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

But the centipede caught in the air suddenly trembled and spit out a stream of yellow-brown unknown liquid from the poisonous jaws in front of its head.

"Pheromones?"

Ye Yiyi sniffed and looked puzzled.

He didn't have any insects in his spell slots, so he could only sense the presence of pheromones but couldn't understand their meaning.

Fortunately, the dung beetle kindly helped him translate.

"Brother, it seems... it's crying for help?"

"Help?"

Ye Yiyi was slightly startled, and then the rustling sound of limbs moving was heard in her ears.

Suddenly, countless large yellow-brown centipedes emerged from the narrow cracks in the rock wall not far away.

"I'm super!"

He was immediately shocked. He never expected that there was a huge centipede nest hidden in the rock beneath him.

"interesting!"

He reacted, realized something, and then curled up the corners of his mouth into a smile.

"Don't do it, let me do it."

He called out to the dung beetle that contained spiritual fire, arcs of electricity flickered in his eyes, and then a long chain of lightning shot out.

"Crack!"

Silver-white magic lightning fell on the centipede, the arc of electricity jumped, and the shell was charred and shiny, and then spread among the centipede group.

But something happened that made Ye Yiyi puzzled.

Those centipedes were flashing with electric light, as if they had suddenly been injected with chicken blood, becoming more ferocious and brave, and rushing towards Ye Yiyi fearlessly.

"Not only is the spiritual fire ineffective, but even my magic lightning has no effect?"

Ye Yiyi was surprised, and his curiosity grew stronger.

These centipedes are indeed unusual, perhaps they contain unique secrets.

All kinds of thoughts flashed through Ye Yiyi's mind like lightning. The lightning in his eyes stopped for a moment. He took out the hilt of the Longzhu Holy Sword and held it in his left hand, while swinging his right hand forward.

A deep purple light flickered between his palms, and then turned into a shock wave and was released.

The dark fluctuations of the hymn of faith of the Lord of Darkness!

The shock wave came close to the ground and knocked away a large number of centipedes.

Their yellowish-brown carapaces faded under the erosion of the dark attribute, revealing the damaged dark black chitinous carapace underneath, from which a large amount of pale yellow insect body fluids splashed.

"Uh?"

Ye Yiyi frowned slightly, and waved his arms continuously to release shock waves. He did not kill all the nearly thirty centipedes until his blue bar was more than half consumed.

Soul Echo +6624.

Current soul echoes: 6841.

"The faith attribute is still too low."

His eyes swept over the centipede corpses scattered all over the ground, and then looked at the prompts on the simplified light curtain. Ye Yiyi shook his head repeatedly and retracted the hilt of the holy sword.

This centipede, which is about one meter long, has a basic echo of only 180, making it a small monster among small monsters.

But even so, he still released dark waves more than ten times before he destroyed it.

Of course, one of the reasons is that the physical damage of Dark Wave accounts for a higher proportion, but in the final analysis, it is because the faith attribute of Strength No. 29 is too low.

The lower the attribute, the lower the damage of the released hymn. Therefore, facing the giant centipede with stronger attribute resistance, the effect is relatively poor.

If he switched to deep magic, he could kill a group of people with just one "black foam".

But these are not the point.

The point is, the shells of these centipedes were originally dark black.

The reason they look yellowish-brown now is because there is a strange substance attached to their shells.

"I knew there was something wrong with this centipede!"

He asked his puppeteer to place the centipede he had caught at the beginning in front of him, then he took out a hunting knife from behind and cut off a complete piece of yellow-brown shell.

"There's no light curtain, and the yellow-brown substance doesn't seem to be attached to it, but rather something contained within the shell..."

Ye Yiyi pondered the shell in his hand for a moment, then took out a gray metal ball the size of a head from behind him.

After placing the metal ball on the ground for a moment, cracks suddenly appeared on the smooth surface of the sphere, and then three chain-like metal arms extended from it.

The metal arm supported itself on the ground and turned around easily and effortlessly, facing Ye Yiyi with the featureless part that should be the face.

"Can you handle this?"

Ye Yiyi squatted down, took the yellow-brown shell to the portable skill slave he found in Daduo's room, and asked.

"I want to extract the yellow-brown substance from this shell."

As soon as he finished speaking, a white light was seen shooting out from the center of the sphere, scanning the shell, and then a mechanical claw stretched out to take the shell and stuffed it into the crack in the middle of the sphere.

"Is this... a fluctuation in the space-time field?"

Ye Yiyi narrowed her eyes and suddenly sensed an unusual fluctuation from this skillful servant.

After a while, the sphere cracked again, spewing out a pile of black powder and a yellowish-brown metal particle the size of a stone.

"Really?"

Ye Yiyi stretched out his hand in surprise and took the metal pellet from the mechanical claw.

This "mechanically operated" portable skilled slave's item description mentions that it can perform simple raw material processing.

Ye Yiyi took it out with the attitude of giving it a try, but she didn't expect that it would actually come in handy.

He looked down at the metal particles and saw a light curtain pop out.

【Melancholy Heart】

Item Description: Precious rare metal.

Can be found in ancient ruins and battlefields.

One of the materials used to make props.

It can also be used to forge weapons or armor with superior attribute resistance.

A strange metal born from a strong emotional will.

One of them is a heart steel that contains a sense of melancholy.

It is said that Chaos Impermanence once saw the origin of Heartsteel.

That is the emotional will that flows out from the sea of ​​​​the mind and materializes.

"Materialized emotional will?"

Ye Yiyi had a strange expression on his face and turned the metal particles in his hand over and over to examine them.

"So why does this melancholic emotion have such superior resistance?"

He didn't understand the connection, but that didn't matter right now.

More importantly, why do these centipedes have this metal inside their shells?

As he was thinking, he crushed the centipede in front of him and threw it away, then gave orders to his skillful servant.

"Prioritize the Heart of Sorrow and extract the valuable items from these centipede remains."

So the little thing retracted its mechanical arm, turned into a ball and rolled to a stop in front of the centipede. Then it extended its mechanical arm again and "swallowed" the whole centipede into its stomach.

"The fluctuations in the spacetime field, as expected, there must be another dimension within this skilled slave's body. As expected of Master Craftsman Xiti, who once created the 'Liquid Black Box' that completely isolates the inner and outer spacetimes and is specifically used to store dangerous objects!"

Ye nodded slightly, then called the dung beetle, walked past the group of centipedes, came to the crevice, and looked down.

It was pitch black in the gap and nothing could be seen clearly.

At this moment, the sun has completely dropped below the horizon, the moon is hanging high in the sky, and the blue moonlight is pouring down from the sky.

Ye Yiyi turned his head and looked at Bonagu in the distance. It was a little quiet there, with only a few twinkling lights in the city.

"That place is too small, and the canyon has a complex terrain. If you want to get in or out, there is only one waterway."

"So, items like firewood and candles should be saved as much as possible and never wasted. Therefore, they don't have much nightlife. Except for the sentries, everyone else goes to bed after dinner."

This seems normal, but the question is, if there is no special reason, who would build such a mud city for people to live in the middle of this desolate canyon?

There's even a whole army of Gray Feather Knights stationed there?

"Unless the ruins guarded by the knights are inside this great canyon."

Ye Yiyi withdrew his gaze and looked at the crack under his feet in the moonlight. The cosmic aura that expanded outward unconsciously was successfully connected with a certain object, and then he heard its voice in his mind.

"It's so boring. I feel like my gears and bearings are rusting..."

My gears and bearings?

Generally speaking, there are no such things as gears and bearings in human organs, right?

Ye Yiyi curled up the corners of his mouth, waiting for the skilled servants to clean up all the centipede remains, and then got three fist-sized pieces of melancholy heart steel.

In addition, he also harvested eight bottles of centipede venom.

【Stone Venom】

Item Description: Transparent colorless acid liquid.

Can be found on the bodies of Rock Centipedes.

One of the materials used to craft props.

Rock centipedes live in dry deserts and canyons.

Feeds on grit, rocks, and smaller inorganic life.

It is said that their venom sacs contain special toxins.

It can enhance the fluidity of rock mass and turn it into liquid to be swallowed up.

Therefore, it became one of the numerous industrial raw materials in the era of land-based nations.

"Turning rock into liquid..."

Ye Yiyi silently repeated these words that challenged his common sense of physics, and finally shrugged his shoulders, choosing to turn a blind eye.

"Can't this effect be achieved using natural magic?"

It can be seen that he has now integrated into this land.

But the era of integration was ten thousand years ago...

"Let's go."

He put away his belongings and his skilled servant, called the dung beetle, and then transformed himself into a colorless cloud, followed the dung beetle, and went into the crevice of the rock.

In the magical state, Ye Yiyi can penetrate into any space without being restricted by his body shape.

With this method, he doesn't need to look for an entrance and can sneak directly into the stronghold. In terms of character performance, it is many times stronger than in the game.

He shuttled through the gaps between the rock layers, and soon he emerged from a gap and came to a cave.

"This place... really is a centipede's nest. I thought I'd found an ancient ruin..."

With the help of the dung beetle's spiritual fire, he glanced at the climbing centipedes in front of him, which were so numerous that their scalp tingled, and couldn't help rolling his eyes.

"Let's first look for the machine that can talk to me."

He wrapped the dung beetle and continued to go deeper into the crevices of the rocks, moving among the centipedes.

After going an unknown number of meters deep into the rock wall, he finally came to a relatively wide cave.

"This is it."

Ye Yiyi leaned against the rock wall, his eyes sweeping over the giant rock centipede several tens of meters long curled up in the center of the cave, and landed on the wreckage of a large mechanical vehicle not far away.

"This shape... a tank?"