Chapter 52 It's time to give humans a little scare from the dead
On the other side, just as Missy retreated with envy and jealousy, Luo Yan, who had handed the spoils to Sarah, turned around and returned to his workshop.
When he pulled back the curtain and walked in, a player was waiting there.
The moment he saw Luo Yan, the player immediately copied the stupid strategy he got from the official website and spoke in a pretentious manner.
"Dear Demon King, I am your most loyal——"
"No need to be polite."
"——Servant. According to your instructions, I have made your furniture. Please take a look."
Looking at this guy who ignored him and insisted on finishing his lines, Luo Yan looked at him in surprise and then nodded.
Good job.
He actually skipped his own skip?
However, it would be naive to think that this could trigger hidden tasks or increase one's favorability.
Luo Yan just brushed it off with one sentence.
"Oh, thank you for your hard work."
The ID of this skeleton is [郑方形], which looks a bit like a real person's name, but it might just be an old guy playing an old joke from the last century.
Unlike other players, this person is not very noisy. He looks dull and honest, and he should be an office worker in real life.
As for carpentry, it should be a hobby.
According to Youyou, after learning that the Demon King needed a carpenter, this player burst into extraordinary enthusiasm.
Not long ago, he had helped the "first textile factory in the cemetery" solve the problems of silk reeling, weaving tools and wooden frames for tanning leather.
Seeing that this kind of thing was not difficult for him, Luo Yan simply asked him to help make a set of furniture for him.
Looking at the brand new bed frame, table and chairs, Luo Yan's face showed an expression of approval.
good.
It seems quite similar.
"You did a great job. It would be even better if you could help me build a bookshelf and a door later... Oh, and a bedside table. I plan to add a night light here."
Zheng Fangxiang took note of it carefully and nodded.
"No problem, Lord Demon... Next, please allow me to introduce the functions of these furniture to you."
"Function?"
Luo Yan was stunned for a moment.
"I still recognize the bed, the table and the chairs—"
"I know, but my designs are much more than that."
The player in front of him seemed to have his own ideas and was not willing to listen to him.
I saw this guy walked to the bed and lay down, talking to himself. Then he reached out and patted the push-pull rod beside the bed.
The push-pull rod is designed in a very abstract way, almost integrated with the bed board.
If this guy hadn't pointed it out, Luo Yan wouldn't even have noticed that there was this thing on his bed.
"This is a bed with an automatic wake-up function, which can effectively prevent you from staying in bed... Please allow me to show you how to use it."
Brother Zheng, who still had no intention of listening to the Demon King, pulled the push rod while talking to himself.
With a "click" sound, the whole bed was like a fully wound mousetrap, with the head and foot of the bed folded in half and snapped together with great momentum.
“Bang!”
In addition to the sound of the bed boards colliding, he seemed to hear the sound of bones breaking.
By trap standards, this thing is pretty reliable.
If you don't prepare spells in advance or bring magical protective gear, you might end up in trouble because of this thing.
"etc--"
"hateful……"
"Your Majesty, please wait for me..."
Zheng Fangfang, who was trapped in the middle of the bed, struggled frantically for a while.
Finally, probably realizing that his spine was broken, he finally and peacefully extinguished the soul fire in his skull, gave up struggling and resurrected.
[Faith value -1]
Luo Yan looked at the motionless skeleton with a subtle expression, and then looked at the floor-length mirror beside him.
"Youyou... I only have one life, remember to find a more normal guy next time."
Youyou, who appeared in the mirror, was obviously embarrassed. He turned around in the air and whispered.
"Okay, okay..."
…
Putting the matter of bookshelves and bedside tables aside for now, Luo Yan didn’t dare to trouble the players to help him buy household items for the time being.
It’s better to ask Jack for help with such small matters. What kind of furniture can’t be bought with money?
What's more, he recently occupied a human church.
From Matt's reply, it seemed that he had counted a lot of property from the remaining account books.
Not just cash.
There are also properties in Thunder City and fields near Silver Pine Town, etc., which are said to be worth tens of millions of Australian silver coins in total!
After reading the account book, Luo Yan couldn't help but sigh that these charlatans were too rich.
Looks like we’ll have to rob Saint Sith’s church hard in the future!
Let’s put the distant things aside for now.
In short, Luo Yan asked Youyou to use [Mission Completed] to get rid of an overly enthusiastic carpenter brother, and then he took a screwdriver and started tinkering with the bed.
The main culprit that caused the bed board to fold in half was the several springs under the bed frame. After a clever combination and connection, the "bite force" of this thing was as amazing as a crossbow with a full string.
Although Luo Yan didn't know how to do carpentry, he was not the kind of guy who was idle and didn't know how to do anything. He fiddled with the screwdriver for a few times and removed the spring to solve the problem.
"This thing should be placed at the entrance of the maze... It would be very useful against adventurers."
Yunyun whispered as she listened to the Demon King's mindless words.
"But... Lord Demon, would anyone really dare to sleep in the maze?"
Luo Yan touched his chin.
"Well, that's a problem."
How about opening an inn in the maze? Providing a resting place for tired adventurers, selling suspicious equipment and food while spreading the faith of the demon god...
It feels quite interesting.
But it doesn't seem to make sense to open this thing on the upper floor, and if there are no succubi and nightmares as employees, it seems to become a pure haunted house.
While Luo Yan was perfecting his plan in his mind, he dismantled the mechanisms on the table and chairs one by one.
After finishing these trivial matters, Luo Yan took out his magic notebook from his suitcase, intending to review the fine steel-level spells that he had learned in class but had not used until recently.
In addition, he also had to record a few "open classes" and upload them to the system to provide some reference for players who wanted to go the magic route...
At the same time, in the "Blood Hall" on the first level of the maze.
Players who have resumed action from the plot animation are whispering and sharing their recent amazing discoveries with those who missed the "main storyline".
"By the way, did you see it just now? After the lizard man, it seems that someone else came to offer warmth!"
"What the hell? What's going on?"
"I heard about it from someone too. It seemed like a low-level demon! She kowtowed as soon as she came in, and said a lot of gibberish... It's a pity that I don't know what she said, and the subtitles are not made."
When everyone was whispering, someone suddenly stood up and shouted loudly, pushing the rumor to a new climax.
Pig-Headed Knight: "What low-level demon? It's obviously a succubus!"
Everyone was shocked when they heard it.
“What the hell?!”
“Is this true?!”
“Is the development team so conscientious?!”
Enjoying the attention of everyone, the Pig-Headed Knight continued proudly.
"It can't be fake!!! I guarantee it with my brother's cow——"
Before he could finish his words, he was slapped on the back of his head by the Minotaur warrior.
"You're always succubus-succubus... Hurry up and do the quests for me! I'm almost Iron! If you don't do the quests, you'll be a skeleton for the rest of your life!"
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Pig-headed Knight: "QAQ"
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The game has been launched for three days, and although many major events have occurred so far, the vast majority of players are still hovering below the Iron level.
Including those players who entered the game earliest, they are still one or two days away from reaching Black Iron.
However, these are just ordinary liver guys.
For those high-level players who have good skills and certain coordination, the upgrade speed is naturally not the same as that of ordinary players.
Just when players of all kinds were discussing what the next updated species would be, Hu Wan finally became the second player in the entire server to be promoted to Black Iron after Yiye Zhiqiu, and unexpectedly unlocked an announcement for the entire server.
In order to stimulate players to upgrade, this thing seems to be announced until the tenth Black Iron-level player appears.
And it's not just Black Iron, the same applies to the higher ranks such as Bronze, Steel, Silver, etc.
The moment he was promoted to Black Iron, Hu Wan's excess experience was reset to zero, and he was promoted from LV3 to LV4.
As planned, he spent an extra 100 contribution points to transform into a Black Iron-level Undead Rat.
Unlike the normal Undead Rat (1/2/3/0/0), the Iron Undead Rat's initial panel is (3/3/6/1/1), which is 8 points more! This attribute is slightly inferior to the two Iron-class zombies that have just been updated, in terms of strength and physique, but the total attribute points are both 14.
It seems that there is not much difference in the attributes of the same level of Undead, but the attributes of the Animal are more superior.
"I see... Reincarnation doesn't directly reset the points, but directly applies a new template."
After learning about Hu Wan's attributes, Yiye Zhiqiu pondered for a moment and said.
This seems to be a hidden mechanic of the game.
"Cataclysm OL" does not explain in detail that the lowest level that a skeleton soldier can be transformed into is ordinary, but it does not mean that only ordinary souls can be reincarnated into skeleton soldiers.
Iron-level players can also be reincarnated as Skeleton Soldiers, but the template used is not that of an "ordinary Skeleton Soldier", but a special "Iron-level Skeleton Soldier" template.
Hu Wan stroked his chin and thought.
"Reincarnation comes with a reset of points, so isn't it meaningless to think about how to add points?"
"That's not the case. Many things can't be seen at a low level. Maybe things will be different when the level goes up," Yiye Zhiqiu shook his head and continued, "Besides, the account you train yourself will definitely be more convenient than the template."
"But if adding a little bit is too much, reincarnation and washing it when advancing is an option."
By the way, just a while ago, he also upgraded from lv5 to lv6.
Due to the frequent use of skills, his mental attribute increased by one point as expected, and the attribute panel also became 4/6/3/1/2.
He is quite satisfied with his growth path, so it would be a loss to change into a template or change his job into a zombie.
Unless the magic race updated later has good talents and can concentrate a large proportion of strength and physique on wisdom attributes.
"I'm going to update this information into the guide... um, do you mind?"
"I don't mind. Besides, I've also been following the update recently. I'd rather hope you can be faster," Hu Wan said with a smile and teased. He continued, "Compared to this, I'd rather ask you what you plan to do today? Continue to kill the Crypt Spiders? Or the Lizardmen?"
Yi Ye Zhi Qiu smiled embarrassedly, coughed lightly, straightened his expression and continued.
"I plan to go to the surface today to take a look."
Hu Wan scratched the back of his head, puzzled.
"Going to the surface? Cutting down trees?"
Yiyezhiqiu shook his head.
"To the south."
Hearing this unexpected proposal, Hu Wan was stunned for a moment and spoke hesitantly.
"To the south? But... isn't that a human town?"
The undead will be beaten up if they enter the city, right?
He felt that this was no different from seeking death, but Yiye Zhiqiu shook his head and expressed a different opinion.
"Cataclysm Online doesn't explicitly forbid players from visiting human cities. My understanding is that as long as the place is not blocked by an air wall, it can be explored."
Hu Wan frowned.
"But there will be a wave of super soldiers, right? Have you forgotten the previous group of soldiers? And... there are additional penalties for dying beyond the range."
"That's right," Yiye Zhiqiu nodded, "The additional death penalty increases the trial and error cost for players, but it's still not a ban. Truly banned game behaviors won't have any contribution points deducted, they'll just be thrown into the black room... My understanding is that the game officials don't want us to explore the map outside the maze, but they want us to explore more cautiously. As for human towns, we certainly can't go in directly, but observing the surroundings should yield some results."
According to the game's settings, "ownerless souls" in this world have a chance to become undead.
And there are not only undead awakened by the necromancer, but also undead with independent consciousness.
In other words, there is nothing strange about the undead themselves, unless they appear in the maze as servants of the necromancer, which will make humans nervous.
The solution to the problem is very simple, just find an empty maze entrance and exit.
For example, the Beifeng Mine is one of them.
Although it is the entrance to the maze, it is too remote, so both human city-states and adventurers have given up on it.
Looking at Hu Wan who was still thinking, Yiye Zhiqiu continued.
"Of course, exploring new maps is just my personal idea, and it is very likely that nothing will be gained... So if you have other plans, I won't force you to join me."
The contribution value required to upgrade from Black Iron to Bronze is 10 times that of "normal upgrade to Black Iron".
In other words, it is 10,000 contribution points!
With so many contribution points, it would take a long time just to kill crypt spiders and lizardmen.
According to his speculation, if you want to gain contributions faster, you have to unlock more game content!
"What are you talking about?" Hu Wan said with a grin, "How could I miss such an interesting thing? I was just thinking about what equipment to bring to the surface... Do you have any ideas?"
Yi Ye Zhi Qiu: "How about bows and arrows and daggers? By the way, do you know how to use a bow and arrow? I'm afraid this game doesn't have an automatic shooting setting."
Hu Wan said with a smile.
"I haven't tried it, but I can learn it. I'm quite confident in my learning ability."
"Thanks."
Looking at his friend who was thanking him seriously, Hu Wan complained in an unpleasant tone.
"Oh, why are you thanking me? I'm not doing this for you... Your problem is that you're too polite."
Yiye Zhiqiu gave a helpless smile.
really.
He also knew that he had this problem.
Compared to his brother Wanli who openly owes favors to others, what he can't stand the most is owing favors to others, so that he doesn't have that many friends in real life.
But he has lived a good life over the years, so he is used to it. - (Thanks to the leader "三生缘ε伊雷娜з" for the reward!!!) (End of this chapter)