87: I'm afraid it's alien writing

Chapter 87: Probably Alien Text

In this process, Lu Ran couldn't completely control the balance between the controlled monsters and the uncontrolled monsters.

But it didn't matter.

When Lu Ran found that the monster-farming efficiency decreased and the enslaved snake monsters were no longer strong enough, he only needed a glance to summon a large number of snake monsters to join the fray again.

"Let's go in," Lu Ran said to the Three Guild Leaders.

They quickly followed, sticking close behind Lu Ran as they advanced.

After all, they weren't in a party state right now, and Lu Ran's skills could also harm them.

Fortunately, Lu Ran wasn't using any other skills at this time.

They walked into the Outer Hall Area.

Although it was called the Outer Hall Area, there was no grand hall; instead, it was a vast, open area.

Lu Ran looked down at the stone slabs beneath his feet.

They were covered in various complex, pitted runes.

Lu Ran was a little puzzled and said, "I don't know what these runes mean. If they're data-generated, they shouldn't just be for aesthetics, right? Are they alien text?"

Ye Hongyi burst out laughing after hearing that.

She laughed and scolded, "Alien my foot! This place existed before the Global datafication. It's where the Miao Village worshipped the snake god, presided over by shamans. In the Miao Village, female shamans were 'wu' and male shamans were 'xi.' But after datafication, this place became a ruin, generating Titan Pythons and countless snake demons, becoming the Ten Thousand Snake Hall, and the Miao Village was forced to abandon it."

As for the runes on the ground, they were incantation symbols commonly used in shamanic arts.

They were not alien text as Lu Ran had thought.

She truly was a girl who had lived in the Miao Village since childhood.

Although Ye Hongyi had rarely returned in recent years, she was still incredibly familiar with the history of the Miao Village.

"So that's how it is," Lu Ran said, scratching his head awkwardly.

He turned his head to look around.

The nearby snake monsters had been mostly cleared out, and then Lu Ran's gaze extended further, where the scene of enslaved snake monsters fighting uncontrolled ones spread like a plague.

The battle grew even more intense.

Lu Ran's experience gain rate also soared.

"No rush to enter the inner hall. Let's clear this area first before going in. This is a huge wave of rich experience, much richer than I expected," Ye Hongyi reminded him.

Lu Ran, of course, had no objections; he had the same idea.

It was rare to have such a large number of high-Level monsters providing high experience; he couldn't waste it.

Now that he thought about it.

Liu Xinxin choosing this place for Lu Ran to Level up was definitely the best leveling spot until Lu Ran could clear team dungeons!

It was perfect for getting through the tedious and long leveling process until Lu Ran reached Level 30.

Just fifteen minutes later, the fighting in the outer area stopped.

Lu Ran turned his head to look around; the uncontrolled snake monsters had been completely cleared out.

The remaining ones were all densely packed enslaved monsters.

"These ones I enslaved are a bit of a waste," Lu Ran said regretfully.

These were all experience!

Now that Lu Ran had enslaved them, he couldn't release them.

It was indeed a bit of a waste.

At this moment, Liu Xinxin suddenly said, "Let them fight each other and see if you gain experience."

Huh?

Lu Ran was stunned. Could it be played like that?

Liu Xinxin explained:

"When they were fighting earlier, I observed carefully, and some of the snake monsters' area-of-effect attacks also damaged other enslaved snake monsters."

"So I speculate that your Bone Throne entry, although it forcibly seized their control, is different from traditional friendly units."

"They can damage each other, but I just don't know if you'll gain experience after they die."

...

Hearing this.

Lu Ran decisively tried it, and with a thought.

The large swathes of snake monsters that had quieted down received new instructions.

This time, there was no specific target, but rather indiscriminate attacks on their surroundings!

Indeed!

These snake monsters controlled by Lu Ran could indeed damage each other!

Moreover, because of the indiscriminate attacks, there was no need to pick targets, making the process faster!

At the same time.

Lu Ran paid attention to the prompts.

[Party killed Level 34 Shadow Python, gained 3600 experience!]

[Party killed Level 41 Hellfire Snake, gained 4370 experience!]

[Party killed Level 37 Withered Wood Ghoul Snake, gained 3880 experience!]

[Party killed Level 41 Hellfire Snake, gained 4370 experience!]

[Party killed Level 37 Withered Wood Ghoul Snake, gained 3880 experience!]

...

He could gain experience!

Moreover, because there was no party, Lu Ran enjoyed the experience alone. Although the increase wasn't particularly large, it wasn't small either!

"I can gain experience!" Lu Ran said excitedly.

In that case, controlling monsters to kill other monsters in the future wouldn't be a waste at all.

"Damn it, there's actually someone in this world who can clear groups of monsters without even casting skills! Holy crap, this is truly defying heaven!" Lei Tai watched as swathes of snake monsters fell, feeling incredibly satisfied.

At the same time, he was shocked by Lu Ran's entry ability.

Not long after.

The outer hall was completely cleared, with snake monster corpses strewn everywhere, haphazardly.

The air was filled with a strong smell of blood.

Even though some of the earlier dead snake monster corpses had been decomposed and disappeared by the data, a large number of snake monster corpses still remained.

Besides that, Lu Ran was too lazy to pick up the scattered equipment and gold coins.

The drops in the Outer Hall Area were all blue and green equipment. Even purple rare equipment couldn't be equipped due to its high Level and mediocre attributes.

Lu Ran casually picked up some purple rare equipment.

Then he and the three others walked towards the inner hall in the center.

The inner hall was not a single grand hall, but a complex of buildings.

It was built by the Miao Village in ancient times, before the Global datafication.

It was relatively crude, basically just massive stones piled up.

The same complex runes that Lu Ran couldn't understand were carved on them.

The three entered the inner hall through a huge stone gate in the middle.

The light immediately dimmed.

There were some braziers on the surrounding stone walls. Although no one maintained them, they burned year-round under the data's enhancement.

Otherwise, the visible distance inside would probably be less than five meters.

Looking around, this place was filled with snake monsters of an even higher Level, directly a tier above!

Although their numbers weren't as exaggerated as in the outer hall, each one was considerably larger, with the biggest being as thick as a bucket and over ten or twenty meters long!

Lu Ran felt his scalp tingle just looking at them.

He quickly swept his gaze over them and began controlling the snake monsters to fight.

At the same time, to speed things up, Lu Ran began summoning Skeleton Soldiers to perform indiscriminate Corpse Explosions on the surroundings.

From time to time, he would also throw out a Bone Storm, covering a small area of the inner hall, constantly stacking to accelerate the monster-farming speed.

Of course, to prevent accidents, he didn't forget to summon several Ancient Golems, gathering them in a circle around the group.

While protecting the three behind him, they could also block damage for Lu Ran in case of an accident.

At the same time.

Outside the Ten Thousand Snake Hall.

In the dense forest, Wei Yingying, perhaps out of curiosity, or perhaps because she was worried about Ye Hongyi despite her sharp tongue.

She brought several high-combat Gu Masters over.

"Gu Po, can those few people really get the Titan Python's venom sac?" someone asked.

"No," Wei Yingying said without hesitation. "Do you think the Ten Thousand Snake Hall is that easy to clear? It's not like we haven't tried. Even the Three Guild Leaders, the gap between them and high-combat professionals isn't too exaggerated, and there are only three of them, plus a burden. How can they clear it? They're probably frowning outside the outer hall right now."

After speaking.

She pouted and said petulantly, "I'm just making things difficult for her. Why hasn't she come back for so long, and she didn't do what she promised me? But she still agreed, couldn't she just give in to me? In the end, she'll just hit a wall, and I'll have to give her a way out."

As she spoke, pushing aside the bushes in front of her, the Ten Thousand Snake Hall became visible.

But what surprised Wei Yingying was that, for the first time ever, it was eerily quiet here!