Looking at the mechanisms on both sides of the passage, Ying immediately guessed why these two undead skeletons suddenly appeared.

Someone placed them here specifically, and if someone passes by here, the breath of life will awaken the two undead spirits.

This mechanism may not be as effective against professionals as imagined, but ordinary people may be killed if they are not careful.

This trap was obviously not set by professionals, but was intentionally installed by ordinary people living here.

"I never thought someone would do such a thing. But that's right. The environment for survival is limited. If you give more, I will give less. If there are too many people sharing the cake, there won't be enough to eat."

Looking up, Carl looked at the dark and wide space ahead, and was mentally prepared to face a group of unruly people.

"Follow me, there are footprints here."

After a quick check of the surroundings, Ying immediately found some signs of someone passing by.

Following the footprints, the three of them soon arrived at a settlement along a path.

This settlement was carved out of a rock cave, but because the excavation was difficult and the space was limited, those who lived here made full use of almost all the space.

Looking around, except for the corridor that was barely wide enough for two people to pass through, almost every place was covered with wood or something like that.

"Wow, this is probably what Kowloon Walled City is like, right?"

After expressing his feelings like this, Carl was wondering why these people didn't expand outwards when he heard the roar of a hyena.

In the dark vision, six hyenas smelled the scent of strangers and crawled out of a "dog hole".

What surprised Carl was that these hyenas deliberately avoided the "Kowloon Walled City", but ran towards the three of them at an extremely fast speed.

Hope stepped forward and tried to tame these hyenas using the druid method, but the aura of death lingering around these hyenas was too obvious, and it was obvious that they had devoured many human corpses.

"Just kill him directly. Are you going to keep him for the New Year?"

Aiming at the hyena in front, a pulse cannon fired out.

The leading hyena had one leg broken and half of its body lay limp on the ground. Even if it didn't die, it probably wouldn't live long.

Hope was a person who would listen to advice. After a sigh, she took out the electric saw that Carl had just made for her.

With a "buzz" sound, the roaring chainsaw instantly tore apart the second hyena that came up to hunt.

All three of them possess dark vision, which means that Carl and his companions will at least not be at any disadvantage when facing enemies in dark environments.

The roar of the chainsaw scared the remaining four hyenas. They braked in time and maintained a distance from Carl and the other two, but refused to leave.

Seeing this, Ying also took action.

Starting with a shadow step, Ying teleported directly through the shadows to the back of one of the hyenas.

The chain dart flew out and pierced directly through its waist and abdomen.

The successive deaths of their companions aroused the fear of the hyenas, and they immediately scattered and tried to escape the attack of Carl and others.

But at this time, Carl's pulse cannon fired again.

In a short while, all six hyenas died at the hands of the three men.

I don’t know if he heard the noise, but someone actually popped out from the “Kowloon Walled City”.

Carl originally thought that the other party would thank him and his men for killing these vicious dogs, but he did not expect that he would suddenly fall down beside the body of one of the hyenas, crying.

"You! You actually killed my animal companion! You, you have to pay for it!"

When he shouted this, more than a dozen people ran out of Kowloon Walled City.

They were holding steel forks and pickaxes, looking menacing.

Turning around and looking at Hope standing beside him, Carl blinked, not being able to figure out for a moment what these people were relying on to commit fraud.

No, buddy? How many dishes? Drinking like this? Before Carl could even open his mouth to speak, Hope next to him had already started to go berserk.

Blazing flames burst out from her eyes, mouth, nose, and hair, and flames also appeared on the two chainsaws in her hands.

In the blink of an eye, a four-meter-tall tiefling appeared in front of these scammers.

"Tie-Tiefling!"

When they saw Hope's appearance, a few timid people screamed and crawled back to the city.

Although the remaining ones are holding on, it is clear that they are not that confident.

Staring at the guy who rushed out first, Hope grinned and started the chainsaw again.

With the help of the fire on her body, everyone could see the ferocious thing clearly at once.

“Mercy, mercy…”

Before the other party could finish begging for mercy, Hope had already used his sweeping move.

Fragments of flesh and blood, bone fragments and broken internal organs were splashed onto the remaining people by the rotation of the electric saw.

These guys, who were already trembling with fear, immediately dropped their "weapons" and scattered.

Although Hope has lived in the Eludon Wilds for more than three years, Droum's style has not disappeared from her.

When she meets a good person, she will behave like a proper druid, but when she meets a bad person...Hope will never show mercy.

Looking at the scattered pieces on the ground, Carl sighed.

"There won't be ordinary people in this kind of place. At least a few of those people have committed murder. I can tell that."

Hope put away his weapon and rage, and returned to his normal state. He did not feel that his act of killing was excessive. Instead, he taught Carl some basic criminal knowledge.

The guys who escaped had already entered the fortress and disappeared, but Carl had no intention of entering.

"Let's go in another direction and see if there is another place suitable for us to live. This place is still too crowded."

Waving to Ying, the three of them returned the same way they came and then left in another direction.

The whole conflict happened out of nowhere and made no sense.

However, when Carl and the others disappeared into the darkness, two hunchbacked figures immediately walked out of the castle and cast some kind of spell on the corpse.

Negative energy is entangled in the corpse. Although it has not produced any effect for the time being, if left unchecked, the corpse will probably turn into a ghost sooner or later.

"The six wild dogs have been killed. We can only train other creatures to attack outsiders. However, it will take some time for the corpse to become undead."

"Fortunately, the three professionals left. After they returned, they calmed down the discussion and continued to encourage the young and strong. The fortress can no longer accommodate more people."

"We need to reduce the population by at least three-tenths before the city can become more spacious."

After a few words, the two figures returned to the city with the corpse.

…

As Carl and others chose to move forward in an unknown direction, the monsters gradually increased in number.

After only advancing a hundred meters in the darkness, Carl and his companions encountered two magical beasts and a group of violent rats.

"That fortress might rely on some kind of ancient mechanism to exist. Wild beasts and ordinary monsters dare not approach it, but this effect can only cover a certain range, so those people built the building in that way."

After killing a few more violent rats, Carl guessed the reason for the formation of the fortress.

This is actually a common thing in various ancient ruins, because after some high-level constructs go into hibernation, their cores are still running. Monsters and beasts below their level naturally dare not approach the area covered by the core power, thus forming a safe zone.

This kind of safe zone can actually be created by magical means, such as stonewalling.

"Go another two hundred meters ahead. If we still can't find a suitable place to live, we can use earth shaping to build one ourselves."

A pulse cannon killed a violent rat at close range. Carl looked at the mess on the ground and sighed helplessly.

But what can he do?

His current combat method relies heavily on logistical supplies. If he does not set up a weapons and ammunition production line in a spacious enough place in advance, the combat effectiveness he can exert will be rather general.

This situation will continue until he reaches the 14th level of artificer.

"Look over there, that seems to be the remains of an ancient building. I wonder if we can make use of it."

Just after the three of them dealt with the monster, the sharp-eyed Hope discovered something unusual in the direction of what looked like a dirt slope.

The three of them approached and discovered that it was indeed the remains of a sunken ancient building.

However, it has been filled with soil, so it is impossible to live in it directly.

"Let's use Earth Shaping to clear out the space inside and see the effect."

Considering that the residence cannot be too far from the exit, Carl plans to live here first to try out the situation.

When the dimensional bag was opened, four round floating guns automatically flew out of it.

Carl took out some parts engraved with earth-shaping magic patterns from the bag and replaced them with the floaters. Then he used these four floaters to clean the soil in the building.

Hope took an empty dimensional bag and collected the cleared soil and piled it outside, while Ying ran around to scout the terrain and check the distribution of species around.

However, when the cleanup work was less than one-tenth completed, the earth shaping technique seemed to have disturbed something sleeping in the soil.

"It's a clay golem!"

In the already dilapidated building, clay golems struggled to crawl out.

No one knew how long these golems had been sleeping here. As soon as they woke up, they waved their clumsy bodies and launched an attack.

Clay golems are probably the most unstable of all golems.

Once their bodies are damaged, they will violently attack the surrounding objects.

The sudden appearance of the enemy did not make Carl and Hope too panicked. Hope directly transformed and then went berserk.

In the blink of an eye, she turned into a four-meter-tall giant bear with two flaming chainsaws tied to its paws.

Carl's response was also quite calm.

He summoned a three-meter-tall power armor through the characteristics of the Arcane Knight. Before the clay golem approached, he had already merged with it with the Moon Spirit Armor.

As the power armor's eyes lit up, this power armor, which looked quite similar to Iron Man's "Anti-Hulk Armor", punched the clay golem's body.

The effect of Thunder Fight Fist was activated, and part of the golem's body shattered.

(End of this chapter)