CHAPTER 87: CHAPTER 87: LOOKS LIKE ALIEN SCRIPT

In this process, Lu Ran was unable to completely control the balance between the enslaved monsters and the non-enslaved monsters.

But it didn’t matter.

When Lu Ran noticed that the efficiency of monster farming was decreasing and the enslaved Snake Monsters were losing strength, he only needed a glance to summon a large batch of Snake Monsters to join in again.

"Let’s go inside." Lu Ran said to the three guild leaders.

They quickly followed, sticking close behind Lu Ran as they walked forward.

After all, they weren’t in a party state right now, so Lu Ran’s skills would also cause them harm.

The good thing was that Lu Ran hadn’t used any other skills at this moment.

They walked into the outer hall area.

Although it was called the outer hall area, there was no grand hall, but rather a vast outer perimeter.

Lu Ran looked down at the slate beneath his feet.

On it were various complex runes, potholed and uneven.

Lu Ran was somewhat puzzled, saying, "I don’t know what these runes mean. If they were data-generated, they shouldn’t just be for aesthetics. Could they be alien text?"

Upon hearing this, Ye Hongyi burst out laughing.

She jokingly scolded, "Alien, my foot. This place existed before global dataization. It was a site for Miao Village to worship the Snake God, presided over by Wu Xi. In Miao Village, a female witch is a Wu, and a male a Xi. But after dataization, this became a ruin, generating the Titan Python and countless Snake Demons, turning it into the Ten Thousand Serpent Hall. The Miao Village was forced to abandon this place."

As for the runes on the ground, they are commonly used spell symbols in witchcraft.

Not alien text as Lu Ran thought.

A girl who grew up in Miao Village indeed.

Ye Hongyi, though she rarely returned over the years, was still very familiar with the history of Miao Village.

"I see." Lu Ran said, scratching his head awkwardly.

He turned his head and looked around.

The nearby Snake Monsters were almost all cleared, and then Lu Ran’s sight stretched far. The scene of enslaved and non-enslaved Snake Monsters slaughtering each other spread like a plague.

The slaughtering became more intense.

Lu Ran’s speed of earning experience points was also steadily increasing.

"No rush to enter the inner chamber, let’s finish this area first. This is a huge wave of rich experience, much richer than I anticipated." Ye Hongyi reminded.

Of course, Lu Ran had no objections; he thought the same.

With a large number of high-level monsters providing high experience points, it shouldn’t be wasted.

Thinking now.

Liu Xinxin’s choice of this place for Lu Ran to level up, at least until he could farm team dungeons, was undoubtedly the best leveling spot!

Perfectly covering Lu Ran’s dull and long upgrade process before reaching level 30.

Just fifteen minutes later, the delayed slaughter stopped.

Lu Ran turned his head to look around; the non-enslaved Snake Monsters had been completely cleared out.

All that’s left are the densely packed enslaved ones.

"These ones I’ve enslaved are a bit wasted." Lu Ran said regretfully.

These are all experience points!

Now that Lu Ran has enslaved them, he cannot release them.

It really is a bit wasteful.

At this time, Liu Xinxin suddenly said, "Let them slaughter each other and see if you gain experience."

Huh?

Lu Ran was stunned; is it possible to play like this?

Liu Xinxin explained:

"Previously when they were slaughtering, I carefully observed that some of the Snake Monsters’ area attacks also caused damage to the other enslaved ones."

"So I speculate that your Skeleton Throne entry, while forcibly seizing their control, is different from traditional friendly units."

"They can cause damage to each other, but it’s unknown if they’ll give you experience upon death."

...

Hearing this.

Lu Ran decisively tried, with a thought.

The previously quiet large patches of Snake Monsters received a new command.

This time, there was no specific target but an indiscriminate attack to the surroundings!

Sure enough!

These Snake Monsters controlled by Lu Ran can cause damage to each other!

Moreover, because it’s an indiscriminate attack, there’s no need to choose a target, so the speed is faster!

At the same time.

Lu Ran watched the notifications.

[Team killed a level 34 Shadow Python, gained 3600 experience points!]

[Team killed a level 41 Prison Fire Snake, gained 4370 experience points!]

[Team killed a level 37 Withered Wood Ghost Snake, gained 3880 experience points!]

[Team killed a level 41 Prison Fire Snake, gained 4370 experience points!]

[Team killed a level 37 Withered Wood Ghost Snake, gained 3880 experience points!]

...

Experience can be gained!

Moreover, as there’s no party, Lu Ran gets to enjoy the experience solo, and while the increase isn’t particularly large, it’s not insignificant!

"Experience can be gained." Lu Ran said excitedly.

With this, controlling monsters to kill monsters in the future won’t waste anything.

"Damn it, is there actually someone in this world who can group monsters without using skills? Damn, it’s really defying the heaven!" Lei Tai watched as the Snake Monsters fell in droves, feeling quite satisfied.

Also, he was stunned by Lu Ran’s entry ability.

Soon after.

The outer hall was completely cleared, with Snake Monsters’ corpses lying everywhere, haphazardly.

The air was thick with the heavy stench of blood.

Even though some earlier deceased Snake Monster corpses were data-disintegrated and disappeared, a large number of Snake Monster corpses still remained.

Besides, scattered among them were equipment and Gold Coins that Lu Ran couldn’t be bothered to pick up.

The drops in the outer hall area were all Blue Equipment and Green Equipment, and even purple rare equipment couldn’t be equipped due to high level and average attributes.

Lu Ran casually picked up some purple rare equipment.

He and the three others moved toward the central inner hall.

The inner hall wasn’t a singular grand hall but a complex of buildings.

It was built by Miao Village in ancient times, before global dataization.

Roughly constructed, basically made of piled-up boulders.

It also had complicated runes that Lu Ran couldn’t understand carved on it.

The three of them entered the inner hall through a giant stone door in the center.

The light immediately dimmed.

There were some fire pits on the surrounding stone walls, though unmaintained, they were eternally burning due to data support.

Otherwise, the visibility in here would be less than five meters.

Looking around, this area was filled with Snake Monsters of a higher level, directly one tier up!

The number wasn’t as exaggerated as in the outer hall, but each was significantly larger; the largest were as thick as barrels and over ten to twenty meters long!

Just looking at it made Lu Ran’s scalp tingle.

With a quick glance, he started controlling the Snake Monsters to slaughter each other.

To speed up, Lu Ran began summoning Skeleton Soldiers for indiscriminate Corpse Explosion around.

From time to time, he unleashed a Skeleton Storm, covering a small area within the inner hall to continuously stack and speed up the monster farming.

Of course, to prevent accidents, he didn’t forget to summon a few ancient Golems, gathering them around the group to form a circle.

Protecting the three behind him while also being able to defend against any unexpected harm to Lu Ran.

Simultaneously.

Outside the Ten Thousand Serpent Hall.

In the dense forest, maybe because of curiosity, or perhaps her tough words but worried heart about Ye Hongyi.

Wei Yingying brought a few high-level Gu Masters and came over.

"Gupo, can those people really obtain the Titan Python’s poison sac?" someone asked.

"They can’t." Wei Yingying said without hesitation, "Do you think the Ten Thousand Serpent Hall is that easy to conquer? We haven’t tried before. Even among the three guild leaders, the gap with high-combat Professionals isn’t that vast, and there’s only three of them, bringing along a tag-along, how can they fight? Probably right now they’re outside the outer hall, frowning."

After saying that.

She pouted, sulking, "I’m just giving her a hard time since she hasn’t returned for so long and didn’t fulfill the promise she made to me. Yet she agreed anyhow. Can’t she just swallow her pride a bit? In the end, she’ll just hit a wall, and I’ll have to give her a way out."

While speaking, she brushed aside the bushes ahead to see the Ten Thousand Serpent Hall.

But to Wei Yingying’s surprise, this place, for the very first time, was eerily quiet!