Chapter 850: The Hardest Skull

Great Xiao Gu didn't even need to use magic for some herbs on the desert cliffs. It climbed up easily using its hands and feet, easily earning a soul crystal commission.

"Skeleton lord, you are really amazing. When my sister gets better, I will let her introduce more tasks to you. My sister is very amazing. She is a pharmacist and knows many mercenaries." The little boy said proudly.

Whether the little boy's sister introduced tasks to Great Xiao Gu was unknown, but there were still people hiring Great Xiao Gu. From time to time, people came to ask Great Xiao Gu to build house beams, move things, and dive to fish things.

It was just that soul crystals were still relatively expensive. Only when ordinary people couldn't do things would people think of hiring Great Xiao Gu. But soon everyone encountered a liquidity crisis of soul crystals.

Because there were no undead creatures in Shaxi Town before, soul crystals were basically not used by anyone. Only the old captain held a small amount, the pharmacist Elora had a few, and the townspeople had some scattered ones. Once used up, they were gone.

I don't know if the old captain's first order had a demonstration effect, but the commission for hiring Great Xiao Gu started at one soul crystal, and absolutely no equivalent magic crystals were used, because skeletons couldn't absorb magic crystals.

A few days later, the old captain came to find Great Xiao Gu somewhat apologetically: "Little skeleton, I sent a message to the pier to ask, and no one reported a lost skeleton. I have already left a message saying that I have taken in a skeleton. Whoever can report your external characteristics, I will take you up."

Great Xiao Gu looked at the old captain Marcus blankly.

Marcus was already used to it, patted its shoulder, and walked away.

Great Xiao Gu tilted its head and continued to lower its head to fiddle with its things, dividing the plants.

Although Shaxi Town was a small town on the edge of the desert, the species were still very rich. Great Xiao Gu discovered several low-growing plants that were very suitable for desert planting.

The desert had high temperatures during the day and high evaporation, and it was windy and cold at night, suitable for plants with developed root systems, short plants, and thick leaves.

The crop that the locals called sea buckthorn was very suitable. If there had been such a crop in the Forbidden Land of Gods back then, maybe it wouldn't have taken so long to plant the desert full.

After a period of research, Great Xiao Gu discovered that sea buckthorn could be propagated by cuttings.

Find a mature sea buckthorn tree, cut off branches that were as thick as a finger and more than two years old, bundle them into a handful, soak them in a basin for a day, and then bury them in moist sandy soil. After seven days, roots would grow, and they could be divided.

After some operation, Great Xiao Gu got hundreds of small sea buckthorn saplings.

After night fell, it was the most suitable time for transplanting. Great Xiao Gu held a large bundle of saplings and arrived near the cliffs where it picked herbs last time.

This place was far from the town and was cut and washed by the Shaxi River, forming a beach. The loose and moist sandy soil on it was just suitable for planting sea buckthorn.

After spending a few hours planting all the sea buckthorn saplings, Great Xiao Gu walked back slowly.

Because of the habits formed over the years, Great Xiao Gu worked at sunrise and rested at sunset. There was the aura of the King in the sunlight, which could make its bones stronger when shining on its body, so its bones were now far stronger than its soul.

Today was one of the rare times it wandered outside at night, and then it discovered some strange places. There was some aura in the wind that made it feel very comfortable. This aura was not present in the Forbidden Land of Gods.

Death aura? A familiar yet strange term emerged in Great Xiao Gu's soul. It turned out that this was death aura. No wonder the Forbidden Land of Gods didn't have it. The living things there were only some small animals and small insects. The soul level of these creatures was too low and not easy to brew death aura.

Great Xiao Gu took a deep breath with its soul, and the death aura gathered toward it.

Just "breathing" like this, Great Xiao Gu walked slowly back to the warehouse. From afar, it saw someone waiting there. Walking closer, it was a woman.

This woman saw Great Xiao Gu and hurriedly saluted to say hello: "Hello, pharmacist Elora, here to visit, seeking to see the Death Summoner."

Pharmacist Elora? Great Xiao Gu remembered the little boy who hired it to help pick herbs with a soul crystal. Elora was the little boy's sister. She looked recovered now, but what did Death Summoner mean? Great Xiao Gu tilted its head in confusion.

"Summoner, can you come out to meet? Elora has something to discuss." Elora shouted. Judging by the volume of her voice, it was clearly not said to Great Xiao Gu in front of her.

It turned out she thought Great Xiao Gu was summoned, and there was a Death Summoner behind it.

Unfortunately, she shouted for a long time, and no Death Summoner came out to respond to her. Great Xiao Gu also looked at her inexplicably from the side.

Having no choice, Elora had to turn her target to Great Xiao Gu, requesting: "Little skeleton, can you take me to find your master? You just went out to find him, right? I have something to discuss with the Summoner."

Great Xiao Gu shook its head. Did "master" mean the King? It also wanted to find him, but it didn't know where the King was.

"Ah? Can't you? I don't mean anything else, just want to discuss some things with the Summoner." Elora said.

Great Xiao Gu still shook its head.

Elora gave up in disappointment and turned to ask: "Then little skeleton, can I hire you?"

Great Xiao Gu tilted its head.

"I need to refine Dragon Potion and need some dragon tissues. I know where there are some. You go with me to grab them back, and I can share half of them with you." Elora said.

Great Xiao Gu shook its head and said: "Don't hit dragons."

Elora's spirit was lifted: "Summoner? Don't hit dragons? You mean don't attack dragons? Of course, I'm crazy to attack dragons. I know where there are dragon skeletons. The place where they are buried is occupied by a group of cave dwellers. I was injured because of these cave dwellers. As long as the Summoner cooperates with me to drive away these cave dwellers, I will share half of the dragon skeletons with you."

Great Xiao Gu nodded. It felt that the other party seemed to have misunderstood something, but since it didn't need to hit dragons, then go. The King said not to hit "dragons."

It was no wonder Elora misunderstood. Ordinary villagers were ignorant and didn't know how earth-shattering it was for a gray-bone skeleton to move autonomously. A gray-bone skeleton would only act on instinct without the driving of a summoner. How could it be competent for tasks like moving things and building house beams?

Now that Great Xiao Gu spoke, she only thought it was controlled by the summoner, and wouldn't think it was Great Xiao Gu speaking. A gray-bone skeleton speaking itself was more scary than moving autonomously.

On the way to the cave dweller's nest, Elora repeatedly exhorted: "The cave where the cave dwellers are entrenched is narrow outside and deep inside. I will first release medicine to make them weak in hands and feet, but the medicine to make hands and feet soft takes time to take effect. Your task is to block them in the cave before the medicine takes effect. Can you do it?"

Arriving outside the cave dweller's nest, Elora took a handful of hay sprinkled with medicine and asked again: "These cave dwellers are the strongest race among cave dwellers—God-hair Cave Dwellers. Every person's head grows a tuft of yellow God-hair, which is abnormally hard, so don't attack their heads. Can you block it? If you can't block it, we still have time to... uh."

Before Elora finished speaking, a cave dweller happened to crawl out of the nest. Just after crawling out, it was knocked on the head by Great Xiao Gu with a stick. The God-hair that was claimed to be abnormally hard had no effect at all. The cave dweller rolled its eyes and fainted.

"This..." Elora didn't know what to say, hurriedly lit the hay in her hand, and threw it into the nest. The cave dwellers inside were immediately smoked out, and at the entrance of the cave, they were knocked out by Great Xiao Gu one by one with a stick.

"Am I... cheated? Still saying what God-hair descent, the hardest skull?" Elora was shocked by the change of things.

Last time, she was chased for more than ten miles by several God-hair cave dwellers carrying sticks, and she also suffered a few muffled sticks and was seriously injured. Why was it so smooth this time?

Entering the cave, Elora soon found a huge skeleton buried deep in the cave, but the bones were buried a bit deep, and only a part was exposed.

"Buried too deep, Summoner, do you have any way to dig out the skeleton?" Elora asked. ===== CHAPTER 851 =====