Blanton Noka, abbreviated as Noka Town.

It has always been a peaceful and peaceful village, although in recent years most young people have gone to work in the smoky factories in the city, which has added a lot of loneliness to the elderly and children in the village.

However, this in itself is a mutually beneficial thing.

The fact that there is less idle labor to ensure a safe and secure environment, and the wealth brought back by young people improves the material conditions of the villages and towns themselves, so that the children can have money to study, so that the elderly will not die of cold and starvation in disaster years, which is a great thing in itself...... Exceptions are made in certain circumstances.

A week ago, a sudden epidemic broke out, and in a short period of time, more than a dozen elderly people and children with weak constitutions died, in this era that has just escaped from medieval civilization, any cold can knock down countless people, not to mention the current spread of this kind of fierce infectious disease that can kill people in a day or two.

And due to the heavy rain for several days, the landslide caused the main road to the city of Morfedis to be buried with earth and rock.

There seems to be a big hand in the darkness that has pushed the entire town of Noka to the end of the world in a short period of time.

On this very day, the ornate carriage with the noble floral emblem was driven by a sturdy short-haired coachman to the town of Noka, where it stopped under the wooden sign of the village tavern.

Zhu Peng pushed open the door first and got out of the car.

Lisa smeared his eyes and hair with druid's means of making potions of plant blending, at this moment, Zhu Peng has blonde hair and blue eyes, white skin and a black trench coat, and holds a simple and gorgeous cane in his right hand, and the whole person is full of an ancient aristocratic demeanor.

No way, when he was a spy back then, he inherited the identity memory of Rod Custer, and Zhu Peng at this moment is almost acting in his true colors.

He jumped out of the carriage directly against the rain, ran to the door of the tavern in three steps and two steps, and did not go in directly, but waited for Lisa to pick up his three sisters with an umbrella and come over one by one.

Ma Yongzhen, who is known as Hank, wants to take care of the carriage, Zhu Peng and the four ladies pushed the door into the tavern, the atmosphere here is not very cheerful, there are obviously rude mercenaries with swords and armor, and there are stray cowboys wearing leather boots with guns stuck in their waists, but everyone is drinking stuffy wine, and there is a lifeless taste.

"Boss, a bowl of horned beef and potatoes per person, a white loaf of bread, a bottle of fruit wine, a bottle of new wine...... Pick two of your best dishes here. After a simple command, Zhu Peng returned to the round table where Lisha had been re-wiped and sat down.

The cuisine of the Western world is poor, and the restaurants of the Chinese people who can order at least dozens of dishes at every turn are very few in the Western restaurants, and the world is similar, and it is very backward in terms of food culture.

"This noble young master, with all due respect, you really shouldn't have come to Noka Town at this time. Before Zhu Peng's table was served, a light mature woman with long dark red hair and white skin and long legs in a tight leather coat had already sat down next to Zhu Peng.

She is quite beautiful, but she is not the "tender" feeling like the three girls around Zhu Peng.

The red-haired woman had two muskets pinned to her waist and a short knife tied to her legs, and Zhu Peng could even vaguely feel the wind and thunder dual-attribute fighting spirit faintly whistling in this woman's body.

In short, a father and brother are mercenaries, and Thorn Rose has been used to the rude and savage mercenary world since childhood.

When I was young, I may have had my own dreams, but now I just want to find a rich and powerful, or rich and powerful nobleman to support me as a mistress.

This woman's eyes faintly revealed a she-wolf greed when she looked at the teenager in front of her.

"I don't mind having a drink, beautiful lady, and if you can answer my questions, I'll pay you what satisfies you. Glancing at the other party's chest, he found that he was not as beautiful and magnificent as his sister Zhenna, Zhu Peng was a little interested, and asked directly.

"This young master, I don't know if you are here to play with your little lovers or what to do, but there is a plague in Noka Town, and my brothers and I have planned to leave the mountain road tomorrow, although it is also dangerous to walk in the wilderness, but the main road is blocked by mudslides, and it is better to take the mountain road than to stay here and wait for death. The red-haired woman's next sentence was originally to ask the noble young master in front of her who was holding a gem-inlaid cane if he would follow his group, even if he couldn't catch a golden turtle, he could pick up a job along the way.

However, the female leader did not expect that when she heard the word "plague", the little nobleman opposite frowned, and then he stood up directly to the tavernkeeper's counter, dragged over the mercenary note that had been posted recently, and quickly found the relevant task for help.

"Has it been a week?" Zhu Peng groaned slightly, then raised his head and said:

"Boss, I'm an occupational physician, please take me to the patient's quarantine area, I think I can help. Zhu Peng said to the fat boss in front of him, and then witnessed a sluggish fat man from his original expressionless face, and at this moment, his face full of fat quickly transformed into a look of ecstasy.

"Oh...... God, are you a physician? But ...... How do you know we're quarantined?"

"It is cruel to confine the sick in a small area and leave them to their own devices, but it is also very effective...... Hank, pull the carriage out again, and every moment of delay there is a possibility that a patient will die because of it. Zhu Peng quickly returned to the carriage with his cane, because of the particularity of this matter, most of the people in the tavern were alarmed, and at this time the rain outside was not heavy.

With Zhu Peng running in the car of Ma Yongzhen, who is alias Hank, more and more people are passing ten, ten and hundred, and almost all of them are rushing to the direction of the quarantine area, because this is the most important thing in the entire village and town. The plague that lingers hovers over almost everyone's heads like a scythe of death.

Under the guidance of the fat owner of the tavern and Hank's skillful skills, before the night was completely dark, they came to a mass grave area on the outskirts of the village, far away from the village and town.

The quarantine area is really time-saving and labor-saving, and if one dies of illness, he will be thrown directly to the mass grave slope, and there are only a few family members of the sick people around the grass shed who take care of their seriously ill relatives in the cold wind and rain, and there is not even a little hot water to be found here.

A mass graveyard, a huge redbud tree, a dilapidated church standing on one side.

When Zhu Peng stepped out of the carriage, he frowned slightly as he looked at the environment here, and he already knew something in his heart.

Although he also chose this town as a development point, and even he originally planned to spread some epidemics here, the basic principles were still there, and Zhu Peng did not intend to turn this place into a Dead Jedi.

"Ladies and gentlemen, please let me take a look at the patient's condition. Stepping out of the carriage, under the explanation of the obese tavern owner on the side, Zhu Peng generally examined the bodies of several seriously ill patients in the grass shed. Then he took out the pen and paper he had with him, walked to the huge ancient bauhinia tree in the center of the mass grave not far away, and wrote while thinking about it.

At this time, because it was no longer raining, Ellie and the others did not know where to find the horse, so they rode quickly over.

"Brother, I just took a look, it seems to be just a moderately virulent plague, with your level of pharmacy, do you need to think about it for so long?"

"First, there is not enough reserve of medicinal materials here, so it is necessary to take local materials from the mountains and forests in front of you to suppress the disease, which is a little more difficult. Second, there was a necromancer who spread the plague before us, but he didn't want to buy people's hearts to quickly integrate into the town, he or they wanted to test the differences in the physique of the human race in this world, and then spread the plague virus to artificially create the Black Death that spread across the continent...... Finally, if I think about it a little longer, it seems that I work harder. As he spoke, Zhu Peng tore off a page of paper, and then handed it to Akizuki Shina beside him.

"Tell the villagers to look for them from this mountain forest, most of the medicines I want must be available in this mountain forest, find them, boil them, and drink them in every household, so that no one will die of plague in five days." Marina took the prescription and without hesitation, ran to the villagers who were gradually gathering and announced the news loudly.

For a time, the mass grave area in Noka Town was thunderous, crying, praying, and thanking were mixed and intertwined, and under the endless shadow of death and fear, I finally saw the hope of living.

Zhu Peng practiced witch-eating arts, so his attainments in herbology and potions were extremely profound, in fact, except for the field of magic and mechanics, Zhu Peng's high level of mathematics was slightly thinner.

In herbal medicine, in the aspects of necromancy, Zhu Peng itself has a considerable foundation, Wudang Pure Yang Sect uses martial arts to establish the sect, and practicing martial arts, how can there be no injury, how can there not accumulate a lot of medical knowledge?

The foundation of necromancy comes from the soul arrow obtained by chance, the lifelong learning of the old necromantic bookworm, Zhu Peng has not digested it all even now, but he wants to achieve the strong existence of the legendary great lich.

Half a month later, under the effect of Zhu Peng's herbal prescription, the epidemic in the entire village and town was almost swept away. Originally, after doing these things, the noble noble physician planned to leave and continue his journey, but the old mayor, who had just been tossed by the plague and lost most of his life, dragged his newly recovered body and led the villagers of Noka Town to burst into tears, crying for their fathers and mothers, holding the wheels of the carriage and refusing to let go.

There was even an old man who stuck his head directly under the wheel of the car, and there was a crazy posture that you wanted to go, and ran over my head first.

The old man is afraid of death, and he also sells the old and bullies the weak and fears the hard, so it is easy to catch a kind-hearted aristocratic doctor, where is he willing to let go easily, under the leadership of the old mayor, most of the villagers in Norka Town came out to stop the car.

In the face of enthusiasm, the aristocratic young master named Rod Custer had no choice but to come out and reluctantly agree to buy a house and land here, and live for a while.

"Brother, you are so deceitful, you deliberately asked me and my sister to leak their mouths, saying that there is a possibility that the epidemic will break out again with a second mutation, as soon as this kind of news spreads, the life of the entire town is almost in your hands, who would dare to let you leave?" Because of Zhu Peng's performance with Zhennai and the performance of the entire villagers of Noka Town, Qiuyue Ellie giggled and covered her stomach.

However, regardless of the means, Zhu Peng's power network quickly spread throughout the villages and towns.

Ma Yongzhen relied on a pair of iron fists and an old and spicy style of rivers and lakes, and quickly ruled the original small gang and faction in this village and town.

Of course, he had to go through Lisa's makeup and plastic surgery before every shot, so he gradually broke away from the status of the Karst family groom, became the leader of the underground gangs in this area, and faintly spread his influence to Morfeidis City.

Reisa made a pact with the spirits of the wilderness who roamed the nearby mountains and forests to put in as much food as they wanted, and these spirits would become her sentinels, leaving no anomalous power close to the Custer family undetected, unless their opponents were careful in the mountains.

Unless they are legendary assassins who have become accustomed to hiding themselves in the shadows, or other very special professions, it is difficult for even legendary wizards to escape the prying eyes of the spirits of the wilderness in the mountains and forests.

Zhu Peng, on the other hand, threw out a large sum of gold and bought a large area of land centered on the dilapidated church in the mass burial area.

He transformed the church into a school and took in children from villages and towns for free.

renovate the mass grave area and turn it into a well-groomed cemetery to prevent the exposed corpses from developing new diseases;

Even giving regular soup porridge and providing free medical treatment to the villagers, in a very short period of time, the popularity of the Custer family skyrocketed in the town of Noka, and finally it was almost on the verge of exploding.

But in reality?

Zhu Peng really didn't do anything unfavorable to the villagers of Noka Town, he just set up a large laboratory under the school, transformed all the corpses buried in the cemetery, and even injected the spine of relatively fresh and intact corpses with Ma Qianrong's enhanced secret blood prepared from local materials.

With the dilapidated cathedral as the center, the entire cemetery was covered by Zhu Peng in a necromantic demon array, once he encountered a strong enemy, this area could be turned into half of his domain, so as to take advantage of the location.

............

In the middle of the night, Morfedis, even the bright lights can't penetrate its dark deep alleyways.

A strong werewolf more than two meters tall was grabbed by a bony hand stretched out from under the black robe, under the action of the touch of death, the werewolf's vigorous vitality and strong martial arts could not be displayed, its body gradually withered, and finally shattered like earth, stone and gravel, and was thrown to the ground at will.

"We miscalculated...... I thought that this was a barren land of power, but I didn't expect that the local power in this enslaved world was actually quite strong, and I was willing to be a toad in this calm dry well, and I didn't want to go out to see the truly magnificent world of the heavens...... Such a strong man is ridiculous. ”

"Even if it's a toad, it's a blood-sucking toad that has lived for hundreds of years, and you're afraid you won't be able to laugh when you really encounter it. Our strength in St. Rudin is not enough to take this place for the time being, so let's start with the surrounding villages and towns to establish a stronghold, and besides, the soul gathering ritual at Branton Norka has failed, and the Soul Orb I arranged earlier has not collected enough souls. ”

“...... I'll take a look, to see who has the audacity to obstruct the Nethercastle's soul-gathering ritual. In the dark alley, two dark shadows intertwined and whispered to each other.

The whispering sound is like a rat in the gutter, like a poisonous snake in the grass, and like a poisonous juice that kills people!

............

At the same time, on the site of the dilapidated cathedral in the town of Noka.

In the rough labs where the underground space is expanding, teams of ghouls of the Nether Legion have laid down their weapons and are doing free labor without any labor fees.

Zhu Peng cast a spell to directly corrode the hard boulders, and then excavated them by these evil warriors from the other world, and now the entire cemetery was shrouded in a faint layer of gray mist.

And it is located on the outskirts of the village and town, and no one will come if it is not necessary in the dead of night, and even if it comes, it will not necessarily break through this obviously strange fog...... That would basically be besieged and killed by the Nether Army.

The dead who are corroded by negative energy naturally hate the living, and the friendship score of -20 basically belongs to the category of meeting and starting a fight for no reason.

Zhu Peng could control them not to attack the limited number of targets, but he couldn't limit all the villagers of the entire Noka Town.

In the repaired laboratory area, all kinds of glass and crystal utensils have begun to be placed, and the environment is indeed a little rougher, but Ma Qianrong's training environment when she just became a formal wizard will not be better than at this time, but Zhu Peng is used to using large magic quantum computers, ultra-high magnification microscopes, and large-scale experimental research equipment, and now from the legendary wizard's laboratory to the experimental environment of ordinary first- and second-order little wizards, there is a little bit of a gap, and she herself is quickly adjusting to adapt.

"How's your busy time?"

Zhu Peng took the architectural drawings that he had just drawn, knocked on the door and walked into the witch's laboratory and asked her how she was doing.

Syllable!

Flick your middle finger and thumb to snap your fingers.

The three corpses that were originally lying on the dissecting table behind Ma Qianrong stood up, and the three men with strong bodies had all been perfectly healed under the witch's secret technique.

Ma Qianrong smiled and said lightly proudly: "These guys have been transformed by me with bloodline witchcraft and unique wizard knowledge, and their combat power has reached the level of a strong first-order warrior, with a maximum attack ability of about 200 degrees, and their vitality and defense are excellent. Well, these three soul slaves are gargoyles transformed from my personal knowledge of witchcraft. ”

Roar! Roar!

The three-headed gargoyle roared at the same time as the master's introduction, and a circle of black-gray slime-like things spread out on the surface of their skin, and then quickly solidified, turning into heavily armed warriors wearing purple-black stone armor while their speed and agility were almost undiminished, and at their mouths, noses, and nails, Zhu Peng could faintly smell the poisonous breath.

A first-order wizard can control about ten soul slaves through soul sorcery. Twenty second-order wizards, fifty third-order wizards...... Legendary wizards have been relatively few since the beginning, and the demigod wizards of the wizarding world have built wizard towers, formed their own soul slave army, and attacked the alien plane.

None of the above numbers are fixed, even if they are also first-order wizards, the depth of magic power is different, the purity of essence is different, the meditation method of cultivation is different, and even the innate soul strength is different, and the number of soul slaves that can be controlled is also different.

Zhu Peng cultivates shadow masks, his magic power is deep and pure, and his soul is also strong and powerful, he can split more than forty soul flames to control soul slaves, although he is a second-order wizard, but the number of controls is already very close to that of a third-order wizard.

But in fact, Zhu Peng's soul flame has not been divided, and the soul slave under the soul slave system under the soul enslavement witchcraft system is indeed very useful, but the split, especially the loss of a soul flame, will more or less affect the spiritual power cultivation to improve, although it is not that it cannot be replenished, but Zhu Peng is not different from Ma Qianrong or even other wizards who rely on soul slaves.

He doesn't need a soul slave as a combat power supplement.

In fact, the summoning of the God Eater system is somewhat similar to a soul slave, except that the enemy's soul is used instead of his own soul flame payment, which is more difficult to make, but the power obtained is correspondingly stronger. Of course, it is possible for the demon to escape from the grasp or even betray, and the safety factor is lower than that of the soul slave.

"Well, the appearance is very good, I feel that it is a cost-effective soul slave model, if you don't mind it very much, you can sell me the corresponding witchcraft knowledge, and I will give you a satisfactory price. Feeling the breath of the three-headed gargoyle in front of him, Zhu Peng nodded in admiration.

Ma Qianrong is a wizard specializing in the auxiliary system, so soul witchcraft to control soul slaves is almost a method that she indirectly has combat effectiveness, and she has invested a lot of effort in this area.

"Cut, buy, buy, buy, you want to buy any good thing you see directly, knowing that you have a lot of money, you can buy me directly." Ma Qianrong slapped Zhu Peng lightly, and said angrily and funny: "Say, is there something wrong with coming to me on purpose?"

"Oh, yes, I almost forgot to get down to business. Follow me, your gargoyle is also brought, it should be able to test actual combat ability. After speaking, Zhu Peng took Ma Qianrong to the bottom of the underground laboratory.

The water veins here extend in all directions, and an underground well was specially built for Lisa in the very center where the water surface almost overflowed the wellhead.

This is Lisa's private territory, surrounded by a variety of glow-in-the-dark plants, and even many strange animals and beasts.

At the same time, Lisa also passes through the water veins here...... That well, communicating with the spirits of the wilderness in all directions, is a fantasy version of the Skynet monitoring system. Here, with these plants and animals to match, Lisa is a third-order druid, or even stronger.

"The spirits of the wilderness have sent me a warning message, and it has only been less than a month since we settled in that someone has begun to invade our territory. The dressed in straw said Lisa, her fingernails, which had become more and more sharp recently, waved lightly, and then pressed on the well where the water veins intersected, and the magical greenery spread, and the originally clear well water was like an LCD screen reflecting a scene:

A team of adventurers is lighting a fire in the wilderness, they are wearing armor and swords, obviously not afraid of the beasts and other dangers in the mountains and forests, in the center sits a black-robed old man holding a rattan cane, it seems that he cares about the strength of this group of adventurers, the vision of the spirit of the wilderness seems quite far, in a distant position.

But just this picture is enough for Zhu Peng and others to judge the situation.

"Looking at their posture, it is obvious that the core team of wizards of the Black Castle is almost impossible to be a local adventure team. Captain, do you want to contact it first, or do you directly recall other people to strike first?" Ma Qianrong looked at the picture in the well, estimated it, and finally asked Zhu Peng's opinion.

Zhu Peng led a seven-person team to rush back and forth in the Dark Second Realm, and they had a very tacit understanding with each other, usually everyone was not angry, but once the war started, including Ma Yongzhen, they only called Zhu Peng the captain.

Because, in the adventure of life and death, there is hardly anyone who can do better and more competent than this man.

"Gather everyone back, Lisa, you sit at the base, and we'll sneak over first. When we arrive, Lisa, you warn them to retreat, and if they refuse to turn back...... Just stay here forever. Looking at the picture in the well water, one by one the instructions were conveyed.

"Captain, are you still wearing armor this time?"

“...... No armor, in the next ten years, the battle and killing will continue, I have almost only used witchcraft in the past five years, and my muscles and bones are rusty, and the synergistic combat ability of spells and martial arts must also be replenished, which is also the biggest advantage I can use to defeat the legendary wizard, and I can't abandon it. While walking outside, Zhu Peng untied the heavy armor he was equipped with and stretched his muscles and bones.