver!

After reading the account book, Luo Yan had to sigh that these god-sticks were too rich.

It seems that he will have to rob Saint Xisi's church fiercely in the future!

Put the distant things aside for now.

In short, Luo Yan used 【Task Completed】 to send away the overly enthusiastic carpentry brother, then took a screwdriver and fiddled with the bed board.

The culprit causing the bed board to fold was mainly the springs under the bed frame; after some clever combination and connection, the "biting force" of this thing was as amazing as a fully wound crossbow.

Although Luo Yan didn't know carpentry, he wasn't the kind of guy who couldn't distinguish between the five grains and didn't work, so he fiddled with the screwdriver twice and removed the springs to solve it.

"This thing should be placed at the entrance of the labyrinth... it's quite good for dealing with adventurers."

Listening to the Demon King's brainless words, Hearing You You said in a low voice.

"But... Lord Demon King, would anyone really dare to sleep in the labyrinth?"

Luo Yan touched his chin.

"Hmm, that's a problem."

How about opening a hotel in the labyrinth?

Providing a place for exhausted adventurers to rest, selling suspicious equipment and food while spreading the faith of the Demon God...

Feels a bit interesting.

However, opening this thing on the upper floor seems to have no meaning, and if there are no succubi and nightmare demons as employees, it seems to become a pure haunted house.

Luo Yan, while perfecting his plan in his mind, dismantled the traps on the table and chairs one by one.

After finishing these trivial matters, Luo Yan took out his magic notebook from his suitcase, intending to review the Steel-tier spells he had learned in class but only used recently.

In addition, he also had to record a few "public classes" and upload them to the system to provide some reference for players who want to take the spellcasting route...

At the same time, the "Hall of Blood" on the first floor of the labyrinth.

The players who recovered their actions from the cutscene were whispering, sharing the amazing discovery not long ago with those who missed the "main plot".

"Speaking of which, did you see it just now? After the lizardmen, it seems someone else came to send warmth!"

"Damn? What's the situation?"

"I also heard it from others; seems to be a low-tier demon! Bowed down as soon as she entered, gibberish a lot... unfortunately, I don't know what she said, the subtitles weren't made."

When everyone was whispering, someone suddenly stood out and shouted, pushing the rumors to a new climax.

Pig-headed Knight: "What low-tier demon? Clearly a succubus!"

Everyone was shocked when they heard this.

"Damn?!"

"Really?!"

"Is the development team so conscientious?!"

Enjoying the star-like gaze, the Pig-headed Knight continued triumphantly.

"Can't be fake!!! I guarantee with my brother's bull—"

Before his words were finished, the back of his head was slapped by the Minotaur Warrior.

"Succubus succubus all day long... hurry up and do the task for grandpa! Grandpa is almost Black Iron! If you don't do the task, you'll be a skeleton for a lifetime!"

Pig-headed Knight: "QAQ"

The game has been open for three days; although many major events have occurred so far, most players are still hovering below Black Iron.

Including the first batch of players who entered the game, the progress to Black Iron is still a day or two away.

However, these are ordinary liver-players.

For those high-level players who are strong themselves and have some cooperation, the leveling speed naturally cannot be compared with ordinary players.

Just when all kinds of players were discussing what the next species to be updated would be, Watching Hu Wan finally became the second player in the whole server to advance to Black Iron after Ye Zhiqiu, and accidentally unlocked the whole server announcement.

In order to stimulate players to level up, this thing seems to be announced until the tenth Black Iron tier player appears.

And it's not just Black Iron, a series of ranks such as Bronze, Steel, Silver, etc., are also the same.

The moment he advanced to Black Iron, Watching Hu Wan's overflowing experience was cleared, leveling up from LV3 to LV4.

According to what was decided before, he spent an extra 100 contribution points to reincarnate into a Black Iron tier undead rat.

Unlike the ordinary undead rat (1/2/3/0/0), the initial panel of the Black Iron tier undead rat is (3/3/6/1/1), with a full 8 more points!

This attribute is a bit worse in strength and constitution compared to the two Black Iron transferable zombies just updated, but the sum of attribute points is 14.

It seems that the attribute difference between the same tier of the undead system is not big, just that the attributes of the animal system will be more super-model.

"So that's it... reincarnation won't directly wash points, but directly apply the new template."

After learning Watching Hu Wan's attributes, Ye Zhiqiu pondered for a moment and said.

This seems to be the hidden mechanism of the game.

"Catastrophe OL" didn't explain in detail; the minimum transferable level of skeleton soldiers is ordinary, but it doesn't mean that only ordinary souls can reincarnate into skeleton soldiers.

Black Iron tier players can also reincarnate into skeleton soldiers, but what is applied is not the "ordinary skeleton soldier" template, but a special "Black Iron tier skeleton soldier" template.

Watching Hu Wan touched his chin and thought.

"Reincarnation comes with washing points, then thinking about how to add points is meaningless?"

"Can't say that; many things can't be seen at low tiers, maybe it will be different when the level goes up," Ye Zhiqiu shook his head and continued, "And, the account practiced by oneself must be handier than the template."

"But if the added points are wasted, washing them by reincarnation when advancing is also an option."

By the way, just a while ago, he also leveled up from lv5 to lv6.

Due to the frequent use of skills, his spirit attribute increased by one point as expected, and the attribute panel also changed to 4/6/3/1/2.

He was quite satisfied with his growth path, so washing into a template or transferring to a zombie would be a loss.

Unless the spellcasting race talent updated later is good, and can concentrate strength and constitution into wisdom attributes in a large proportion.

"I plan to update this information to the strategy... uh, do you mind?"

"Don't mind, and I'm also chasing the update recently; rather, I hope you are faster," Watching Hu Wan teased with a smile, continuing, "Compared to this, I want to ask what you plan to do today? Continue to brush cave spiders? Or lizardmen?"

Ye Zhiqiu smiled embarrassedly, coughed lightly, straightened his expression, and continued.

"Today I plan to take a look at the surface."

Watching Hu Wan scratched the back of his head, puzzled.

"Go to the surface? Chopping wood?"

Ye Zhiqiu shook his head.

"To the south."

Hearing this unexpected proposal, Watching Hu Wan was stunned for a moment, hesitating.

"To the south? But... isn't that a human town?"

Undead entering the city will be beaten by a group, right?

He felt this was no different from seeking death, but Ye Zhiqiu shook his head and put forward a different view.

"Catastrophe OL didn't explicitly forbid players from going to human cities; my understanding is... as long as it's not a place blocked by an air wall, it can be explored."

Watching Hu Wan frowned.

"But it will spawn a wave of super soldiers, right? You forgot that team of soldiers before? And... death beyond the range has extra penalties."

"That's right," Ye Zhiqiu nodded, "Extra death penalties increase the trial and error cost of players, but it still doesn't count as prohibition. Truly forbidden game behaviors don't deduct any contribution points, directly throwing into the small black room... my understanding is that the game official doesn't hope we don't explore the map outside the labyrinth, but hopes we explore more cautiously. As for human towns, of course we can't go in directly, but observing around should be rewarding."

According to the game's setting, "ownerless souls" in this world have a probability of becoming undead.

And it's not just undead awakened by necromancers; there are also undead with independent consciousness.

In other words, undead themselves are nothing strange, unless they appear in the labyrinth as servants of necromancers, which will make humans nervous.

The way to solve the problem is very simple; just find a labyrinth entrance where no one is around to go out.

For example, the North Peak mine tunnel counts as one.

Although it is a labyrinth entrance, because the location is too remote, both human city-states and adventurers have abandoned this place.

Looking at Watching Hu Wan who was still pondering, Ye Zhiqiu continued.

"Of course, exploring the new map is just my personal idea, and it is very likely to gain nothing... so if you have other plans, I won't force you to go with me."

The contribution value needed to rise from Black Iron to Bronze is 10 times that of "Ordinary to Black Iron"!

In other words, 10,000 contribution points!

With so many contribution points, just brushing cave spiders and lizardmen will take until the year of the monkey.

According to his speculation, if you want to get contribution faster, you have to unlock more game content!

"What are you saying," Watching Hu Wan grinned and said, "How could I miss such an interesting thing. I'm just thinking about what equipment is better to bring to the surface... do you have any ideas?"

Ye Zhiqiu: "How about bows and daggers? Speaking of which, can you use a bow? This game probably doesn't have an automatic shooting setting."

Watching Hu Wan said with a smile.

"Haven't tried it, but can learn; I'm quite confident in my learning ability."

"Thank you."

Looking at the brother who thanked him seriously, Watching Hu Wan complained unpleasantly.

"Hey, what are you thanking for, I'm not doing it for you... your problem is being too polite."

Ye Zhiqiu made a helpless smile.

Indeed.

He also knew he had this problem.

Compared to Brother Wanli who generously owed favors, what he couldn't stand most was owing others favors, so much so that he didn't have that many friends in reality.

But he had lived quite well for so many years, so he got used to it.

(Thanks to "Sanshengyuan e Ilena 3" for the alliance leader reward!!!) ===== CHAPTER 53 =====