Chapter 78: The Demon King who takes the lead in rolling (competing)

As a Demon King, Luo Yan naturally couldn't waste time on small details like identifying equipment.

Although he read the attributes of that fish fork long ago thanks to Hearing You You's ability, he still haughtily blasted Long Xing Wan Li to the NPC shop.

Another thing, he hates "European Emperors" (lucky people) the most.

If you show off in front of me next time, this Demon King will directly mark it as a quest item and confiscate it, hanging it at the entrance of the Necropolis as a decoration.

As for why it is a decoration.

It's mainly because he, a mage, really can't use that thing.

Seeming to see that Lord Demon King was too lazy to bother with him, Long Xing Wan Li didn't have the nerve to continue bothering him and tactfully ran to the counter of the NPC shop.

The cat girl standing behind the counter was replaced at some point by a lizardman ghoul clerk with a Sima face.

However, this made no difference to Long Xing Wan Li, who only wanted to become stronger and had no dreams. Anyway, all operations were completed on the player's system interface.

As he paid the fee for binding equipment, the identification work was completed quickly.

A small thumbnail of the fish fork was updated in his item column, and at the same time, a line of text description was attached to it.

【Item: Cursed Fish Fork Level: Bronze

Damage Type: Piercing.

Special Effect: Piercing damage comes with a curse effect, weakening the target's constitution attribute by 1~3 points, and continuously preventing the wound from healing.】

Looking at the special effect written in the floating window, an expression of ecstasy appeared on Long Xing Wan Li's face, and he clenched his fists excitedly.

"Damn! Bronze-tier weapon!"

That loud roar attracted the attention of a group of players, and the passersby around cast envious gazes at him.

Long Xing Wan Li enjoyed it very much.

He is not a person who loves to show off, but showing off based on ability is different. He wished the whole server knew that this thing was fought by his own strength! However, for some reason—

Such an earth-shattering thing actually didn't have a server-wide announcement!?

Long Xing Wan Li, who was left in place for half a day, was angry.

Pit father! Fortunately, his group of good brothers didn't leave him hanging and held up the show very insightfully.

"This is probably the first Bronze-tier equipment in the whole server?!"

"As expected of the boss!"

"6666!"

"..."

Not far away, Past Like Smoke cast envious eyes at that group of sand-sculpture guys.

Having money is really good.

He is still using the mouse's short blade and wooden shield, and looking at the luster of the bag, he doesn't know how many hands it has been through.

"Cut! Damn capitalist!"

Must have bought it! Closed beta games all have off-market trading, really too shameless!

Just as Past Like Smoke was muttering and walking towards the labyrinth entrance, a grinning greeting suddenly came from behind him.

"Yo, Second-hand Brother, morning."

Second-hand Brother? Past Like Smoke frowned, but pretended not to hear, and continued to walk forward with an expressionless face.

This is the experience he cultivated after walking on campus for many years. Once some nicknames are admitted, don't even think about taking them off for the rest of your life.

Seeing that the other party didn't pay attention to him, Gou Shi chased after him.

"Don't walk away, Past Brother! Matter Brother! Like Brother... Castration Brother!!!"

Finally waiting for the comfortable title, Past Like Smoke curled his lips, and then stopped, looking back with a stiff face.

"What are you doing?"

"Nothing, nothing!" Gou Shi smiled embarrassedly, stroking his smooth back of the head and said. "Hehe... just want to ask if you have time, a brother of mine developed a new product and needs a product tester."

Past Like Smoke heard it was testing products again, and immediately reacted with stress and took a step back.

"Get lost, not going! I want to level up."

Seeing that even this guy who was easiest to fool didn't take the bait, Gou Shi said anxiously.

"Wait, I'm not getting it for free, I'm paying!"

Past Like Smoke, who had just taken two steps, stopped and looked at him suspiciously.

"How much?"

Gou Shi gestured with five skeleton fingers.

"Fifty... RMB! You just need to be responsible for lighting the fire!"

Fifty yuan?!

Zhao Jinyan in reality was surprised, weighed it in his heart, and finally nodded.

"Okay."

Looking at Smoke Brother nodding, this time it was Gou Shi's turn to be surprised.

Fifty yuan also do?!

This guy wouldn't be a college student...

Looking at that pure yet stupid skeleton face, he felt a bit guilty in his heart. However, for the progress of science, he endured it!

"Follow me!"

Thirty minutes later, a deafening explosion sounded in the mass grave further north of the Beifeng mine, and two skeletons on a distant hill cheered and high-fived excitedly.

"Oh oh oh!!! Success! Success!"

"Gaga gaga! Grandpa's contribution points finally turned positive!!!"

Gulping Down a Chemical Pool almost jumped off the hill in excitement.

Although he didn't manage to make TNT, he managed to make "picric acid," which was relatively stable and had a simpler formula!

Hearing the loud noise of the explosion, Lie Wenke, who was hunting in the nearby forest, was startled and hurriedly ran a distance towards Silver Pine Town.

Until confirming safety, he stopped panting, held the pine tree on the side to stand firm, and muttered a curse.

"What is that thing?!"

Andes family mining? No—

That doesn't sound like gunpowder, it sounds a bit like Steel-tier magic! On the other side, Experience Brother in reality finally received the fifty-yuan password red envelope.

Looking at the balance in the account, he breathed a sigh of relief, happily put on the VR equipment and returned to the game.

This game is still in the closed beta stage, everyone is still relatively face-conscious, and there are no scammers who do a ticket and run for the time being.

Thinking that he had outsmarted fifty yuan, Past Like Smoke was happy, but he couldn't laugh when he saw the contribution points.

Damn! He forgot the resurrection cost!!!...

Since the rebellion of the Earth Dragon clan was quelled, two weeks have passed.

In these two weeks, the Necropolis seemed to have entered a period of stable development. Except for the players being very noisy every day, nothing special happened.

Luo Yan was very pleased to see that his little players had gradually adapted to the game rhythm of "Catastrophe OL" and also adapted to the life of being a corpse.

As more and more players transferred to Black Iron, the species of the Necropolis finally became rich, and figures of zombies and lizardman zombies began to appear one after another.

Starting from zombies, undead creatures also need to eat, and gradually have the need for "covering shame." After all, taking off pants once and pants for a lifetime are ultimately different. Not all players have the courage to run around naked...

Even if it is a virtual game character.

The NPC shop in the Necropolis has become increasingly unable to meet the growing needs of players.

And under the stimulation of these needs, a batch of players setting up stalls has also emerged one after another on the Quality Square in front of the labyrinth entrance.

These players setting up stalls mainly trade spoils in the labyrinth.

For example, almost every day at a fixed position, there will be a guy with an ID called 【Longxing XX】 sitting there selling fish forks and Shark-person protective gear and short weapons, and collecting various equipment at a price slightly higher than the NPC shop without limit.

This kind of immovable stall has almost developed into a fixed store, so much so that Luo Yan couldn't help but calculate in his heart, should he collect a commercial tax from these guys?

Or should he raise them first, and wait for the leeks to be fatter before cutting? Besides the players who occupy the vast majority of market trading volume buying and selling spoils, there are also life-profession players selling self-made equipment.

Especially what makes Luo Yan pleased is that the first leather factory in the Necropolis ultimately didn't go bankrupt, but instead transported a batch of good-quality leather armor to the market.

These leather armors are mainly made of rat skin, mixed with some lizard skin, and sewn together with thread made of spider silk.

The craftsmanship of these equipment has even reached the level of being able to be sold in the human market. Both the appearance and the protective power are quite reliable, and the selling price is not very expensive, at least much cheaper than what the NPC shop sells.

Besides protective gear, there are weapons.

Although the act of using high-equivalent explosives in the labyrinth is prohibited, some small-equivalent weapons can still be used.

For example, fragmentation grenades.

For example, improved ammunition bullets, etc.

These products mainly come from 【Gulping Down a Chemical Pool】, and the guy named 【Gou Shi】 is probably his partner, mainly responsible for sales.

Not only will players buy explosives from them, Luo Yan will also occasionally purchase from them.

This is mainly the demand of Alakeduo, the chief foreman of the Necropolis.

After seeing the power and benefits of explosives, he immediately arranged them for his civil engineering spider little brothers.

The construction efficiency of civil engineering spiders using explosives directly doubled, although the casualty rate also doubled, but it doesn't matter much.

Those little spiders born for specific purposes were originally consumables; being able to build a larger palace for Her Majesty the Queen and Lord Demon King was their greatest honor.

It is not just the players of the Necropolis who are active, but also the vassals of the Necropolis.

The Palace clan, which had completely fallen at the feet of the Demon King, had gradually restored the order of the past, and under the discipline of the ghoul patriarch Zelike, the first batch of twenty acolytes were born.

Currently, their mission was to spread the faith of Lord Demon King and develop believers of the Demon King among the Palace-guard tribe.

After the summoning altar is built, Luo Yan will rearrange more technical work for them, such as summoning and raising monsters, etc.

The order of the first layer of the labyrinth has been consolidated, and the second layer is the same.

The messengers of the Land of Nightmares come to visit every few days, bringing newly made crosses and the handwritten letter of Ms. Xixi.

Luo Yan actually doesn't dislike maintaining the relationship with vassals through letters, but he is a bit headache about this Queen Xixi's "memorials with nothing to talk about."

For example, 【Respected Lord Demon King, your most loyal subject discovered a beetle with very beautiful patterns today...】

How should this kind of letter be replied? Should I reply 【Not bad, this King likes it, send it to me next time】? Luo Yan searched through the notes brought from the Demon King Academy and didn't find a standard answer, so he could only reply with something irrelevant—

【Hahaha, what a coincidence, this King also found a centipede with beautiful colors while patrolling the territory today.】

This is the truth.

Recently, Luo Yan has nothing special to pay attention to, basically waiting patiently for the Internal Affairs Department of the Demon Capital to remember that he still has an enclave in the distant East, while leveling up by brushing monsters between the second and third layers of the labyrinth.

However, what is gratifying is that judging from the reply from the Land of Nightmares, Ms. Xixi was not disappointed by his irrelevant reply.

Even a bit happy? Luo Yan really couldn't understand what the little demons were thinking all day long.

And every time he wanted to ask clearly, the little demon who came to deliver the letter had an expression that made him unable to ask.

Thinking that maintaining the status quo was also quite good, Luo Yan didn't ask again.

Excluding these daily trivial matters, what made Luo Yan feel most satisfied was Sarah's performance.

In just two weeks, she had learned the introductory skills of stealth and cracking traps, and the two daggers were also used to perfection, even developing to the point where she could help when Luo Yan went down to the labyrinth to brush monsters.

This progress speed is enough to describe with the word amazing.

In Kris's words, such a "demon" is simply a born thief, best at living in dark corners, living like a mouse.

Although Sarah didn't care about this jealous description, and even felt sincerely happy that she could finally play some role, in Luo Yan's view, such rhetoric was undoubtedly discrimination.

Is it politically incorrect in front of the Demon Capital's number one "protected animal"? In order to show the majesty of the Demon King, Luo Yan strictly disciplined this guy who spoke without thinking, and sucked her until she was almost ascending to heaven before stopping...

Second layer of the labyrinth.

It's the daily routine of brushing monsters again.

Using the energy he just sucked from someone not long ago, Luo Yan, standing in the labyrinth, gently waved the magic wand in his hand, and in a flash, shot and killed a giant centipede in the corner of the cave.

In the rolling dust, Bangde carrying a greatsword and Aokeduo carrying a scimitar walked up to dig for materials on the monster's body.

Sarah, responsible for scouting and pulling monsters, trotted to Luo Yan's side and thoughtfully handed over the towel wet with water.

"Thanks."

Although he didn't get any dust, Luo Yan still smiled and took the towel to wipe his face and hands, then opened the attribute panel that hadn't been looked at for two weeks and took a look.

【

ID: Luo Yan

Race: Human

Soul Level: Steel (Level cap LV50)

Level: LV. 39 (+3)

Experience Value: (51/36W)

Constitution: 16 (+1)

Strength: 13 Agility: 14 (+1)

Intelligence: 46 (+4)

Spirit: 45 (+3)

】

"Actually leveled up three times, not bad."

Luo Yan was quite satisfied with his leveling rhythm.

After all, there were three people in the team sharing experience, and with this low-intensity combat intensity, this leveling speed was already considered fast.

The only pity was that 1 attribute point was wasted on agility.

But Luo Yan also figured it out.

Accidents are the norm in life, and there is nothing in this world that can always be under control.

In addition, compared to himself who was over thirty levels, the growth of the other three people with lower levels in the team was more obvious.

Bangde and Aokeduo, who were reborn in the form of ghouls, had practiced to Bronze tier, and Sarah also rose to Black Iron after comprehending transcendent power.

Looking at Bangde and Aokeduo who had finished recycling materials and returned from beside the monster's corpse, just as Luo Yan was about to take his little brothers to continue brushing the next group, Hearing You You's cheerful voice suddenly entered his ears.

"Lord Demon King! The reply from the Demon Capital has finally arrived!"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 79 =====