Summoner, he is never alone

With the experience of the first room, Ye Xu basically determined the location of the soul stone in each house, so as soon as he entered the door, he went straight to the middle to dig the stone.

The babies work together in a division of labor, Xiaoling and Goose are responsible for killing monsters, rummaging through boxes and cabinets to find loot, Ye Xu opens the iron pipe after digging the soul stone, and waits for the golden mouse to go in to collect the soul sand, Zhenzhen and the shadow stay in the Next to help with sand.In this way, Ye Xu can save a lot of time. While Zhenzhen is loading the sand, he runs to the next room to continue digging stones.

With such an assembly line in operation, they cleaned up more than 100 rooms in just half a day, and Ye Xu also harvested hundreds of boxes of soul sand.Fortunately, these jade boxes can be stacked, otherwise his package might not be enough to fit, and after stacking, it only occupies a few grids.

The trophies are all collected, but Ye Xu's mission here is not for these, but for Zhen Zhen's soul fragments.However, the props bought at a high price can only guide the big coordinates. After entering the small secret realm, there is no way to go. Ye Xu had to take out the jade plate again, and started to follow the arrow after fusing the soul-gathering beads.

So the jade plate is still useful, not that it is no longer needed after having the soul map.Both have their own advantages and need to be used together.

Unsurprisingly, the pointer on the jade plate pointed to the very center of the village, where there was a small open space without any buildings.Because the open space is not very large, there are similar open spaces between other houses. If it is not because of the special location, no one will notice it.

Before using the jade plate, Ye Xu had some doubts about what might be buried in the central open space.

There is no way to think so, after all, this village is really not big, all the buildings have been searched, and there is really no clue about the remnant soul.After thinking about it, there is only one central open space that can rely on the unique geographical location to be a bit special. When there is no clue, the system will not deliberately hide things in the corner to embarrass the player.

Now the pointer of the jade plate is also pointing to this position, so there is no need to hesitate.Ye Xu picked up his small shovel, squatted down on the open space, and started digging.

The small shovel is easy to use, but it is too small, and each shovel can only dig a little soil.But there were no other tools available at the moment, so he couldn't help but feel disgusted, so he could only dig down slowly.

Ye Xu dug down for a full 5 minutes before he found something. Fortunately, there was a jade plate to guide him, otherwise he might have given up on this point and went to the side to dig.Just like he did in the room before, poking out a whole layer of ground.

What he dug this time was not a simple soul stone, but a stone box, which seemed to be made of similar material to the soul stone.Because the shape is a bit mysterious, in today's atmosphere, it really looks like an urn or Pandora's box, Ye Xu is a little afraid to open it.

Thinking that unpacking boxes is usually a sweet job, Ye Xu is a little ready to move.But this kind of box is not very good for Tiantian to open, and it is not made of metal. Tiantian cub probably won't be happy, so he had to give up this idea.

The jade plate firmly pointed to the box, indicating that the remnant soul was inside.But just because the remnant soul is in it doesn't mean that there is nothing else in it. Who knows how many items can be contained in this box. Usually the boss treasure box they open doesn't look that big, so it can still hold a lot of equipment.

After much deliberation, Ye Xu decided to let other people do the driving, and he hid behind himself, surrounded by Tangtang's protection.The box was placed on the ground, and Zhen Zhen was asked to open it by herself. It would be best if she could absorb the remnant soul immediately.

Three seconds later, Zhenzhen opened the box by herself, the demon jumping out of Ye Xu's imagination did not appear, but a phantom rushed towards Zhenzhen who was closest to it, and directly merged into it.Other than that, nothing else came out.

But this is not the end, at the moment of soul fusion, the soul stones in Ye Xu's backpack began to vibrate wildly, as if he wanted Ye Xu to release them.Ye Xu hesitated for a moment, and took out one, but the energy stored in that stone was instantly pulled away, and flew directly into Zhen Zhen's body.

Ye Xu was taken aback, could it be that the energy in these stones was reserved for Zhen Zhen?Zhen Zhen's remnant soul coaxed the villagers to create an immortal formation at home, just to absorb the energy in the future?Or did someone else do this for Zhen Zhen?

wrong.Ye Xu quickly realized that there was a problem with time.

Zhen Zhen's accident was only 500 years ago at most. After all, 500 years ago, Lesman witnessed the scene of Zhen Zhen's soul breaking.But the isolation of this village was a long, long time ago.

Although I don't know when they tossed the formation, but considering the lifespan of the undead, it is impossible for this group of guys to live 500 years ago before starting to practice immortality.So when Zhen Zhen had an accident, the formation here must have existed for many years.

After becoming an undead, there is a high probability that no one has touched anything in the village, so whether it is the formation or this box, it must have been buried back then.Zhen Zhen came in later, it is a remnant soul without a body, it is not difficult to invade the underground box, and there is no need to dig up the soil again, this speculation is more in line with reality.

Then, this village should have had other undead come over and coax them, let them come up with a formation to harm themselves.And the people who tricked them buried the box secretly in the center of the village, waiting for the soul in the box to drain the soul energy stolen by the soul sand over the years once the soul in the box was born.

This routine is similar to that of the ghost king, and they are arranged in advance to provide nourishment after their comeback.It's just that the ghost king caught Zhenzhen first and then used Zhenzhen as nourishment. From the village, Zhenzhen might have come halfway, swallowed the guy sleeping in the box, and then robbed the soul energy prepared by others.

Considering the xenophobic nature of the village, Ye Xu believes that the people in the village who encouraged everyone to do this are most likely to be from the village, and their status is not low, which is more convincing.In the past recorded on the stone tablet at the entrance of the village, there is actually only one special person in the whole village.

In the undead village, the special identity may be the patriarch or the village head, but the undead have no memory of being alive, so naturally they can't tell who is the village head and who is an ordinary villager. The difference between their identities can only be based on their strength. .But there is no special record in the stele who is the most powerful, and the major event above is that the village head has become an independent secret realm.

As I said before, the one who can build an independent secret realm must be a space mage.In the chaotic moment when the continental plates are shifting, it is not possible for ordinary people to seal a village into a special secret realm alone, so Ye Xu suspects that this space mage is powerful and is the leader of the village.

Since the plot didn't tell him that there were any other special villagers, it might as well regard this space mage as the mastermind behind everything.And to be honest, the independent secret realm is really suitable for such small tricks, and it is not easy for outsiders to find out. It is hard to say whether the other party has already calculated what happened later when they separated the village into the secret realm.

Thinking of this, Ye Xu suddenly found out that he didn't seem to find the space mage's residence here.All the trophies obtained from the villagers' homes did not have any items related to space mages, but each villager's home had more or less special props related to their previous occupations.

So, among the ghosts that Ye Xu solved before, there was no such space mage.That would make sense if its soul recuperated in a box.

But logically speaking, the mage should not exclude his residence from the secret realm alone, so that he usually has no place to live, and it would be very troublesome to leave the secret realm.After all, the outside boards have been changing positions, and the entrance may have changed after going out. It is unreasonable for him to leave the house outside the entrance.

Ye Xu thinks a reasonable explanation might be that the space mage is not an aborigine in the village, but a friend they met outside, and they also stayed in the homes of other undead after they came here.Then it makes sense for it to attack all the villagers ruthlessly. Even if the general undead are not good people, they will not be so mad.

It seemed that this was a complete scam, and they had no good intentions from the very beginning.

As for the box being buried in the soil, how he will get in after his death, you can refer to Zhenzhen to know.Obviously, he buried the box in advance, and it was set up to accept other souls to enter, so after his own soul left the body, he could directly drill in without digging up the soil.

It was probably buried underground for fear of being discovered by others. After all, the entrance is not very hidden. There is a risk of outsiders coming in here. He cannot let others discover the box.And the setting of this box is roughly similar to the restriction at the gate of the ghost king. After the strength reaches a certain level, you can break out of the box by yourself.

According to Ye Xu's speculation, this time is probably related to when the soul energy of those villagers was completely extracted.If it comes out ahead of time, it will not be possible to "make the best use of everything".

Looking at Zhen Zhen who was still merging in front of her, Ye Xu hesitated whether to take out those soul stones for her to use.Now he has roughly figured out the situation. It stands to reason that it is useless for him to keep the energy in the stone. Zhen is a bit strange.

The other party just squatted in place in a daze, with an extremely indifferent expression on his face, and the name that had been hidden above his head jumped out automatically, and began to change between red and green.In Ye Xu's system settings, only the names of NPCs and mobs are not hidden. Could it be that Zhenzhen is changing into a famous red monster?

If she really becomes an enemy, Ye Xu will give her energy to improve her strength, wouldn't that be courting death?At least he had to wait for Zhen Zhen to confirm that it was Lu Ming before he could take out the Soul Stone with confidence.

Thinking of this, Ye Xu put away the drained stone in his hand, intending to wait and see what happened.Silently praying in my heart, Zhen Zhen must not be instigated by the enemy.

The previous fusion did not become popular, and this time it must be because of the soul of the space mage.Sure enough, I still can't let Zhen Zhen swallow dirty things. Fortunately, when I was with the ghost king last time, I didn't ask No. [-] remnant soul to swallow the ghost king, otherwise the consequences would be disastrous.

Ye Xu looked at Zhen Zhen worriedly, hoping that she would be more helpful.