My cells can be idle and practiced

Under Zhou Qing's calm and firm guidance, Yang Bei followed closely and finally arrived at the core area of ​​this mysterious village.

There, a building that looks quite similar to an ordinary grocery store stands. It is the dark store that everyone has mentioned.

The entire building is covered in a thick, inky black color, like a giant beast in the night, exuding a heart-pounding aura.

It is worth mentioning that not only this dark shop, but in fact all the wooden houses in the entire village are built with the same black wood.

After some observation and speculation, Yang Bei believed that these woods were most likely carefully carved from precious and rare black iron wood, just as the man had said before.

Zhou Qing led Yang Bei to the door of the Dark Shop and stopped. Then he turned around and said to Yang Bei with a smile: "Okay, you can go to the Dark Shop by yourself now. After entering, you can get your own wooden axe."

Yang Bei nodded to show that he understood, and then walked towards the dark store as he was told.

When Yang Bei actually walked to the dark store, he found that there was no one here to greet him.

However, at this moment, a wonderful thing happened - an item interface similar to those commonly seen in games suddenly appeared in front of him.

It seemed that the system had automatically recognized him as a newcomer, so it provided him with an opportunity to exchange for a free axe.

Yang Bei took a closer look and saw the name of the axe that could be exchanged was clearly marked below it - Black Iron Wood Axe.

In addition to this free axe, there are some other items.

[Dark Spiritual Vein Map]

Value: 1000 Black Iron Copper Coins
【Black rice seeds】

Value: 10 Black Iron Copper Coins
【Black Iron Fish Net】

Value: 3000 Black Iron Copper Coins
【Black Ironwood Bow】

Value: 2000 Black Iron Copper Coins
【.】

There was a dazzling array of items in front of him, which was dizzying, but unfortunately, the prices of these things were far beyond what he could afford at the moment.

At this moment, the only thing he could have was the black iron wood axe that could be exchanged for free.

Without any hesitation, he made his choice decisively.

In the next moment, a ray of light flashed, and an axe emitting a mysterious luster and carefully crafted from black iron wood suddenly appeared in front of Yang Bei.

The axe looks heavy and sharp, as if it contains infinite power.

When Yang Bei successfully grasped the black iron axe, Zhou Qing came up to him and said, "Now the axe is in your hand, you have to go chop down the tree.

Remember, half of the money you earn from cutting down trees will belong to me.

Also, you must give me at least two Black Iron Copper Coins every day."

Zhou Qing always had that signature smile on his face. He seemed amiable, but in fact he had his own plans in mind.

To him, Yang Bei is undoubtedly a living cash cow. As long as he can gain continuous benefits from Yang Bei, he will naturally maintain this seemingly friendly attitude.

However, if Yang Bei dared to break the agreement and refused to hand over his due share, he would be punished by being banned from entering the village.

Yang Bei did not react to Zhou Qing's attitude, and now he was paying more attention to the scene in front of him.

He just casually said to Zhou Qing: "Understood, I will leave the village now."

After saying this, Yang Bei walked directly out of the village.

Zhou Qing was very satisfied: "Very good, you accepted it quickly, then you will definitely live a good life in the future."

At this time, Yang Bei had already focused his attention on what was in front of him.

Because now some familiar scenes appeared in front of him.

【Hang up panel】

Level: lv1 (0/10)

Function: You can get 1 point of progress in one hour

【Black Iron Wood Axe】

Quality: white
Level: lv1 (0/10)

One of the things that appeared before our eyes was a brand new and mysterious hang-up panel.

The other is the panel of the Black Ironwood Axe.

This magical hanging panel followed him closely into this unknown territory like a loyal companion.

It is worth mentioning that this hang-up panel not only allows itself to continuously upgrade and evolve, but also has an amazing ability - it can actually help other items upgrade their levels!

But how can the level of this hanging panel itself be improved?
He speculated that perhaps the answer to the question could only be found in the dark place.

But at this moment, he decided to put aside the search for ways to upgrade the level of the AFK panel for the time being, and instead make full use of its functions to upgrade the level of the Black Ironwood Axe in his hand by AFK.

When everything is chosen, the next thing to do is to wait patiently for 10 hours to pass.

As time goes by, this black iron wood axe will undergo a gorgeous transformation and be promoted to a higher level.

By then, with more powerful properties and sharpness, the speed of chopping trees will definitely be greatly accelerated, and the efficiency will be significantly improved.

However, it is far from enough to just limit ourselves to the village.

Now it was his turn to explore the dark lands.

It's all dark at the moment.

Everything is black, there is no other color.

He strolled through the village, his eyes moving around, paying attention to the conditions of the people around him.

Some people were similar to him, and seemed to have just arrived. Holding axes tightly in their hands, they were struggling to lift an extremely thick, ink-black iron tree, and slowly walked towards the village step by step.

On the other side, there stood a group of people holding bows and arrows. They were agile and had sharp eyes. It was obvious at first glance that they were experienced hunters.

To be able to make a living by hunting here, I think one must have quite impressive strength.

Looking further away, I saw some people carrying large baskets on their backs, which were filled with various kinds of herbs. They must be people who specialized in collecting herbs.

In addition, there were some people holding fishing nets. Needless to say, they made a living by fishing.

However, what is surprising is that no matter how different these people's occupations are, when they successfully obtain what they need, the choices they make are surprisingly consistent - they all walk towards the most conspicuous place in the center of the village. All the gains of everyone must be sold in the dark store.

And buy what you need.

However, at this moment, the dark shop that originally belonged to the villagers has fallen into the hands of the village tyrant.

This gang forcibly occupied this important resource and set harsh rules: if other villagers wanted to use the dark store in the village, they had to hand over half of their hard work to these village tyrants.

These village tyrants are the powerful evil forces entrenched here and controlling the entire village.

Although Yang Bei felt unhappy in the face of such injustice, he was helpless because of his weak strength and was unable to compete with it.

Even if others stand in front of him openly and exploit him wantonly, he has no choice but to swallow his anger.

After all, in a world where the strong prey on the weak, without sufficient power to back you up, all resistance is futile.

His current identity here is not the master of the universe.

Just an ordinary person who has just stepped into this world.

The village was not big, and Yang Bei quickly walked out of the village in no time.

When he came outside the village, he suddenly saw patches of fertile black spiritual land before his eyes.

I saw that there were people taking good care of each piece of spiritual land. These hardworking people even chose to live directly in the center of the spiritual land.

Obviously, they did this so that they could protect this precious land and the black rice that was about to mature on it at all times.

As expected...even the seemingly simple matter of farming is not easy to implement in practice.

These farmers must watch over the crops with full concentration and dare not slack off at all, because if they are careless, the thieves who have been coveting the crops for a long time or natural disasters may take advantage of the situation and deal a devastating blow to these hard-earned achievements.

Observe these spiritual soils.

Yang Bei didn't look at it any more. Anyway, he didn't choose to farm, so he walked straight to the window. According to what Zhou Qing told him, as long as he left the place where the black spirit rice was planted, he would enter the black iron wood forest.

All he needed to do was cut down the black ironwood and bring it back to the village.

After walking forward for a long time, Yang Bei finally saw the shadow of the black ironwood forest in the distance.

I saw a large area of ​​land in front of me, with many black iron trees as high as five or six meters standing densely.

As the view goes deeper into the forest, one can clearly see that the black iron trees are becoming taller and taller, as if they are the guardians of this mysterious area.

According to the information Zhou Qing told him before, the Dark Shop would only recycle black ironwood that was at least 5 meters long.

When he got a little closer, an astonishing phenomenon caught his attention - in the outer area of ​​the Black Ironwood Forest, it was obvious that it was often cut down by people.

The traces left by the felled trees are shocking, but what is amazing is that even though these places have been destroyed, new black ironwood trees soon emerged from the original cut-down locations, and their growth speed is beyond imagination!
Yang Bei widened his eyes, staring at the scene in disbelief.

He witnessed with his own eyes the black ironwood tree climbing and growing taller at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Even if only a small black ironwood stake is left, in the blink of an eye you can see a tender green sprout quickly emerging from the ground in the center of the stake, stretching and branching upward at an astonishing speed, and growing into a brand new black ironwood in the blink of an eye.

Yang Bei was extremely shocked by this tenacious vitality and magical regeneration ability.

In this way, it can be clearly seen that these black iron trees seem to be endless and can never be cut down.

Moreover, it is simply a fantasy to completely cut down the entire vast black ironwood forest.

What is puzzling is why that mysterious dark shop collects so much black ironwood?

What exactly do they want to do?

A series of questions kept emerging in Yang Bei's mind, but he knew very well that with his current strength, trying to figure out these mysteries would undoubtedly be like hitting a rock with an egg.

Therefore, for now, I can only bury these doubts deep in my heart, and when I am strong enough in the future, I will find out the truth one by one.

At this moment, Yang Bei has already stepped into the Black Ironwood Forest.

Right at the edge of the forest, there were other people who made the same decision as him - to cut down trees.

However, a closer look reveals that there are actually not many people here. Within a radius of several hundred meters, there are probably only a dozen or so people.

What made Yang Bei even more alert was that he keenly noticed that these people looked extremely nervous.

They all put their best efforts into swinging the wooden axes in their hands, chopping fiercely at the extremely hard black iron wood.

At the same time, he did not forget to keep his eyes and ears open, and remained highly vigilant at all times, as if a huge danger might befall him at any time and anywhere.

After catching this important information, Yang Bei instantly realized that Zhou Qing must have hidden something from him before.

After all, judging from Zhou Qing's behavior at the time, he didn't seem like the kind of person who was helping out of sheer goodness.

In this case, Yang Bei knew that he had to be extra careful on the rest of his journey. If he was not careful, he would be doomed.

He doesn't understand the reason now, but after a while, when the situation arises, he will definitely understand the reason.

At this moment, Yang Bei had no other choice but to join the huge army of tree cutters.

Looking around, I saw that those people who were sweating profusely and working hard to cut down trees were actually lined up in a straight line in an orderly manner.

Without exception, they all stayed on the edge of the forest, forming a unique landscape.

Yang Bei glanced at the crowd, and after a moment's hesitation, he randomly chose an empty seat and stood there.

Then, he tightly gripped the slightly rough wooden axe in his hand, took a deep breath, and then used all his strength to chop hard at the towering black iron tree in front of him.

There was a dull "bang" sound, and the axe collided violently with the tree trunk. However, the sharpness of the wooden axe was really limited. In addition, after stepping into this mysterious and dark place, Yang Bei's own strength was only slightly better than that of an ordinary person. Therefore, every time the axe was struck, at most a tiny gap was left on the iron-hard black iron tree.

According to this progress, if one wants to successfully cut down the entire black iron tree, it will probably take at least an entire hour.

However, even though he knew it would take such a long time, Yang Bei had no better choice at the moment.

He gritted his teeth, raised the wooden axe in his hand high again, and without hesitation, chopped down the black iron tree again... In this way, he repeated this seemingly simple but extremely difficult felling work over and over again, tirelessly continuing.

At the same time, he was also looking forward to the level of the wooden axe being upgraded.

As long as the level of the wooden axe is upgraded, he will be able to chop trees faster, but he is also thinking about a question. If the level of the wooden axe is upgraded and he can chop trees faster, will it attract Zhou Qing's attention? What should he do then?
He must pay attention to this issue. After all, his safety may not be guaranteed when he comes to this place.

At present, although Zhou Qing appears to be very kind, in fact, the other party is still primarily concerned with profit. (End of this chapter)