An invasion from the Abyss? I, a demonic cultivator, laughed.

Chapter 99 The Second Blood Moon Reward

".Blood?"

Chu Xiu looked at the tongue twisting and turning in front of him like a tantrum, raised an eyebrow speechlessly, and lowered his head to think.

While he was pondering, that hunchbacked, hoarse voice rang out again: "The Countess has never left Lin Yuan Castle since birth, so the moment she saw the handsome kobold chef, her 203-year-old girlish heart began to pound uncontrollably."

Chu Xiu expressionlessly used the bone spear to cut his finger, dripping a drop of blood onto his tongue to stop him from continuing.

"Suck it."

The tongue licked upwards in a lewd manner, then convulsed violently on the spot as if it had eaten something extremely disgusting.

"Ugh! Ugh! Ugh! What did you feed me! Bastard! This blood is disgusting, this blood is so filthy, did you get it from some filthy, sludge-covered creature in the sewers?!"

Chu Xiu: "."

He felt an urge to smash that tongue to pieces.

But in the end, he held back and took out another item from his storage space.

[Inferior Blood Demon Blood (Collector's Edition)]

This is something that dropped when I was farming Blood Demon Servants.

He dripped the crystal-clear drop of blood onto Laplace's tongue, and it was quickly absorbed upon contact.

He twisted his tongue: "Pah, you're going to feed me the blood of this bastard?"

Chu Xiu said, "If you want something better, you'll have to come up with information of sufficient value first."

Actually, he had no other blood left; he was just trying to trick the tongue out of him.

However, to Chu Xiu's surprise, the tongue started cursing again: "No, no! Are you an idiot?! These are the rules! Do you understand the rules?! Low-quality blood can only obtain low-quality secrets!"

"This city has seven secrets. If you want to know them, get me some high-quality blood! Understand, you idiot!"

Chu Xiu: "."

He desperately wanted to teach that foul-mouthed man a lesson, but the word "rules" that the man mentioned made him abandon the idea of ​​using torture to extract a confession.

If he's not mistaken, the tongue can only provide one secret a day, and the value of that secret must match the quality of the blood it absorbs.

If Chu Xiu doesn't give it anything, it will tell a bunch of meaningless gossip stories, which can also be considered a kind of secret, such as the Countess Cass. If Chu Xiu waits until it finishes telling the story and still hasn't fed it blood, then the number of times for today will be used up.

Knowing the situation, Chu Xiu waved his hand and said, "I have no other blood."

"So poor, I, the great one, have actually fallen into the hands of a penniless wretch."

He muttered something to himself, paused for a moment as if pondering what secret to tell Chu Xiu, then suddenly seemed to remember something, jolted awake, and exclaimed excitedly, "That's it! My stomach! I can feel that my stomach being thrown out by that bitch!"

"As long as you have a stomach, you can continuously produce delicious blood wine!"

"It's in that direction, about 55 kilometers away. Hurry, go and get it!"

As he spoke, his tongue suddenly leaped in one direction, then fell to the ground with a "thud" and remained motionless.

Chu Xiu: "?"

"No, that's it?"

He was completely numb, and you just randomly pointed him in a direction and told him to find something 55 kilometers away? Do you think I'm a compass?!

The most outrageous thing is that this broken tongue is not even a clearly defined pointed structure. Its tip is very thick and has an almost rounded shape, while the body of the tongue is crooked. If you try to judge direction with this thing, there will be an error of at least 5 degrees.

An error of 5 degrees, when extended over 55 kilometers, will form a very large area.

Chu Xiu stepped forward, displeased, and stuck out his tongue: "Hey, at least aim more accurately!"

However, after revealing the secret, the tongue seemed to revert to an ordinary object, and there was no further reaction.

Chu Xiu couldn't help but want to swear, but then he suddenly thought of something and let out a soft "Eh".

He looked in the direction the tongue was pointing and roughly estimated that it seemed to be exactly where Lin Wanyue was.

Chu Xiu's eyes lit up. He thought this idea made a lot of sense. Judging from the tongue's description, the stomach was most likely also dropped as part of the Blood Moon reward, and there weren't many people capable of receiving the Blood Moon reward.

"Looks like it's time to go see Lin Wanyue a little earlier," Chu Xiu said, stroking his chin.

He originally planned to clear out the surrounding resources first, but it seems that everything is progressing faster than he expected.

But that's all for later. Right now, the priority is to clear out the warrior-class monsters.

Without further thought, Chu Xiu waved the Yin Wind Banner, and a large number of Yin ghosts and fierce ghosts filed out, like countless starving wild beasts, rampaging along the city's streets and alleys.

Keep leveling up!

Two hours later, Chu Xiu returned to the stronghold.

To his dismay, he discovered that there was nowhere to store the corpse resurrected by the corpse-driving technique. It could be put into the storage space as an item, but this guy was too big to fit in.

Moreover, in order to maintain the connection in spirit, these resurrected corpses cannot be too far away from him. This distance is calculated according to Chu Xiu's spiritual attributes, and the current limit is three kilometers.

Helpless, Chu Xiu had no choice but to find a hard-to-find underground parking lot for it to lie down in. Of course, there was also good news: after devouring the remaining marked warrior-level creatures and clearing out the ghouls along the way, the size of his ghostly forces had further increased.

There are now sixteen malevolent ghosts and thirty-nine yin ghosts.

The total number of troops didn't increase by much, but the level of elite troops skyrocketed.

The causal points have also accumulated to 1500.

However, to Chu Xiu's dismay, without the nests to target, his leveling efficiency plummeted as he relied solely on hunting lone ghouls in the wild.

Whether you're farming causal points or upgrading your skeletal armor, you need to kill monsters on a large scale to be efficient.

"The government is really shrewd. If they released all the information about the monsters, people like me would definitely snatch it all up, and low-level awakened individuals wouldn't get a single bit," Chu Xiu remarked.

In most cases, the government is right to do this, as it can maximize the overall strength of the Awakened and increase the probability of conquering world missions.

However, Chu Xiu is a special exception. Ordinary awakened beings can only obtain the dropped items and experience from killing monsters, but for him, the monster's body and soul can be fully utilized, so resources are not only not wasted, but the utilization rate is even higher.

Therefore, Chu Xiu felt no remorse for taking away other people's opportunities; that's just how the Abyss is.

The reason for rushing back to the gathering point was to see if they could find the locations of other gathering points and sneak over to find out the location of their lair as well.

Of course, not tonight, and Chu Xiu is not a superman. After sweeping away two nests and nine warrior-level creatures, he had very little energy left.

In this situation, even if he had information about the lair, he wouldn't bother to search for it. It wasn't because he was worried about his own safety, but because if he didn't regularly eliminate high-level ghouls, relying on the ghoul army to fight head-on would result in heavy losses.

However, when he arrived at the stronghold, he was surprised to find that the gathering point was bustling with people.

"Wait, why aren't you all asleep at night?"

Chu Xiu was a little confused.

As soon as he entered the stronghold, he saw Chu Qin rushing over: "Ah Chu, where have you been? I've been looking for you for so long."

"What's wrong, Sister Qin?" Chu Xiu asked.

At this moment, Chu Qin seemed to be extremely busy. She pulled Chu Xiu upstairs and said as they walked, "Something has happened. A special horde of zombies appeared out of nowhere and wiped out two nests near our gathering point."

"Several strongholds in the vicinity are now in a panic, and have sent a large number of people to track down this horde of zombies, but they have still lost track of its location."

"According to the people tracking them, the huge horde of corpses suddenly vanished! That's utter nonsense. Did the horde leader possess spatial magic and simply teleport all the corpses away?"

Chu Xiu: "."

He remained silent.

He knew that making such a big fuss would definitely attract attention, but the government's response was much faster than he had expected.

This shows that the person in charge of the base operation was very meticulous and considered everything thoroughly.

At this moment, Chu Qin handed him a few more sheets of paper: "These are profiles drawn based on information. Take a look, and if you encounter them again, run far away immediately."

Chu Xiu glanced at them. The first few were sketches of Yin Ghosts and Fierce Ghosts, named "New Type of Corpse Ghost" and "New Type of Corpse Ghost Elite" respectively. They were drawn quite realistically, even including details of the bone spurs on their backs.

But when it comes to the "new type of ghoul leader" later on, the art style becomes bizarre.

The whole painting is just a blurry black shadow, the only barely recognizable feature being the two long, sharp horns on its head.

"These should be the horns of a bone helmet, but they're not this long. They're drawn like a high-ranking demon."

Turn to the last image, which is titled "Battle Form of a New Type of Corpse Demon Leader." Compared to the previous image, it has many more dotted lines of unknown meaning, and it has a pair of huge wings on its back, making it look extremely intimidating.

This left Chu Xiu both amused and exasperated. He wondered if Chu Xiu mistook the Heavenly Demon Hand for wings. And what were these dotted lines? Were they afterimages left behind by my high-speed movement?
However, this cannot be blamed on the person who drew the painting. Chu Xiu's perception is very high. He did not even notice that someone was following him. That person must have been hiding very far away. He probably just happened to catch a glimpse of the person and then drew the painting based on his memory and imagination.

While Chu Xiu was admiring his portrait, Chu Qin led him to the sixteenth floor: "Your room is at the end. The bed is already made up. Don't wander around. Because of the destruction of the nest, if the people in our base want to develop and get resources, they have to be transferred to other bases."

"But the people at other outposts don't want their resources to be taken away either, so they're still bickering with each other, and there might be a time when they need you to be there."

Hearing this, Chu Xiu's eyes lit up slightly: "Sister Qin, what are the chances of us being transferred to another base?"

"It'll be tough, but don't worry, if all else fails, I'll help you jungle," Chu Qin said.

The so-called "wilderness exploration" is actually free exploration. Of course, there are many high-level creatures and nests in this city that were not discovered during the first round of abyss exploration. Even in the places that Chu Xiu swept, there were many corpse ghosts left behind.

After all, just like when he first arrived, he would avoid the horde of corpses. Once the ghouls sensed the danger, they would also try to avoid him, especially the high-level ghouls with considerable intelligence.

Underground parking garages, high-rise buildings, large shopping malls—there are so many places to hide, which is why Chu Xiu's efficiency dropped significantly after he had swept through all the targets.

However, this method is like someone else eating the meat and you only getting a little soup; unless you're incredibly lucky and manage to snag some scraps, you'll get very little.

"Well, being able to completely devour two nests is already an overachievement."

"Tomorrow I'll see how things go and look for an opportunity. If there isn't a good chance, don't waste time wandering around. Go find Lin Wanyue as soon as possible to inquire about the whereabouts of the stomach."

"Oh right, I also need to get the 300 karma points needed to forge the armor. That's no small amount."

Thinking of this, Chu Xiu did not go back to his room directly, but followed Chu Qin to Shen Tu Hu's office.

(End of this chapter)