Chapter 240: Magical Magic Beans, Maiden Doll (5000)

Seeing this scene, everyone wore looks of astonishment.

Elisa exclaimed in surprise, "Wow! Two magic beans popped out from the big wild wolf's belly!"

"It really is just like the story that old granny told!"

A smile appeared at the corner of Cao Xing's mouth.

Yes, he just remembered the story that the Old Witch told him.

The hunter cut open the big wild wolf's belly, but instead of the grandparents and grandchild popping out, two magic beans popped out.

And this patch of [soil containing magic] required Cao Xing to plant a strange seed.

Then it was very obvious that this seed was hidden inside the big wild wolf's belly.

With a look of joy, Cao Xing walked forward and collected them.

[Acquired: Strange Red Magic Bean (Orange) * 1]

[Acquired: Strange Blue Magic Bean (Orange) * 1]

"Good grief, they're actually orange-grade items? And there are two of them!"

"Do these two things have different effects?"

A pensive look appeared in Cao Xing's eyes, and then he quickly checked their attributes.

[Strange Blue Magic Bean (Orange): Magical Plant]

[Quality: Epic]

[Effect: Planting it in soil containing magic can quickly grow into a giant vine, breaking through the barrier and heading to the second floor of the ancient castle.]

(Note: A magical magic bean, but it can only be used once.)

Clearly, this blue magic bean was the item meant to be thrown into the magic soil.

It could help them enter the second floor of the ancient castle.

Cao Xing continued to look at the attributes of the second magic bean.

[Strange Red Magic Bean (Orange): Magical Plant]

[Quality: Epic]

[Effect: Plant it in the territory and regularly water it with Frost Spirit Water to grow a vine with immense strength. The vine will obey commands, move underground, and cut or transfer and move an entire piece of land.]

(Note: A vine with immense strength that can help you quickly change the layout of your territory.)

"Oh? This thing can actually be used to move buildings within the territory?"

Cao Xing instantly understood its function.

This was a vine of great help to territory construction!

Right now, Cao Xing's territory had a diameter of only one kilometer, and many of the buildings inside were built in a messy and unordered manner.

Except for separating the residential area and work area, no specific division had been made.

And in the near future, the territory would definitely continue to expand.

He even thought about turning it into a Giant City!

And with every expansion, the layout of the territory would need to be changed again.

For example, those city walls needed to be demolished and rebuilt, and arrow towers also needed to be built in new locations to play their maximum role.

Although if the lord demolished these buildings themselves, the system would return the construction resources.

However, this back-and-forth wasted a huge amount of time!

With this vine, Cao Xing could move however he wanted.

To him, the effect of this magic bean was comparable to legendary equipment!

"Good, good, good, this time I really struck gold!"

"With this thing, my territory can expand however it wants in the future, hahaha!"

Cao Xing was extremely excited, and then carefully stowed the [Strange Red Magic Bean (Orange)] into his backpack.

Leading everyone, he walked straight to the edge of the magic soil.

Pinching the other blue magic bean in his hand, he pondered, "Is this thing usable just by burying it inside?"

Everyone was also clueless.

Facing such strange magic beans, even Juliette probably didn't know how to use them.

Cao Xing didn't think too much about it.

He took out a standard longsword from his backpack, came to the middle of the soil, and dug hard a few times.

When a pit about twenty centimeters deep appeared in the middle, he directly buried the Strange Blue Magic Bean inside.

Then he covered it back up with the surrounding soil.

After waiting for a few minutes, this patch of soil still showed no reaction at all.

"Huh? Is this not how it's used?"

A puzzled look appeared on Cao Xing's face.

Right at this moment, everyone suddenly felt the entire ancient castle begin to vibrate.

"Rumble! Rumbleron!"

Cao Xing suddenly felt the soil beneath his feet begin to move, as if something was about to burst out of the ground.

Subsequently, a tender green sprout poked out, and then a giant green vine rushed out rapidly!

Moreover, this giant vine began to grow wildly at an extremely terrifying speed!

In a spiral posture, it rapidly surged into the air.

"Rumbleron!"

Its growth speed was extremely fast.

In the blink of an eye, it reached a height of fifty or sixty meters, hitting the ceiling of the first floor of the ancient castle.

Then, with a crisp sound, it sounded like some kind of barrier was being punctured.

It directly pierced through the thick ceiling.

And finally stopped growing.

Obviously, this giant vine was the passage to the second floor of the tower.

They had to climb up along this giant vine.

Cao Xing glanced at the size of the giant vine.

Estimating its diameter to be forty or fifty centimeters, it was almost comparable to the trunk of a big tree!

"Good grief, to actually grow such a thick giant vine, standing two people on it would be completely effortless!"

Moreover, with the thickness of this giant vine, even Dabai could barely stand on it.

It just needed to be a bit careful.

Therefore, Cao Xing said, "Let's go, we'll head up along this giant vine."

"Assam, you go first."

"Dabai, be careful when you go up."

The Mammoth understood Cao Xing's words and nodded its huge head.

At this moment, Assam, who had remounted the Frost Wolf, kicked off the ground.

The Frost Wolf carried him in a single leap onto the giant vine.

Those thick and powerful wolf paws gripped the surface of the giant vine, slowly walking upward.

Seeing this, everyone else also followed suit.

Rabb and Blot walked behind Assam.

After that were Dabai and Volibear.

At this moment, Dabai, this behemoth, also carefully lifted its elephant hooves and stepped onto the giant vine.

Its size was simply too large, even though the giant vine had a diameter of fifty or sixty centimeters.

It could barely allow Dabai to step on it with one foot.

Therefore, Dabai's current actions had somewhat the feel of an elephant crossing a single-plank bridge.

Its cautious movements looked both clumsy and cute.

This caused Liu Muxue and Elisa in the back to cover their mouths and chuckle softly.

Seemingly hearing the laughter behind it, Dabai appeared a bit embarrassed.

It wagged its tail a few times and steadied its body.

As a Tier 4 boss-level creature, its self-balancing ability was still very strong.

"Moo—"

As Dabai found its rhythm, it steadily walked up along the giant vine.

Seeing this scene, Cao Xing also breathed a sigh of relief.

Then, he also stepped onto this giant vine.

Soon, everyone all arrived at the second-floor area.

And the giant vine stopped growing right as it reached the second-floor area.

Seeing this, Cao Xing seemed to understand something.

"It seems this giant vine can only send us to the second floor."

"We need to defeat the monsters here before we can proceed to the third floor."

"According to the order of the story told to me by that Old Witch, the monster on the second floor should be that Ogre."

Thinking of this, Cao Xing looked ahead and began to observe the environment of the second floor.

The atmosphere on the second floor of the tower was very gloomy, with no lights, and one could only faintly see a wall ahead.

This seemed to be a corridor, with strange little rooms on both sides.

"Let's go, walk through and take a look."

Hearing this, Assam raised his weapon and directly led the way in front.

"Tap… Taptap…"

Footsteps continued to sound.

While advancing, they entered those small rooms to explore.

However, there didn't seem to be anything good inside, just some sundries.

Rotted tables, chairs, and benches, as well as some moldy timber and so on…

Cao Xing searched around, but walked out lacking interest.

After leading everyone forward for about one to two hundred meters, Cao Xing pushed open a different kind of room.

The moment the door was pushed open, a thick stench of blood and foul odor rushed towards them!

Inside, it looked like a slaughterhouse.

In the middle was a wooden plank bed, with blackened bloodstains still remaining on it.

It looked like quite a few unlucky souls had lain on it.

Above everyone's heads hung various animal body organs, as well as human tissues…

"Good grief, did we walk into a crime scene?"

Cao Xing was somewhat surprised.

Including the others, who felt somewhat uncomfortable with the scene in front of them…

And Elisa covered Tong Chuchu's eyes, telling her not to look.

The scene in front of them was extremely bloody; those human tissues and animal organs hanging overhead were still dripping with fresh blood, looking as if they had just been cut down not long ago.

Cao Xing didn't think too much about it, instead searching around in this slaughterhouse.

In the corner, Cao Xing saw a portrait.

It was a family portrait.

A man carrying a longbow on his back, along with his wife and daughter.

The background also seemed to be a pitch-black forest.

Cao Xing picked up the portrait and found an iron box behind it.

[Ogre's Iron Box: Open it?]

"Oh? This thing can be opened too?"

"What's inside?"

With a curious mindset,

Cao Xing directly clicked 'Open'.

[Successfully opened.]

[Acquired: gold ancient coin * 11]

[Acquired: Silver Ring * 2]

[Acquired: Maiden Doll * 1]

[Acquired: Letter to Wife and Daughter * 1]

"To actually get 11 gold ancient coins all at once, hahaha!"

Cao Xing was overjoyed. With this, the number of [gold ancient coin]s in his backpack officially broke through 30, and he was getting closer and closer to exchanging for a high-grade ancient treasure chest!

He took another look at the other two items.

[Girl's Doll: Quest Item]

[Item Effect: This is an ordinary doll. Return it to its owner, and you will receive some different rewards.]

(Tip: Perhaps you can go to 'Annuo River Village' to look for clues.)

…

Cao Xing looked at the rabbit-like rag doll in his hand, which had turned black and yellow due to its age.

"A quest item? The system prompt points out the quest location."

"I can indeed go take a look at this Annuo River Village when I have time."

Cao Xing put it into his backpack and took out the last item: [Letter to Wife and Daughter].

[Letter: Click to Read]

…

After reading the contents of the letter, Cao Xing seemed to understand something.

However, it was a pity that a portion of the records on this letter was already damaged.

Besides these, the letter also contained long passages expressing longing for his wife and daughter, urging them to live well.

After reading all this, Cao Xing said, "Let's go, there is nothing else in here."

Everyone walked out of this slaughterhouse full of sin.

They proceeded all the way along the dim passage.

Ahead, a trace of light finally seemed to appear.

At the end of the passage, a wooden door appeared.

'Creak!'

As the wooden door was pushed open,

then they saw a dim room.

The room looked like a dining room, furnished with several blackened tables and benches, and the space was quite spacious.

In the corner, however, a figure sat alone.

He looked rather strange, with a hooked nose, a pointed chin, and a head of weed-like hair draped over his shoulders.

He was wearing a white fur coat.

At this moment, everyone raised their vigilance.

Because this was the first living creature they discovered on the second floor of the castle.

And Cao Xing discovered that this person was identical to the man he saw in the portrait.

At this moment, this figure was sitting upright at a small wooden table, elegantly eating the food on the plate with the knife and fork in his hand.

However, when everyone saw the food on his plate, they couldn't help vomiting.

On his left side, there was a cup of yellow-green liquid, and in a glass jar on the right side,

Clearly, the other person's identity was self-evident!

The other person also noticed Cao Xing and the others.

He raised his head, revealing the calm face of a middle-aged man.

"You're here, intruders of the castle…"

"Would you like to share a dinner with me?"

He didn't seem surprised by the appearance of Cao Xing and the others, and acted as if he were entertaining guests,

Cao Xing shook his head.

"No need, enjoy your meal."

Hearing this, the other person didn't attack them or make any other moves.

Instead, he nodded silently, continued holding a small knife, and cut the food on his plate.

Taking this opportunity, Cao Xing also quickly glanced at his stats.

[Ogre of Unknown Origin]

[Race: Human]

[Level: Level 45 (Tier 5 Mutant Boss-level Creature)]

[HP: 538251 / 538251]

[Attack Power: 7132 ~ 7289]

[Armor: 1177 ~ 1289]

[Dodge Rate: 65% (Equipment + Skill Bonus)]

[Skills: Expert Hunting Techniques (When fighting with a bow and arrow, attack speed is increased by 40%, hit rate is increased by 40%), Expert Dagger Mastery (A powerful hunter, in addition to skilled archery, needs to have excellent melee skills. When fighting with a dagger, attack speed is increased by 40%, parry probability is increased by 40%), Serpent Trap (When attacked, summon two Serpent Guards in place, inheriting 30% of own attributes, dealing ranged damage to enemies, lasting 60 seconds), Piercing Heart Arrow (Shoot an arrow hitting the enemy's heart, dealing 157% damage, with a 30% probability of causing instant death effect), Blood Blade (Throw a dozen flying blades around, dealing 127% damage to hit enemies, and attaching 3 stacks of Expert Bleed effect, losing 572 HP per stack, lasting 30 seconds, skill cooldown: 80 seconds), Crisis Perception (Years of hunting experience bring him strong crisis sensing, dodge probability increased by 30%)]

[Talent: Hunter's Instinct (Dodge probability increased by 15%)]

(A hunter of unknown origin, he seems to have appeared in the castle a long time ago.)

…

After reading this guy's stats, Cao Xing's pupils shrank sharply once again!

"Tier 5 mutant boss creature!"

"As much as 530,000 HP, this is much more terrifying than the big wild wolf below!"

Cao Xing instantly felt a sense of pressure.

However, the good news was that this time, they didn't need to let Assam fight alone!

With the strength of Cao Xing's side, they weren't afraid of him either!

At this moment, the middle-aged man forked the piece of meat in his hand and tasted it carefully in his mouth.

Then he wiped his lips gracefully and slowly said, "A few intruders, what brings you to this tower?"

Cao Xing pointed directly overhead and said, "We are going to a higher floor of the castle to see the legendary witch."

Hearing this, the middle-aged man slowly said, "What do you want to see the witch for?"

"Nothing much, just want to see her."

Cao Xing couldn't possibly tell him directly that he was going up to kill that witch.

The other person seemed to be thinking, and then, he slowly shook his head and said, "Go back, the witch doesn't want to see anyone."

And Cao Xing said, "That won't do. We've traveled hundreds of miles, we can't just return empty-handed without even meeting her, right?"

Hearing this, the other person stopped eating.

He glanced at Cao Xing, "It seems what I said wasn't direct enough, and you didn't understand, did you?"

"If you stay any longer, I might not be able to help treating you as food!"

At this moment, a terrifying aura emanated from his body!

This aura contained a strong murderous intent!

If it were ordinary Tier 3 or 4 powerhouses, facing this aura, they might be scared back on the spot.

However, Cao Xing and the others stood in place, unflinching.

And they calmly stared at this Ogre.

The other person also seemed to perceive the strength of Cao Xing and the others, and knew there was no way to easily send them away.

"Interesting, it seems tonight's dinner will have a few more items of food."

The Ogre slowly picked up the short dagger in his hand.

However, Cao Xing had long since prepared for battle.

He directly ordered: "Braum, Assam, Rabb, go!"

"Everyone else, attack with all your might!"

In this instant, Cao Xing directly raised his staff, and [Ice Breaking Flying Blade] shot out.

Including everyone else, various ranged attacks rained down frantically.

Holy Light Orb, Blood Poison Spurt, Wind Chasing Arrow, Nightmare Arrow, Frost Arrow…

Watching the various arrows and magic attacks flying towards him,

this Ogre didn't panic in the slightest.

A terrifying momentum burst out from his body again!

The next moment, the dining table in front of him was shattered into powder in an instant!

"Boom!"

He quickly swung the short dagger in his hand.

"Clang! Clang, clang, clang!"

After a crisp sound of slashing,

four or five arrows were directly cut off by him.

Including Isabelle's Holy Light Orb and Hilda's Blood Poison, all were dodged by him!

A 65% dodge probability was truly formidable!

"Such fast reaction! Such high dodge!"

"As expected of Expert Dagger Mastery!"

However, although this guy blocked a large number of attacks,

Cao Xing's [Ice Breaking Flying Blade] still hit him.

…

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