Chapter 205: Give Good Neighbors a Strength Boost

Since the mouse had never been to the dungeon before, Ji Ming wasn't in a hurry to attend to business; instead, he let the mouse sit on a plant‑bird and take a tour of the area.

This helped the mouse get familiar with the surroundings while also letting it show its presence in front of various NPCs.

Thinking about it, although the mouse isn't the first mouse to reach heaven, it's undoubtedly the first tycoon in mouse‑kind to enjoy private‑jet treatment.

And according to objective law, a person is most reckless when they know nothing; the mouse is no different.

At first, it thought Ji Ming was just a somewhat strange doctor, and that his brain needed treatment.

But only after personally leading the team to build his downline did he gradually notice all the ways he was different.

So today's incident also serves to confirm some of its suspicions.

Who would have thought that a seemingly harmless doctor actually possesses an entire underground world behind the scenes?

Originally the mouse thought it now sat atop millions of mouse descendants, so even if it couldn't stand equal to the doctor, it no longer needed to obey blindly as before.

After wandering around here, it realized its little enterprise was nothing—just a fledgling start‑up stage of scraping by.

No way; after returning, I must accelerate the rat‑person plan, otherwise I'll never be able to catch up…

Seeing the mouse looking a bit dejected, Ji Ming bent down and patted its head.

"Think positive—although your business isn't as big as mine, at least you can organize a nice picnic, right?"

"By the way, I see you've already become a king‑level creature, right? There are some of your kind here—see if you can subdue them."

Just like in the earlier dog‑head dungeon, after the hatred died, Ji Ming teleported all the players out.

At the same time he announced that the earth‑digging mine would be temporarily closed, to reopen at 10 p. m. tomorrow night.

During this interim period, one purpose was to try to win over the mole people, and another was that this dungeon run was unnecessarily brutal.

—Many parts of the mine have become dangerous structures; if they aren't repaired, a large‑scale collapse is inevitable.

So when he brought the mouse back to the residential area, the large white mole was leading its people in jumping up and down.

However, such a huge crack couldn't be filled just by saying so; all their hard work was in vain.

Damn it—after all that painstaking effort to build our home, do we really have to give it up like this?

In the heavy atmosphere, each of them looked grim and worried, even their shovels lost their shine.

Ji Ming wasn't up to no good, so he didn't hide his presence; as soon as he entered the space, the mole people spotted him right away.

But before starting negotiations, he waved his hand and opened the map editor.

Then, amid the mice's astonished gazes, with a rumbling sound, the ground and walls around them began to shift.

The frightening cracks slowly closed, the damaged walls smoothed out, and the residential area—which wasn't particularly spacious to begin with—expanded to more than three times its original size.

And that wasn't the end; almost simultaneously, several walls and support pillars rose up from the ground, like building blocks forming room after room.

Following the direction of the rock strata, they linked tightly together vertically and horizontally, turning into a massive structure that gradually filled the space.

In the end, a solid and a hollow concentric circle formed, one inside the other, amounting to at least ten levels.

Looking out, the design of this residential complex resembles a Hakka earthen building, also like a cave, and even hints at ancient Roman architecture.

It can be described as magnificent and grand, a marvel of craftsmanship.

【Savior, are you addicted to creating wonders?】

【What are you talking about? I'm just helping the mice improve their lives.】

Meanwhile, seated beside the central cylindrical tower, all the mole people had their mouths open, gazing up at the sky.

After a long while, they finally realized what had happened.

In a certain war‑crime game, when the technological gap between the two sides is too great, it's described as 【like a god】.

Applied to the Yangyue world, it's naturally the same.

If you can kill the opponent with a single punch, what's the difference between a plain basic attack and the God‑Heaven‑Shattering Thunder ProMAX?

Either way, they're absolutely formidable beings you dare not provoke!

So…

Ah, let me kowtow for you to see.

The ground mice immediately knelt down en masse, starting to kowtow with a pat‑pat‑pat sound.

Ah, are you addicted to kowtowing now!

Opening the beast‑language translator, Ji Ming quickly took out a small gong and struck it once.

"Get up—no kneeling!"

Upon hearing that, the mole people all shuddered, startled into scrambling to their feet.

And Ji Ming also set the mouse on the ground and gave it a gentle push.

"Go on, go talk to them and see if you can work out a cooperation."

Although house mice and mole rats are different species, since both names contain the character for "mouse," they can at least be considered distant relatives.

Sure enough, as soon as the mouse hit the ground, it began squeaking at the mole‑rat chief, its tiny paws gesturing wildly in the air.

Chitter‑chatter, squeak‑squeak, after a long while they finally finished negotiating.

Then…

No, why are you all kowtowing again?

But as the mole people kowtowed, a dazzling golden light suddenly burst forth from behind the mouse.

Ji Ming stared and saw that the mouse's back had grown several strands of golden fur, and now it seemed to have added another one.

However, that golden light flashed for just an instant before disappearing, returning to its normal gray color.

…Having been touched by my divine aura and karma as a supreme god, could the mouse really become a god?

After thoroughly enjoying the kowtowing, the mouse, hands on hips, finally took out a notebook and wrote a line on it.

【After hearing of my deed saving over a hundred mice, they've decided to pledge allegiance to me!】

This is good news, but also bad news.

The good news is that Ji Ming had originally planned to recruit this group of moles, letting them become professional miners for the coal mine and even the iron mine.

The bad news is that they have now become vassals of his vassals, making them somewhat inconvenient to command.

However, being able to raise such a large force, Mouse Kid is also a book‑loving good mouse, naturally knowing the principle of making full use of things.

So after Ji Ming explained the pros and cons and causality in detail, it agreed to the suggestion of keeping the moles here.

But remember to prepare more armor for me—I'm afraid of dying, meow.

Actually, this underground wonder was not a spur‑of‑the‑moment idea of Ji Ming's; he had worked out the design beforehand.

Thus, one floor of the central building is a spacious hall, just right for placing a teleportation array here that connects to the iron mine on the other side.

That way, the moles can easily shuttle between the two mines.

The commuting time can also be saved greatly, making it easier for them to mine more and thus create more…

Wait, how did I suddenly get the idea of a hanging streetlamp?

He quickly dismissed such disorderly conduct from his mind; Ji Ming left Mouse Kid here to patrol the territory, then transmitted himself beyond the curtain.

He switched on a voice changer and took out the magic conduit that could communicate with Wendigo.

【Your friend: Sovereign of All Spirits·Online】

Perhaps Wendigo truly got insomnia from what happened this morning, and almost instantly connected the communication.

He forced himself to stay energetic, and his speech seemed as steady and powerful as ever.

【Friend, I never thought you'd actually send me a message at this time; how come, are you finally willing to accept my sincerity?】

? ？？

Oh, I get it—you're still thinking about that eyeball demon.

You care so much—could it be that you're the love child of the hundred‑eyed giant?

It's a pity that the Sovereign of All Spirits' alternate identity is just Ji Ming's "official title" in this other world, and he has to keep up appearances.

He must maintain a lofty persona, keep his appearances low, and cannot say many overly casual things.

So Ji Ming can only sneer at it in his heart, while outwardly he is very solemn and clear.

【Wendigo, I advise you to forget that eyeball demon; anyone who rashly invades my territory won't have a chance to come back alive.】

Wendigo naturally knows the other side will likely give that reply; it's just talk, a retreat to advance, so he chuckled and tried to brush it off.

【Oh, that's truly disappointing; you should know, I'm a very friendly person.】

But performing the whole act is a basic skill of any good actor, so in the end he still sighed heavily.

【Friend, I can guarantee that everything before was a misunderstanding; I have no interest in others' territories……】

Who knew the Sovereign of All Spirits would suddenly say:

【For example…… coveting Sunshine City?】

The question was quite sharp; Wendigo, who had just been speaking with a hint of a smile, immediately fell silent.

But in negotiations, being speechless often means disadvantage and concession, so he quickly reacted and forced an explanation.

【Sunshine City, you mean that city on the border of the Hui Guang Kingdom, right? Haha, using the word "covet" is overly malicious, isn't it?】

【As a newly born deity walking the mortal world, I only want to save some lost lambs; they believe in me, I grant them grace, and I have done no wrong.】

? ？？

Ji Ming couldn't help but stick his finger in his ear; after all, hearing that from the other side was really nauseating.

Tsk, if I recall correctly, a Wendigo's face hardly has any skin, so how does it manage to be so thick‑skinned?

Oh, so it's already directly achieved the "shameless" achievement—no wonder……

And on the other side, Wendigo is not as calm as he appears.

Clutching the black tome bound with icy frost in his hand, his sharp fingertips almost pierced the tabletop.

And across the table, the little lich Marlsha was already furiously practicing the language of Cybertron.

"This is too much! Last time you forcibly detained Zavara and wouldn't let him go, and now you're ruining our plans again!"

Even though Wendigo cut off her voice in the communication, the bird‑song and floral scent wouldn't stop.

"Don't rush, little bonehead; these are just minor obstacles on our way forward, nothing to worry about."

After soothing his own assault‑troop commander, Wendigo's mind began racing.

After all, he was deep in the barbaric hinterlands, and the distance to the Hui Guang Kingdom was really too great.

Even though his layout was quite advanced, he had only just extended his sub‑line there, and the information channels were not smooth.

Therefore, even with allies present, he could hardly fully reconstruct the morning's events, let alone investigate the specific identities of that man and woman.

In fact, this investigation was not without gain; according to intelligence, there was residual holy light reaction at the scene, and the city indeed had a Sheng Guang Jiao Tang.

Originally, Wendigo cared a lot about this, after all it was a strong‑pointing major clue.

However, after hearing his loyal followers' account of the situation in Sunshine City, he ultimately ruled out this possibility.

First, there is indeed a man with strong holy‑light skills in the church—a priest named Sterling.

But he is a former holy knight, and as one of the oddball bigwigs, Wendigo knows this profession too well.

They usually don't use ranged means; they just lug heavy weapons and hack away, let alone control strange arrays to fend off enemies, so it's utterly impossible.

Besides him, the next most suspect is a divine‑chosen saint named Ji Ming.

But his chances are minuscule, because he only recently became a noted doctor in Sunshine City; before that he was a nobody, and his profession was apothecary.

Anyone who knows apothecaries knows they're too weak—even to become a darkened villain, they're not fit to be a great demon lord.

The strongest feat in history was merely the appearance of a heaven‑defying charm‑bearer who became a calamity‑world demon queen and stirred a world war.

If this trash could evaporate filthy worms with holy light, then I wouldn't even be a deer‑demon Wendigo—I'd just be a corpse‑sheep‑human!

Therefore, this man skilled in holy‑light techniques must be a powerful being hidden in the shadows.

Thus, the woman acting alongside him is also unlikely to be the Hui Guang noble Eleanor who just arrived in Sunshine City.

The clue was cut off here.

It could only end the divine revelation after emphasizing safety and ordering its followers to remain silent temporarily.

Sat in silence at the table for half the night, until this damned whatever bullshit Lord of All Living Spirits sent a communication request.

He definitely knows what happened there; he's just coming to mock me!

Wendigo managed to calm its emotions as much as possible, was about to steady its voice and speak, but then heard a sentence from the opposite side.

【Alright, the riddle ends here, Wendigo; let's get straight to the point】

If it's a potential ally, Ji Ming is still quite willing to haggle with them.

But from the Underground City to Sunlight City, Wendigo's reach is perhaps a bit too long.

Oneself wants to develop, players want to develop, and it also wants to develop.

Since collisions between the two sides are inevitable, they are bound to become enemies sooner or later.

【A riddle? Friend, I thought I had already been quite frank……】

So pretending to be ignorant like Wendigo is useless; better to tear off the pretense early and make one's attitude clear.

【Enough, I know what you did in Sunlight City, and I also know these chaotic violent creature incidents were done by you】

【Wendigo, I don't want to watch fools fall into the mud pit; here is far from as simple as your childish thinking imagines】

【So don't persist in delusion any longer, young person!】

Threat, this is a blatant threat!

Since the birth of its divine consciousness, as a legendary creature, Wendigo has never suffered such an insult.

It had wanted to retaliate, but at the last moment it still stopped, because it suddenly thought of another matter.

Those two who demolished my altar and murdered my creations—could they be the Lord of All Living Spirits' people?

Then……

The other side is developing forces in the border of Hui Guang Kingdom, also developing followers who can use Holy Light, and what exactly are their intentions?

In an instant, a term from ancient classics surfaced in its mind.

——God Usurper!