Chapter 354: All Villains

Watching the two people walking away outside the window, Mu You hesitated for a moment whether to send a war eagle to follow.

But after thinking about it, he decided not to. The two people were very alert, and arranging a tracking might expose them.

Shaking his head, Mu You returned to the game.

In the dungeon, the blocked path on the second floor had been dug up last night, and the new power furnace on the old goblin's side had just been completed.

The ancient energy conversion furnace is essentially still an ancient power furnace. It can only output the power limit of the ancient power furnace, but now it can add violent energy other than magic crystals.

This thing + the forest spirit core is equivalent to a pseudo-perpetual motion machine, which can provide kinetic energy for his mecha skin and can also be used in the alchemy factory to directly power the entire factory.

After getting the power furnace, Mu You drove the mecha directly that night and cleared the boss at the end of the second floor.

The boss on the second floor is just the opposite of the first floor. It is an ice monster. The drops are the same as the first floor, a purple sky suit, an evolution gem, 10,000 experience books and 50 points of permanent ice resistance.

Evolution gems can only be used when the blacksmith shop reaches level 5. For now, you can only watch them. The experience books are really useful.

With two consecutive 10,000 experience books, plus the daily wages of these days, Mu You's experience bar has been broken through again and upgraded to level 17.

His current level and attributes are: level 17 (7215/163840), strength 28, agility 56, intelligence 84, constitution 32, free attribute 2, health 7200, magic 12400.

As for the development of the third floor of the dungeon, it has not started yet.

The main reason is that the lower the dungeon, the more difficult it is. The first floor requires players above level 10 to have a stable strategy, the second floor requires players above level 13, and the third floor is estimated to be above level 15 to be eligible to enter.

There are already very few players who can reach this level, and they are still waiting for the white dragon mother to "feed" them. They will never go to the dungeon easily without a strategy.

So the advancement of the third floor has temporarily stagnated.

This can't be rushed, and Mu You's focus now has come to the outside of the sky city.

After many days of cruising, Dawn City finally arrived at the target location, the Cook Islands, yesterday morning.

After drifting on the sea for half a month, the new map was very fresh to the players.

After arriving yesterday, many people couldn't wait to go down to the city to explore.

However, according to the feedback from the posts on the forum, this new map seems to be a bit weird. Many people will be suddenly attacked when walking on the road, and then they will either be poisoned, or have their kidneys cut, or have things stolen, and they can't find the murderer after that.

In short, this new map seems to be full of pitfalls. Many players go happily, but finally return in anger. Few can get benefits from this area.

After dying several times without progress, many players naturally gave up exploring. Physical strength and life are not worth wasting here.

Many netizens who have been cheated have made various appeals on the forum: Never go to the Cook Islands out of curiosity. There is definitely no gain on this map!

Some radical ones are even calling for Dawn City to go to war with the Cook Islands!

Of course, it is impossible to start a war. Now is the golden age of Sky City's development. Fighting a war is a lose-lose approach. Moreover, starting a war without sufficient reasons will greatly reduce the evaluation of the city lord. Those who call for war may not be from Dawn City.

Mu You let Dawn City stop in the sea one mile away from the Cook Islands, then left the city and set foot on the islands below.

This place is the place where the Undead Society is entrenched. He promised the little girl to help her save her sister before, and this place has something to do with the shadow ghost on him. Even if it is really a dragon's den and a tiger's lair, he has to come and try it.

[The Cook Islands, a chaotic place east of the Lan'er Empire, consists of a main continent and more than 30 peninsulas connected to the periphery. It is rumored that this is the border between life and death, so the sky here is always covered by clouds and no sunshine. ]

[The closed environment has led to conservative beliefs, poor information flow, and extreme xenophobia. Many people will never leave their place of residence. At the same time, almost every household grows poisonous grass and raises seedlings of Gu in order to protect themselves. All neighboring countries refuse to trade with this place, making it more and more closed. ]

[You appear in Wutou Village, one of the 98 villages in this chaotic land. ]

[You walk on the streets of the village. The villagers around you look at you indifferently. You want to ask something, but no one is willing to talk to you. They all walk away. ]

[You have no choice but to move forward. ]

[When you pass an alley, you are suddenly attacked from behind by two pairs of hands and pressed to the ground. ]

[When you struggle to get up, the attackers have already fled. ]

[You check your body and find that you have not lost any items, but have one more thing. ]

[You have been planted with the "heart-eating Gu". 】

【Heart-eating Gu: A type of demonic Gu that devours 1 health point of the victim every second, and stops devouring when the victim's health is below 100. 】

【Once the demonic Gu is planted, it will merge with the human body. Even if you revive after death, the Gu will also revive, unless you take the initiative to remove the Gu. There are two ways to remove the Gu. One is to violently remove the Gu yourself, but if you don't have enough experience in removing Gu, the Gu will permanently devour your 100 health limit while being eliminated. The second is to find the "Gu removers" that can be found everywhere in the Cook Islands. As long as you pay a little life, they can remove the Gu for you without any sequelae. 】

Good guy!

Mu You originally thought that the rumors of cheating people on the forum were a bit exaggerated, but he didn't expect it to come true so quickly. He was tricked as soon as he arrived on the island. However, he was not killed, but planted with a Gu worm.

It devours a little life value every second, and it will stop automatically when the life is too low. The effect of this thing is not strong. It can be easily offset by equipping a blood recovery equipment.

However, it is still very uncomfortable to think that there is a worm crawling in his body at any time, and he subconsciously wants to take it out.

And forcibly taking the worm will permanently deduct the upper limit of life. Although it is only an inconspicuous 100 points, it is the upper limit after all. A little reduction is a little less. Moreover, if he can be Gu once now, he may be Gu many times in the future. If the upper limit is reduced every time, no matter how many blood bars are reduced, it will not be enough.

In this way, once you are Gu, you can only find the so-called "Gu remover" to spend money to eliminate the disaster.

Forcibly Gu people and then force them to spend money. Obviously, this is a profit chain and a routine.

Mu You shook his head. Actually, he could have gone back directly at this time to avoid being poisoned. But he was not in a hurry. He planned to take this opportunity to figure out the situation here first.

[You grabbed a passing villager while being poisoned and asked him where to find a 'gu remover'? ]

[The villager showed you the way very enthusiastically and personally took you to the nearest gu remover's home. ]

"Tsk tsk."

Mu You's eyes twitched. He would not talk to anyone unless he was poisoned. It was really so realistic.

[You came to the gu remover's home and asked him what the price was for taking the gu? ]

[The old man who took the gu took a glance at your outfit and raised ten fingers to you: Take the gu once, and you will live ten years! ]

[You choose...]

[You chose to turn around and leave! ]

Mu You thought that this guy was looking for someone to take advantage of, but it was a pity that the fool had a convenient communication tool like the forum.

The information brought back by the pioneering teams yesterday had long been made public on the forum. The gu removal was once every five years, but when they came to him and saw that he had good equipment, they wanted to secretly double the money. It was not that easy.

This ghost place is full of Gu-collectors, and the one they fear least is asking for a higher price.

[Your decisiveness in turning around made the other party realize that his behavior of asking for a higher price had been exposed, and he hurriedly stopped you and corrected the price of Gu-collectors: once every 5 years! ]

The price was corrected back, but it still took five years. This life span cannot be wasted, and Mu You also planned to get some information by the way.

[You agreed to the price of the Gu-collector, but at the same time raised a question, and the other party could only make a deal after answering it. ]

[Your question is: Where is the location of the Undead Society? ]

This is Mu You’s main purpose of coming here: to find the Undead Society, to find information about Sister Ye Rumeng and Shadow Ghost. As for the natives of this place, he was too lazy to bother with it.

[The Gu-collector’s face changed slightly when he heard your question, and he waved his hands repeatedly, indicating that he was just a Gu-collector and could not answer questions. The residents in the village had a clear division of labor and each performed their duties. It was not his own money that could not be earned. But you can go and ask the beggars in the village. Beggars are know-it-alls in this area. As long as you give them a little reward, they will tell you a lot of information. 】

"Emm..."

Mu You looked strange. He didn't expect that such a small village was so particular and only made the money it deserved.

[The Gu extractor used a pair of tongs to probe into your body and took it out after a few seconds. A Gu worm with eight legs kicking wildly was already clamped on the tongs. The Gu worm was exposed to the air and immediately died with a wail. It turned into charcoal and shattered under the tongs. 】

[Your life span is -5 years, and the Gu worm in your body disappeared. 】

After dealing with the Gu worm, Mu You didn't talk nonsense with them anymore and immediately went out to find beggars.

As a result, he found out that the Gu incident just now was just the tip of the iceberg here.

[You saw a golden treasure chest placed on the side of the road, and no one was watching around. 】

[Driven by greed, you went forward to open the treasure chest, but found that the treasure chest was empty. 】

[When you opened the treasure chest, a worm drilled into your body along your finger. 】

[You were planted with the 'Money-keeping Gu', and your life span was reduced by an extra day every day. ]

"Backtrack!"

...

[You continue on your way, and suddenly you see a kind old lady standing at the intersection ahead, holding a food basket in her hand. ]

[The old lady sees you, smiles and waves at you, and when you get closer, she takes out a fragrant snack from the food basket: "Child, you must be hungry on the road, come and eat something." ]

[You take the snack and eat it, and your physical strength is +1 point. ]

[You didn't notice that there was a Gu worm mixed in the snack, and you ate it together. You were planted with the "Greedy Gu", and your hunger speed doubled. ]

[You asked for the blame, and the old lady looked at you "apologetically", saying that she forgot to wash her hands when making snacks at noon, and accidentally mixed the Gu worm in, but you don't have to worry, she knows a cheap Gu remover who only needs 3 years of life...]

"Backtrack!"

...

[You found a man sneaking behind you, as if he wanted to steal your things, you stopped and turned around, and exposed him in public. 】

【I didn't expect this person to be so angry that he rushed towards you in anger and tried to rob you on the street. What do you choose...】

【You choose to fight back, and use several magics to kill the other person on the spot. 】

【You killed the 'Gu Feeder', life span +1, you are infected with the anger Gu, and will become impulsive and irritable. 】

【Gu Feeder: Plants multiple Gu insects in their bodies since childhood, feeds Gu with their bodies, and those who kill them will randomly obtain one of their Gu insects. 】

"Backtrack!"

...

[You see a young woman standing by a well on the street, anxiously asking you for help, saying that her old man just fell into the well by accident, and she asks you to help save him. If you can save him, she is willing to marry you. ]

[You go forward to help, lean over and look into the well, but the well is empty, it is a dry well, where is the figure? ]

[You suddenly feel a push from behind, you are pushed into the well, and a poisonous insect takes the opportunity to drill into your body. ]

[You have been poisoned by a strong poisonous insect, and the poison damage will double when you are poisoned. ]

"Backtrack..."

...

Mu You didn't expect that he would experience so many various pitfalls along the way just to find a beggar, which made him fully feel how malicious this place is to outsiders.

Of course, some of these signs are more obvious, but Mu You still relied on his pocket watch and stepped on all the pits, so that he could provide information to the strategy team and prevent others from being deceived again.

Originally, Mu You thought that he brought the population of a city with him, and the natives here would be afraid or disgusted. Now it seems that this is not the case at all. In the eyes of the people here, he probably sent a city of fat sheep here.

No matter how chaotic other cities in the Star Spirit Realm are, at least most of the ordinary residents are lawful, and this place is full of villains!

Of course, the fourth disaster is not easy to mess with. The characteristic of players is that they are good at finding bugs, and once they find a loophole, they can fleece the wool to death.

I can only say that it is best not to let the people here find bugs, otherwise the enthusiasm of tens of millions of players can bring the backward social system here to collapse in minutes!

[You saw a beggar near the edge of the village. ]

[When the beggar saw you approaching, it was as if he saw a piece of walking gold. He hurried towards you and asked you what you wanted to know. He grew up begging on this island and was familiar with everything here. As long as there is a small reward, he will tell you everything he knows! ]

Beggar, this profession setting should be the same as the scarecrow in Anning Village. You can spend money to buy information about the current map.

Mu You first confirmed that this was indeed an NPC, not a player, and then began to interact.

[Rich adventurer, what do you want to know? Due to the restrictions of the village rules, the same beggar can only answer you one question a day, after all, he has to leave some jobs for other colleagues. ]

[1, ask why there are no shadows under the feet of the people here. Requires 30 years of life. ]

[2, ask why there are no children here. Requires 15 years of life. ]

[3, ask about the method of permanent prevention of poisonous insects. Requires 100 years of life. ]

[4, I am not interested in the above, I want to spend money to buy other information]

After reading the text, Mu You was stunned. People here have no shadows under their feet?

He really didn't notice this, because this place was covered by dark clouds, the shadows were not obvious, and the previous event text did not specifically mention this.

However, the mention of shadows immediately reminded him of shadow ghosts. Shadow ghosts seem to be born from shadows. Could it be that the shadows of the people in this place were all taken to create shadow ghosts?