Small businessmen like Zheng Yuan, who roam the streets, are also well-informed. He can name more than a dozen of Jin Chen's evil deeds.
For small businessmen like them, encountering such a dandy boy was a nightmare. In the circle of small businessmen, Jin Chen was ranked first among the people who should not be messed with in the water village.
This was in the past, when the Jin family was still an ordinary noble family, let alone now that the Jin family is in power.
If possible, Zheng Yuan really didn't want to deal with this person. But, there was no other way!
The other party came up to him and spoke to him by name. What could he do? He had to find a way to deal with it.
Wu Zheng saw Jin Chen leaving, so he walked over with Wu Hong and asked, "Zheng Yuan, what's wrong? Jin Chen didn't make things difficult for you, did he?"
"No, thank you for your concern, sir." Zheng Yuan said with a smile.
Compared to Jin Chen, Mr. Wu and Gu Yan had a very good reputation among the small businessmen. As the first son, Gu Yan never bullied men or women. As Gu Yan's master, Mr. Wu was very strict with him.
This gave Mr. Wu a very good image among small businessmen. Influenced by this, Zheng Yuan had a very good impression of Wu Zheng. The death of Gu's father made him even more impressed with Wu Zheng, so he took the initiative to contact him and found that he was indeed a very friendly person, so he asked Wu Zheng for help. Sure enough, the result was as Zheng Yuan guessed. The kind-hearted Mr. Wu helped him escape from Gu Xing's captivity.
Although Wu Zheng didn't know the reason, he was certain that Zheng Yuan trusted and relied on him very much.
This kind of trust and reliance made his plan go very smoothly.
'God has blessed me with a powerful warrior to help me succeed!'
"Let's go."
…
Jin Chen went home depressed. He and Zheng Yuan felt like they were getting a cold shoulder. This made him very frustrated.
"I've never been so disliked before! Oh, forget it, I'll quickly go find Brother Yuan and Brother Qi to complete the mission."
Although Zheng Yuan had some unpleasantness with him, Jin Chen had never thought of retaliation.
"If we're not close, then we're not close. What's the big deal?"
Jin Chen only muttered this in his heart, and the matter was over. However, Zheng Yuan was now crossed out from his list of close friends.
…
"Hey, father, why are you here?"
Jin Chen found Fang Yuan and Ruan Qi, and discovered that Jin's father and a dozen soldiers were together, pointing at the wasteland.
"We're going to expand the collection area?!"
"oh!"
Father Jin ignored Jin Chen and said to the crowd, "According to our observations, corpse demons absorb the earth's energy, causing the land to become barren, plants to wither, and even causing partial desertification and the formation of wastelands."
"So, the biggest challenge in developing the collection area is eliminating the wandering zombies. The zombies during the day aren't that scary. Their strength is only at the level of a high-level warrior. But the scary thing is that they wander around. After you eliminate them during the day, new ones will roam around at night, so they need to be cleaned up every day."
"Furthermore, the further inland you go into the wasteland, the greater the density of corpse demons, and the greater the probability of encountering high-level corpse demons. Therefore, our collection area is the current scale."
"It's not that those nobles don't want to expand, but they have the will but not the ability!"
Fang Yuan and Ruan Qi listened attentively. These things were only accessible to the nobility, and no one had ever told them about them before.
Fang Yuan and the other two were suddenly stunned. They had received a task.
"Random quest: The host owns a territory. Develop your own territory. Reward: A corpse-eating demon tree."
"The Corpse-Eating Demon Tree: An ancient war tree that evolves by consuming the corpses of corpse demons. It can grow and move, and possesses some combat power when transformed into a combat form, but it quickly dies afterwards. Its main function is to generate corpse demon aversion and gas by consuming the corpses of corpse demons, keeping them away from the host's territory."
Fang Yuan and the other two told Father Jin about this mission and the introduction of the Corpse-Eating Demon Tree.
Father Jin really cares about it.
"With this Corpse-Eating Demonic Tree, we can protect our gathering areas and expand our living space. Good times are coming for the people of our territory."
"Moreover, we can continuously compress the zombie demon's activity area, which will be of great benefit to our future counterattack against the zombie demon."
"Okay, Fang Yuan, you three will take care of the silver corpses and the groups of bronze corpses. We'll take care of the walking corpses and the lone bronze corpses. Let's open up the collection area."
"Attention, the corpse of this corpse demon must be kept to feed the corpse-eating demon tree you will obtain after completing the mission."
It is indeed strange to associate trees with feeding, but it is very vivid.
"The tasks are quite large. Let's concentrate our efforts and complete them one by one. First, we will open up Fang Yuan's collection area and help him complete the task."
Fang Yuan was an unrivaled archer of his rank, and a war lieutenant as well. He was already considered the strongest warrior in the territory.
He was also the default captain of the team composed of three war lieutenants, and no one objected, whether they were noble warriors or Ruan Qi and Jin Chen.
…
In the evening of the next day, he finally helped Fang Yuan complete the task and obtained the reward of the Corpse-Eating Demon Tree.
"Is this the Corpse-Eating Demonic Tree?"
Everyone gathered around a ten-centimeter sapling in Fang Yuan's hand, and Fang Yuan carefully placed it on the corpse of a corpse demon in front of him.
The sapling fell on it, and its roots immediately penetrated into the corpse of the corpse demon, and then grew rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.
In less than ten minutes, the body of a corpse demon was eaten up and turned into dry bones and ashes.
Everyone shuddered at the sight. There was no other way, even though it was a corpse of a demon, it was still a human corpse.
"Xiao Yuan, does it eat people?" Father Jin asked worriedly.
"No. It won't attack people. And it won't eat human corpses either. It only eats corpses of corpse demons." Fang Yuan said after a moment of silence.
"Fang Yuan, how can you be sure?" Father Jin knew Fang Yuan's character. He was very serious and would not speak carelessly.
"Because I can communicate with him in a simple way." Sure enough, Fang Yuan's answer gave the answer.
"Communication?! You mean, it has intelligence?" Father Jin asked with a frown.
Having wisdom is not a good thing!
Father Jin couldn't help but think of what happened when the corpse demon first appeared. It allowed dead relatives to move and have wisdom, which gradually led to the subsequent corpse demon disaster.
Although the current corpse demons have intelligence, they are far inferior to those before the corpse demon disaster.
It is said that during the great battle during the Corpse Demon Disaster, a powerful god of war severely injured the ancestor of the Corpse Demon, causing it to fall into a deep sleep, which is why the Corpse Demon became so mentally retarded.
Like wild beasts, they are left with only simple intelligence and instincts, and humans use their wisdom to find ways to survive, giving humans space and time to survive.
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