237: The only way to express such great kindness is to repay it with my life!

"Indeed, I heard people say that the number of the Undead Monarch's Undead Legion has already reached fifty million!"

"Fifty million? How old is that news? If I remember correctly, he broke through one hundred million long ago."

"One hundred million? The global armies combined aren't even a fraction of his?"

"Otherwise, how could he be respectfully called the Undead Monarch?"

"Damn it! I also have to keep working hard at fishing, striving to achieve one-tenth of his accomplishments as soon as possible."

"One-tenth? You're quite confident about your future. If I could reach one-thousandth, no, one-ten-thousandth of his, I'd be content."

...

The crowd kept discussing. Chen Ming, after hearing their words, frowned and thought, 'When did my Undead Legion break through fifty million?'

He was even more surprised when the claim of one hundred million popped up afterward.

The most crucial thing was that people actually believed it, and he couldn't hear a single voice of doubt.

They were even more certain it was the truth than him, the Undead Monarch himself.

However, this baseless speculation was positive information for Chen Ming, and he didn't bother to explain too much; there was no need.

Why bother caring how amazing others think he is?

That was their freedom.

His gaze returned to the old woman who had transformed into a large black cat, weakly climbing up from the ground.

Li San Gui's previous strike had caused her significant damage. She shook her head from side to side, trying to stay conscious.

Li San Gui, however, was not prepared to give her any time to breathe. He extended a tentacle above the large cat's head again, and accompanied by a sudden gust of wind, it struck down fiercely.

The large cat reacted quickly, wanting to jump sideways to dodge.

She did manage to do so, but Li San Gui anticipated her anticipation, extending another tentacle in advance and swinging it horizontally.

Bang! Boom!

The large cat was sent flying again, smashing through several houses and wooden walls, creating endless dust and smoke.

This time, her injuries were clearly more severe than before. She was wrapped up by Li San Gui's tentacle and lifted into the air.

Immediately after, he slammed her down fiercely onto the ground, delivering continuous heavy blows.

He didn't understand the meaning of being merciful or soft-hearted at all.

Seeing their master being so brutally abused by someone, the black cats no longer cared about the few humans. They all moved, transforming into a torrent that surged towards Li San Gui.

However, the advantage in numbers could not erase the huge disparity in size.

A single horizontal sweep of the tentacle, like a millstone, crushed all the black cats into minced meat, and blood covered a large area of the street.

The air was filled with the stench of dead rats that had been soaked in water for several days, unbearable to smell.

"..." Seeing the mutated cat group that they had attacked for half a day with no effect being easily slaughtered by Li San Gui, not a single one left.

Even the group of criminals and brawlers who watched couldn't help but feel fear in their hearts.

The stronger the power Li San Gui displayed, the higher Chen Ming's status was in their hearts, as the Master who summoned the Undead.

As for the old woman, she had suffered severe health loss and was forced to revert from her black cat state to human form.

Seeing this, Li San Gui began to coil and tighten his tentacle.

The sound of bones shattering and being squeezed into powder was clearly heard by Chen Ming and Qin Hongyue.

Following that, accompanied by a faint popping sound, a large amount of blood was squeezed out from the gaps in Li San Gui's coiled tentacle, splattering far away.

When the tentacle opened, only a thin layer of the old woman's skin remained, tightly stuck to the surface of the tentacle, resembling a peculiar tattoo.

For Chen Ming, the black cat old woman's strength was still noteworthy.

If Li San Gui hadn't greatly expanded his Yin energy with a large number of ghosts and monsters, he really might not have been her opponent.

Worth stealing skills and extracting Undead!

One step in place.

As for treasure chests, just like when killing Li San Gui, there was a chance to open Platinum Treasure Chests containing A-grade skills, but there would be two fewer.

After all, treasure chest drops are calculated based on the monster's strongest combat power at the time of killing.

They were both A-Rank monsters, but A-Rank monsters also had distinctions in strength.

Although the system did not have clear subdivisions like A+, A-, etc.

It belonged to unwritten empirical knowledge.

However, having dealt with various Zombie monsters for so long, Chen Ming still had this judgment.

As for those little black cats?

There was no need to extract them one by one, which would be troublesome.

Strictly speaking, they belonged to the old woman's skill effects.

Summoning type skill.

"It's... solved?"

"Heaven-defying! This combat power is too heaven-defying!"

"When can I also do something like this, not moving a hand the entire time, yet becoming the biggest winner?"

"Go wash up and sleep, maybe it can be achieved in a dream."

It's worth mentioning that it was unclear which rule force took effect.

After Li San Gui and the old woman were eliminated, the flames filling the street receded, and the originally damaged houses and buildings quickly restored to their original state at a visible speed.

The entire ghost street was no different from when they first arrived.

At least in Chen Ming's opinion, this setting was quite good.

Because of this, the various survivors also returned to the shops they had previously applied to and re-entered their working state.

Some were because the shop owners came looking for them, and they were unable, or rather, didn't dare to refuse.

A large part was also due to system tasks, not wanting the huangquan coinss they were about to get to slip away for nothing.

If they chose to leave at this time and give up the task, wouldn't the half-day's work they did before be in vain?

They absolutely could not accept such a thing.

Chen Ming, Qin Hongyue, and the Red-Clothed Woman also returned to the Shuiyue Inn.

On the second floor, in a private room.

"Yin Qianqian thanks young master for saving her! For this great kindness, she can only repay by offering herself!"

The Red-Clothed Woman knelt on the ground and said sincerely.

The first half of the sentence sounded reasonable to Chen Ming.

The second half, however, completely confused Chen Ming.

"You, what did you say?" For a moment, he couldn't tell if this Red-Clothed Woman, no, it should be Yin Qianqian, wanted to repay kindness or seek revenge.

"You, a mere solitary ghost, are you even worthy of marrying Master?" Hearing this, Qin Hongyue, who was standing nearby, couldn't help but step forward, deciding to say a few words on behalf of Master.

"..." Yin Qianqian thought about it carefully and realized it was indeed the case.

She indeed wasn't worthy of Chen Ming.

Although on this street, people who wanted to marry her, Yin Qianqian, could easily line up from one end of the street to the other.

Chen Ming didn't blame Yin Qianqian, thinking it was probably just a standard procedure.

Yin Qianqian was just acting according to the rules.

Even if it wasn't him, if another survivor completed this task, she would still say, "I have nothing to repay you with but myself."

"I see you have some capability. Since you want to repay Master, why not stay by Master's side and be a servant with me?" Qin Hongyue said again.

Her words, without a doubt, provided Chen Ming with a new idea, a solution.

Not to mention that Chen Ming still didn't know what Yin Qianqian looked like until now.

For him, a living person, to marry a Ligui (fierce ghost) as a wife, it just felt... strange.