Soul Trigger

Chapter 311 Where the Eyes Are

Red Crystal Vibration:
[Trigger guidance task: Infrastructure]

[I have initially restored the operation of the inner city of the Demon King's Castle and made it run according to my will. Now I should build some new buildings to further improve my power from the perspective of city construction and lay the foundation for conquering the world.]

【Requirements: Upgrade\build a new building. 】

[Reward: Discover a new secondary building. ]
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This suddenly triggered new task did not attract Ji Li's attention. At this moment, under the visor, his eyes slightly lost focus.

Compared to "Odin", the name "The Haunting of Ten Thousand Ghosts" has a long-lost sense of familiarity to him.

The World Tree Group has a total of two technological paths. One is centered on "tank brain" thinking, which aims to control the mechanical body with human thinking, which is manifested as pure mechanization.

The other is centered on the idea of ​​"carbon change", which aims to break away from the carbon-based biological state based on the basic form of life.

The flesh and blood body is integrated with the machine starting from the cellular level, presenting a "carbon change" system where flesh and blood and the machine coexist and benefit each other.

When Ji Li opened the "Saturn Base" nest, the "jumping wolf" that appeared inside was the product of this system.

During the Murphy Megastructure, Ji Li had already undergone a physical replacement and transformation of the "tank brain" system when he was a mercenary.

Therefore, he could only choose the "tank brain" system as the core, supplemented by the mechanized unit structure of the "carbon change" system, to achieve Odin's status in his previous life.

As for the "Thousands of Ghosts Haunting Us", it was an early phase result of the "Carbon Change" system and existed before the World Tree became the Universal Group.

He remembered that he first saw this guy when he infiltrated the World Tree Technology Expo during his mercenary days.

Those terrifying combat videos left a deep impression on him who had just completed half of his body transformation. Different from the various expanded and extended prostheses that came later, this guy was a living mechanical armor, and much more powerful than he was at that time.

"Compared to the various mechanized weapons that appeared later, the technological content of this thing is far inferior to the various models of Odin that came later, and it is still the 00A model...

Is it because I am here now that I have the power I longed for when I was weak?"

He smiled unconsciously:
"Just think of it as a dream come true?"

[Do you want to consume 5000 decarbonization particles to build "Hall of Valor"? ]

"Excuse me." Ji Li's expression immediately fell.

Even after clearing out the inner city and completing another wave of harvesting of spiritual essence through the soul-sucking ghosts, 200 decarbonization particles were still a sufficient amount for him at the moment.

What's going on now? Directly jumping to units of thousands?

"But it's not that there is no solution..."

Ji Li opened the Skynet to check the current distribution of units in the Demon King's City.

In addition to himself and his own Odin Guards shown as green dots, there are also some scattered yellow dots wandering in the inner city.

Zooming in, we saw that most of them were evil creatures in the shape of skeletons and ghosts. They were neutral creatures in the Demon King's City and also the "leveling targets" for adventurers.

"These things are also targets for obtaining spiritual essence. There should be more outside the inner city."

"And the 'commander' mentioned by the lawless man just now should be their upcoming large force, and also the target of obtaining a large amount of spiritual essence."

"It is not clear how strong they are yet, but it is a problem that needs to be handled with caution. There are also other forces that will be brought about by the subsequent server-wide announcement..."

"In the long run, Hall of Heroes can provide me with a way to obtain key combat power, but now what I need more is intelligence..."

Ji Li looked at the other various buildings, the first of which was the monitoring system "Skynet".

Transformed from the original monitoring tower of the Demon King's Castle, he remembered that this thing was the global command system of a branch of the World Tree in his previous life:
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Skynet
Type: Monitoring Center

Upgradeable: Add signal towers, build an integrated information array module, greatly improve the core monitoring field of view, provide new annotations for basic plots, and add a small drone workshop with access to a group of twelve small drone swarms.

Consumption of decarbonization particles: 500
Tip: The spiritual essence consumption required for basic maintenance increases.
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"Just like summoned creatures, the continued operation of these buildings will also consume spiritual essence..."

After a little thought, Ji Li chose this upgrade.

The spiritual energy that had just been abundant suddenly dropped in large quantities. Dense mechanical tentacles began to emerge from all around the Skynet monitoring tower and wrapped around it, expanding and combining rapidly in a very short period of time.

Just over ten seconds later, as the mechanical tentacles completely disassembled and pieced together into a new building, a brand new Skynet building appeared in Ji Li's vision.

It was a tall mechanical tower, with multiple transmitter arrays breathing light points on the top, and below it was a large area of ​​undulating signal integration modules, bouncing up and down with the flow of energy and electric arcs.
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【Mission completed: infrastructure.】

【I can now discover a new secondary building. 】
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For this easy task, Ji Li simply entered the discovery interface, and three city expansion options appeared in front of him:

1. World Tree Defense Module: Based on the existing city defense facilities, the World Tree body can be extended to form a city defense pulse cannon.

2. World Tree Support Module: can continuously restore the health of Odin's Guards. Within the range of the World Tree, the combat capability of Odin's Guards is improved.

3. World Tree Support Module: An extendable ejection structure that can deploy Odin's guards within the range of the World Tree at a long distance.
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Ji Li thought about it for a moment and did not make a choice for the time being. Instead, he decided to take a look at the upgraded surveillance range before making a decision.

After completing the upgrade of Skynet, the map in Ji Li's retina suddenly expanded, spreading all the way to cover the entire edge of the Demon King's City.

Only then did he notice the true scale of the entire Demon King's City, which was more than seven or eight times larger than the inner city where he was currently.

Noun labels have also been added to the different plots of land.

For example, the inner city where he is now is marked as [Inner City of the Demon King’s City].

This seems to be determined based on the entire Lingboyu rule information, otherwise it should be the [Inner City of the World Tree Technology Breeding Farm].

Beyond this is the [Outer City of the Demon King’s Castle], which is divided into several different areas.

For example, [City Gate Square], [Ruins of the Demon King's Army], and [Drainage Canal Outside the City], etc.

However, within these areas, except for the fan-shaped area directly in front of the original city gate, 80% of the land was destroyed and marked as certain ruins, and had lost its value.

As the monitoring range expanded, densely packed red and yellow dots also appeared on his three-dimensional map.

The yellow dots are unevenly distributed throughout the Demon King's City, mixed with a small number of red dots.

But in one place, there was not a single yellow dot, only densely distributed bright red dots.

As his vision zoomed in, Ji Li saw a medium-sized camp built in the Demon King's City. A bright red name sign appeared, representing the hostile forces:

[Outlaw Front Camp].

Looking all the way, the place is almost the size of a small town.

There are many buildings of various purposes, including town centers, markets, blacksmith shops, training grounds, etc.

These buildings are all constructed based on the original buildings and terrain of the Demon King's City.

In addition to these, Ji Li also saw the so-called teleportation array. Whenever there was a flash of spiritual light, new adventurers would appear inside.

They hurried into the camp, and then, under the command of a few adventurers dressed as workers, began to build various fortifications around the camp.

With the help of Lingboyu's virtual game rules, the construction speed is extremely fast.

This alliance of outlaws has noticed Ji Li's threat and has taken countermeasures.

After observing for a period of time, Ji Li discovered that the level that this teleportation array could teleport seemed to be limited.

Except for a person with the name "Commander" on his head who vaguely flashed in the crowd, he had never seen an adventurer above Lv. 20 walk out of it.

That is to say, the "commander" they mentioned would invade from outside the Demon King's City, and those useless people in the Demon King's City were just lambs to be slaughtered for the time being... In addition, he also discovered the location of the catapult that bombed his throne crystal before, and it was now in the camp.

Just as Ji Li was looking at the entire camp and trying to have Skynet release a swarm of small drones to obtain more intelligence, Ji Li noticed some buildings marked with yellow signs located in the camp.

It is the original building of the Demon King's Castle that is located in the outer city but has not been completely destroyed, just like the "monitoring tower" before Skynet was transformed.

One of the buildings caught his attention.

As the view zoomed in, the name of the building appeared before his eyes:
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Fel Military Hall (Damaged)
Type: Military

Running status: Good
Introduction: You can train powerful high-level units under the evil demon lord and summon their projections to come into the world.

Tip: The current core of the Demon King's City has been changed. After retaking the outer city's core [Frontline Command Center], the building will be transformed into: [Hall of Valor].
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Ji Li's eyes narrowed immediately, and he reopened the secondary building selection menu, choosing [World Tree Aid Module] without hesitation.

There were frequent metal opening and closing sounds coming from the World Tree, and some changes and transformations were taking place inside.

At the same time, the red crystal vibrates:
[Trigger the main quest: Reclaim the Demon King's Castle]

[The "Adventurer" actually built a nest on my territory and took my things. He is simply asking for his own death. I have to take back the front-line command center so that the entire Demon King's Castle can be back in my hands. ]

[Request: Recover the front-line command center]

[Reward: Discover a new building]

[Trigger the main mission: Raid the camp]

[To deal with the upcoming outlaw leader, my troops are still insufficient, and the infrastructure needs to be improved. The adventurers in this entire camp will become my new capital accumulation. ]

[Requirement: Kill all adventurers in the camp. ]

【Reward: Discover a new feature】

"You react really quickly."

Ji Li shook the red crystal, and the next moment, the watch, which had been malfunctioning from before, suddenly stopped:
[Announcement for all servers: The revival of the Demon King has attracted countless forces from the outer world to come and fight him. A large number of legions are gathering. The powerful assistance from the True King of the Lightless will help them eliminate the upcoming dark invasion! ]

[Server-wide announcement: At this moment, an elite "lord" from the Outlaws Alliance is leading his army towards the Demon King's City. He is calling on adventurers to join him and fight against the revived Demon King's army! ]

[The key information of "Leading the Outlaws" has been distributed to all players in the server - the unreasonable rules have been modified:]

[The key information of "Leading the Outlaws" has been distributed to all players except cheaters. 】

Red Crystal Vibration:
[This unreasonable rule has been modified: All information and real-time location of "Leader of Outlaws" will now be displayed to all players on the server...]

Watch:

【negative……】

Ji Li put down his wrist:

"It starts again..."

He began to plan the attack and started to collect sound information from drones. At the same time, he photographed two new breeding chambers to increase the population limit.

New soul-sucking ghosts were generated and headed towards the outer city of the Demon King's Castle where there were few adventurers, generating a continuous source of spiritual essence for their continued hunting of evil.

After a while, Crystal and Watch finally finished arguing:
[Now display the full information and real-time location of "Outlaw Leader" to all players in the server:]

[Leader of the Outlaws: Lv.43. Occupation: Lord. Number of Legions: Unknown.]

[16 minutes and 37 seconds until the leader of the lawless arrives at the Demon King's Castle]

[The messenger of the True King of the Lightless is spreading the gospel, wishing the warriors to successfully defeat the Demon King and win freedom for the Outer Realm...]

As the last word ended, Ji Li directly evaporated most of his spiritual essence and turned it into a legion and dense kinetic machine guns:
"Enter the World Tree and start ejecting in one minute."

You really don't give me time to grow...

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Outlaw Front Camp.

With the complete annihilation of the inner city adventurers and the continuous influx of notices from all servers, the entire camp has now entered a tense atmosphere of preparation for war.

A large number of people come and go, and the teleportation array is frequently opened to bring in support from the outside world.

"Commander, should we evacuate first?"

"Evacuate? The commanders are all heading this way. Where do you want to evacuate to?"

The man with [Lawless Leader’s Lieutenant: Lv.25] on his head looked anxious:
"All the people in the inner city were wiped out, and according to the news from the cemetery, only a few were resurrected! There is a special evil in the Demon King's army. If you are killed by it, you will lose multiple times the experience. It is very risky to resist it!"

"There's no way to retreat then! Isn't the ultimate goal to kill him?!"

The [Outlaw Commander: Lv.30] shouted angrily, also looking a bit overwhelmed:

"Anyway, the commander will be here soon, and we have sentries all around the inner city. Now any movement will not be hidden from our eyes."

"We are at a relatively high level, so even if we are killed, our experience will not be completely wiped out...

If you can't kill the devil, you'll have to stay in this damned hell for the rest of your life and become a fucking NPC. Do you want to become like that?!"

Seeing that the adjutant remained silent, he raised his watch and nervously read the contents on it:
"There are still 15 minutes left... Even if they attack, we only need to hold out for minutes. The architects transferred from the teleportation array are speeding up the construction of defense facilities.

According to the information we have so far, the Demon King can only attack from the front, so as long as we defend the front, we have a chance!"

At this moment, amid the noisy crowd, they heard some subtle and unusual sounds.

"I seemed to hear some strange noise?" the adjutant looked around.

The commander frowned and looked around, and found that some adventurers around him had also heard the strange sound.

"Up there!"

Many people were immediately attracted by the sound and looked up, and saw a buzzing UFO hovering above them.

After being discovered, they did not retreat but advanced, slowly approaching and surrounding them.

Many people were stunned for a moment:
“…That’s a drone?”

Isn't this a fantasy theme?

The commander's expression changed instantly:
"Hurry up and knock that thing down!!"

Before they finished speaking, they heard a continuous dull roar coming from the distance, as if something had exploded.

The moment countless people turned their heads, they saw only pitch-black heavy metal erupting from the super building rising into the sky in the inner city of the Demon King's City, coming with a howling hurricane.

Seeing that thing getting closer and closer, the commander's expression suddenly became extremely ugly -

"Quick! Get out of the way!!!"

boom--! ! ! !
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PS: Update one chapter first

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