Age of Empires: Beginning Reincarnation as Prince of Qin

Chapter 229

Hearing what Jing Xiaoming said, Li Yan couldn't help touching his chin. There are more elder brothers than younger sisters.

The older brother asked him to ask for a price, but the younger sister wanted to prostitute herself for nothing all day long. It was not enough to treat herself as a tool, but she was greedy for her body. This is really too much.

[Start side missions! 】

[Sub-quest: Capture the black cat! 】

[Task Reward: Skill Learning Map! 】

Just when Li Yan was weighing whether to help the siblings or not, the system's task reminder sounded in Li Yan's mind.

Side missions!

Moreover, it is a side mission that directly rewards real objects.

For a long time, on the system panel in Li Yan's mind, there was only one main task of hunting blackened creatures.

The blackened creatures hunted become more powerful, and the exchange points obtained are correspondingly more.

All the way from the old triangle to the hinterland of the Dragon Kingdom, Li Yan accumulated a lot of exchange points.However, as far as the current situation is concerned, most of the items that appear in the system mall are food, medicine, and thermal weapons.

In the system mall, there are also many futuristic sci-fi items, but these items are still gray icons unsurprisingly.

The meaning of the gray icon is that it cannot be exchanged.

What you get after completing the main task is the exchange point, which can be exchanged for the required items in the mall.

And to complete the side missions, you can directly get the items in the mall. What is the difference between the two?
Li Yan thought about it, and opened the system mall in his mind. Sure enough, there was also a skill map product in the system mall.

It's just that the skill map in the mall is now in a gray icon state that cannot be exchanged.

So, in other words, if you complete the side mission, you will get the priority to experience the non-exchangeable items.

"Hello, hello."

"What are you thinking about?" Jing Xiaotian stretched out his hand and waved it in front of Li Yan's eyes a few times.

"It's not impossible to help you, I was wondering if it's a good deal to help you?" Li Yan said calmly.

When Jing Xiaoming heard that Li Yan was willing to help, he quickly said: "My friend is very important. If you are willing to sell, I am willing to pay double or triple the price!"

In the market, it would be very expensive to hire an extraordinary person to make a move.Jing Xiaoming was willing to pay double or even triple the price, which shows the Jing family's financial strength.

Of course, the Jing family naturally has their own transcendents, but these transcendents are all in Longsan City, and they can't quench their thirst far away.

money?
Li Yan thought for a while, asking Jing Xiaoming and the others for money was a bad idea.Wouldn't it be nice for Jing Xiaoming, the eldest son of Jing, to owe himself a favor?

Thinking of this, Li Yan was stunned for a moment, and said to Jing Xiaoming: "I am not short of money, so if I help you save people, how about you owe me a favor?"

"Okay!" As soon as Li Yan finished speaking, Jing Xiaoming immediately responded.

Li Yan rubbed his chin, thinking, this person seems to be very important to Jing Xiaoming!

It is still in the early stages of catastrophe, although the evolution rate of animals and plants is much faster than that of humans.However, the evolution speed of these blackened creatures will definitely not be faster than that of Li Yan.

Although he didn't know how strong the black cat Jing Xiaoming was talking about, Li Yan believed that he was definitely not as strong as himself.

"It's better sooner than later, you start now!"

"Here is where the black cat is!" Jing Xiaoming said, and handed a military map to Li Yan.

"Wait, shall I go now?"

"Aren't you going?" Li Yan said in surprise.

Jing Xiaoming nodded, and said solemnly: "That black cat is very powerful, if we go, it will only become your burden!"

"You don't want to change from saving one person to saving three people?"

Hearing Jing Xiaoming's words, Li Yan nodded involuntarily. ,

As the saying goes, only magic can deal with magic, and in the same way, only human superhumans can deal with blackened creatures.

This is also the reason why Jing Xiaoming asked Li Yan to take action. Indeed, it is the most sensible and safest to go alone.

Don't be too late!

Li Yan took the military map from Jing Xiaoming's hand, greeted Lei Zi, and set off.

Following the navigation of the military map, Li Yan traveled several hundred miles before arriving at his destination.

Plucking chrysanthemum under the east fence, you can see Nanshan leisurely.

At this time, it was this scene that caught Li Yan's eyes.

At the foot of the mountain are patches of yellow-orange chrysanthemums, and these chrysanthemums are no longer the kind of chrysanthemums before the catastrophe.

After the catastrophe, all animals and plants have a common feature, that is, gigantism.

It is normal for some common animals and plants to be two or three times larger, and it is not surprising that they are even more than ten times larger.

These chrysanthemums are now the size of sunflowers before the catastrophe.Pieces of chrysanthemums form a chrysanthemum forest.

As the saying goes, if something goes wrong, there must be a demon.

Under this barren mountain, a large area of ​​chrysanthemums suddenly appeared, what a strange thing!

With a thought, Li Yan metallized the skin all over his body, and then walked cautiously towards the chrysanthemum forest.

Be careful, according to Jing Xiaoming's description, this black cat moves so fast that even hot weapons can't aim at its figure.

In order to prevent the black cat from sneaking up, Li Yan metallized his body before entering the chrysanthemum forest.

"Squeak!
After Li Yan walked into the chrysanthemum forest, he suddenly felt that something was wrong under his feet. His feet were soft, not like the feeling of stepping on the ground.

Frowning, Li Yan lowered his head and looked down. Sure enough, what he was standing on was not solid ground, but a piece of yellow sand.

Li Yan squatted down, reached out and grabbed a handful of yellow sand and twisted it. It was indeed very ordinary yellow sand!

There are chrysanthemums planted on the yellow sand, what kind of chrysanthemums are these, something is wrong!
Li Yan raised his head and looked ahead. The foot of the mountain spread all the way to the middle of the mountain, and there were yellow and orange patches everywhere. Obviously, they should all be this kind of chrysanthemums planted on the yellow sand.

"boom!"

Li Yan stomped his foot fiercely, the yellow sand shot out, and a deep pit appeared under his feet.

As expected, the yellow sand only covered about one meter, and the soil below one meter was normal.

In other words, the yellow sand and the chrysanthemum were not originally in this position, but were artificially transplanted here.

"Except for the crew with golden armor all over the city, who would be so boring and transplant so many chrysanthemums?" Li Yan frowned and thought.

It is said that more than 400 million chrysanthemums were used when shooting the golden armor in the city.Li Yan reckoned that the sea of ​​chrysanthemums from the foot of the mountain to the middle of the mountain probably needs several million chrysanthemums.

Li Yan continued to walk forward, and suddenly, on the sand in front of him, he saw traces of animals having fun.On these traces, there are still many black cats left behind.

"Could it be that this is a huge cat litter box?" Li Yan frowned, as if he understood the purpose of the sand.

Although Li Yan has never raised a cat, he has never eaten pork for such a thing, and has he never seen a pig run away?

Although you have never raised a cat yourself, have you ever seen someone else raise a cat?
Li Yan was able to make a preliminary judgment on the basic habits of animals like cats.

In this empty sand, there are black animal hairs everywhere, as well as palm-sized plum blossom-shaped animal footprints.

Whether it's the black Soochow hair or the black plum-shaped animal footprints, they all fit the characteristics of a black cat.

Judging from the current clues, this must be one of the places where black cats often appear.

"Squeak."

"Squeak."

Li Yan continued to walk forward along the footprints left by the black cat, stepping on the sand softly, making light noises.

Yellow sand everywhere, yellow chrysanthemums all over the mountains.

This is the chrysanthemum residue, the ground is full of sand!

If these yellow sand and these chrysanthemums are the masterpiece of that black cat, then this black cat must have a story!

Li Yan walked along the footprints of the black cat, and unknowingly reached the halfway up the hillside.

Li Yan looked forward. There must be at least a few thousand people working on the hillside in front of him.Some of them are laying yellow sand, and some are planting chrysanthemums.

The world after the cataclysm can be said to be full of dangers.Under such circumstances, there are still people constructing in this barren mountain.

Among them, there are really strange things everywhere.

Why are these people working here?

Laying yellow sand and planting chrysanthemums?
It stands to reason that so many people gathered on this mountain, and the smell emanating from so many people will definitely attract the attention of blackened creatures in the wilderness.

It stands to reason that these people should have become the food and mouth of the blackened creatures in the wilderness long ago.

However, these people are still in the construction intact.

Why is that?
Li Yan fell into deep thought.

"Yes, black cat?"

"These people are laying yellow sand and planting chrysanthemums for the black cat!" Li Yan soon had an answer in his mind.

The sense of territory of animals, the strength of black cats is strong enough in the wilderness.Therefore, it can define this mountain forest as its own territory.

This is the territory of the black cat, and these people are also protected by the black cat, and they can even be said to be the people of the black cat.

I am afraid that this is the reason why these people did not become the belly of the blackened creature.

Under the action of the black mist, all creatures are evolving, and this time, it seems that nature is more inclined to animals and plants.

In this evolutionary journey, animals and plants evolve faster.Moreover, animals with low IQ, or plants without consciousness at all, are less likely to be attacked by darkness.There are very few animals and plants that turn into that kind of walking dead, unconscious puppets.

Li Yan estimated that this black cat was probably not wild, but domesticated.

After the catastrophe happened, although it lost its owner, it still maintained basic friendliness towards humans.

I'm afraid that's why it doesn't treat these people as food, but as workers.

If it was a beast in the wild, it would be impossible to use these people as workers. I am afraid that there would be no bones left for them to eat.

Not long after, Li Yan approached the construction site.

"Hey, kid, where are you from!"

"Let's go while Cat King is taking a nap, and when Cat King wakes up, you won't be able to leave!" A worker whispered to Li Yan while planting chrysanthemums.

His voice was very low, as if he was afraid that the cat king he was talking about would hear.

"I'm not afraid of it!" Li Yan stretched out his palm, and a fist-sized iron ball was suspended in his palm, constantly changing into the shape of weapons such as swords, spears, and halberds.

"Extraordinary?"

"Government, the government has come to rescue us?" the middle-aged worker said with full expectation.

In fact, the black cat did not abuse these workers, and even found food for them from various places and sheltered them.And what these workers pay is just labor.

But, after all, as a human being, being enslaved by a cat would never make you feel comfortable.

Therefore, these workers are actually looking forward to the government to rescue them all the time.Seeing Li Yan, an extraordinary person, he immediately regarded him as a savior sent by the government.

Li Yan nodded, and replied, "That's right! Tell me about the basic situation of this black cat first!"

Although Li Yan said that he was not a good person, since he saw so many people, it was impossible not to save them.

Moreover, if I want to save Jing Xiaoming's friend, I have to defeat the black cat. Since I want to defeat the black cat, there is not much difference between saving one person and saving everyone.

At this time, the middle-aged worker began to slowly describe what happened after he came here.

"I should be the first group of people captured by the cat king!"

"I've been here for almost half a year. Later, there are more and more people!"

"The Cat King doesn't eat people, and he doesn't kill people, he just makes people work for him!"

"With this place as the center, a radius of more than ten miles is the territory of Cat King. There is no danger within this range."

"Three or four miles to the east, where there is a river, where did the yellow sand and chrysanthemums come from!"

"That's about all I know!"

Li Yan didn't find anything useful from these few words. After thinking for a while, Li Yan asked: "There are so many of you, have you ever thought of running away?"

"run?"

"Indeed, some people have tried it. It's true that Cat King doesn't kill people, and he doesn't eat people either!"

"However, after leaving the cat king's territory, there are black creatures that kill and eat people everywhere. Those who want to escape, without exception, are all dead!"

"Staying here, although you have no freedom and need to work, you can always save your life!" The middle-aged worker pondered.

Thinking about it, they are all ordinary people with no power to restrain a chicken, not a powerful transcendent like Li Yan.

The power to restrain a chicken here means literally. Nowadays, even a chicken may be much stronger than a person.

They are not superhumans, and without thermal weapons for self-protection, they do not have the ability to travel through the wilderness.

Going out rashly is to deliver food to the blackened creatures outside.

"Where is that black cat?" Li Yan asked the middle-aged worker.

The middle-aged worker pointed to the top of the mountain and said, "In the cave on the top of the mountain, by the way, there should be another person in the cave!"

Li Yan nodded, he had already glanced roughly among the workers, and there was no friend of Jing Xiaoming among them.

In this way, the person in the cave should be Jing Xiaoming's friend.

"You find a place to hide, and I will take you away after I finish that black cat!" Li Yan ordered.

(End of this chapter)