I summon the heroic spirits of China in the infinite world.

Before leaving, Li Ming habitually turned on the private channel on his communication stone.

Then he saw that Bai Ye had sent him a message just a few minutes earlier.

【冶不是治】: Brother, are you still there?

At this time, Bai Ye had just settled his territory.

Last night's monster horde really took a toll on him, causing heavy casualties.

Repairing the city walls, resurrecting heroes, and adjusting enchantments—I've only just managed to take a break now.

Then I thought of my neighbor and hoped that nothing bad had happened to him.

Will you come tonight? Yes.

Seeing that Li Ming replied almost instantly, Bai Ye breathed a sigh of relief.

The fact that someone can reply means they are still alive, their territory is still there, and they haven't become just another corpse in the Tenth Night Monster Tide.

[Ye is not Zhi]: Last night, my five heroic spirits died eight times, and I almost couldn't hold on. How are things on your end?

[Will you come tonight?]: Yes, most of them are level 4 monsters.

【冶不是治】：That's right, that's right.

[Will you come tonight?]: And it's a mixed unit.

【冶不是治】：That's right, that's right.

[Will you come tonight?]: The key is that there are many key elements and the frequency of intrusions is high.

【冶不是治】：That's right, that's right.

[Will you come tonight?]: The most troublesome one is still the BOSS.

[冶不是治]: No... Huh?! What BOSS?!

Bai Ye, who had been agreeing with everything, was stunned when he saw this sentence.

Night 10... Is there a boss?

Isn't that thing supposed to appear only on the twentieth night?

[冶不是治]: Are you sure you really are the BOSS?

Bai Ye pressed for more information, becoming increasingly alarmed as he listened.

Not only is it a level 5 monster that surpasses the monster horde, but it's also an upgraded boss that's stronger than a regular boss??

As Li Ming recounted his story with probing questions about various details, he seemed to gradually understand something.

【冶不是治】: So it should be that you cleared too many monsters during the day, which triggered the dungeon's mechanics and attracted the BOSS.

【冶不是治】：Then this BOSS happened to encounter the Tenth Night Monster Tide, and was also strengthened by the Tenth Night's mechanism power.

[I'm not curing]: So the main question is... how many monsters have you hunted these past few days?

Bai Ye himself also diligently hunted monsters.

He was confident that he had hunted a lot of monsters these past few days, but why hadn't he triggered a BOSS attack yet?

Upon hearing Bai Ye's question, Li Ming opened his milestone panel and took a look.

The column for the number of monsters killed clearly states: 2621/10000.

This number is the total for both daytime and nighttime, but the number of kills from active hunting during the day is definitely much higher than the number from passive defense at night.

[Will you come tonight?]: 1300.

So he reported the median.

[Smelting is not treatment]: How much? ??

Bai Ye was dumbfounded again.

More than a thousand?

He works hard every day riding his ghost wolf around, and can only clear out seventy or eighty monsters a day.

Since the start of the instance, the total number of monsters hunted during the day is less than eight hundred.

Even so, he was still touted as having the highest hunting efficiency on public channels.

So over a thousand?

Is this even a number that a human could type?

After the incident with the mountain tortoise and the subsequent Tenth Night, Bai Ye's thinking has finally completely changed.

Previously, he had hoped to have a neighbor who could share the pressure from monsters he would face during a major catastrophe.

This will increase your chances of successfully completing the game.

But now it seems that I was the one who helped the other party share the pressure and increase their success rate!

If even the other side can't withstand a major disaster, then I certainly can't either.

Bai Ye took a deep breath and made a very pragmatic decision.

【冶不是治】：Brother, can I rely on you from now on?

[Will you come tonight?]: Haha, just helping each other out.

【冶不是治】：That's right, that's right, help each other.

[Will you come tonight?]: I happen to have some extra cards on hand, would you like to take them?

Since the topic of mutual assistance came up, Dawn thought of the one-time item cards that dropped last night: the [Return to Town Card] and the [Recovery Card].

He can now make three copies a day, including the [Recovery Card].

Needless to say, the [Return Card] is already set up with my own Return Stone, not to mention the [Substitute Straw Man] as a backup.

So keeping these two item cards is just a waste of time.

Instead of letting it gather dust, it's better to exchange it for something useful.

【冶不是治】：What card is it?

Bai Ye was genuinely interested.

Since only summoners can possess the item cards, they were still newbies who were not summoners before entering the dungeon and could not bring them in.

[Will you come tonight?]: 1 Recovery Card and 1 Return Card.

[Smelting is not treatment]: Can I use a construction card to replace it?

Bai Ye wanted it, but he didn't have many cube coins left.

He was indeed the son of the city lord, but his wallet wasn't inexhaustible.

Especially last night when we almost got wiped out, we had to buy back our lives several times and rely on the Wise-type Heroes to save the day a few times. We basically used up all our Cube Coins.

【Will you come tonight?】: What building card?

【冶不是治】：Simulated stone, cubic stone type.

Will you come tonight? Deal.

Dawn hesitated almost without any hesitation, and didn't even bother to ask about the card's effects.

Exchanging two one-time use item cards for one cubic stone building card seems like a win-win situation.

Moreover, he himself has 10 sub-cube milestones to complete.

The transaction method is also very simple.

Just ask Bai Ye for the coordinates, and then send the grassman to make the trip.

"Grass!"

The straw man, upon receiving the order, dashed out in a flash.

As for Dawn herself, she naturally had to continue hunting monsters.

With Ma Chao's mount, his travel efficiency improved, allowing him to go to farther places.

"Comfortable."

Li Ming rode on horseback, feeling the dry wind blowing in his face.

The horses of Li Feisha were steady and powerful, and unlike the straw sedan chair, they were not bumpy, making it very comfortable to ride on.

Throughout the day, he used his speed advantage to visit two monster strongholds.

Furthermore, with the majority of the Heroic Spirits' combat power included, clearing monsters was extremely fast.

In the past, he could only clear 1.5 monster strongholds by himself at most, and he definitely wouldn't be able to clear the second one completely.

Under his deliberate tactical guidance, the Stone Monkey and Zhuge Liang gained a considerable amount of experience points.

Zhuge Liang's [Eight Trigrams Formation] leveled up faster, so it also successfully reached LV4.

As for the stone monkey, that's still some distance away.

As night approached, Li Ming remotely activated the [Return Stone].

This place is too far from the territory; if we use the [Substitute Strawman], the strawman might not be able to get back to the territory until almost midnight.

I also need to use straw men in many places at night, so I won't use the [Substitute Straw Man] this time.

However, today's harvest was not very good; apart from less than 500 cubic coins, there was nothing else to show for it.

This one recall cost over 100.

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