The Little King Next Door

Swish!Nearly half of the miners suddenly grabbed the companions around them, and pointed the tip of the pickaxe at the companion's vitals.

Including the prison guards who are in charge of guarding the miners here, they also raised their magic bullet guns and aimed at the prisoner miners.

Eugene hid in the crowd and yelled into the air: "Come out! Otherwise I'll kill all these people!"

No one responded, and no one came out.

Eugene did not know what order he gave. After a while, the crowd parted, and someone came forward with a group of young miners under their pressure.

The oldest of these children is no more than [-] or [-] years old, and the youngest may be only six or seven years old. They are responsible for picking up small ore and putting them into baskets, and then they work together to pour the ore in the basket into the mine cart, which is then pushed by older children. The minecart is sent to the warehouse.

Children are easier to control than adults, and they dare not hide gold casually. They can also drill into some narrow passages and crevices to check the direction of the veins inside.

At the suggestion of some guards, the warden transferred all the older children from the Thanksgiving Village and the women's prison camp to work here.

This is also the reason why there are not many children in Thanksgiving Village, because everyone works in the mines. Most of the boys are assigned to the mine roads and pits, while the girls are assigned to work in the kiln where the gold ore is extracted.

"Did you see these little bastards? Come out and fight us openly, otherwise, I will kill these little bastards one by one. Anyway, their corpses are not a waste for us." Eugene Changed from the previous elegance, the tone was fierce and cruel.

These children didn't know what happened at all, and many of them showed expressions of fear. The younger ones wanted to hide behind the older ones, and some timid ones were already sobbing softly in fright.

But more children just watched all this numbly.

【Urgent task!Eugene, the third-level intelligent worm of the parasite family, is insane. He wants to threaten the lives of many children and miners on Prisoner Island and threaten the players to show up.Please try your best to save the lives of these poor people.One hundred experience points will be rewarded for each rescued person, and one hundred world reputation points will be awarded for rescued more than 20 people. 】

In the insect nest, Lei Mu's eyes were very cold.

"Little Ye Zi, is there a way for you to bring those people in at the same time?"

"Yes. The third-level ones can't be accepted, but these people stand very densely. Give me two seconds, and I can accept everyone else." Wang Ye was already thinking about the best way to save people.

"I'm going out to contain those third-level parasite mutants, and you can harvest them at the right time."

"Okay, leave it to me." Wang Ye didn't tell Lei Mu to be careful, he would deal with the people who came in as quickly as possible, and then go to help Lei Mu.

Lei Mu suddenly appeared in front of all the miners.

There was a commotion among the miners, and some even screamed.

"The devil!" someone cried out.

Eugene, who was hiding behind the crowd, burst out with splendor in his eyes, and quickly sent a message to the king worm: "Demons found! Demons found!"

"Those who are hiding behind, come out! What's the point of threatening a group of children?" Lei Mu said coldly.

Eugene opened his mouth and asked, "Are you a demon?"

Lei Mu: "What if it is, so what if it's not."

Eugene was excited and puzzled: "If you are a demon, why do you help these humans?"

"You are not qualified enough to know, let you king worms come out!"

"If you promise to take this pill, I can take you to our king, and I won't move the miners and all the human cubs here."

"Pills? Are you referring to your eggs?" Lei Mu mocked contemptuously: "You think your eggs can parasitize me?"

"If you're not worried, then take it." Eugene handed the pill to the mutant in front and asked it to take it to Lei Mu.

Lei Mu took the pill, and at this moment his whole body was wrapped in the protective cover, it looked like he touched the pill, but in fact there was a layer of separation.

Seeing Lei Mu take the pill, Eugene breathed a sigh of relief.

The other variants also involuntarily relaxed slightly.

At this moment, a gust of wind passed, and more than [-]% of the miners and all the children disappeared.

"Insect nest!" Eugene did not ignore it this time, he clearly sensed the breath of the insect nest.

But the breath of the insect nest was fleeting again.

what happened?Why another nest?

Could it be that other king worms have come to compete with them for territory?

But this time?how come?

Obviously the king worms are still in the growth stage.

No matter how incomprehensible Eugene was, he still faithfully passed the news of the appearance of the worm nest to the king worm on his side.

After Lei Mu saw that the children and most of the miners had disappeared, he took action.

The rest of the miners don't need him to distinguish, they must all be mutants, and they are all at least level three.

"burn!"

Lei Mu made a big move.Countless blazing flames appeared out of thin air, descending on all the mutants present.

In the insect nest, as soon as Wang Ye took those people in, he quickly separated the unparasitized ones from the parasitized ones as quickly as possible.

The insect nest tightly tied the parasitic mutants to the wall. With the help of the insect nest, Wang Ye quickly distinguished which of these mutants could not be rescued, and which still had their own consciousness.

Those who have their own consciousness are thrown into another room and imprisoned, and the rest are directly swallowed and absorbed by the insect nest.

How many people he saved, how many mutants and parasites he killed, the system broadcast in his mind how many experience points he got.

Wang Ye didn't care about comforting the children, dealt with the mutants, and ran to attack the third-level mutants outside.

The third-level mutants are jointly attacking Leimu.

Wang Ye quickly took Leimu into the nest, then immediately took in a third-level mutant, and then trapped it.

The time to trap the third-level mutant is very short, but this is not the first time the two have cooperated. Lei Mu knew what Wang Ye wanted to do after entering the nest.

This time Wang Ye didn't shout for me to save the last knife.

After finishing off a third-level mutant, Wang Ye pounced on Eugene.

Eugene is cunning and wants to run when he sees Remu disappear again.

But Wang Ye has already remembered its mental fluctuations, and the natural attraction of the insect nest to the parasites and the trick of forced containment.

Eugene didn't run far at all, and was forcibly taken into the insect nest.

"Who are you? How could you have a worm nest?" Eugene saw Wang Ye, but he didn't pay attention to such a hairy kid at all. He yelled these words to Lei Mu.

Lei Mu didn't talk nonsense to him, and directly attacked him.

There was no way for Eugene to hide, the worm nest clung to him, and he seemed to be entangled with countless ropes, so he could only watch helplessly as the ultimate move came down.

"If you kill me, our king will not let you go..." Before finishing the last word, Eugene's head fell off.

Lei Mu didn't relax just because Eugene's head fell, and set fire to his head and body separately until the third-level mutant was burned to ashes.

Eugene's parasite consciousness wanted to escape at the end, but it was forcibly absorbed by the insect nest as soon as it escaped, and became the nourishment of the insect nest, and at the same time nourished the spiritual power of the owner of the insect nest, Wang Ye.

Of the other third-level mutants, only two ran away, and the rest were chased by Wang Ye and joined Lei Mu to kill them.

After dealing with these third-level mutants, Wang Ye wiped his saliva while looking at the glittering gold mine outside. He found a gold mine!

He is also about to be a man of mines.

But he had other things to do before he could gobble up the gold mine.

The first is to deal with those prisoners who are parasitized by parasites but still have self-awareness.

These prisoners were rescued by him, and they became karma with him.

Wang Ye first checked the identity information of the prisoners on the karma roll and the reasons for their imprisonment.

With the karma scroll in his hand, no matter what these people have done, they can't hide it from his eyes. It's just because he is not at a high level now, and the content of the karma scroll is not much, but it is enough for Wang Ye to understand the character and personality of these prisoners. character.

These prisoners who can still have their own consciousness are all parasitized just today, and there are no more than ten of them.

A serial murderer likes to kill women, and also likes to torture and kill. The evidence of the crime is solid, but he has not admitted his crime so far.But on the karma scroll, it clearly stated that this person tortured and killed a total of fourteen people, one of whom was the person's own sister.

Wang Ye directly handed over this person to the insect nest to absorb.

The second one was a young girl rapist, but the causal paper showed that he did not commit such a crime, but instead went to jail for someone else. The other person was a nobleman, and this person received fifty gold coins from that nobleman.Fifty gold coins were given to the wife and children in the family to support the family.

Wang Ye rolled his eyes, threw this person aside, and deal with them later.

The third person is a murderer, who killed a nobleman. The reason for the murder was that the nobleman forced and injured his daughter who was a maid in the nobleman's house. His daughter committed suicide because she could not bear the humiliation and torture.

Wang Ye also threw this person aside.

The fourth person is a blackmailer. He was originally the youngest son of a minor nobleman. Because his elder brother inherited the title of nobleman and most of the property in the family, he could only find a job in the city hall. He oppressed and extorted two people to death because of this, and several families were forced to break up by him. They were denounced by the bitter master and failed, but were successfully reported by colleagues who hated the uneven distribution of spoils. Because the evidence of the crime was clear, they were sentenced to three years in prison.

This person was also fed to the insect nest by Wang Ye.

The reason why the fifth person was imprisoned on Prisoner’s Island was that he had committed adultery with his sister-in-law. After the adultery was discovered, the widowed sister-in-law was immediately hanged. for 20 years.

The sixth person was sentenced to ten years in prison because he failed to pay compensation for raising a nobleman's horse.

The seventh person was sentenced to 30 years in prison for evading agricultural taxes and injuring tax officials.

The eighth person was a minor nobleman. The reason for his imprisonment was a duel with another nobleman. He won and the opponent died. According to the rules of the duel, this person should have been fine, but the family of the dead nobleman refused to let him go. It took a lot of money. Money bribed the judge, and finally the little nobleman was sentenced to five years in prison.

The crime of the ninth person is also absurd. It turned out that because of disrespect to the nobleman, the carriage he was riding hit the carriage of the nobleman.The nobleman refused his apology and compensation, insisted on putting him in prison for three years, and even deliberately got him to a particularly remote prisoner island.

Wang Ye really wanted to know the real reason why the noble put this small businessman in prison, but unfortunately his current level is not high enough to find out the deeper cause and effect.

The crime of the tenth person is finally normal. He is a habitual thief. No matter if it is rich or ordinary people, he steals. He spends the stolen money casually, and continues to steal when it is gone.This man was also sentenced to 30 years.

Wang Ye saw the reasons why these people were sentenced and the length of their imprisonment, and he really felt the characteristics of the legal system in different eras and regions.

Some people's crimes are nothing in his opinion, but they are given heavy punishments.Some people made serious mistakes, but were sentenced to light sentences.This has contemporary characteristics, but it also has a lot to do with the judge who judged the case.

No matter which era, the judge's personal likes and dislikes (or the requirements of the higher authorities) are the flexibility of sentencing. When the judge dislikes a certain thing or a certain prisoner, the sentencing will be heavy, and vice versa.

The judges of the Xiyu Kingdom are obviously very oriented toward the nobles, especially the big nobles.

Wang Ye was noncommittal about the legal provisions of Xiyu Kingdom, and simply rescued the remaining eight people, and then locked them in the same room.

These people are different from the female prisoner. Wang Ye does not intend to just let them out. Not only is the female prisoner's crime justifiable, but her actual sentence has also expired. In other words, she should have been released.

He didn't let these people go, not because he was afraid of getting involved in cause and effect.He saved these people, these people owe him, not he owes these people, nor does he owe anyone else.Anything these people do in the future will not be related to him.Unless he is saving people, he hopes that these people will do evil before saving them.

In the end there were only those kids left.

These children from children to teenagers saw Wang Ye, probably because Wang Ye was also a child. Although everyone was wary of him, they were not particularly defensive or repelled.

The room Wang Ye arranged for these children is actually in the planting area, but separated by a corner, so they can see the sky and the sun, and feel the breeze.

Children are not kept in a closed room, so they are less nervous and frightened.

"Hey, don't be afraid, everyone was rescued by our mercenary team. After the physical examination later, everyone can go home." Wang Ye casually greeted a group of children.

His casual attitude made all the children a lot more relaxed, and they were no longer so tense.

"Are you a mercenary? Can you be a mercenary at such a young age?" A bold child asked curiously.

Wang Ye inserted his waist, and said with an air of authenticity: "Of course."

Wow!The children were amazed.It was the first time they saw the legendary mercenary, and they didn't expect that this mercenary was a child who was the same as them or even younger than them.

"Do you know what happened?" A 14-year-old boy stood up and asked, he seemed to be the head of all the children.

Wang Ye replied: "Parasites appeared on the island. This kind of parasites can parasitize the human body, make human beings mutate and lose themselves, and become puppets of the parasites. This kind of insects was discovered by our mercenary team. We are eliminating these parasites." The person who threatened us with you just now is a mutant controlled by parasites."

"Is that demon clan also a mercenary?" A child couldn't help asking.

"He's not a demon, he just looks like one."

"No wonder." The children were relieved, thinking they had found the reason why the Mozu would help them, and it turned out that the person was not the Mozu.

Children are always very resilient. They were scared just now, but now they look a little lively.

"Your mercenary team is here to find gold mines, right?" the strong boy said sharply.

Wang Ye shrugged: "No, we are here to find someone. Who would have thought that it would be so unlucky to bump into the parasites, and it turns out that the parasites here have parasitized many prisoners and even guards. Many missing persons on the island were killed by these The parasites caught and hatched the eggs, or cultivated them into mutants."

The children thought that people in the village had been missing in the past few years, including their parents, and immediately someone made a soft noise.

"Okay, don't ask, I don't know much. I am an apprentice pharmacist, and my task now is to check your bodies to make sure that you are not infected by parasites."

When they heard that they might be parasitized, the children showed signs of shrinking and fear again.

Wang Ye is not good at comforting these children at all, and Lei Mu's current image can scare these children to tears, so he had to remove the comforting step.

"You, the first one, come here." Wang Ye pointed at the young man.

Feeling that all the children were watching him, the burly boy took a deep breath and took a brave step.

In the early days, the parasites seldom parasitized cubs, probably because the cubs were not yet fully developed, and more because the cubs were too weak to be useful after parasitic transformation, so it was not as cost-effective as directly parasitizing adults.

After Wang Ye checked these children separately, he found that there were parasites in their stomachs, but this parasite was not that parasite.

At this moment, the system notification sounded again in his mind. First, he counted how many people he had saved this time, and how many experience points he had been rewarded in total, followed by:

[Congratulations to the player next door, Xiao Wang, after deducting the used experience points, the accumulated experience value of the player has reached 50179 points, which meets the upgrade requirements, and the game level has been raised to level ten. 】

Wang Ye has been waiting to be promoted to level [-], because at level [-], he can open another skill [karma cycle] in his causal skill tree.It can be used for yourself or for others. It is a very useful and practical ability.

The joy of unlocking this skill made him hear the system tell him that he didn't care much because the number of people saved in this wave exceeded 20, and his world reputation increased by 100 points.

At the same time, the game forum exploded again.

Because of that little Wang next door, he has double upgraded again!

If you get promoted to three levels in a row in the same day, just ask who is the best?

The person who offered a bounty for Wang Ye's whereabouts directly increased the bounty from one thousand Huaxia coins to three thousand.

There are also people who offer rewards for personal information such as what Xiao Wang next door looks like, whether he is male or female, and it is best to have screenshots.

Wang Ye still didn't know anything. He was busy explaining to the children that none of them were parasitized by the parasites, but they needed to take some common insecticide.

These children cheered at first, but then feared, until Wang Ye explained to them that the parasites in their stomachs and the intelligent parasites he said were two different things.

Wang Ye also gave the strong boy a magic bullet gun and asked him to protect other children.

The strong boy was so excited, he held the magic bullet gun and looked at Wang Ye with sparkling eyes.

The other children were so envious, they all surrounded the strong boy, wanting to touch the magic bullet gun.

Wang Ye simply distributed a small medicine packet to each of these children.Tell them that if they encounter bad guys, or parasites or mutants, in short, when they feel dangerous, open the medicine bag, sprinkle the medicine powder inside on the enemy, and then run away.

The children paid great attention to getting the medicine powder packs, even the youngest children put away the medicine packs very seriously.

The children of the poor headed home early, and the more dangerous the place, the easier it is for the children to mature prematurely.

"What's your name?" The strong boy asked suddenly.

"My name is Wang Ye, the king of the king, the leaf of the leaf."

"My name is... Lie Cang, Lie Lie of Lie Huo, Cang of the sky. You must remember my name!" The strong boy originally had no name, and everyone called him Da Zhuang, but just now the boy gave himself a name.

The boy didn't say anything to repay, but he knew what he was going to do in the future, and he also wanted to be a mercenary, a powerful mercenary who saved people from danger!And joining the mercenary team of the grass and trees is his ultimate dream.

Lie Cang?Wang Ye staggered and almost tripped.

This name is really... thunderous!

In his previous life, in his fifth year in the game, this person suddenly appeared, and he was a junior Wuzong as soon as he came out.

A 30-year-old Wu Zong simply shocked the world.

Many people thought that he was a genius secretly cultivated by a big family or a big force, and only after reaching the level of Wu Zong was he released to become a blockbuster.

It's a pity that someone later confirmed that this young Wuzong didn't belong to any faction, and was still a great evil spirit.

This one can be said to be jealous and murderous.

It's not a bad thing to be jealous of evil, but it's terrible to be jealous to the point of paranoia. In the end, it was classified as a demon by the Double Moon Stars.

This one has also done a lot of super famous things, and has become one of the very famous bosses in the game world.

If that Lie Cang is the strong young man in front of him calling his name, it would be amazing.At the same time, it also shows that the people on Prisoner Island did not die, at least Lie Cang escaped and had his own chance.

Lei Mu smiled when he saw Wang Ye wiping his sweat while leaning against the wall, and brought him a glass of water.He can't show his face, otherwise he will frighten those children, so he can only do logistical support.

"are you tired?"

"I'm so tired." Wang Ye raised his head and gulped down a glass of water.

This kind of thing of saving people and becoming a hero is not suitable for him, it is tedious and annoying, too fucking tiring!Especially when everyone looks at you with expectant and earnest eyes.

He finally understands why the hero movies in country A only have scenes where heroes save people and kill enemies, and there are no later scenes of restoring people's livelihood, because saving people and dealing with enemies is easy, but appeasing the masses and doing logistics, especially when it involves Treatment, compensation, recovery, reconstruction, etc., even the most powerful heroes want to run away when they see it.

Seeing Wang Ye's frown, Lei Mu asked him, "Are you worried about how to arrange for those rescued prisoners, miners, and children?"

Wang Ye was not worried about this, but he still nodded: "Yes."

Lei Mu had obviously considered this issue, and immediately said: "Give them to the Zuo Qinsang brothers to guard, and give each pair of brothers a magic bullet gun. At that time, there is no need to send them to Trench Island, let them directly Contact the higher authorities of Tin Rain Nation, and ask Tin Rain Nation to send someone to take over the island and the surviving prisoners."

Among the people they just received were prison guards, and those guards were equipped with magic bullet guns.Not enough, they can also get it.

Lei Mu told Wang Ye the reason why he did this: "We will definitely save many prisoners in the future. Do you want to put all these prisoners in your worm nest?"

Wang Ye: "..." He really thought so.Now his worm nest can't hold so many people, but he will soon upgrade the worm nest for the third time, and it will still be able to hold thousands of people by then.

His original plan was to put all the innocent people in Thanksgiving Village in the worm nest and transfer them to Trench Village, and the prisoners would be handed over when someone came to take over Prisoner Island.If no one came, he would notify the mercenary guild to take over.

The mercenary guild is still very active in this kind of "public welfare" behavior.Of course, they are merciless in collecting fees with relevant organizations.

Lei Mu didn't want to use Xiaoye's insect nest like this: "So we need a suitable place to detain these prisoners, and we have to find someone to manage them. The guards can't be trusted, and the prisoners themselves can't tell, so the only thing that can be sure about white is Only the Zuo family brothers are left. And Zuo Qinyu was originally a guard, so it is natural for him to guard these prisoners. Maybe their brothers can get rewards for these prisoners, instead of fleeing back for interrogation like bereaved dogs."

Lei Mu said again: "Ask that pair of brothers, [-]% of them are willing."

Wang Ye found that the solution that Lei Mu had considered was very local, and it was very feasible to think carefully, so he really asked the brothers.

After hearing this suggestion, the Zuo brothers not only did not reject it, but were overjoyed, thinking that this was an opportunity for them to stand up and make meritorious deeds.

Saving the lives of some prisoners and guarding them to prevent them from escaping is a bonus for the guard Zuo Qinyu and the prisoner Zuo Qinsang, and it is definitely beneficial to them.Especially since Wang Ye and Lei Mu planned to distribute magic bullet guns to them, they didn't have to worry.

Zuo Qinsang even took the initiative to invite some villagers from Thanksgiving Village to join the guards. He said that there are a few retired old guards whose character is trustworthy, and there are also a few prisoners who have been released after serving their sentences. They are also very good people. .can be employed as temporary guards.

And Thanksgiving Village also needs the power of guards to protect the people of Thanksgiving Village from the invasion of parasites.

After all, Wang Ye also told them that the body of the parasites is not very strong, just be careful, don't touch them directly, pay attention when eating, and be alert when sleeping at night. For insects below the third level, ordinary people hold magic bullet guns And torches, definitely drive away and kill.

If it wasn't like this, the parasites wouldn't work so hard to make awakening pills and trick people into eating the eggs.

Zuo Qinyu said: "If the prison area can't be used... In fact, there is a part of Thanksgiving Village that was originally built as a temporary prison. It is stronger than other buildings in Thanksgiving Village. Just in case. Now that place has become the common granary of Thanksgiving Village, but with a little renovation, it can be used as a temporary prison. Thanksgiving villagers can also live in it, and it can also be turned into a shelter if necessary."

"Okay, if you think it's appropriate, then do it." Wang Ye didn't want to do everything.

The most important thing is that Wang Ye has realized that the parasites on this island are not so easy to wipe out. They can parasitize birds and fish, and they can leave the island completely.

Since humans will inevitably coexist with the parasites for a long time in the future, it is not a bad thing to let them adapt from now on.

Zuo Qinyu also proposed that he hoped to give them a few more magic bullet guns.

This is a small problem, and both Wang Ye and Lei Mu agreed.

Send all these people to Thanksgiving Village, and when they have established a preliminary line of defense, Wang Ye said to Lei Mu: "The two of us can't handle this matter, there are too many parasites here, and the king worm and the worm mother are still alive." Knowing what level it is, plus the warden and guards making trouble, unless we recklessly ignore the thousands of prisoners, as well as the people in Thanksgiving Village and Trench Village, we will have to increase our manpower."

If this is a game, these people are just data, he will not consider these issues at all, and he does not need to consider them.

"Notify the mercenary guild to come over. You go, I will stay. I have a worm nest, which is convenient for detection and avoidance. You are fast, you can grab a small boat and report to Seagrass Island."

Lei Mu had this plan long ago, and he didn't compete with Wang Ye: "Okay, I'll inform. Be careful on your side, protect yourself first, and then talk about other things."

"You too. Don't show your face, wear a big robe with a hood, and cover yourself up."

Lei Mu laughed, of course he would cover up his appearance.

"By the way, these are parasite egg pills, which can be used as evidence to the head of the mercenary guild site in Haicao Village. The eggs in these pills have been killed by me, so don't worry."

Wang Ye quietly sent Lei Mu out of the village, and the two stole a small boat with four people.

The guards are also in a mess at the moment, and there is no one guarding the pier.

Lei Mu left, but no one noticed.Even if someone finds out, they can't care about it now.

The warden Singer is now considering whether to leave Prisoner Island and find someone to find a way to remove the parasite eggs in his body.

When he had this thought, it became more and more intense.

The warden was so busy thinking about how to save himself that he didn't notice that since he returned to the office area, it had been a long time since a guard had come to report anything to him.

Obviously, there was a lot of trouble in the prison area because of the small note and the discovery of the gentle man's body.

The prison area suddenly fell silent.

Like the calm before the storm.

The parasites have lost a lot, and they don't have many mutants and parasites available, including eggs.

The king worm ordered all the female worms to give birth to more and stronger eggs as soon as possible.

At the same time, the king worm also gave orders to the remaining mutants that were still alive to temporarily hibernate, not to be discovered by the enemy, let alone return to the worm nest, so as not to be followed by the enemy.

What is Wang Ye doing now?

He once again manipulated the worm nest into the prison area. He didn't know where the king worm and the worm mother were hiding, and he didn't want to bother to find them.

He eliminated the parasites and mutants that could be seen and found one by one.

The parasites don't know it yet, he can clearly distinguish the difference between the mental fluctuations of the parasites and other creatures, no matter how good at camouflage and hibernation those mutants and parasites are, as long as they are still there, in his eyes As bright as a torch.