Versatile Mage: Item Evolution Begins with Ice Scorpion

Chapter 61: Homologous Branch, Soul Devourer

After the little episode, everyone continued on their way.

"Gray garlic is harder to find than gold. Most of them grow in piles of undead corpses and rely on dead flesh for nutrients. Only people in Weiju Village know how to grow them."

Seeing that the atmosphere was a bit dull, the short man smiled and started a conversation.

"In fact, it is to absorb the dark matter nutrients in the corpse and transform them into a special resource. However, this topic is a bit sensitive, and the biological experiments required would not have a good impact. Gradually, it has become a rare gray material."

Bai Ye made a sarcastic analysis.

Although the short man wanted to refute after hearing this, he changed his mind and realized that it made sense.

In addition, mages who practice poison generally have unique insights into dark resources and high-quality corpses, so he just smiled and changed the subject.

Everyone in the team had different expressions on their faces, and they all tacitly agreed not to continue discussing this topic.

Until half an hour later.

When everyone arrived at the ruined Yangyang Village, the short man and the strong man were dumbfounded.

After the short man and the strong man confirmed again and again that there was only a ruin in front of them, Bai Ye came with a map to help out, and everyone turned around and headed towards Hua Village.

"It's two days' journey from here to Hua Village. I originally planned to spend the second half of the night in Yangyang Village to save some garlic...

Now it looks like we'll run out of gray garlic halfway to Huacun."

The short man was quite responsible and spoke to everyone seriously.

The short man even wanted to go back and get some gray garlic, but no one in the team agreed.

"Just go straight in. It would be a waste of time to go back. Just lead the way."

Said Ali, the bearded follower.

“Just use the gray garlic sparingly. If there aren’t many undead, just kill them directly. When the undead gather together, I will make gray garlic masks. This will only last for two days.” Bai Ye said.

"This method works."

Asharuya also nodded in agreement.

"That's a good idea." The short man nodded in agreement.

Following Bai Ye's suggestion, no one used gray garlic all the time in the second half of the night.

About three or four miles away from Yangyang Village, everyone could clearly feel that the gazes of the surrounding undead became less friendly.

The undead in this area were wandering around in groups of three or four. Apart from some creepy-looking rotten corpses and skeletons of slaves, there was nothing special about them.

"Here they come."

The short man spoke up to remind everyone.

A rotten corpse that was grinding its teeth on a rock seemed to smell the scent of human flesh. Its head turned around with a creaking sound, and its green pupils locked onto the woman in black stockings who was closest to it.

There was no emotion in the eyes of the woman with black stockings, and she was not even as panicked and disgusted with this disgusting thing as usual women.

Just when Ali, the bearded follower of the woman in black stockings, was about to take action, a large inch of light appeared around Bai Ye.

“Swish~!”

A series of long and sharp black slashing rays emerged from the rotten corpses and skeleton shadows of the slaves, cutting them in half with one stroke!

Broken pieces of body and bones were scattered all over the ground, instantly wiping out the group of cannon fodder undead in front of them.

The sudden change made everyone's faces stunned. Several people turned their heads involuntarily and looked at the giant white and green mantis standing next to Bai Ye.

A layer of black arc light lingered on the two slender pink blade arms, and the sharp dark cutting light was the masterpiece of this giant mantis.

"This strength is stronger than the average battle general demon. Boss Bai Ye, is this your contracted beast?"

The short man asked with some envy.

"I don't have the summoning system, this is my contracted poisonous insect." Bai Ye shook his head slightly and denied it.

"Commander level?! Bai Ye, are you going to take the route of cultivating contracted poisonous insects?"

Asharuya also said softly with some curiosity.

When the woman in black silk stockings said this, Mo Fan, the short man and the others all looked at her sideways.

A commander-level demon. Damn, it’s really frustrating to compare yourself with others.

"Kha'Zix, it's okay, just patrol."

Bai Ye patted the light shell of the Void Reaver, Kha'Zix, who nodded his inverted triangle head and turned into a pool of shadow and drilled into the ground.

At first glance, it had disappeared without a trace, but the surrounding slave corpses and skeletons within 300 meters of the team were cut in half by the shadow blade, shattering the undead crystals.

Those fallen slave-level souls were absorbed by the Zerg space one after another. No matter how small a mosquito is, it is still meat.

After knowing that there was a commander-level creature secretly escorting them, everyone quickened their pace.

Their luck was pretty good; they didn't step into the tomb and were safe until almost dawn, saving a lot of money.

On the way, the group did encounter the great general-level sword and axe corpse general in the original book who was hunting them, but it was just a small episode.

The Void Reaver - Kha'Zix killed it on the spot with just a shadow cross slash, and Bai Ye directly harvested the undead spirit of a great general level.

Because there was no water mage in the team, facing the sudden heavy rain, Bai Ye took out a basic water magic weapon, added a few water shields to everyone, and raced against time to hurry on his way.

With the help of a commander-level creature, the group killed dozens of undead warriors along the way. They traveled in the heavy rain and arrived at Hua Village half a day later.

But when everyone arrived at Hua Village, they were confused by the deserted village!
Why did the people of Huacun also disappear? ?
Walking into the village, the village path was in a mess, with destroyed wooden houses, scattered haystacks, and some brown bloodstains...

It was obvious that there was an attack here, but why was there no one there?

"Oh, I'm so thirsty. I hope this well is not dirty." The short man saw a well in the center of the village and ran over immediately.

As luck would have it, just when the short man was thinking about how to pump up the water, suddenly a face came out from the well and almost touched the short man's face.

Both faces were frightened. The short man sat back and fell down, and a heavy "pop" sound came from the well!
Everyone turned around and knew there was someone in the well when they saw the short man's appearance.

After pulling out the person who fell into the well, the wet young man breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that they were all alive.

"Are you Hong Jun?"

The strong man recognized this young man and hurriedly approached him.

"You are...oh, you are a seedling from the next village!" Hong Jun recognized the strong man.

"What happened to the village? Why is there no one there? Do you know where all the people from Yangyang Village have gone?" said the strong man Fang Miaomiao.

"I don't know where the people in your village are going, but I have to go down and say hello to everyone first. If we don't come out for air, everyone will be suffocated." Hong Jun said.

There were hundreds of villagers hiding in a small well and they were crawling out one by one. This made Mo Fan dumbfounded. How deep did the well have to be to accommodate so many people?

The villagers climbed out one by one and gathered in the well area. They did not dare to leave this area easily to other parts of the village.

At the end, when a man and a woman climbed out of the well at the same time, Mo Fan was sure at a glance that it was his good friend Zhang Xiaohou whom he came to look for.

Bai Ye also had new gains.

[Detected purple unique talent entry: Soul Devourer, do you want to extract it? ]

Bai Ye, "No buddy, why is there another entry???"

"Yes, extract all."

There is still something to be salvaged from the forget-me-not on Zhang Xiaohou's body. Could it be a homologous branch, like the BBK mobile phone which later became OPPO and vivo?
Although he was surprised, based on the principle of never missing out, he subconsciously said something in his mind.

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