Chapter 162 The dog planner updates too slowly, why don’t we update it ourselves?
"Long time no see, dear classmate Luo Yan, the Demon King of the Great Cemetery. Before I get down to business, please allow me to congratulate you at the beginning of this letter - Congratulations on becoming the Lord of the Black Wind Valley Barony. From now on, you finally have a place to stay near the Demon City!"
"Of course, the place is now completely a wasteland, with nothing but the ruins of a castle. If you plan to live there, you'll probably have to prepare a tent yourself. I heard that there are wandering vampires, werewolves and the like outside the Demon City. It would be bad if you were bitten by them. Also, next time you come back, you can't go to the temple to disturb them again, can you? After all, you are a demon king with a territory, you can't fight with homeless children for beds, can you?"
"Let me guess, you must be panicking now, right? But don't worry, why would I let my dear classmate Luo Yan sleep in the wilderness? Considering that we have been classmates for many years, it's okay for you to come to my house and disturb me. At least I won't bite anyone."
"Okay, enough joking. My father has already arranged the war workshop. The entire factory is being constructed in accordance with the drawings you provided. Although I don't know the specific details, the construction team said that it will be completed by the beginning of next year at the latest."
"Also, my father is very interested in you after hearing about your situation, and asked me to ask if you have time to meet with him. Don't get me wrong, he has no other intentions, but as the head of the family, he wants to meet with the partner of the Padrich family."
"Of course, this is not a prerequisite for cooperation. It's okay if you don't want to meet him. I'll turn him down for you. But if you are free, I still hope you can satisfy his curiosity. You don't have to come back specially, you can go to our library... I've put the key in the letter."
"That's all I have to say. Finally, I wish you well and don't get involved in any trouble again. Of course, if you are accidentally involved, you must tell me the first time. The Demon King Management Department will always be your strongest backing. As your boss, I will never leave you alone."
"Oh, there's one more thing. Who wrote the letter you sent back to the Magic City? That wasn't your handwriting, and why did it smell like a woman? I didn't care, I was just asking... Who is that guy? Where did he come from? How far have you progressed? And why didn't you mention it in the previous report? How many things are you hiding from the organization?!"
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Luo Yan: “……?”
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In late December, the howling cold wind became more and more fierce, the snow in the Silver Pine Forest was already above the calves, and the monsters active in the forest were almost extinct.
In such cold weather, even the bravest adventurers can only sit in front of the fireplace in the tavern, rubbing their hands, and spending their time drinking and bragging.
The only ones that appear at this time are the undead.
No one would be willing to go out to work at this time unless they were really short of money.
Not just adventurers.
The same is true for the residents of Silverpine Town.
However, unlike the adventurers who cursed the bad weather, they did not hate winter at all. They even liked it a little. After all, it was the longest holiday of the year, and they did not have to do anything during this time. Those who had aspirations would go to the docks of Thunder City to help, while those who had no aspirations would be busy making people at home.
In fact, most of the residents here don't have much to pursue.
Although they have little money and are extremely poor, the other side of the coin is that they don't actually need any money.
They paid rent for the land they rented with the harvest, and the remaining grain was stored in the lord's granary. Although it could not be sold for much money, it was enough for them to eat.
Most of the things in the town that require money to buy are made by outsiders, such as adventurers.
For farmers like Old Abel, except for the shoes on his feet and his clothes, everything else, including the house, basically belonged to the lord...even the hoe for tilling the fields and the stew pot on the stove.
This feudal contractual relationship has lasted for hundreds of years, dating back to the Isaac Dynasty. Even compared to the rural nobles like Baron Gus, who increasingly disliked the smell of dirt on his body and tried his best to squeeze into the upper class, countless old Abels did not want to break this order and hoped that this contract would continue.
Why not? Working for Baron Gus wasn't so bad, and while none of the guys had much money, no one was starving.
On the contrary, it is often heard that those outsiders wandering in the slums of Thunder City are starving to death or freezing to death.
On the other hand, they not only have a warm kang and hot pumpkin porridge, but they can also eat meat occasionally.
Especially when it snows heavily, the lord’s manor will send some geese that cannot be eaten.
After they plucked the goose down and took the goose liver, the goose meat that they didn't want to eat or couldn't finish was naturally given to the servants. For the tenant farmers in Yinsong Town, it was a rare delicacy.
On the other hand, the profiteers in the city would rather pour the milk shipped from the colonies into the river of Thunder City than let the poor people in Thunder City taste the milk. They opened the door to the refugees in the name of God and mercy, but refused to look at the suffering compatriots in the slums, and even tried every means to deprive them of their land.
On the contrary, although the lord was a bit harsh to the refugees, he was still relatively nice to his own people.
Although adventurers always laugh at them for having no freedom, guarding the same field all their lives, and not being able to drink more than two bottles of wine a year, they can also laugh at those adventurers for coming home to a cold bed every day, not to mention hot pumpkin porridge, and there is not even anyone to roll in bed with to keep warm.
They say they are doing it for the dream, for Saint Sissis... but they are nothing but slaves to money and honor.
In the quietness where the two sides hate each other but cannot live without each other, the people living in Yinsong Town entered the hibernation season.
While everyone was soundly asleep, the "corrosion of the great cemetery" was spreading silently...
At the foot of the Beifeng Mine, in the open space next to the abandoned hotel, a group of naked skeletons were working with a creaking sound.
After trying multiple versions, most players have discovered that compared to those fancy races that each have their own flaws, the simple skeletons are their true love.
First of all, skeletons don’t need to eat. They can just squat in a cool, dark place to “recharge”. Secondly, they can be resurrected in seconds after death, so the cost of resurrection and maintenance is almost nothing.
There is another advantage that is not really an advantage, which is that playing the role of an undead has the least side effects.
This is something that some players have only recently discovered.
If you play the role of a little devil for a long time, you will become heartless in real life, and you will have frequent urination and urgency to urinate. If you play the role of a spider for a long time, you will subconsciously reach with your hands when walking...
certainly.
Not everyone encounters this situation.
In this regard, the server-wide t0 player "Yi Ye Zhi Qiu" explained that the highly realistic virtual reality game has an impact on the behavioral logic in reality... He himself couldn't help but subconsciously recite the spell when he wanted to light a fire.
Unlike Yiyezhiqiu's random explanation, Youyou's explanation is more precise.
This is actually the reverse mapping of the soul mirror to the soul itself. It is no big deal. It will not make you sick, and it is even less likely to replace the consciousness of your true self and make you really think of yourself as a skeleton or a spider.
Some people who are more seriously affected are living in confusion purely because it is their first time as human beings. Even without the influence of the game, they would still be living in confusion. They just need to be reborn a few more times in the future.
Let’s get back to the topic.
Skeleton soldiers have so many advantages that they can be said to be the best choice for new and old players.
Although low initial attributes are a problem, insufficient strength can be made up with equipment and it does not affect upgrades.
Once your soul level is up and you can switch to a succubus, it won’t be too late to make up for the gaming experience.
In this way, with the unremitting efforts of a group of skeleton soldiers, the cemetery not only had so much coal and iron ores piled up outside the mine, but even the cut logs were piled up into a small hill at the foot of the mountain.
In order to deal with all the wood, Luo Yan had to issue more tasks. However, no matter how many tasks there were, they could not solve one problem, that is, there was no demand.
We can't transport these woods to Shanghai to sell them.
You can make some money by using the teleportation array to trade diamonds, but you will lose a lot of money by trading such commodities! As for Thunder City...
It's not very cost-effective to smuggle these things.
In comparison, various types of "silk fabrics" with higher added value are easier to cash in.
The problem of overcapacity in cemeteries continues to worsen.
Fortunately, ghost money has no cost, so the devil’s finances are not on the verge of bankruptcy.
But this is not a solution.
Just when Luo Yan was thinking about how to solve this problem, things suddenly took a turn for the better.
As more and more new players enter the game, there are gradually more capable players, and the current game content is increasingly unable to satisfy the players' growing desire for exploration.
Especially recently, combat professional players have been having a lot of fun in the colony of the planet Kao, while life professional players have been waiting for their own spring. So a group of life professional players with ideas united and launched an initiative on the official website -
Emotionally stable: "The development team of this game is too lazy! At the rate they keep updating, it will take a long time for professional gamers to improve their gaming experience!"
Extras: "That's right! These bastards are too lazy! Is there no one working?!"
Urban Slaves: "XDM! Since the dog planner won't do the work, let's do it ourselves! Revitalize the Great Cemetery!!"
Chi Zaoshu was in the office: “Ahhhh!”
Want to be a corpse: "Oli Gei! Just do it!"
Looking at the posts on the forum, Youyou, who was peeking at the screen, couldn't help but sigh.
"It's incredible... Lord Demon, your leeks seem to be more anxious than you."
"I can understand their thoughts." Luo Yan, who was also peeking at the screen, said with interest.
He has been busy with wars recently and has indeed neglected these professional players. No wonder they are so bored.
Youyou, who was floating in the sea of consciousness, glanced at Luo Yan and said with a little concern.
"But if we do this, won't it attract the attention of the Principality of Campbell? It's okay in the maze... After all, the surface is controlled by human lords, right?"
Luo Yan nodded and said.
"There is indeed this risk, but since they are so enthusiastic, there is no harm in letting them try it."
At first he did not approve of players exploring too much outside the maze.
However, just recently, he heard a shocking news from Father Matt - Grand Duke Campbell was dead!
That’s not all.
Rumor has it that before his death, the Grand Duke did not pass on the "Light of Legend", a sacred artifact passed down from generation to generation in the Campbell family, to the heir to the principality, but handed it to his youngest daughter.
This move undoubtedly cast a shadow on the legitimacy of the new Grand Duke Edward Campbell.
Luo Yan could actually guess what the old man was thinking.
Although the Demon King is dead, a new one has emerged. In addition, waves of chaos corruption appear in the maze. Seeing that this artifact that hurts others and himself has to be used again, it is hard for the old Grand Duke not to worry about the fate of the principality.
If he passed the artifact to his eldest son according to the custom of hundreds of years, then the Duchy of Campbell would be destined to welcome a short-lived grand duke, which might even shake the foundation of the Campbell family.
So the old duke had an idea and passed this hurtful weapon to his youngest daughter.
When she strikes the "sword of destiny" for the people of the Principality of Campbell, the "Light of Legend" will eventually return to the hands of the master of the Principality of Campbell.
In this way, the problems faced by the Principality of Campbell were easily solved.
The elderly man even played chess until after his death.
However, although this plan seemed perfect, it also brought new problems to the principality.
Luo Yan was not interested in the power struggle in the principality, but he smelled an opportunity from it.
Now that the power in Campbell Principality has changed, and the new Grand Duke's foundation is unstable, why not take this opportunity to rub the edge of the bottom line of the neighbors? Thinking of this, the Demon King no longer hesitated, and immediately waved his hand, asking Youyou to pin the proposals of the life professional players, and referring to the suggestions put forward by the players, drafted more than 20 major construction plans, and contracted a series of projects including road repair, wall repair, and toilet repair to various life professional players as public facilities projects in Beifeng City.
No matter whether it will be useful or not, just build it first.
What if there are people after the building is built? In addition, Luo Yan also sold land based on the city planning sketch he picked up cheaply from the official website.
Starting from the current version, players can purchase plots of land ranging from 50 square meters to 500 square meters according to their soul level, and use them to build houses, workshops, and shops.
He promised to provide raw materials at the cheapest price, allowing players to freely use their creativity to build their own land... as long as what was built can really serve the purpose when it was declared, rather than just occupying the toilet without doing anything.
As for residential land, if an NPC moves in, the player can also receive rental income.
If you can help NPC solve work problems, you can also get contribution points!
Luo Yan didn't care who the residents of this settlement were, or whether they were human or not.
For him, as long as he could contribute faith points, it would be fine! After tasting the sweetness of the power of faith, he became more and more motivated to expand the territory of faith.
As a series of orders were issued, there appeared a scene of a group of skeleton soldiers busying themselves at the foot of Beifeng Mountain.
With the support of the Demon King, these tireless skeleton soldiers worked hard, as if they were determined to build a city on this flat land! Even though they were inexperienced, these enthusiastic little players had to restart the game many times.
However, despite this, the enthusiasm in their hearts was not extinguished, but instead they became more courageous as the battle went on.
As they persevered in clearing snow, burning bricks, moving bricks, laying foundations, and building houses... this simple town was also growing wildly bit by bit in the heavy snow.
Even though it's just a ghost town now.
And it is truly the kind of...
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While the cattle and horses in the cemetery were busy, deep in the Silver Pine Forest not far away, three little demons who were ordered to patrol the forest were flapping their wings and jumping up and down in the flying snow.
Looking at the heavy snow falling all over the sky, Shark shouted excitedly, and he never stopped all the way out of the cave.
"Oooohhh... What heavy snow! Is this a special effect?! Why isn't there any snow inside the maze?!"
The same was true for Jingluo Nanbei, who was flying next to her. He was also shocked by the heavy snow.
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But even so, she still didn't forget to complain.
"Are you brain frozen? How can it snow in the maze..."
"Geese, geese, geese..."
Shark dodged the attack and whistled to try to get away with it, but no sound came from his whistle after a long time.
Looking at the two people making a fuss, Xiao Wan couldn't help but burst out laughing.
"It's just snowing, why are you so surprised?"
Shark said excitedly: "Of course I'm surprised! I've never seen such heavy snow in my life!"
Whale Luonanbei also nodded and said.
"Yes... This is also the first time I've seen such heavy snow. I didn't expect this game to fulfill my long-cherished wish."
She is from Yuezhou. The northernmost place she has been to in her life is probably Sha Luo’s hometown in Minzhou.
It is also a place surrounded by mountains and never snows all year round.
At this time, Shark suddenly remembered something and asked excitedly.
"Speaking of which, Xiaowan's family is in the north, right?"
"Yeah." Xiao Wan hesitated for a moment and nodded.
Looking at Xiao Wan who nodded, the two funny guys showed envious expressions on their faces.
"Then you can see this much snow every day, right?"
"Are there penguins? Do you guys go sledding when you go out?"
Xiao Wan was choked by her saliva and almost bumped into the leaves that had frozen into ice sculptures.
"…I live in the North, not Antarctica."
Shark dropped something: "Hahahaha! That's right!"
Whale Falls North and South: "It's just a joke, please don't mind it... So you're from Tianjin?"
Xiao Wan looked at her in surprise.
"Why do you say that?"
Whale Luonanbei tilted his head and said with a smile.
"Because... I feel like you also have a talent for crosstalk?"
Xiao Wan: "...Actually, I'm from Jiamusi."
"Is this true?!" Shark's eyes widened, "Wait, where is that?"
Xiao Wan didn't know how to describe her hometown. After all, she hadn't seen it carefully, so she spoke in general terms.
"...Anyway, it's very far north."
It could be seen that she didn't want to talk about real-life things, so Jingluonanbei changed the subject with high emotional intelligence.
"Let's not talk about real things."
"That's right!" As he spoke, Shark had already made a snowball in his hand. He suddenly laughed and said, "This is a rare opportunity. Let's have a snowball fight!"
"...Snowball fight?"
Xiao Wan was stunned for a moment, not knowing why the topic suddenly changed from stories about her hometown to snowball fights.
By the time she came to her senses, a snowball had already hit her forehead with a "pop".
Although it didn't hurt, it made her feel very cold.
"Hey! Why did you suddenly attack me...Xiao Wan, are you okay?" After glaring at Shark Fall, Whale Fall looked at Xiao Wan and said with concern.
"I'm fine." Rubbing his cold forehead, Xiao Wan, who had recovered, looked at Shadiao with a smirk on his face. His desire to win was also aroused, so he reached out and grabbed a handful of snow from the frozen pine needles next to him, rolled it into a white ball and threw it at Shadiao.
Shark dodged the oncoming snowball by leaning sideways and let out a sneering laugh, like a villain.
"Oh! You are quite motivated! How about trying this trick——"
As she finished her words, she dived and crashed into the tree next to her, shaking the frozen pine tree.
Whale Falls: “Fuck—”
Xiao Wan: “?!”
Large flakes of snow fell from the sky like an avalanche, hitting the heads of the three little demons flying at low altitude, almost burying them alive.
After struggling to climb out of the snow pile, Whale Fall brushed off the snow on his wings, looked at Shark Fall who was sticking his head out of the snow pile nearby, and couldn't help but complain.
"Is there anyone who plays snowball fights like you?!"
The latter grinned heartlessly, and in the blink of an eye he had another snowball in his hand.
"All's fair in war! Watch out!"
A snowball hit Jingluonanbei right in the chest, successfully pulling her into the battle.
Faced with the joint attack of Whale Fall and Xiao Wan, Shark Fall quickly fell into a disadvantage. He fled in a panic, giggling and begging for mercy.
However, the shark's disadvantage did not last long.
A snowball in Xiao Wan's hand was accidentally thrown onto Whale Luo's back, successfully absorbing the latter's firepower.
As the mixed doubles match between the two turned into a three-way melee, the situation on the "battlefield" became confusing again.
Snowballs were flying back and forth in the air.
The three of them started out playing around but ended up competing. They agreed that whoever was hit by the snowball ten times first would be eliminated. The winner would then have the power to command the two losers for a whole day.
As long as the request is not too excessive, the loser must satisfy it unconditionally!
Under the temptation of the expensive spoils, Shark and Whale both had burning fighting spirit in their eyes. They put in 120% of their energy and vowed to drown the other side in the vast ocean of snowballs.
However, what no one expected was that the first person to be eliminated was Xiao Wan from the north! Looking at Xiao Wan who had almost turned into a snowman, Sha Diao suddenly felt a little sorry and asked in a low voice.
"Is this your first time having a snowball fight?"
She thought the other party should be better than her, so she started this "war".
Being looked at with such concerned eyes, Xiao Wan said a little embarrassedly.
"Before... no one played with me."
Whale Fall and Shark Fall looked at each other, and suddenly cast a loving look at Xiao Wan.
"I always feel that the atmosphere has suddenly become sad."
"+1."
"If you want to cry, I can lend you my shoulder."
"That's right, cry if you want—wait, why isn't it yours?!"
"Because getting snot on your nose is a hassle."
"Will I not be in trouble?!"
Seeing the two people suddenly start arguing, Xiao Wan couldn't help but burst out laughing.
She didn't know if it was because she was reincarnated as a little devil, but she felt that her mood was more or less affected by some characters and she became heartless.
This is actually not a bad thing.
In fact, that was exactly the state of life she wanted most——
Enjoy each day as it comes. There is no need to worry about tomorrow.
Just as she was sighing in her heart, there was suddenly a rustling noise coming from the bushes not far away.
She wasn't the only one who noticed.
The two people who were bickering and then fighting also noticed the movement not far away and stopped what they were doing at the same time.
"Who's there?" Jingluo shouted, took out a crystal from his waist and held it in his hand, preparing to cast a spell.
As if realizing that their whereabouts had been exposed, a crackling sound came from the bushes not far away, like the soles of shoes stepping on ice chips, and they hurriedly fled in a distant direction.
Whale Fall and Shark Fall looked at each other, then surrounded him from both sides and cooperated with Xiao Wan who was approaching from the front to intercept the uninvited guest who suddenly appeared in the forest.
However, to their surprise, the people hiding there were neither human adventurers nor hunters from a nearby town, but two children, a boy and a girl.
They seemed to be a pair of siblings, the boy was about fourteen or fifteen years old, and the girl was a little younger. They were both wearing ragged clothes, their noses were red from the cold, and their hands were even redder and purple.
It can be seen that the two children wandered in the snow for a long time.
However, compared to the fear of the cold, they were obviously more afraid of the wings and horns in front of them that marked their demonic identity.
The three people flying in the air looked at each other and saw interest in each other's eyes.
The players’ intuition tells them that—
The hidden mission has been triggered! (End of this chapter)