This isn't a souls-like game at all.

An hour and a half later, Ye Yiyi finally arrived at the second outpost set up by the Fire Crown Knights in the rainforest.

This outpost is not only larger than the previous one, but also more damaged.

Looking around at the almost completely destroyed stone wall ruins covered with various green plants, Ye Yiyi raised his waist lamp and looked around, but found no trace of the phantom.

"Are there no phantoms here?"

He was a little puzzled. This place was obviously closer to the underground cemetery, so why was there no phantom?

He walked over the rubble and came to the interior of the outpost, looking around.

There is not a single intact building in this outpost, only ruins everywhere.

Various rusty armor and weapons were scattered among the weeds, but as before, no skeletons were seen.

"Is this a sign of battle?"

He bent down and picked up a breastplate with a deeply dented surface.

From the appearance, it looked like it was dented by some thick blunt object.

"A blunt weapon..."

He seemed to be thinking about something, then suddenly raised his brows and raised his waist lamp to shine towards the distance.

A rough and indistinct gray human silhouette loomed in the dark ruins.

"Damn! Seeing this thing late at night is really scary!"

He muttered to himself and walked over to the human outline. Taking a closer look, he realized that it was a human statue carved out of gray stone.

"The knights here actually like stone carving?"

Unfortunately, the technique is not very good. This stone sculpture does not even have any facial features. It is just bare and too rough.

He walked around the statue, and was surprised to find a red stone heart in the weeds not far away.

"It activates the atrium."

It’s not surprising that there are active atria here too.

After putting the active atrium into the four-dimensional chrysanthemum, he was just about to go and have a look elsewhere when a strange sound came from behind him.

"Crack!"

"What's that sound?" He looked back, but didn't find anything special.

"Did I hear wrongly?"

He was a little confused, and when he turned his eyes, he found several similar human-shaped statues not far away.

"Kaka!"

Just as he was about to go over and see if he could find a few more active atria, the strange sound rang out again.

"What the hell?"

He suddenly looked back, but still found nothing.

"Did you find anything?" he asked the dung beetle on his shoulder.

The dung beetle shook its head, indicating that it didn't notice it either.

"Something's strange..." He became alert and took the sledgehammer behind him in his hand.

Then the dung beetle flapped its wings and flew into the sky, monitoring the ground from high above.

I don’t know if it was because of the dung beetle, but Ye Yiyi never heard that strange sound again after that.

"There must be a ghost..." He muttered to himself, and then came to the statues.

These gray statues have different postures. Some seem to be running, some seem to be in deep thought, and some stand still like fitting dummies in a clothing store.

"So what are these stone carvings for? ... Another piece of active atrium."

He had just bent down to pick up the crimson heart from the weeds when he heard a strange "cracking" sound in his ears.

He suddenly looked up and looked in the direction where the sound came from.

An ordinary gray stone sculpture, with black mist dripping from its eyes, twisted its faceless face and looked at Ye Yiyi.

"This……"

His eyes widened and he suddenly got goose bumps all over his body.

"Ka-ka-ka-ka-ka-ka-ka..."

A large number of identical voices rang out simultaneously in the ruins. He looked around blankly and saw all the stone sculptures present. At the same time, they twisted their heads and black mist flowed from their eyes.

Look towards him.

Chapter 189 [Dead Heart] and [Evil Blessing Eyes]

"Kakaka..."

As the sound continued to ring out, the faceless stone sculptures seemed to have gained life... or perhaps were cursed, and at this moment they all revived at the same time, turning their heads to look at Ye Yiyi.

They moved their stone bodies stiffly, and every time they took a step forward, a large amount of stone powder fell from their bodies.

"How on earth does this thing... move?"

Ye Yiyi looked at the faceless face of the stone sculpture with black mist flowing on it, and felt it was unbelievable.

It was solid stone, not a metal joint that could rotate and bend.

How do the stones deform to make them move?!

He held the hammer in both hands and swung it hard at the forehead of the stone statue closest to him.

"Crack!"

The sound of stone cracking was heard, and the faceless head of the stone sculpture was shattered by Ye Yiyi's blows.

And from the neck that had lost its head, the cursed black mist continued to overflow.

The sledgehammer in Ye Yiyi's hand only made slight contact, and the curse spread along the hammer to his body.

In the simplified light on the side, black marks began to appear on the blood bar that symbolizes life.

Health: ∞-87/∞-87

"Outrageous! It really is a thing cursed with stagnation!"

But even if it loses its head, it will not cause any pain to the sculpture, which is made of stone.

It still struggled to move forward, stretching its arms toward him.

"Too slow! If it weren't for the curse, I wouldn't believe they killed the Fire Crown Knights at the outpost."

Ye Yiyi shook his head, raised the sledgehammer high, and used a combat skill - heavy slash - on the slow and stiff stone sculpture in front of him.

"Boom!"

The steel hammer fell, completely smashing the body of the faceless stone sculpture into rubble.

At the same time, a bright red heart shrouded in black mist fell to the ground along with the rubble.

He looked down and suddenly realized.

"I said, it really is a heart-activating device!"

How can curses erode my inorganic stone? After all, they erode the thoughts of the people in my active heart.

The black mist on the active atrium dissipated, and the bright red oil paint also faded and turned grayish white.

Soul Echo +330

He glanced at the stone sculptures slowly approaching around him, then bent down and picked up the gray-white active atrium.

[Dead Heart]

Item Description: A grayish-white carved stone shaped like a heart.

The longing is lost and is no longer in the vivid stone-carved heart.

Can enhance ordinary incarnation mediums.

The vague longing for the phantoms of the past will eventually fade away with the passage of time.

But it can still enhance the power of the nameless spirit.

The technology of communicating with and strengthening spirits is called "spiritual communication".

It is a profession that only psychics can perform.

"So ordinary incarnation mediums can also be strengthened?"

Ye Yiyi was a little surprised.

"I'm saying that the game's settings are a bit unreasonable. They're all incarnated mediums, so why can those with names be strengthened, but those without names can't? So there's discrimination among spirits, right?"

Now that we have the ordinary Dead Heart, ordinary incarnation mediums, such as the Star-Point Butterfly Queen, can be strengthened.

In fact, the reason why you can't strengthen in the game is very simple.

Among the nameless incarnated mediums, most are non-human spirits.

For example, animals such as mice, crabs, star-spotted butterflies, humanoid creatures such as the sons of hell, sub-humans, non-humans, and even the Stone-Gold Earth Dragon King who can be made into a transformed spirit medium, and even flying dragons!

Even if they cannot be strengthened, these spirits are no weaker in strength than the named incarnated mediums.

"Once I'm done with the witch, I'll go get Feilong's incarnation medium!"

Ye Yiyi made a decision silently, then looked around at the faceless stone sculptures that were approaching.

"Killing them will drop Dead Hearts, I need to farm more."

He raised the Spark Hammer high, and then activated his combat skill: Spark Bloom!

"Boom!"

The sledgehammer hit the ground hard, and a spark suddenly lit up, then quickly expanded and spread, turning into a huge flaming bud ready to bloom.

The next moment, the bud opened and sparks burst!

The petals, made of dazzling bright red flames, gently licked the surrounding stone sculptures. Under the continuous high temperature, the gray stone sculptures gradually melted, lost their shape, and turned into a pool of boiling lava.

At the same time, the flames spread in all directions, encompassing all the stone carvings within a large area.

After a while, Ye Yiyi stepped barefoot on the lava ground, recovering the dead atria one after another.

Soul Echo +3390

Current Soul Echoes: 72346

Soul Echoes Required for Upgrade: 30000

In addition to the soul echo, he also harvested 11 dead atria and 2 active atria.

"So, these stone carvings weren't just casually carved by the Fire Crown Knights in their spare time, but were found in the catacombs?"

Ye Yiyi had an idea in his mind.

After searching the fortress carefully again, he found two bundles of 20 Royal Guards arrows and a well-preserved Fire Feather Knight sword.

But unfortunately, he still couldn't find any trace of the extra-large sword.

"Fana's father isn't here either?"

He was a little confused. "Not at this outpost, nor at the previous one, so where should he be? Could he be in the ancient ruins of the underground cemetery?"

It is also possible that he died somewhere else in the rainforest, but in that case, Ye Yiyi would be difficult to find.

The Lupe Rain Forest is so big, where can he find a Fire Crown Knight whose body is completely gone?

"Hopefully, we'll find him in the catacombs..."

Ye Yiyi prayed silently in his heart, and then checked the Fire Feather Knight's greatsword.

【Fire Feather Knight Greatsword】

Requirements: Strength 18, Skill 13

Damage Modification: Strength C, Skill D

Durability: 245/300