Jiang Lan had a head full of black lines.
How arrogant the island nation's stowaways were back then, today they are just as loyal.
A thought flashed through Jiang Lan's mind, could it be that these people were subdued by Jiang Kai?
What was even more speechless was, perhaps due to a technical problem in the island nation's underground technology, the footage that was supposed to be provided only to the military was suddenly posted to the island nation's Ghost Star Forum.
And some unknown yet sharp-eyed Huaxia programmer quickly posted this video to the domestic forum.
People looked at the content in the video in horror, momentarily unsure if this was a prank or real footage.
"This, what are these people doing? Eight-carrier sedan chair, respectfully welcoming the cult leader?"
"I saw the video on the island nation's forum too. Who is this guy? That's too much face."
"When did stowaways become household servants?"
"Didn't that little island nation say this is Jiang Kai's older brother! Damn, Jiang Kai's big bro came to Ghost Star!"
"I'm from Area 18's Ghost City, is Big Bro coming here?"
Jiang Lan had a head full of black lines. Before logging in he had grand ambitions, and now they were completely derailed by this group of people.
An entire escort team for a newcomer's trial. from ancient times to now, looking across the whole world, no one's ever had such treatment.
"Ahem ahem… this little bastard…"
Nakajima Muramasa quickly said, "Sir, are you talking about me?"
Jiang Lan sighed. He was cursing Jiang Kai, why is this guy butting in?
Sighing again, Jiang Lan raised his head, his expression serious, "Mr. Nakajima Muramasa, here's the thing. I now request you all to immediately return to your territory. I don't need your escort."
"This… but there is a special clause in the agreement between the two nations, we must ensure your safety. If Mr. Jiang Kai finds out we broke our word, he might… might find a chance to take revenge on us."
"How absurd." Jiang Lan shook his head. "On this matter, I assure you, even if I fail the trial, Jiang Kai won't cause you trouble."
"Don't you guys have recording devices? You can record what I say now and use it as proof in the future."
Nakajima Muramasa hesitated for a moment, not knowing whether to agree.
Jiang Lan grew anxious, "My safe time is almost up. Now I demand you all to immediately leave the trial zone!"
Nakajima Muramasa hesitated briefly, but seeing Jiang Lan's insistence, he finally nodded and bowed, "Since this is Mr. Jiang Lan's request, and you also guarantee that Mr. Jiang Kai won't retaliate against us, we will leave now."
The bodyguard team carried the sedan chair and left.
Only then did Jiang Lan let out a breath of relief.
Jiang Kai said that destiny materials required triggering one's own potential to succeed, being protected the whole way, how would he stimulate any potential?
Taking a deep breath, Jiang Lan looked at his wristwatch.
Just now, this group interrupted him so much he hadn't even looked at his starting attributes.
"Strength 1 (damaged), Constitution 1 (damaged), Agility 1 (damaged), Mental Strength 3… aside from mental strength, the rest are all trash."
"Old Zhu said starting attributes would influence future class distribution to a certain degree."
In Pillar's starting attributes, strength and constitution were both 'rare' grade, and his subsequent growth leaned heavily on strength and constitution, his development path also leaned toward strength/constitution type martial warrior.
However, Jiang Lan's attributes had one feature: strength, constitution, and agility were all in "damaged" state, meaning the values didn't accurately reflect his original stats.
"Forget it, starting attributes can't be changed, next is job change." Jiang Lan immediately drank the destiny job-change material.
A few minutes later, Jiang Lan had not successfully changed jobs.
But he was not discouraged either.
According to Old Zhu, he had completed his job change in battle, so failing to change jobs now didn't mean complete failure.
At this time, the safe period had already ended. Jiang Lan stood up and looked around the dense forest.
"Old Zhu's experience can only help me this far, from now on, I have to rely on myself." After speaking, Jiang Lan stood up and walked into the forest.
...
Two days later, Jiang Kai and Chang Siyao returned to the unknown map.
Because they took a shortcut, Jiang Kai didn't have time to return to the Ghost God Guild, and didn't know whether Old Hu and Ruan Yu had returned.
Chang Siyao opened her wristwatch, which displayed a route.
The route extended to the location 37 kilometers ahead.
"This is the previous movement trajectory. I basically understand the situation on this road, it's relatively safe," Chang Siyao said.
"I'll share the map with you. It's better we don't walk together."
Jiang Kai thought for a bit and said, "Are there any beasts of commander level or higher on this route?"
"Nope. If there were, how could I have made it through?"
"Then no need to split. Let's hurry to the gathering point 40 kilometers away. Travel by day, pick up some treasures along the way, and hide at night to avoid patrol monsters."
Chang Siyao immediately said, "There's no commander-level, but there are commanders!"
"Where?"
"Plenty! Just seven kilometers ahead is a commander-level undead summoner, if we run too slow after encountering it, we'll be drowned by undead corpses!"
Jiang Kai frowned, "What's the strength of the undead corpses? Any experience?"
"Yes, but very little. Around 100 points each. Their strength is relatively weak, their weakness is fire, but there's a massive number of them. The commander-level undead summoner can summon tens of thousands of undead corpses. These corpses carry rotting corpse poison and drain stamina on attack, they can wear you down to death!" Chang Siyao's face was serious. "I can foresee undead summoners becoming the nightmare of many player teams in the future!"
"Are the corpses melee or ranged?"
"Mostly melee, but there are some ranged."
"Also, around the commander are also general-rank undead summoners and elite undead summoners. Stay there even for a bit and you'll be buried under a mountain of corpses!"
Jiang Kai's three Fraud Avatars had all recovered, as long as he didn't use up too much, he wasn't too worried.
"100 experience per one, could this be the so-called… experience monster?" Jiang Kai thought, then immediately said, "Let's go, let's take that commander down!"
"You sure?"
"Sure. Just follow me!"
The Gold-Swallowing Insect Beast's nest seemed to be under reconstruction. Although the queen wouldn't respawn, the nest was too terrifying. Without ghost-form state, Jiang Kai had no interest in going down again.
The two leapt from tree to tree, bypassing the nest area.
Coming to this zone, Jiang Kai was stunned by the scene before him.
Compared to the dense forest behind, this was a completely different world.
In a barren mountainous region, sparsely grew some massive, almost leafless, unknown trees, many corpses of creatures were hanging from them.
Many of them were human corpses! Shriveled, blackened, hanging on the trees, under the setting sun, they looked especially striking.
"Siyao, these corpses…"
"Are wandering monsters who died here in the past. Undead summoners can preserve their corpses, so sometimes weird scenes appear, people see themselves hanging there."
Fortunately, Jiang Kai had watched his own avatars die horribly many times, so he had some immunity to this kind of situation.
"Summoners' favored attributes are mental strength and stamina, strength and agility are not high. But when encountering elites, generals, and commanders, you might get affected by 'soul torment' status, be careful." Chang Siyao reminded.
Just then, the ground beneath their feet loosened, and suddenly, a pitch-black giant hand burst out from underground and fiercely stretched out.
Jiang Kai dodged quickly. "Is this a regular one?"
"Mm."
"Ignore it. Go straight for the commander!" Jiang Kai said and quickly fled, with Chang Siyao closely behind.
Along the way, giant arms constantly stretched out from the ground on both sides, but Jiang Kai ignored them all, heading straight for the marked location on the map.
Soon, they arrived at the commander-level tomb marked by Chang Siyao!
Around them were large tracts of barren graves and wild mounds. On the massive trees hung corpses, each blackened and stinking, gently swaying in the wind.
The wind howled like the cries of wild ghosts.
Chang Siyao couldn't help but move closer to Jiang Kai. "Th-this place… I hate this place the most."
Jiang Kai smiled slightly, "Just stay close to me. And remember, don't kill the commander."
"Huh? Don't kill the commander?!" Chang Siyao's eyes widened. "Didn't I just say, if we don't immediately kill the commander, we'll be flooded by undead!"
Jiang Kai frowned. "Flooded?" Then he smirked, "Who would reject being flooded by experience?"
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