After I quit the team, they chased me

After Simon finished reading the ten stone tablets, a new knowledge about the alchemical ritual called mutation and evolution came into his mind.

This seemed to be content that was not in the game in the previous life, or it might be something that I did not have time to understand, or it might be content that was extended from the world.

"Mutation and evolution..." Simon was thinking back on these strange and bizarre pieces of knowledge that had inexplicably emerged, and thought of the advanced alchemy potion that allowed the Flame Horse to evolve into the Nether Horse.

Chapter 218 The First Practice of the Earth Dragon Dream

There is an obvious inheritance connection between the two, maybe this is the source knowledge of the bloodline mutation formula.

If you understand the knowledge of chain metal mutation and evolution, you can make random combinations in the future to create never-before-seen stitched monster species.

Of course, Simon was just thinking about it in his mind.

After all, Simon is not an alchemist yet, so it is too difficult for him to comprehend this knowledge. Without practical experience, he should just forget it.

"We have to let old Wim take a look, but this knowledge is so valuable that we can't let him read it for nothing."

Simon put his thoughts aside and let Xiao Hei continue looking.

After wandering around for a while, there were no more civilization treasures in the BOSS room, only mineral treasures.

Simon counted the underground mineral deposits hidden in the BOSS room. After subsequent development, it can produce minerals equivalent to 100,000 blue essence blocks every day.

This does not mean that these minerals are blue essence blocks, but their market value is 100,000 blue essence blocks.

In a month, you can earn three million blue essence blocks.

But this is only the total value, which does not include labor expenses, wear and tear of mining tools, etc.

In addition, people have to be hired to patrol to prevent people from stealing ore, which is also an expense.

Fortunately, Simon had been in the white fruit before and had some experience, so he was not completely clueless. At most, it was a little troublesome.

However, Simon's focus is not on developing resources. Compared to the white cat's orthodox treasure hunting, Simon prefers the black cat's treasure hunting ability.

What Xiao Hei was digging was not treasures such as minerals that could be cashed in immediately, but the relics of ancient civilizations.

Some knowledge may be useless, but through observation we can understand the past history of the Earth Dragon Secret Realm.

"Let's go out and contact the mining team and contract out these mines," said Simon.

Simon has decided to climb the snowy mountains in a year.

Developing resources is equivalent to making wedding clothes for others.

It's not like he'll stay here forever.

Instead of developing it for a year, it is better to contract it out and get a share of the profits.

After one year, the ownership of the land property will be sold to the Four Heavenly Kings Adventure Group and double the profit will be earned.

When Simon was about to fly to the exit of the nest with Xiao Qian in a carriage.

Suddenly, space magic fluctuations suddenly occurred at the exit.

When the Nether Horse came out, it was in a state of alternating reality and illusion. It was squeezed out by the space magic and turned into a real horse. The blood bar on its head instantly exploded to 700.

Simon sat on the steps of the carriage and immediately used his space backpack ability to put the low-health horse into the backpack.

Xiao Qian, who was sitting empty in the car, landed and stood at the edge of the nest with Simon.

A group of men in black robes and masks walked out of the woods, holding swords, spears and shields. The people behind them were holding staffs and bows and arrows. It was obvious that they were ambushed.

They didn't have any opening remarks, they were extremely cold and ruthless. Without saying a word, they immediately used their back-up skills and sent cold arrows flying towards Simon.

The black-robed man in close combat also rushed towards Simon's body. Things went more smoothly than they had imagined. They didn't expect that Simon came out without any precautions.

Simon and Xiao Qian's health bars shattered as soon as they touched each other, and they died instantly, falling in a pool of blood.

"Haha, he's dead!"

"Captain Xueshan isn't that great, he breaks into pieces at the slightest touch."

"We've spent so much time preparing, but we still have a set of skills left unused."

The team members who raided Simon laughed in ecstasy, having never felt that victory was so easy.

The black-robed leader of the team was about to step forward to touch the corpse when suddenly the ground shook, sand and dust cracked, soil broke apart, and a huge shadow was cast on the ground. The invisible might of a dragon pressed down on everyone's heads like an overwhelming tidal wave.

"what happened?"

"What is this... Is it an earth dragon? Isn't it dead?"

"The earth dragon... is still alive!"

The people in black robes looked up at the sky in surprise.

At some point, the huge earth dragon's head was hanging in the sky, blocking out the sun, and the appearance of a dozen black ants were reflected in its emotionless vertical pupils.

The earth dragon was covered in a huge rocky skin and was hundreds of meters tall. Just a glance from it was enough to lock all the adventurers in place on the ground, unable to move.

Afterwards, everyone saw the earth dragon's mouth open, and the entire ground began to tilt and fall towards the earth dragon's mouth. Everyone felt the feeling of weightlessness.

"No, I don't want to die!"

"Run!"

The fear of death overcame the fear of dragon power.

Everyone started running, adrenaline was being secreted like crazy, and their rationality dropped to the lowest point.

No one doubted that this was fake, even though they knew that Simon's third skill was the dream realm, which could create a real dream and drag the wild monsters into the dream and control them for thirty seconds. But the moment the Earth Dragon BOSS appeared, their tense nerves broke and they completely lost the possibility of doubt.

They screamed and even forgot to throw the horses out of their backpacks. They walked all the way and fled for their lives.

It was not until they ran away from the scene that the real Netherworld Chariot flew up from the entrance of the scene and watched the fleeing team of attackers go away.

Xiao Qian looked back at the horizon. There was no earth dragon BOSS at all. It was all their nonsense, making it seem like the real thing.

However, Xiao Qian also understood that before Simon flew up, he first airdropped the dream realm to the entrance of the nest.

But I didn’t expect that humans, who are obviously intelligent, would fall into the same trap as wild monsters without any suspicion at all.

Could it be that Simon’s dream has been upgraded again and reached level 2?

Xiao Qian looked at Simon curiously.

"The simulation of the Earth Dragon BOSS in the special scene has an outstanding effect." Simon was still gazing into the distance, explaining why the dream effect this time was so strong.

Xiao Qian understood, and then counted the time silently. When it reached thirty seconds, she found that the screams in the forest were still continuing. They didn't seem to realize that the dream was over.

Simon drove his carriage and took the initiative to chase after them.

This is not intentional.

Instead, Simon wanted to see if the mental damage would be settled this time.

The results are satisfactory.

Simon saw marks of mental damage appearing on their heads, indicating that their inner worlds were in the midst of mental collapse and they were temporarily unable to regain their sanity.

It was not known how long it would last. When Simon saw that it was working, he did not continue to follow and drove the carriage away in another direction.

"It's finally working. This is the real calculation of mental damage." Simon sighed. After using it for so long, he finally figured out the real usage of the third skill.

At this time, Simon looked at the progress bar of his third skill proficiency and found that it had risen to 99%.

Combining the concept with practice, plus the killing of the Earth Dragon BOSS and the death experience bonus of thousands of wild monsters, it has already reached 99%. Now Simon's first skill has finally increased by 1% under his watch, officially breaking through the LV1 limit and entering the LV2 stage.

"Dream Realm LV2, Proficiency: 1%"

After the dream realm is upgraded to LV2, the first thing is that the cooling time is reduced from 90 seconds to 85 seconds.

Secondly, the control range is slightly increased, the farthest range of airdrop is slightly increased, and the concealment of dream invasion is enhanced, making it less noticeable.

Simon estimated that the cooling time for LV3 is 80 seconds.

Chapter 219 Investigation

The carriage returned to the artificial city on the tenth floor without incident.

The attackers, who came from unknown places, were wrapped tightly. They did not announce their names before starting the fight, and kept the whole process secret.

They didn't start talking until they killed Simon and Xiao Qian in Dreamland, but they revealed very little information.

Simon couldn't tell which adventure group the other party belonged to based on their accent, and the Earth Dragon Secret Realm was open to almost anyone, so it was impossible to check. The only way to investigate was to find a team with investigation skills.

As long as you can afford it, these professional teams are capable enough.

For example, the team Simon is about to find is called the Hound Adventure Team. Their leader is a summoner with an auxiliary background who can use skills to summon special hounds.

Hounds can track enemies by scent or objects at the scene, and as long as they don't deliberately eliminate the scent, they can follow the scent all the way to the past.

Before returning to the artificial city, Simon picked up a few weapons that they had accidentally dropped when they escaped, which greatly increased the chances of finding them.

After a while, Simon arrived at the Hound Adventure Group's base.

This is the corner area of ​​the tenth-story mountain city. Next to it is a wall made of wooden railings and ivy, which encloses a large courtyard with various plants and animals growing in it.

Xiao Qian, who came with the team, saw for the first time such animals kept in a garden. The place was full of vitality. A clear stream ran through the courtyard. An old black cow lowered its head to gently draw water. A big yellow dog wagged its tail, jumped onto the wall, stuck its head out, and looked at the two people outside the wall.

At this time, the two noticed that the wall was one and a half meters high, and the big dog was slightly taller than the wall. It only needed to kick its legs lightly to jump onto the wall.

The two people and the dog looked at each other.

The big yellow dog stuck out its tongue, exhaled with a laugh, and rolled its eyes towards the carriage behind the two men. The two black and white dogs in the carriage shrank back, seemingly a little shy.

"Hello, I'm looking for your owner. I'm here for tracking business." Simon said.

The big yellow dog barked, dropped its legs to the ground, and ran away into the house.

After a while, someone rode out of the house on a big yellow dog and came to Simon very quickly.

"Hello, Mr. Simon, who exactly do you want to track? Do you have a target?"

"It's a team I don't know. These are the weapons they used." Simon turned around and lifted the curtain of the carriage. There were several weapons lying on the floor inside.

Simon did not put these weapons into the space backpack, mainly because they took up too much space and it would be better to load them on the carriage.

The man riding the big yellow dog patted the dog, and the dog jumped nimbly onto the carriage.

Both cats jumped out of the window and climbed onto Simon and Xiao Qian's shoulders, scared of the oversized yellow dog.

The yellow-haired dog grinned, and the two cats became even more frightened. They simply retracted their heads, hooked their clothes with their claws, and huddled on their backs.

"Da Huang, work hard."

The man patted the yellow dog, looked at the weapon, then got off the carriage and talked to Simon about the situation.

Simon once approached them for a tracking business.

At that time, someone wanted to cause trouble for the white fruit, but Simon couldn't find the person who caused the trouble.

The family power behind Mei Guo and Bai Gu could not find out what the problem was.

Finally, Simon spent the team's funds to hire a professional team to investigate, and finally found the mastermind behind the scenes.

At that time, everyone in the Hound Adventure Group, and more than half of the main team members were two-star adventurers. In terms of star strength on paper, they were similar to the white fruits at that time.

Now all members of the Hound Adventure Group have reached level three, and they have enough money to live in the city on the tenth floor.

When the Hound Captain saw Simon again, he couldn't help but sigh that there had been too many changes. Simon had become the most popular adventure group at the moment, second only to the Four Heavenly Kings Adventure Group.

Now there are many people who want to join the snow mountain adventure team, but Simon has not started recruiting people on a large scale and has been on vacation since he came back.

He must have been in trouble since he suddenly came to see him today.

After listening to Simon's general account, the Hound Captain said, "I know who it is."

"Who?" Simon was a little surprised. After hearing this information, you just made a blind guess?

Aren't you looking for evidence along the weapons?

"It's just a guess." He patched himself up in time, "I guess it's the Four Heavenly Kings' team, or it's the intention of some group in the Earth Dragon Alliance."

“The assassin team they sent out failed and fled madly, so they will definitely not attack again in the near future.

"They will calmly observe for a while to see how you react, and may even destroy the evidence directly.

"Time is a bit urgent. We have to find them before they are killed. As for the cost, since it is an expedited matter, I will give you 5 million in the early stage, and the subsequent expenses will be supplemented by the difficulty later.

"Give me the money if you agree. Time is urgent, we can set off now. Everyone in my group happens to be here, so we can go out right away."

The Hound Leader finished his speech and showed five fingers.