Scourge Messenger

Chapter 41 The Demon Arrives
No wonder this dungeon lasts three days.

No wonder this dungeon limits the daily playing time.

No wonder this copy is suitable for all players.

It turns out that this is not a trial copy at all, but a survival and construction copy!

"The next wave of monsters will attack after 04:25."

There is no time to waste. Although it is not known how difficult it is to collect resources, this is a copy designed for four people. Yan Qing estimates that the difference between high-level and low-level players is reflected here - high-level players collect faster, while low-level players collect slower.

The fastest way to gather resources is undoubtedly to play with four people, and they must plan what resources each person will collect, not just randomly picking up trash. If Yan Qing is right, in the original game, all four players should have construction rights, meaning everyone must also discuss the construction direction. Otherwise, if one person shows up and acts recklessly, everyone's dungeon experience will enter an unpredictable stage of fate.

This was probably Yan Qing's least favorite dungeon type: highly interactive, intensely communicative, with no barrier to entry, and the quality of teammates depended entirely on card draws. With any luck, the four teammates might become close friends after three days of chatting during the dungeon; with bad luck, they'd end up hanging out on the game forums for three days of out-of-game PVP.

Thankfully, he had at least one teammate who listened to his instructions.

……

"Miss, do you have the ability to move stones?"

"Huh?" Qian Gongyu was a little confused, but still replied: "Yes, I have a token of my loyalty, an ox bone finger chain, which can make my fingers generate the strength of nine oxen."

"Time is running out, so I can only make it short: I want you to move as many stones as possible to the cabin within a cup of tea."

The cold and arrogant Jiang Shi left the cabin after saying this, leaving behind the stunned Qian Gongyu and two top-class white and rich beauties whom she could not afford to offend.

Qian Gongyu opened her mouth, trembling as she turned to look at Shang Xinlei and Jie Yuanshao, revealing an extremely awkward smile: "Two, two, my guards, she... I'm sorry, I apologize for her rudeness!"

Not to mention a mere black belt, even if she, a blue belt from a prestigious family, dared to speak to Shang Xinlei and Jie Yuanshao like this, the latter would directly chop her up on the grounds that they were humiliated, and would not be held accountable.

Although Liang would not allow noble warriors to have the freedom to kill people at will like Qi and Zhou, it instead granted them more rights to "legal killing" - the lower class must strictly abide by etiquette and give the nobles enough respect, otherwise the nobles could beat and kill rude lower class people at will.

"A cup of tea is only a short time, Xiaoyu, why don't you take action?" Shang Xinlei said with a smile.

Light rain! ?
Qian Gongyu was instantly stunned by this overwhelming surprise, speechless with excitement. She felt the entire trip was worth it. Even if Shang Xinlei offered no help, as long as she addressed her as "Xiaoyu" in front of others, the Qian family would escape the quagmire of infamy. Simply being able to speak to the Fourth Miss Shang Jia was enough to earn her respect from other prominent families.

Watching Qian Gongyu stagger out of the wooden house as if he had drunk fake wine, Shang Xinlei looked at Jie Yuanshao: "I plan to help out, don't you want to go?"

"Of course not. According to the intelligence I've gathered, hallucinations will strike in a cup of tea at most. Staying in the cabin is the safest. There's no reason to go out and move rocks." Jie Yuanshao sat cross-legged on the ground, motionless. "On the contrary, you're so fond of that guard. Even if you want to recruit her, showing favor without authority is not the way to rule."

"You claim to be an expert in physiognomy, but can't you see that Jiang Shi will never yield to anyone?"

After saying that, Shang Xinlei also left the wooden house, leaving Jie Yuanshao alone inside with his eyes closed to rest.

"Everything has its own hierarchy. How can anyone be immune to it? Even if one is unwilling, they will eventually be forced to bow their heads by the situation." Jie Yuanshao murmured softly, "Anyone will bow their heads—including you, Shang Xinlei."

She glanced outside the cabin. Although they entered in the early morning, the secret realm had its own celestial phenomena. At this time, the sky in the forest was as dark as midnight, with only a little moonlight illuminating the jungle. As they left, the originally small cabin suddenly became very empty, and darkness submerged all the space.

Normally, participants would bring candles and other lighting tools, but Jie Yuanshao came here to hone her willpower and didn't bring any props to ease the difficulty. She sat quietly in the darkness for a few seconds, then stood up and walked to the door, muttering to herself, "I'm just trying to remind them to come back quickly. The trial hasn't even started yet, how could I be afraid..."

A cup of tea passed quickly. Qian Gongyu only had time to carry two large stones over. Shang Xinlei didn't move any stones. Instead, she cut three stones into oval shapes and pushed them to roll near the wooden house. Jiang Shi, who had ordered them to move the stones, returned empty-handed.

Jie Yuanshao immediately showed disgust when she saw this scene, but before she could say anything, she saw Jiang Shi stretch out his hand towards the open space next to the wooden house, and then a large pile of wood appeared out of thin air and fell on the open space.

Seeing this scene, everyone's pupils suddenly shrank, and Qian Gongyu couldn't help but shout out: "Jiang Shi, you actually have a storage token? And the space is so big, how many tokens must it be..."

"I didn't accept the token." Jiang Shi said.

This answer was undoubtedly unsatisfactory. Even Qian Gongyu felt that Jiang Shi was a bit too rude. What was the difference between this and deceiving them like fools? However, they soon lost interest in the trivial matter of collecting the keepsake.

Because the earth is shaking.

Rumble-

With a violent tremor, the wood and stones surrounding the wooden house, as if manipulated by invisible masons, were transformed at incredible speed into materials for construction. First, the wooden house was instantly disintegrated, then reunited with the newly added wood and stones, forming a larger and more spacious, solid stone house.

Part of the stones were turned into neat pieces of stone and stacked outside to form a wall; and part of the wood was assembled into huge wooden crossbows. Because Jiang Shi brought back a lot of wood, a total of six wooden crossbows were built and all installed in the yard.

When everything was settled, Shang Xinlei and the other two were speechless. They were like little village girls who had never seen the world. They touched the stone house here, touched the wall there, reached out to touch the wooden crossbow, their faces full of shock.

Of course, they weren't impressed by this little bit of stuff. If this dungeon allowed slaves and supplies, even Qian Gongyu would have been able to turn it into a fortress. However, this was a random team secret realm, and the trial illusions came and went quickly. Even if they had the idea of ​​renovating their base, they didn't have the time to put it into practice.

From ancient times to the present, everyone believes that the secret realm of Mansu Forest is a secret realm for tempering one's will. The messenger can only hide in the wooden house and endure the pressure caused by the illusions of demons from the outside world. No one has ever thought of renovating the wooden house, nor has anyone ever tried to renovate the wooden house.

All three of them realized that the history of Mansu Forest was about to turn a new page here.

"Om-"

An extremely piercing and unpleasant whistle echoed in the wind. Jie Yuanshao's face suddenly changed. He called everyone to hurry inside and immediately closed the door. He spoke rapidly, "Don't even think about defeating the demons that appear. These demons are illusions, immortal monsters. Even if a third-level messenger kills them a thousand times, they will resurrect in an instant. The only thing we can do is stay here and hold on until the demon wave ends."

As soon as she finished speaking, a thick fog suddenly rose from the jungle, and huge monsters emerged from the fog. Some of them were shaped like lizards, some like strange birds, some were bats with tails like sickles, and some were lions with wings. But no matter what kind they were, they were all extremely large, and their scales and fur were extremely thick.

In front of them, this upgraded stone house seems vulnerable.

However, most of the monsters were just passing by, hurriedly stepping into the thick fog and running towards nowhere. Only one lizard monster stayed.

"Ferocious Lizard Monster!" Jie Yuanshao said sternly, "This is a monster that only appears in the Second Level Secret Realm!"

With a roar from the fiendish lizard demon, a large group of small fiendish lizards emerged from the thick fog, and in the blink of an eye, they numbered into dozens and hundreds. One after another, they roared at the stone house, their roars blending into one, like rusty butcher knives, cruelly slicing their ears and souls!
Everywhere you look, there are demons!

"Don't be nervous, don't get excited, don't go out!" Jie Yuanshao pulled them in, but she was shaking herself. "They can't break into the sanctuary. The closer they get to us, the greater the pressure we'll bear. In the end, we might even collapse mentally and become useless... So if you feel you can't hold on any longer, you must quickly run into the thick fog between two waves of demons. That way you can exit the Mansu Forest."

"Don't let yourself be killed by demons. Although you can exit the Mansu Forest directly, your soul will be severely damaged, and your strength will be basically unable to continue to improve."

"Most people can't last more than half an hour, but our house is bigger and has a wall, so it might be easier." At this point, Jie Yuanshao couldn't help but look at Jiang Shi and blamed him, "You should have put the wooden crossbow inside the house so that we can still operate it. There's no point in putting it outside—"

Swish!
As the little lizard entered within fifty meters of the shelter, the wooden crossbow in the yard automatically aimed and fired! With the sound of the bowstring breaking through the air, a sharp arrow flew over the wall, across the fifty-meter grass, and pierced the little lizard's head!
Covered in blood and wailing miserably, the little lizard fell to the ground like a rag and could never stand up again.

(End of this chapter)