The crowd's breathing became rapid upon hearing Su Yuniang's words.
A group of children and little girls looked at Dizzy with eager eyes, making the ghosts of this world feel very undignified.
For example, right now, this wolf-like gaze made "Dizzy" shrink back.
Too terrifying!
This game, is it Yin Ghost Manor?
"Dizzy" stepped back in fear, thinking in his heart, "Could it be that all the blacksmiths of the manor turned into ghosts last night, leaving only me, a sane living person?"
He wondered if he had traveled to a parallel world, the game he played overnight felt completely different from yesterday's Sword Casting Manor!
Turns out urban legends are true, never stay up late at night, or you might end up in some parallel world.
At this moment.
Everyone was indeed very excited.
This was clearly a newly discovered mechanism.
Of course, everything was waiting for the real Dizzy to be resurrected before comparing the real and fake head-on to understand what's going on.
Soon, ten Magic Coins were spent to resurrect Dizzy.
Moments later.
Dizzy appeared at the manor's gate.
He looked at another himself, feeling a bit numb!
As the real Dizzy, just like his [Embers] counterpart, he was very timid, and now felt completely overwhelmed.
Yet the "Dizzy" in front of him had no reaction, only treated the true Dizzy appearing at the gate as a look-alike, just an ordinary blacksmith.
"He doesn't recognize me?" Dizzy was a little surprised, his tension easing a bit.
"This is a cognitive deficit in Embers."
Then, Su Yuniang asked everyone to calm down, saying:
"Embers are soulless, only a broken soul-shell with behavior patterns, believing they are still alive. When something exceeds their understanding, they will ignore it."
For instance, if you say they are dead, they will ignore it.
For instance, if another of themselves appears, they instinctively ignore the dissonance.
After a bit of research, everyone eagerly continued to test various attributes.
After all, it was the first time for the manor; everyone was quite enthusiastic.
This is what a game update's new gameplay should be like!
As for Jiucai Rong writing "fixed minor bugs" in the update log?
Not worth mentioning.
After quite a while, the true Dizzy wasn't scared anymore.
He was delighted, looking at another himself, about to achieve the accomplishment: the first blacksmith with a pet!
Out of nowhere, he had become the first rich, handsome guy in the manor.
Happily pulling the "Dizzy," treating him like a brother, they chatted and quickly became familiar.
After all, no one understands oneself better than oneself.
Some twisted blacksmiths were already shoveling earth, sneakily watching them while clearing crow corpses, already beginning to ship them as a couple.
She had to remind Dizzy, sternly advising:
"Embers, the flesh shell isn't the main body but a spiritual void. They instinctively absorb flesh to replenish the shell, and if provoked, they'll kill. Be careful."
"So terrifying?" A couple of Puffy Eyes thought they had gained a new member.
Su Yuniang nodded, the information in her hand making her very knowledgeable about these Immortal Cultivation Realm common senses, she said: "Yes, most have the same combat strength as they did in life, but special individuals accumulate Yin Qi and gradually grow into a Great Calamity."
"Then it's fine."
Dizzy's combat power, anyone could take him down.
Provoking him to the point of killing, just beating him up would solve it.
No doubt.
"Dizzy" was one of the weakest ghosts in this world.
Soon, after researching for over ten minutes, everyone's enthusiasm had waned, returning to rebuild the manor and attending to their matters.
After fighting a war, they were very busy today.
Each team roughly cleaned the grounds before starting to reclaim their spoils, busy dismantling crow corpses; crow feathers, beaks, bones, all excellent materials.
Even the meat was prepared to be wind-dried and smoked for storage, as it would spoil.
Now, this was a test of the manor's head chef—Food God, and his skills.
Although he grew up on takeout, not a five-star chef at all, to back up his bragging, he had stayed up late learning techniques for such cured meat to teach everyone how to handle crows.
With the help of an oven, the cured meat turned out reasonably well.
Had they not vomited after eating meat, this bountiful harvest would have already led to a crow roast party.
The entire manor suddenly turned into a slaughterhouse, everyone soaked in the joy of harvest.
...
...
On the other side.
Jiucai Rong and others went to the overseer's room to discuss important matters for future development routine.
After all, after the "Crow Disaster" expansion ended, teaching the arrogant malicious crows a lesson, they dared not air-drop overhead for a while, returning this land a clear sky!
Next should be a period of stable growth, quietly forging iron and cultivating.
Focusing on two matters.
1. Cultivation, open the Three Flowers on the Top, transition to Enchanter.
2. Death, probability of birthing Embers.
In truth, these two matters could be summed up as one: cultivation, open Three Flowers on the Top, high probability of failing dying, low probability of birthing Embers.
In short, starting to cultivate Enchanters!
Jiucai Rong, vigilant amid prosperity, said: "The next main storyline should be selling goods."
"Makes sense, following classical procedures, we've battled, collected materials, started forging weapons, now it's time to sell a batch of weapons."
Su Yuniang said: "After all, the previous manors were selling Magical Artifact embryos, now we're starting to sell Magical Artifacts, the manor's transformation marking the first transaction."
"Our manor seems to be in the mountains outside Pingchang City."
Jiucai Rong analyzed, saying: "Subsequently, there's a possibility people from the city will come to purchase. It's said our manor has a Teleportation Array connecting to the city, so it's not just about having flagship products; someone needs to negotiate, haggle, we need someone good at negotiating."
"Will the old steward come help host the first transaction?" Su Yuniang asked.
"Probably." Jiucai Rong said: "In any case, first develop the manor, blacksmith shop, Enchanter, start building... the outside NPC acquisition, that's still a ways off."
But before that, they decided to commence the next test.
Once again probing the manor's map boundaries.
The test subject, of course, was "Dizzy."
They told "Dizzy" of a hidden mission: to collect materials outside the manor.
As a result, "Dizzy" eagerly asked Jiucai Rong how many Magic Coins he'd receive.
This money-grubbing demeanor was uncannily similar to his true self.
"Three Magic Coins, go down there, find some good stuff in the mountains, like fruits, ores, even things we've never seen, to enrich the item compendium, then come back. You'll make easy money." Jiucai Rong issued the task.
"Dizzy" soon shouldered a basket, headed down the mountain, traversed beyond the manor, disappearing into the forest, making the group watching it wildly excited:
"Holy crap, he really left, down the mountain!"
"Travel Frog's first battle, go for it, bring back postcards and materials!"
Halfway through, "Dizzy" completely weary, couldn't comprehend: Why is everyone acting like players, yet treating me as their pet?