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 for the stone.

The babies divided the labor and cooperated. Xiaoling and Ge Ge were responsible for killing monsters, rummaging through boxes and cabinets to find loot. Ye Xu opened the iron pipe after digging the soul stone, and waited for the golden mouse to go in to collect the soul sand, while Zhen Zhen and Shadow stayed behind. Help with sand loading. In this way, Ye Xu could save a lot of time, and while Zhen Zhen was loading the sand, she ran to the next room to continue digging stones.

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

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

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

Unexpectedly, the jade plate pointer pointed to the very center of the village, where there was a small open space without any buildings. Because the vacant lot is not very big, there are similar vacancies between other houses, if not for the special location, no one will notice it.

Before using the jade plate, Ye Xu had some doubts that there might be something buried in the central open space.

It is impossible 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 left, which can be a bit special due to the uniqueness of its geographical location. 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 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 are no other tools available at the moment, he can't help but dislike it, so he can only dig down slowly.

Ye Xu dug down for five 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, he poked out a whole layer of ground.

This time, what he dug up was not a simple soul stone, but a stone box, which seemed to be similar in 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, and Ye Xu is a little afraid to open it.

Thinking that opening the box is usually a sweet job, Ye Xu was a little anxious. But this kind of box is not very good for Tiantian to open, and it is not made of metal, Tiantianzi probably won't be happy, so he has to give up the idea.

The jade plate pointed firmly 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 put in this box. Usually, the boss treasure chest they open doesn't look very big, so it can still hold a lot of equipment.

After thinking about it, Ye Xu still decided to let other people come, and he hid behind himself, surrounded by Tangtang. The box was placed on the ground, only to ask Zhen Zhen to open it by herself, it would be best if she could absorb the remnant soul immediately.

Three seconds later, Zhen Zhen opened the box by herself, the image of the demon jumping out in Ye Xu's imagination did not appear, but a phantom rushed towards the nearest Zhen Zhen 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 let them out. Ye Xu hesitated for a moment and took out one, but the energy stored in the stone was instantly pulled away and flew directly into Zhen Zhen's body.

Ye Xu was stunned, is the energy in these stones reserved for Zhen Zhen? Back then, Zhen Zhen's remnant spirit coaxed the villagers into creating immortality formations at home, just to absorb this energy in the future? Or did someone else do this game for Zhen Zhen?

wrong. Ye Xu quickly reacted, there was a problem with time.

Zhen Zhen's accident was only 500 years ago at most, after all, Rasman, 500 years ago, 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, considering the lifespan of the undead, it is impossible for these guys to live to be immortal five hundred years ago. 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 the things 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 of the soul that has no physical body, it is not difficult to invade the underground box, and there is no need to dig the soil again, this speculation is more realistic.

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

This routine is similar to that of the ghost king, all of which are arranged in advance for the nourishment after his comeback. It's just that the ghost king first caught Zhen Zhen and then used Zhen Zhen as nourishment, maybe Zhen Zhen came over halfway from the village, swallowed the guy who was sleeping in the box, and then robbed the soul energy prepared by others.

Considering the xenophobic nature of the village, Ye Xu believed that the people who encouraged everyone to do this at the beginning were people from the village, and their status was not low, so it was more convincing. In the past recorded on the stone tablet at the entrance of the village, there was actually only one special person in the entire village.

The special identity in the living village may be the patriarch or the village chief, but the undead have no memory of when they were alive, and naturally they can't tell who is the village chief and who is the ordinary villager. The difference between their identities can only be determined by their strength. . But there is no special record in the stone tablet who is the most powerful, and the major event above is that the village chief became an independent secret realm.

As I said before, the one who can build an independent secret realm must be a space mage. At the chaotic moment when the continental plate was displaced, it was not possible for ordinary people to seal a village alone in a special secret realm. Therefore, Ye Xu suspected that this space mage was powerful and was the leader of the village.

Since the plot didn't tell him any other special villagers, he 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 actions, and it is not easy to be discovered by outsiders. It is difficult to say whether the other party has already calculated what happened when the village was separated into the secret realm.

Thinking of this, Ye Xu suddenly discovered something, he didn't seem to find the residence of the Space Mage here. All the loot obtained from the villagers' homes do not have any items related to space mages, but each villager's home has more or less special items related to their occupation during their lifetime.

Therefore, among the ghosts that Ye Xu had dealt with before, there was no existence of that space mage. If its soul recuperates in a box, that would make sense.

However, 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 is very troublesome to leave the secret realm. After all, the plates outside have been changing their positions, and the entrance may have changed places after going out. It is not reasonable for him to leave the house outside the entrance.

Ye Xu felt that a reasonable explanation might be that the Space Mage was not an aborigines in the village, but a friend they met outside, who also borrowed from other undead homes after coming here. Then it can be cruel and ruthless to all the villagers, and it makes sense. Even if the undead are not good people, they will not be so mad.

It seems that this is a complete scam, and there is no peace of mind when approaching it from the beginning.

As for the box being buried in the soil, how to get in after his own death, you can find out by referring to Zhen Zhen. Obviously, he buried the box in advance, and it was set up to admit other souls, so after his own soul left the body, he could burrow directly into it without digging up the soil.

Burying underground is probably 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. The setting of this box is also similar to the ban at the gate of the ghost king. After the strength increases to 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 the villagers was completely extracted. If you come out ahead of time, you can't "make the best use of everything".

Looking at Zhen Zhen who was still merging in front of her, Ye Xu hesitated to use those Soul Stones for her. Now he has roughly figured out the situation, it stands to reason that the energy in the stone is useless for him to keep, and it is impossible to return it to the original owner. Zhen is a little strange.

The other party just squatted on the spot in a daze, the expression on his face looked unusually indifferent, and the name that was originally hidden above his head also automatically jumped out, 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 Zhen Zhen is changing to a red monster?

If she really became an enemy, Ye Xu would give her energy to improve her strength, wouldn't that be courting death? At the very least, Zhen Zhen had to wait until he was sure 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 and planned to wait and see what happened. She silently prayed in her heart that Zhen Zhen would not be turned against by the enemy.

The previous fusion did not become a red name. This time, this situation must be because of the space mage's soul. As expected, Zhen Zhen couldn't be allowed to swallow dirty things, fortunately, when he was with the ghost king last time, he didn't call the No. 1 remnant to swallow the ghost king, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable.

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