"This story started an hour ago, when you just left Huang Haowen's house..."
After an inexplicable person beat up Huang Haowen's bodyguard team, communication became much easier.
Huang Haowen reluctantly came down from upstairs again to be questioned.
As for the location he mentioned... Mo Ming didn't care much about it. He could just follow Riben Guizi and the others and get there.
But... Huang Haowen's cautious appearance and abnormal fear attracted some inexplicable attention.
"You seem... afraid that someone will cause trouble for you? How come you, an ordinary builder, hired so many extraordinary people as guards? Also, speaking of the City Lord's Mansion... it seems that you have a lot of things that you haven't told me."
"Answer my question! Or... die!"
Huang Haowen: (‧̣̥̇꒪່⍢꒪່)
He was not a strong man to begin with, but he was frightened at once and told Mo Ming everything he knew on the spot.
The guards were just having a good time. Who could stand being beaten twice a day at this intensity of work
Thanks to the fact that he is a martial artist, he has thick skin and strong muscles.
So, he learned the real secret of Huang Haowen...
A week ago.
Huang Haowen was called by the people from the City Lord's Mansion to repair the backyard buildings and landscape areas.
This was actually a simple job, and the City Lord's Mansion was generous in its efforts. He could make a small profit, but the key was... if he did a good job on the job assigned by the City Lord, he might become well-known, and it would be easier for him to make a living in the Colossus City in the future.
During the repair, a sewer pipe was dug up and leaked. He thought of repairing it secretly and pretending nothing happened.
As a result... When he dug deeper, he not only found the optical cable, but also discovered the secret room under the City Lord's Mansion, and... blood! Lots and lots of blood!
I could vaguely hear low roars coming from below, but I didn't know what kind of monster it was.
He was terrified at the time.
Just finish the work quickly and leave.
He believed that there must be a group of monsters under the City Lord's Mansion. He didn't know what they were used for, but it was definitely not a good thing, otherwise they would not be hiding in the underground secret room.
So he pretended that nothing had happened, but in fact he was afraid that something bad might happen, so he hired so many guards to protect himself, in case someone wanted to kill him, he would have some protection.
But as a contractor, he obviously did not have a clear concept of the power of the extraordinary people. The most powerful guards he found had been defeated by two groups.
Oh no, this time it was a man who brought a group of strange creatures to beat them up.
Mo Ming: "Then... did you tell the group of people who came to find you earlier where you found the secret room?"
"Yes! The optical cable they were looking for was over there anyway, so I wasn't lying to them..."
Mo Ming: "Oh no! You're going to cause trouble!"
The information here has proved that there are big problems in the City Lord's Mansion.
But they must get the optical cable interface.
"Instead of reminding them... I'd rather let them be bait while I go find reinforcements and take them down in one fell swoop."
"After all, he's a level 40 player. He won't die too quickly, right?"
"Although this place is not too far from Red City, it will definitely take time to rely on my Hellhound's legs. I will call the Lord directly. I hope the Lord is not sleeping now..."
Mo Ming contacted the lord directly. Although the call took a little time and the lord was indeed sleeping, at least he received his message.
After Mo Ming explained the situation here, Cheng Shaofeng immediately decided to send Zero over.
It just so happened that he wanted to stretch his muscles recently, so he followed them out.
Yesterday, he absorbed 350,000 crystals and upgraded himself from level 30 to level 35, which is the middle level of the third stage. He used the skill points he had saved for a long time to fill up the Storm Scattering, and made some Storm Scattering bullets to replenish the ammunition depot of the fishing robot.
Originally he could have leveled up to level 39 in one go, but currently he had to save these crystals for new players in order to complete the order for enchanted bullets for his soldiers.
After the soldiers' crystals were settled, he directly reached level 40, which is the fourth stage!
Anyway, for him, there is not much difference in combat power between level 35 and level 39.
Just to reach level 35 and learn Inquisitor's Storm Divergence.
He is different from the player's clone, his level 40 means he is the fourth stage!
At that time... that was the real qualitative change!
While waiting for the lord's support, Mo Ming rode away on a hellhound, but he still left a crow near Huang Haowen's house to observe whether he was hiding any other secrets.
Then... he discovered the person who went to silence Huang Haowen, the deputy captain of the guard of the City Lord's Mansion.
He acted decisively, and his summoned creatures rushed forward, killing the third-level deputy captain and rescuing Huang Haowen.
Huang Haowen, who was still in shock, almost knelt down in front of him.
Mo Ming took the opportunity to suggest whether he should repay the favor, and then took away 2,000 crystals stored in Huang Haowen's home.
Amid the background sound of Huang Haowen shouting "This is more painful than killing me", Mo Ming quickly left the Huang family compound, reunited with the lord, and rushed to the City Lord's Mansion together to rescue several members of the mentally retarded team.
Mo Ming simply repeated his operation.
Riben Guizi thought about it for a while... and suddenly realized it!
"You're using us as fucking bait, aren't you?"
Inexplicable: “… ”
"Just tell me whether you have done it or not!"
"this... "
The Retarded Team thought about it... They didn't lose anything, so this result was acceptable.
At this time, Cheng Shaofeng was standing on the Green Goblin skateboard, looking at the city lord being controlled in front of him and the large number of humanoid monsters below, and his brows frowned.
"I suddenly remembered something..."
"The deserter named Tuoba Liang who was rescued from prison by Agent Feng is still in our base. He said that he was tricked into going to the front line, and the city lord used a secret technique to forcibly damage his lifespan in exchange for the ability of an evolver..."
"But as far as I know, Colossus City is still recruiting soldiers every year. The people he sends to the frontline battlefield are the ones he captures. So where do the recruited soldiers go?"
Cheng Shaofeng had never understood why Tuoba Liang was forced to serve in the army. There was obviously nothing wrong with the conscription. Many people in the wasteland could not get enough food, and serving on the front battlefield was also an option for survival.
The soldier base didn't give them too many military service tasks, so how could they not complete them
Now... Cheng Shaofeng probably understood.
Mo Ming also said fiercely: "What a cruel city lord! He took all the soldiers recruited from Colossus City to the basement for experiments and transformed them into monsters!"
Loli added: "I heard from the city lord that he fused the genes of humans and zombies together to create these monsters... This city lord is more or less a pervert."
Potato Thunder: "Haha~ I think it... is the zombie's undercover."
Zero's voice came from the air.
"My Lord, how do we deal with this monster?"
Cheng Shaofeng looked at the piece of flesh still struggling to wriggle in the ice and waved his hand in disgust: "Kill it. There is no need to communicate with this monster anymore."
Moreover... the city lord was at level four. This time, the player consumed its energy first, and then Zero launched a sneak attack with the strongest firepower to freeze it in one fell swoop.
If it recovers, who knows what kind of trouble it might cause.
Zero: "As you wish."
The fishing robot changes its body in the air, and its two arms combine to form a huge hammer shape.
The two legs were put together to form a cylindrical accelerator. Blue flames spurted out from under his feet, accelerating his body madly.
boom!
Zero's giant hammer smashed the ice and crushed the flesh of the city lord.
Bang!
The lord's multiple limbs were blown into pieces by the extremely high impact force and flew out.
The body in the center was pressed into the ground by the oversized fishing robot, turning into a pool of meat.
Inexplicably, he assumed the lonely posture of a master.
"Maybe... this is the fundamental difference between me who uses my brain to play games and you guys!"
“Everything is under control.”
The 10 people below didn't have time to pay attention to him. They rushed over and started using their skills.
"Stay closer! Don't miss out on experience! This wave won't give you tens of thousands, right?"
Inexplicable: “… ”
"Fuck! Wait for me!"
He quickly jumped off the skateboard and followed other players to attack the 'Meat Patty City Lord'. The others had been fighting for a long time, but he didn't even touch it. After all the operations, he didn't get any experience... He became an idiot!
The players whipped the corpse madly, not even sparing the broken limbs scattered around.
But until they had collapsed the ground by 2 meters, they still did not receive any prompt to increase their experience.
Riben Guizi stopped.
"Stop hitting him. He's already minced meat. Physically speaking... he's probably dead. I guess there's something wrong somewhere else."
"Could it be... this thing is considered a human NPC, so we won't get any experience if we kill it?"
"Have you ever seen a human being turn into a pile of rotten flesh shooting out tentacles? That's ridiculous!"
Cheng Shaofeng was also surprised that the players did not gain any experience.
"Zero, detect the surrounding energy fluctuations. Is this city lord dead?"
Zero: "Yes! Testing..."
After a moment.
"Inspection completed. The remains of a shrine were found underground, and there was a wave of space transmission just being activated."
"The remains of a shrine?"
Cheng Shaofeng and the other players broke into the basement and found a shrine wrapped in a large amount of wriggling flesh on the third floor of the basement. On top of the shrine was a black heart with tentacles growing out of it, which was still beating.
The remains of the shrine also fluctuate with the beating of this heart.
Inexplicable: "This cutscene is so weird, it's like... it's like the shrine is being sucked of life by the heart."
Ri Ben Gui Zi: "Don't tell me, don't tell me, the more I look at it, the more they look alike!"
Potato Mine: "The city lord wouldn't have slipped away from the shrine, right? As far as I know... there might be space inside the shrine. Didn't a fool jump in before? He suffocated to death in there. By the way, if anyone knows this fool, go ask him."
Mo Ming glanced at him dimly: "You are the big fool, your whole family is a big fool!"
"Do you understand the importance of dedicating yourself to scientific research?"
After a moment, Mo Ming said, "But... you can be transported to another dimension from the shrine. The one I jumped into before was a wormhole opened by an NPC named 'Underworld'. When I got to the Underworld, I was suffocated to death."
Cheng Shaofeng felt uncomfortable when looking at the beating black heart, and the rotten flesh surrounding it also made him feel sick.
"Clear up all this mess and reveal the original appearance of the shrine."
"Okay~"
The players opened fire at full force and blew up the black heart. A bunch of small black bugs burst out of it and were burned by the players.
After shaving off all the strange-shaped fleshy tissues from the shrine, the shrine returned to its normal appearance.
Cheng Shaofeng discovered that the shrine seemed to have become brighter.
"Go try the shrine to see if you can gain piety points."
"I'll do it!"
Mengming touched it directly, still mumbling: "I always carry an oxygen tank when I go out now, if you dare, let me go again! The Hades is locked up and can't move... This time I will shit on his head!"
Everyone: “… ”
Loli grumbled: "It can be seen... He hasn't let it go yet."
But the space black hole did not appear, and the prompt sound of the smart watch came late.
Remains of a contaminated shrine discovered
The pollution has been cleaned up and the shrine reward has been obtained!
The prompt sound came from many players' watches almost simultaneously.
The next second, a bright starlight shot out from the shrine and sank into the bodies of the 11 players on the scene.
Ding~ Gain attribute points +3, skill points +3, additional piety point +1
The 11 players gasped.
"A task that adds attributes!"
"Awesome!"
"This has caught us up?"
"Wouldn't that mean we can directly crush players of the same level?"
"Well... that's a bit exaggerated, but there are definitely some advantages to it."
"The lord actually let us do such a good task. He really... I'm crying!"
"I heard that the Peak Team doesn't have time, so why don't they do this mission? Do you regret it now?"
The players were extremely happy as they got 3 attribute points, 3 skill points, and 1 piety point for free.
Cheng Shaofeng was a little puzzled.
"Huh? I wasn't far away, and I was the one who ordered the people to clean up the shrine, so why didn't I get any bonus? Is it because I didn't do anything?"
"Oh my god! No way???"
When Cheng Shaofeng was getting annoyed, the disaster base in his mind suddenly trembled, as if something was unlocked.
But Cheng Shaofeng had a splitting headache.
"Zero, carry me back to the base! Quick!"
Cheng Shaofeng suddenly became ill and was taken back to the base by Zero without even saying goodbye.
The players thought about it for a moment... and immediately understood!
"The Lord has made a bug again! I guess he went back to sleep..."
"But it's great that this side story is just a passing scene. The planning must have taken a lot of effort."
"Let's light up this shrine!"
After the pollution was cleared, a trace of vital energy wafted out of the shrine and it could be worshipped normally.
Offering Requirement: A piece of vibrant meat
The players picked up some pieces of corpse meat and threw them in. After being absorbed by the shrine, starlight flashed and the souls went straight into the starry sky.
Obtained Piety Points: 1
The players once again came to the place where the constellations were lit up.
These players have never been to the central city and have only lit up three shrines: the Four Mountains, the Red Maple Forest, and the Red City. They are currently on the fourth shrine.
But in this shrine, they received 2 piety points, which is enough to fully illuminate the constellations within 4 planets.
After lighting up an entire constellation, you will get a higher bonus.
and...
Mo Ming: "Eh!? I got a constellation skill!"