Chapter 428: Inside the Monster Star Tower

Chapter 428: Inside the Monster Star Tower

Chapter 428: Inside the Monster Star Tower
Xiao Jie glanced around. Although those evil laborers were in groups of three or five and seemed scattered, they were all moving in one direction.

"Hurry up and work, you lazy bastards." Several demon supervisors waved thorn whips and drove the demon laborers to carry mud balls towards the direction of the Demon Star Tower.

Most of these evil laborers seem to have little intelligence and slow reactions, but they are very strong and only know where to go after being whipped.

I feel that its IQ is not much different from the cows and sheep in the village. Although it looks scary, it is inexplicably docile.

When Xiao Jie saw this, he opened his backpack and equipped himself with the shepherd's whip that he had used in the novice village. He then followed their example and blended in, starting to whip the evil laborers nearby.

Thunderous whip! Snap, with a crisp sound. Several evil laborers immediately increased their speed.

Snap-pop-pop!

Xiao Jie was surprisingly good at this job. To put it bluntly, these evil laborers had the temperaments of animals.
Xiao Jie was very agile and he chased a few here and a few there. Soon he had gathered a team of dozens of them. Under Xiao Jie's drive, they moved in an orderly manner towards the Demon Star Tower.

The closer they got to the giant tower, the more laborers there were around, hundreds and thousands of them, like streams flowing into rivers, gathering into an extremely large team. At the end of the team was the huge tunnel under the Demon Star Tower.

What are they building? Seeing that every demon laborer was carrying such a mud ball, Xiao Jie became more and more certain. There was wasteland all around the Demon Star Tower, and not even a complete stone could be found. It seemed that the mud ball was a man-made building material.

So many mud balls are needed to build it. Could this be the conspiracy of the Demon Star Tower? In this case, I just need to follow the team into the construction site and complete the reconnaissance mission directly.

However, the idea is beautiful, but the reality is cruel. Before reaching the entrance of the tunnel, Xiao Jie noticed that there were many monsters with dog heads and human bodies guarding the entrance of the tunnel, and some of them were monsters with dog heads and dog bodies as pets.

These dog-headed men barked at the evil supervisor who was coming over.

"You--keep going inside, and the rest of you go back to work."

The status of these dog-headed men was obviously higher than that of the demon supervisors. Most of the demon supervisors were driven back, and only a few were allowed to continue driving the laborers into the tunnels.

Xiao Jie felt uneasy. It would be bad if he was stopped.

But since he's a kobold, maybe that trick will work...

Thinking of this, Xiao Jie opened his backpack - to feed the beast!
A secret dog food was thrown over.

"Hey, what smells so good?"

"It's meat, meat!"

"Give me a taste."

Several gnolls instantly gathered together to fight for the place. Xiao Jie took the opportunity to speed up, and with two snaps, he drove the evil laborers inside.

Soon they entered the interior of the Demon Star Tower.

In front of me is a huge corridor. On both sides I can see many winding passages. Looking up, the passages are interconnected like a maze. Walking in these passages is like walking inside a huge ant nest.

Soon Xiao Jie encountered the second hurdle.

At the end of the corridor, there was a large open space. The evil laborers dragged mud balls here and threw them on the ground. Countless mud balls piled up together, almost forming a small hill.

Many monsters that look like ants are performing secondary processing on these mud balls.

These evil laborers that Xiao Jie drove in were obviously just transportation units. The ones who actually used these mud balls were the ant-people inside the Demon Star Tower.

An ant man saw Xiao Jie standing still, and immediately made a strange squeaking sound at Xiao Jie, and a bunch of tentacles almost hit Xiao Jie's face.

Xiao Jie activated his animal language and finally understood.

"Get out, get out...keep working, keep working...more lumps of mud, more lumps of mud."

The evil supervisor is obviously not a senior member and can only go this far at most. He can even order these ant-men who are obviously just craftsmen around.

It seems that it is impossible to reach the destination by relying on this amateur.

Fortunately, the cooling time of this Phantom Pearl is only ten minutes, and now it can transform again.

Xiao Jie pretended to walk back. When he came near a passage, Xiao Jie saw that no one was paying attention around him, so he used the invisibility talisman again and went straight into the passage.

Xiao Jie was not sure which direction he should go, but looking at the direction the ants were carrying the mud balls, it was obvious that they were going upwards.

I might as well move towards the upper level.

Several different kinds of monsters were seen along the way. Since the Phantom Pearl could only transform into humanoid creatures, even if it transformed into a monster, it could only be a human-shaped monster.

Xiao Jie didn't dare to use it at will.

As the time for the invisibility talisman was about to expire, a few monsters with a humanlike appearance finally appeared in front of them. They were actually humanoid spider monsters with human legs on the lower body and limbs on the upper body.

They are walking in a group, not knowing where to go.

Xiao Jie immediately followed and stuck behind the team, taking advantage of the last few seconds of the invisibility talisman to decisively activate the transformation skill again.

Phantom Pearl - Change!

With a puff, the white mist dissipated, and Xiao Jie also turned into an identical humanoid spider.

This magic bead will automatically change into a reasonable shape according to the surrounding environment, which is very convenient.

Those humanoid spiders didn't notice that there was one more person in the team and continued to move forward on their own. Xiao Jie followed them for a while and came to the outside of a cave.

The entrance to the cave was sealed by a layer of flesh-red mucous membrane. There were also several humanoid spiders guarding the door. When they saw everyone arriving, the leader immediately shouted.

"Don't dawdle, get to work, this batch of newborns will be hatched soon."

After saying this, he waved his hand, and the mucous membrane on the hole behind him began to split.

Those humanoid spiders immediately crawled in, and Xiao Jie had no choice but to follow them in. Fortunately, there was a lot of space inside, and the small map showed "hatching area".

Looking around, there are red pools distributed in the cave. The pools are full of huge eggs, about the size of water tanks. Through the translucent egg membrane, you can vaguely see something slowly wriggling inside.

And in the right center of the cave, there is a large hole leading downwards, but its purpose is unknown.

It turns out that these humanoid spiders are responsible for delivering babies... Watching the humanoid spiders scatter to look for eggs that are about to hatch, Xiao Jie decisively blends in with them, walking around and pretending to pick mature eggs.

Any action now that might lead to exposure would be unwise.

While walking around, observe the movements of other humanoid spiders.

Suddenly, something inside an egg began to struggle violently, and the egg membrane began to deform. A humanoid spider immediately came over.

But it had no intention of helping until several sharp sickle feet pierced out of the egg. With a tearing sound, the egg membrane was instantly cut open from the inside, and immediately a new monster hatched out with the amniotic fluid.

The monster shook off the amniotic fluid on its body. Although it was not big, it looked very fierce. It let out a roar and suddenly pounced towards the humanoid spider.

The humanoid spider was well prepared. It spurted out a ball of spider web, which tightly entangled the newborn monster.

It opened its chitinous external mouthparts and suddenly inserted a needle into the brain of the newborn monster.

In the blink of an eye, the new monster stopped struggling, blinked its big eyes, and suddenly seemed to have a mind.

Then a row of names appeared above the head of the new monster.

First-born demon: Level 20. HP 380.

So this is how monsters reproduce, and it's quite efficient. They are level 20 when they are born. They have a promising future.

Xiao Jie had previously wondered how different demon races could reproduce and interbreed, but now he understood. Rip, another demon was hatched.

What hatched this time was a creature with a huge belly, no hind legs, and its front limbs looked somewhat degenerate. It couldn't even stand up, and could only twist, struggle, and cry in the pool, looking like a flesh worm.

However, these humanoid spiders did not treat them differently and gave them an injection as they walked up to them.

A name then appeared above the monster's head.

Demon Degenerate: Level 6. HP 180.

"Humph, another piece of trash, throw it into the pit."

Two humanoid spiders immediately walked over, and their sharp claws pierced directly into the body of the "flesh worm". The evil degenerate was hooked with a scream, and was thrown into the huge tunnel without mercy.

Its fate is already known.

Monsters were continuously hatched, and these humanoid spiders kept opening their consciousness and classifying them. When Xiao Jie saw this, he already understood that it seemed that these monsters would be immediately assigned according to their talents after they were born. Some became small monsters, some became laborers, some became elites, and some were directly thrown into the cave as food.

Xiao Jie also walked around pretending to be doing something, but he had no skills in giving an acupuncture injection and didn't dare to really do it. When he saw the eggs that were about to hatch, he could only pretend not to see them and walk around them.

His actions quickly attracted the attention of several humanoid spiders, and the leader let out a roar.

“Hiss, hiss, you—don’t be lazy, go and deliver that egg.”

Xiao Jie had no choice but to walk towards the egg.

I was thinking quickly in my mind, how the hell should I do this?
If there is really no other choice, we can only start killing them. These humanoid spiders are less than level 30, plus there are a dozen newly hatched monsters. It is not difficult to deal with them. The only thing to be afraid of is that the noise is too loud and attracts a group of monsters.

But now it seems there is no other way.

The egg in front of him was torn apart from the inside with a tearing sound.

The monster that hatched this time was a little different. It was covered with a pitch-black shell covered with barbs, and had two pairs of wings on its back. Its two pairs of forelimbs were like four sickles, making it look very domineering.

Before Xiao Jie could go over to give it acupuncture, the monster let out a strange hissing sound, flapped its wings, and blood mist surrounded its body. The black shell on its body quickly changed color, first azure blue, then dark green, then deep purple, and finally turned black again.

"Don't do anything!" The humanoid spider behind him shouted. Xiao Jie thought to himself that I couldn't do anything, so it would be better if I didn't need to.

However, he noticed that things seemed to have changed, so he quickly stepped aside and stood side by side with the humanoid spiders.

Just watch as a name automatically appears above the head of the monster in front of you.

Black Evil (Evolved Evildoer): Level 28 rare elite. HP: 1060.

Oh my god, he was born at the elite level and even has a name.

Several humanoid spiders around were hissing and screaming excitedly.

"Great, another evolver is born."

"Follow me Evolver, a great mission awaits you."

The spider spirits almost surrounded the evil evolver and left the incubator, and Xiao Jie naturally followed.

No, I have to find a chance to escape. Xiao Jie thought to himself as he walked behind the team.

If you hang around with these midwife spiders, you'll be exposed sooner or later.

Seeing that there were more and more monsters coming and going around, when they reached a fork in the road, Xiao Jie decisively dodged and hid in the fork in the road.

Phantom Pearl - Change!

He thought he could turn into a demon guard, but he was suddenly stunned.

It has a wolf's head with horns on top, a pair of eagle wings on its back, and a body covered with scales like a dragon.

Look at the name above his head again—Demon Evolver?
I heard footsteps behind me. When I turned around, I saw a group of midwifery spiders escorting a tiger-headed demon evolver towards me.

“Hiss, hiss, Master Evolver, why are you here alone? Come with us, Master, a great mission is waiting for you.”

Xiao Jie was speechless for a moment and could only follow him.

Going up all the way, we soon arrived at the entrance of a special cave.

This cave is obviously more important, as a row of human-headed dog monsters are guarding the entrance.

"Hiss, hiss, come in quickly my lord, a great mission is waiting for you."

Xiao Jie could only follow the tiger-headed monster in. He took a look at the map, but it showed [Between Evolution].

There were already several evil evolvers waiting in this cave, including the black evil one from before.

There are a total of nine monster evolvers, each of them looks extremely powerful and is definitely a new powerful one among the monsters.

Xiao Jie felt a little uneasy. It would be dangerous if he was discovered with so many elite monsters.

I wonder what that great gift is? With so many evil evolvers here, are they going to perform some kind of ritual?
He looked around and found that the surrounding walls were covered with lines that looked like blood vessels. Above the cave, there were vines hanging down that looked like blood vessels and meridians, slowly wriggling as if they were living things.

Just when Xiao Jie was confused, a voice suddenly sounded in his ears.

Mysterious voice: All things have their destiny, some live and some die, some are slaughtered, some are devoured. Your destiny lies here, eat, devour, evolve, feast on the immortal food, drink the nectar, and accept my gift -

Following the sound, the branches and vines above the cave slowly drooped down, leaving a branch in front of each demon evolver. On the piece of paper there grew a fruit. The branches slowly squirmed, as if liquid was flowing in the vines like blood vessels, and the fruit grew bigger and bigger, forming a huge ball of flesh.

The fleshy ball suddenly blossomed into a bright red flower, enchanting and beautiful.

The leaves of the flower quickly withered and died, leaving only a red fruit the size of an egg.

When the evil evolvers saw this, they gobbled up the fruit in front of them.

Xiao Jie right-clicked.

[System prompt: You have obtained the Monster Star Immortal Fruit.]

Oh my god, what an unexpected gain! This thing is also a good one. Although he doesn’t dare to eat it, it will be worth a lot of money if it is put on the auction house.

If that doesn't work, it's also good to give it to Big Orange.

However, seeing everyone around him wolfing down the food, Xiao Jie's heart suddenly began to beat fast. If he didn't eat, he would be easily exposed.

After thinking for a while, he opened his backpack and right-clicked on the secret dog food, and his character on the screen also started chewing and swallowing.

Hehe, there is no flaw.

But the next second—

Ah! A monster evolver shaped like a giant bird twitched violently, its feathers grew longer and longer, and its muscles became swollen.

Xiao Jie was stunned. Is this... the beginning of evolution?

At this time, other demons who evolved also began to roar and change, their bodies rapidly changing. Seeing the demons around them evolving, Xiao Jie was a little confused. What should he do? This thing can't be faked.

(End of this chapter)