Chu Xin took out a dark iron token from her arms. It looked like a crude prop from a third-rate TV series. I don't know what Mr. Luo was thinking. It was tied with a red string and hidden like a treasure.
This thing is called a pioneering order, a symbol of the status of a pioneering lord. Although it is the lowest black iron-level pioneering order, it is also valuable and almost empties Mr. Luo's treasury.
With this thing, the territory captured in the Dark Land will be recognized by the Emerald Empire and protected. And if you have enough strength and technology, you can also rely on the coordinate anchor function of this thing to establish a remote connection with the Jade Empire, or even a transmission channel.
"Ding, I found that the professional lord can be activated, which requires 1 experience. Please choose whether to activate it?"
Chu Xin chose to activate without hesitation. It was only 1 point of experience and half a skeleton. It was not a big problem.
"Ding, the professional lord has been activated. Current rank: Lord 1 star LV0."
"Relevant professions have been retrieved. Your dark castle is now activated. Please select an area on the map to place it."
Chu Xin's exploration map automatically expanded and extended with him as the center, revealing a large area of bright terrain, marking the place where the "Dark Castle" could be placed.
These are the areas he has explored so far. From the topographic point of view, they are flat and there are no excellent development areas like Hulu Valley and Weihu Mountain. Moreover, this area is very desolate, the land is barren, and even exotic animals are rare. It can be said that it is not a good place to settle the territory.
But Chu Xin doesn't care. For him now, development is secondary. Safety always comes first. After all, developing a territory without safety is like building castles in the air.
There is also a countdown of "04:39" on the map. He only has five minutes to think about it. The castle must be placed within this time, otherwise the castle will automatically disappear, which means that the lord is activated. Just like white activation.
His eyes scanned back and forth on the map, and soon, Chu Xin chose a place, which was near the tombstone where the copy of "Burial Ground" was loaded, about a thousand meters away.
He had some considerations in choosing this location. Judging from the loaded copy of "Burial Ground", this should be a place where the undead gather. The one-star difficulty also means that it is not too strong in reality. , it’s good to be neighbors.
This kind of gathering place for the undead is very common in the dark land. Most of them are battlefields with tragic casualties. After a long period of fermentation, a large number of buried corpses gather the death energy and gradually revive into the unexplained undead.
Generally speaking, due to the influence of death energy, there are basically no plants around this kind of place, and no alien beasts or aliens are willing to approach this kind of place. For some tribes, in this unlucky place where they can neither obtain slaves nor have resources, naturally the farther away the better.
But Chu Xin has no such considerations. What he wants now is a place where he can live and play games safely. Unless he encounters a high-level undead or an undead mage who recruits his subordinates, there is basically nothing big here. risk.
As Chu Xin selected the place, a black castle similar to the icon gradually formed on the exploration map, and finally it was located near the tombstone.
"Ding, your dark castle has been built, please go and check it out yourself. Warning, if the castle is destroyed, this game will be permanently closed!"
Chu Xin was stunned. From the system prompts, he suddenly realized that this dark castle was essentially built in reality and was based on reality. More of the exploration map was just an icon.
The castle was destroyed, and the price was a permanent ban. Chu Xin looked at the castle several kilometers away from him, and suddenly became a little anxious. It would be terrible if some eyeless skeleton or slime turned around and demolished the house!
The exploration map was automatically turned off after placing the castle. Chu Xin, who had not yet been resurrected, was temporarily unable to investigate the surrounding situation, but he still anxiously chose to run all the way, and the rampage state was turned on!
Taking advantage of the momentum she had gained from running the one-thousand-meter physical examination in school, and with no dangers along the way, Chu Xin rushed to her castle—oh no, it should be said to be in front of the dilapidated thatched house.
The name is quite domineering, Dark Castle, but in essence, it is just a thatched house with not very fine workmanship. It feels like it was built with a handful of weeds in the wasteland.
With some disbelief, Chu Xin gently pushed open the straw curtain and saw the withered grass on the ground. From the looks of it, it should be the bed of the Lord of the Castle.
It is a little regretful that there is no impregnable castle, but it is not that regretful. After all, there is no need to eat and sleep tonight.
Chu Xin did not plan to look at the gathering place of the undead next to the thatched house for the time being. After all, he did not yet know the scope of the hatred of the undead. If the hatred of the undead had been locked on Baguo in the past, it would be over. Now he prefers to lie at home and play games to see if he can trigger some items or events that can increase his combat power.
The golden villain was resurrected again, and with one chance of resurrection left, Chu Xin decided to release the copy first. His current combat power can defeat one or two skeletons, but more would be too much. The harvest would be too little, so it would be better to focus on exploration first.
Open the exploration map. This time the golden man appears in the black castle on the map. What surprised him was that the castle came with an extremely wide field of vision, almost half the distance between the tombstones.
This function surprised Chu Xin. Relying on this field of vision, he could clearly identify the risks around him. The safety factor of the thatched house has undoubtedly increased by several levels.
The golden little man set sail again, and this time Chu Xin felt much more at ease and not so impatient. Although he said he disliked this thatched hut, he was still very happy in his heart. This person must have a home to shelter him from the wind and rain in order to feel at ease.
Lying on the withered grass, Chu Xin controlled the golden man to run in one direction. This time he planned to go as far as possible.
The pioneer lords teleported from the Emerald Empire have been screened to a certain extent. Although precise fixed-point teleportation is not possible, most of them are randomly teleported to some more remote and less risky locations in the Dark Land. Similarly, there were relatively few things that Chu Xin could explore, so he decided to go to a farther place to see.
"Tip, you have explored an unknown land, and the exploration value is +1."
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"Tip, you found a stronghold: the wild boar's lair. You can send troops to conquer it. The exploration value +5"
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"Tip, you encounter a bard, trigger a random event, and the exploration value +10."
Chu Xin found a small white dot on the map. He didn't collect any resources along the way and his backpack was empty. He stepped on it without hesitation.
"The bard played his verse to you, and you were so moved that you decided to tell him a story."
"Please choose the story you want to tell, 1. The wolf and the sheep on the green prairie; 2. The story of the official Ximen and the young lady of the Pan family; 3. The legend of the nine dragons pulling the coffin."
After a brief consideration, Chu Xin made his own choice. Green Prairie was not considered. Legend has it that although it is magnificent and majestic, the poet probably yearned for art more.
