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[You have completed the limited time mission - Destroy the Altar of Desolation]

[Reward characteristic item: Desolate collar stone tablet]

[Desolate Territory Stone Stele: With a hint of "desolate" in mind, if this stone monument is engraved in the territory, it will produce unexpected changes. 】

At this moment, the simple, quiet stone tablet with its surface engraved with traces of vicissitudes of time stood in front of Chen Ye.

A streak of glazed brilliance ran along the inside of the stone tablet, like a bridge made of stars, connecting Chen Ye's luck halo and the glazed outline of a shop structure in the distance.

"If you want to integrate this stone monument, you need to return to the Honesty Restaurant first and integrate it with the [Parasite Land Deed]..."

Chen Ye deduced the meaning of the luck symbol and made a judgment.

To be on the safe side, he first included the stone tablet in the mountains and rivers scroll.

Follow the original route, step on the bumpy road, hold on to the rugged stone walls next to it, and turn back in the direction you came.

At this moment, a ray of light suddenly lit up deep in the cave.

As the footsteps get closer...

Chen Ye realized that someone was approaching this place, and quickly retreated into the darkness, melting into the night.

He hid in a groove behind a stone wall. The space here was small, it was located at a high place, and it was very hidden.

Even if the visitor is carrying a light stone, the light source will not shine on Chen Ye's position and will not destroy the stealth state.

The footsteps sounded very cautious.

With Chen Ye's keen hearing, he could immediately tell that the footsteps were most likely coming from players.

I saw a few members of the mob passing by with muskets tied around their waists.

As they walked, they started talking, their tone slightly panicked.

"Brothers, please work harder and guard this place."

"The big shot has spoken. As long as you find anything unusual around here, or if a suspicious person appears, you can even get special items to advance to the third job."

"If you want to be successful, then watch me more closely!"

When the thugs who followed behind heard this, they immediately became excited as if they had been given a shot of blood.

As players, they certainly know what the promotion items for the third-level profession mean.

Chen Ye secretly clicked his tongue when he heard this.

After working hard, I finally got the third-level item of [The Ferryman].

As a result, as long as these thug members can find any abnormalities, will they have a chance to obtain rewards of this level?

Isn’t it too rich and too generous?

But if you think about it carefully, since the person behind it offers such a huge reward just to discover abnormal situations or the appearance of any suspicious characters...

Is it because he destroyed the Altar of Desolation and triggered the attention of some kind of existence...

Is the person behind it also aware of this matter?

If you think about it carefully, the existence deep in the factory may also be cooperating with the existence behind the underground world.

If you think so...

So, does the mob's sudden heightened vigilance have anything to do with completing the time-limited mission?

"It seems that I have to be more cautious in my next actions."

Realizing that the target of these thugs was probably him, Chen Ye was more vigilant.

However, he did not return to the entrance of the underground world immediately, but went to the underground market first.

Under the leadership of the will-o'-the-wisp...

Chen Ye returned to his shop.

Stepping onto the higher stone steps, you can see at a glance the bar counter of the shop, which is crowded with heads of all kinds.

Beibushi, whose hair is covered with kitchen knives, is standing in front of the restaurant bar, handling dishes and welcoming the huge flow of diners on this day.

Seeing Chen Ye's arrival, Bebsi immediately stepped forward with a smile on his face.

"Boss, you are here!"

"Um."

Chen Ye nodded and looked around at the customer flow of the store with a slightly satisfied look.

"What's the revenue today?"

"Ten thousand copper coins." Beebsi responded respectfully.

"Not bad...it seems that the reputation is getting bigger and bigger...the income is higher than last time..."

Chen Ye is quite satisfied with Beibsi's revenue.

However, when I thought about it, it seemed that Beibuxi's shop had merged with Chen Ye, and all the profits belonged to him.

Logically speaking, shouldn't it be doubled?

Chen Ye thought of this and immediately asked one more question.

Bebsi smiled bitterly and said: "The business has been too big recently, and local snakes have repeatedly come to make trouble, causing the store's business to drop a bit..."

He added:

"That guy is in the underground market, owns three properties, and he seems to have some connections in the underground world..."

"On the surface, most residents of the underground world do not dare to provoke this existence, but there are still many people who are unhappy with him secretly."

"If not, the store's business will probably be even worse."

Chen Ye's brows wrinkled slightly.

He said with a slightly dissatisfied tone:

"Who is the local snake? Where does it live?"

Beibuxi immediately realized what Chen Ye wanted to do and said quickly:

"The local snake is the owner of shops No. 143, 144, and 145. He usually does not go to the underground market in person. It is said that he has a residence at No. 3 Magic Vine Road in Dark Thorn Garden and often stays there."

Chen Ye glanced at Biebusi coldly and said:

"If this guy comes to cause trouble again, no need to be polite, you should understand what I mean."

"Yes, boss!" Bebsi nodded immediately.

In fact, he was waiting for Chen Ye to say these words.

I can't afford to offend that "local snake", so why can't I afford to offend this terrible boss?

As long as there is a word, if this guy comes to cause trouble in the future, you will no longer need to be afraid of him.

Chen Ye thought for a while and directly set up a few rules in this branch.

Specifically for harassment of other shop owners.

After doing all this, Chen Ye left the underground market.

However, he did not immediately go to the Dark Thorn Garden, nor leave from the entrance. Instead, he passed through the lightless sea of ​​dead bodies, directly from Xijiang Pier, and circled back to his Honesty Shop.

After all...there are now large-scale mob members holding hands at the entrance, making it difficult to get in and get out.

But he controls such a channel.

Enough to get around the mob.

Moreover, at the sailing speed of the 'oscillating ship', it would not be much further than the land.

You can also avoid many dangers.

Naturally, it became Chen Ye's preferred route.

Back to Honest Restaurant.

At this moment, Chen Ye unexpectedly discovered that there was a row of people in the restaurant who were tied up and laid down on the ground.

"You guys, tell me honestly who sent you here!"

"otherwise……"

"When our boss comes back, what will greet you... will be a fate more terrible than death... Humph!"

Shen Meng was wearing a cat lady costume, holding a leather whip and gearing up.

etc……

Why does this picture look a little wrong...

It seems like we are going to play some kind of indescribable game?

Chen Ye looked around the shop with the Eye of Luck and found a dim gray light hanging over the shop, which seemed to indicate a bad situation.

He immediately frowned, stepped into the shop, and asked in a deep voice:

"what happened?"

Shen Meng turned around and saw that Chen Ye was back. He immediately calmed his expression and looked a little embarrassed.

"Boss, you are back..."

At this moment, Wang Jing walked out from the screen behind him, holding two long kitchen knives in his hands.

This kitchen knife doesn't look like a meat cutter, but more like the side knife of a guillotine.

It looked like he was about to kill someone.

Upon discovering Chen Ye's return, Wang Jing immediately stepped forward and said in a deep voice:

"Boss, these diners were sent by the store next door to explore the dishes in our store."

"Fortunately, I kept an eye out and questioned him in time."

"These guys didn't understand the store's rules and lied, which triggered the store's rules."

"We left one alive and planned to interrogate which stores and players were sent here."

"However, these guys seem to have signed some kind of contract, and they refuse to say anything. They even threatened that the boss behind them would give us ten thousand leopard guts and not dare to touch a single hair on their head. "

After this explanation, Chen Ye roughly understood what happened at the "Integrity Restaurant".

It turned out that the owners of several restaurants next door discovered that the business source of "Integrity Restaurant" was so good...

Suspicion suddenly arose.

In order to explore business secrets, the simplest and most direct way is to send subordinates to pretend to be normal diners and break in to see what secrets this store has.

As a result, Wang Jing's intuition was unexpectedly accurate, and he immediately discovered the commercial espionage.

This group of players are also stupid. When they first entered the store, they did not read the rules of the store carefully. Instead, they focused on the menu first and only thought about completing the boss's task.

In fact, most of the aborigines who have the advantage of seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages will immediately focus on the rules notice board when they first arrive at the store.

In order to avoid any extraordinary actions...

bring disadvantages to oneself.

Therefore, the reckless actions of these players revealed a different side to them from the regular aboriginal guests.

On the surface, Wang Jing seems to be a big-hearted person, but when it comes to catering, he is very delicate and meticulous.

The abnormality of these player "guests" was immediately discovered.

Before they had read the rules on the store notice board carefully, he took the lead in questioning them.

In order to subconsciously quibble due to a guilty conscience, these players violated the first rule of integrity.

The rules were triggered instantly, causing thousands of tentacles to hang down.

However, since Wang Jing obtained the management rights of the restaurant's deputy store manager, he did not let these tentacles devour them directly for the time being. Instead, he tied them up first and dealt with them after interrogating their origins.

Of course...because Wang Jing tied up all these guests, there was a loss of customer traffic today.

"You did a good job."

Chen Ye nodded and did not express any objection to what Wang Jing did.

If it is a normal catering, then of course the customer comes first.

But in the strange era, survival and safety are the top priorities.

If there is a possible hidden player opponent, the hidden danger must be dispatched first.

Even if it were Chen Ye who did it himself, he would do the same.

now.

Chen Ye stepped forward and looked down at the "commercial spy" who was tied into a twisted ball.

These guests were tied up tightly and had a smelly sock stuffed into their mouths, making them speechless.

However, their expressions looked extremely arrogant, as if they had no intention of compromising at all.

Chen Ye took the dirty socks off the spies' mouths and asked coldly:

"If you don't want to bear a fate worse than death, you'd better be honest about what I ask you next."

However, this group of spies seemed to turn a blind eye to Chen Ye's threats, and even appeared extremely arrogant.

The young man wearing a purple scarf, with a rebellious look on his face, stared at Chen Ye and smiled coldly:

"Do you know who our boss is?"

"If you dare to touch a hair of ours, you won't be able to make a single cent of your store's business tomorrow!"

"Oh, don't expect to get any information from us, but the only thing I can tell you is that there is more than one boss who wants to target your store."

"If you want to survive on this street, you'd better be honest and calm and know who the opponent you are provoking is!"

Looking at the confident face of the stunned young man, Chen Ye smiled and said nothing more.

"Boss, are you using any means of torture to extract a confession?" Wang Jing looked at this guy's arrogant expression and was so angry that he couldn't help but take action.

"No need." Chen Ye waved his hand and said, "I will do one thing first. You guys should retreat outside the store first."

As soon as these words came out, both Wang Jing and Shen Meng were stunned.

They don't quite know what Chen Ye wants to do...

However, Mizi stood up first and walked out of the restaurant without hesitation.

At this time, the two people seemed to realize something and retreated outside.

"what happened……"

The group of "spies" felt a little guilty when they saw this kind of force.

They subconsciously realized that the pressure brought by the young man in front of them was completely different from that of the other two employees in the store.

This subconscious uneasiness increases the amplification of the source of their inner fear.

at this time……

Chen Ye took out the [Huangling Stone Tablet].

He placed the stone tablet in the center of the shop.

Woohoo!

A gust of cold wind suddenly blew around.

The entire shop suddenly seemed to dim, and even the weak warm yellow light was dyed like a will-o'-the-wisp, flickering on and off.

"what's the situation?"

The expressions of the "spies" suddenly became panicked, and an unprecedented sense of uneasiness enveloped their hearts.

"I don't believe that with the status of the boss behind us, he dares to touch a hair of our hair!"

The stunned young man gritted his teeth and shouted bravely.

The next second...

The wails of countless wronged souls suddenly echoed throughout the store, like the cries of ghosts.

Thousands of cries, layered together, brought an unprecedented sense of mental oppression.

Chen Ye closed his eyes, as if he didn't care about the spies at all. There was only that line of bright red text in front of him——

[Parasite Land Deed] + [Forbidden Tentacle] + [Parasite Heart] + [Desolate Leader Stone Tablet] =

【Parasite Lord】