68: Beishan Upgrade

As for Wu Lun, after his morning patrol time ended, he returned to the village with his partner.

Although Wu Lun had been killed by Xu Shian and turned into a "Subordinate" card, he had completely retained his memories and personality...

Yet he held not the slightest bit of hatred toward Xu Shian, still faithfully executing Xu Shian's tasks.

When Xu Shian was fighting monsters, just thinking about it made him feel terrified!

An enemy who killed you right to your face, yet you view him as your master... This is actually no different from a ghost servant!

After returning to the village, Wu Lun handed over his mission, met with the team leader... met with Jia Hu! Then he returned to his home!

In fact, after Wu Lun met with Jia Hu, the heart that Xu Shian had been holding in his chest completely relaxed.

In this Novice Village, as long as Jia Hu couldn't see any problems, then there were no problems!

At least he wouldn't have to live a life on the run!

Watching Wu Lun successfully blend back into the NPC ranks, Xu Shian breathed a sigh of relief!

Wu Lun lived alone, and there was no one else at home.

Once he returned home, Xu Shian's mind stirred, and he directly manipulated his talent to recall him into the return to silence card album. The Wu Lun in the Novice Village home proceeded to Vanish, and a white card appeared in Xu Shian's hand!

With a flick of the card in his hand, Xu Shian summoned Wu Lun in front of him!

"Master..."

"Forget the 'Master' part. From now on, just call me 'Shi Chuan'!"

He still needed to cultivate good habits, otherwise, if one day in the Novice Village, in full view of everyone, he blurted out 'Master'...

Heh, in this world where all sorts of treacherous and bizarre abilities emerged one after another, you just wait and see if Jia Hu doesn't finish you off!

"How is the management situation in the village regarding you all? If your strength changes too much, will there be any trouble?"

"That, there isn't!"

Wu Lun thought about it.

"Basically, if one's strength changes, you just need to report it! Although the village doesn't organize everyone for collective leveling, it doesn't stop us from striving for improvement either."

Xu Shian nodded!

He first took out a batch of common equipment he had obtained today for Wu Lun to change into.

That four-piece novice set he was wearing added too little strength...

(A lot of people were writing about data issues earlier; Wu Lun does have four pieces of novice equipment on him!)

"Go back and contract a wildcat, then join the team to level up together!"

Although Wu Lun was his Subordinate and could naturally gain experience from the monsters he killed.

That wasn't the point! There was no such thing as the employee resting while the boss worked to death, right?

He might as well just summon him over, and after finishing the work, let him run back on his own!

With Wu Lun's addition, Xu Shian's team became even larger!

Xu Shian was leading eleven lackeys all by himself.

Basically, every wild monster they saw was killed in one round!

The speed of their advance accelerated quite a bit!

And when Pigsy and the two crows reached level five, Xu Shian's strength reached a short-term peak!

Passing the level eight "Fierce Treant Sapling", Xu Shian officially entered the Corrupted Forest!

[Corrupted Treant]

[Common Monster]

[Level: 9]

[Race: Treant]

[HP: 1300]

[Magic: 900]

[Physical Attack: 90]

[Magic Attack: 90]

[Strength: 45]

[Agility: 20]

[Constitution: 65]

[Spirit: 45]

[Physical Defense: 40]

[Magic Defense: 30]

[Bark Skin: Casts Bark Skin on a target unit, increasing the target unit's physical defense by 30 points and magic defense by 20 points. Consumes 30 magic points, duration 15 seconds, cooldown 1 minute.]

[Branch Entanglement: Quickly grows several branches from the ground to entangle the opponent, making the opponent unable to move, dealing 40 points of nature damage per second, lasting 4 seconds; consumes 50 magic points, cooldown 30 seconds.]

[Giant Slam: The Corrupted Treant uses its thick branches to slam with all its might, dealing 220% physical damage!]

[Rejuvenation: Heals the target, recovering a total of 580 HP over 12 seconds.]

Good grief, the strength of this thing cannot be underestimated!

The wild monsters here actually have four skills?

This intensity is a bit excessive!

Is the gap from level 8 to level 9 really this huge?

However, although this wild monster was powerful, for Xu Shian, it could only be described as just okay!

After all, even without ganging up on them, the many lackeys under his command were not just for show!

Having killed over a dozen [Corrupted Treant]s in succession, he had already collected over a dozen Corrupted Branches for the mission item.

Looking at his energy points, which were about to hit the warning line.

Xu Shian decided to quit while he was ahead!

After killing another Corrupted Treant, Xu Shian decided not to advance any further.

Looking at the surrounding terrain, Xu Shian asked the Wu Lun beside him.

"Where is that level 10 BOSS of this Novice Village, that whatever it is, the [Corrupted Ancient Tree]?"

Wu Lun, of course, answered every question, pointing to a higher mountain peak in the distance...

"I've heard Captain Jia mention it, it's on that mountain over there."

Looking in the direction the other pointed, Xu Shian felt his scalp tingle.

As the old saying goes: "The mountain looks close, but the journey is long!"

Don't look at it as just the distance of one mountain; climbing it would be life-threatening.

What's more, this place was crawling with level nine to level ten wild monsters.

If I want to run to that mountain on the other side, I'm going to suffer quite a bit...

Xu Shian looked for a long time and was a bit speechless!

You could pass through the yellow-named monster area without fighting, but once you entered the red-named monster area, you had to fight, right?

"So, according to this... if I want to fight that level 10 BOSS, I have to spend a night on the mountain?"

"This..."

Wu Lun didn't know how to answer.

"I... I'm just a patrolman, I don't usually leave the village much, I haven't even been to the level six red-named monster area. How about I go back and ask?"

Xu Shian was taken aback upon hearing this!

Right, Wu Lun is an 'NPC'!

He might be able to get a lot of information that he himself didn't know...

"Fine... then let's head back!"

The pet army turned around and started heading back!

Just at this moment, Ink Shadow, flying in the sky, sent a message: there were people not far from here!

Xu Shian stopped in his tracks and activated [Minds Eye], his vision immediately switching to high altitude, synchronizing with Ink Shadow's vision.

Limping Liu?

This old guy, hiding in the mountains every day and refusing to show his face!

Xu Shian didn't rush over, but instead had Ink Shadow continue to follow the other person.

As for Xu Shian, he led his team to quickly exit the high-level monster area and retreated toward the area with lower-level monsters.

Just as they arrived at the location of the level six monsters, Ink Shadow sent another update.

This time when he switched perspectives, Limping Liu had ducked into a forest treehouse.

Good grief, he really did have a home away from home!

Ink Shadow stood motionless on a large tree, watching the treehouse. Below, a level five wildcat darted out from the house, ran to Limping Liu's side, and lowered its body, begging for pets!

Xu Shian understood in his heart; this must be the pet that Limping Liu said was killed by the 'Mountain Lion'!

So he had left it here to watch the house...

I knew it... wouldn't your damn pet be able to use [Resurrect Pet] if it died?

Did you learn a fake skill?

Now this doubt was finally resolved! So there were other arrangements...

Inside here... could Lu Shan be living here?

Before long, Limping Liu came out of the house, as usual, not bringing his pet wildcat with him.

However, the current Limping Liu had disguised himself, covering up tightly.

On his way down the mountain, no red-named wild monsters came out to attack him...

This made Xu Shian realize that this old guy still had some good things on him!

At the very least, he could make red-named wild monsters give up attacking him; one had to admit, that was a real skill!

However... who are you dressing up to guard against? You wouldn't be guarding against me, would you?

Xu Shian felt offended!