Chapter 137. Liúshuǐ People (End)

   【Congratulations to survivor Ye Mo for assisting Wang Xue in successfully disrupting the Baiyue Shui Clan’s forbidden technique, saving 798 intelligent lifeforms, and completing side quest 2. Constitution attribute +1, free attribute points +1】

   【Congratulations to survivor Ye Mo for assisting Wang Xue in preserving the flame of the Baiyue Shui Clan’s ghost technique civilization in the reality copy ‘Liúshuǐ People,’ completing the main quest. Constitution attribute +1, free attribute points +1】

     When she find ‘Shui Scripture’ in one of the boxes among the twenty boxes in Mo Shenpo’s house, it was reasonable that the core civilization fire of the Shui clan had been found, but it was just a side quest. The task of the civilization fire seemed to focus on inheritance rather than civilization itself.

      If the forbidden curse isn’t lifted, the people in the mountain village will die sooner or later. Ye Mo and Wang Xue aren’t suited for ghost techniques, and the Shui clan ghost techniques will definitely lose their lineage. Their survival, perhaps along with the national team, is the correct way to complete the mission.

     Another bad plan is that the survivors can also find civilization, let a person with dark talent inherit the ghost art, give up saving the village, which is also considered to have completed the main quest.

     However, this method of completing the task will definitely kill all 798 people in the village, and destroy the flora and fauna of the entire mountain. These corpses are likely to become more powerful after the forbidden spell is completed, thus becoming a major security risk for China in the future.

     Whether it is Qiong in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, or the Nine Realms in Norse mythology, they all have living inheritors. This is the true preservation of the spark of civilization; intelligent beings are crucial.

     Ye Mo understood it immediately.

     However, she had no time to ponder this. The continuous earthquakes and the final near-magnitude 7 earthquake definitely caused very serious damage to the entire mountain and its surroundings. But the cave where the forbidden technique was located was still semi-intact, and the final ten corpses had simultaneously come to life. Their first target was naturally the living people in this mountain.

     Although the third voice from the system was: 【Survivor Ye Mo detected to have completed the main mission. Do you want to exit the instance immediately?】

     Ye Mo still refused: “No.”

     Things must be done from beginning to end.

    ……

     In order to deal with the corpses together, Ye Mo threw out many wood-type magical items and wood-type magic arrays, turning the forbidden area cave into a world of green plants.

     Unexpectedly, the system voice sounded again—

   【Congratulations to survivor Ye Mo for preserving the Ancient Banyan variant, completing side quest 3. Constitution attribute +1, free attribute points +1. 】

    It may be affected by the wood energy, and new branches grow where the sacred tree is cut off.

     Ye Mo: “…”

     Fortunately, for the time being, the Ancient Banyan variant seemed to have no effect on the corpses.

     Ye Mo ended the lives of the corpses within the plant world.

    When Wang Xue hurriedly arrived at the cave, she saw this scene. Without saying a word, she stepped forward and actively lured away two corpses, and was only able to inflict a small amount of major damage on them.

     Wang Xue almost fell into the inertial thinking, but fortunately, with Ye Mo’s reminder, she switched to wood weapons to attack the corpse.

     The two cooperated for 15 minutes and the battle ended.

     Wang Xue let out a long breath: “Sister Jing, this real copy is thanks to you. I really can’t handle all these corpses together. Even if I separate them, I can’t kill them. Maybe I will be poisoned with them in the end and become a blood corpse? Zombie?”

     Ye Mo wiped the blood on the sword and said: “The forbidden spell hasn’t formed a closed loop yet, so they’re not particularly strong. You can carefully level up while dealing with them. The difficulty lies in how to deal with their immunity to physical and magical attacks. We should think about it in advance.”

     Wang Xue: “Yeah.”

     Unlike Ye Mo’s denial just now, Wang Xue chose to exit when the system asked whether to leave the real copy, so she could log in to the survivor apo to see her evaluation and rewards.

   【Your comprehensive score in ‘Liushui People’ dungeon is D, you have received the following rewards: Points × 500 (not even enough for a skirt).

     Roasted wild boar skewers × 100 (other than being delicious, they’re pretty useless).

     Bamboo tube rice × 30 (each tube can increase satiety for three days)

     ‘Shui Scripture’ (skill book, including the three-thousand-year-old water tribe’s Black Ghost Technique and White Ghost Technique, but seems to be of little use to you)】

     Wang Xue: “…Fuck.”

     This reward is not as good as the first Doomsday Supermarket copy, but this copy is really useless to her. The evaluation D may be because she invited a big boss.

     Ye Mo looked at the corpse on the ground and said, “Realistic copies should not only look at system rewards.”

     Wang Xue: “These corpses.”

     Ye Mo glanced at her strangely: “Of course not, you can also study one.”

     As someone who is used to scavenges battlefields, she naturally collected all four pieces of black jade essence and several hundred pieces of black spirit jade, along with the undamaged murals at the entrance, all of which have significant research value.

     Not to mention the value of the spirit jade, Wang Xue searched for ‘jade essence’ in the system store and saw a string of zeros. After carefully counting, there were eight zeros, making it much more expensive than many skill books

     The cheapest among the jade essence is still the regular five-element jade essence. Black, white, and space jade essence, especially space jade essence, has nine zeros, which is something they can’t afford with their current net worth.

     “This is outrageous.” Wang Xue looked at the green vines on the ground and counted them with her fingers, “Golden Wound Powder, Detoxification Potion, Ten Formation Plates, a pile of Wood and Light Spirit Stone Crystal Cores, we are losing a lot of money!”

     Ye Mo said: “Not at all, jade essence can be piled up into spirit jade when put into a pile of jade, and its service life is thousands of years. If we can live to that time, we will have already recovered our investment.”

     Just these jade essences alone make this trip worthwhile. It’s a pity they’re black jade essences, the dark energy can only be used in very specific environments, such as weapons, equipment, and mechanisms that require special properties.

     In addition, there is the ‘corpse’ of the sacred tree.

     This sacred tree is exceptionally hard, surpassing even thousand-year-old golden silk nanmu submerged wood. Of course, it deserves thorough research, and the quantity is enormous, enough material for her workshop.

     It can also be used to craft various weapons for herself, Watson, and Wang Xue. This sacred wood is no less valuable than metal materials and can also confuse enemies, even though none of these can be brought into system instances

     Ye Mo said: “Think again about the changes in the real world. Perhaps it won’t be too long before we can use them.”

     Wang Xue: “Mm.”

     As for the Ancient Banyan variant in the pile of corpses, without blood sacrifice, this sacred tree only emits yin energy and attracts ghosts to its surroundings. A ghost master can use it to nurture ghosts, followed by ghost nurturing techniques.

     It’s top-tier equipment for dark-elemental mages.

     It’s a pity that Ye Mo doesn’t know when she can awaken all the talents. Anyway, the three of them don’t need it now.

     But Shui clan can.

     When Wang Xue heard about ghosts, she couldn’t help getting goose bumps. Anyway, she couldn’t awaken the dark talent. This is just right. Seeing ghosts every day, that kind of life is simply unimaginable.

     ……

     The sacred tree was really big, with many branches, and it was not easier to collect than Thor’s hammer and Odin’s spear. Ye Mo spent two times to store them in the storage space, and the two left the underground battlefield.

     At this time, the black fog of Qingshan had disappeared, and the ghost undead returned to their graves to hide from the sun. The yin energy of this mountain was still very strong, and it would take at least a hundred or eighty years to recover.

     When Ye Mo and Wang Xue came out of the cave, they could see that the nearby towns and villages suffered heavy losses due to the earthquake. The whole Yunnan Province felt it, and other cities bordering Yunnan Province also felt it.

     Fortunately, this earthquake increased in magnitude from small to large. From the initial tremors, some people had already begun to take cover. Those who watching the spectacle still remembered they had legs by the seventh or eighth tremor.

     By the ninth or tenth tremor, people had gone from watching the spectacle to panic and fear.

     By the fourteenth or fifteenth tremor, the news of the Yunnan earthquake had hit the top of domestic trending searches, as well as the top of survivor forums. Combined with the earlier anomalies, even a fool would know something was wrong

     Wang Xue glanced at the forum of the survivor app. There were five real copies exposed, but the top three hot posts focused on the Huaxia earthquake. The survivors all had the intention of watching the real copies.

     When the Chinese special agent team discovered other survivors in the mountains, they deduced that they must have accidentally entered a real-world dungeon triggered by civilian survivors, and high-level survivors at that.

     They finally connected the red-clothed female ghost to Mi Wenjing, and then the traveler’s recent name change to Mi Wenjing. What are the odds of such a coincidence? Probably similar to winning the lottery.

     Moreover, it was obvious that this survivor was receiving protection from the villagers, which was even holding them back for his/her sake.

     The special agent team also secured urgent non-disclosure agreements with 12 tourists, local doctors, village leaders, police officers, and survivors, doing everything possible to keep the red-clad ghost out of the news and survivor forums, or at least delay its exposure.

     The big boss has so many hidden identities that global organizations are starting to catch on. It’s only a matter of time before they piece it all together.

     Even without venturing into the real-world copy, the special agent team’s exchange of Gu and ghost techniques in the village made the mission a success. The biggest casualties were the 12 tourists outside the hospital, traumatized by the ghost and driven insane by the earthquake, and the three survivors whose identities were compromised.

     Seeing Ye Mo’s eyes stop at the noisy disaster-stricken people, Wang Xue said: “Sister Jing, this earthquake is the smallest price, otherwise there will only be living sacrifices, or waiting for those blood corpses to escape, then this world may have a more tragic scene than the Doomsday Supermarket copy.”

     The toxins in those corpses can easily assimilate ordinary people. If it were unfortunate, it would be the prelude to a zombie movie.

     Ye Mo: “Mm.”

     Afterwards, they went back to the mountain village first. This place was also destroyed by the earthquake. Some villagers died because of the backlash, and the remaining villagers were sad, crying and making a fuss.

     After thousands of years, they finally removed the burden on their shoulders, and they were finally free.

     The agents were very short of manpower. They had not yet started searching the mountain, but had just closed it. Ye Mo used some special means to meet with Gan Lan and Ulangda.

     There is no doubt that both of them were the inheritors of the ghost masters selected by the village. They might be the new ghost masters who had disappeared for hundreds of years. Now with the help of the national team, their road would be smoother.

     Ye Mo gave them the ancient banyan seeds and a piece of black jade essence.

     insisted on handing over to them some of the still unbroken antiques, non-companion Gu insects, the Miao village’s pharmacy, Gu techniques, ghost techniques, golden Phoebe zhennan wood, golden nanmu, Taoist magical tools… and even more than a hundred types of Miao cuisine.

     Among these well-preserved antiques, a considerable portion possesses attributes, and many are ritualistic objects of the shaman, thus being very precious. Needless to say, the rest are all the most treasured items of the village.

     “These are prepared by Mo Shenpo and the village chief, you have to accept them.”

     “Thank you! Really, thank you so much! You are the saviors of our Miao and Shui villages. You are welcome to come and stay in our mountain village anytime.The Gu insects in the mountain village will always be kept for you!”