The main hall of Shicheng City Lord's Mansion.
Lin Yuan sat calmly on the top seat, looking down at the people below.
Xu Ping'an and the others had returned after burying the original leader. Several other important figures who were out were also urgently summoned and hurriedly gave up the task at hand.
At this moment, the main members of Tomb of the Living Dead are basically present. They stood cautiously, looking at Lin Yuan nervously.
"Who is Kira?" Lin Yuan asked.
A woman covered in black veil from the crowd quickly came out, put her hands on her waist, bowed her head and replied respectfully: "Tomb Master, I am Kira. What do you want from me?"
Lin Yuan stared at her for a while, "He is a talented person, but it is a pity that it has been eroded too deeply. Go down."
Kira felt a little confused, but the tomb owner's words could not be questioned, so she had no choice but to return to the crowd.
"Who is in charge of internal affairs in the camp?" Lin Yuan continued to ask.
"It's me, the owner of the tomb." A man walked out in a hurry.
"Shi Yan? It turns out you are not just a city lord. Okay, from now on you will still manage the internal affairs of the camp." Lin Yuan laughed.
After initially taking over the position of camp leader, he also learned that there were two main forces in Stone City. One group is the holy religion that worships the Holy Lord, and the other group is the secular organization headed by the Tomb of the Living Dead. The two forces have never dealt with each other.
The lair of the Tomb of the Living Dead is located in the City Lord's Mansion, and City Lord Stone is just a puppet placed in front of the camp.
And whether it is the camp or the Holy Cult, in the final analysis, they are the puppets of the Black Death Immortal. Why does it arrange for its two forces to be entangled and fighting endlessly? Lin Yuan didn't care about this, he just came here to experience the social ecology here.
He leaned on the armrest of the seat with his arms and held his chin in his palms. After scanning the crowd below, he called Xu Pingan up.
This person has only been in the underground world for more than 2 weeks. The erosion is not very deep and he can still be saved.
Lin Yuan's two fingers gradually came closer to Xu Pingan's eyes. In the corner of the latter's eyes, a small white beetle was twisting in panic.
"You want to save him? Don't waste your efforts. We are soul-eating insects created by the Black Death Immortal. The moment we parasitize humans, we are connected to their souls. You can't pull it out unless you I want to tear this man’s soul to pieces as well.”
The beetle standing on Lin Yuan's shoulder suddenly changed his silence and sounded gloating.
Lin Yuan stopped and glanced sideways at the beetle. The latter was so frightened that he immediately fell down and protected his head with his two forelimbs:
"You can't hit me anymore! If you beat me to death, without my ability to blind you, everyone here will find out that you are not the leader here!"
"Haha, don't be afraid, I don't want to hit you now. I just want to say, do you remember how you got into my hands?"
The beetle was stunned, and Lin Yuan continued to act. He gently pinched the insect at the corner of Xu Ping'an's eyes with two fingers. The runes flickered faintly and burst. He raised his fingers and pulled out the insect very neatly.
A small amount of brain fluid spurted out, and Xu Ping'an lost consciousness and slowly fell down.
"Oh my God, you really pulled it out. Who are you?" Beetle stood up and looked at Lin Yuan with a pair of small red eyes in shock.
Only it understands how difficult it is to pull out the soul-eating insect. It is simply declaring that Lin Yuan's attainments in the soul field are no lower than that of the Black Death Immortal. But how is this possible?
"You can think of me as a traveler and a sociologist. How bugs and corpses coexist, and how the underground kingdom operates, I am very interested in everything here. Not surprisingly, I will stay here for a while. Get along well, little bug.”
Lin Yuan tapped the beetle on the head with his nails, with a kind look on his face, but the people below him automatically ignored their conversation because of the beetle's ability to deceive.
"Crazy, really crazy! You don't want to escape, but you actually plan to stay. People in the camp can't find you, and people from the Holy Cult will find you sooner or later."
"That's another story."
"Come here, help Xu Pingping go down and rest. The others continue their work. If there is nothing urgent, please don't disturb me."
Lin Yuan ignored the beetle on his shoulder. After meeting and getting familiar with the people in the camp, he dismissed everyone and walked to the former leader's room with the corpse of the insect.
…
after one day.
Xu Pingan walked through the corridor and walked along the stairs to a study room alone.
Winter winter winter.
He knocked three times and looked around nervously.
"Brother Lin...Boss, are you there?" Xu Pingan put his mouth close to the door.
"Yes. Just come in. The door is unlocked." Lin Yuan's voice came from the study.
Xu Pingan breathed a sigh of relief, quickly opened the door and walked in.
In the center of the room was a large desk filled with large and small glass jars containing writhing bugs. A man in black clothes stood beside the desk with his back to him.
"I see your face is sallow. Did you not sleep well last night?" Lin Yuan put down the scalpel in his hand, sat down on the stool and turned half a circle towards Xu Pingan.
Paji.
Xu Ping'an had very good eyesight and saw a very large beetle next to the scalpel. It had already disemboweled its belly and its hind legs were twitching. It looked like it had no chance of survival.
"I slept well last night, but it was a little scary when I woke up."
Xu Ping'an hesitated for a moment, then asked with all his might,
"Boss, are you still Brother Lin now?"
"You kid, didn't you drag me here to take refuge? You can continue to call me Brother Lin, but not in front of other people." Lin Yuan wiped his fingers with a white tissue.
"I know. Except for the two of us, there are no living people here!" Xu Pingan nodded repeatedly, finally showing a relaxed look on his face.
God knows how scared he was when he woke up and found that everyone had worms in their bodies. This place was hundreds of thousands of meters underground, and there was no way to escape. He almost despaired. Fortunately, he thought of Lin Yuan.
Having someone as a companion gave him hope of living again. But he still couldn't figure out how Lin Yuan took the position of leader from those insects.
"Haha, today is a lively day, everyone is here in a hurry."
Just when Xu Pingan felt at ease, Lin Yuan suddenly stood up and looked out the door.
"If you don't want to die, put this on first." Lin Yuan picked up a pocket watch pendant from the table and threw it to Xu Pingan.
"Brother Lin, there are parasites in this!" Xu Pingan opened the cover of the watch and was shocked.
"Don't worry, he's dead. However, a large number of living ones are coming."
As soon as Lin Yuan finished speaking, a large number of chaotic footsteps quickly approached outside the door.
"Is Master Lin here?"
"I'm here uninvited, there's really something important going on!"
"Master Lin Tomb!"
"..."
Several people rushed into the study noisily. Shi Yan came to Lin Yuan apologetically, bent down and said, "I'm sorry, tomb owner. Several tomb owners from other camps came in person, and my subordinates couldn't stop them."
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"It's okay. I, Lin, originally planned to have the opportunity to meet the leaders of other camps, but now it's convenient."
"I wonder what important matters come with all the tomb owners coming together?" Old God Lin Yuan said on the ground.
Xu Pingan stood beside Lin Yuan dully, holding his pocket watch tightly with his fingers. In his opinion, it wasn't these visitors who were talking, it was clearly the bugs on their bodies that were speaking.
What made him even more afraid to move was that when he got closer to Lin Yuan, he discovered that there was actually a white beetle lying on Lin Yuan's shoulder!
"Master Lin, let's stop beating around the bush. We suspect that there is a traitor in your Tomb of the Living Dead." A hunchbacked old woman looked straight at Lin Yuan and said.
"Oh? Traitor? But I think all my brothers in this camp are innocent. You guys came together, did you find evidence of traitors?" Lin Yuan said without raising his eyes.
"Yes! We have several camps located in the southeast, northwest and northwest of Stone City, taking care of each other. But in just one day, some members of each camp disappeared. The traitor's hands and feet were very clean, but he still left some traces." The tomb owner said angrily.
"Through the secret method, we are sure that the traitor is hiding in Tomb Master Lin's territory. Everyone is innocent? Tomb Master Lin doesn't want to protect the traitor, right?" the black-faced Tomb Master said loudly.
The surrounding tomb owners also looked at Lin Yuan unfriendly.
"Lin Yuan, your experiment on catching soul-eating insects was exposed. I said at the time that you were too unrestrained in catching them." Doujiao rubbed his forelimbs, and the whole beetle became energetic.
"The soul-eating insects in each camp are somewhat different. If you want to understand them better, you naturally have to catch some." Lin Yuan said.
"Then how are you going to convince them now? In fact, they have already determined that you did it. Of course, they think you are under my control, and I will die too." Doujiao Yan said angrily.
"Haha, what's so difficult about this?"
Lin Yuan took a step forward and looked past everyone.
"Master Lin, have you remembered who the traitor is?" The old woman said with an evil smile on her lips.
"Here it is." Lin Yuan made a fist with five fingers and placed it in front of him.
Um?
The seven tomb owners moved their heads closer to take a look, and the next second, a fist enlarged in front of their eyes.
With just one punch, the old woman's face turned half sideways, and the other tomb owners also had nosebleeds. It was as if they had opened a soy sauce shop, and all the sour, salty, and spicy things came out, and everyone was confused.
Not asking for it?
Just as thoughts came into their minds, Lin Yuan moved like the wind, his palm brushing against their faces, and there were seven more beetles in his hand.
"It's for you. I know you have the ability to control them." Lin Yuan threw the dizzy beetles to Doujiao's mouth.
"I actually forgot that you have this unique skill of separating soul insects. There is no need to convince them."
Doujiao opened his mouth wide and swallowed all the beetles in one gulp. Its white carapace squirmed with satisfaction, and then spit out the beetles.
Under the horrified eyes of Xu Ping'an and the admiring eyes of Shi Yan, the soul-eating insects took off staggeringly and merged with the tomb owner who fell on the ground again. After a while, they all woke up and knelt down in front of Lin Yuan neatly and respectfully.
From then on, Lin Yuan also had an additional identity, the master of the Great Tomb in Shicheng.
