Global Descent: 100Reward

by Little Merger

The entire globe has transmigrated overnight! In countries filled with billions of zombies, killing zombies, chopping down trees, mining, building, and blowing up haunted houses are means to obtain survival resources. Lin Ye has awakened a 100Reward talent, and he received a hundredfold of any reward received. Newbie Gift Pack: an ax, two loaves of bread, three bottles of water 10

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Chapter 65: Preparations Before Attack

Level 2 Lord's Skin x1 [Additional Special Effect] (5000 Reputation Points)

The Reputation Shop rose to Level 3, and the item slots increased to 10.

And the first was what Lin Ye wanted most at the moment.

The Lord's Skin was not Level 1 and was Level 2 instead.

Of course he was buying it!!

Lin Ye's reputation points decreased by 5,000 and a blue ball of light appeared in front of him.

When his fingers touched it, the ball of light shattered and the Level 2 Lord's Skin came into view.

It was different from a Level 1 Skin's scholarly outfit. The Level 2 Skin's outfit belonged to the warrior series, with silver armor, bright silver spear, and red cloud boots.

It was very similar to the outfit of Zhao Yun, a mighty general from the Three Kingdoms.

As descendants of China's Nine States, they had a long-standing admiration for ancient generals and heroes. Lin Ye was no exception. For the time being, he threw the useless skin of a Level 1 Lord's Skin into the Civilization Archive's inventory.

Soon after, a message came.

Item: Lord's Skin (Special Type Treasure)

Level: 2

Attractiveness: 20%

Charisma: 20%

Special Effect: 1. All Level 1 functions remain and their effects are doubled

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Special Skill: Flying Meteor

Note: Special skill. All your attacks will carry the Meteor Effect. It will not increase the power, but its visual effect will be magnified by 200%!

"Its attributes are not bad, and it even has an additional skill!"

Lin Ye smirked.

After understanding the information given, he changed into the Level 2 Lord's Skin.

After putting on the clothes, his temperament changed greatly.

Heroic, mighty!

Besides, he was originally tall and handsome.

As he walked, not only did he have the mighty and domineering aura of a general, but he also had the heroic aura of a peerless hero.

He paced back and forth in the bedroom. The red cloud boots were light. The soles of his feet felt like he was stepping on clouds. It was extremely comfortable.

"Perfect!"

Lin Ye clicked his tongue, extremely satisfied with this outfit.

At the same time, he also deeply felt the greatness of his parents. How could an ordinary Earthlings like them give birth to someone as stunning as him?

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What kind of heaven shaking luck was this?

He immediately took a photo of himself with his Civilization Archive and sent it to his family chat.

Zhang Cuiling: "???"

Lin Jianguo: "Son, is this for real? God, if it wasn't that this was the system's verified family channel, I wouldn't believe that you're my son!"

Zhang Cuiling: "Mr Lin, what do you mean? Are you implying that I have someone outside?"

Lin Jianguo: "Honey, listen to me. That's not what I meant…"

"…"

From outside, he stared at the family channel which was in chaos.

Lin Ye smiled bitterly.

Dad said something wrong and apologized to Mom again.

As for the family channel verification that his father mentioned,

He had seen a lot of news on the world and regional channels.

On the first day, questions regarding the family channel were indeed a little messy.

For some of the family channels.

A lot of different green scenes appeared on that day.

Other than their biological mother, the rest were all strangers.

After communicating with her biological mother, she realized that the stranger was actually their biological father or their other relatives.

This scene was blown up by fathers who were greened.

The whole world was shocked to hear the news that the greened fathers brought to the world and regional channels.

Hence, there were quite a lot of such incidents recently.

Whether they were biologically related was highly dependent on whether they were on the same family channel. The verification rate was as high as 90%.

All those who jumped out were ultimately hammered by the stone.

Of course, the person involved would self-destruct.

In this world full of zombies, people were about to die. Why would they care about anything else?

Of course, there were worse things.

Some people were greened, others were murdered. Families were destroyed overnight.

The better ones went crazy, the worst ones turned evil, sending threatening comments on the regional channel and killed anyone they saw.

When he saw the crazy comments, Lin Ye was still amazed that his sister was actually his biological sister…

Well, speak of the devil.

Lin Wei: "Dad, Mom, stop arguing. Brother, fu… cough cough, what are you wearing?? You're too handsome, I want one too!!!"

Lin Ye: "Calm down, calm down, I'll tell you how to obtain it."

Upon hearing this, the family channel fell silent as they stared intently at the screen.

Lin Ye told his family about the method to obtain Reputation Points, Reputation Shop, and the Lord's Skin.

After a moment, his mother, Zhang Cuiling asked hesitantly, "Beibei, this information is very important in the early stages. Should I tell this to Captain Wang Hui? He treats us old people and children well and is a responsible person…"

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Lin Ye was straightforward. "Mom, there's no harm in telling him. But if he harbors evil intentions, show him these and he'll understand what I mean!"

As he spoke, he stood on the second floor of the bunker and took a picture of the flourishing bunker and the thousands of soldiers and sent it to the channel.

In an instant, everyone was shocked by the scene in the photo.

This was several times more powerful than the photo sent by Lin Ye on the first night. The rate of development was too frightening.

Even so, Zhang Cuiling's attention was still on Lin Ye.

She hurriedly said, "Beibei, don't work too hard. Don't worry. We're all safe right now. Don't push yourself too much. If you want to save us, you have to take care of yourself first. You being alive is more important than anything else!"

After these two days of adaptation, she had learned a lot through the world and regional channels.

In this world surrounded by billions of zombies, they wanted to develop quickly, like those bragging people.

Behind the prosperity, they were risking their lives.

Yesterday at noon, there was someone who claimed that he would go to the Haunted House to steal the treasure chest, but on that day, his profile picture turned black.

Therefore, she could imagine, her son's development speed was far faster than those who were flaunting in the world channel.

There was definitely a terrifying risk that ordinary people did not know about.

Lin Wei: "That's right, brother, don't die too early. If you die, all of the Lin family's inheritance will be mine, not a single cent will be yours."

Lin Jianguo: "Beibei…"

Although the concerns from his family were heartwarming, Lin Ye did not feel the same hearing it.

I was just hanging around, what danger could there be?

On the other hand, all of you didn't tell me about your real situations and wouldn't be able to help even if you wanted to.

Forget it, I should develop faster. There will always be a way when the bunker's develop to a certain level.

Thinking of this, Lin Ye hurriedly bade farewell to his family and asked about his sister's awakening.

It seemed like there was still no progress. The probability of self-awakening early on was too low.

After consoling his slightly depressed sister, Lin Ye put away his Civilization Archive and opened the Bunker's Technology—Virtual Sandbox.

His gaze locked onto the northern region.

During this period of time, he had secretly made many preparations to attack.

Other than recruiting new soldier types,

Every once in a while, he would send the fast rangers to patrol and clear some of the dark fog.

Without the dark fog blocking, he could use his Heart's Web talent.

He could see everything that was happening within six kilometers north of the bunker.

On this path, there were 13 human lords.

Among them, there were 11 who were in solo mode and 2 who were in team mode.

There were many haunted houses as well.

There were four Level 1 Haunted Houses with one-star difficulty.

3 Haunted Houses with two-star difficulty; 2 Haunted Houses with three-star difficulty; 2 Haunted Houses with four-star difficulty; 1 Haunted House with five-star difficulty.

Level 1 Haunted House with one-star difficulty had a Level 1 zombie as its leader, no Level 2 zombies and at least 2,000 zombies;

Two-star. On top of what the one-star Haunted Houses had, the numbers were doubled;

Three-star. On top of what the two-star Haunted Houses had, 70% were Level 1 zombies, and 30% were Level 2 zombies;

Four-star. On top of what the three-star Haunted Houses had, the numbers were multiplied;

Five-star. On top of what the four-star Haunted Houses had, 50% were Level 1 zombies, 40% were Level 2 zombies, 10% were Level 3 zombies, and there were also a few Level 4 zombies.

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Chapter 66: My Lord, You're Awesome!!!

"With my current ability, I can easily crush one-star to four-star Haunted Houses. If I attack a five-star, I can defeat it, but the losses will be much higher."

Lin Ye narrowed his eyes and stood in front of the virtual sandbox, calculating for a while.

Of course, even if many people would die, he had already decided.

This piece of land would definitely become his, even Chunda wouldn't be able to stop him.

After organizing the plan, Lin Ye left the bunker. He wore the Level 2 Lord's Skin and reaped another wave of loyalty. Almost 90% of the rangers and chefs became his loyalists, which further confirmed Lin Ye's understanding of his own handsomeness.

For the new soldiers, the situation paled in contrast.

After all, they were all men. It was good enough that they were not jealous of you to the point of losing loyalty. They were barely able to reach 70% loyalty.

Level 3 Breeding Field.

Lin Ye headed straight there.

Beast Tamer Gu Jiang hurried over to receive him. "My lord, what brings you here?"

Lin Ye looked at him. His loyalty had only increased by 5%, even worse than a new recruit.

Hmph, even if you ignore me, I wouldn't care.

He went straight to the point. "Have you prepared the Earth Wolves, Wind Wolves, and Beast Saddles that I asked of you?"

"Preparations are completed."

Gu Jiang nodded and continued, "But as you also know, we only have one Class 3 Cavalry Warrior blueprint. According to God's rules, we can only recruit twice a day and at most ten at a time. Only half a day has passed since yesterday."

"The daily reset has just passed and we recruited another batch, but unfortunately, our luck wasn't good. Two Earth Wolves with Mad Wolf disease appeared, and after killing them, there are only 18 Earth Wolves remaining."

At this point, he seemed to notice that Lin Ye's expression wasn't too good. He quickly changed the topic. "However, please rest assured, my lord. This is definitely an accident. The Gale Wolves are more rideable than the Earth Wolves and the recruitment success rate is also optimistic."

"There are a total of five Wind Wolf Cavalry blueprints. I've asked Gu Mo to recruit 50 of them. The success rate is 100%. They are currently being tamed at the east side of the field."

"As for the beast saddles, they are too expensive to sell in the underworld, and the quantity sold is also small. Class 3 beast saddles cannot be sold in large quantities, and can only be temporarily replaced by Class 2 blue tier beast saddles. Of course, it will not affect the soldiers' combat ability by much, so you don't have to worry."

"By much? In other words, it would affect their combat abilities." Lin Ye raised his eyebrows.

"Well… you do get what you pay for," Gu Jiang said with a dry laugh. He didn't say it explicitly, but it was a clear confirmation.

However, he couldn't be blamed. Buying the beast saddles from the underworld was too expensive.

In addition, the previous incident had left him with a lingering fear. He was afraid that he would be resented by Lord Lin if he spent too much Zombie Souls.

"There's no need to save money for me. Use all of it for beast saddles that are compatible with the mounts. Also, recruit with the blueprints given for free by the breeding field. 200 Class 3 Iron Blooded Racing Horses, 500 Class 2 Ferghana Horses, and 100 Class 1 Ordinary Horses."

Lin Ye flicked his sleeves and calmly said, "Just answer me this, how many zombie souls do you need?"

War horses and mounts were not considered production units.

In theory, every soldier could use a mount.

However, even if Lin Ye had a huge business now, if he were to buy Class 3 mounts for everyone, he wouldn't be able to afford it.

"My lord, without a recruitment order, even if you use the complementary blueprints to summon, it will cost much more than a recruitment order. You have to be mentally prepared. 200 Class 3 Iron Blooded Racing Horses will cost close to 20,000 Souls. 500 Class 2 Ferghana Horses will cost about 32,000 Souls. 1,000 Class 1 Ordinary Horses will cost more than 15,000 Souls…"

"Including the beast saddles that are compatible with the mounts, it should be close to 100,000 Souls…"

Gu Jiang counted on his fingers, his saliva flying everywhere. As he spoke, his voice became softer and softer, as if he was afraid of scaring Lin Ye with the numbers.

To be honest, he felt that his Lord had been bragging.

One must know that this was not the 5,000 of the previous time, but 100,000.

Good heavens, even the ancestors of the clan had never seen such a massive number of Zombie Souls before.

Normally, only noble families from the major cities could afford such a recruitment.

Therefore, although he admitted that Lin Ye was very rich, he did not think that his lord could afford it.

There was an 80% chance that he was boasting!

Dong! Dong! Dong!

Before he could finish his sentence, ten big bags full of Zombie Soul rolled to his feet as if they were garbage.

"…"

F*ck!

F*ck!!

F*ck!!!

His Lord was impressive!!!

Gu Jiang's eyes were wide open, and his heart was roaring wildly. He was so excited that his blood pumped faster, and his eyes were bloodshot.

At that moment, he felt that all the lazy cells in his body had been killed and countless tiny people were howling in his body.

At the same time, the same went for the other three beast tamers.

Ever since they were born, they had been relying on their status as Class 3 beast tamers and had seen many influential figures. However, Lin Ye was a master who didn't regard money like money.

He was simply too rare.

For Lords like this, dear Heavenly Gods above, if you have the guts, do send a few more down.

If I'm a coward, I'll be a dog in my next life.

Bark bark!!

[Congratulations to Survivor Lin Ye. Your Class 3 beast tamer, Gu Jiang, has received a critical hit by your wealth. His loyalty has increased to 100%. He will serve you wholeheartedly.]

[Congratulations to Survivor Lin Ye. Your Class 3 beast tamer, Gu Ji, has received a critical hit by your wealth. His loyalty has increased to 100%. He will serve you wholeheartedly.]

[Congratulations to Survivor Lin Ye. Your Class 3 beast tamer, Gu Nan, has received a critical hit by your wealth. His loyalty has increased to 100%. He will serve you wholeheartedly.]

[Congratulations to Survivor Lin Ye. Your Class 3 beast tamer, Gu Mo, has received a critical hit by your wealth. His loyalty has increased to 100%. He will serve you wholeheartedly.]

Lin Ye was dumbfounded at the four combos he got.

What do you guys mean?

This lord wore the Level 2 Lord's Skin and you only gave me 5% loyalty.

Showing you 100,000 zombie souls was so touching to you that you decided to give me 100% loyalty?

What am I supposed to think of my attractiveness now!!!

"My lord, I have the Beast Taming Encyclopedia from the Valley of Beasts, which has been kept for hundreds of years. I am also willing to give you our precious Beast Language Book."

"As long as you can use what you learned from the book, you'll definitely become an impressive Class 9 beast tamer in the future. You might even surpass the Class 9 and reach the legendary…

Coughs…

At this point, he coughed lightly and quickly stopped talking.

"The legendary what?" Lin Ye squinted and a smile appeared on his face.

There was something above Class 9?

It seemed like a piece of useful information had dropped again.

"My lord, please don't make things difficult for this little one. For this kind of secret, the Gods have their rules and we cannot tell you this early. This is a law that no one can go against."

Gu Jiang smiled bitterly. His body quivered and his prior excitement vanished instantly.

"Forget it if you can't talk about it." Lin Ye shook his head.

It probably involved certain secrets which were also the reason why the previous humans failed.

As soon as he finished speaking, he received two secret books that were covered in thick beast skin from Gu Jiang.

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Chapter 67: Zhang Liang Killed Someone?

"Beast taming Secret Records, Languages of the Hundred Beast Tribes…"

Lin Ye flipped through it slightly. With the system's translation, he could barely understand it.

To be honest, he was interested in riding.

Although he could get cars and airplanes from the high level Reputation Shop, he could not afford any of them at the moment.

And it wasn't necessarily better than magical beasts from another world.

After reading for half an hour, the spells from the books were easy to understand once translated.

You are an obedient Earth Wolf!

You are a dog that listens to its master!

You will bite whoever I point at!

Come here, kneel down, lick me!

Only obedient babies get candy to eat! (Candy: Zombie Souls which were fatally attractive to magical beasts)

….

Of course, there were still many things he could not understand.

At this moment, Gu Jiang took the money and blueprints to recruit the Iron Blooded Racing Horses. Lin Ye's gaze swept across the huge breeding field.

He immediately looked at Gu Nan, who had just tamed the other eight giant earth wolves.

"You, come here!"

Lin Ye waved his hand. "Come, teach me step by step. The incantation and technique, as well as the beast language of the different races!"

"Oh. Sure, of course."

How could Gu Nan, who was his loyalist, not put in any effort? He directly taught decades of the family's knowledge to Lin Ye.

Beast Taming Experience1, Beast Taming Experience1, Beast Taming Experience1…

Beast Language Experience 1, Beast Language Experience 1, Beast Language Experience 1…

100xReward.

Beast Taming Experience100, Beast Taming Experience100, Beast Taming Experience100…

Beast Language Experience 100, Beast Language Experience 100, Beast Language Experience 100…

[Congratulations to Survivor Lin Ye. You have mastered Level 1 of Beast Taming skill!]

[Congratulations to Survivor Lin Ye. You have mastered Level 2 of Beast Taming skill!]

[Congratulations to Survivor Lin Ye. You have mastered Level 3 of Beast Taming skill!]

[Congratulations to Survivor Lin Ye. You have mastered Level 1 of Beast Language skill!]

[Congratulations to Survivor Lin Ye. You have mastered Level 2 of Beast Language skill!]

[Congratulations to Survivor Lin Ye. You have mastered Level 3 of Beast Language skill!]

In just four hours, Lin Ye could already easily control the Great Earth Wolf and the newly recruited Wind Wolf.

"Straight line sprint! Go faster! Go faster!"

"Wind blade, shoot it!"

"Earth Shield, protect!"

"Stop, jump, crouch, run, roll—"

"Come here, kneel down, lick me!"

Lin Ye continuously tested the beast taming incantations and chanted.

The several large earth wolves and wind wolves which were facing him were extremely obedient and did as they were told.

In the end, they even became like friendly dogs, wagging their tails and kneeling at his feet, excitedly licking his red cloud boots!

Fortunately, the Level 2 Lord's Skin which he had equipped had a self-cleaning function and he was not afraid of getting dirty.

But what made him uncomfortable was…

The incantation felt a little… unclean when he said it.

"My lord is truly a peerless genius in the Beast Taming realm. It's a pity that we're only at Class 3 and can't teach you anymore."

Gu Nan's expression was full of admiration.

It was impossible not to be impressed. In four hours, his lord had accomplished what was equivalent to decades of hard work from the geniuses of their Gu Clan.

He could tell that Lin Ye's skill in beast taming and beast languages had already surpassed his to a certain extent.

With such astounding talent, it would be a pity not to become a beast tamer.

"Don't worry about it. Don't you have some Bloodline Teleportation Technique? You're all my loyalists anyway. Your elders, parents, uncles, and aunts are no longer strangers. Bring them all here. Why are you looking at me? You guys don't even want benefits that I'm giving to your Gu Clan? There's no way they would suffer if they came here."

Lin Ye stared.

"…"

Gu Nan opened his mouth. He felt like he was on a pirate ship.

They weren't low-grade workers like Lin One. The higher their Class, the more precious their Bloodline Teleportation was, to the extent that perhaps they could only use it once in their lives.

Furthermore, their fathers were all Class 4 or 5 beast tamers. Even in the underworld, they were all well-known figures.

Bloodline teleportation could be considered a form of stowaway, and the cost of teleportation was not low.

To be more precise, it was probably more expensive than the recruitment fee.

Logically speaking, he shouldn't agree, but now that he had become his loyalists, there was no way for him to go against his lord's wishes.

Gu Nan could only nod bitterly. "Yes, my lord, but I might require hundreds of thousands of zombie souls."

"We will do it slowly then. When I return from clearing the Haunted Houses, we'll bring your father and the rest over," Lin Ye said nonchalantly.

Purchasing a large number of mounts, beast saddles, weapons manufactured in the armories, and fences, were all extremely resource-consuming.

Last time, he had killed a small-scale zombie wave and obtained over 160,000 zombie souls. Now, 90% of them were gone.

After lunch, they would set off. Otherwise, they would be so poor that they would not be able to even eat.

"Mhm, good girl. Go play with Gu Mo."

With a smile on his face, Lin Ye casually threw out over ten zombie souls to the dog-like magical beasts under his feet and sent them away.

From the corner of his eye, he glanced at the other directions of the breeding field.

While he was learning the Beast Taming Technique, Gu Jiang had already completed the recruitment work. He had also cooperated with Luo Feng, Su Yu, and the others, and started training the Class 3 Earthwolf Cavalry, Class 3 Wind Wolf Cavalry, and the Class 2 Tiger Hunting Blade Guards a few hours ago.

With the help of the training blueprints, training speed was fast. Together, the pressure of the cavalry soldiers instantly increased.

As for Iron Blooded Horses, Ferghana Horses, and ordinary horses, their training was relatively simple.

With Gu Mo's help, Class 1 and 2 new recruits quickly adapted and transformed from foot soldiers to cavalry.

It was a pity that they did not have the corresponding Class 2 cavalry blueprint. Otherwise, the combat power of the lower class cavalry could be raised by a few notches.

"I'll take it slow."

Lin Ye felt comforted. When he left the breeding field,

Adelia had recovered and was trying to break through to the Class 4.

Light Priest Gulan's face was pale, as if he had expended too much energy. He sat cross-legged and was absorbing the light particles floating in the air.

On the other hand, Tru was much more relaxed. Perhaps it was because he had just broken through and his body was empty, but he was currently holding a black iron pot the size of a millstone and eating heartily. His mouth was full of oil, and he even let out a loud laugh in the end.

"Hahaha, not enough, not enough. This is far from enough."

"Sister Nicole, another pot please! This big brother has surpassed his limits and finally broke through to Class 4. Now, my body is feeling empty."

"Well, didn't Teacher Bao'er say that I need to make up for whatever I'm lacking? Hurry up and whip me up some bull penis. I need to nourish myself a little."

"Aren't you afraid of bursting to death from eating too much?"

Suddenly, he heard a chuckle behind him.

"You…!"

Tru was about to fly into a rage, but before he could say the word 'dare', he felt that the voice sounded familiar.

He turned to look and immediately changed his tone, "My lord is wise! This lowly one is full. Delicacies like the bull penis should be kept for my lord."

"Move it."

Lin Ye smiled and teased, "After lunch, the soldiers will be done with their training."

"We might not have finished forging the weapons yet. There are a few new soldiers who don't have Class 2 Blue Tier weapons. Let them use the new weapons first. After we destroy a few one-star Haunted Houses, we'll replace them."

"Yes, my Lord." Tru nodded.

"Also…"

Just as Lin Ye was about to instruct more about the final preparations before the expedition, Xun Mingyuan rushed over as he shouted.

"My Lord, it's murder. There has been a murder. Zhang Liang killed someone!"

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Chapter 68: Priest, I Think I Can Still Be Saved

"What's going on, Old Xun? Why are you shouting so much? That weak brat, Zhang Liang, killed someone? Who's so unlucky?"

Tru held the pot in one hand and looked curiously at Xun Mingyuan, who was rushing over.

For them, people dying was nothing rare.

There were large numbers of people dying every day in the underworld. Even a child could look on expressionlessly as villains were killed at the vegetable market. It was no surprise.

"He really… really killed someone. I'm not lying. It's Niu Wei. I don't know what happened between that idiot and Zhang Liang. They fought and fought until they were really angry. We couldn't persuade them at all. Zhang Liang picked up the metal rod used to move the fish and hit Niu Wei on the head. Niu Wei's head was smashed and covered in 'green' blood as he laid on the ground twitching. He is probably dead."

Just a few hundred meters of running and Xun Mingyuan was already panting heavily.

The stamina of Earth people was a lot weaker as compared to the natives of the underworld.

"Seriously…"

Tru muttered something and turned to his lord.

At this moment, Lin Ye had already activated his Heart's Web talent. Invisible waves spread to the tents near the fishery.

Zhang Liang was made to work in the fishery as punishment because he did not tell the truth.

Niu Wei, on the other hand, had a bad habit of cursing in his heart and was also made to work at the fishery as punishment.

Not long ago, he had even managed to peek using the Heart's Web's talent.

These guys formed a friends' chat channel. Niu Wei made a big fuss, wanting the others to escape with him.

Although he didn't succeed, that guy definitely wouldn't give up.

It might be related to this matter.

Lin Ye narrowed his eyes. However, he did not expect that the one who died was not Zhang Liang but Niu Wei.

Wait… wait. Dead my ass. He still had half a breath.

He could still see Niu Wei's breath with his Heart's Web.

However, his breath was extremely weak – like a candle in the wind. If he wasn't careful, he might really die.

On the contrary, Zhang Liang felt a bit off.

A large amount of black particles were floating above his head.

According to the Heart's Web talent's interpretation of emotional particles, black represented darkness, the blackening of one's soul.

In his line of sight, Zhang Liang had a ferocious look on his face. Even though he was pressed to the ground by the patrol team, he was still fiercely cursing at Niu Wei who was lying on the ground.

"He was agitated?"

Lin Ye raised his eyebrows and thought for a moment. Then he beckoned to Gran, who was sitting cross-legged on the platform absorbing light particles. "Come, let's go together."

"I…" Light Priest Gran's face was pale, and he wanted to refuse.

However, he could not disobey his Lord's orders.

He covered his crotch and walked over slowly, looking like a wounded crab. He bent his legs and gasped after taking a few steps.

"This…" Lin Ye looked suspiciously at Gran.

"My balls… my balls hurt!" Priest Gran's face turned red as he explained.

"It's okay. I get it. You just made a mistake that any man would. It's not your fault…"

Lin Ye showed an expression that he vaguely understood what happened but at the same time could not help but laugh out loud.

This old man was a pervert.

Perhaps he wanted to take advantage of the young lady and got beaten up.

He deserved it!

"My Lord, it's not what you think!"

Gran grimaced.

As smart as he was, how could he not tell what his Lord was thinking? He screamed in his heart.

Before he could explain, a violent wind blew.

Whoosh—

It was Adelia, who seemed to have reached the edge of advancement. A large amount of green wind elemental energy surrounded her.

Her entire body was suspended within the gale as she frantically absorbed the wind elemental energy.

Boom!

A few seconds later, the invisible tornado dissipated and the beautiful figure landed on the ground.

It was clear that after the corpse poison was removed and coupled with the Level 4 Body Strengthening Pill, she eventually benefited from this disaster and successfully advanced to Class 4.

After breaking through, Adelia was in a good mood. She had also heard the conversation between Lin Ye and the others. She walked over with a smile and complained, "My Lord, this old man is dirty-minded. Please don't learn from him."

"Adelia! It's thanks to me that you were able to break through! How could you humiliate me like this?!" Gran was trembling with rage.

If this continued, he would not be able to protect his integrity!!!

"My Lord, Zhang Liang…" Xun Mingyuan, who was standing behind them, could not help but remind them weakly when he saw how indifferent they were.

"That's true. He's not completely dead yet. Let's go. Ride the Wind Wolves which I've just tamed."

Lin Ye nodded and whistled.

Tap-tap-tap…

Five wind elemental energy wrapped Wind Wolves as large as oxen flew over.

They rubbed their heads against Lin Ye's legs affectionately and wagged her tail wildly.

"My Lord has learned beast taming?"

"It seems like his level isn't low too!"

Gran, Tru, and Adelia's eyes lit up. They had a newfound understanding of how powerful their Lord was.

"My… my lord, it's better for me to walk over. I have motion sickness."

Xun Mingyuan timidly said as he looked at the incomparably fierce Wind Wolf.

"Suit yourself."

Lin Ye acknowledged and led the three of them to the fishery.

The Wind Wolf was a high Class 3 Magical Beast, which was also of the wind attribute. Its speed was much faster than the Giant Earth Wolves.

In less than ten seconds, the four of them reached the resting area near the riverside fishery.

At this moment, this place was surrounded by native workers who were watching the commotion and patrolling soldiers who controlled the situation.

"Our Lord is here!"

"Get out of the way, don't block his path!"

"Those who disturb the Lord's mount will be locked up!"

Seeing the group of mighty Wind Wolves from afar, the patrol team quickly cleared out a three-metre wide passageway for them.

Moments later, Lin Ye and the other three jumped off the Wind Wolf's back and quickly walked to the scene.

Looking at Niu Wei who was lying in a pool of green blood, Lin Ye waved his hand and said, "Gran."

The latter immediately understood and went over to cast the Sacred Healing Spell.

The white light particles entered Niu Wei's body.

Very quickly, the blood stopped. Niu Wei opened one of his eyes and shouted sadly, "Lord… My Lord, save me!"

Lin Ye looked at Gran.

Gran shook his head. "It's hopeless. There's such a big hole in the head. It's terminal lucidity right now. Even with sacred healing, he can only live a few more minutes."

"…"

Niu Wei was so anxious that he cried. "No! It's not like that. Gran… Priest Gran, I think I can still be saved. Please save me!"

"Give up on treatment, child. This is just your hallucination. Other than Sacred Healing from experts like the pope and the archbishop or a Level 9 healing pill, no one can save you. Rest assured, the lord will bury you well."

Gran said with regret.

Both options, either of them, was a death sentence for Niu Wei.

Whoosh—

Instantly, large amounts of black emotional particles appeared above Niu Wei's head.

His eyes were bloodshot as he glared angrily at Zhang Liang, who was pinned to the ground by the patrolling soldiers. It was as if he wanted to tear into his flesh and drink his blood.

In the end, he even hated Lin Ye.

If not for this bastard, he would still be a lord of a territory.

Now that he was going to die anyway, he wasn't scared, opening his mouth to curse out.

"Gran, there's no need to treat him anymore." Lin Ye couldn't be bothered with such a person.

After losing the sacred healing of Gran, Niu Wei fell into unconsciousness soon, and his life seeped out of him at a speed visible to the naked eye.

After saying that, he walked over to Zhang Liang and squatted down. He asked, "What's your situation?"

"He killed my father. My Lord, let me go please. As long as I kill him, I'm willing to be your dog!"

Zhang Liang's eyes were red. As he spoke, his tears flowed down uncontrollably. "This dogsh*t. He wanted to run away by himself, but I wasn't willing to. He played dirty. While I was resting, he used my Civilization Archive to send a message to my family channel."

"He hinted to my father that I was captured by other lords and that my life was at stake."

"My dad was worried about me, so he wanted to come out and save me. He didn't expect to get bitten by a zombie on the way."

"He is lying in his graveyard waiting to die. My father had just built his bunker. He has no chance to kill zombies for any healing-type soldiers to drop. In two days, the corpse poison will act up and he will die…"

Got it.

Hearing this, Lin Ye finally understood the whole story.

Niu Wei, this fool, thought that he was smart and tried to hint at Zhang Liang's father to persuade Zhang Liang to escape with him.

In the end, he did not expect to cause this disaster and ended up harming Zhang Liang's father.

Now Niu Wei had to die for sure. As for Zhang Liang…

Lin Ye hesitated.

He was about to set out to clear the surrounding Level 1 Haunted Houses, and Zhang Liang's treasure hunting talent was a perfect match with Heart's Web.

According to the protagonist's mission, he should kill him straightaway and seize the treasure seeking talent.

"Kill him! Since his soul has already darkened, it's not safe to keep such a person by my side." Lin Ye sighed in his heart.

Zhang Liang, who was under his feet, seemed to sense something. His expression changed drastically. At first, he was horrified, but soon, he revealed an ecstatic look.

At the same time, Lin Ye's system sent a reward notification.

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Chapter 69: Making Use of the Bug, 199 'Hint' Talent Fragments!

Going back in time a little.

A few seconds ago, when Lin Ye was filled with killing intent, Zhang Liang's vision turned red.

His 'hint' talent kept sending warnings.

[Hint: Your lord is overwhelmed by greed and wants to kill you!]

[Hint: Give up your identity as a Lord and sacrifice your loyalty to the Lord Lin Ye. At the same time, cut 1% of the talent's fragment and give it to the Lord! This way, you have a high chance of obtaining the Lord's forgiveness!]

[Hint: Submit to the Lord and your father may have a chance at survival!]

[Final Hint: Give up your identity as a Lord. The 'Hint' talent's level will drop and you will become a Shattered. You will lose all hope of advancing!]

"Father will have a chance of survival? Is this… true?!"

The other three were ignored by Zhang Liang, and this was the most important one in his eyes.

He was overjoyed. "Sacrifice, I'll give all my loyalty! I want to become Boss Lin's right-hand man!"

At this moment, the lives of his family were more important than anything else.

As for the ambitions that were once burning…

Perhaps when he awakened his talent in the beginning he had some ambition, but over the past two days, he had been beaten down daily by Tru and the others, as well as the terrifying rate of development of Lin Ye.

His ambitions were almost completely eroded.

Among the many human subjects, he was the first to witness the rise of Lin Ye.

The terrifying drop rate of resources could be felt with just one look.

At this moment, he didn't want to think about anything else. He just wanted the Lord to be merciful and protect his family.

Although he did not know why the talent was so certain, he would rather believe that it was true.

After all, his talent had never disappointed him.

Thinking of this, his mind cleared up.

Everything was destined!

When he first met Lin Ye, his talent had already hinted at it once.

If he chose to submit, he would eventually become Lin Ye's right-hand man. Rather than that, he might as well become Lin Ye's loyal follower.

With that, he erased his identity as a Lord in his Civilization Archive and offered 100% loyalty to Lin Ye.

A moment later, Lin Ye received the gift and the system sent a reward.

[Congratulations to Survivor Lin Ye. You have obtained the loyalty of the human lord, Zhang Liang. Loyalty level is 100%. At the same time, as your first top-class talent loyalist, you will receive a portion of Zhang Liang's talent fragment.]

"You have obtained the top-class talent, Hint's fragment!"

Note: 'Hint' talent. It has powerful effects such as pre-warning, searching for treasures, predicting karma, etc.

100xReward.

100 top-class 'hint' talent fragments! (Shattered, unable to level. Combining the shattered pieces to its complete self will consume Zombie Souls)A complete 'hint' talent crystal!Randomly rewarded with a complete Talent Crystal (50% Normal Talent, 30% Medium Talent, 15% Higher Higher Talent, 4.9999% Top Talent, 0.0000001% God-level Talent)

F*ck!

So powerful!

'Hint' Talent?

This was actually a top-class talent!!!

It was one level higher than the Heart's Web Talent, second only to his God-tier Talent, 100xReward!

This was a huge profit!

Lin Ye was excited.

He conveniently excluded option 3. These kinds of surface things were completely useless.

If it was an ordinary trashy talent, he wouldn't mind giving it a try.

Using a top-class talent to gamble was stupid!

The only dilemma was…

After obtaining the Heart's Web from the Treasure Giving Boy, he suddenly had an idea.

With the aid of 100xReward, in this…

There seemed to be a bug!

If he chose 1, he could give the 100 fragments to others and kill them all. Then, he would have unlimited talent fragments.

After that, he can put the gathered fragments together again.

Perhaps, he could gather all the Talent Crystals in the shortest time possible and immediately become the protagonist of this season.

"Why don't we give it a try?"

Lin Ye was a little tempted and could not help but glance at Niu Wei who was only left with half a breath.

He was a dead man anyway. Be my tool and I'll give you a glorious burial later!

That's settled then.

"I choose option 1!"

As soon as he finished speaking, over 100 Talent Fragments appeared before his eyes.

"!!!"

Low-level native workers and soldiers were still ignorant, but Adelia, Gran, Tru, and the others were people who had seen a lot.

After a moment of confusion, their eyes widened.

Talent Crystal Fragments!!

The legendary Talent Crystal Fragments!!!

My god! Look at the glow! It's at least of high quality, yet there were so many of them!

"Rumble—"

The three of them involuntarily gulped.

Even though they were all at the Shattered level, if they were to assimilate it into their bodies, they would be able to become awakened individuals at least, and their battle prowess would definitely soar.

"My lord?"

At this moment, Gran noticed that Lin Ye had picked up one of them and was walking towards Niu Wei.

The next moment, his eyes widened.

"Don't do it, my Lord. This is a priceless Talent Crystal Fragment. It's a waste to use it on a person about to die!!!"

"Don't speak. I know what I'm doing."

Lin Ye glanced at him, grabbed Niu Wei's mouth and threw the talent fragment inside.

"Mm??"

Niu Wei, who already had half a breath left, experienced his second bout of terminal lucidity.

"Didn't I die?"

He looked up dazedly and opened his eyes.

What he saw was Lin Ye with an expectant face, glowing in the sunlight, followed by a glaring red warning.

[Hint: Your Lord has the intention to kill you. You will become a test subject and die without a doubt!]

[Hint: Your brain tissue has been completely destroyed. Vitality has decreased by 92%. You need a Class 9 Light Priest to cast their Sacred Healing on you to recover!]

"Talent? Hint? An Awakened!!!"

"Damn it, I must be the legendary protagonist. Before I died, I became an Awakened! This is the golden finger of the protagonist!"

"Hahaha, this talent is simply too amazing. He can even find treasures and warn others. That bastard Lin Ye must have also been an Awakened. Hehe, now that I'm on the same starting line as him, I'll surrender first and save my life. At the critical moment, I'll stab him in the back and steal everything from him. Perfect!"

"Niu Wei, you're really a genius!"

Just as Niu Wei was feeling pleased, his talent issued another warning.

[Hint: Your vitality is decreasing constantly, 7% 6% 5%…]

"Boss Lin Ye, my Lord, save me. I've awakened my talent. As long as you save me, I'll be your lackey. Hurry up and save me. I don't want to die. I'm still single. I haven't married. My Niu family has only one heir. I can't let my line end here!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Ye's cold face greeted him.

Under Heart's Web view.

This lad had a green halo above his head just now. It was obvious that he was begging for mercy on the surface, but in reality, he was mocking him in his heart.

He might be scolding him badly.

What a naughty little brat!

Master Lin doesn't believe you. Besides, he was already beaten up by Zhang Liang. Even Priest Gran couldn't save him. What could he do then?

Just accept your fate.

[Hint: Your vitality is decreasing constantly, 2% 1% 0, you are dead…]

"No!"

"I have just awakened my golden finger. I haven't become the main character yet!!!"

"I can't accept this. Zhang Liang, you were the one who caused this. F*ck your ancestors!"

At the last second, Niu Wei's eyes widened in horror. He revealed his longing for the world of living and let out his final roar.

Lin Ye could not care less and quickly searched for the talent fragment which dropped.

"You have obtained a 'hint' talent fragment!"

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Chapter 70: On the Market Page, Million Likes Mission!

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

"You have obtained the top-class talent, Hint's fragment!"

100xReward.

1. 100 top-class 'hint' talent fragments! (Shattered, unable to level)

2. A complete 'hint' talent crystal!

3. Randomly rewarded with a complete Talent Crystal (50% Normal Talent, 30% Medium Talent, 15% Higher Higher Talent, 4.9999% Top Talent, 0.0000001% God-level Talent)

"Success! Success! The bug is actually real!!!"

Lin Ye's blood pumped in excitement.

As long as he chose 1, he would get 199 pieces of the 'hint' talent fragments which he obtained from Zhang Liang.

The bug had already been confirmed. If it was refreshed again, there would be a total of 199 fragments. The reward would be 1,900 fragments.

Heavens!

He was going to take flight!

"I choose option 1."

Lin Ye spoke without hesitation.

Whoosh—

Another white rain of light descended, and a hundred crystal fragments fell to the ground.

"I'm going to quickly grind before the system sees this!"

Lin Ye was cackling maniacally inside.

It was a race against time. There was no time to care about the 100 Talent Fragments which dropped on the ground.

He grabbed one of them and prepared to find the next human tool.

However, things didn't go as planned. The system's voice sounded again.

[Congratulations to Survivor Lin Ye. You have successfully discovered a bug in the system. As your reward for discovering it, you will not be held accountable for your vile actions of making use of the bug. Furthermore, the talent fragments that you have obtained will belong to you.]

[The system is fixing the bug right now. Every talent fragment will be 99% damaged when it drops. If it is dropped more than three times, it will automatically disappear.]

[Thank you Survivor Lin Ye for your friendly cooperation. I hope you will work harder in the future!]

"???"

Lin Ye was stunned. What was it playing at?

It was fixed just like that?

You must be targeting me on purpose!

Every drop would be 99% damaged, which was equivalent to 100xReward.

"Dog system, get out here. If you don't give me an explanation, this matter will not end!"

Lin Ye angrily shouted in his heart, as he crazily pinged for the system.

System: "…"

After hesitating for a moment, the system decided to show some respect to the richest human lord of the season.

"Survivor, how do you wish to resolve this?"

"Compensate me!!!"

In his heart, Lin Ye thought of a motion picture of him slamming the table and roaring in anger. He argued, "I used my own ability to grind for benefits using the bug. Even if you already fixed it, it's considered a huge contribution. You want to send me on my merry way with just one merit? Let me tell you, that's impossible. Do you still want me to recharge my points? Do you still want me to kill zombies?"

"I don't care. You have to give me an explanation!"

Tick—

Time passed quietly, and the space instantly became silent.

Lin Ye's expression was firm, and his powerful will suppressed the roaring blood in his body. He showed a relaxed exterior, as if victory was within his grasp.

After a long while, the system finally gave in.

System: "Alright, as compensation, the market page that can only be opened seven days later after the first zombie wave ends will be released to you in advance!"

"Wait a moment, what is the market page?" Lin Ye hesitated. It sounded pretty worthless to him.

The system explained, "The market page, as the name suggests, is a trading place. When the market page is opened, you will be able to trade across territories within the region. There are two modes. As for specific gameplay instructions, you can choose when it is released."

A trade market!!!

Upon hearing this, Lin Ye understood what was going on, and was slightly surprised.

In other words, as long as the region was large enough, he could sell equipment, weapons, and other resources to his family at an extremely low price.

In that case, there would be no need to worry about his parents and sister's safety during the zombie wave four days later.

At the same time, he would be able to develop without any worries.

"Alright, this will do then. Let me access it immediately!" Lin Ye hurriedly said.

System: " We cannot for the time being. Even if I give you permission, there are prerequisites that you have to fulfill. It's a market. If you don't have popularity, how can you have a market? Therefore, you need to accumulate popularity to unlock it."

"Popularity?" Lin Ye raised his eyebrows.

He had heard of loyalty and reputation points, but this was the first time he had heard of popularity.

System: "Popularity is the core measurement for a market's range."

"In other words, the higher my popularity, the larger the area covered by the market?" Lin Ye caught the key information.

System: "Yes. As for the method to obtain popularity, we will send it to you as a mission."

After saying that, Lin Ye heard a message from the system.

[Congratulations to Survivor Lin Ye. You have received a popularity challenge mission. Send a short video to the national channel.]

[Mission Requirement: You need to obtain more than a million likes.]

[Friendly Hint: Dislikes will offset the number of likes in a ratio of 1:2]

[Effective Time: 1 day. If you succeed, you will unlock the market page. If you fail, the market page will be activated according to the normal schedule]

"This is too much. Even if dislikes can offset the number of likes, it shouldn't be in the ratio of 1:2. At least be fair. Let's do a 1:1." Lin Ye was speechless.

System: "You can choose to reject the mission."

"Fine, you win." Lin Ye threw down a vicious sentence and quickly chose to confirm and accept the mission.

System: "Can we leave now?"

"Wait, take care of this for me." Lin Ye pointed at the 199 talent fragments scattered on the ground.

System: "What do you mean?"

"Combine it into 100 fragments for me. If you had appeared earlier, I would have chosen 2 and taken the complete Talent Crystal. Now, I have to spend 100,000 Zombie Souls to combine them into a complete 'Hint' talent."

Lin Ye said righteously, "Do you think I'm stupid? This is not a small sum and it's your fault, so you should be the one paying."

"…"

The system was speechless. It did not seem to want to continue communicating with Lin Ye.

It simply said 'as you wish' and disappeared without a trace.

As soon as it finished speaking, a strand of ethereal three colored divine radiance descended onto the 100 Talent Fragments.

Whoosh—

As the light flickered, a complete Talent Crystal that emitted a three-colored luster appeared.

Lin Ye's fingers touched it.

"You have obtained a complete top-class talent crystal—'Hint'!"

100xReward.

1. 100 Complete top-class talent crystals—'Hint'!

2. Demigod-class…

"Ding… met with an unknown energy obstruction. 100xReward cancelled! '

"System, f*ck you!"

Lin Ye cursed under his breath. He hadn't expected this stingy system to take advantage of him.

As for the words 'demigod-class',

Was it talking about demigod-class talent?

From the looks of it, my 100xReward is quite a high class talent. It's a tier higher than top class.

Yup, very good. Fantastic.

It would be best if I was the only one in the world who had a god class talent.

Keeping these thoughts to himself for the time being, he began to sort through his gains this time.

Even though he had been scammed by the system, he had gained a lot.

Not only did he obtain a complete top-class talent, he also had 99 talent fragments.

Including the semi-finished product, Zhang Liang, he could form a treasure-seeking team.

In the future, when the territory became larger, he would be able to sit safely in his lair and leisurely locate the direction of the treasures. The specifics of the treasure hunt would then be handed over to the treasure-seeking team.

Perfect coordination!

Lin Ye thought happily.

Chapter 71: Testing the 'Hint' Talent!

After receiving the entirety of the 'hint' talent, Lin Ye opened the talent's introduction.

Talent: Hint

Grade: Top (Grade Upgrade Method: Absorbing Energy from Talent Fragments of the same grade)

Level: 1 (Increases area of territory, the higher the level of the bunker, the higher the number of Zombie Souls it may consume. With every increase, the talent will be enhanced)

Ability: Hint, Warning, Treasure Seeking, Karma Prediction, etc. (Current effective radius is 100 meters)

Coincidentally, the system sent a notification.

"Friendly Hint: Your bunker has reached Level 6. By using 120,000 Zombie Souls, your talent can be instantly upgraded to Level 6."

"Current number of Zombie Souls is insufficient. Please recharge as soon as possible!"

"It actually costs 120,000 Souls. As expected of a top-class talent. The cost of leveling it up is almost twice that of the Heart's Web!"

Lin Ye took a look. Not only was he not upset at the high cost of Zombie Souls needed, he was actually overjoyed by the news.

He had 100xReward. For now, he had no interest in currency or equipment.

On the contrary, he was curious about these peerless talents.

It was a pity that he had just emptied his inventory by spending over a hundred thousand zombie souls and could not level the talent up for the time being.

However, it was not that there was no other way. He could just destroy one of the haunted houses later to get enough.

Before leaving, he instructed Lin One and the others to remove half of the zombie converters from the territory.

When the time came, he would bury them around the Haunted Houses. Once he cleared them, he would convert the corpses immediately. He would kill the zombies and convert them simultaneously without wasting time.

Also, there was a mission from the system – to make a video with millions of likes.

It felt like something big was about to happen.

The Zombie Souls, treasure chests, and supplies all over the ground were videoed.

At the end, he even used the special skill of the Level 2 Lord's Skin, Flying Meteor, to finish the video.

A million likes were a piece of cake.

A smile appeared on Lin Ye's face. "Forget it. Let me try the 'Hint' talent first."

With that, he activated the talent according to the description.

Whoosh—

In an instant, pitch black energy flowed out from the depths of his pupils, turning the white of his eyes black.

This state was similar to Heart's Web and felt really strange.

It was somewhat similar to a domain. With him as the center, everything within a hundred meters was like an electrocardiogram, sending back all sorts of information from time to time.

"Search for animals!" he chanted in his heart.

"Hint: There are 37,824 Red Striped Ants in the grass 72 meters southeast of you."

"Hint: There are 5 three foot long blue carp playing by the river 97 meters southwest of you."

….

His field of vision changed, and Lin Ye activated Heart's Web again.

Sure enough, in the southeast direction, there were large numbers of red-striped ants 72 meters away, and there were blue carps 97 meters southwest.

After a few tries, he found out that the accuracy was almost 100%.

However, Lin Ye was not satisfied.

This function was similar to Heart's Web. The only difference was that Heart's Web ability covered the entire map and swept across a larger area.

As for 'Hint', it was like a search bar. If you wanted to look for something, you had to do it one by one.

"I'm going to try to use it to look for treasures!" Lin Ye said again.

Hint's ability to search for treasures could be considered its greatest attraction to Lin Ye.

A moment later, he scanned the area within a hundred meters and received a message through his black pupils.

"Hint: 60 meters away from you, Human Lord Xun Mingyuan is running at a speed of 4m/s, slower than the average human. He has a bronze treasure chest hidden in his Civilization Archive."

"Hint: There are no treasure chests in this area."

"Xun Mingyuan?" Lin Ye raised his eyebrows and asked Tru to move aside.

As expected, Xun Mingyuan, who was not riding the Wind Wolf, was panting heavily as he rushed over.

When he arrived, he was still bent over with his hands supporting his waist. He panted as he looked at the lifeless Niu Wei regretfully.

"He really died!" He sighed.

After arriving in this world, human lives seemed to have become worthless. Others had also become indifferent to deaths.

As he finished speaking, he suddenly felt that something was wrong.

His lord's eyes turned completely black, just like when Zhang Liang used his talent. He was still staring at him blankly.

"My Lord, why are you looking at me?" He smiled awkwardly.

His black eyes were really scary.

"Old Xun, I heard that you hid a bronze treasure chest in your Civilization Archive?" Lin Ye asked with a smile.

"No, of course not!" Xun Mingyuan hurriedly shook his head as anxiety coursed through his veins.

God, how did the Lord find out?

"Oh, you really have one." Lin Ye's eyes lit up.

He had two talents activated right now.

He could see large amounts of purple and gray emotional particles coming from Xun Mingyuan's head.

Purple represented anxiousness, while gray indicated that he was lying.

It was obvious at a glance that this person was not honest as well.

"Old Xun, you've lost your spot to enter the Four Sacred Halls tonight." Lin Ye's smile vanished as he spoke calmly.

"???" Xun Mingyuan was shocked.

The outside world was completely unaware of the news of the Four Sacred Halls, but it had long since spread throughout Lin Ye's territory.

At midnight today, which would also be a few minutes after the protection mechanism ended.

Four Sacred Halls would descend all over the world. This was a great opportunity for the rise of the human lords.

Among them, the most important was the Reflection Hall.

It was said that there was a high chance that it would help Human Lords awaken their talents.

Before this, it was fine if he didn't know about it. But now that he knew, wasn't not letting him go worse than killing him?

Xun Mingyuan was no fool. He immediately realized that his lie had been seen through by the lord.

He gritted his teeth and stomped his feet. With the mindset that he would not be able to get better things without sacrificing something close to him, he said loudly, "My Lord is wise. I do have a bronze treasure chest here. I was just joking with you."

"Treasure Chests belong to those who are capable. Only someone as handsome, generous, and open-minded as this Lord is worthy of having such a noble object."

As he spoke, he took out the treasure chest which he had kept for a long time and said solemnly, "I'm willing to offer it up to you!"

You're indirectly scolding me!

Lin Ye cast a sidelong glance at Xun Mingyuan, looking at him cursing at him for his lowly interests and lousy character.

If this Great Lin had a lousy character, I would've left you to die.

Furthermore, as the lord of these people,

Wasn't what's yours mine?

Why would I need you to offer me something that was supposed to belong to me in the first place?

People who didn't know better would think I owed you a favor.

"Old Xun, have some steamed buns and pickled vegetables for lunch. Beef instant noodles are too nutritious. Your body is so weak that you almost collapsed from exhaustion after running for a few hundred meters. I'm really afraid that you won't be able to handle it and it would be a pity if you were to die. My toilet project still needs someone of your calibre to complete it."

Lin Ye patted Xun Mingyuan's shoulder and took the bronze treasure box.

"Ah, this…" Xun Mingyuan revealed an awkward expression. He knew that his thoughts had been seen through.

At this moment, he was both nervous and worried.

He was afraid that in the future, the 'generous' Lord Lin would make things difficult for him.

"I'm just joking, look at how scared you are." Lin Ye smiled and ignored him, temporarily putting away the bronze treasure chest.

At this moment, his interest in the treasure chest was not as great as his curiosity with the 'Hint' talent.

He had just tested the search and treasure hunting ability but he was still lacking the warning and karma prediction aspects of it.

"Adelia, go shoot me from a thousand meters away!" he suddenly said.

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Chapter 72: Extraordinary Karma Prediction!

"My lord?"

Adelia's face was full of questions and she thought that she had misheard.

"If I tell you to go, just go. Don't use the power of the wind element. Just use the basic strength you have as a Class 4 to shoot at me." Lin Ye said calmly.

"But…" Adelia felt so wronged she was about to cry.

If you want to kill yourself, don't make me do it. I'm a Class 4 Elemental Ranger after all.

Even if she only used her basic strength, she could still shoot through that small body of his.

She couldn't bear to see such a generous Lord die!

"Women are always so fussy. Can you be more decisive?"

Lin Ye frowned and waved his hand. "Don't worry and go. I'll get Tru to guard by my side. If I can't dodge it, he'll move me."

"Oh, so that's the case." Adelia was relieved.

Right now, Tru was also a Class 4 soldier. With battle aura protecting his body, if she didn't use her elemental power, she probably wouldn't be able to break through his defense.

"Lady Adelia, just shoot as hard as you can. My body will be the Lord's strongest shield."

Tru thumped his chest with confidence.

"One moment."

Adelia nodded and rode a Wind Wolf. With a few leaps, she soon arrived at a place a thousand meters away.

She took out the Wind Splitting Bow, drew the bow, and shot the arrow in one go!

Swish!

The arrow pierced through the air, turning into a black streak as it shot straight towards Lin Ye who was a thousand meters away.

"It's coming!" Lin Ye narrowed his eyes, his heart beating slightly faster.

Fortunately, his Heart's Web was Level 6. While strengthening his senses, it also slightly improved his physical fitness.

With his powerful vision, he could clearly see the trajectory of the arrow.

In fact, he could easily dodge an arrow that did not contain any elemental power just by relying on Heart's Web.

But that was not his purpose.

"It's going to reach! 300 meters, 200 meters, 100 meters!"

In an instant, three urgent notifications echoed in his mind.

[Hint: A powerful long-range attack arrow is coming to you at a fast speed. Strength: Level 4. Estimated to arrive in two seconds.]

[Hint: Dodge on your own towards the right side. With your constitution, there is a 90% chance of not getting hurt and a 10% chance of a scratch.]

[Hint: There is no need to panic. With the accumulated battle aura in the soldier beside you, there is a 100% chance that he will block it for you. The broken arrow will land 50cm away from your feet.]

The voice had just ended.

Seeing that Lin Ye had no reaction, an orange-red battle aura rose around Tru.

The blade flashed.

Three meters away, the arrow was cut in half.

Swish! Swish!

The two pieces of the broken arrow changed direction and landed 50cm away from Lin Ye.

F*ck!

Impressive!

Lin Ye cheered in his heart. With this, it would be difficult for him to die in the future.

Right now, the talent was still at Level 1. Once he obtained enough Zombie Souls, he could level it up to Level 6, Level 7, or even higher.

That would be insane.

"My Lord, were you scared just now?"

Tru grinned, showing two large dark yellow teeth, and chuckled.

"Did I look like I was afraid?" Lin Ye's face was full of disdain.

"My Lord's mentality is unparalleled in this world!" Priest Gran complimented happily.

From the corner of his eye, he glanced at Zhang Liang and the talent fragments which were kept by the Lord just now.

He could vaguely guess the answer.

He was even more certain now that the Lord was the Child of Destiny.

"Words cannot be trusted."

Lin Ye glanced at him. Did he think that his Heart's Web was just for show?

"Hehe, this subordinate is an honest person and never lies." Gran revealed a brilliant smile.

As long as I don't feel embarrassed, the embarrassed ones will be others. He smiled at his Lord cheerily.

"Tsk, you're the only honest one then!"

Lin Ye laughed. He was in a good mood.

Although it was a lie, who didn't like hearing nice things about them? Furthermore, this 'hint' talent was even more impressive than he had imagined.

Zhang Liang, this silly boy, if not for his unlucky start, he might have really become a massive lord in the future.

This ability was too all encompassing and full of bugs!

Just the first three abilities were enough to make countless people envious, but this fourth one.

He was a little confused. Karma prediction?

There was no description for this section, nor was there anything about the way to use it.

After thinking for a moment, Lin Ye looked at Zhang Liang and signaled for the soldiers escorting Zhang Liang to release him. He asked, "What is karma prediction? Do you know it?"

"I don't."

Zhang Liang shook his head, but his eyes were bright. He said excitedly, "But just now, I accidentally triggered it once."

"How did it trigger? What hint did you get?" Lin Ye's eyes lit up.

Zhang Liang frowned and recalled seriously. He hesitated before he started, "Back then, I was fueled by my hatred and sadness. I hated Niu Wei for harming my father, and I also felt guilty for causing my father to be bitten by a zombie. Therefore, I screamed crazily in my heart, that as long as my father can be safe, I would be willing to give up everything."

"And then I got a hint from my talent."

"Continue." Seeing that Zhang Liang had stopped there, Lin Ye was so anxious to know more that he wanted to give his head a buff.

"Yes, my lord!"

Zhang Liang's expression turned serious as he knelt down and kowtowed. He said sincerely, "My lord, the karma prediction shown by my talent said that as long as I offer my loyalty to you, you will be able to save my father. Please, no matter what, you must save him!"

"Weirdos. All of you like to kneel, right? The men of China's Nine States are all tough and unyielding men. How can they kneel so casually? Of course, it's fine to kneel to me, but if I ever see you kneeling to others, I will break your legs."

Lin Ye gave Tru a look. Tru, who immediately understood, helped Zhang Liang up.

As he spoke, he was also pondering over Zhang Liang's words.

Becoming loyal to him was definitely true, but it was a little confusing.

Karma prediction. The starting point was on Zhang Liang, but the ending point was with me.

Save Zhang Liang's father? How do I save him? I have no idea.

Suddenly, a thought flashed through his mind.

The market page?!!

Right, that must be it.

I was the only one in the world who could open the market page to sell things.

When the area expanded sufficiently, the market might cover the area where Zhang Liang's father was in.

The corpse poison would flare up in two days.

Before that, he could sell healing medicine to Zhang Liang's father through the market function.

Wouldn't that solve the problem perfectly?

There was still the question of how karma prediction was triggered.

Was it related to willpower or emotional turmoil?

He tried to recite the name of his family in his heart, and his willpower surged.

Lin Jianguo, crisis/safety…

Zhang Cuiling, crisis/safety…

Lin Wei, crisis/safety…

A moment later, he received a notification from the talent.

"Hint: Sensing the bond of the survivor to your family, your father will face a small crisis four days later!"

"Four days later, will that be during the zombie wave?"

Lin Ye frowned slightly.

After passing his tests, the trust he had in this talent was almost at 80% already.

But this was too unbelievable.

It was hard to tell what it relied on. Moreover, he always sought after stability. He had to ensure that it was foolproof!

Otherwise, it would be very easy to make errors in judgment in the future.

He would start with Zhang Liang's father then.

If it was true, as long as he opened the market page and saved his father, it could be confirmed to be foolproof.

At that time, he would have enough time to change his own father's fate!

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Chapter 73: Gather at the Plaza and Moving Out To Attack!

After understanding these trivial matters, Lin Ye made a decision.

He looked at Zhang Liang and chuckled. "Don't worry, your father will be fine."

"Does the lord really have a way to save my dad?" Zhang Liang's eyes were filled with hope.

Although the 'hint' talent had already given him a hint, he still wasn't confident and was extremely flustered.

"I guess." Lin Ye didn't have a definite answer either. Everything was just speculation now.

As soon as he finished speaking, he seemed to have thought of something and asked, "Which one of you has the best filming skills?"

"It should be Dong Wei. That guy used to be an internet manager and has studied all kinds of device maintenance. He's also knowledgeable about video cameras. Previously, the beef ham instant noodles I sent on the World Channel were taken by him."

Xun Mingyuan interjected, "His combination of the angle and color is simply too great. Just looking at it will make one's appetite increase."

Dong Wei?

Lin Ye nodded. He remembered the lad.

He was tall, but his face was slightly pale and unhealthy looking, as if he was malnourished.

"Alright, it's him then."

Lin Ye smiled mysteriously. "In a while, call Dong Wei, Jiang Gong, Zhang Bao'er, Chu Meng, and Liu Yuan. If they perform well, I'll give you guys some benefits tonight.

"Benefits? The Four Sacred Halls?!" Xun Mingyuan's eyes lit up.

Zhang Liang could not help but swallow.

There were many underworld people with big mouths in the territory. Even the human lords knew about that piece of news.

"Make a guess."

Lin Ye smiled with narrowed eyes and ordered, "Before that, hand over all of your Civilization Archives to Zhang Liang for safekeeping."

"Don't do that, my Lord!"

Xun Mingyuan's face fell as he spoke pitifully. "I want to chat with my girlfriend."

"What is this? You have a girlfriend even when you are like this?!"

Zhang Liang widened his eyes and said in disbelief, "How blind is she! Old Xun, be honest, were you a rich second-generation heir back on Earth?"

"Have you ever seen a rich second-generation heir working as a warehouse manager?" Xun Mingyuan rolled his eyes and said proudly, "My girlfriend and I are childhood sweethearts. In this day and age, you have to start from a young age to find a girlfriend."

"That dog sh*t luck. Fine, I'll admit defeat!" Zhang Liang said sourly.

Now that he knew that his father had a chance to be saved, his personality returned to how it was before.

The emotional particles that indicated the blacking of his soul also dissipated at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Alright, cut the crap. Hand over your Civilization Archive first. I'll give you time to chat with your family and girlfriend every day. However, before your loyalty reaches 100%, you'll have to be temporarily supervised. Otherwise, all of you will cause trouble like Niu Wei. If that's the case, I might as well just kill all of you since it would be easier for me."

With that, Lin Ye looked kindly at Xun Mingyuan. "Old Xun, I won't force you. Which do you choose?"

"This…" Xun Mingyuan smiled awkwardly.

To be honest, they were different from Niu Wei in that they did not have much ambition.

Other than the initial resistance they had, he felt pretty good staying by Lin Ye.

As long as he didn't cause any trouble, Lin Ye's treatment was impeccable.

He went to the world and regional channels every few hours to show off. On the public chat, groups of people would be shouting for him to carry them or to spare them a few mouthfuls of food.

Every time he saw this, a warehouse manager like him who had accomplished nothing, could not help but feel excited.

After a moment of hesitation, he gritted his teeth and said, "Then I'd better offer my loyalty. Otherwise, my girlfriend would worry if she sent a message during the regulation period and I didn't reply."

"Stop flexing your relationship. Hurry up." Lin Ye glared at him. He seriously suspected that this brat was deliberately showing off.

"Right away, right away." Xun Mingyuan laughed.

A moment later, the lord tag on his body disappeared, replaced by the citizen of the territory tag.

On the other side, Lin Ye also received a system notification.

[Congratulations to Survivor Lin Ye. You have received the loyalty of the Human Lord, Xun Mingyuan. His loyalty is at 100% and became your loyalist!]

"Very good."

Lin Ye revealed a smile. This was a pretty good sign.

There were many possibilities held by both humans and the people of the underworld. There was no harm in taking in more loyalists.

Of course, for those who were not his loyalists. Well, too bad for them, they would just be prisoners and work for him.

"Zhang Liang, I'll leave the mission of getting the Civilization Archives to you. The conditions are just as I said. If they are willing to pledge their loyalty, then so be it. If they aren't willing, then so be it as well. Our Lin Clan's territory doesn't lack those two or three minions. It's only because we are in the early stages. Otherwise, I might not even want them."

After instructing him, Lin Ye dispersed the surrounding native workers who were watching.

Before he left, he glanced at Niu Wei who had died with his eyes wide open and said, "Tru, find a random grave to bury him."

Then, he turned around and walked towards the bunker.

The sun was shining brightly and it was almost lunchtime.

Thousands of people happily ate a big pot of rice. Lin Ye found Lin Dachui and began to do calculations for the equipment and supplies for the soldiers.

Lin Dachui wiped the sweat off his forehead and forced a smile. "My lord, this subordinate has let you down. Class 2 equipment is quite lacking. Even though you've given us enough resources, our manpower and blueprints are extremely limited. There are still more than 1,200 Class 1 soldiers who are unable to equip themselves."

"You don't need to blame yourself. This is a problem from my side." Lin Ye waved his hand and didn't blame him. He continued, "Since they don't have any equipment, there's no need for them to send themselves to their deaths. I'll leave the soldiers without equipment to guard the territory. On one hand, they can guard the territory, and on the other hand, they can continue to enter the barracks for training."

"If I need reinforcements, I'll send people back. But before that, get the other blacksmiths to speed up their progress. Don't slack off."

"Also, you will come to the frontline with us later."

"Me?" This time, Lin Dachui was a bit surprised. He was just a backstage worker. What was the use of him going to the front lines?

"Four Sacred Halls." Lin Ye rolled his eyes at him.

"Many thanks for the Lord's generous gift!" Lin Dachui was so excited that he almost drooled.

The four Sacred Halls were different from others. What he yearned for the most was Elevation Hall of the four Sacred Halls.

From the elders of his clan, he knew the importance of the Elevation Hall to a blacksmith.

If he could successfully pass the trial, perhaps he could advance from a blacksmith to a better occupation.

Occupations like engineers, researchers, inventors, etc.

At that time, no matter who it was, his lineage would definitely be ranked at the top in front of the billions of blacksmith families and bring honor to their ancestors.

At the thought of this, tears streamed down Lin Dachui's face as he called out to his lord.

"That's enough. We're family. Damn, how long has it been since you've showered? Don't come near me." Lin Ye pushed away Lin Dachui with a disgusted expression.

As he spoke, he took out Xun Mingyuan's bronze treasure chest and opened it.

"You have obtained a Class 2 Blue Tier weapon—Black Iron Spear!"

100xReward.

100 Class 2 Blue Tier Weapon—Black Iron Spear1 Class 4 Silver Tier Weapon—Purple Golden Snake ScepterRandom Weapon

Without any hesitation, Lin Ye chose option 1.

It was impossible to guard a territory without weapons.

After the incident with the five-man team, he did not dare to be careless.

If their homes were raided again and one thousand people lost to a hundred people. Wouldn't that be a huge slap in the face?

Lin Dachui would be the one to distribute these weapons.

After he was done, Lin Ye walked out of the Armory and went to the square platform.

Before this, Tru had heard his instructions and was long waiting for him there.

Including the thousand veterans that he had brought along, there were more than 2,700 new recruits.

A total of 3,753 people!

All of them were to gather at the plaza, ready for a battle!

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Chapter 74: Filming, We Are Professionals!

Thousands of people stood outside the territory.

From afar, it looked like a long dragon with 'blue skin'.

The team had already started to take shape and had great combat strength.

Amongst them were three Class 4 Jobs and two warriors.

They were the Class 4 Wind Wolf Rider, Tru, and the Class 4 Elemental Ranger, Adelia.

The remaining person was also the team's only nanny.

Class 4 Light Priest—Gran.

Below Class 4.

The Class 3 Wolf Cavalry consisted of Luo Feng, Su Yu, and Xu Que as their leaders, with a total of 17 people.

Class 3 Wind Wolf Cavalry totaled 50 men, while there were 16 Class 3 Iron-Blooded Horse Riders.

A total of 83 people.

There were 155 Class 2 Soldiers who were also riding Iron-Blooded Horses.

The remaining 29 horses were left in his territory.

Just in case.

As for the 2,000 plus Class 1 soldiers and rangers…

Lin Ye ranked them according to their physical fitness stated in the archives.

For the top one thousand people.

There were given Ferghana Horses or ordinary horses, equipped with mounts and weapons according to their strength.

The soldiers who didn't make it would all become foot soldiers.

It wasn't that Lin Ye was prejudiced, looking down on these weak individuals. It was that he simply didn't have enough resources, or else he would have turned them all into cavalry soldiers.

It would be best if they were all Class 3 wolves as well.

In the early stages, if blueprints of higher class soldiers didn't drop, it would be a disaster of catastrophic level.

When that happened, nothing could flourish.

Of course, that was something that he could only keep in mind and continue to face reality.

When Lin Ye stood on the platform of the field, this platform was actually the huge corpse pit that they had dug previously. After obtaining Heart's Web, he felt that it was too close to the bunker.

The stench was overwhelming, so he filled the pit up and moved the Level 3 Zombie Converter elsewhere.

This place was then left empty. When Tru challenged the new recruits, it turned into a sort of training field.

Standing on the platform, looking at the 1,000-man team that was all equipped with Class 2 Blue Tier equipment, Lin Ye felt a boundless sense of heroism.

With such a fine and elite army, who could fight against him!

"Hey, wait. My lord, this is a wonderful scene. Yes, lift your chin and keep your eyes on the sky at a 45-degree angle. Keep your gaze focused. With the attitude of the lord looking down on the world, smile a little. That will make you look approachable. After all, we're shooting a video and it needs to be popular…"

"Sister Bao'er, Little Meng, go and help the lord tidy up his appearance. The lord is not good at smiling so he may seem a little cold. Help the lord with his smile…"

At this moment, Dong Wei was squatting in the corner of the school field with his Civilization Archive. He instructed Lin Ye so that he could create the best video.

Jiang Gong, Liu Yuan, and Wang Qiang, who knew how to operate the excavator, were assisting from the side.

Zhang Bao'er and Chu Meng suppressed their laughter. When they heard Dong Wei's words, they quickly ran to Lin Ye's side and helped him tidy up his appearance.

She even pointed at his face from time to time, teaching him how to smile more naturally.

At this moment, Lin Ye was like a robot, allowing them to have their way with him.

If this was any other time, they would have been beaten to a pulp.

As to why it was currently so harmonious.

It was because before they gathered, they had given their loyalty to Lin Ye under the coercion of Zhang Liang and Xun Mingyuan.

Now that they were family, there was naturally no estrangement between them.

"Ah Wei, are you sure you can do it?"

Lin Ye frowned and said unhappily, "We can just shoot a few scenes. This is not a movie or television drama. It's just a short video. The main part is the killing of zombies and the clearing of a Haunted House. We just have to show a spectacular sight. While the protection mechanism is still in place, we can scam some likes. Rather than wasting time here, we might as well leave early."

"That's different."

Dong Wei shook his head like a rattle drum. He looked at Lin Ye seriously and continued, "My lord, we are professionals in filming. Let me tell you. Even the simplest short videos have their own rigorous criteria to meet."

"There are those green-eyed people in the Regional Channel."

"Hmph, don't be fooled by their praises. If he really uploaded a video of him killing zombies and blowing up a Haunted House, they might turn their opinions on us."

"When the time comes, without even mentioning a million likes, it will be difficult to even guarantee a positive number of likes."

"Therefore, we have to shoot with our hearts. That way, we can appear sincere. It's best if we can make it look like a big production."

"Remember this. Ignite. Ignite those flames. That is the core!"

He swept his gaze across his surroundings and said regretfully, "There are enough people, but this background won't do. If there are more than ten flags, bonfires, background music, and a few deafening war drums on the platform, this scene will be more spectacular."

"Troublesome," Lin Ye muttered, but his actions were quick.

He directly threw out a large number of things from the Reputation Shop.

Previously, regardless of whether it was useful or not, he had bought many Chinese products.

Among them were flags, war drums, old-fashioned cassette player, and so on that Dong Wei mentioned.

"That's all I have now. I can't afford anything else."

"Wow, the lord is impressive."

Dong Wei's eyes lit up. He was just shooting his mouth off and saying those for fun.

Who would have thought that his lord was so resourceful and could source such strange and old items in this godforsaken place?

These should be from the Reputation Shop!

Yesterday, Sister Bao'er and the rest seemed to have obtained sanitary pads from the lord.

He didn't know if there were any video playing devices like an iPad.

When it came to that, he would organize some good movies and enjoy the movie with a few others at the graveyard…

That scene was great just thinking about it!

He was thinking happily but when he turned around, he was kicked by Lin Ye.

"Hurry up and get to work. If you're done, go blow up the Haunted House. We still have to fight for the Four Sacred Halls at midnight. We don't have time to waste here," Lin Ye said unhappily.

"Immediately, immediately. My lord, please don't worry. Wang Qiang and I are known as the Crouching Dragon and Phoenixes of the Men. We are extremely reliable and will definitely not make any mistakes."

Dong Wei patted his chest and assured.

After saying that, he threw the war drum to Wang Qiang and got him to find a few strong new recruits.

He found good spots on the platform and prepared to play the drums.

He threw the large flag to Zhang Bao'er and instructed, "Sister Bao'er, your handwriting is beautiful. Make the 'Lin Clan' sign look better. Don't use a gel pen since the font will be too small. Use a large carbonized pen made with a firestick."

"If it's not clear enough, pour the ink out from the gel pen and dip the firestick in it to write. It's best if it looks a little rough so that it will look imposing."

"Okay, I'll try my best." Zhang Bao'er held the flag and tried to think of a solution.

The next problem was the background music. There was actually no other choice.

There were only a few old songs given complementary in the cassette player.

For example, 'Romance in the Rain', 'The Two Tigers', 'Sad Pacific Ocean', 'Patriotism to the Country', 'Borrowing another 500 years from the Heavens'…

"Patriotism to the Country," Lin Ye said.

This song was one of his father's favorite songs, and it was the only song he could remember.

His father would probably be able to see the video after they posted it so he hoped that it would give him the strength to continue fighting.

"Sure, this song is inspiring and very suitable."

Dong Wei nodded in agreement with Lin Ye's choice.

"Alright, everyone, move. Props team or whoever that is, light up the bonfire! Light up the colored lights. We have everything now. Stand straight!"

"Work!"

Chapter 75: Ghost Bomber Gang?

After tidying up for more than half an hour, more than a dozen flags with the words 'Lin Clan' written on them were created.

"Finally completed!"

Zhang Bao'er heaved a sigh of relief and casually threw the large 'firestick' to the side and wiped the sweat off her face.

"Not bad, you've practiced well." Lin Ye took a look.

On the flag was the two characters 'Lin Clan'. The characters were written in one smooth stroke in a bold yet elegant manner.

Even though he did not know much about calligraphy, he could tell that Zhang Bao'er was definitely not bad at it.

"I'm still far from good."

Zhang Bao'er shook her head humbly as if she had thought of something. She sighed softly and said, "I learned my calligraphy from grandfather. He was the president of the Calligraphy Association of the largest Song House in China. He taught me all kinds of calligraphy since I was young. I've practiced for more than twenty years, but I've only gotten a basic grasp of it. I've truly let my grandfather down."

"Your grandfather descended as well?" Lin Ye asked as if he had sensed something.

"No, he didn't."

Zhang Bao'er looked up with a bitter expression. "Half a year before the descend, my grandfather died of cancer. Now, only my mother, brother, and I are left on the family channel."

"What about your father?" Dong Wei, who was also resting, interjected.

"Father… is dead. He died on the first day of his descent…"

At this point, Zhang Bao'er looked a little down.

"…"

The others quickly shut up and Lin Ye gave Dong Wei a meaningful look.

"Sister Bao'er, don't mind him. Look, compared to him, you're a little luckier. At least you still have your mother and brother. Old Wang and I are miles away from that."

Dong Wei had a good attitude as he chuckled lightly. "The two of us are orphans. Someone bothered to give birth to us but couldn't be bothered to take care of us. We don't even know our parents' surnames."

"Bullshit. You're the real orphan."

At this moment, Wang Qiang interrupted and cursed, "I have parents. It's just that I don't know them."

"You have parents? That wasn't what you said the day before yesterday!" Dong Wei widened his eyes in disbelief.

The two were roommates and had known each other for a long time.

When they first found out that they were both orphans, he was a little touched. The two of them could talk about anything and they hit it off very well.

If it wasn't for the fact that he had no alcohol and didn't get drunk, they might have become sworn brothers that night.

Now, the other party suddenly stepped out to say that he wasn't an orphan and that he had parents.

This was no different from a clap of thunder exploding in Dong Wei's ears.

"Nonsense. If I don't have parents, are you expecting me to jump out from a crack in a rock," Wang Qiang rolled his eyes. "I'm serious. The two people in my family channel, no, I should say four. The two older ones should be my biological parents. The remaining two younger ones are most likely my younger brother and sister."

"Your family is really capable of giving birth." Zhang Bao'er opened her mouth and spoke in a sly manner.

Furthermore, after hearing about the matter with Dong Wei and Wang Qiang, she came to a realization.

In this day and age, if goods had to always be compared, they would be thrown away. For humans to compare with each other, it was incredibly repulsive and tiring.

There was no such thing as the worst, only worse. Compared to them, what happened to her was indeed a small matter.

"Maybe that's why I was given away."

Wang Qiang sighed. Perhaps because he was used to it, his tone and expression did not show much sadness.

He leaned back against the drum, grabbed a piece of wood, and threw it into the bonfire that had just been lit.

Then, he said in a carefree manner, "In any case, I won't acknowledge them. Over the past few decades, I've been through this alone. It's not like I can't live without them. Rather than it being awkward when acknowledged, it's better to not know them at all."

"It's better than nothing. It's an extra person to miss I guess," Dong Wei advised.

"Bullsh*t, I've already blacklisted them. They shouldn't only remember that they have a son like me when they're in trouble."

Wang Qiang pouted and turned to Lin Ye. He immediately smiled mischievously and said, "My lord, I've sold my life to you. I don't ask for anything else. I don't have any other abilities but if there's an excavator or something in the future, my skill in operating excavators is among the top ten in the entire factory."

"You've seen television dramas using excavators to open the cap of beer bottles, right? That was developed by my master and me. If you want to dig for anything, just say the word and I'll immediately go dig for it."

"Forget about the excavator. It's not up to standard." Lin Ye shook his head. Seeing Wang Qiang's disappointed gaze, he chuckled and said, "Are you interested in aircraft or tanks? I've seen the technology blueprint for them sealed in the Reputation Shop. It should be able to get it once we are upgraded to a certain era."

"Aircraft, tanks…" Wang Qiang swallowed. His originally gloomy gaze suddenly became passionate.

How could a man who could operate an excavator not be courageous?

In China, he was at a huge disadvantage right from his birth. Adopted by a welfare institute since he was young, he did not have the money or resources to apply for military school.

Which was why he had to settle for learning how to use an excavator instead.

To be honest, this could be considered his dream. A dream that he dared to think of but did not dare to chase.

He originally thought that he would never have a chance in this life, but who would have thought that there would always be a silver lining.

After being rejected by the lord for an excavator job opening, he instead flew straight up and touched his dream.

"Can… can I do that? I only know very little about planes and tanks," Wang Qiang said nervously.

Apart from his own reasons and excitement, he was more afraid of disappointing his lord.

"Even if you can't do it, you have to. How can someone from my Lin Clan say that it's impossible?"

Lin Ye patted Wang Qiang's shoulder assuringly. "Be firm and confident. If there's an extra slot for the Elevation Hall at midnight, everyone will have a share. I've received information that as long as you are determined to pass the trial and clear your thoughts, the profession which you will get will greatly lean towards your ideal profession."

"When the time comes, if you can obtain classes like a pilot, flight captain, or tank operator, you can quickly learn them even if you don't have a foundation."

"Yes, my lord, don't worry. I will definitely be able to do it!" Wang Qiang stood up excitedly and replied loudly.

"This is what a young man should be like. Be a little energetic, don't carry a depressed aura with you all day." Lin Ye nodded his head.

"F*ck, turns out that I'm an orphan again," Dong Wei said sourly.

"What orphan? Our Lin Clan is a big family. We are all like biological siblings. In the future, if any of you lack fatherly love, you can look for me or Lin One's father. If you really can't, Lin Dachui's father can be an option as well. We can directly take you in as our godson. Wouldn't that solve everything?" Tru spoke loudly.

"Scram! Don't try to take advantage of me," Dong Wei scolded with a smile. "Just you wait. One day, I'll go find your biological father and become his sworn brother. I don't have any other wishes in this life. I want to be a part of your father's generation."

"How dare you! Watch out or I'll get Xu Que to beat you up in the middle of the night!" Tru glared at him threateningly.

"Don't worry, Commander Tru. Playing dirty is our forte. Recently, I've decided to name the thousand-man team under me the Ghost Bomber Gang. If anyone has any private work, feel free to look for me. Be it sneak attacks, bombing Haunted Houses, or zombie killing, we brothers will always be here for you."

Xu Que said brazenly.

He also officially announced the establishment of the 'Ghost Bombing Gang'.

As soon as he finished speaking, the thousands of people present roared with laughter.

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Chapter 76: An Exploding Effect from Exiting the Mountain!

Before the laughter died down, a piece of passionate and spirited background music suddenly played.

"When the fiery smoke rises I look at the vast land towards the north."

"The roaring of the dragons and neighing of the horses are echoed by the chilling sword."

"My heart is as boundless as the water of the yellow river."

"Who could challenge the power in the past twenty years."

"…"

The music sounded, and everyone's hearts were ignited with the flames of passion.

Singer Tu Honggang's voice was bright and passionate, bringing people back to the times of the Great Song.

The image of them rushing through the battlefield with their lives on the line appeared in their minds.

The beautiful melody combined with the powerful lyrics of the song rendered all excessive descriptions useless.

If it was possible, Lin Ye was willing to replace the feeling with three words.

Burn it up!

Yes and burn it did.

Everyone had three fires in their lives.

The hot-blooded fire of a youth's self-searching, the mature and explosive fire of a person in their prime, and the burning fire in an elderly's old heart!

These three fires encompassed a person's entire life. They were hot, long – the nirvana of one's life.

In an instant, Jiang Gong, Dong Wei, Wang Qiang, and Lin Ye all stood up excitedly.

"It's here, it's here. This is the feeling. Hahaha, my youth has returned!"

Dong Wei laughed out loud. As he recorded with his Civilization Archive, he feverishly instructed the others to assist him.

When the song reached its impassioned chorus, he waved his hand decisively.

"Sound the drums!"

Dong! Dong! Dong!

The urgent drumming and singing blended with each other perfectly.

Every note and lyrics were like the streams of an invisible force of morality, deeply shaking and inspiring everyone's hearts.

Even for these soldiers who had never heard this song and did not understand the meaning of the lyrics,

At this moment, they could not help but have a solemn expression. The drum beats drummed in their hearts, their blood pumped rapidly and passion soared.

The cavalry soldiers mounted their horses and sat upright in their beast saddles. The infantry soldiers let out powerful cheers.

"Awesome, this is awesome!"

Dong Wei was grinning from ear to ear. In the end, he even turned his head to look at Lin Ye and called out, "My lord, it's time for you to go on stage. Don't say too much, the simpler the better. The atmosphere has already reached its peak. With a single order from you, the 'main' of the video will be confirmed."

"That's simple, watch me perform." Lin Ye gave an OK sign. With the help of Zhang Bao'er and Chu Meng, he put on the Purple Star Armor that Lin Dachui had repaired and Level 2 Lord's Skin. He looked like a god of war that had galloped onto a battlefield when he ascended the platform with a determined expression.

Thump! Thump!

His footsteps were steady as he followed the beat of the drum. Every step he took was like a drumbeat striking at one's heart, attracting everyone's attention.

"Wow! The lord is so handsome!"

In the camp, chef Nicole's eyes twinkled like a fan watching her idol.

Looking at her lord's exceptional beauty, she felt like she had drifted into a country of delicacies. She was so happy that she almost fainted.

"I feel that he looks even more powerful and domineering than Lu Xiaobu from the City of Wargods. Every action he makes is deeply rooted in the hearts of people. I wonder how outstanding the future mistress has to be worthy of such an excellent lord." Adelia's face flushed red as she sighed.

"Shallow!"

Not far away, Light Priest Gran chuckled as he looked at Nicole and Adelia. He stroked his beard in satisfaction.

Although he couldn't understand it, he could roughly sense that Lin Ye and the others were trying to stir something up.

The lord was the most important.

Sure enough, in the next moment, Lin Ye's words shook them.

"Warriors, why have your families been hiding underground for generations!" Lin Ye shouted.

"Zombies, these damned zombies!" The soldiers below the stage had bloodshot eyes.

Under the influence of the song, scenes of their ancestors being brutally killed by zombies flashed through their minds one after another.

In the end, they gave up their home in humiliation and hid in the underworld.

Every time they thought of their sad past, the thousands of native soldiers, including Tru, who had already advanced to the Class 4, Luo Feng, Su Yu, and Xu Que, the three main combatants, all responded with their hoarse voices.

"That's right. Zombies have harmed countless generations of humans and underworld citizens. They are the source of all sins. I don't care about others, but for my Lin Clan soldiers…"

At this point, Lin Ye paused, Heart's Web activating to its limit.

Boom!

An invisible wave of the talent spread to everyone.

At this moment, in everyone's eyes.

He was like a god that had descended to this world. His determined eyes seemed to be able to see through the root of one's heart and guide everyone to have the same mindset as him.

After a long time, his voice went from low to high until it reached its climax.

"Whenever—We—See—Zombies, We Will Annihilate Them!!!"

With that, he took out his Class 3 Purple Tier Weapon, Desert Eagle, and secretly activated the special skill of the Level 2 Lord's Skin—Flying Meteor.

Bang—

The gunshot was loud and clear. The next moment, the bullet seemed to have transformed into a meteor the size of a millstone and soared into the sky. It drew a long tongue of flame in the air and finally exploded at an area where the zombies were gathered at.

Rumble!!!

A mushroom-shaped cloud rose up as a deafening explosion echoed through the air.

The sound wave swept across like the roar of a thunder god and the sad wail of an evil ghost combined, shocking the world.

There was a short silence. Every soldier was dumbfounded as if stunned by the flying meteor.

Fortunately, Tru and the others had strong wills and quickly came back to their senses.

With a fanatical expression, Tru led, "Annihilate Them!"

In an instant, the soldiers below seemed to be infected by a virus. Their faces flushed red as they shouted at the top of their lungs.

"Annihilate Them!!"

"Annihilate Them!!"

"Annihilate Them!!!"

Their roaring chants were like a wave that spread in all directions.

During this time, it also caused the many high-level zombies in the zombie wave at the Haunted House far to the north to let out angry roars at the provocation of mere mortals.

[Congratulations to Survivor Lin Ye. All your new recruits have felt their burning passion and their loyalty has increased to 82%! The destructive power of Battle Formation has increased by 22%!]

[Congratulations to Survivor Lin Ye. All your new recruits have felt your strength and their loyalty has increased to 95%! The destructive power of Battle Formation has increased by 35%!]

Lin Ye smiled when he heard the system's good news.

What an unexpected gain.

Loyalty was almost 100%.

Mm, Ah Wei was a good lad with a good brain on his shoulders.

This move could win the hearts of people and shoot videos to gain likes. Killing two birds with one stone. Perfect!

He would be rewarded with a drumstick after work.

He looked at Dong Wei and the latter immediately gave him a thumbs up, indicating that the video shoot was fine.

"Let's go!"

Lin Ye didn't waste his breath when he saw this, and he directly leaped onto the Earth Wolf and shouted loudly.

Although the Wind Wolf was stronger, in terms of survivability,

the giant earth wolf was more sturdy.

He was the lord, not a soldier who would charge into the enemy lines. Having him at the rear of the army was already a form of professionalism.

Whoosh—

The 3,000 plus soldiers followed the instructions and turned into a long stretch that followed behind the wolf cavalry in an orderly manner, kicking up sand as they marched.

At the same time, the human lords who were hiding within the protective barrier in the range of a dozen kilometers were alerted.

They all walked out of their territory.

They looked at the area where Lin Ye's territory was and was astonished.

What… what kind of a strong person was this? He actually dared to challenge the haunted houses in the north!

In less than ten seconds, someone sent a screenshot taken by the Civilization Archive to China's chat group.

In an instant, the chat room exploded.

However, the focus of the human lords was off.

What they cared about was not the sentence 'Annihilate Them', but the terrifying power of Flying Meteor.

Li Qiang: "Oh my god, is this the legendary Grandmaster Class combatant big shot? How terrifying!"

Lin Hai: "Who knows who the big shot who released the bomb in the photo is? I offer 10 million RMB. I want to form an alliance with him!"

Qian Bocong: "RMB? Heh heh, if it's useful, I'll pay 1 billion or even 10 billion but what the f*ck use is that? This is a different world. Wake up! What a bunch of idiots! If you have time to lick the big shot's boots, why don't you think about how to survive tonight?"

Liu Xiaoye: "Wow, f*ck, National Husband, Husband Bocong, I'm your fan. Can you form an alliance with me? This girl can be both sweet and handsome…"

Lu Fei: "Person above, appraisal completed."

Zhang Bairen: "Transgenders are humans too, don't discriminate against them. But speaking of which, comparing ourselves to others will kill us. I'm still building the barracks, and they can already use advanced cannons. There's no logic in this!"

…

Liu Tianlong: "What's going on? Where's the person who just sent the screenshot? Where did he go? Stop hiding. Come out and talk!"

On the other side, a human lord had just built a bunker, tent, and barracks in a small graveyard.

His face was pale and he was sweating profusely as he stared at the entrance of his territory.

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Chapter 77: An Awakened: Lin Hai!

Gasp!

Heads were lobbed off one after another, and zombie corpses fell to the ground.

The Lin Clan's army swept through the area.

In a few minutes, this batch of hundred zombies which had been attracted by the sound,

The two large wolf cavalry teams led the cavalry and charged forward, killing all the zombies in their way.

Even though there were some 'lucky' zombies that were missed, they were unable to escape the attacks of the thousands of infantry soldiers at the back and were all stabbed to death by the spears.

"Hahaha, feels good!"

Luo Feng wiped the black blood on his New Moon Battle Axe away, a carefree expression on his face.

"Boss, why did that terrifying attack from the lord just now feel strange?"

At this moment, Su Yu sneakily rode his Wind Wolf to Luo Feng's side and said with a frown, "It did look strong, but… it didn't seem to be accompanied with any energy fluctuations?"

"You sensed it too?" Xu Que interjected with a raised brow.

"Nonsense, we're all top Class 3 elites after all. Who do you think is as nitwitted as you?"

Su Yu rolled his eyes and gave Xu Que a sidelong glance.

"Tch, this is called having a pure and young heart." Xu Que curled his lips. "But what you said earlier was correct. I didn't sense any energy fluctuations either. Either the lord is a Class 7 expert with the power to hold his inner energy, or…"

At this point, the t0wo of them looked at each other, their faces revealing an expression of understanding.

"Stop making wild guesses. Be careful with your words when it comes to the lord. Clean up the battlefield quickly!"

Luo Feng patted their shoulders and urged, "A treasure chest dropped over there. Quick, don't let others find it. The Lord will reward you."

Upon hearing this, Su Yu and Xu Que came to a realization, and their eyes immediately reddened.

"F*ck, the kid in front, that's a freaking treasure chest that Sir Su dropped. Put it down!"

"And you! Tsk! A mere Class 1 Infantry soldier, you actually dare to snatch something from my Ghost Bomber Gang. You are not respecting me. Loot at my Universe Unrivaled Dragon Subduing Heavens 3,948 Billion Heaven Splitting Palm!"

A moment later, the group of veterans and new recruits were in a mess, fighting over treasure chests everywhere.

In the end, even the corpses of the zombies were not spared.

This was not because they wanted to annihilate all evil, but because Lin Ye had passed down the benefit rankings a while ago.

In all frontline battles, for every 10 Level 1 zombies killed, they would be rewarded with an additional Zombie Soul as a bonus.

Zombies above Level 2 were increased at a rate of 1: 10.

As for the treasure chests and blueprints, rewards were even more exaggerated. Treasure chests, even the lowest-level sandalwood treasure chests, were rewarded with 10 Zombie Souls each time they found one.

Bronze treasure chest increased the rewards by 10 times. 100 Zombie Souls per treasure chest.

Silver Treasure Chests would give them 1,000 Zombie Souls while Gold Treasure Chests would give them 10,000 Zombie Souls…

As long as they could find a treasure chest, they would become rich.

Whether it was for their own use or to send it back to the underworld to be given to his clan's people, it would be a huge amount.

On the other side, Lin Ye led Tru and Adelia to the territory of a human lord.

Along the way, they killed zombies and occupied the lord's territory.

In less than half an hour, 99% of the lords within a 6,000-meter range had been caught by him.

It was the 11 people who were in solo modes that he had seen in the virtual sandbox earlier and the two teams.

This was the last one.

Honestly speaking, their abilities were too lousy.

Strictly speaking, they were much weaker than the five-man team that ambushed him the day before.

Under his huge army of wolf cavalry soldiers, other than a thorn in a team who tried to argue back before he was taught a lesson by the experienced Tru, the people after him quickly became obedient and choose to surrender by handing over their Civilization Archives.

After conquering more than ten bunkers, Lin Ye gained more than 30,000 experience points. He was close to upgrading his bunker to level 7.

Swish!

At this moment, an arrow landed firmly at the feet of the wolf cavalry in the front row.

At the same time, a nervous but determined voice came from inside.

"Friend, this is my territory. If you take another step forward, I will lead my subordinates to fight back!"

Hearing that, Lin Ye raised his eyebrows. Interesting.

He had consecutively defeated more than ten lords. This was the first time some dared to speak harshly even after they saw the wolf cavalry army.

He shot Tru a look.

"Human Lord, listen up. You have already been surrounded by the army of my Lin clan. I respect you as a man. If you come out and surrender now, my lord may consider letting the citizens of your territory off. Of course, he will also provide you with a way out!"

Tru was riding on a Wind Wolf.

He was tall and sturdy to begin with and his face was filled with malice.

With said person calling for a fight in front of the other party's territory, it instantly frightened the people inside.

Inside the territory.

A dark-skinned ranger soldier looked at the dark and scary wolf cavalry army and almost pissed his pants.

He turned his head to look at his lord and said anxiously, "Lord Lin Hai, let's surrender. Although you are a respectable Awakened, with our strength, we definitely don't stand a chance of winning. If we continue fighting, we… we might be completely wiped out!"

Lin Hai was the owner of this graveyard.

He was a retired soldier who guarded the borders of China. No matter when it was, whether it was out of fear or terror, he had never entertained the thought of surrendering.

This belief remained even after he descended to the underworld.

He clenched his fist, his palms drenched in sweat.

Anxiousness and fear…

As long as they were humans or living beings, they could not escape these physiological reactions.

Lin Hai took a deep breath and said calmly, "Everyone, we've known each other for a while. If you're afraid, I'll give you all the Zombie Souls and cancel the recruitment contract. You can escape back to the underworld. No matter how strong he is, he can't enter the underworld."

"My lord, what are you saying? You've given us everything. How can we betray you? Moreover, if we escape, what will happen to you?" The leader of the rangers had a bitter expression.

At this point, anyone who wasn't stupid would naturally know Lin Hai's fate.

"I will welcome the honor that belongs to me." Lin Hai wiped the sweat off his face with a determined expression.

He stood up. His legs seemed to have been injured previously, making it difficult for him to walk.

Even so, he had already drawn a blue tier black iron longsword from his waist.

This was the weapon that dropped when he and his subordinates killed a Level 2 Swift Zombie and opened the treasure chest.

It was the best equipment in the territory.

"My lord!"

The leader of the rangers and the others looked at each other, a struggle in their eyes.

At this moment, they could already feel the recruitment contract disappear.

If they wanted to escape, they could directly activate the transport formation and escape back to the underworld.

But their lord would definitely die then.

"Whoosh—"

Soon, the sky-blue teleportation circle opened.

"My lord, we'll meet again!"

"My lord, we'll meet again!"

With that, all the native workers ran away. 90% of the Class 1 soldiers ran away, as did the rangers.

When the teleportation array disappeared.

Apart from Lin Hai, only the rangers' leader and the ten other personal guards were left.

"You guys! Truly foolish!" Lin Hai turned around and smiled.

"My lord, we are destined to be mediocre in our lives, but you are different. You are a natural general, the most determined soldier, and the person we dreamed of following. We are willing to fight to the death for you!"

"Fight to the death!"

"Fight to the death!"

The others all held the determination to die and roared angrily.

"Brothers, I'm happy to meet you. Let's fight together!" Lin Hai laughed. The trust of the people from the other world made him reminisce the scene of him guarding the border with his comrades in the past. His hot blood instantly dispelled his fear.

Whoosh!!

Several golden beams of light burst out from his body and rapidly fused into the bodies of every citizen who followed him.

At this moment, they were like indestructible shields, guarding the entrance of the territory.

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Chapter 78: Women Would Only Hamper My Development!

"How stubborn!"

Tru snorted when he saw Lin Hai and the others swearing to fight to their deaths.

As a Class 4 soldier, he could see through the golden glow emitted by the other party at a glance.

Although it had some defensive attributes, its luster was at most Level 1.

Such strength was truly fragile, unable to withstand even one blow.

"Tru, finish this quickly."

As he was about to attack, Lin Ye spoke, his eyes shining.

Awakeneds were good.

As long as he killed this person, he would be a step closer to completing the 3,000 Protagonist's Destiny mission.

"Don't worry, my lord." Tru laughed as orange-red battle aura rose around him.

Swish!

In the next moment, he rode on his Wind Wolf and charged rapidly towards the golden defensive shields of Lin Hai and his subordinates.

Thump!

A dull sound rang out.

"Too weak, too weak. Eat a blow from my axe!" Tru laughed.

At this moment, his New Moon Battleaxe had already snapped Lin Hai's Class 2 Blue Tier Black Iron Longsword into halves.

At the same time, the terrifying Class 4 battle aura exploded, instantly shattering the golden shield.

Thump!

The chests of the twelve Lin Hai and his people caved in as they were sent flying amidst a shower of blood.

One by one, their backs crashed into the territory's entrance and they fell to the ground, unconscious.

"What a strong defense!"

Although he won in one move, Tru secretly clicked his tongue.

One had to know that his current battle aura was equivalent to that of Class 4 Purple Tier New Moon War Axe with powerful offensive power.

Yet, he did not instantly kill these guys and only heavily injured them?

This was too terrifying.

"My lord, this person's talent is probably exceptional." After some thought, Tru turned around and said.

"What do you mean?" Lin Ye was confused.

"Usually, combat power and defense strength are the most basic forms which talents will show. In terms of combat power, the stronger the talent, the easier it is for them to kill enemies like dogs."

Tru pointed at Lin Hai, who was lying on the ground and continued, "This fellow has a similar potential, but he favors defensive abilities. With this axe of mine, even Class 3 experts will die. It's hard to say for those of the same class since I relied on the upgrade scrolls to advance and my foundation is still too weak."

"Even so, it's definitely not something a bunch of Class 1 soldiers can defend against."

"You mean, I should keep him?" Lin Ye could vaguely tell what Tru was implying.

"Yes."

Tru nodded and said seriously, "Our Lin clan doesn't lack offensive power, but there's a huge gap in our defense. Almost all of us relied on our equipment's defense to climb up."

"It's naturally not a problem for us if the class difference is great, but if we encounter someone of a similar class, casualty rates will increase drastically. If he has a strong defensive talent, he can solve this problem perfectly. Furthermore, this guy has strong willpower and can easily pass the tests of the four sacred halls."

"…" Lin Ye hesitated.

He didn't tell Tru and the others 100xReward could allow him to obtain other similar talents.

In theory, other than Zhang Liang, who was already loyal to him, he had no interest in anyone else for the time being.

But what Tru said made sense.

In his future battles, this fellow's talent was indeed suitable as a meat shield commander.

As a territory lord, even if he had the same talent, he could not risk his life to fight at the frontlines.

This was not appropriate.

"Then give him a chance. Let Gran heal him. If he's willing to serve me as a loyalist, he'll live. If he's not willing, then I'm sorry."

In any case, loyalists could give him a talent fragment as well. It would be best if he could agree to it. If he did not, there would be no loss as well.

With that, Lin Ye led the way into Lin Hai's territory.

He walked straight to the bunker.

"Conquer!"

Without the lord's protection, the Civilization Archive could directly conquer the bunker. A large number of black particles landed on the surface of the bunker and the barracks.

Soon, with a speed visible to the naked eye.

All the buildings in the territory were rapidly collapsing, turning into the most fundamental energy particles that surged into Lin Ye's Civilization Archive.

Soon, the system sent him the good news.

"Congratulations to Survivor Lin Ye. Your experience bar is full. You can upgrade your bunker to Level 7 once you return to your territory."

"Not bad." Lin Ye smiled.

He wondered what new changes his Level 7 bunker would bring.

At the same time, the sound of cavalry came from behind.

It was Luo Feng and the others who had returned.

Thousands of soldiers followed behind him, dragging a large number of zombie corpses on dozens of bamboo rafts.

On the bodies of the Wind Wolves in the front row were more than 20 treasure chests.

"My lord, I've accomplished my mission. The path to the first Haunted House has been cleared," said Luo Feng as he cupped his fists.

"You've worked hard."

Lin Ye chuckled lightly and nodded. His gaze swept across the treasure chests handed over by Su Yu and Xu Que, and the smile on his face widened.

He took a quick look and saw a total of 26 treasure chests.

19 sandalwood and 7 bronze ones.

To be able to gain this much within half an hour was already a great accomplishment.

"My lord, what about the zombie corpses behind? Should we bring them back to the territory? Or…" Xu Que asked.

In fact, before they came, they had seen the zombie converter that Lin One and the others had brought. However, for some reason, Lin Ye did not pass the converter to them.

"Let's convert them on the spot. Everyone, rest for a while. I have some personal matters to settle."

Lin Ye waved his hand and called Lin One over, asking him to bring people to install the zombie converter.

Currently, the six thousand meters area was all his territory. The converter could be used at will within the territory.

As for why he did not leave it to Luo Feng and the others to convert directly after the kill.

Of course, it was for 100xReward!

This strange thing would only trigger 100xReward if it was close to him. Otherwise, there was no chance at it.

A moment later, when he felt the eager gazes of the new recruits not far away, Lin Ye realized and laughed. "Zhang Bao'er, come here for a while."

"Huh?"

Zhang Bao'er jogged over in a daze and asked in confusion, "My lord, why are you looking for me?"

"Didn't I give you a lot of notebooks for primary school students last time? Use them for the new recruits who have just gone out to kill enemies and count the number of enemies and treasure chests they've obtained. After we finish clearing the Haunted House, we'll consolidate the scores when we get back," Lin Ye said.

"Oh, okay. Can I ask Chu Meng and Liu Yuan to help me? There are too many people."

"Sure."

With Lin Ye's approval, Zhang Bao'er brought the two music major girls to the new recruits' camp.

Immediately, the eyes of the thousands of native recruits lit up.

One by one, they crowded around them.

They stood up straight and reported the number of enemies they had killed as if they wanted to show off their strength in front of the opposite sex.

"These fellas."

Lin Ye found it funny. This act was very similar to his own from his elementary school days.

As he read, he casually put all the treasure chests into his Civilization Archive.

He would not open these things for the time being.

He suffered greatly on the first day. After 100xReward, there were too many living supplies that dropped.

It took a long time for the hundreds of native workers to transport all the supplies back.

Because of this, he even complained about the Civilization Archive for half a day. Why couldn't the living supplies that dropped be kept in the Civilization Archive?

The space was too small. It could only hold small weapons like Desert Eagle and grenades.

After packing up, Lin Ye glanced at the Zombie Converter. He was still some time away from completing the conversion, so he called out, "Adelia, bring a hundred cavalry soldiers and follow me. The rest of you, rest here. There will be a huge battle later. Only by restoring your energy will you be able to emerge victorious in every battle."

"Where are we going?"

Adelia was surprised. Didn't they agree to go to the haunted house?

"The Level 4 Venomous Zombie!" Lin Ye replied plainly. He summoned his giant earth wolf and sat down.

Upon hearing this, Adelia's eyes were immediately filled with joy.

Knowing that her lord was avenging her, she said happily, "My lord, I love you to death!"

"I don't love you. Don't even think about it. Women only hamper my development."

Leaving behind a joke, Lin Ye rode the giant earth wolf and led the way out of the territory.

"Cavalry team, follow me!"

Adelia shouted and picked up her Class 4 Silver Tier weapon, Wind Splitting Bow.

A group of wolf cavalry and Iron-Blooded Horse Riders follow closely behind with Lin Ye's lead and disappeared into the distance.

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Chapter 79: Hunting The Level 4 Venomous Zombie

Tap-tap-tap…

The huge earth wolf was swift. The group of people traversed through the forest as fast as lightning.

"My lord, it's nearby. Be careful of that zombie. It is good at hiding. Don't be ambushed by him."

A few minutes later, they arrived at the spot where she had been injured the day before. Adelia looked wary.

"Don't worry, everything is within the lord's control." Lin Ye said confidently.

At this moment, he activated both his talents.

Whoosh—

His black pupils released dense domain ripples. As long as there was danger, it would quickly send a notification.

Furthermore, Heart's Web was suitable for all-around surveillance.

As long as there was any abnormal movement from the Level 4 Venomous Zombie, it would immediately be discovered.

As expected.

After searching for a while, a notification from 'hint' came.

"Hint: In 65 degrees northwest, 89 meters away from you, there are a large number of zombies lying in ambush in the bushes."

"Hint: In the opposite direction, at the same distance, there are also a few zombies lying in ambush."

[Hint: There is something in the opponent's camp whose level far exceeds the level of your talent. Unable to analyze its energy level or its exact location.]

"Level which far surpasses mine?"

Lin Ye narrowed his eyes. His 'hint' talent was still at Level 1, and so level-wise, it was sure to lose out.

Even so, Level 1-3 zombies were almost unable to escape the detection of 'hint'.

Only when the other party was Level 4 could a notification like this happen.

This guy should be that Level 4 Venomous Zombie…

Whatever. He would think about it after he got there.

"The others move towards 65 degrees in the northwest direction. Adelia, lead your rangers."

Lin Ye immediately pointed to the southeast and said, "Shoot at the bushes 89 meters away in that direction!"

"Oh, okay."

Adelia nodded.

Although she did not know about Lin Ye's Heart's Web, she knew that her lord had already obtained Zhang Liang's talent and was proficient at scouting.

In addition, as a loyalist, her lord's orders had to be completed no matter what.

The other wolf cavalries were the same and they charged towards the ordinary zombies in the northwest direction.

"Storm of Arrows!"

Adelia took a deep breath.

Having recovered, she was now a proper Class 4 elite who did not use an upgrade scroll either.

She was definitely one of the best among her peers.

Combined with the strongest Class 4 Silver Tier Wind Splitting Bow in the territory, her offensive power was comparable to a peak stage Class 5 Elite.

Whoosh—

The bowstring of the Wind Splitting Bow was pulled taut.

Moments later, elemental energy filled with terrifying cutting power condensed between the bowstring and the tips of her fingers.

"Elemental power." Lin Ye looked on enviously.

However, he was confident that he could obtain this power as well after destroying the Haunted House.

At that time, elemental power combined with firearms would have stronger destructive power as compared to bow-type weapons.

Swish!

Soon, when the wolf cavalry team charged into the pile of zombies lying in ambush and started killing, Adelia shot her strongest arrow.

The arrow tore through the air and transformed into a sky-blue colored arrow beam, directly tearing through the grass and hitting a Level 3 supervisor zombie in the chest.

Bang!

The wound exploded, and half of the Level 3 zombie's body was smashed into pieces, causing it to die instantly.

The other Class 2 rangers also shot dozens of arrows, clearing the Level 2 zombies which stood around the Level 3 zombie.

"Over there!" He pointed to another location.

Swish! Swish! Swish!

With the arrow rain of ordinary Class 2 rangers and the terrifying Storm of Arrows, he killed another two Level 3 Supervisor Zombies and five Level 2 Swift Zombies.

"I can't believe they were all not it." Lin Ye frowned.

Obviously, these Level 2 and 3 zombies were all subordinates of the Level 4 Venomous Zombie.

This little boss was more cunning than he thought.

No wonder he still fell for the trap despite having Zhang Liang's 'hint' talent.

"Roar—"

In the distance, roars came from the dark and sinister fog. It seemed like it was controlling the zombies lying in ambush from afar.

Whoosh—

Moments later, a large number of zombies charged out from the bushes.

"Wolf cavalry! Retreat!"

Adelia bellowed.

"Yes, Lady Chiliarch!"

The leader of the wolf cavalry killed the last zombie with an axe. Riding a Wind Wolf, he led the way towards the ambush in the southwest direction.

Rumble!!!

The strength of the Class 3 Wind Wolf and Earth Wolf was strong.

One of them spat out green wind blades while the other activated its earthen yellow shield to lead the group of cavalry soldiers forward.

Furthermore, they were all wearing Class 3 Purple Tier armor—Protector's Armor.

Its defensive power allowed them to be able to ignore Level 2 Swift Zombies. With the two of them combined, even a Level 3 Supervisor Zombie could not break its defense.

Bang bang—

After a round of crazy bites, the zombies were beaten down by the Class 3 soldier until his head was covered in blood, and its health bar rapidly fell.

"It's not too bad since we're strong enough to crush them." Adelia was relieved to see this.

This time, it was much better than last time.

The battle that time made her heartache.

It was the first expedition she led and more than a dozen rangers had died during it.

She almost died as well and embarrassed the ranger race in front of her lord. She hated that Level 4 Venomous Zombie so much.

This time, the lord had personally led a team to avenge her, and they were accompanied by the Class 3 Wolf Cavalry Soldiers.

Not everyone could enjoy such an honor.

Furthermore, this level of combat experience was simply too awesome.

She did not even need to move and all she did was sit on the back of her mount.

She simply had to follow her lord's instructions and hit wherever he pointed at. All she had to do was to release her Storm of Arrows crazily. It felt very comfortable.

Soon, Lin Ye pointed to another place.

"Ignore the cavalry. Continue to shoot at Southwest 72 degrees, 383 meters away!"

This had already exceeded the range of 'hint'.

However, just now, Heart's Web captured an afterimage from his unlimited perspective.

The other party was fast. After rushing out of the fog, it evidently saw a large number of his subordinates die. That fellow couldn't hold it in anymore.

"Great!"

Adelia remained silent. Right now, she blindly worshipped her lord for being all-knowing.

With all her might, she used the family's secret manual.

Double Storm Flare!

Swish! Swish!

Her fingers were so fast that they left afterimages as she shot out two storm arrows in a row.

Be it its power or speed, they were the same as before.

Two arrows emitting sky-blue colored energy tore through the air and struck the tree 383 meters away.

Gurgles!!

The power of the first arrow exploded, and its terrifying wind attribute's cutting power tore through the tree.

The second arrow almost grazed through the gap which was torn open and hit the figure steadily, dragging it as it crashed into a towering tree opposite.

Whoosh—

The tree collapsed, raising a cloud of dust.

"Is it dead?" Adelia revealed an expression of confusion.

With her current combat power, she could indeed kill a Level 4 Venomous Zombie instantly, but she had to hit its heart or head.

For zombies Level 3 and above, its defense and vitality would increase greatly.

It was not that easy to kill them.

For example, the Class 3 Wolf Cavalry Soldiers over there all leveled up using upgrade scrolls. Their abilities were greatly restricted when it came to dealing with those of the same level.

Killing Level 1 and Level 2 was fine and would usually score an instant kill.

However, if they encountered a Level 3 Supervisor Zombie, it would be difficult to kill it singlehandedly without slashing it a dozen times.

It was only because they had more people that the fight became much easier.

"Wait, don't go over!"

Chapter 80: The Charm of a Top Tier Talent, I Love It!

"Wait, don't go over!"

Lin Ye pulled Adelia back when she was about to move forward to check.

"What's the matter?" She turned around in confusion.

"That zombie hasn't lost his breath." Lin Ye narrowed his eyes. Heart's Web was pushed to its limit, and through the smoke and dust, he could clearly sense the presence of the Level 4 Venomous Zombie.

Although it was 90% weaker than before, it was definitely not dead.

Moreover, according to the records of the monsters in the Archive, before the death of the Level 4 Venomous Zombie, it would definitely use its sure-kill technique—Venom Self-Explosion!

This skill attacked indiscriminately. As long as something was within its range of 30 meters, it would instantly kill.

Adelia was squishy, to begin with. If she was within the range of the venom self-explosion, she would probably lose her life.

After explaining that to them, Adelia's eyes widened with fear.

Fortunately, she had her lord to remind her. Otherwise, she would be doomed.

A moment later, seeing that Lin Ye and the others did not fall for it, the Level 4 Venomous Zombie was furious. It pulled out the storm arrows that were constantly corroding its body. Stumbling, it charged madly at Lin Ye and the others.

It raised its head, and its neck expanded rapidly as if accumulating venom.

"Continue shooting. The range of its explosion is only 30 meters. Don't give it a chance," Lin Ye said calmly.

Without another word, Adelia and the rangers drew their bows and shot.

Swish! Swish! Swish!

Another wave of arrows rained down.

Gasp! Gasp!

The Level 4 Venomous Zombie was instantly shot into a pile, its entire body covered in green blood.

In the end, it stopped a hundred meters away from Lin Ye and the others as it exploded. Dark green venom rained down on its surroundings. Even the low-level zombies that followed closely behind were killed. In the blink of an eye, they were corroded until they were at their last breath.

"Damn it, the corpse of a Level 4 zombie!"

Lin Ye cursed under his breath and clutched his chest in pain.

At Level 4, after converting its corpse, it would increase the experience points of the bunker by a hundred plus points and give him more than 2,000 Zombie Souls.

A great fortune was lost just like that!

"My lord, there seems to be a silver glow!"

At this moment, Adelia called out in surprise.

Lin Ye's eyes lit up when he followed her finger.

Heart's Web was still activated. Just now, because of the heartache from the loss, he did not notice. When he took a look, he realized that a treasure chest with a silver glow dropped at the side of the Level 4 Venomous Zombie after its self-destruction.

It was a Silver Treasure Chest!

"Bring it over quickly. Be careful of the corpse poison. Don't let it touch you."

Lin Ye commanded cavalry soldier who quickly returned with the treasure chest.

"My lord, we have also obtained nine treasure chests – two bronze ones, and seven sandalwood ones."

On the other side, the group of wolf cavalry who had killed the Venomous Zombie's subordinates had also returned. A large number of Level 2 and 3 zombie corpses were dragged behind them.

As for Level 1 corpses, because there were too many of them, without the foot soldiers, the corpses were simply thrown on the ground.

"Not bad, not bad. A small boss in the wilderness is stronger than a Level 1 Haunted House."

Lin Ye kept all the treasure chests and sighed slightly.

He had read the information in the archive room before this.

A Level 1 one-star Haunted House was not strong. It did not even have Level 3 zombies and relied on the sheer number of Level 1 and 2 zombies to win.

In terms of higher-end combative capabilities, it was really incomparable to the Level 4 Venomous Zombie that they had just killed.

"That's true, but a Level 1 Haunted House with a lower difficulty is not that bad. It's our lord who is too strong and rich. On our side, most of the wolf cavalry are wearing armor for Class 3 Protector's Armor and are equipped with Class 3 New Moon Battleaxe."

"Higher classes and high-level equipment make those zombies look like trash."

Adelia smiled and complimented him.

"That's true."

Lin Ye smiled and sat back on the back of the giant earth wolf. "Let's go. It smells like blood here. We can't stay here for long. Let's return to our resting spot."

With that, the group quickly went back to Lin Hai's territory.

This was the place closest to the Level 1 Haunted House.

Lin Ye planned to establish this place as a temporary resting point so that he could set out and clear Haunted Houses at any time.

After returning to rest for a while, the Level 2 and 3 zombie corpses were thrown into the converter.

The previous batch of Level 1 zombie corpses had already been converted.

"You have obtained 160 Zombie Souls!"

100xReward.

"You have obtained 16,000 Zombie Souls!"

"Congratulations to Survivor Lin Ye. Your 'hint' talent has met the requirements to level up. It will require 10,000 Zombie Souls to level it up to Level 2. Do you wish to level up?"

"Do it."

Lin Ye could finally confirm that it was because of the lack of Zombie Souls that his 'hint' talent became as bad as Zhang Liang's.

Now, upgrading it to Level 2 would greatly increase its range.

Swish!

A moment later, a tri-colored beam of light descended from the sky and landed between Lin Ye's eyebrows.

Whoosh—

The invisible domain which represented his 'hint' talent expanded rapidly.

From the initial range of 100 meters, it directly increased to a radius of 2,000 meters within the territory.

"You get what you pay for. The feeling of spending money is awesome."

With the level of his talent increased, Lin Ye was in a good mood.

"Hint: 500 meters southwest, there is a random sandalwood treasure chest!"

"Hint: 675 meters southeast, there is a random sandalwood treasure chest!"

"Hint: 975 meters southeast, there is a random sandalwood treasure chest!"

"Hint: 1,239 meters to the south, there is a random bronze treasure chest!"

…

The 18 treasure chests notifications in a row stunned Lin Ye.

Was this the charm of a top-tier talent?

He loved it.

He secretly clicked his tongue, feeling overjoyed.

No wonder this thing required 120,000 Zombie Souls to upgrade to Level 6. It looked like a huge black hole for Zombie Souls, but the benefits you could reap from it were ridiculous.

There was no need to fight monsters. He just needed to send people to pick up those treasure chests.

With this in mind, Lin Ye got a piece of paper and a gel pen from Zhang Bao'er and wrote all the information from the notifications on the paper.

"Tru, send a few capable people to these places and bring these treasure chests back for me."

As he spoke, he handed the piece of paper over.

"…" Tru took a look and looked troubled. He smiled bitterly and said, "Our people don't even know these words. Teacher Zhang Bao'er only taught two classes of Chinese characters. Some people can't even remember their names, much less these words."

"That's simple."

Lin Ye chuckled and called out to Zhang Liang, who was discussing with Dong Wei and the rest about how to shoot the video of the Haunted House being bombed. "Little Liang, go with them. Any of these treasure chests may contain medicine that can save your father. Whether it succeeds or not depends on you."

As soon as he said that, Zhang Liang's enthusiasm was charged to the maximum. He left Dong Wei and the others behind and ran over.

"Rest assured, my lord. I promise to complete the mission!"

This matter concerned his father's life so Zhang Liang would work especially hard for it. He removed a set of armor from Su Yu and wore it.

Then, he took the piece of paper recording the locations of the treasure chests and brought ten or so Wind Wolf Cavalry soldiers with him as they rushed out.

After Zhang Liang left, with Tru leading the way, Lin Ye arrived at the location where Priest Gran was.

This was a clean temporary tent. Lin One even brought other native workers to set up temporary places for accommodation here.

He glanced at the half-dead Lin Hai and frowned. "He's still not awake?"

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Chapter 81: Blue Iron Ore Mines!

"His injuries were too severe. His chest collapsed, and his fractured ribs almost pierced his heart."

At this point, Priest Gran looked at Tru and laughed. "Commander Tru's technique is really powerful. He can always leave someone alive on the brink of death."

"One who is surnamed Gu, don't talk nonsense."

Tru glared. He was just following his lord's orders, alright?

He had originally wanted to hammer this fellow to death with his axe. Who asked him to be so lucky?

"Alright, stop arguing. I need to know the exact details."

Lin Ye stopped the two of them from arguing. "Can you save him? How long will it take?"

"I can," Gran confirmed. "After I advanced to Class 4, the power of the Sacred Healing has increased greatly. Other than fatal injuries, ordinary serious injuries can be treated. As for the specific time needed, it will require two Sacred Healing sessions a day. It will take seven days at most for him to be saved. With healing pills, it will be much easier. If it's fast, it will take half a day. If it's slow, it will take two days."

"Half a day. Not bad." Lin Ye nodded.

Seven days or the likes of it was naturally ignored by him.

Time was money these days. Seven days would be too slow. What was the use of having him if it took that long?

Coincidentally, Zhang Liang's father also needed healing pills. He would settle them together when the time came.

He hoped that he would not be ignorant when he woke up.

"My lord, if something like a magic staff drops from the treasure chests, please keep it for me. It doesn't need to be of an extremely good quality, just a Class 4 Silver Tier weapon will do. It's best if it's a holy attribute magic staff. With the proper equipment, I might be able to heal him instantly," Gran suddenly said.

Just now, he saw that his lord had obtained a large number of treasure chests. Last time, other than upgrading scrolls, he did not obtain any substantial treasures.

Learning from his past mistakes, he knew that he had to mention this in advance.

"Oh, old fellow, you finally stopped pretending. I thought you were still going to act noble and great." Lin Ye chuckled.

"There's no need to be so formal with my lord since we're family. I'll just be a layman for once."

Gran smiled back.

His expression was somewhat similar to Lin Ye's.

"You're not allowed to learn from me!"

Lin Ye cast a sidelong glance at him. This old fellow didn't learn well and even liked to take advantage of these small things.

Upon hearing this, Priest Gran's smile froze.

This was a professional habit. He was used to being targeted by the archbishop and could not help but imitate his superior's expression.

"My lord, Lin Dachui is looking for you. He said that he found a treasure and wanted you to go take a look."

At this moment, a personal guard walked over and reported in a low voice.

"Treasure!"

Lin Ye's eyes lit up when he heard this word. He turned around and forgot about Lin Hai.

"Where? Bring me there quickly."

Lin Ye was overjoyed and followed the guard.

A moment later, he arrived at the back of Lin Hai's territory. A magical crack appeared in front of him, and a blue metallic luster emitted from within.

Lin Dachui and a few native workers were watching when they saw Lin Ye arrive.

Lin Dachui hurriedly went up to welcome him. He pointed at the rocky crevice and laughed. "My lord, look! It's a blue iron ore mine! We're in luck!"

"Blue iron ore mine? Blue ore mines? It gives blue tier weapons?" Lin Ye guessed.

"My lord is wise. Dachui is impressed."

Lin Dachui was shocked. He had only said a name, but the lord had already guessed it.

"Stop bootlicking. A serious question. What's the difference between this and the blue tier weapons produced by our own Armory?" Lin Ye asked.

"In the Armory, even if there are blueprints, the items produced will mostly be of beginner, intermediate, and advanced quality. Only when blue iron ore is added to it can it be upgraded to its peak quality. Both its defensive and offensive power will be greatly improved."

Lin Dachui stared at the blue iron ore mine with a burning gaze. He clicked his tongue and said, "Moreover, according to my decades of experience, this mine is definitely not an ordinary blue iron ore mine. An ordinary blue iron ore mine doesn't have such a strong luster. Perhaps its core has evolved into purple iron ore."

Actually, what he said was modest. He did not dare to spout nonsense.

The luster of this blue iron ore was almost comparable to the intermediate silver iron ore which he had seen before. Its core must not be underestimated.

"Purple Iron Ore!"

Upon hearing this, Lin Ye's interest was piqued.

According to Lin Dachui's deduction, if it was true…

When the time came, the Protector's Armor and the New Moon Battle Axe would be strengthened, and the overall combat power of the wolf cavalry team would be greatly increased.

Moreover, once the blueprint for a Class 3 weapon dropped, he would immediately take off.

In the early stages, he was definitely the only one in the world to create Class 3 equipment in a streamlined process.

Once the market opened, he could use one purple tier weapon to exchange for ten treasure chests, wouldn't that be a huge gain for him?

Bleh. Purple tier weapons my a*. Even I myself wasn't fully equipped with purple tier things. It would be better to consider the trading using Class 2 blue tier weapons instead.

Lin Ye thought for a moment and hurriedly said, "Then what are we waiting for? Dig!"

"But the blueprint for the mining factory is still with you, my lord," Lin Dachui said aggrievedly.

"I forgot, I forgot."

Lin Ye laughed and quickly took out his Civilization Archive and went to the page of the bunker.

He remembered that when he leveled up to Level 4 or 5, its new function seemed to be the mining factory.

Later on, when he leveled up to Level 6, it gave him a higher-level mining factory.

However, at that time, the area he was in had only ordinary stone. There were no forging type ores at all.

Without ores, something worthless like this was thrown into the cold palace by him.

After searching for about ten seconds, he finally found it.

He casually handed the blueprint to one of the native workers. He narrowed his eyes and found it familiar. "You're from Lin One's family?"

"I'm Lin One's cousin. My name is Lin Tianhu! The people beside me are Lin Tianbao, Lin Tianlong, and Lin Tianzhu!"

The one called Lin Tianhu had a simple and honest expression as he said with a smile, "My lord might not know, but the few of us are the Tian generation disciples of our Lin clan."

"Interesting." Lin Ye nodded.

He had seen their names in the archive room. They were all native workers ranked at the front.

In terms of construction, they were far more talented than people from their own clan. No wonder Lin One brought them here.

If the four sacred halls had more slots, he might be able to give them a chance.

With this thought in mind, across from him, the four Lin brothers took the blueprint and started their work at the blue iron mine.

Bang bang—

Experience 30, Experience 30, Experience 30, Experience 30…

[Level 3 Mining Factory x4. Requires 5 hours]

When a new building type was built, the experience points it gave would be much higher than other buildings.

Soon, the four of them reached the peak of advanced native workers. Without the upgrade scrolls, it was difficult for them to advance to the next level.

"My lord, I think we should build a small base here in the future," Lin Dachui suggested while it was still early.

He still felt that there was something strange with this blue iron ore mine. He had to protect it with all his might.

If he was not afraid that his lord would scold him, he would have suggested building a large fortress here that was not weaker than the one at their base.

"What small base? If we want to build one, make it big!"

With a straight face, Lin Ye lectured in all seriousness, "My brothers are wholeheartedly following me. How can I let my brothers risk their lives at the mining factory? If someone attacks, wouldn't they be dead meat?"

"Yes, yes, my lord. You're right." Lin Dachui was sweating profusely.

He almost forgot that his lord was a legendary wealthy man who did not care about money.

"That's settled for now then. I'll get the money," Lin Ye said and ran off.

"!!!"

Chapter 82: Destroying the First Haunted House!

"Building a large base…"

"The soldiers to protect them must at least total to 8,000…"

"That means that I'll have to make another bunker which is at least Level 6…"

"To recruit people, we have to consider accommodation, food, chefs, barracks, breeding fields, and other issues…"

"Tsk, it's all money!"

Lin Ye gnashed his teeth, feeling it in his bones that he was still too poor.

Returning to Lin Hai's territory, the high platform here had collapsed and the place was now reduced to a wasteland because he had conquered the other party's bunker.

He was standing in a huge graveyard.

He gathered everyone and said, "Leave 300 foot soldiers and 20 wolf cavalry here to guard this place. Everyone else, follow me and blow up Haunted Houses!"

"Long live our Lord!"

The soldiers had rested enough and were full of energy and fighting spirit.

The Lin Clan army charged forward. In about ten minutes, they arrived at the first haunted house to the north.

"Roar—"

As if attracted by the commotion, the roars of zombies came from the 1-star Level 1 Haunted House opposite him.

"A mere one-star Haunted House dares to cause such trouble? Brothers, destroy them!"

A ferocious look flashed across Lin Ye's face. He raised his hand and fired.

Boom!

With the help of Flying Meteor, the bullet hit the roof opposite. The smoke from the explosion filled the entire area around the haunted house.

Although the damage dealt was not high and he did not kill any zombies, it was still an insult!

"Boom—"

The concrete was smashed into pieces.

In an instant, the zombies in the Level 1 Haunted House were enraged and charged out crazily.

"Tru, I'll leave the command of this place to you. I'll be in staying back to guard the back camp."

Lin Ye said calmly as he rode the giant earth wolf towards the back of the army.

Things like going to the battlefield to kill enemies were better left to the professionals.

He was the lord, and he shouldn't interfere with their roles.

"!!!"

Tru was used to his lord's shamelessness.

The New Moon Battle Axe soared through the air. Orange-red battle aura burst around his body like blazing flames as he shouted loudly.

"Cavalry team, charge! Shield soldiers, flank them on their left and right! Break them up in one go!"

"Rangers, cover us from afar!"

With that, he took the lead in the charge.

Luo Feng, Xu Que, and Su Yu also led a group of people and followed closely behind.

Rumble!!!

The Class 3 Wolf Cavalry Soldiers were incomparably valiant. Combined with the Class 3 Purple Tier Protector's Armor, they could completely ignore the bites from these Level 1 and 2 zombies.

They charged forward.

It was simply a lot easier than killing a Level 4 Venomous Zombie.

The rangers at the back were provided great assistance as well. With a wave of arrows, hundreds of zombies were cleared.

The battle instantly became one-sided.

Lin Ye was dumbfounded.

What was farming? This was it!!!

Sweeping through everything was too spectacular to watch!

The front row was guarded by the shield wolf cavalry. The middle had more than 2,000 shield soldiers to suppress them. The back row provided firepower from afar.

In terms of number, equipment, and levels, they greatly surpassed the one-star Level 1 Haunted House.

"Ah Wei, why are you standing there in a daze? Hurry up and film. When can we find such good material? Any slower and the fight will be over!"

Lin Ye was angry at Dong Wei's slowness and whacked his shoulder thrice.

"…" Jiang Gong wanted to cry.

You whacked the wrong person, did you know that!!!

"Oh, oh, right away, I'll do it right away. Damn it, this is too exciting. I'm dumbfounded. These are the zombies? This is a haunted house? Holy sh*t, this is so blinding to watch. As usual, the lord is impressive. Hahaha, cute zombie, here I come."

Dong Wei smiled widely. At this moment, he was like a crazy war reporter who was fearless of danger.

Crossing the mountain of corpses and swimming through the sea of corpses, he dashed forward.

Far shots and close shots. Shots of the rain of arrows clearing the field, wolf cavalries passing by, shield soldiers stabbing the zombies…

He hated that he couldn't capture all the scenes in the video.

"My lord, this is not enough. Give me something more exciting. If it's a big production, I'll need some high-level goods!" Dong Wei shouted from afar.

"Sure, I'll satisfy you."

Lin Ye nodded. It was a smooth ride and there was no danger at all.

However, he was not stupid either. The incident with the Level 3 zombie ambushing him last time was still vivid in his mind.

"Adelia, lead the personal guards and follow me."

With that, Lin Ye rode the giant earth wolf.

Whoosh—

The Purple Star Armor on his body activated its defensive ability—Violet Protection.

At the same time, a pale yellow earth attribute defensive shield appeared in front of him.

This was the Earth Wolf's innate skill.

Earth Shield!

It could effectively defend against physical attacks Level 3 and below.

As long as the magic energy in its body was not exhausted, or an attack that exceeded the limit of its shield,

this shield would never break.

Of course, usually, the Earth Wolf would not dare to use it recklessly.

The amount of magic power in the body of Class 3 Magical Beast was too low. It would be used up in at most 10 seconds.

But who was Lin Ye?

The legendary European King, a wealthy man, raised his hand and took out 20 Zombie Souls.

"Big Yellow, keep a close eye. If there's any danger, take your lord and escape immediately!!"

Using his beast taming technique, he communicated with the wolf. As for the huge earth wolf, it was so happy that its tail was wagging crazily after devouring a large number of zombie souls.

It could freely use the earth's attribute energy.

It protected Lin Ye as it ran through the pile of corpses to the ground floor of the Level 1 Haunted House.

They called it a haunted house.

In fact, it was just a dilapidated two-story building that took up about 1,000 square meters.

The elites from hell made a teleportation array, continuously channeling low-level zombies into the haunted house.

According to what Priest Gran and the others said,

There were many types of teleportation arrays. Arrays in one-star Level 1 Haunted Houses could only transport Level 1 and 2 zombies.

As long as he destroyed the Haunted House and the teleportation array inside, this area would be secured.

He eyed his surroundings and adjusted the distance of his Heart's Web.

After weighing his options for a moment, he felt that his current position…

With his strengthened body, he should be able to throw the Class 3 Purple Tier Weapon, Grenade, into the Haunted House.

He took out a grenade from his Civilization Archive.

Ever since he obtained this item from the treasure chest, he had never used it. It was probably going to rot in his inventory anyway.

Now, he was giving it a good chance to make its contribution.

Following to the instructions given by the system, he pulled the pin and threw the grenade in a high arc.

Swish ~ Bang!

With the 200% effect of Flying Meteor, he set off a huge firework at the top of the Haunted House.

This was much more terrifying than a bullet. It felt as if a meteorite weighing dozens of tons had landed on the ground.

Rumble!!

The weather changed colors. Crimson light spread through the sky and the explosion caused the sky within a radius of 1km to turn gloomy.

In reality, he only blew up a portion of the Haunted House.

But the effect was too astonishing.

To outsiders, this scene looked like the arrival of the end of the world.

"This is the true beauty of violence. Those movies from the past were all trash!"

"My lord, maintain the posture of a victor!"

Dong Wei was so excited that he waved his hands and legs as he filmed the scene.

Suddenly, he fell.

In an unfortunate coincidence, he fell on the head of a zombie whose head had been chopped off.

Bites—

"Aiyo, what the f*ck!"

Dong Wei screamed miserably as his butt was bitten by the zombie's head that had yet to die.

"My lord, save me!!!"

Chapter 83: All Soldiers' Loyalty To 100%!

"My lord, save me!!!"

With this dramatic scream, the battle at the one-star Haunted House ended.

It was much easier than he had imagined, like doing something he liked.

He was excited about it before this, but after he was done, it somehow felt tasteless.

Life's but a walking shadow probably meant this.

Lin Ye stepped on a pile of rubble and looked up at the sky with his handsome face. His eyes were filled with contempt, ridicule, and nonchalance.

"Cut!! Break—"

Dong Wei gnashed his teeth. As he perfectly did the recording on his Civilization Archive of Lin Ye's pretending to be cool, his butt raised.

Whoosh—

A large amount of light-filled with divine particles fluttered in the air.

The owner of the light was Priest Gran who had a disdainful look on his face as he cast Sacred Healing to purify the corpse poison.

"Alright, done. Clean up the battlefield. Finish up killing for those who need it. Treasure chests…"

At the mention of treasure chests, Lin Ye's pupils darkened and he activated his 'hint' talent.

"Tru, behind you!"

"Luo Feng, go to the 37 degrees northwest, on the 62nd zombie corpse!"

"And Su Yu, go over there!"

"Xu Que, there… at the feet of your second granduncle's third son's fifth nephew!"

…

"Forget it. I'll give you the talent. Find it yourself. This lord is tired."

As he spoke, Lin Ye threw out five 'hint' talent fragments.

Tru, Luo Feng and his gang, and Adelia each received one each.

This was his precious treasure left behind from when he farmed the bug, a total of 99 fragments!

He could create 99 incomplete talents.

Although the talent would not be able to advance in levels, it was still a fragment of top-tier talent.

Be it for warning of battle or a small-range treasure search, this was the best talent for it.

He originally planned to get Zhang Liang to organize a treasure hunting team later on.

But right now, Lord Lin was getting impatient.

Zhang Liang went to look for new treasure chests in the wilderness. He was still thinking of going to the rubble of the Haunted Houses to look for a sharing contract.

That was the priority.

On the other side, Tru and the others looked at the talent fragments that flew into their palms.

Everyone was stunned.

Heavens, this was a talent fragment unique to human lords. As native soldiers, it was almost impossible for them to awaken their talents.

The rules of the Gods stated that if their lord did not violate the rules, they could not unilaterally break the recruitment contract.

Therefore, killing their lord to obtain his talent was not a viable route.

Therefore, even the trashiest talent crystal could be sold for a high price in the underworld.

Legend has it that in a certain season, there was a ruthless lord who wanted a complete talent crystal.

He did not hesitate to sell his own city and the tens of millions of citizens in it.

This matter had shocked many generations.

But now, they had done nothing. Just because their lord was getting impatient, they were given a talent fragment!

???!!

For a moment, the five of them were dumbfounded and could not react.

"What are you guys standing around for? Hurry up and use it!" Gran urged with an envious expression.

Unfortunately, he was a babysitting class and knew his limitations. Giving a treasure like that to frontline soldiers was undoubtedly the best choice.

"Oh-kay."

Tru and the others came to their senses and made a noise of acknowledgment. They placed the talent fragment between their eyebrows.

Whoosh—

At the next moment, a weak light descended from the sky and fused into their sea of consciousness.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Immediately after, five invisible light wave domains covered an area of 100 meters.

"My God, this… this is actually a top-tier talent!!"

"Hint talent's main effect is a warning, treasure-seeking and karma prediction…"

"Oh my god, this talent is so compatible with combat classes…"

"I feel that I can already kill enemies of a higher class. Even if I can't beat them, they can't kill me with this as well!!"

….

When the information about the 'hint' talent popped up in their minds, the five of them were shocked to the core.

"My lord, this… this is too precious! Our contributions are not worthy of such a treasure!" Tru swallowed his saliva and said with difficulty.

Upon hearing this, Luo Feng and the others turned their gazes to Lin Ye, within it, excitement mixed with a tinge of reluctance.

Tru was right. Right now, the territory rewarded treasures like this according to their contributions.

With the entire army present, their lord publicly gave them special treatment.

If others saw this, they would more or less feel envious or even hateful.

In this day and age, it was not rare for people to be consumed by their green-eyed monsters.

Therefore, it was not wise to do so since it would be detrimental to the future development of the territory.

As expected, the commotion here was quite loud.

Rainbow light was falling from the sky.

Clearly, their lord had bestowed the commander and his chiliarchs with precious treasures.

The other new recruits who were killing the surviving zombies looked over and pointed at them as they gossiped.

"Take what's given to you. Don't worry about others. The rules of the game are determined by me. If I say it's yours, it's yours. Who dares to object?"

Lin Ye glanced at their surroundings as he said domineeringly, not caring about the opinions of others.

[Friendly Hint: All your new recruits have felt the preferential treatment. It went against the promise you made about rewards and their loyalty has dropped to 89%! Cavalry soldier's powers are weakened by 5%, Shield Soldiers' Defense is weakened by 4%!]

[Friendly Hint: All your new recruits have felt the preferential treatment. It went against the promise you made about rewards and their loyalty has dropped to 88%! Cavalry soldier's powers are weakened by 6%, Shield Soldiers' Defense is weakened by 5%!]

"…"

Their loyalty to him was still slowly decreasing.

Tsk!

Lord Lin cursed under his breath although he looked nonchalant on the surface.

He quickly purchased a loudspeaker from the Reputation Shop and turned it on to its maximum volume.

"Attention all soldiers, this lord keeps his word. This is definitely not differential treatment. Commander Tru and the others have contributed greatly. Before you came, they've saved this lord's life more than once. Furthermore, this time, we wiped out a Haunted House. We are the number one army in the world. Everyone has contributed greatly for this to happen."

"When we return, I promise you that, other than the battle merits you deserve, I will add an additional 10 Zombie Souls for each of you as a reward for our first victory against a Haunted House! Furthermore, when your individual contribution points reach 10,000,000, I will grant you a talent fragment!"

"What I said will remain true, be it for you or any of those who came later!"

"Our lord is wise!"

"Long live our Lord!"

"I love our lord!"

Upon hearing this, everyone's faces flushed red!

The additional reward of Zombie Soul was secondary.

But before that, these zombie souls were enough for half a year's wage.

If they could get it, they would be happy even in their dreams.

But compared to a Talent Crystal, those were nothing!

At once, everyone was in high spirits, killing the remaining zombies with more and more effort.

Even the Priest Gran could not help but roll up his sleeves to join the 'last hitting' army.

At the same time, the decreasing loyalty finally stabilized before it increased once again.

Loyalty 10, Loyalty 10, Loyalty 10, Loyalty 10…

[Congratulations to Survivor Lin Ye. All your new recruits have been moved by your sincerity. Their loyalty has increased to 100%. The charging power of all cavalry has increased by 40%. Cavalry soldiers' powers increased by 40%, Shield Soldiers' Defense increased by 40%!]

[Congratulations to Survivor Lin Ye. All your rangers have been moved by your sincerity. Their loyalty has increased to 100%. Shooting speed increased by 40%!]

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Chapter 84: Not Worth Mentioning, Don't Say That I'm Awesome!

"It's fortunate that I'm smart, giving up some money to avoid a disaster. Not only did I stabilize their loyalty, I even made an earning."

Seeing that all the soldiers had submitted to him, Lin Ye patted the ashes off his clothes and revealed a satisfied smile.

"My lord, I've just calculated for you. There are 3,753 soldiers. 10 Zombie Souls for each of them. There's also the reward for killing zombies and picking up treasure chests. With that, you will need to spend at least 46,000 Zombie Souls," Jiang Gong reminded kindly as a graduate from the science and engineering department.

"Compared to loyalty, is this considered much?" Lin Ye cast a sidelong glance at him. "Little Gong, life is long. You have to have foresight and be magnanimous. In the future, you would be the manager of the territory's ten million toilets. You can't be so stingy, understand?"

"…" Jiang Gong secretly gave himself a slap. You owe me!

This was great. Originally, he was only designing the toilet blueprint. Now, he was demoted to a toilet manager.

"I was just joking with you."

Noticing that the other party's expression darkened, Lin Ye smiled and said, "By the way, how's the designing of the toilet going? I've found a few good things here which are ready to be given to you."

He was not lying. He had purchased many things from the Reputation Shop and his level was increasing rapidly.

Every time it leveled up, there would be a greyed-out item summary appearing on the shelves of the Reputation Shop. Amongst them were a few treasures that were extremely compatible with the toilet.

It was just a little pricier. After this matter was over, he had to gain some reputation points from Zhang Bao'er and the rest.

Before Jiang Gong could reply, cheers sounded from afar.

The last zombie was killed by a new recruit.

In that instant, the system sent him a piece of good news.

"Congratulations to Survivor Lin Ye. You are the first human lord to destroy a one-star Haunted House in this world. You have three choices."

"1. Global Notification. Reward: 10,000 Reputation points. 2. Regional Notification. Reward: 5,000 Reputation points. 3. Territory-wide Notification. Reward: 1,000 Reputation points. Please make your choice within 10 seconds. If you don't, it will be considered as giving the reward up."

What a trashy system. You wanted me to be hated by others? Is the owner of this ability so vain and greedy for fame?

One word for you: Shallow!

"System, I have no need to consider. I choose option one."

Lin Ye immediately spoke.

He had no interest in being famous or pretending to be someone special which would offend people for no reason.

But these 10,000 reputation points were too enticing.

When it triggers the 100xReward…

Coughs. That would be 1 million reputation points.

In China, this was equivalent to hitting the jackpot.

With these resources, he would take flight right away!

Apart from that, Lin Ye's eyes were as bright as light bulbs.

He seemed to have found a way to quickly start a business…

Previously, the system did not explain why his reputation points were so low and he had to rely on himself.

Zhang Bao'er had accidentally triggered the reputation points when she taught others.

With his current development speed, it was too slow to rely on just a few of them.

There were so many high-level goods in the Reputation Shop that he couldn't wait to get his hands on.

If he continued to follow his current speed, god knows when he would be able to get his hands on them.

Now, this problem was solved.

The first person to destroy a Level 1 one-star Haunted House would get a reputation points reward. Then, would he also get a reputation reward for clearing the two-star, three-star, and four-star haunted houses??

That wouldn't do. With the system's personality, not only would there be rewards, it would be more.

Mm, after completing the video and likes mission,

he would go to conquer them all!

It would save them the trouble of being overtaken by other awakened people.

Lin Ye turned on his Heart's Web. The few haunted houses thousands of meters away did not seem scary to him at all. Instead, they looked like shiny gold mines.

Soon, after he made his choice, the system immediately sent his reputation points to his Civilization Archive via an email.

"You have received 10,000 Reputation Points as a reward!"

100xReward.

"You have received 1,000,000 Reputation Points as a reward!"

Looking at the funds entering his account, Lin Ye was overjoyed. When everything was settled, he would return to buy more!!!

At the same time, the World Channel of the Civilization Archive suddenly rang with a tune for national celebration.

Lewis: "What's going on? Has the system gone crazy?"

Roman: "Someone must have completed some kind of mission! Just like in the game, it would broadcast to inform everyone."

Tyrael: "I hope it's a kind human lord."

…

A moment later, the background music reached its climax and a golden line of words appeared on the screen.

"Congratulations to Survivor Lin Ye for being the first person in the world to complete the mission of destroying a one-star Haunted House. He is rewarded with 10,000 reputation points!"

"Congratulations to Survivor Lin Ye for being the first person in the world to complete the mission of destroying a one-star Haunted House. He is rewarded with 10,000 reputation points!"

"Congratulations to Survivor Lin Ye for being the first person in the world to complete the mission of destroying a one-star Haunted House. He is rewarded with 10,000 reputation points!"

The entire world was shocked by the congratulatory message which was repeated three times.

What was this?

They were still worried about going out to find supplies when powerful people who could destroy Haunted Houses appeared?

What the hell!!

After a short period of calm, the world chat channel exploded. The number of chat notifications increased to 99999999999.

Even with the pause function, it was still dizzy to look at.

Logan: "I protest, someone is hacking!"

C-Sang: "The name Lin Ye sounds like someone from China. There's something wrong with this person!"

Jin Zhengu: "You blind people! How could Lin Ye be from China? His surname is Lin which is the main surname of my country, the universe. Ye… Eh, although it's not common and the pronunciation is a little strange, I believe that he must be a citizen of my country."

…

"Wow, my lord, you're on TV!"

"Hahaha, these foreigners have turned into green-eyed monsters. I just saw someone defaming the Lord, saying that you are so strong because you have an indescribable deal with the system. I'm dying of laughter!"

"This feels good. Quite a number of people directly scolded us. It helps to vent. These scums used to belittle us."

At this moment, Dong Wei, Zhang Bao'er, Wang Qiang, Jiang Gong, and others also saw this shocking piece of a congratulatory message from their Civilization Archives.

All of them ran over to Lin Ye excitedly.

They looked happier than if they had won the award themselves.

"Calm down, this is nothing new, there's no need for this!"

Lin Ye's expression was calm. The corners of his mouth curled into a faint smile as if nothing had happened.

At this moment, the personal information page exploded. 99messages popped up in his information panel.

A large group of familiar people @-ing him.

@ function was a new function that appeared the next day. Only people who know each other in the real world could use it to ping the person.

When the function first came out, there were many people acknowledging their relatives worldwide. It was bustling with activity.

However, he had been too busy recently and had no time for channels.

He only had a basic understanding of it and did not use it to look for his former friends.

Of course, no one looked for him.

Probably because I'm too handsome!

Lin Ye sighed and accepted this fact calmly. He opened the information panel and skimmed through it.

Most of them were his classmates and colleagues.

As expected, they were teasing and probing him for information: Brother, brother, you're famous. The world channel's number one has the same name as you. It shouldn't be you, right?

One of them was the most eye-catching.

Fan Jianqiang?

This guy actually dared to @ him. Lin Ye's eyes flashed with a dangerous glint.

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Chapter 85: You Must Die Before Sunset!

Fan Jianqiang, this person.

Like his name, this person was a little… perverted!

Honestly speaking, if it wasn't for the harmonious society which saved him, he would have killed this scum back in China.

This guy was a senior executive in their company and was the boss's relative. He strutted around arrogantly usually and liked to bully everyone he saw.

Especially when newly recruited handsome guys.

Yes, you didn't hear wrong. This guy wasn't playing by the rules.

The company did high-quality lingerie designs and there were many beautiful female employees, but this fellow did not like women and preferred men. Wasn't that infuriating!

Of course, there was nothing wrong with this in the first place. The problem was that Fan Jianqiang was not honest.

He always liked to rely on his authority to touch the new male interns.

Unfortunately, Lin Ye had just graduated from university back then. His specialization was unpopular so he was met with obstacles everywhere.

After a few companies, he came to this company and interned for three months. Perhaps because of his looks, Lin Ye was successfully converted into permanent staff.

Signing a contract, working, and getting a promotion. He thought this would be his path to smoothly reach the peak of his life.

In the end, at a business venture, Fan Jianqiang wanted to take advantage of him. How could Lin Ye tolerate that with that temper of his?

He exploded on the spot.

He picked up a bottle of red wine and split Fan Jianqiang's head open. Secondly, a kick to cut off his bloodline.

Thirdly, he beat him up with his fists.

Fan Jianqiang was seriously injured, and a few of his ribs were broken.

After that, Lin Ye was held accountable for everything. He paid a lot of medical fees and was almost thrown into jail.

Fortunately, the higher-ups of the company didn't want to make a big deal out of it and suppressed the news in the end.

But after this conflict, the feud was formed.

He wanted to quit, but Fan Jianqiang was unwilling to let go and still bore a grudge.

The contract was still in Fan Jianqiang's hands. If he breached the contract, he would have to pay a large amount of compensation.

As a result, Lin Ye suffered years of vicious beatings by society.

During this time, perhaps because he decked him too hard the previous time, Fan Jianqiang did not dare to touch him. However, he constantly made things difficult for him at work.

Lowering his job and salary was the first step. He had to serve tea and water to his clients, clean the office, and buy breakfast for his colleagues.

At the company meeting, he was never included in the list of outstanding employees to commend and reward.

If the company's performance was affected, he would definitely be the scapegoat.

There were also various company ventures. He would always take the ugly role and was responsible for making everyone happy. He also received all kinds of sarcastic insults every day.

For the sake of living, he endured it.

If it followed the original plan, there was still half a year until the contract expired.

Before he resigned, he wanted to settle scores with this bastard and definitely give him a beating.

But before he could settle this score, the entire world transmigrated.

He had been too busy these two days, so he didn't think about this at all. Who would have thought that the little rabbit would deliver himself to his doorstep?

At the same time, in a territory hundreds of kilometers away near a mountain pass.

A middle-aged man with a big belly held his Civilization Archive. He was anxious like an ant on a hot pan and kept muttering.

"Lin Ye, Lin Ye… Although China is rich in resources and there are countless people with the same name, who knew about luck's game? If it was true, with that brat's tiger-like personality, I can fool him easily."

"Moreover, I, Fan Jianqiang, am only 41 years old. I'm in my prime and still have a lot of good times to enjoy. No matter what the price is, I want to live!"

A ruthless glint flashed across the eyes of the man called Fan Jianqiang.

Roar—

Right at this moment, a large number of zombies' roars came from outside the territory, as if a small-scale battle had occurred.

A moment later, more than ten native workers and rangers escaped miserably with injuries.

"My lord, the ambush failed. You took too much risk yesterday. You shouldn't have snatched the bronze treasure chest. The Level 2 zombies guarding the treasure chest have surrounded us for an entire day with their zombie minions. It seems that they won't retreat until we are all dead."

The leader of the rangers looked fatigued and there was a hint of displeasure in his voice.

"You still dare to blame me? If it weren't for you useless people who can't even defeat a Level 2 Swift Zombie, would I have been stuck in my territory and unable to leave? Why don't you reflect on your own mistakes when you meet with problems? You actually dare to find trouble with your lord. Do you want to die?"

Fan Jianqiang had a bad temper, to begin with. He grabbed the ranger leader's collar and bellowed.

After losing his temper, the rangers and native workers dared not to say anything.

After a while, a native worker's stomach growled and he said timidly, "My lord, we haven't eaten for half a day. Can you give us something to eat? Otherwise, we won't have the strength to work."

At the mention of food, the rangers looked at Fan Jianqiang.

Other than the initial recruitment fee, the only requirement they had when they were recruited was food and lodging.

But this lord was too stingy.

All the living supplies were locked in the bunker. They were only given a little bit every meal and could not eat till they were full.

And this lord still wanted them to work overtime to kill zombies.

They were really unlucky to have followed such a lord.

"Eat? Eat my ass. You will only have the right to eat when you kill the zombies outside. You're useless and only want to eat. Won't you die eating too much? All of you have no loyalty to give and your combat ability is trash. Serves you right for being discriminated against in the underworld. You were all born with inferior characteristics. Bleh."

Fan Jianqiang cursed angrily. He spat five times a second as if he wanted to vent all his anger on these underworld natives.

Moments later, a green virtual number appeared above every native worker and ranger.

Loyalty -1, Loyalty -1, Loyalty -1, Loyalty -1…

"Friendly hint that all your rangers detest your bad attitude. Their loyalty has dropped to 40%."

"Friendly hint that all your native workers loathe your bad attitude. Their loyalty has dropped to 45%."

"Friendly hint that if loyalty decreases to 30%. All your rangers and native workers will betray you."

"Dammit!"

Upon seeing this, Fan Jianqiang's originally dark and oily face turned as black as the bottom of a pot. He looked at the rangers and native workers with a gloomy expression.

After staring at them for a moment, he suddenly smiled kindly. "Everyone, don't be angry. I'm just joking with you. Um, don't you want to eat? That's easy to solve. Let's go, Ranger One. Follow me to the bunker to get the supplies. I'll give you all you need to eat."

"Really?" Ranger One couldn't believe it.

Why did his attitude change like that of a monkey? His cat-slit eyes were ever-changing and he was too unpredictable.

"Boss, I'm hungry too. Hurry up and go."

"That's right. Without food, it's difficult to even walk, much less kill zombies."

His other lackeys looked eager.

"Alright." Ranger One gritted his teeth and nodded, following Fan Jianqiang into the bunker.

Soon, a scream was heard.

Fan Jianqiang had a ferocious expression on his face as he backstabbed the ranger. With a swing of his axe, he killed Ranger One, who was carrying food.

"Boss!"

"My lord, what are you doing?!!"

"You killed Ranger One!"

The others were shocked.

The scene of Fan Jianqiang's face being splattered with blood was reflected in their eyes. At his feet was the corpse of Ranger One.

Unable to vent his anger, he kicked the corpse and turned around, carrying his Class 2 blue tier axe as he walked out.

His expression was fierce as he glared at the native workers and rangers and cursed, "You bastards, I've already given you all face. I reprimanded a little and you guys dared to lower your loyalty. Do you really think I don't dare to kill you? If there's a next time, I'll kill all of you and recruit a new batch of people!"

After this threat, the decrease in loyalty really stopped.

Of course, it did not increase either.

"Hmph, a bunch of cowards!" Fan Jianqiang said disdainfully.

He tore open a bag of bread and ate it in front of everyone.

The native workers and rangers swallowed hard.

"Bastards, don't say that I didn't give you a chance. Eat half a meal first. Whoever can kill a zombie will get the remaining half."

As soon as he finished speaking, he kicked the treasure chest which contained a few buns out of the bunker, and scattered them all over the ground.

Tumble————

The native workers and rangers gritted their teeth even though they were unwilling.

But what could they do?

They could only pick up the dust-coated steamed bun from the ground with a humiliated expression and eat it silently.

"That's more like it. A servant should act like one."

Seeing this, Fan Jianqiang revealed a proud expression.

After dealing with his people, his gaze landed on the Civilization Archive's chat channel.

Seeing that Lin Ye did not reply for a long time, Fan Jianqiang continued to @ him crazily.

"Lin Ye, are you there? If you are, answer quickly! I'm your boss, Fan Jianqiang! Fan Fan…"

"Fan my ass!"

Lin Ye, who was far away at the Haunted House, almost threw up his dinner.

"If you continue being so disgusting, I'll block you."

As if sensing Lin Ye's impatience, Fan Jianqiang did not dare to show any dissatisfaction. He quickly lowered his voice and smiled apologetically.

"Just a joke, just a joke. Lin Ye, was that you on the world channel just now? Tell me more."

Lin Ye's face was cold. "It's me."

Fan Jianqiang was shocked.

Was it really him? What dog shit luck!

Then, he was overjoyed. There was finally someone strong near him. Wasn't there f*cking hope now?

"That's great. Brother Lin Ye, quickly think of a way to save me. I'm so scared. These damn zombies are like a plague. They surround the outside my territory every day and don't leave. I'm so f*cking tired of them."

"Lin Ye, listen to me. I will definitely not let you work for nothing. I've heard a lot of reliable information these two days. As long as we can survive for a month, we will be able to return to China. If you help me tide through this crisis, our grudges can be written off. I promise to give you a promotion and a raise!"

"Also, didn't you lack money? You're almost at the age where you can get a wife. The property prices at Chang'an are so high. With your salary, how long will it take for you to afford a house? Your parents are only working-class people. You definitely don't want them to spend their retirement money to buy a house for you."

"Look, how about this? Come and help me, I have three unused apartments under my name. You can choose any of them…"

"Ahem, you don't have to choose. I'll give them all to you! If you're worried, I can use the Civilization Archive to record a video. I won't lie to you!"

Who were you trying to fool!

Not long ago, even the national son-in-law, Qian Bocong, had said that there were no shortcuts. How could Fan Jianqiang have a better background than Old Qian?

Lin Ye sneered in his heart but appeared calm on the surface.

"Oh? What information channel? Where did you hear it from?"

Oh?

Seeing that Lin Ye had taken the bait, Fan Jianqiang's eyes lit up.

Indeed, he was still young and would smile once he received some benefits.

He was as easy to deal with as the cheap slaves outside. Hmph!

"Don't worry about that. I promise that the information isn't fake."

Isn't fake…

As if I would believe you!

If I don't kill you this time, I'll take your surname.

Lin Ye pursed his lips. "I can help you. Take a photo of your surroundings and send me the rough directions. It's best if there's a landmark or something."

Fan Jianqiang said warily, "Lin Ye, I'm telling you first, don't take revenge on me. Let's leave a way out so that we can meet again in the future."

In the future?

Do you still want a future?

I said it!

Lin Ye's attitude was firm. "It's up to you whether you want to give it to me or not. I'm busy and don't have time to waste with you."

After that, he was about to hang up.

Fan Jianqiang was scared silly. At this moment, he only had Lin Ye to rely on amongst his acquaintances.

At midnight, the protection mechanism would disappear and the zombies outside were enough to cut him into pieces.

As for the information channel, it was all nonsense. If he had any news, he would have long fled.

"Don't, don't do that. I'll take a photo. I'll take the photo right now."

Fan Jianqiang replied and quickly used his Civilization Archive to take photos of his territory.

In the end, he even took a few photos of Goat Horn Mountain opposite his territory and sent them all to Lin Ye.

Fan Jianqiang: "That's all I have. Lin Ye, you have to be fast. I think our territories are quite near. Hurry up. Even if you can't find me, survival games like this will usually have a trading market sooner or later. When the time comes, you have to send me more money and weapons. I can buy them from you with China's currency."

Sure, he was an expert. He could even make an accurate guess that there would be a trading market.

Lin Ye narrowed his eyes and replied on the surface.

He turned off his private channel and blacklisted Fan Jianqiang.

Looking at the information in his hands, the corners of Lin Ye's mouth curled into a cold smile.

Just wait. I'll 'save' you soon.

"My lord? Your smile is very scary." Zhang Bao'er shivered.

"Don't spout nonsense. How can a kind person like me look frightening?"

A bright smile appeared on Lin Ye's face. He teased her a little before turning to shout at Dong Wei, "Ah Wei, are you done filming? Hurry up and upload it. I want to complete the 1 million likes mission as soon as possible and start the market trade."

"The introduction and content part of it has already been filmed. All that's missing is the word 'panchilaine'!" Dong Wei spoke with an awkward-sounding accent.

Lin Ye was stunned.

"What the hell?" He frowned.

"Punchline! My lord, you probably never watched hip-hop back in China. The teachers in the show like to say it like that. Before I transmigrated, that was a popular saying across the internet."

Seeing Lin Ye's unfriendly expression, Dong Wei quickly explained, "Ahem, in Chinese, it's just the finishing touch."

"Don't you have a more cultured way of speaking… China is vast and profound with deep cultural roots. There's always more for you to learn. Why must you learn from the dregs of other races?"

Lin Ye glared at him and urged, "Hurry up, what else do you need? After you're done, we are going to clean up the next Haunted House. Time is tight, and the mission is important."

"Open the treasure chests then. The Lord's European King talent is exceptional. Every time he opens a treasure chest, it will be a huge hit. That should be the most important finishing touch. At the end of the video, have a short message. Tell everyone that they have benefits that they can get. Those who like the video will have the chance to obtain equipment of various levels or Zombie Souls after the market opens," Dong Wei said.

"There's a reward function? Why didn't I know about that?" Lin Ye was surprised.

"Just making it up. No one would know anyway. Let's get through this mission first." Dong Wei chuckled.

"Not bad, Ah Wei. How scheming. I think more and more highly of you."

Lin Ye patted his shoulder heavily. The pain made him grimace, especially his butt that had just been bitten by a zombie. The wound almost split open.

Terrified, he hurriedly went to Priest Gran to cast his Sacred Healing.

Lin Ye did not hesitate. With a wave of his hand, he took out ten bronze treasure chests from the Civilization Archive's treasure chest page.

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Chapter 86: Interspatial Ring! Three Class 4 Silver Tier Equipment!

"My lord, you can just open the sandalwood treasure chests. Open the bronze treasure chests when you get back. If the items are too good, it's easy to draw hatred from viewers!"

Dong Wei reminded.

"What's there to be afraid of? We can take the good stuff ourselves and leave some trash behind," Lin Ye said indifferently.

Of course, the main reason was that he was afraid of the inconvenience.

The probability of sandalwood treasure chests getting living supplies was too high.

If he opened too many, with this place so far from his territory, even if he sent them to Lin Hai's territory, it would still require a lot of manpower and resources.

The probability of getting a weapon or armor from a bronze treasure chest was high.

If there was good stuff, it could be given to the new recruits directly to increase their combat power.

The equipment they changed out could also be used to be given to the people who liked his video.

It would be a win-win situation for everyone!

Besides, leveling up 100xReward was also important.

If he went higher, he would need to use 10,000 bronze treasure chests.

This was a huge project.

The remaining sandalwood treasure chests were kept for when the treasure chest exchange system opened so that they can be all converted into bronze treasure chests.

This way, he could increase the speed of leveling 100xReward.

With that, Lin Ye opened 18 bronze treasure chests in a row.

To enhance the effect, he even added a Silver Treasure Chest to liven things up.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

A large number of equipment shone through from the treasure chests.

At the same time, the system's good news fell like rain.

"You have obtained a Class 2 Blue Tier Weapon—Green Destiny Sword!"

"You have obtained Level 2 living supplies—5kg of premium pork belly!"

"You have obtained a Level 2 Zombie Converter!"

"You have obtained a Class 1 White Tier Weapon—Multi-Shot Bow!"

"You have obtained a Class 2 Blue Tier Armor—Spirit Ascension Chestplate!"

…

"You have obtained a special type spatial treasure, a Class 2 Blue Tier Accessory—Small Meru Ring!"

100xReward.

100 Class 2 Blue Tier Weapon—Green Destiny Sword1 Class 4 Silver Tier Weapon—Berserker's Giant SwordRandom Weapon (1% chance to invoke 100xReward again)500kg of premium pork belly100kg of giant hairy crabRandom Living Supply100 Level 2 Zombie Converter1 Level 4 Zombie ConverterRandom Zombie Converter

…

100 Class 2 Blue Tier Accessory—Small Meru Ring1 Class 4 Silver Tier Beginner Accessory—Huge Meru RingRandom Accessory

The dazzling array of treasures made Lin Ye dizzy.

Among them, the most eye-catching were the special type small spatial ring and the Level 2 Zombie Converter.

These two items had a low drop rate and were one of the things he needed the most at the moment.

After a moment of hesitation.

Because a Class 2 small spatial ring only had 5 cubic meters of space and a Class 4 large spatial ring had 300 cubic meters of space.

Option 1 would give him a total of 500 cubic meters of space. Although it was troublesome, it was 200 more cubic meters than Option 2.

F*ck!

It wasn't like he didn't have a chance to drop it again. Who cared if he was right or wrong.

Earth's maxim was that when one did not know what to choose, choosing the big one or choosing a high quantity one or choosing the handsome one would definitely not go wrong!

Thinking of this, Lin Ye made his choice.

"For Zombie Converter, option 1. For the spatial ring and Class 2 equipment, option 2. For living supplies and Class 1 equipment, I choose option 3."

Option selection ended.

As usual, the treasure chest exploded once again.

Swish——

The light from the treasure-filled the sky, looking like a meteor shower, covering the entire haunted house.

"You have obtained a Class 4 Silver Tier Weapon—Berserker's Giant Sword!"

"You have obtained a Class 4 Silver Tier Accessory—Huge Meru Ring!"

"You have obtained 200kg of beef!"

"You have obtained 100 Level 2 Zombie Converters!"

"You have obtained 87 Class 2 Blue Tier weapons—Feather Bow!"

"You have obtained 49 Class 3 Attributeless Type Upgrade Scrolls!"

"You have obtained a Class 4 Silver Tier Armor—King's Armor!"

"You have obtained 35 Class 3 Magical Armor!"

"You have obtained 21 blueprints for Class 3 Demon Hunters!"

"You have obtained 12 Level 3 Armory Upgrade Scroll!"

…

"Oh my god, so many Class 3 Purple Tier Equipment? And 3 Class 4 Silver Tier Weapons!!!"

All the soldiers and humans were stunned.

Previously, the Lord had opened hundreds of treasure chests, and most of them were blue tier equipment.

For Purple Tier Equipment, only Protector's Armor had a hundred sets.

But now, their lord had only opened 18 bronze treasure chests.

The drop rate of high-class equipment was that high?

Common understanding was that a Level 2 Bronze Treasure Chest should usually only drop blue tier equipment. There was only a small chance for Class 3 Purple Tier weapons to drop.

As for a Class 4 Silver Tier weapon, that was just an empty dream.

However, the lord was good at what others could not, and even dropped them one after another.

"My lord, as expected of the European King's Heaven Fate! It's even more terrifying than before!" Adelia exclaimed in her heart.

She had never respected anyone so much except for her lord when it came to opening treasure chests.

Watching others open treasure chests was nerve-wracking.

But seeing her lord open treasure chests would definitely not disappoint.

Every draw was a visual feast for wealth.

No matter how trashy a treasure chest was, in the hands of her lord, it would still give him a Class 3 Purple Tier or Class 4 Silver Tier weapon.

After all, something like luck…

Other than her shockingly handsome lord, not everyone could have it.

"Damn it, there's actually no Class 4 Silver Tier Staff!!" Priest Gran's eyes were about to pop out.

However, after taking a look around,

Not to mention a silver tier staff, there wasn't even a single purple, blue or white tier staff.

"Don't hold any hope. For you to be able to come out so early, it's all because of the lord's luck and you still want a Silver Tier staff? You must be tired of living. It's only the third day, and the restriction on your innate talent is still there. Take your time. It'll be much easier after this," Adelia consoled him.

"Aish, why does God always care for these stupid combat types!" Gran looked afar sourly.

At this moment, Tru was smiling like a fool.

A Class 4 Silver Tier Berserker's Giant Sword. This was completely made for him.

He was the only Class 4 melee soldier present who could hold a two-handed sword. The compatibility with him was instantly maxed out.

At this moment, all the soldiers were 100% loyal. There was no difference in treatment. They were brothers. Was there a problem with Boss getting the best equipment?

Even if they had any problem, they had to hold it in!

Did they think that Boss Tru's dirty tricks were only for show!?

As expected, under everyone's gaze, Lin Ye casually threw the Class 4 Silver Tier Berserker's Giant Sword to Tru.

"Thank you, my lord. You are the best lord ever!!!"

Tru was overjoyed. The Class 3 Purple Tier Weapon, New Moon Battle Axe, in his hand, was dropped like trash on the rubble remains of the Haunted House.

The Lord had spoken just now anyway. For equipment which he took off, there must be a few presentable ones.

The Class 3 Purple Tier Weapon, New Moon Battleaxe, was just nice for that purpose.

In the early stages, this item would probably be one of the top pieces of equipment in the world. Those guys would be green with envy.

In order to get this treasure, they would probably press the 'Like' button until it broke.

Taking the Giant Sword, Tru's body emitted a dazzling orange-red battle aura.

The next moment, he leaped into the air and slashed in a stroke to let out a scarlet sword beam.

"Rumble!!!"

The remnants of the Haunted House and its stone walls exploded, splitting the Haunted House into literal halves.

A gully of ten meters long and three meters deep was formed.

"Hahaha, this feels good! Its power is more than ten times stronger than New Moon Battleaxe!"

Tru laughed heartily. "Even if I don't enter the Four Sacred Halls to be baptized, I need not be afraid of any elites of the same class!"

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Chapter 87: Sharing Contract!

While Tru was testing the power of Class 4 Silver Tier Berserker's Sword, Lin Ye had also thrown the Class 3 Purple Star Armor into the remains of the Haunted House.

And conveniently put on the entire territory's only…

No, to be exact, it should be the only Class 4 Silver Tier Armor in the entire world—King's Armor.

Listen, even the name sounds better than before.

It was not just the name, even the quality of the equipment had changed.

He opened the information about the King's Armor.

Item: King's Armor

Level: Advanced Class 4 (Can be refined into top tier using silver iron ore)

Skills: Lord's Descend (Ignores attacks from Level 1, 2, and 3 Zombies. Block 10 Level 4 Zombie's sure-kill techniques. Block 1 Level 5 Zombie's sure-kill technique. Class 4 Blacksmith and Level 4 Armory can repair the armor back to 100%. Class 3 Blacksmith and Level 3 Armory can repair it up to 80%)

Equipment's Special Effect: Disdain of the King. Anyone who the King looks at will be oppressed by the King's Spirit. Reduces the other party's attributes by 20%.

"F*ck, this attribute is awesome!"

Lin Ye's eyes lit up. This time, even if a Class 5 elite wanted to assassinate him, it would be impossible to kill him in a single shot.

And at this point in time, forget about Class 5 enemies, the Class 4 powerhouses under him were all strong warriors.

Wearing it and combined with the protection of thousands of soldiers.

As long as he didn't court death, who could kill him!

Lin Ye wore it happily and placed the Class 4 Huge Meru Ring on his middle finger.

Why was his middle finger? For it to be more eye-catching!!

"How do I use this?" He touched the surface of the Huge Meru Ring.

A notification came through.

Item: Huge Meru Ring (Special Type Spatial Treasure)

Level: Early Stage of Class 4 (Rarity Level )

Space: 300 cubic meters (Space can be increased using Void Ores)

Usage Method: Focus on the ring in your mind and look at the item you wish to store. Make sure that the level of the item does not exceed the ring's level. Once that is fulfilled, the ring will release Meru Light to store the item.

[Friendly Hint 1: For items that exceed the level of the ring but has a size that does not exceed the storage limit of the ring, you need to touch the item with your hand to store it.]

[Friendly Hint 2: Spatial-type equipment cannot hold living things. Fresh living supplies can be kept fresh indefinitely.]

"Impressive, is it that magical? Not only did it have a rarity rating, what do the filled and empty stars actually mean?"

Lin Ye tapped on the stars on the rarity index with his fingers and realized that there was no note.

He was instantly speechless. Looks like it was something for him to find out again.

In any case, he could not figure it out for the time being. He pushed it to the back of his mind and turned his attention to the method of use.

After studying it for a few seconds, Lin Ye immediately became like Tru.

Like Tru, when he saw something new, his intelligence dropped as he fiddled with the object happily.

He concentrated his attention on the Huge Meru Ring and in his Eye of Consciousness, he seemed to see an empty space.

It was quiet and dry inside. Even time seemed to have stopped.

"Is this Meru's Space?"

This was the first time Lin Ye had seen something so technologically advanced.

At the spatial fault, he actually saw a strange cross-section left behind by a sharp object.

At a certain point in time, it was like a piece of space that had been cut off from an unknown universe.

Of course, with his current realm, he could not wrap his head around this.

He was just curious. His consciousness observed every corner of the space for a while before he reconnected back to the outside world.

His gaze turned to the living supply – 200kg of beef.

Whoosh—

In an instant, a sky-blue energy beam descended.

Meru Beam?

It felt similar to the energy of the various teleportation array, but its strength and efficiency were much lower.

The beam of light slowly enveloped the treasure chest containing the beef, and light flashed.

Swish!

The beef and the treasure chest shrunk at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Until the blue light completely entered the Huge Meru Ring.

At the same time, a treasure chest filled with beef appeared in his meru mind space. It was lying in a corner, looking beautiful on its own.

Then, for the other living supplies.

Anything like 50kg of potatoes, rice, he kept putting it into the ring, taking it out, putting it again…

He repeated it seven or eight times and tried playing with it using different methods.

"…"

Zhang Bao'er, Dong Wei, Jiang Gong, and the rest were dumbfounded.

Was the lord… doing magic?

When did he become so powerful?

It was not until Adelia reminded them that they realized that their lord had obtained the legendary Meru Ring!

In an instant, the eyes of every human lit up.

Wow, this thing…

A celestial's treasure!

It seemed like things only seen in novels and xianxia dramas.

They didn't expect to see the real thing so soon after transmigrating to another world.

"My lord, my lord, can you let me play with it for a while?" Zhang Bao'er mustered her courage and asked weakly.

"My lord, let me try it too!" Dong Wei smiled with his teeth.

"If you don't mind, I can try it for my friend," Wang Qiang laughed sheepishly.

"My lord, my lord, Nicole is also…"

Nicole, who had been silent for a long time, also stepped forward. Her beautiful eyes shone with anticipation.

Her pitiful look was screaming the words, 'I want it too' and 'If you don't let me play with it, I'll cry'.

"A bunch of country bumpkins. Isn't it just a Meru Ring? Take it."

By now, Lin Ye had had enough fun.

After the novelty wore off, it felt like nothing much as well. He casually threw the large Meru Ring into the crowd, immediately attracting a commotion.

"Whoever loses it, for guys, you will have to cut your family treasure off and cultivate yourself at a monastery. For girls… you can't do make-up for a month… Wait no, there are no cosmetics in this world so how can they even do makeup? In that case, you're not allowed to receive sanitary pads for three months. That's settled then."

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone froze in their action.

Although everyone was curious…

For the sake of their future happiness, everyone was more careful than before.

While Tru and the others were still fooling around, Lin Ye summoned a dozen native workers.

"Go and place these Level 2 Zombie Converters around the rubble remains of the Haunted House. 1,000 zombie corpses is quite a large sum of money."

"Yes, my lord." The native workers heard the order and quickly went to get the converter.

100 Level 2 Converters was much more efficient than the one at the territory.

It would probably take about ten minutes for the conversion, faster than Tru and the rest can finish playing.

As for Lin Ye, after he returned to the remains of the Haunted House once again, he had yet to touch the best part of the Haunted House.

He had gained a lot from destroying the Haunted House.

He had obtained 93 sandalwood treasure chests, 9 bronze treasure chests, dozens of low-level blueprints, and low-level equipment that Lin Ye could not even be bothered to look at…

Of course, these were all external items. The most important was the gain of a sharing contract.

According to what Adelia and the rest said, a Haunted House was the best place for sharing contracts to drop.

Even for a one-star Haunted House, there was a 90% chance that a Level 1 contract would drop.

The hiding place of the sharing contract was under the teleportation array on the first floor of the haunted house.

At this moment, the first and second floors had been split into two by Tru. The main body of the Haunted House had been destroyed, and the teleportation array naturally disappeared.

Broken rubble blocked his way.

"Big Yellow, make a path for me!"

Lin Ye patted the mighty Earth Wolf beside him and threw a piece of Zombie Soul.

"Howl—"

The huge Earth Wolf jumped up and swallowed it, immediately turning into a small excited bull.

An earthy yellow shield of light appeared above his head and he slammed it against the debris.

Rumble!!

Rubble collapsed dust and smoke curled about.

A moment later, with Big Yellow's help, Lin Ye found a contract glowing white in the ruins.

"You have obtained a Level 1 Sharing Contract!"

100xReward.

Chapter 88: Wind Elemental Energy, Rangers' Breathing Technique!

100xReward.

100 Level 1 Sharing Contract1 Level 3 Sharing ContractRandom Sharing Contract

Lin Ye took a look. What was the use of 100 Level 1 contracts?

The speed at which high and low-class soldiers absorbed magical energy was two extremes.

Unless there were 100 super-geniuses like Luo Feng for him to bind the contracts to, it was useless.

He directly ignored option 1.

Option 2 and 3…

"I'll take a gamble. After all, there are still so many Haunted Houses left. At most, I'll waste one contract."

Lin Ye had a calm mindset.

Although he longed to obtain the magical energy, it was only a yearning.

Just like how children longed for martial arts secret manuals from novels.

However, once you realized that you could really attain it, you would look down on ordinary martial arts like the Mountain Splitting Blade and the Ancestor's Fist. From then on, you would fantasize about jumping straight up to the Great Kun Overarching Movement, Nine Men's Divine Art, Eighteen Subduing Dragon Palms, Divine Palms, Unbreakable Divine Power, etc…

To put it simply, Lord Lin's eyesight was set high up. A Level 3 contract was not enough to catch his attention.

"I choose option 3."

"You have obtained 1 Level 4 Sharing Contract!"

"!!!"

Lin Ye was stunned for a moment before he became overjoyed.

He was just trying his luck and he actually got it.

System, my son, you really understand me. Dad will give you a Like!!

"But… if I can trigger the second 100xReward, tsk tsk, that would be even better."

Lin Ye clicked his tongue greedily.

Whoosh—

A moment later, the contract that emitted a white ball of light disappeared from his hand, replaced by a silver scroll.

A Level 4 Sharing Contract!!!

The description was as followed:

Special Type Treasure: Sharing Contract

Level: Early Stage of Class 4 (Rarity Level )

Effect: A contract can be signed with people of the same level as the contract. You can obtain the other party's talent. At critical moments, you can also borrow the other party's magical energy. Correspondingly, when you activate your talent, the other party can also enjoy a partial reflection of your innate talent (The stronger the talent, the smaller the effect of the reflection. Borrowing energy will also result in side effects after it ends)

Requirements: The number of people who can sign the contract is tied to the level of the bunker. The higher the level of the bunker, the more people you can sign with.

Oh my god, its value was a star higher than the Huge Meru Ring.

Also, this effect was too heaven-defying.

They could actually enjoy a partial reflection of the lord's talent.

Lin Ye's thoughts raced, his eyes shining.

This setting was too good!

Did that mean that my 100xReward god-tier talent would also reflect on the person who signed the contract?

Even a weakened version was good.

When the time came, if he signed his father and the rest, and if they got 50xReward, 30xReward or even 10xReward would be good.

With that, he could rest easy too!

In an instant, Lin Ye was extremely excited.

However, the reality was cruel. A basin of cold water was poured over his head following the system's notification, completely extinguishing him of his dreams.

[Friendly Hint: God-tier and top-tier talents require a super contract for it to be reflected]

"Tsk!!!"

Lin Ye cursed under his breath and pointed his middle finger at the sky.

100xReward was his only talent.

In that case, he would not be able to let his family benefit from it.

Helpless, he could only shift his focus back to himself.

During this time, he had relied too much on the protection of Tru, Adelia, and the others. He was too weak to guarantee his own safety.

Which was why he had to be so careful.

And this sharing contract would be the turning point.

He read the description carefully.

Lin Ye roughly understood how sharing contracts worked.

With a Level 4 contract, he could sign a contract with a Level 4 elite and obtain their talent to assist in his own cultivation or borrow their battle aura, elemental energy, and other magical powers if there was a crisis.

"Who should I sign this with?"

Lin Ye's gaze swept across Tru, Adelia, and the dejected Priest Gran, who was playing with the Huge Meru Ring.

Among everyone present, only the three of them were Class 4, so he did not have much choice.

He will give the support class a pass first.

Furthermore, the class of the healer was too low and he did not have the corresponding equipment, so the experience he would have signed with him was bound to be the worst.

Tru was a warrior, and Adelia was a ranger.

One was for melee combat while the other was for long-range combat.

Safety wise, it had to be Adelia.

"Alright, let's try the power of the wind elemental first."

Lin Ye made his decision. With a kind expression, he waved his hand and said, "Adelia, come here for a moment."

"Oh, coming!"

Adelia threw the Huge Meru Ring to others and ran over happily.

"My lord, do you have a treasure for me too? I knew it, my lord still has me in mind," Adelia said happily.

"Well, I guess this can be considered one."

Lin Ye laughed and took out the sharing contract that was emitting a silver glow. He smiled and said, "Are you surprised? A Level 4 Sharing Contract. Come, quickly sign it with your lord. In the future, if you and I were to work together, who in the world can stop us?"

"…"

Adelia gaped, her eyes wide as if she had seen a ghost.

Gulp—

She swallowed hard. A Level 4 Sharing Contract???

No way…

She remembered clearly.

According to the ancient records, the probability of dropping a Level 1 to 3 sharing contract from a Level 1 Haunted House was high.

But for a Level 4 contract to drop…

That was an insane leap.

Even the most difficult nine-star haunted house only had a 5% of dropping a Level 4 sharing contract.

Usually, if one wanted to obtain contracts Level 4 or higher, they would have to fight a Level 2 Haunted House with at least a five-star difficulty.

However, the Haunted House that they had just destroyed was the trashiest one-star Level 1 Haunted House, and it had already dropped?

Sure I guess. Her lord was awesome x999!

Over the past few days, she had seen too many surprises and was used to it.

"Hey, hey, what are you thinking about? Hurry up and sign here!"

Lin Ye reached out and waved his hand in front of Adelia's eyes, calling her back from her shock.

"Yes! It's my honor to sign a contract with the lord!" Adelia was also overjoyed.

She shouted in her heart: I am the first elite in the Lin clan to sign a contract with the lord.

This feeling… Ah, this was too good!

In the future, I, Adelia, will be able to leave my name in history like my grandmother. Hahaha!

The tiny Adelia in her heart placed her hands on his hips and laughed wildly.

Whoosh—

Soon, under the guidance of the contract, Adelia eagerly squeezed out a drop of blood and dripped it onto the contract. She signed her native name on the corner and pressed her fingerprint on it.

Lin Ye followed suit.

When the fingerprint fused with the blood essence, the Level 4 sharing contract emitted a blinding light.

The next moment, it shattered into two silver beams that fused into the space between Lin Ye and Adelia's eyebrows.

"Hm?"

Lin Ye raised his eyebrows. "This is…"

The moment the contract was completed, his senses changed.

Vaguely, he could sense the green energy particles wandering in the air.

However, these green particles could not be seen with the naked eye. Even his powerful Heart Nexus talent could not see through them.

However, after binding Adelia, he could sense them clearly.

He raised his hand, wanting to touch these green particles, but they were like lively elves who naughtily escaped through the gaps of his fingers.

It was still floating in midair not far away from him, dancing up and down as if mocking his incompetence.

"These green particles must be the wind elemental energy that Adelia mentioned."

Lin Ye nodded as he came to an understanding.

In that case, I should be able to cultivate now, right?

"My lord, not only do you have to feel the elemental power with your heart, but you also have to practice the techniques. This is my clan's Secret Records for Wind Elemental Techniques of my race. It contains the breathing technique that my ancestors created after countless years of research."

"However, with my current class, I've only obtained the first four tiers. Please take a look first."

Adelia took out an ancient notebook from her animal skin bag behind her and handed it to Lin Ye.

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Chapter 89: Sister, You're Too Brave, To Even Dare To Flirt with the Lord!

"Ranger's Records?"

Lin Ye held it in his hand. The system automatically translated for him. There was no language barrier during the entire process.

The notebook was thin but very precise. It was full of practical experience.

The records were divided into two parts.

The first section focused on cultivation and the second section focused on skills.

He was still in the early stages. He would leave the skill chapter for later and focus on cultivation.

That was the breathing technique that Adelia mentioned.

The opening chapter of the cultivation included a portion of advice from past rangers.

The rangers were not the top noble families of this season, but they were once honorable and respectable too. Just because they were not at their peak didn't mean that they were trash.

As long as he cultivated diligently, he would definitely become a top powerhouse who could rule the world in the future.

The elder who wrote the notebook encouraging words and even considerately divided breathing techniques into ordinary and geniuses sections.

As the name suggested, those with ordinary talent could practice the simplified version. Although it was not as powerful, there was at least another path of cultivation that would prevent them from hitting a wall.

This was much better than other Level 1 attributeless soldier.

The warrior tribes had high requirements for talents. Other than elites like Tru, Luo Feng, Xu Que, and Su Yu,

Ordinary soldiers had no hope of seeing any battle aura techniques.

This was also the reason why many Class 3 soldiers in the territory had advanced, but most of them still did not know how to fight.

The reason why they were able to break through was not that they were outstanding, but because Lin Ye had precious upgrade scrolls for them.

This sort of shortcut cultivation path would not be able to obtain approval from their underworld clansmen.

Unless one was extremely outstanding and had made great contributions to the clan, they would definitely not be given the secret technique behind battle aura.

Speaking of contributions, Lin Ye had been planning to help these Class 3 soldiers with their contributions after destroying a few Haunted Houses and getting his Zombie Souls.

To put it bluntly, the low-class soldiers of the underworld had a tough life. Wasn't it the greatest thing to have money?

And what the great Lord Lin didn't lack the most was probably money.

At that time, he could just casually spend a hundred thousand or so Souls. He didn't believe that these old stubborn fellows who had been poor for hundreds or thousands of years would not bow their heads.

With that, Lin Ye felt increasingly optimistic about his future.

As a genius, he naturally ignored the ordinary breathing technique and went straight for the genius version.

The genius version was indeed for geniuses. He wondered if it was because of the translation.

The words were awkward-sounding and profound.

For a moment, even with Lin Ye's high IQ of 135, he actually could not understand it.

"Adelia, come here and teach me!" Lin Ye shouted.

"Ah, oh, wait a moment, I'll go right away!" Adelia walked unsteadily after she signed the contract as well.

Her senses were also different from before, especially her five senses. They were much better than it was.

The one which was the most impactful for her was the improvement in vision.

Was this Heart's Web?

Amazing!

Little stars appeared in her beautiful eyes as she constantly adjusted her focus and played happily with the talent.

When she was far away, she was like a god who could see everything within a radius of two thousand meters, except for the dark fog.

This kind of god-like vision was the strongest support for high-class rangers.

As her focus pulled nearer, the world in front of her became extremely clear. The dust became huge specks, and the lord opposite her was like a giant.

Well, his head was huge. So were his eyes. His neck, waist, legs, everywhere were huge.

"My lord, your Heart's Web talent is too good. Although I can only obtain one-third of its effect, it's really too strong!"

Adelia's footsteps seemed to be a little unsteady.

As she walked shakily towards Lin Ye, she happily tapped the dust particles in the air.

However, just as she was about to reach the end, she slipped and fell straight into Lin Ye's arms.

"…"

!!!

The air became quiet, and Adelia's heart thumped wildly.

Move! Do you dare to not move? Move it!

At the same time, her colorful mind exploded.

The innocent self in her heart shouted crazily, "Ahhh, my lord, I didn't do it on purpose!!"

A small, peach-colored person appeared with sweet smiley eyes. "Oh, the lord's embrace is so warm. I really want to lie in his arms forever!"

Thud!

As soon as she finished speaking, the warm hand disappeared and she lost her balance, falling straight to the ground.

"Ah, that hurts."

Adelia frowned, completely awake, and looked at Lin Ye with a resentful expression.

Now that her Heart's Web had been shut down by her lord, her perspective had returned to normal, and she naturally understood what had happened.

"How rude!"

With a straight face, Lin Ye snorted in all seriousness and said, "If there's a next time, remember to go somewhere uninhabited. There are too many eyes watching!"

???

Too many eyes?!!!

What did I do?

Who am I?

Where am I?

In an instant, Adelia was stunned.

She did not dare to turn back. Her mind was already filling up with the thoughts of her comrades laughing crazily behind her back.

Oh my god, I have no face to continue living!!!

Immediately, her cheeks flushed red and blood surged up to her brain.

And her thoughts did come true. After a short period of calm, thunderous laughter erupted.

"Hahahaha, I'm dying of laughter. Elder Sister Adelia is falling in love!" It was a female ranger with long legs and a thin waist.

"Elder Sister is too brave. She even dares to flirt with the lord! She's our role model!" A certain lady who felt inferior sighed.

"Sobs, I want to feel the lord's embrace too. That bad woman, Adelia, I'll feed her with broad beans for dinner!" This was the envious Nicole.

The effect of the broad beans was similar to purging croton from Earth, but they were more effective. It was said that one of them was enough to cause a person to have diarrhea for several days.

Hmph, any bad woman who has designs on her lord should disappear!—This was the motto of her lord's crazy fan, Nicole.

Alright, the show was over.

Lin Ye pulled Adelia up and shouted to the crowd, "What are you looking at? Can't you see that this lord is teaching his subordinates a lesson? Are you so free that you don't want those 30 sets of Class 3 Purple Tier Magical Armor? The same goes for rangers, if you don't want the Feather Bows, I'll give all 80 of them away at the draw."

"Tru!"

"Yes, my lord!" As the commander, Tru's expression turned serious as he hurriedly replied.

"While I'm training, organize a small-scale combat competition among those of the same level. As long as any of them can win five rounds first, they will have the right to wear the Magical Armor. Same for the rangers, whoever's archery can hit the bullseye five times first will be able to exchange for the Feather Bow. The equipment that is taken off is to be left in the ruins of the Haunted House. I'll use them later!"

As soon as he said that, the Class 3 soldiers who had not obtained armor and the rangers who were still wearing the free Class 2 blue tier equipment all became excited.

They just had to win five rounds. It was not mentioned that they had to fight with the strongest. The room for manipulation was gigantic.

Immediately, they surrounded Tru, jumped out, and started clamoring for a one-on-one fight.

Everyone's attention was attracted by the fight.

Relieved, Lin Ye looked at Adelia.

The latter's face was still flushed slightly. After she stood up, she asked awkwardly, "My lord, was what you said true?"

"What?" Lin Ye frowned.

"Ah, well… nothing."

Adelia shook her head repeatedly, feeling embarrassed.

She straightened out her thoughts and asked curiously, "Why did the lord call for me then?"

"Nonsense, of course, it's to practice breathing techniques. The genius version is too awkward-sounding. Explain this chapter to this lord. Here, and here!"

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Chapter 90: I, Lin Ye, Became Class 3!

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

"My lord, the genius version of the breathing technique of my ranger race is called the primitive breathing technique. It has been passed down for a long time."

"However, in my generation, it is lacking. Its power is far inferior to what it was at its peak. It was only thanks to the countless elders of my clan that I was able to continue on my path of cultivation."

"This is the primitive breathing technique. Come, I'll teach you myself…"

Seeing that Lin Ye was listening intently, Adelia calmed herself down and gradually taught him the core that the elders of the clan had imparted to her.

A moment later, experience numbers appeared above Lin Ye's head again.

Primitive Breathing Technique Experience 1, Primitive Breathing Technique Experience 1, Primitive Breathing Technique Experience 1…

100xReward.

Primitive Breathing Technique Experience 100, Primitive Breathing Technique Experience 100, Primitive Breathing Technique Experience 100…

Ten minutes later, Adelia stopped teaching when Lin Ye had completed the first stage of learning all the breathing techniques.

He sat down cross-legged and circulated his Qi in his core. His hands were placed in a triangle shape as he breathed in and out.

This time, he clearly felt something different.

He vaguely sensed that the inverted triangle palm pose seemed to have produced a slight vortex under the qi circulation of the breathing technique.

With every breath, the whirlpool would spin unsteadily, pulling in the elemental energy in the air.

Of course, the process of absorbing the elemental power for the first time was very long.

Lin Ye didn't know how long he had been meditating before he finally managed to lure a seemingly relaxed and lively wind elemental energy particle over.

However, the little fellow was very cautious. For every three steps it took forward and it would take one step back.

This caused him to be careful every time he breathed, not daring to expose his intention to devour the other party.

He only became ruthless when the particle was about to enter the inverted triangle vortex.

In one go, the vortex's direction reversed and he pulled the wind elemental particle into his core.

"Rascal, you play too much!"

Lin Ye laughed happily. After entering his core, it was like beating a dog behind a closed door. With a series of dull beating, he easily subdued this wind elemental particle.

"You've refined wind elemental particle!"

100xReward.

"You've refined 100 wind elemental particles!"

In the blink of an eye, he absorbed more than ten wind elemental particles.

Whoosh—

With 100xReward, the scene seemed a little exaggerated.

Lin Ye felt as if he was surrounded by dense green energy particles.

Even though he had stopped using the breathing technique, the green energy particles were like his followers, crazily diving into his core and he was unable to stop them even if he wanted to.

From the outside world's point of view, his body was wrapped in a layer of green elemental light.

To a certain extent, it looked like how Tru looked when he released his battle aura.

"My God, the lord's affinity with elemental energy is too terrifying!"

Adelia was losing her cool.

Wasn't the sharing contract supposed to share the talent of the person who signed it?

Why did the lord suddenly become so powerful after signing the contract with me?!!

He was clearly borrowing my talent so why was the gap so huge!!

In the distance, Tru sensed a large amount of wind elemental energy gathering while he looked over the new recruits' fight.

He quickly glanced at it and his mouth twitched.

He turned to look at Luo Feng, Su Yu, and Xu Que.

"Don't look at us. We don't understand it either."

The three of them were all expressionless and had no interest in gossip.

The only one who was more clear-headed was probably Priest Gran who had just recovered from his despondency.

His expression became calm again. He no longer felt conflicted about the Class 4 Silver Tier Staff and looked at Lin Ye, who was surrounded by green wind elemental energy.

It was a glorious sight.

This is the master that I, Gran, have chosen. This one person could match a million, no, billions of silver tier weapons.

Whoosh—

At the same time, a strong wind howled as the energy ball that surrounded Lin Ye fused into his body.

"Congratulations to Survivor Lin Ye. You have understood Class 1 Heart of the Wind Elemental and have successfully advanced to a Class 1 Wind Elemental Ranger!"

"Congratulations to Survivor Lin Ye. You have understood Class 2 Heart of the Wind Elemental and have successfully become a Class 2 Wind Elemental Ranger!"

"Congratulations to Survivor Lin Ye. You have understood the Class 3 Wind Elemental Heart and have successfully become a Class 3 Wind Elemental Ranger!"

"Is this the power of Class 3?"

Lin Ye got up, feeling incredulous.

With the powerful observation of Heart's Web, he could clearly sense the subtle changes in his body.

Bang!

He moved quickly as if flying.

100 meters was achieved in 6 seconds, which was more than 3 seconds faster than the 100-meter sprinters on Earth.

He went back and forth three times in a row without feeling breathless.

He then tried his strength, grabbing a black brick and breaking it.

Crack—

It broke.

"Feels good! My strength, constitution, and speed have all been strengthened!"

"Right now, even if I fired a hundred shots from Desert Eagle, I probably won't feel any discomfort."

Lin Ye was overjoyed.

This was the first time he felt strength and completely broke away from the tag of 'powerless'.

Who said that handsome guys were weak?

I, Lin Ye, am the most handsome man in the universe. I can now fight ten strong, handsome, and beautiful men on my own!

"Oh right, there's also the power of the wind element!"

At Class 3, he could use elemental energy like when Luo Feng and the others awakened their battle aura.

"Adelia, pass me your Wind Splitting Bow," Lin Ye spoke up.

"My lord, you've just broken through. I think you should try with the Class 2 Feather Bow first," Adelia reminded him kindly.

"It's okay. Your lord is a strong man now. A mere Class 4 Silver Tier Wind Splitting Bow is definitely not beneath my capabilities." Lin Ye boasted shamelessly.

"…"

Helpless, Adelia could only hand the Wind Splitting Bow to Lin Ye.

"Come, teach me how to do the Storm of Arrows and its technique as well as how to channel the wind elemental particles."

Lin Ye grabbed the Wind Splitting Bow, adjusted it a few times, and shouted excitedly.

"Rumble—"

Under Adelia's guidance, Lin Ye improved rapidly as he channeled the energy through a series of complicated elemental circuits.

Storm of Arrows Experience 10, Storm of Arrows Experience 10, Storm of Arrows Experience 10, Storm of Arrows Experience 10…

100xReward.

Storm of Arrows Experience 1000, Storm of Arrows Experience 1000, Storm of Arrows Experience 1000, Storm of Arrows Experience 1000…

"Congratulations to Survivor Lin Ye. You have mastered a Class 3 Storm of Arrows!"

"It's too easy. I've mastered it!" Lin Ye laughed. He no longer needed Adelia's guidance.

"Tsk!!!"

At this moment, even someone as cultured as Adelia couldn't help but curse.

It was bad enough that his cultivation speed far exceeded hers, but why was his supposed hard work skills so fast as well? Was this his talent?

It hurt her dignity too much!

With that, Lin Ye suddenly leaped up and jumped onto the top of the collapsed haunted house.

He supported his stance with feet behind him and shifted his center of gravity back. Drawing the bowstring, he fired.

His actions were smooth and natural like water flowing. He made the action of shooting like how Guo Jing, the hero from a novel did it.

Whoosh—

The bowstring was pulled taut with difficulty.

At the same time, the wind elemental power in his core, rushing along his meridians and infusing in the Storm of Arrows.

"F*ck!!"

Lin Ye cursed under his breath, his face pale.

This Class 4 Silver Tier Wind Splitting Bow was simply a behemoth. Just one arrow required so much wind elemental power.

It almost sucked him dry.

Fortunately, under the gazes of his lackeys, he didn't embarrass himself too much. A layer of green sheen covered the surface of the arrow.

Gasp!

At the next moment, the arrow pierced through the air and transformed into a green arrow beam that flew into the forest.

Rumble!!!

Chapter 91: Everything Is Ready, I Can Act...!

Rumble!

A deafening explosion sounded 500 meters away.

Immediately after, a greyish mushroom cloud soared into the sky, and a terrifying energy tide raged.

The wind howled, splitting the clouds as dead leaves flew everywhere.

"Tsk!"

Lin Ye's face turned green. He felt bitter in his heart. "I forgot to turn off the lord's skin special effect! This is f*cking embarrassing!"

A moment later, when everything returned to normal.

All the native workers and human citizens had poker faces on.

Even the zombies in the field within the range of the explosion were extremely confused.

???

It looked like it was a fierce surging tide, but nothing changed.

The only change was probably when the arrow hit a tree and… it ended there.

"…"

Everyone fell silent.

Right at this moment, an extremely exciting shout sounded from the ground.

"The lord's divine power is unparalleled and has reached the Transcendent Realm. That arrow just now clearly contained supreme power, but with the perfect control, the lord has, its strength laid within. I believe that although the tree which was shot looks unscratched on the surface, its interior has long been destroyed."

The person who spoke was none other than Lin Ye's number one lackey, no, his number one supporter.

Tru's tone was filled with excitement and his belief. He continued in a loud voice, "Our clan's first supreme elder once said that a cultivator's main focus lay in controlling their energy. Focus on a single point and reach the peak. He was talking about an outstanding genius cultivator like our lord. Such a person will definitely stand at the top of the world in the future!"

As soon as he said that, everyone looked at each other.

Many quick-witted people were enlightened and looked at Tru with admiration.

They had no choice but to accept it. No wonder this uncultured and rough-looking guy could become the lord's favorite, personal guard, and commander.

This bootlicking skill was definitely not something one could easily beat.

We are ashamed to be associated with him.

However, the next moment, everyone 'agreed' with Tru's words.

Even the new recruits who were fighting had stopped.

The crowd cheered loudly.

"The world's overlord!"

"The world's overlord!"

"The world's overlord!"

….

"!!!"

Lin Ye silently gave Tru a thumbs-up.

He stood with his hands behind his back, looking calm and collected.

Whoosh—

Behind the lord's skin, the cape fluttered in the wind.

For a moment, it looked extremely impressive.

Of course, it would be even more perfect if the trembling hand behind his back was not hurting.

After all, he had just entered Class 3 and his body had yet to be fully strengthened.

The Wind Splitting Bow devoured the elemental power too quickly, causing his fingers to ache.

After a moment, he felt that it was about time.

Lin Ye coughed lightly to stop the crowd from cheering. "Alright, those who need to fight can continue. The top 49 can exchange their contribution points for 1 Class 3 Attributeless Soldiers Upgrade Scroll. For those who are already Class 3, you're only allowed to exchange for Magical Armor. It's decided then."

With that, he ignored what the others thought and returned the Wind Splitting Bow to Adelia before going to find Priest Gran.

"Old Gu, quick, give me some sacred healing. It hurts so much."

Knowing that he could not hide it from this old fellow, Lin Ye did not plan on acting. The moment he arrived, he gritted his teeth and stretched out his hands that were as red as pig trotters.

At the same time, he sighed inwardly. He would have to be careful when he try to show off. Next time, he should just quietly watch others show off instead.

"A small matter." Gran stroked his beard and chuckled. A ray of holy light poured down from his hand and covered Lin Ye's hands.

In less than a minute, all the bruises disappeared.

At this moment, Zhang Liang rushed back with the ten or so wolf cavalries. Treasure chests were hung all over the wolf cavalry.

18 Wilderness Treasure Chests, 12 Sandalwood, and 6 Bronze ones, not one more or one less.

"My lord, I've accomplished my mission." Zhang Liang jumped off the Gale Wolf and handed over all the treasure chests respectfully.

"Well done."

Lin Ye kept the treasure chest into the Civilization Archive and patted the young man's shoulder in satisfaction.

Young people were indeed efficient.

"Catch it." He casually threw out a small porcelain bottle.

"My lord, this… this is!"

Zhang Liang's eyes lit up. He grabbed the porcelain bottle in the air. He seemed to have sensed something and was so excited that he became speechless.

"The antidote to saving your father. A Level 2 Purifying Pill. It should be enough to remove the corpse poison in your father's body," Lin Ye said calmly.

Previously, when he opened the treasure chests, this Purifying Pill was among them. It was merely a Level 2 pill so it did not catch his attention at all.

But to Zhang Liang, this was undoubtedly the most precious thing.

He had already promised to save Zhang Liang's father, so he gave the pills to him directly.

Doing this would also show others that as long as they worked hard for their lord, they would definitely obtain benefits.

Otherwise, even if they were loyalists, there would still be a difference.

"This is more than enough. My dad was bitten by a Level 2 Swift Zombie. This bottle of pills is just enough. Thank you for your help, my lord." Zhang Liang shed tears of gratitude.

Lin Ye raised his hand. "Don't be happy too soon. The market trade has yet to open. When it does, go locate your father's location. If the market trade happens to cover his location, you can consider yourself lucky. If it doesn't, you should prepare yourself."

"Yes, yes. This subordinate understands." Zhang Liang nodded repeatedly. To have hope was already something to be thankful for.

Over the past few days, be it the World or Regional Channel, the number of deaths had increased almost every day. It was too scary.

He was already extremely lucky to have a chance to save his father. He did not dare to hope for anything else.

"As long as you understand."

Lin Ye nodded, increasingly satisfied with Zhang Liang's attitude.

At this moment, the system sent a congratulatory message.

"You have obtained 2,854 Zombie Souls!"

100xReward.

"You have obtained 285,400 Zombie Souls!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Ye turned his gaze to the hundreds of Level 2 Zombie Converters. At this moment, they were densely packed with glowing green particles.

It was the Zombie Souls which everyone was familiar with.

In the underworld, this was their currency. The desire in the eyes of the native workers was evident when they swept their gaze across the Souls.

This was real!

At the same time, this was also where Lord Lin's confidence stemmed from!

After a while, the battle between the new recruits ended.

The warriors who were ranked at the front changed into the Class 3 Purple Tier Magical Armor.

There were also 49 lucky Class 2 soldiers who obtained Class 3 attributeless soldiers upgrade scrolls.

Dozens of golden beams landed and another 42 Class 3 soldiers were added to the territory. (There was a chance for the upgrade scrolls to fail.)

Once they obtained the records of battle aura, their combat strength would increase drastically.

For rangers, their improvement was limited. After all, he only had 80 Class 2 Feather Bows. Currently, he did not have much bow-type equipment.

In a few days, when the bunker enters the tribal era, he might be able to develop all kinds of Class 3 firearms.

When the time came, they would exchange spears for cannons.

There was no need to use bows. He could just change them for Desert Eagles or M4A1s.

Combined with the new blueprint for Class 3 Demon Hunters, their long-range offensive power would also increase greatly.

"Alright, everything is ready now. I can start acting strong now!"

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Chapter 92: The First Excavator Since Their Transmigration

"My lord, give me a few more minutes. The video is almost completed. I'm just short of the lottery speech at the end. As liars, bah, we're not lying. It's a kind lie. Anyway, we're giving them actual benefits. It'll be done soon."

"Troublesome!" Lin Ye rolled his eyes, feeling a little tired.

According to his plan, he might as well say it directly. 'Like this video and I'll carry you guys!'

The background was filled with Zombie Souls and Class 2 and 3 equipment…

What was more convincing than money?

At the very least, he had captured so many human lords under him. He could get a few of them to crazily support the post and channel.

Wouldn't it be easy to get a million likes?

Forget it. He didn't have to worry about it anyway. He could do whatever he wanted.

He watched as Dong Wei got busy.

Lin Ye did not have the heart to spoil his mood. He shook his head. Since he had nothing to do, he started to clear the shelves of the Reputation Shop.

Didn't he just get 1,000,000 Reputation Points? If he didn't buy high-level goods, wouldn't it be a waste of the system's filial piety towards him?

"Balcony with Outdoor Bed—10,000 Reputation points. Purchased!"

"Autumn Sandalwood Tea Table—13,000 Reputation points. Purchased!"

"Taiji Black Gold Tea Set—18,000 Reputation points. Purchased!"

"Mountain Bulang's 10 Year Pu'er—15,000 Reputation points. Purchased!"

"SY135C Small Size Excavator—100,000 Reputation points. Purchased!"

"Home use 10KW diesel generator—6,900 Reputation points. Purchased!"

"Diesel (500 liters)—3,500 Reputation points. Purchased!"

…

"Congratulations to Survivor Lin Ye. You have spent 50,000 Reputation points. Reputation Shop has upgraded to Level 4."

"Congratulations to Survivor Lin Ye. You have spent 100,000 Reputation points. Reputation Shop has upgraded to Level 5."

"Congratulations to Survivor Lin Ye. You have spent 200,000 Reputation points. Reputation Shop has upgraded to Level 6."

He browsed through more than ten pages in a row. It didn't matter if it was useful or not or if it was expensive. He bought them all.

The rich could spend however they wanted!

No matter who he wronged, he could not wrong himself!

Feeling that he had bought enough, Lin Ye did not go over the top this time and temporarily stopped buying.

"Wang Qiang, your chance has come!" Lin Ye smiled.

"What?" Wang Qiang was still confused. What was going on?

"Your lord has found something good for you!" Lin Ye waved his hand, and a yellow and black excavator flew out from the Civilization Archive and landed on the ground.

"F*ck!" Wang Qiang was stunned.

Was this real?

The lord really got him an excavator!!

He was still joking with his lord this morning. He didn't expect the surprise to come so quickly that he almost lost him.

The other human lords were the same. All of them stared with their eyes wide open and were speechless.

Tru and the other native workers were all filled with curiosity as they circled the excavator.

They had never seen such a strange thing in their entire lives.

"Move away."

Lin Ye dispersed the native citizens who had turned into curious children. He turned his head to look at Wang Qiang and asked, "Do you still know how to operate it?"

"I do, I know it too well," Wang Qiang nodded repeatedly.

Previously, Dong Wei, who was also a member of Crouching Dragon and Phoenixes of the Men, worked for the lord to increase his value.

He would be lying if he said that he was not envious.

But he only knew how to use an excavator. This ability was trash in the underworld.

Even if he were to chat with the lord and talk about things like planes and cannons, it was just a fool's dream.

After thinking about that, he felt disheartened.

After all, those things were too unreal in this world. They were so unreal that it felt unbelievable.

Originally, he had planned to follow Dong Wei obediently in the future. At least in the future, he could obtain an official position in the territory and live a carefree life.

He did not expect his lord to be so resourceful to get an excavator so quickly.

This was simply a chance for Qin Ling's Little Zhuge to rise up.

"My lord, what do you want to dig? I'll flatten it for you immediately!" Wang Qiang excitedly climbed into the driver's seat and shouted excitedly.

"Bury the remains of the Haunted House first. I want to do something big to maximize the impact of the promotional video."

Lin Ye was scheming in his heart.

The mission to exchange for treasure chests required 100 human lords to join him.

In the territory, including Dong Wei, Zhang Bao'er, and the other human lords, there were only 26 people.

There was still a long way to go before reaching a hundred people. It would be too troublesome to capture them one by one.

As the old saying goes, you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink. Tsk, guiding them would be better than killing them off… it wasn't as if…

F*ck, I forgot…

The general idea was to let some of the human lords who weren't doing well join them.

Humans were after all living things that thrived in communities. If they weren't doing well, they would want to cozy up to someone powerful.

As long as his legs were thick, hard, and strong enough, he wouldn't need to worry about people not relying on him.

Of course, it was important to send people to catch them personally.

After all, there were some people who were born arrogant. He could not let them have their way.

Soon, Wang Qiang finished adding diesel to the excavator and started working vigorously.

Rumble!

The power of the excavator was strong. Wang Qiang's skill was not exaggerated either. In a short while, he overturned the debris and flattened the place.

The people from the underworld were dumbfounded.

You could do that?

That metal lump was too efficient!

"Come, lay a red carpet for me and let the people in the world broaden their horizons. Our reputation as the number one survivor in the world is not undeserved! Let them see us. The only word in their subconsciousness when they see this should be 'rich'!"

Ignoring the stunned expressions on the faces of the people from the underworld, Lin Ye was also feeling arrogant now. He had given himself the title of number one in the world. Casually throwing out a large red carpet, Tru and the others tactfully laid it out.

Finally, he added an outdoor balcony to the carpet, a wooden tea table, tea set, tea leaves, and natural mountain spring water.

Perfect!

Lin Ye laid comfortably on the mini sofa that came with the outdoor balcony.

Coincidentally, among the human lords that he had caught this time, there was a professional tea master.

Her name was quite nice too, Xue Xianyao!

She seemed to be a top student who recently graduated.

Because she was too pretty, she was often harassed by others which resulted in her going back to inherit her family's tea shop.

In the eyes of ordinary people in China, she was also a great beauty with both talent and looks.

But here, she led a miserable life.

When Lin Ye caught her, she had yet to even trigger the bunker mission.

In other words, till now, she had never killed a zombie before…

"My lord, you actually have Mountain Bulang's Pu'er Tea Leaves that are more than ten years old. That's awesome!"

Xue Xianyao looked at the tea set and tea leaves on the tea table and could not help but exclaim.

Although her family background was not bad, it was simply average.

The tea and tea set which Lin Ye was using now was what she wanted in back in China.

However, she could not bear to buy it because it was too expensive and the price-performance ratio was not worth it.

"It's nothing much. Come, make a cup of tea. Let this lord try your skills in tea making and see if it's good." Lin Ye laid on the chair and narrowed his eyes as he looked at the beautiful tea master making tea. For some reason, he felt a sense of satisfaction.

"My lord… there's no electricity here…" Xue Xianyao said weakly.

He had all kinds of other tools, including water which was natural spring water from the mountains purchased with Reputation Points. It was crazy expensive.

However, no matter how good she was at brewing tea, it was useless without hot water.

"It's okay, we have a generator."

With a thud, Lin Ye threw out the newly bought generator from the Reputation Shop.

"My lord, I'll activate it for you."

As the leader of the science and engineering department, Jiang Gong also came over to show his worth. He solved the problem of generating electricity in a few seconds.

While boiling water, Dong Wei finally came up with a lucky draw speech and ran over excitedly.

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Chapter 93: The World's Attention, Lin Ye's Show!

"Done?"

Lin Ye immediately got up from the sofa and waved his hand. "Come, come, come. Hurry up. Zhang Liang's father and the billions of citizens in this world still need this lord to save them."

"My lord, shall we watch it first? I think it's good." Dong Wei said expectantly.

This was the first time he had meticulously produced a video. He wanted to show the lord the results no matter what.

Every cent was worth its weight in gold. His lord's money was not wasted.

"Why should I watch? I will watch it with the others. Post it and we shall watch it with people around the world. Besides, you've already wasted a long time. Let's talk about it next time."

Lin Ye unexpectedly rejected him immediately and urged, "Hurry up and send it to the world channel. Complete the mission of getting a million likes. Zhang Liang's father is still waiting to be saved."

"…"

Dong Wei had a long face, feeling like his art had been insulted.

Yet, this was their supreme lord who was above all.

"Brother Wei, what the lord said makes sense. Let's watch it together. When my father is saved, I'll help you take videos every day."

On the other side, Zhang Liang was anxious to save his father. He clasped his hands together and looked at Dong Wei pleadingly.

"Don't call me that. Use a different word, you can call me Brother Dong, Ah Wei, or even Little Wei. Just don't call me that. It's not auspicious."

Dong Wei waved his hands repeatedly and corrected Zhang Liang in all seriousness.

"Oh, I understand, Brother Wei." Zhang Liang nodded obediently, looking harmless.

Tsk—You!

Dong Wei cursed inwardly. Why did he feel that these fellows were all so shameless and were better at acting than him?

In the end, he could not disobey the lord's orders. Dong Wei opened the world channel and clicked on the upload button.

At the same time, Lin Ye quickly opened his Civilization Archive.

Dong Wei was his loyalist, him sending a video was the same as sending it himself and the infographics would be sent to him as well.

Likes 1, Likes 1, Likes 1…

100xReward.

Likes 100, Likes 100, Likes 100…

"What the f*ck, this thing can get 100xReward too???"

Lin Ye stared. Sometimes, 100xReward did not work too like for Reputation Shop and Bunker Experience Points.

He thought that likes for videos wouldn't count so it was unexpected that it could.

If that was the case, he only needed 10,000 likes for the million likes mission.

"It's increasing, it's increasing. Wow, it's increasing too quickly!!"

Zhang Liang was the most excited as they looked at the rapidly increasing number of likes. He excitedly grabbed Wang Qiang's arm.

Perhaps because he was an Awakened, his physique was stronger than ordinary people, Wang Qiang actually gnashed his teeth and cried out.

Perhaps because he was a talent, his physique was stronger than ordinary people, Wang Qiang actually gnashed his teeth and cried out.

"Forget it, just don't do it again. Also, I'm not interested in guys. Remember, you're not allowed to have any improper thoughts about me." As Wang Qiang spoke, he distanced himself from Zhang Liang with a wary expression.

The same went for Jiang Gong and the rest.

"…"

Zhang Liang wanted to cry but no tears fell. "I… I'm not! Listen to me!!"

"Hey, look, why did the likes suddenly stop and decrease instead?"

Suddenly, Zhang Bao'er reached out and said anxiously.

In fact, everyone saw it too.

"That's not right. Did I miss something? That doesn't make sense." Dong Wei could not believe it.

His first big project in another world failed just like that?!!

The atmosphere was a little awkward.

Lin Ye's face was tense as he opened the world channel indifferently.

Information flowed like a river. Even though he paused the function, he could not see the data information clearly. In the blink of an eye, it increased to 9999 notifications.

"Alright, I've found the reason. There are too many messages on the world channel. Only those who use the pause function can see the video at that timestamp. Some of them liked it while others disliked it."

Lin Ye said in a low voice.

"Oh and my lord, on the third day, which is this morning, the chat channel unlocked a spending function. It's the one in the upper right corner. Many people complained about how expensive it was and no one has used it yet," Zhang Liang's eyes lit up as he hurriedly said.

In order to save his father, he browsed through various channels for information.

"Why didn't you say so earlier?" Lin Ye glared at him and heaved a sigh of relief. As long as it was something that could be settled with money, it would not be a problem.

Soon, he opened the World Channel's spending column.

Spend 10 Zombie Souls and you can send another message. The number of Zombie Souls will increase by 2 for each additional time.Regional Channel Message Pin Function (Time Limited: 1 minute for 100 Zombie Souls. Higher bidders can replace the pinned message)World Channel Message Pin Function (Limited to 30 seconds, 1,000 Zombie Souls. Higher bidders can replace the pinned message)Silencing Function (Spend any amount of Zombie Soul to gag a Survivor that you don't like. The other party requires double the amount of Zombie Soul to remove the gag. Silence Time: 1 day)Showtime Face (There is no upper limit. The more money you spend, the showier it gets and the more surprises you will get)

"F*ck, why do these rules look a little familiar?"

Everyone looked at each other.

"It's one thing to look familiar, but this price is a little ridiculous. Our video will take at least five minutes. The world channel's pinned message will cost 1,000 Souls for 30 seconds. In other words, the video will take at least 10,000 Souls to finish playing?" Jiang Gong from the Engineering Department instantly calculated the amount and couldn't help but gulp.

The mouths of others dried up as well.

Just the price to pin the message on top was enough to sell them off. Perhaps even selling them off would not be sufficient to afford it.

After all, this was not a small amount.

10,000 Zombie Souls…

It was money that you could obtain only after killing 10,000 Level 1 zombies.

Of course, this was for ordinary people. For their lord, who was the European King, it was nothing.

As expected, Lin Ye didn't even blink and directly threw in 20,000 Zombie Souls.

"…"

Rich bast*rd!!

Everyone complained, but it did feel good to watch.

They would be termed rich bast*rds if they were strangers but since the lord was family, he was their daddy!

A moment later, after paying the Zombie Souls, Lin Ye immediately pinned the video at the top of the channel.

Rumble!!!

The Civilization Archive of all the Survivors around the world vibrated.

Then, strange scenes appeared on the screen. Nine dragons pulling the coffin, a meteor descending from the skies, a goddess descending from the heavens. Countless holograms formed an invincible divine pattern.

"Lord Lin Ye has arrived!"

In an instant, the entire world blew up.

Dong Wang: Sure, the way he appeared was too cool. It looked like how I was back on Earth!

Tracey: Wow, the big boss is here. Finally, the big boss. Sobs, begging the big boss to carry me. I'm starving to death here.

Li Wenjian: I went to look up about it, just this showing will cost at least 10,000 Zombie Souls! Spit, a rich bast*rd!

Claire: Oh my God, the oriental man in the video is so attractive. F*ck… Leon, forget about me.

Scarlett: That damn smile, that damn silhouette. I love this man to death. Baby, add me to your friend list.

…

In an instant, Lin Ye's private message exploded.

Previously during the world announcement, the entire server could not open Lin Ye's profile, but they could now because Lin Ye posted a video.

"xxx wishes to add you as their friend!"

"ooo wishes to add you as their friend! Note: I'm a cute girl. As long as you give me blue tier equipment, I can send nudes!"

"bbb wishes to add you as their friend! Note: Big boss, I love you. I want to have children with you~!"

"qqq wishes to add you as their friend! Note: Hi, Lin, I like Asian men a lot. You're too charming. I like to make friends like you!"

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Chapter 94: 1,000,000 Likes Mission Completed, Market Trading Opens!

In the blink of an eye, the friend request column reached 9999, reaching its upper limit.

Lin Ye quickly blocked all the friend requests and sent a small pinned post on the world channel. (Character Limit: 500)

Lin Ye: "I won't be adding friends for the time being, please be understanding. Watch the video and give it a Like. Benefits will be given when the likes go past 1 million. Thank you!"

Upon seeing this, many people temporarily gave up on the idea of cozying up to him.

Since they were all bored, they started watching the video seriously.

Bell Edmund: "This background music is not bad. The feeling is there, but the words are a little awkward. I don't understand them."

Haywood: "Is that the main point? Friend, please take a look at the number of soldiers. It's just a dark mass. There must be at least a few thousand of them!"

Liu Zhang: "Equipment, look at their equipment. Damn it, the front row is all equipped with Class 3 Purple Tier weapons and armor. The ones in the middle are also equipped with Class 3 Purple Tier weapons. The trashiest in the main group are all at least Class 2 Blue Tier weapons. God, if I had one-thousandth of his equipment, I would be able to fly!"

Remistrio: "Damn it, why does he also have a mount! What's this, the description says that it's a giant earth wolf? A wind wolf? An iron blooded horse…"

Ava: "Let me count. 68 Class 3 Wolf Cavalry Soldiers, 200 Class 3 Iron-Blooded Horses, 500 Class 2 Ferghana Horses, and nearly 1000 ordinary horses. Heavens, how many Zombie Souls would that cost!"

Mi Zi: "He's too strong. I'm willing to call this lineup the strongest in the world!"

…

Likes 1, Likes 1, Likes 1, Likes 1…

Dislike -2, Dislike -2, Dislike -2, Dislike -2…

100xReward.

Likes 100, Likes 100, Likes 100…

Current Likes: 287,000

His popularity score was increasing rapidly, but clearly, it was not as fast as he had imagined.

Obviously, many people had disliked it, and there were quite a few of them who did so.

Otherwise, with Lin Ye's 100xReward, he could've exceeded a million likes in a few seconds.

However, it was not a big problem. No matter how terrible the haters were, with 100xReward, 1 fan of Lin Ye's could beat 50 anti-fans.

"Zhang Liang, bring out the captured human lords and make them like the video. Even if it's not much, it's still something. Don't waste it." Lin Ye turned his head and said.

"My lord is wise!" Zhang Liang's eyes lit up. He quickly got someone to bring the boxes containing the Civilization Archives over and used them to like the video.

26 people. That would mean 2,600 likes. Wonderful!

At this moment, the first part of the video ended. It was the scene of Lin Ye activating the lord's skin special effect and starting the expedition with a literal bang.

There was a small climax in the chat.

There were mixed reactions from all the different countries…

On Lin Ye's interface, the chat was paused.

Kardashian: "Oh my god, this damn charisma. I can't take it anymore. I want to become that giant earth wolf!"

Bella: "Pervert. You're still the same even in another world. Get lost and stay away from our Lin clan."

Liu Tianlong: "F*ck, the power of this Desert Eagle is too terrifying. Hold on, not long ago, didn't someone in China post a photo of this explosion as well?"

Wang Ye: "I think so. I saw it and it looked the same. I even took a screenshot. Let me send it here." Image Attachment (jpg)

Zhou Ling: "I knew it. The name Lin Ye shows that he must be someone from China. Those red-eyed monsters want to claim everything. Why don't you grab sh*t then! (Sniffing.jpg)"

Little Chestnut: "Those people are 'honest and simple'. This is what they always do, you'll get used to it."

Jinkela: "Tsk, I'm eating dirt here and you actually dare to show off here? If he's a citizen of my country, it would've been fine. But he's actually a Chinese native? F*ck you, and you still dared to ask for likes? I'll give you a thumb up your ass. Brothers, attack him and trample on him. This video must be a special type of mission! End him! Copy and paste this below. Talking on the World Channel itself is too expensive and I can only send this once. I must pull him down. If he's not from my country, I'll destroy him!!!"

Pu Yinshan: "Just step on it and it'll be over. Trash! Spit!"

Li Jing: "Hahaha, they're anxious. Since when have the people of China ever been afraid of competing? Brothers, let's go! It's time to bring glory to our country!"

Liu Xiuxian: "You have a lot of people but there is a lot of internal strife. There might even be more people from your own country stepping on him than people from other countries. Hahahaha!"

…

The chat group turned into a catfight session.

Lin Ye did not care about that. His focus was on the likes. With 100xReward, he was not worried that he would not be able to complete the mission. He was just worried that the likes would not be enough and when the time came if the market would be able to cover the area where his family was at.

As expected, even with the haters from other countries criticizing him, everything was useless under the collective praise of the people from his own country.

The number of likes increased rapidly and it was a completely one-sided situation.

400,000… 600,000… 800,000…1,000,000…

The numbers were still increasing rapidly, and the system sent out a global announcement.

"Congratulations to Survivor Lin Ye for being the first to complete the mission of getting 1,000,000 likes. The market page has been opened. The trading range will be determined by the number of likes received. The final range will be decided when by the number of likes received at the end of the video! Please work hard!"

???

The video paused for a moment. Then, there was a huge commotion.

From the system's global announcement, they found the keywords.

Over a million likes?

The market page has been opened?

The number of likes he received would determine the market range?!

At the thought of that, many people became excited.

"Brothers from other countries, don't let them take the lead. They might become our enemy in the future. Giving likes now is no different from aiding the enemy!"

The smart people started to lead the conversation towards the conflict between countries.

As soon as they said this, countless people from their country followed suit and copied those words. For a moment, those words dominated the page.

These sarcastic remarks gained quite a lot of momentum. The number of people who disliked the video increased rapidly and greatly hindered the rate of increasing likes.

"Damn it, those scums! I'll f*ck your 18 generations of ancestors!!!"

Zhang Liang cursed with a dark expression.

The range of the market trade concerned his father's life, so how could he not be angry?

"Don't be anxious."

Lin Ye chuckled and ignored the haters for the time being. There were still four minutes until the end of the video.

He opened the market page and quickly scanned the functions.

Information is as follows:

Market Level: 1

Functions: 1. Common Marketplace (Rental: 1,000 Zombie Souls for 3 months)

Note: It's a fixed price, no need for negotiation. Set the number of goods you need to sell. The buyer will pay first. First come first serve basis.

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Selectable Marketplace (Rent: 1,500 Zombie Souls for 3 months)

Note: You can choose whether to trade. Able to search up names and designate trading partners, or restrict trading partners. Includes other comprehensive functions…

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Range of Transaction (100 likes = 1 square kilometer)

Upon seeing this, Lin Ye narrowed his eyes.

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Chapter 95: The Lord's Mouth Is a Liar!

"It's 1.4 million likes now, which means 14,000 square kilometers. The range is too small."

Lin Ye mumbled and opened the trading map.

Note: If the trading map encompasses your relatives or friends you added, your chat history with them will light up.

Alright, it didn't light up. The chat history with his parents and sister was all dark.

"If the first time is the most effective, I'll have to go big!"

Lin Ye was determined.

He spent another 4,000 Zombie Souls and pinned another four messages.

"Friends from all over the world, it doesn't matter whether you like me or criticize me. There's an old saying in my country. When you're out, you walk on a path and the people you make are friends. Everyone, vote for me and we will be friends."

"To tell you the truth, the number of likes is related to the range of the market. From now on, I will put up equipment or Zombie Souls on the market page every three seconds."

"If you want to see what equipment there is, you can fast forward to the end of the video. All the equipment that I would give out is on the ground. The rich have to make others rich as well. As long as I have food, I will not let everyone starve."

"Of course, the market trading can only be done within my territory's range. Doing something small will allow you to obtain excellent equipment on a first come first serve basis."

Four consecutive pinned messages shocked many people until they were dizzy.

Coincidentally, the video also captured the blue tier equipment that fell all over the ground. Among them was a few purple tier equipment too.

Eddie: "God, so much equipment. Is he really giving it all away?"

Jin Chilao: "No, I don't believe it. He's lying!"

Zhang Aili: "Boss Lin Ye, I've given you a Like. Hurry up and distribute the goods. I've already found dozens of small stones and am ready to shoot them!"

Ivanov: "Secretly gathering information here. If you have any friends who have gotten it, please let me know! (Sly.jpg)"

…

Lin Ye replied, "Do it immediately."

"My lord, are you sure you want to do the giveaway now? My elaborate scam hasn't even played yet," Dong Wei said aggrievedly.

"Let's see how it goes. Give them out first. These fellows are all people who don't shoot until they see a rabbit. If we don't give them some benefits, they'll be stubborn."

Lin Ye sneered and directly bought one year's worth of Common Marketplace and Selectable Marketplace.

Soon, the profile picture on the market page lit up, and the words 'Level 1 Member' appeared.

"Alright, you win I guess!"

Lin Ye was speechless and dispelled his distracting thoughts.

His gaze landed on the choices on the market page.

After thinking for a moment, he ruled out Common Marketplace and opened Selectable Marketplace.

Set Trading Partners: Set trading probability of people who disliked the video as 0. Set trading probability of people who scolded me as 0. Set trading probability of people who were rude to my country as 0. Set trading probability of people from country A as 0. No, set the trading probability of foreigners to 0.

"Mm, that's about it."

Looking at the restrictions done up in the marketplace, Lin Ye nodded in satisfaction.

The corners of Zhang Bao'er, Dong Wei, Zhang Liang, and the others' mouths twitched.

Indeed, the lord's mouth was a lying one.

Just now, he was still talking about how he didn't care about the past. What the f*ck, things like walking down the road and making friends. It was all an illusion.

Inside the minds of the native citizens.

Priest Gran, Chef Nicole, and Ranger Adelia looked at each other and smiled knowingly.

That's right. This petty attitude was the lord they knew.

They were still wondering why their lord would do something so stupid like supporting the enemy, but now they understood.

"Why are you all looking at me?"

Lin Ye asked Tru to throw ten blue tier equipment into the market page as he turned his head to look at the few human citizens. He pursed his lips and said, "A bunch of rascals who have yet to enter society can't even understand this insincere facade, and yet they are barking so arrogantly like dogs? They still expect me to give them equipment?"

"Tsk, overthinking people. I'd rather throw the equipment into a latrine than give them to these human scum. They don't deserve to be humans!"

"Then, in your eyes, what are humans?" Zhang Bao'er raised her hand and asked curiously.

"Of course it's those who are close to me. For example, everyone present. Those who are my enemies are not humans," Lin Ye replied in all seriousness.

"…"

This answer, this logic.

Great, he did sound like a lord.

During the conversation, more than 10 Class 2 blue tier equipment were sent to the market page. There were both weapons and armor.

They were all trash that the soldiers had just taken off from not long ago.

"Holy sh*t, so fast!"

In less than 0.5 seconds, all the equipment disappeared.

In its place were more than ten small stones. A retarded guy actually threw a huge pebble in.

Lin Ye was so angry about his lack of principles that he blocked him.

"My lord, you need to remind the guys who got the equipment to advertise. That would be better…"

After a moment, Zhang Liang kept his eyes on the chat screen. When he saw that there was no movement in the public chat, he frowned.

"You reminded me."

Lin Ye slapped his forehead and sent another message. "Everyone who has obtained the equipment, take a screenshot and send a message here to prove that I'm not lying!"

However, there were only a few responses and they were quickly drowned out by the flood of notifications.

"These guys!" Lin Ye scratched his head, a bit annoyed.

"My lord, some of them might not have a chance to speak." The new tea master, Xue Xianyao, was smart and reminded him softly.

"How troublesome. Outsiders are just unreliable. I have to make the good reviews myself."

Lin Ye was a little angry.

He opened the trading interface and change it to: If you are not my people, the trading probability will be 0.

"Our lord is wise!"

"Our lord is awesome!"

"Our lord is great! That's a good idea, hahaha!"

Upon seeing this, everyone was elated.

This was how online merchants on Earth did things as well.

They would write the good reviews themselves since no one else would know anyway.

"Hurry up. There's no need to save on Zombie Souls. Screenshot it from some distance and post it in the pinned messages on the world channel!"

Lin Ye hurriedly instructed.

At this moment, there were only two minutes left before the video ended.

And the number of likes he had was only 9 million. It was still far from what he wanted.

On his side, he was crazily stocking up the shelves!

Although people from the countries could not buy it, they could clearly see the equipment displayed on the market page.

Soon, the equipment disappeared one after another, proving that the goods had been purchased.

On the other side, Zhang Liang and the others organized the human lords that they had just captured. Under the baton threat of Tru, Xu Que, they took photos one after another and praised their lord on the world channel.

Liu Yue: "Five-star rating. Lord Lin Ye is generous. Long live Boss. This is the black iron longsword that I managed to grab." screenshot.jpg

Zhang Chao: "Five-star rating. Boss is awesome. This is the Class 2 Blue Tier Bow and Arrow that I got. I'm going to take flight now, hahaha!" screenshot.jpg

Li Kang: "Five-star rating. Lord is a real man. I scolded him but still managed to get a Class 2 Blue tier weapon, Longsword. My lord, from now on, I will be your loyal fan." screenshot.jpg

Qian Yuegeng: "Five-star rating. Lord Lin Ye's promise is worth a thousand gold. This is the Class 3 New Moon Battleaxe that I grabbed. Big boss, I love you!" screenshot.jpg

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Chapter 96: Power of each Country, Hongxing Thirty-Six

"This little bastard, does he take the humans of the world as fools? The good reviews he received are too fake!"

Thousands of square kilometers away, in a graveyard of a desert oasis.

A few youths with yellow hair gathered together. One of the younger men pointed at the Civilization Archive as he trembled in anger.

"Boss, in the entire world, China's social network is probably the most developed so people from other countries will probably fall for it."

A lackey reminded.

"No, I have to make create some roadblocks for him and make use of this to advertise our Hongxing Thirty-Six."

After saying that, the blondie's brain raced. Not only was he not angry, but his eyes were also lit up.

The more he thought about it, the more promising it seemed!

"Boss, including the elderly, weak, women, and children, we only have 27 people." A lackey thought that his boss had made a mistake in calculation and reminded him softly.

"Do you think I graduated from primary school like you? Do I need you to point me in the right direction? Who are you looking down on? It's all just an exaggeration. Do you understand? The higher the numbers, the more representative they are. If it wasn't for the short time, I would have said Hongxing Hundred and Eight. If you don't understand, shut up." The yellow-haired boss was a little angry.

The lackeys this season were too dumb.

Not only were they slow and cowardly in killing zombies, but even their brains were also lacking.

They couldn't keep up with him at all. If his old friends from China were here, he would have taken off long ago.

"You guys, transfer all your Zombie Souls from the resource page to me. Just 1,000 in total will do." The yellow-haired boss had a straight face as he forced them to give it to him.

Many people became awkward.

1,000 Zombie Souls was a painful thought.

"Boss, don't be impulsive. Although we can gather the money if we grit our teeth, the entire camp is still waiting for the money to recruit soldiers and upgrade the bunker. If it's all for nothing, not only will it be a waste of money, it will also delay our development for a day."

A quiet-looking boy advised, "This is a gamble. If you don't succeed, you will die trying. It's safer to develop steadily."

"What do you know? Borrowing Lin Ye's influence, our 36 Young Masters of Hongxing can go further. Can you recall how many of us there were on the first day? What about now? In just three days, if it weren't for my eloquence, would we have been able to gather more than twenty people?"

"In China, strength comes with numbers. Look at our territory. Just the rangers and native workers who were given to us for free amount to hundreds of people."

"This is power. What do you know!"

"You still don't understand? F*ck! To put it bluntly, you can upgrade the bunker with 1,000 Zombie Souls and recruit soldiers but how many can you recruit? 50 Class 1 soldiers? We'll take advantage of this opportunity. Once our reputation is established, all the weak humans within a few thousand kilometers will gather here."

"Each of them will bring four native workers and four rangers. Think about it. As long as 13 people join us, it will not be a loss. Do you understand?"

"I have a feeling that today is our opportunity. Once we miss it, it will never happen again."

At this point, the yellow-haired boss swept his determined gaze across everyone. "Brothers, trust me. I, Qi Delong, never boast. Believe me and give me your Zombie Souls. It's okay if you don't believe me. Hongxing Thirty-Six shall be disbanded and everyone can return to their respective homes. We don't owe each other anything."

Upon hearing this, many people panicked. Without Qi Delong's leadership, what use were they? They wouldn't even know how they died.

"Boss, you're being too serious. Who dares not to believe you? I, Gao Lu, will be the first to disagree!"

A thin young man stood up, gritted his teeth, and transferred all the Zombie Souls he had. "Boss, I've given my life to you. I only have one request. When we rise in the future, help me find my girlfriend if you have the chance. I can't live without her."

Qi Delong was overjoyed and patted Gao Lu's shoulder heavily. He said with a smile, "A friend in need is a friend indeed. Don't worry, Brother Gao Lu. From now on, you're my biological brother, and your girlfriend is my sister-in-law. It's only right and proper for me to find her. Leave it to me."

"This…"

The other 20 people looked at each other. The elderly, weak, women, and children did not matter. Although Qi Delong looked like he was improper, he was indeed ruthless when it came to killing zombies. He could ensure everyone's safety. They did not object to this.

After a moment of hesitation, they handed over their Zombie Souls one after another.

"Alright, enough!" Qi Delong looked at the 1,039 Zombie Souls displayed on his resource page and his heart almost jumped out of his chest.

Although he was considered a top figure in China and was extremely wealthy, this was different.

The feeling of being trusted was too damn good!!

"Everyone, don't worry. I, Qi Delong, will definitely lead everyone to become the lord of the oasis!"

With that, he looked at the video Lin Ye sent. It was about to end.

At this moment, after countless good reviews.

Even though the people from the other countries still had their doubts, they were unwilling to offend such a powerful person. They all gave their likes.

With the 100xReward, the number of likes increased to 110 million. It was extremely exaggerated.

"The reviews are still the best push!"

A carefree smile appeared on Lin Ye's face.

110 million likes were equivalent to 1.1 million square kilometers.

He secretly opened the market page and saw that his family's photo had lit up.

This meant that the market had already encompassed them. When they returned at night, he would be able to transfer a large number of resources to them and help them develop rapidly.

In this way, the disappearance of the protection mechanism tonight and the problem of the zombie wave crisis four days later would be completely eliminated.

The huge boulder that was weighing on his heart was gone. He felt like he had eaten ice cream in the summer, his heart soothed and comfortable.

At this moment, a text appeared on top of the World Channel.

Qi Delong: "Tsk, you don't even put in the effort to fake the reviews. My Hongxing Thirty-Six specializes in counterfeiting. Each pinned message costs 1,000 Souls. Where did they get the money to give you good reviews? It's too f*cking ridiculous. Do you think everyone in the world is a fool? Lin Ye, I know that you are rich and powerful, but my Hongxing Thirty-Six's reputation is not undeserved. Friends from the oasis in the desert, if you see the road signs we have placed, you can come and find us. There is strength in numbers. I, Qi Delong, am not talented. I have already established a hundred-man team. Everyone is welcome to join us!"

"F*ck, my lord, this brat wants to step on us to progress!" Zhang Liang was trembling with anger.

Making trouble for them at this critical moment was equivalent to killing his father. How could he not hate that person for killing his father?

"Interesting." Lin Ye revealed a sarcastic expression.

In the blink of an eye, he forgot about it.

Another person was acting smart. He was just using the wind to climb up the ranks. It was not worth mentioning.

However, a moment later, he still underestimated the power of the world's smart people. There were quite a number of them.

If there was one, there would be two. If there were two, there would be three… Unlimited sets of duplicates.

Whoosh—

In the blink of an eye, more than ten similar fake messages were placed at the top.

There were people from all the major countries, and their intention was about the same as Qi Delong's.

They wanted to trample on Lin Ye first, saying things like fake reviews.

And ending with a wave of advertisements that bragged about themselves.

The effect was actually pretty good.

At least Lin Ye remembered them.

"China's Hongxing Thirty-Six, and from the different countries, Dawn, Idol's God, Avengers, Brotherhood Clan, Sacred Buddha… Great… I'll remember this."

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