I created the myth of the Great Old Ones.

"Luckily, no one bought it."

Lu Ban sighed, realizing the implication only belatedly.

"I can't afford this myself... I worried for nothing."

He then had a change of heart.

"Since the shops are shared, is it possible for the chosen ones to put their own items in the shops?"

Chapter 174 [Halloween]

After searching around, Lu Ban couldn't find the option to sell items.

"Perhaps we'll have to wait until the next phase of the store unlocks before we can sell them?"

That's his guess.

However, the next stage requires accumulating 500,000 Silent Points, and he currently has less than 100,000, so it's too early to think about these issues.

Lu Ban currently possesses nearly 60,000 Silence Points, which seems quite wealthy, but it's simply not enough when it comes to [Contamination] level goods.

Moreover, if he were to refine the [Last Words], he would need 50,000 Silence Points to reserve, but he would only have a few thousand points available. Considering the rewards for the next successful mission and the rewards for career development missions, he might only have less than 20,000 left over from the loan.

"I'm so poor, I want to sell things."

Lu Ban imagined that if he could sell things in the Silent Shop, he could go to the alien world and plunder like crazy. He could take anything that had even a little bit of supernatural power, appraise it in the Silent Shop, and that would satisfy the desires of those things.

But on second thought, some of the chosen ones might have already been engaging in this kind of ruthless behavior. Such chaotic and evil actions would inevitably lead to resistance against the chosen ones in other realms, and might even increase their risks.

"We'll discuss it properly next time we have the chance to take the things."

He made up his mind.

With a purchasing power of 20,000, Lu Ban could only afford to look at goods of "excellent" quality, but these goods had obvious side effects, and some would cause problems just by carrying them around.

"A crowbar is more useful."

Lu Ban drew a conclusion.

He took some extra compressed rations.

Since the mission mentioned that food was scarce in the wasteland, and sometimes people even had to eat insects to survive, he didn't mind trying exotic cuisine. However, it was better to be prepared and take some food. Maybe he could trade some powerful supernatural items with the natives of the wasteland, just like he did with Li.

"Moreover, if the remains of the saint are also hungry, I can throw him something to eat. He has been dead for so long, he certainly hasn't eaten anything."

He felt he was being far too considerate.

Thinking of this, Lu Ban suddenly remembered a product.

He opened the shop again and selected to redeem it.

Halloween

[Excellent]

In the land of night, Halloween represents a day when the dead and the living meet.

Pumpkins, believed to be able to communicate with the spirits of the dead, are a common food for Halloween.

Eat this, and all you'll have on your mind is Halloween.

"Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!!!"

Price: 5555 Quiet Points

A palm-sized pumpkin appeared in Lu Ban's hand. It looked ordinary. If Lu Ban didn't know that it was bought from Silent Department Store, he would think it was just from the vegetable market.

With just 5,000 Silence Points, this pumpkin appears to have a fairly powerful mind control effect.

Although Lu Ban possesses the Word Bullet of the Great Being's Whisper, which can cause strong mental pollution to humanoid creatures, his experience from the last mission made him realize that in the Silent Land, there might be far more irrational beings than rational ones.

For enemies with brains, the ravings of a great being can render them incapable of action.

But it's already crazy enough for a mindless enemy. If you add a little more fuel to the fire, it might just lead to its self-destruction—before that happens, Lu Ban might have already been devoured.

Therefore, Lu Ban felt that to suppress a mindless enemy, one needed to employ some unreasonable methods.

Just like this [Halloween], simply put, if Lu Ban lets a brainless enemy eat this, the other party will become a fool who can only think about Halloween. In comparison, it may not be as useful as the ramblings of a great being.

However, this thing is powerful when facing mindless enemies. It can turn those irrational, completely unconscious monsters into fools who only think about Halloween, and then they can enter Lu Ban's domain.

This has a somewhat ironic feel to it, as if firefighters need to start a fire before they can put it out.

However, Lu Ban was very satisfied.

He put away the Halloween pumpkin and checked the remaining time for the task selection.

One month.

In other words, Lu Ban has a month to prepare.

"With such a long preparation time, if we were in another alien realm, we should be able to collect some extraordinary items to improve ourselves, right?"

Unfortunately, although there were strange things in the world he was in, there were very few that he could use. Lu Ban was unsure whether this world was in a state of spiritual depletion like in the end times of the Dharma era, or a state of spiritual revival where everything was just beginning.

If it were the end of the Dharma era, then perhaps there would be some reclusive mysterious organizations, institutions, sects or the like that possess extraordinary power, but Lu Ban would definitely have a hard time getting in touch with them.

If it were a spiritual energy revival, then Lu Ban felt that he might be considered one of the pioneers in this trend.

Lu Ban felt that this world might be in a phase of mysterious revival, otherwise he would have already made a movie about the alien world. If there really were any hidden families, they would probably have come knocking on his door long ago.

Although he could slack off for a month, Lu Ban believed that as time went on, this world might become more and more like a real "alien land." Putting aside everything else, the dark-skinned man Correa who had bewitched Zhao Gongping into building the hospital was a very threatening target.

Therefore, he must improve himself as soon as possible.

Thinking of this, Lu Ban immediately took out...

After spending a few days preparing, Lu Ban packed his small backpack, took some wilderness survival gear, and went to the television.

"I've told them all that I'm going on a month-long research trip, so it shouldn't be a problem."

Lu Ban picked up the remote and turned on the TV.

Of the three channels, he chose [Nameless City].

The Nameless City

The wasteland is filled with countless ruins, but few have names.

For wilderness hunters, these ruins represent food, wealth, power, and danger.

You and your team venture deep into ruins. Wealth is alluring, power is maddening, hunger drives people mad, and danger is ever-present, a constant companion.

Every ruin in the wasteland represents the fall of a god. Who can know why the god of this wasteland perished?

[Task Difficulty: Selectable]

[Mission Requirement: Enter the Nameless City]

[Mission Requirement: Obtain the treasure of the Nameless City]

"Think positively. At least you won't be eaten by vultures after you die, right?"

The desolate changes in the text became the explanation of the system.

Lu Ban glanced at the box and saw that the "Mortal" difficulty level was grayed out and could not be selected. This meant that the task could only be completed at a difficulty level of "Mortal" or higher, or if the base difficulty was already high enough. If he continued to choose the "Erosion" difficulty level, he might encounter something unpleasant.

But Lu Ban is not someone who is afraid of danger. As the saying goes, fortune is found in danger. Without risk, where does the reward come from?

Moreover, he noticed that this mission did not require him to survive until a certain point, which meant that as long as he could find the treasure of the nameless city, he could run away immediately.

Therefore, Lu Ban decisively chose the [Erosion] difficulty level.

[Enter the Silent Land?]

【whether】

He pressed the remote control and selected the "Yes" option. In an instant, the desert on the television screen suddenly expanded, spreading as if it were about to invade the world.

Amidst the scorching wind that stung his cheeks, Lu Ban saw the last words displayed on the broken television set.

The flow of time in the Silent Land is different from that in the outside world.

Number of companions: 1

[Heading to the wasteland]

Chapter 175 Agent

"A companion? I wonder if I'll ever see Drizzt again. If he were by my side, I wouldn't have to worry about a lack of firepower at all."

Perhaps he had already adapted to traveling in this foreign land, but Lu Ban was even able to think amidst the dizzying world.

The next moment, a deep, beast-like howl filled Lu Ban's eardrums. Amid the deafening noise, Lu Ban felt a chill.

He found himself lying on the silver sand, and looking up, Lu Ban saw a dazzling starry sky.

The starry sky in this alien land is far more brilliant than that on Earth.

This was Lu Ban's first reaction.

The distorted starry sky formed the system's cold and indifferent text.

【wilderness】

[Three years in Pericles, a constellation of stars emerges]

[In a world ravaged by disaster, even survival is a luxury. The only law of the wasteland is survival of the fittest. On this mad land, humans and beasts dance together.]

Some have found miracles in the wilderness, some have lost their lives in the wilderness, some have encountered despair in the wilderness, and some have gotten lost in the wilderness, never to leave.

Do everything in your power to survive.

[Mission Requirement: Enter the Nameless City]

[Mission Requirement: Obtain the treasure of the Nameless City]

[Difficulty: Erosion]

Number of companions: 1

He looked around.

On the left, another person was lying down. It was a woman, wearing a gray cloak that concealed her appearance. She glanced ahead and then at Lu Ban beside her.