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

That is the key for planters to cultivate guardians.

"Uh……"

After reading the item description, Ye Yiyi frowned.

"After all this fuss, this thing is already in the Plantation Research Institute?

"The key to cultivating watchmen... This is ridiculous. How on earth does this thing do this?

"A special creature that restrains and controls nerves..."

He muttered and looked down at a flying mud monster on the ground that had turned into crystals.

Recalling the situation when he was parasitized by the mud and his body was out of control, as well as the scene when a large amount of mud attached to the monster made up of many corpses, Ye Yiyi had some vague guesses in his mind.

"Could it be that the true nature of this sludge's 'parasitism' is actually nerve manipulation?"

He simply couldn't understand the technology used by the plant designers to control the evolution of life. He only knew that if this thing were to leak into the outside world, it would definitely be a disaster no less serious than divine pollution.

Any research related to the era of land-based nations will be unsafe for the neighboring nations ten thousand years from now.

"Forget it, there's no point in thinking too much. I might as well look for some classics and see if I can find the various king techniques studied by the gardeners."

He shook his head helplessly, and went to other plants, chiseling them open with a pickaxe, looking for the fertile seeds inside.

In addition to being used for planting, this seed is also one of the materials for making rainbow mist bottles.

Unfortunately, he currently has no method to make a rainbow mist bottle, so he can only collect more materials.

"Huh? What is this?"

He scanned the ground covered with a large number of crystal fragments and curiously picked up a short yellow needle from it.

This short needle, as big as an embroidery needle and made of yellow crystal, was found in the body of a flying mud when he was chiseling the crystal just now.

【Domination Crystal Flying Needle】

Consumption: 6

Attribute correction: Strength D, Skill S, Wisdom B, Faith B, Mystery B

Item Description: Item found from the crystallized Executioner.

One of the crystallized nerve clusters.

Consumes focus to throw at the enemy, which can accumulate the parasite gauge.

When the parasite gauge is full, it can control the enemy's actions.

Temporarily turns an enemy into an ally.

The neural clusters of the executor are the condensation of immortality,

Therefore, through transformation, the will to resist can be transformed into the driving force for domination.

"What the hell? So awesome?"

After reading the item description, Ye Yiyi raised his eyebrows in surprise.

"A tool that can turn enemies into allies..."

In the game, there are actually things that can produce similar effects, such as [Charm Intelligent Creatures] in Chaos Magic.

That's a magical skill for getting echoes, but you can't get it until the later stages of the game.

Now finding a prop with a similar effect is a complete surprise for Ye Yiyi.

"Although it's not as effective as Chaos Magic, and it's a disposable consumable, it's still pretty good." He thought as he looked at the small crystal flying needle in his hand.

"But the principle of how this thing parasitizes and controls others is really similar to what I imagined?

"Simply transforming the will to resist into motivation through immortality? What does that mean?"

He scratched his forehead and wondered if the harder he resisted, the harder it would be to escape the control of immortality?

"I just don't know if this thing will work on the dead."

He put away the flying needle in his hand and continued to swing the pickaxe to dig the ground.

Ye Yiyi was a little surprised that the crystallized executor could produce this special item.

If he hadn't used the [Touch of the Star] that could crystallize the enemy, he would have missed this extremely practical early and mid-game item.

Thinking of the deep darkness that was once crystallized by the Hand of Stars, and thus obtained [Inert Darkness], he had some vague guesses in his mind.

"Is this method of producing items through crystallization actually a special power of the stars?"

He closed his eyes, his thoughts sinking into his heart, and tried to deconstruct this magic using [Deconstruction of Everything].

But then he opened his eyes and shook his head in disappointment.

"No, although [Star Touch] can deconstruct it, it will take too long! At my current level of progress, it will take a full two months!"

Although the intelligence requirement for this magic is below 20, it has more mysterious attribute requirements than the magic he deconstructed before.

In other words, magic that requires multiple attributes takes much longer to deconstruct than magic that only requires intelligence.

He then tried to deconstruct [coloring], which took less time, but still required at least one and a half months.

In addition, the [Poison Mist Thorn] he was currently deconstructing was nearing completion, so he naturally could not give up and seek the long way around, so he had to give up.

Looking down at the pool of blood that had almost turned into crystals, he couldn't help but sigh.

It seems that not only is the workload in his mind heavy, but the workload of collecting spoils has also increased.

Not only the crystallized flesh plants and the parasitic heretic life forms, but now even the executors scattered all over the ground have to be dug up and collected one by one.

This made Ye Yiyi feel bored after just a while of chiseling.

Looking at the green phantom still waiting in front of the door in the distance, and Suke who was held up by Xiaochu and was studying the many mechanical arms on the ceiling, Ye Yiyi looked down at the pickaxe in his hand and couldn't help rolling his eyes.

"Why am I the only one working? Am I a laborer?"

After all, this is reality, not a game. When you kill the enemy, a light ball that can be picked up will explode from his body. There is no such good thing.

"It's too time-consuming to do it myself. I need a dedicated laborer to help me collect the spoils."

After thinking for a moment, he came to a conclusion.

But it was difficult to find a similar existence. He racked his brains but could not think of a suitable candidate. In the end, he could only release Lupel, whose cooldown period had ended, and let this knight master temporarily play the role of mining Palu and stay here to help him collect the spoils.

"Suke, let's go."

Calling the reluctant mouse, he followed the green phantom into the door amid the sound of Lupel's chisel "clang! clang! clang!"

Behind the door was a messy room, the floor covered in a black, unknown slime, and traces of dragging. There were also collapsed cabinets, abandoned chairs and desks scattered everywhere, and all kinds of stained papers almost covering the entire floor.

Coupled with the light on the ceiling above that flickered as if it had poor electrical connection, this place looked like some kind of murder scene.

"This should be a workshop or a laboratory, right?"

Ye Yiyi ignored Su Ke who was looking around with wide eyes, and followed the green phantom to a metal wall covered with black handprints.

"This wall..."

He looked at the handprints on the wall and couldn't help but frowning slightly.

Logically speaking, these should have been left behind by the dead, but they are not living people after all, and no blood will be left when their limbs are cut off, so this made Ye Yiyi puzzled.

"Could it be that they are the dead who were infected by the resurrection disease?"

He was guessing in his mind, and then he saw the green phantom reach out and tap the center of the wall. The illusory body then stepped forward and disappeared into the wall.

"Uh?"

Disappeared? Or did it go into the wall?

He also imitated the Phantom and reached out to touch the wall, but the wall did not respond.

"Metal wall..."

He muttered and looked around carefully, but he couldn't find any button or keyhole on the wall.

"Could this be a mechanism?"

He thought about it, then stretched out his left hand, which was wearing the Nativity of the Messiah, and used [Mechanical Drive] on the wall.

"Kaka..."

The sound of metal mechanisms turning came from inside the wall, and then the wall split in the middle, turning into a wide double door.

"So that's it?"

He looked at the handprints on the wall thoughtfully.

These deceased people who left their fingerprints should have come here through this door.

Later, the gate was locked and there was no way out, so they were eaten by the dragon pulp flesh plant.

The only lucky person who got the key died on the way to escape.

No, his key was only half, and it should not be able to open the door that Ye Yiyi came through.

"Could it be that this is a garbage dump for disposing of the dead?"

"Sir! I found this!!"

Suddenly, Su Ke's surprised voice came from behind. Ye Yiyi glanced at the green phantom stationed in the middle of the dark corridor, turned and walked towards Su Ke who was huddled on a collapsed cabinet.

"What did you find?"

"There are documents with clear handwriting! There are quite a few! We also found a unique gem!"

Su Ke placed the paper documents and so-called rare gems he had found in front of him one by one.

"Where was this gem found?"

"Next to a collapsed cabinet." Su Ke pointed somewhere.

"Is it?"

Ye Yiyi picked up the green round gem and looked down at the light curtain.

【Forester Gem】

Item Description: A special gem found within the remains of the Plant Keeper.

Has sacred symbolic meaning,

It is regarded as a symbol of the ancient origin of the planter, the "forest keeper".

Used for enchantment slots in weapons.

When the user falls into the abnormal state of "parasitism" or "insect attachment",

It can greatly improve resistance to abnormal status and temporarily increase defense.

The Forest Ranger is a spirit that lives in symbiosis with the forest and trees.

They are said to have received orders from the king,

Secretly guarding the colorful stone trees that are widely distributed on the border.

"???"

After reading the item description, Ye Yiyi was stunned.

"Forest Ranger?"

This somewhat outdated name brought his memory back to several months ago.

That was when he was walking on the foggy plains, carrying a dung beetle on his shoulder.

At that time, he accidentally entered a misty forest, defeated a kept two-headed black goat, and rescued a boy.

As he was fleeing with the boy, he heard an angry sheep bleating.

The bleating sound came from a special creature that only existed in the misty forest, the half-human, half-sheep forest ranger.

"The Forest Ranger...was once a subordinate of the King?"

Ye Yiyi was a little surprised, and what surprised him even more was the other content mentioned in the item description.

"Are they the origins of the gardeners? And what are the jacaranda trees?"

The profession of botanist comes from forest ranger, so Ye Yiyi is not surprising. After all, the item description says that they are the elves of the forest and trees.

But the name of the Colorful Stone Tree seemed strange to him.