Chapter 36: There are more players than problems
Demon King!!!
The Queen of Shadowweaver's Lair was panicked.
It almost lost control of the situation and vomited out the half-digested male spider.
"Demon King?! A new Demon King?! How... is this possible! I mean... why is it here? Damn it!"
It was anxious and angry, stamping its eight legs restlessly. Its huge body swayed on the cotton-white spider web, and the entire palace seemed to have turned into a huge trampoline.
The fear in Arakdo's heart was no less than that of the crypt lord.
There is no other reason.
The Supreme Demon King Reggie Dragun left such a deep impression on him! Once upon a time, he was also one of the thousands of troops.
And just a look from that adult was enough to make thousands of demons, including himself, tremble and crawl on the ground.
He didn't want to go back to those days.
But he didn't want to be an enemy of the Demon King...
"Your Majesty...it seems that Hell has not forgotten this place. We must make a choice!"
"Choice?"
Arachnos suddenly stopped shaking.
The scarlet pupils moved downward, looking down at the minister who spoke arrogantly with an oppressive attitude.
"Choice?! You want me to surrender? No way! I've had enough of the Demon King's rule! My children can only be my food, and the Shadow Weaver Nest will never be slaves! To hell, to the Demon King!"
It roared, becoming more and more excited.
However, when she said the last sentence, her plump and enchanting body trembled uncontrollably.
After all, burrow spiders are different from ratmen. The latter have never believed in the devil, and no one cares about their lies, but burrow spiders still believe in the devil to some extent!
certainly.
This is different from surrendering to Hell.
Those high-level demons who had lived a life of luxury had already betrayed the Demon God. They didn't care from the bottom of their hearts whether they could return to the surface or not, but they still sent the Demon God's children to the earth to die without any explanation!
Yes--
Arachnos has never betrayed His Majesty the Demon God. The ones who are wrong are those who distorted His Majesty the Demon God's intentions!
As for the curse just now, it was purely because it was too excited and said it accidentally.
After all, it was just pregnant, so it was normal for her to be emotionally unstable. I believe that the Demon God must be aware of her loyalty! Looking at the Queen who had fallen into madness, Arakdo's body trembled even more violently, with his big head pressed tightly against the ground, as if he wanted to dig a hole in the same place.
"No - that's not what I meant!"
Arachnos roared in anger.
"What do you mean? You'd better tell me clearly. Otherwise, I will eat you right now!"
The moment he heard these words, the hardest chitin bones in Arakdo's body softened and he almost turned over on his belly.
But it is the resourceful Arakdo, a wise and brave general under the command of the Lord of the Underworld.
Its brain was working quickly and it soon came up with a plan.
"We...we can pretend to submit to him first!"
"Pretend to surrender?"
Arachnos narrowed his eyes and stared at the tiny spider beneath him.
Hmm? That seems interesting.
"Tell me more."
Faced with the blood suppression, Arakdo trembled with a hissing sound, but still forced himself to calm down and spoke in a low voice.
"The Demon King... I mean, the Demon King, the reason why he chose us as the entry point to the maze must have been after careful consideration. I guess, in his eyes, compared with other forces in the maze, the Shadow Weaver Nest is obviously the least threatening... Ah, I don't mean to belittle you."
Arachnos waved his forelimbs nonchalantly and continued speaking with interest.
"I don't care, just keep talking!"
Arakdo breathed a sigh of relief and continued.
"Since we are not the main obstacle for the new demon king to enter the maze, then he obviously has no reason to attack us... as long as we don't run into him ourselves."
"Not only that, the maze is now divided among many factions, and this is the time when he lacks support the most. If we take the initiative to find that guy and express our willingness to surrender, I believe that even if he knows that this is our expedient measure, he will turn a blind eye to our hypocrisy."
"This way, we can gain precious breathing time, and we can attack or defend... We can even subtly frame the cause of the chaos on the first floor of the maze onto our mortal enemies - the group of lizards hiding in the sewers!"
Looking at Her Majesty the Queen who was already moved, Arakdo slowly raised his head and changed his tone to an exciting one.
"By the time the new Demon King and Reggie Dragun's former subordinates fight to a draw, we will have accumulated enough strength!"
"When that time comes, it will be our chance to avenge our previous shame!"
…
In the hall below the Demon King's territory, the crypt spiders with their legs crossed had already lined up in a row against the wall, and the magic crystals as thick as thumbs had piled up into a small hill.
At first, the players were not very skilled at digging and had to use a knife to scratch for a long time before they could find the location. In the end, they were sprayed with spider juice in the face and forcibly given the aura of fetid plague.
Fortunately, the players have no sense of smell, otherwise the stench alone would have caused a large number of casualties.
However, this situation did not last long.
As they dug, the players mastered the trick and soon caught one fish every three minutes, going from three to one minute. The fastest could even catch one fish every three seconds.
Unfortunately, there are not enough corpses of crypt spiders.
Otherwise, if we give these roll kings a little more time, maybe they will be able to figure out the process of dissecting the assembly line.
The corner of the hall.
A skeleton soldier stood in front of a spider corpse, rubbing his jaw with his index finger. After a long time, he muttered thoughtfully.
“Interesting.”
Seeing another person squatting mysteriously in the corner, Gou Shi, who was strolling around with nothing to do, couldn't help but come over out of curiosity.
"What's wrong, buddy? There are mushrooms growing here too?"
"No." Brother Table and Stool shook his head, "I just found some interesting things."
"What's the matter? Tell me about it." Thinking that this brother had discovered some bug, Gou Shi's eyes lit up and he urged him to say a few more words.
Brother Zhui Deng did not hide anything and shared his unexpected discovery.
"This thing called magic crystal seems to be mainly distributed in areas with dense neurons."
The air was subtly quiet for a moment.
Gou Shi initially thought that this brother had not finished speaking. After waiting for a while, he realized that this was all he wanted to say, and a look of confusion appeared on his face.
"Ah... is there a problem?"
Brother Zhui Deng touched the bridge of his nose with his index finger and said with a hint of excitement in his voice.
"No problem...but don't you think it's funny?"
Gou Shi: “…”
I don't understand! This is just a game setting! He has no idea what's so interesting about it! However, Mr. Table and Stool didn't think so and continued to talk.
"These crystals are formed after a living thing dies, and they are all concentrated near the nervous system! I dissected the bodies of the ratmen, and even the body of the ratman boss, and found similar things! Even on the bodies of the players... I can find similar things, and they are right at the back of the neck!"
But what’s the point?
Gou Shi really wanted to ask this, but he felt that it was unromantic, so he sighed helplessly.
"You and Yiye Zhiqiu will definitely get along well."
"Maybe."
This weirdo didn't seem to care who he could talk to or not, he just kept muttering to himself.
"It would be nice if I could get a recently dead human body..."
Gou Shi: “…”
…
On the other side, Xiao Wan, who had just finished cleaning, dragged his tired body back to the Demon King's territory from the maze.
Although this game is addictive, it is also very tiring after playing for a long time, almost like going to work.
But having said that.
She was already satisfied just being able to move.
Perhaps this is the value of a fully immersive virtual reality online game! When she thought of the broad prospects of this game after its public beta, she suddenly felt that all the fatigue in her body was swept away, and the hard work in front of her didn't seem so hard anymore? Wait -
Was he CPU-destroying? Just as Xiao Wan was trying to find a place to log off without getting in the way, he suddenly noticed that everyone was looking at him.
Not just players.
Even the NPCs squatting in the stone prison were staring at her as if she were a monster.
Just when Xiao Wan was confused about what was happening, he heard the teasing of several skeleton soldiers.
“Good fellow…”
"We are all still shirtless, why are you wearing clothes?!"
Xiao Wan was slightly stunned, and looked down in the direction the others were looking, only to see that her ribs, humerus... were entangled with circles of spider silk, like a spinning machine with its hair blown up.
Her face darkened when she thought that this thing might have come out of a spider's mouth or ass.
Although her face was originally dark.
“Go to hell!”
She picked up a stone and threw it out in anger, but she ended up hitting nothing.
Seeing this, a few grinning skeletons ran away. She wanted to chase them but couldn't. She could only sit in the corner with a frustrated look on her face.
At this time, two friendly-looking skeletons came over and squatted beside her, one on the left and one on the right.
"Do you need help?" The skull on the right smiled at her gently, and a line of poetic ID floated beside her mind.
【Whale Falls North and South】
Xiao Wan looked touched.
really--
There are still kind players in this world!
However, as she was originally a socially anxious person, she felt embarrassed to trouble others in the game, so she waved her hand politely.
"No, no, I can get rid of it myself in a moment."
“Don’t be so polite!” The skeleton on the left put his arm around her shoulders and said with a cheerful laugh, “My boss is thinking of ways to make money! Since you look like you’re the only one, we decided to start with you first—”
"Hey! How can I make money now that you've revealed all this?"
Jingluo Nanbei glared at her fiercely, then looked at Xiaowan who was bewildered, coughed lightly, and the gentle and intellectual smile returned to his skull face.
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"Don't worry about it. My bestie is not in her right mind and occasionally says things without thinking... Since she is a corpse, can you forgive her this time?"
"Damn it! What are you saying? I'm crazy! And you're not even a corpse!"
Just as the skeleton on the left was protesting fiercely, Xiao Wan, who looked bewildered, finally saw her ID clearly——
【Shark Drops Things】
"puff……"
What kind of name is that?! When the guest in front of them laughed, the two skeletons immediately stopped arguing and forced a businesslike smile on their faces.
Whale Falls: "Um...please allow me to introduce myself. We are running a Skull Dry Cleaning Shop!"
Shark Drops Things: "You can think of it as starting a business!!!"
Whale Falls North and South: "Yes, because——"
Shark dropped something: "The reward given by the Demon King is too little. I can't even afford the equipment with the mission income! And, those Kings are outrageous. They rushed to Black Iron in two days! Can you believe it?! Is that still a human?! In reality, it must be a skeleton!!"
Whale Falls North and South: "Anyway——"
Shark dropped something: "We decided to do it on our own! It just so happens that you guys are so busy working that you don't have time to take care of your hygiene, so we thought of opening a bathhouse for scrubbing people's bodies!"
Whale Falls to the North and South: "Yeah, even though there's no water, it's still okay to rub it! I heard there are bathhouses in the north that don't have water!"
"No, I don't think so..."
Xiao Wan was just about to say weakly that her home was quite far north, but before she could open her mouth, she was interrupted by a guy with an aura comparable to that of a great white shark.
"Listen to me first!"
Xiao Wan: "Yes! Yes...?"
Who is the customer? Shark Drops Things: "What is the result? What is the result? Those guys are so rough! They don't care about the smell on their bodies at all, and even say that they can't smell it anyway, and it's a good deal if they stink the other party to death! Stingy guys, is there no one who cares about the Demon King?!"
"This is the situation," Jingluo Nanbei nodded with a smile, touched the shark's head, looked at Xiaowan and continued, "Want to experience it? Don't worry about anything, just give your body to us... It only costs 1,000 ghost coins."
1000 ghost money?
That is to say...
1,000 kilograms of coal?! Xiao Wan, who had just wanted to support their cause, reflexively shrunk her shoulders and distanced herself from the two black-hearted skeleton soldiers.
"Is it really not possible?..."
Shark dropped the thing and sighed in disappointment, but he didn't force it. He just muttered a complaint to himself.
"That's what I said... no one would accept it!"
Jingluonanbei also felt a little regretful, but still comforted his best friend.
“Starting a business is always a bumpy road. Just treat it as an accumulation of setbacks.”
Looking at the two people singing the same tune, Xiao Wan envied their friendship, but couldn't help but make a small complaint.
"You guys...you can actually go do crosstalk, I think it will make more money than a dry cleaner."
"Really?!" Shark, who was still depressed a second ago, dropped his things, and pounced in front of her in surprise, holding her hand, "Tickets! How much are you willing to pay!"
The ghost fire burning in the skeleton's eyes seemed to turn into the shape of ghost money.
"10...Hell money?"
“So little!”
Shark pretended to be deeply shocked and pressed his right hand on his empty heart.
Jingluo Nanbei thought seriously for a moment, with an intellectual light flashing in his eyes.
"Hmm... crosstalk? But I always think that beautiful women bathing will be more attractive."
Xiao Wan: "The skeleton... can't be wiped off."
Whale Falls North and South: "Is it not possible to open the microphone?"
Xiao Wan: "Uh...uh? Are we talking about the same thing?"
There seems to be a deviation in their understanding of wiping.
Fortunately, Jingluo Nanbei had already realized the problem and finally gave up the idea and sighed.
“Forget it… It seems this path won’t work. I should consider it after I’m reincarnated as a slime.”
Hearing this, Xiao Wan also breathed a sigh of relief.
Although she was curious about why reincarnation as a slime worked, her intuition told her that it would be better not to ask questions.
At least, it is currently impossible to reincarnate into a slime in this game, and the atmosphere should not be distorted by these two funny guys.
But then again, this was the first time she had chatted with someone for so long in a game.
I feel like all the fatigue of the day has been healed...
Shark dropped something: "Come to think of it, everyone else only has some slime on their bodies, why do you have so much spider silk on you? Was it taken away by the boss?"
"That's not the case. It was mainly the Demon Lord's mission..." Xiao Wan repeated what had happened a little embarrassedly.
Because she was afraid of spiders, she was sent by the devil to clean the house. When she came to her senses, her body had become like this.
"Well... so pitiful," Jingluo looked at Xiaowan sympathetically, carefully examining her body covered with spider silk, and said helplessly, "I'm afraid this thing can't be taken off... How about trying to roast it over fire, or just commit suicide?"
Xiao Wan pretended to sigh.
"Well, let me think about it."
Looking at the depressed Xiao Wan, Sha Diao comforted her with a playful smile.
"Don't be too sad. It actually looks pretty good without taking it off. It feels like a wedding dress."
Whale Fall: "Oh? The kind that's torn into tatters?"
"Hey, you're really knowledgeable!" Shark stood up and nudged her with his elbow, grinning and saying, "Send me a copy of the information so I can appreciate it!"
"It's not impossible...but now I suddenly have a new idea that I want to put into practice."
Jingluo touched his chin and looked at Xiaowan with eyes that suddenly became hot.
"What do you think... of using this to make clothes?"
clothing?
Xiao Wan was stunned for a moment, and her eyes lit up.
This seems like a good idea...
She hadn't even thought of that! Because she couldn't move very well, she happened to be good at some handicrafts, such as knitting sweaters, scarves, and embroidery.
"But skeletons don't need to wear clothes?" Shark touched his chin, looking disapproving, "Besides, these guys don't care about their image at all. Why don't we just perform crosstalk——"
“Stupid!”
The whale landed and hit her on the head.
"When I mentioned clothes, you only thought of clothes. Think about it in more detail! For example, backpacks. There must be people who need this thing, right? Especially for those high rollers, bringing more supplies can save you the number of times you go home! You can also pick up more treasures!"
"Not to mention armor, there are also bandages! It would be very troublesome if a bone suddenly broke while exploring a maze, right? Just use our bandages to tie it up and you can fight again! Don’t you think it will sell out immediately if we make it?"
"What the hell! What the hell!" Shark looked at his bestie excitedly. The will-o'-the-wisp swaying in the skull's head turned back into the shape of ghost money. "You're such a talent! Oh, and there's also the skin of a ratman! Maybe that can work, too!"
"That's a must!" Jing Luo had a confident smile on his face. He then looked at Xiao Wan and stretched out his right hand. "After all, this inspiration came from you... What do you think? Do you want to work together?"
The answer is obvious.
Looking at those sparkling eyes, Xiao Wan couldn't say no.
She wants to give it a try.
Even in the game, she wanted to try to find the value of her existence.
And most importantly...
She really doesn't want to mine anymore.
If she continues like this, this promising mmoRPG will soon be turned into a coal mine simulator.
Seeing Xiao Wan putting his hand on the back of Jingluo's hand, Shadiao also excitedly put his hand on it.
"Great! The first leather factory in the cemetery has been officially established!"
"Don't be in a hurry," Whale Fall finished the ribbon-cutting ceremony, put his hand on Shark Fall's shoulder, and pushed her towards the direction of the Demon King's Workshop, "Since you have decided to do it, do it well and make some preparations!"
Making equipment for weaving requires many materials, including wood for spinning machines.
However, the entrance to the Beifeng Mine is currently blocked by an air wall, and no one can go outside.
However, Jingluo felt that since the NPCs were so smart, there should be a way to make concessions through negotiation.
After all, hardware tools are sold in stores, so it would be strange to have no materials to use!
(End of this chapter)