My Players' Second Playthrough

Although the humus lake is located underground, it is only more than 200 meters above the ground. The entire underground world is very large. There should be more than one exit, and animals from the ground often visit.

The protozoa that can survive in this world all have certain unique skills.

Either they are extremely capable of reproducing, or they are born to be masters of hiding.

It is naturally difficult to see living animals around those dense monster spawning points.

However, in the radiation area around the monster spawning point, various animals can always be found, but in front of corrupt monsters, no matter what kind of animals they are, they cannot form a large scale.

Same goes for humans.

The living space is limited and the source of food is fixed, but the life span and reproductive ability are not bad.

They can't use the resurrected monsters as resources like players, so they can only be trapped in a small safe zone and eat nothing.

A village that can survive for thousands of years in such a harsh environment cannot be justified without some ruthless work.

Continuing forward through the humus lake, there is a small hole with a diameter of 2 meters. Go in and go diagonally downward for about 500 meters, and you will see a green mushroom forest and a small village behind it.

This is a small village without a name. It is not small in size, and it is estimated that there are hundreds of people.

"Stealing God" swaggered towards the village. Scholar Xiujie hesitated for a moment and followed him and broke in from the main entrance.

He came here to gain experience, but in front of a legendary mage, he was unsure of how to hide with magic. But if he hid too far away, he might as well just turn around and go home with his two children.

The life-saving charm his mentor gave him was a rare large teleportation scroll, which he always had in his hand.

"It seems that the staple food of this village is the green mushrooms grown here."

"Stealing God" looked at the bare mushroom forest around him and scanned the mushroom data.

[Secret Mushroom] is a blank slate ingredient that provides standard mushroom satiety. Long-term consumption has unknown side effects.

This thing can be used to refine blue medicine.

As for the long-term side effects of consumption, players will naturally not know.

"Stealing God" looked at Xiu Jie, this guy has a wide range of knowledge, maybe he knows something.

"The stems of the mushrooms have all been plucked, but they should be netherworld mushrooms, a relatively common magic material. If they regard this as their staple food... then the souls of the villagers should be very cold."

Xiu Jie is worthy of being the master of scrolls. He is simply a walking encyclopedia. He can learn a few things about things that "Steal God" doesn't understand along the way.

The two of them walked towards the entrance of the village, chatting as they walked, as if they were scholars on an outing in the countryside.

As for the two unlucky children, they were held under Xiujie's armpits.

The poison of the humus lake was so strong that the two children stayed there for more than an hour. Their bodies had reached their limit and they all passed out.

The working villagers in the village finally discovered two arrogant outsiders. The woman who saw them first shouted, and several villagers gathered at the entrance of the village and looked at them curiously.

However, after seeing Xiujie carrying two orphans who had left the village under his arm, the curiosity on the faces of the villagers immediately turned into horror.

As if they were carrying the plague, the people gathered at the entrance of the village dispersed.

"Stealing God" scanned these guys. They were all level 1 civilian NPCs. The system did not identify them as mobs, and he felt very good.

This is all small money.

Xiu Jie beside him elbowed him, raised his head, and motioned for him to look to the other side.

There was a burned rack there.

Before the "Stealing God" could ask questions, Xiu Jie approached him, full of doubts in his heart.

Where did these people get the wood?

The humus lake protected the village and isolated them from monsters in the outside world. It also sealed the village so that they could not collect resources from the outside world.

In this sunless underground world, wood should be more valuable than gold.

The houses of these people are all made of stone, and they wear rags made of unknown materials. At a glance, except for the mushroom forest at the entrance of the village, no building uses even a little bit of wood.

So why was the wood burned?

[Xiu Jie] twisted some burned powder, put it to his nose and smelled it, frowned and said:

"It's the smell of ceremony."

The "Stealing God" also followed, looked at the burned ashes, and asked:

"Is this the sacrifice those two kids were talking about? There doesn't seem to be a corpse on the torture rack?"

"Because this is not a sacrifice, but a ceremony." Xiu Jie put the two children down, took out a quill and spell book, and wrote something on them.

"Stealing God" brought his head closer and found that the NPC was really writing something. While feeling emotional about the details of the game, he asked for advice:

"I don't understand. Can you explain it to me? Are we late?"

"It's been a while since it ended." Xiu Jie said doubtfully while calculating, "There's still something wrong."

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"What's wrong?" "Stealing God" asked.

Xiu Jie stopped writing, rubbed his eyebrows, closed the magic book and sighed:

"It's troublesome to explain this to laymen, so I'll make an exception for you this time."

"In words that laymen can understand, [sacrifice] is a performance to a specific being. If you can please the other party, you will be rewarded by the other party."

"You spend 10 yuan to buy a clown nose, and as long as you get affirmation, you can get a reward of 100 yuan, although these rewards are not easy to get."

"There is no third party in the [ritual]. It may turn stone into gold, but it also strictly adheres to the principle of equal exchange."

"Perhaps because matter is converted into energy, or energy reconstitutes matter, people feel that the [ritual] can create things out of thin air, but in fact the total amount of matter and energy remains unchanged."

"There is no essential difference between exchanging 100 yuan of gold for 100 yuan of clown noses. The things just look more numerous."

Seeing his companion nodded and seem to understand the most basic concept, Xiu Jie continued:

"The villagers used the ritual to burn a little girl, and provided the mushroom forest outside the village with the fertility of about hundreds of corpses. The difference is too great, and this does not conform to the principle of equivalent exchange."

"It is [virgin], [noble heart], [admirer], these spiritual powers, which are transformed into fertility by the ritual."

A powerful voice sounded.

Xiu Jie immediately felt as if he was facing a great enemy, and saw a middle-aged strong man with a sturdy back and waist, nearly two meters tall, walking towards them.

"Outsiders, I am the village chief here. Are you from the outside world?"

The middle-aged strong man seemed to have no ill intentions. After looking at the clothes of the two, he immediately said happily:

"Thank God, I didn't expect that there are still people alive in this world besides us."

"Judging from your attire, there is at least a fairly large city in the outside world?

"Industry, magic, these treasures of civilized society, have all been passed down?"

"Oh, sorry, I'm too excited. Meeting you two is really the most exciting moment of my thousand years. I almost forgot to introduce myself."

"Megan Douglas, who thought she had preserved the last fire of mankind, guarded the fool for a thousand years in the harsh conditions underground."

"Really, I'm glad to meet you two."