Chapter 57: The Outside World's Reaction

  Undead Base in the Southern Forest of Jue Ren

  The dawn's aurora passes through the gaps in the forest, and the wailing ghost also vanishes into thin air at the moment of contact with sunlight.

  Chen Le sat at the round table in the hall of the dead, breathing heavily, the torment of the wronged soul making him unable to eat or sleep, his bloodshot eyes representing his pain, and the sweat-soaked back of his shirt representing the pressure he faced.

  Next to him was a pile of magic crystals that resembled a small mountain, and the bright light it emitted could even rival the sun.

  Chen Le slowly stood up, his hands trembling as he leaned against the large round table, feeling how many souls he had obtained.

  Chen Le took a deep breath and then said in a low voice: "Zha Zha Ben, how many souls did I absorb this time?"

  The voice of Zha Zha Ben was somewhat heavy, and he seemed extremely reluctant to say: "Master, at that station yesterday, you obtained a total of 700,000 souls."

  Chen Le fell to the ground, and the backlash of his soul was really too severe.

  Chen Le gritted his teeth and slowly got up, he really couldn't bear this situation, every night, the wronged souls cried out beside his ears, the cries of 80,000 wronged souls were even more intense.

  Chen Le thought silently: "Zha Zha Ben, tell me, is there any way to alleviate the invasion of this vengeful spirit?"

  Zha Zha Ben seemed hesitant and just said a word "kill" before stopping abruptly.

  "Speak!" Chen Le yelled loudly.

  "Keep killing! Once your strength increases, you'll be able to alleviate this suffering!"

  Chen Le sat on the chair, wryly smiling as he gazed at the ceiling, his palms open and lightly covering his eyes. He slowly said, "So it's indeed like this? It seems my ending will be the same as Altrouge's... Hmph!"

  Zhang didn't say a word, and Chen Le also didn't want to speak, the whole hall fell into silence.

  After a long time, Chen Le suddenly said: "Zha Zha Ben, how many energy points is this pile of magic crystals worth."

  "Over 2000 watts!"

  Chen Le felt something was strange, how could 700,000 magical beasts' magic crystals be worth so little.

  "Because most of these magic crystals come from the Hedgehog tribe, their energy values are so low."

  Chen Le closed his eyes and said: "Is that so? It seems that life can indeed be divided into high and low, noble and humble."

  Chen Le stood up and said: "Exchange all the magic crystals worth 20 million for energy points, I think we should get something."

  A gray light enveloped the magic crystal, and in an instant, the magic crystal that was like a small mountain just turned into a pile of magic crystals.

  "This exchange is worth 2000W energy points, it's recommended to build a slaughterhouse!"

  Chen Le said in confusion: "Slaughterhouse? Can I summon a monk?"

  "The abbot can be built only after the third-level main base is built. Now you are allowed to build it because a new unit has appeared."

  Chen Le said in confusion: "A new unit?"

  "S-level mission: 10 million lives, completed 8,120,000/10,000,000. Unlocked Cave Demon and Flesh Puppet."

  Chen Le rubbed his head, puzzled and asked: "Flesh puppet? What is that?"

  "Flesh Puppet, Butcher's Block costs 5000 energy points, Undead frontline unit, composed of a large number of corpses, Level 5 strength, has some intelligence."

  "Is it a heavy unit?" Chen Le rubbed his chin, feeling that he seemed to need something like this. In the battle this afternoon, the seemingly invincible attack had no effect on the puppet tribe. Originally, Chen Le was planning to let Skull lead the big tree to launch a city wall attack later, but with the Blood Puppet, it seems that such a foolish method is not needed anymore.

  Chen Le looked out of the window and said: "How much does the slaughterhouse want?"

  "It costs 1.5 million to open a slaughterhouse and 200,000 to set up one."

  "What's the difference between this and robbery?!"

  "This is the price set by the creator of the world, I've given you all the discounts I can."

  Chen Le looked out the window with a helpless expression, then said: "Build it, build it! The old won't go away, and the new won't come! Right, now can I research traps? After all, so many magical beasts escaped, I suspect that another army of magical beasts will arrive soon, and their numbers will only be more than last time!"

  "It can be done, but the traps I'm talking about here are very expensive!"

  Chen Le was puzzled and asked: "Expensive? Can opening this damn slaughterhouse be expensive?"

  "It's really more expensive than that!"

  Chen Le was shocked, what kind of trap could be more expensive than that permission unlock.

  "Nether River, can designate any 100 square kilometer area to become Nether River. Effect: Any non-undead unit or those above level 8 who enter the Nether River will stay inside forever and transform into a vengeful spirit guarding the river after exceeding 5 seconds! Price: 1 billion!"

  Chen Le swallowed his saliva and continued listening to Zha Zha's description of those luxury goods.

  "Spirit Boundary! Can designate any one square kilometer area to become a Spirit Boundary, the effect is simple, all living beings that enter this place without permission will be attacked by a random number of random quality spirits! Construction cost: 800 million!"

  Chen Le is going crazy, if there are these things, then those so-called Demon Beast Union don't even think about stepping foot in here.

  "Ah, I found a cheaper one!"

  Chen Le heard that he came in high spirits, and now he needs cheap things more than ever.

  "Soul Trap: Can designate any 1 square meter area to be filled with souls, can manually control the trap's activation. Costs 10,000 yuan per unit."

  Chen Le asked in confusion: "A ghost? Like the one on the Spirit Tower outside?"

  "That's right, that kind."

  Chen Le became even more puzzled. The Spirit Towers outside were 200,000 yuan each, so why was this Ghost Trap so cheap?

  "This is a disposable item with a duration of about 1 day."

  Chen Le wanted to spit out a mouthful of old blood, and indeed, you get what you pay for.

  However, time did not permit it, he predicted that the fastest in a month, the Warcraft army would pounce on itself, and when the entrance of the Death Realm would explode was unknown.

  He must guard this entrance, as it concerns his future plan to destroy the Tiger Clan.

  Chen Le walked out of the King's Hall, shouting: "Fei Zhi, call everyone else over, we need to have a meeting!"

  Chen Le didn't know that the human world had already blown its top!

  The day of the Red Moon has already spread throughout the Iron Fire Alliance. Even some adventurers are preparing to come here to make a fortune.

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  The capital of the Kingdom of Yongyi is Yongyicheng.

  In the top floor hall of the Adventurer's Guild headquarters, ten people with extremely powerful auras sat around a large round table.

  A man in armor stood at the top of a round table, facing ten people below and said: "Gentlemen, you are all leaders of the strongest adventure teams in the kingdom of Yongyi. The king's intention is to have you go to the forest of absolute humans to take a look, and it would be best if you can get the magic crystal of that granite puppet."

  A burly bald man with a scowl on his face sneered, "Is the king sending us to carry out this perilous mission with just my brothers and me? Does he think we can swindle the wolf with empty hands?"

  Another woman wearing a mask slightly furrowed her brow and said with a smile: "Is the king so heartless as to watch me take my sisters to their deaths?"

  The man in armor thought this matter was a bit tricky, framing the innocent White Wolf was indeed unfair to the king, but he felt that the price was a bit too much.

  He smiled wryly and said: "The king says that whoever can accomplish this may go to the royal library and choose three books."

  The bald man slapped the table and glared at the person in armor, saying: "Who doesn't know that the imperial library was stolen three days ago? Now there's not a single book left inside. You want me to pick out three books? If it were the imperial library from three days ago, I'd be willing, but if you're talking about the current imperial library... I wouldn't do it even for 30 books!"

  The atmosphere in the venue fell into an awkward silence with this sentence.

  The man in armor looked awkwardly at the ten people sitting below him, he didn't know what to do.

  "Three years of control over Sanzhol district!" At this moment, a knight with a royal emblem burst in. He was the king's personal bodyguard.

  Everyone present was shocked by this sentence, and without saying much, they left here. They have to make preparations now.

  The man in armor looked at the royal knight and walked over quietly, saying: "What's going on here?"

  The royal knight also leaned in and whispered, "This is a temporary decision made by the king, I feel that since the king will have such a generous reward, there must be a big move later on, you'd better be careful."

  The man in armor smiled and said, "Let's have a drink tonight, it's been a long time since we two brothers got together."

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  Unification Church Headquarters

  The Pope of the Radiant Church stood atop the headquarters, gazing in the direction of the Abyssal Forest and said to a white-armored knight beside him: "Andrei, do you think they will return safely?"

  Andrei followed the Pope's gaze towards the direction of the Absolute Forest and said: "The disciple does not know."

  The Pope sighed and said: "That's right, God has not appeared for a long time, we have not known the future for a long time."