Chapter 59: The Great Graveyard full of talents

With tears of gratitude in her eyes, the brainless little demon flew home half-happy and half-worried.

After listening to Mixi's "crying with joy" report, Queen Xixi felt gratitude in her heart, and the expression on her face couldn't help but carry a bit of complexity.

It was true that this old vampire's brain had problems, but his sincerity was indeed moving.

"As expected of a demon from the Demon Capital... not only is his strength unfathomable, but his means of winning people's hearts are also so skillful. Should I call it being influenced by what one sees and hears? We demons in the countryside really can't compare."

Xixi, sitting on the rock throne, let out a very light sigh, with three parts envy and seven parts appreciation in her voice.

Perhaps it wouldn't be long before the forces at the peak of the labyrinth would all bow down at his feet.

"Mixi... are you very hot? Why are you sweating so much." Suddenly noticing a small puddle under Mixi's knees, Xixi frowned, looking at her suspiciously.

Although it wasn't just one or two days that this guy had been acting weird, she felt that the number of times she had been acting weird recently was exceptionally high, to the point that she couldn't help but worry if this servant had eaten something bad.

Mixi was sweating profusely, her eyes fixed on the cracks in the ground, her knees pressed together like a confession.

"It-it-it-it is... tears of emotion."

Xixi: "...?"

She remembered that what she asked was clearly sweat.

Has this guy's brain broken?

The Nightmare Homeland matter came to an end, and the Great Graveyard had one more trump card to use in the war against the Earth-Dragon clan.

A night without words.

Early the next morning, Luo Yan got up early, first ordering You You to issue a quest 【Help the Great Demon King wash clothes】, and then swayed to the kitchen to boil a simple bowl of green vegetable and minced meat oatmeal porridge for himself.

For convenience, he specifically ordered Arake to carve a stone "ice bucket" for him in the kitchen to store cold fresh ingredients like eggs, vegetables, and milk.

As for raw meat and fish, he had a dedicated cold storage to preserve them, and all of this was also thanks to the Shadow-Weaving clan who were good at digging holes.

"Speaking of which, drinking porridge all day isn't a solution... still have to find a way to trick a chef."

The thoughtful You You popped out from the side, diligently saying.

"Great Demon King, you still have players! I see many players are single dogs who can cook for themselves, so please don't be polite and just use them to your heart's content!"

This guy seemed to have learned some strange words from the forum again.

Luo Yan pondered for a while and said.

"I know, but I can't let corpses cook for me."

He was a necromancer, not an undead.

Although he had dealt with corpses plenty of times, that didn't mean he could tolerate bizarre things like bone ash mixed with rice.

And heaven knows what the players would serve him; he couldn't let You You stare at them cooking all the time and do nothing else.

After finishing breakfast, Luo Yan brought a portion for Sara, then patrolled the territory.

It was indeed as You You said; his players were all talents.

There were those weaving, those doing alchemy, those raising mushrooms and fiddling with corpses, and those pondering how to improve equipment.

Although when they first entered the game, these guys were all running around his territory like headless flies, after a period of familiarity, they had all found things to do.

Watching them busy back and forth, Luo Yan, who was still a bit lazy from just waking up, couldn't help but perk up.

There were twenty-four hours left until the next batch of players entered the game, and the war between the Great Graveyard and the Earth-Dragon clan had also entered the countdown.

He had to hurry up too.

Just as Luo Yan intended to return to the magic workshop to continue his seclusion, a skeleton soldier holding a wooden bucket suddenly ran up chasing him.

Little Bowl Eat-More-Full: "Great Demon King! Your clothes are washed! Please, please wait a moment!"

Listening to that *creak-creak* sound, Luo Yan looked at the wooden bucket in the player's hand in surprise.

Is it this fast?

He picked up the wet clothes from the bucket and took a look, finding that they were unexpectedly clean, and even carried the fresh scent of herbal soap.

Putting the clothes back into the wooden bucket, a look of approval appeared on Luo Yan's face.

"Not bad."

Soon You You would send the quest reward to this little player.

As for these clothes, he could just treat them with wind-type magic, and they would be dry in no time.

"... Also, also, that, please wait a moment."

Little Bowl Eat-More-Full smiled shyly, then took out a piece of soft silk from the backpack behind her, handed it to the Great Demon King, her voice nervous.

"This, this is a sample we just produced... do, do you think it's okay?"

Luo Yan reached out and took the silk as thin as gauze, examining it carefully in his hand.

The touch was good.

It felt sandy to the touch, more delicate and soft than ordinary silk.

As for whether it met the preferences of surface society... he didn't have much of an idea.

Anyway, demons in the Netherworld didn't wear this stuff; the material craftsmanship there was mainly fire-resistant and burn-resistant.

But based on Luo Yan's experience from eighteen years ago, this thing should still be quite valuable.

"Feels not bad... although it's useless in the Great Graveyard, it should be popular in the human world. Do you have more? I'll find a human to ask for you later."

It just so happened that he also had some things to communicate with Mate's side.

He'd go to Silver Pine Town later.

"Yes, yes!" Xiaowan, who was originally a bit disappointed, nodded excitedly, "We made a box of similar products; if you think it's good, we can produce some more!"

"Very good," Luo Yan returned the silk in his hand to her and continued, "Try to deliver the samples to my magic workshop before the afternoon; I might only have time today."

"Received—"

Xiaowan's voice hadn't even fallen when a violent explosion suddenly came from afar.

The dust raised by the explosion engulfed half of the mine tunnel, almost blowing into the Demon King Ridge.

Luo Yan was startled, thinking the lizardmen had attacked, and subconsciously drew his magic wand.

But he soon came to his senses.

That wasn't any lizardman; it was simply nitroglycerin!

Which talent created this thing?!

"You You, who did it?!"

You You: "Don't know, Great Demon King, the perpetrator has already been torn to pieces... Ah! That player has resurrected! Seems to be the one who gulped down the chemical pool."

Luo Yan: "..."

"What's the situation?! Adventurer?! Hey, I'm here! Save—ahhh~"

Kelisi grabbed the stone prison with both hands, desperately sticking her face toward the outside to see what was going on.

However, before the words "save me" could be shouted, her body was emptied by a Soul Extraction.

"Enough! No more experiments in my mine tunnel from now on! Get out of the cave and do it!"

Luo Yan brought out the majesty of the Demon King, roared at the boiling dust, and then ordered You You.

"Set that guy's contribution value to 0, and then give him a quest... make the more reliable TNT for me; if he can do it, return the deducted contribution value to him."

Nitroglycerin is actually very useful; this thing can be used to make smokeless powder, increasing the power of firearms by two times.

But for one, this thing is too troublesome to store, and for two, Luo Yan is worried that with the players' clumsy operations, his own side's combat attrition will be higher than the opponent's.

This kind of immature technology is better to settle down first.

You You: "De-Demon King... that guy's contribution value has already returned to zero, so it can't be deducted at all."

Luo Yan's mouth couldn't help but twitch, and he continued without changing his expression.

"Then deduct it to negative 500, and add 600 upon quest completion."

You You replied in a low voice.

"O-okay."

The explosion near the Demon King Ridge was just a small interlude.

Although the explosion caused a certain amount of mine tunnel collapse, that degree of damage was not a problem for Arake, and the road was restored to smoothness in less than an hour.

Returning to the magic workshop, Luo Yan spent most of the day finally memorizing the Dragon language pronunciations copied in his notebook.

And after several repeated attempts, he had a new understanding of the special spell system of Dragon language magic.

Like Lin Te Isaike, he wrote his insights in his notebook in his mother tongue, and incidentally excerpted a copy to the official website.

Many players were interested in spellcasting.

Although low-level skeleton soldiers couldn't chant spells, these theoretical knowledge could always give them some inspiration.

At least under his observation, some clever little players had already discovered.

As long as someone taught them, even if they didn't buy skill books from the NPC shop, they could learn skills.

Even if their comprehension was sufficient, they could integrate skills into combos and develop some previously unimagined playstyles.

This part of the content had already been updated in the forum thread by a player with the ID 【Ye Zhiqiu】.

Luo Yan had You You pin his thread, which counted as giving a like in the name of the game officials.

The reason he sold skill books so expensively was, in fact, because he hoped players would research "skipping class" methods, and then give birth to more "new things" in sharing and communication.

And they indeed didn't fail his expectations; more than twenty players had autonomously realized how to condense "spirit" into "Qi" and use the "slaughter" method without buying skill books.

Like the adventurers, they didn't pray to the Dragon God, but naturally exerted this power after becoming proficient.

By the way.

The Black Iron-level players of the Great Graveyard were finally no longer a rare existence, but were heading toward triple digits as Luo Yan expected...

At the entrance of the Beifeng mine tunnel, a small path wound upward.

Two skeletons, one tall and one short, were pushing and pulling a broken wooden cart one after another, and lying on that cart was a bear two people tall.

The two skeleton soldiers were Ye Zhiqiu and Hu Wan.

Currently, both were LV8, attributes 5/6/3/1/3, and LV6, attributes 3/4/7/1/1.

Although the Black Iron-level combat power of the Great Graveyard was no longer rare, the two's levels still belonged to the leading kind.

As for the bear lying on the cart, it wasn't an ordinary animal, but a monster wandering in the western part of Silver Pine Forest... and it was the kind that could roar out a shockwave with one roar and slap a pine tree away with one slap.

After all, it was a game world; the monsters on the surface were not much weaker than the monsters in the labyrinth, and even had over-the-top qualities.

Ye Zhiqiu estimated that this guy was at least Bronze-level.

But strength was strength; this bear was ultimately not a monster that had attained enlightenment, still having the intelligence of a beast.

After several rounds of playing dead and faking death, this stupid bear was finally taken away by Hu Wan with a headshot from a firearm at close range in the rage of not finding the enemy.

That beast would never have thought until its death that the hunter who ambushed it was actually a skeleton soldier and an undead rat.

And besides this giant bear that was almost two people tall when standing up, the two also hunted many other monsters along the way. It's just that because they didn't find suitable transportation, they simply collected the magic crystals and returned the corpses to the forest.

According to a player named 【Table Stool】 who explained in a post on the official website, the vast majority of animals in this game world would form crystals with magic power shortly after death, and the crystal mainly grew in the area from the hindbrain to the spine where neurons were dense.

Ye Zhiqiu verified his guess.

Not just the monsters in the labyrinth, wild monsters outside the labyrinth could also produce magic crystals.

It's just that the latter were relatively rare in quantity...

After some effort, the two players finally pushed the cart to the entrance of the Great Graveyard.

Coincidentally, Gou Shi was coming out of the cave entrance, and seeing the corpse dragged on their cart, he was stunned for a moment.

"Good guy, where did you guys go to get rich?"

Ye Zhiqiu smiled embarrassedly and said low-key.

"Took a stroll nearby."

"Nearby refers to the entire Aos Continent, right? I get it!"

Gou Shi couldn't help but complain, then looked at the equipment on him with envy.

I saw Ye Zhiqiu with a hook-sickle long spear clipped on his back, a short axe hanging on his waist, wearing a set of leather armor, and carrying an open-mouthed basket on his back.

Brother Hu Wan was carrying a short bow and a firearm picked up from somewhere, looking like an archer.

He still remembered that when these two guys set off, they were still in a state of being bare-assed, but now they had bird guns changing into cannons.

Sure enough, the NPC shop was just for fun; if you really want to get rich, you have to rely on licking bags.

"Honestly confess, what level are you now?"

Ye Zhiqiu: "Not much, not much, still single digits."

Gou Shi: "Soon you won't be, right!"

Ye Zhiqiu just smiled and didn't continue the conversation.

Gou Shi was envious for a while, but didn't continue to pester, instead changing the subject and saying.

"Speaking of which, are there any places nearby suitable for leveling? A brother of mine made some props and wants me to try if they are easy to use."

Ye Zhiqiu shook his head and said.

"Honestly, the most suitable place for leveling is still the labyrinth. Although wild monsters outside provide good experience points, the density is too low; it takes a long time to find one."

Perhaps because they were undead, the vast majority of living things would walk around them, and only some guys with absolute confidence in their own strength would be too lazy to move because of disdain.

For example, the bear they encountered earlier didn't even look at them.

However—

It wasn't that there were no exceptions.

Before, when passing through an area suspected to be a mass grave, they were noticed by the undead wandering there.

A kind of rotting creature that walked on four legs like a dog seemed to specifically hunt conscious skeletons. Although those guys seemed to be of low level, the feeling they gave the two was much more dangerous than that Bronze-level bear.

Gou Shi scratched the back of his head, his expression quite regretful as he said.

"Is that so... I thought going outside to level up could overtake in a curve."

"Your leveling speed is already okay; no need to be that competitive," Ye Zhiqiu smiled and said, "I'll update the map on the official website in a bit; if you're interested, you can take a look."

Gou Shi, who just wanted to complain about this guy, changed his smile immediately after hearing the second half of the sentence.

"Thanks, brother!"

"You're welcome," Ye Zhiqiu smiled slightly and said, "My drawing skills are limited, so I hope you'll bear with me."

"Honestly, buddy, outside is suitable for picking up junk, really not suitable for leveling," Hu Wan reached out to pat Gou Shi's shoulder, but couldn't reach the height, and finally could only awkwardly pat his butt, "In short... you keep it up."

"Hahaha! I will keep it up!" Gou Shi patted the backpack behind him lightly and said cheekily, "... Of course I also want to try it in the labyrinth, but mainly this thing isn't allowed to be used in the labyrinth."

Hu Wan was stunned.

"What thing?"

"Secret weapon," Gou Shi looked at the two mysteriously, "I'll update the experience on the official website later; let me enjoy it first."

The map is relatively abstract, without a scale, and the white part is the fog part, for reference only. ===== CHAPTER 60 =====