The Post Sky Tipping Era
Chapter 696 - 494 Termite

Chapter 696: Chapter 494 Termite

The room isn’t large, but it’s clean and tidy, and the lighting is decent. Through the thick window, Li Yi can see the outside world.

However, the outside remains pitch black, with no daylight. In the distance, there is only the light from other buildings. Occasionally, he can also see the spirits flying across the sky... Danger lurks everywhere in this world.

Li Yi didn’t think too much about it, he simply set the alarm, then lay down on the bed to sleep.

He wanted to see if he would receive Xuan Yuezi’s Dream Implantation Technique after falling asleep.

However, after Li Yi fell asleep, he didn’t dream of Xuan Yuezi. Instead, he had a nightmare.

In the dream, he was enveloped by darkness, countless giant eyes watched him, he felt small and powerless, wanting to escape but helpless. Moreover, in the dream, he seemed to be infected by dark forces, from his pores came many black hairs, which grew longer and wrapped around him, suffocating and desperate.

The dream was short.

But a long time seemed to pass.

Only when the set alarm on his phone rang did Li Yi wake up startled from the dream.

The moment Li Yi opened his eyes, he suddenly sat up, feeling incredible that he had a nightmare.

After condensing his soul and uniting his thoughts, unless someone implants a dream, he shouldn’t be having nightmares.

"A curse from the Evil God?" Li Yi looked at the back of his hand.

A faint imprint stubbornly remained, and under the gaze of the Evolver’s eyes, this imprint seemed to emit a black aura, sinister and ominous. If this evil presence stayed in the body, there might truly be a chance of mutation, growing black hair all over the body, becoming a bizarre monster.

"Seems like I need to quickly find the Golden Apple to wash away the curse, otherwise its influence on me will only grow."

He didn’t hesitate and immediately walked out of the room after a brief tidying, ready to take action.

But just as he stepped out the door, he found many people gathered outside.

Li Yi’s arrival caught the attention of all these people, and the scene instantly quieted down.

"Hmm?" He moved his gaze around, looking at these people, and saw they were prepared with armor and swords, gathering manpower as if planning to adventure.

"Sir, they want to follow us on our adventure." At this moment, Sun Fei stepped forward and quietly said.

"You should go back, I don’t have the habit of leading a team," Li Yi said.

He certainly didn’t want to take a group of burdens on an adventure through the corridors, because these people were too weak, unable to even protect themselves—it would just lead to death if they went.

"Give us a chance to follow you," someone shouted.

"Since you’ve moved in here and become the new resident, you have responsibilities and duties to help us, cultivate new adventurers," someone else shouted loudly.

"The tunnel information was shared with you, you should give back to us. Even if you don’t need us to adventure, by the rules you must give us thirty percent of the loot." Someone also thought about the benefits.

Li Yi’s brow furrowed tightly as he listened.

When did the rules become a tool for coercion?

"No wonder this building has declined, turns out it has raised a group of people who want to gain without effort. Previously, I was just passing through and didn’t notice this," Li Yi stated calmly, then glanced at the woman named Bai You in the crowd.

That woman’s expression was calm at the moment, as if she saw nothing wrong with this situation.

After all, Li Yi had previously split three-tenths of the loot after killing the Golden Mouse, which was the same as before.

"Sir, I suggest moving to another building temporarily. The leaders of this building are not open-minded, and the atmosphere is already spoiled. Although they still follow the rules, the rest of the people just want to gain without effort, hoping to snatch a piece of meat from mighty adventurers, without any respect or courtesy," Sun Fei quietly said at this moment.

"I’ve also encountered similar situations. The traditional rules within the building were made to protect the weak, but when people realize they can always rely on the strong to survive, this group continues to grow until they drag down all the adventurers in the building, eventually leading to decline and extinction."

Li Yi understood this reasoning.

It’s simple; too many freeloaders in the building burden the adventurers, causing them to leave or die one after another.

And the freeloaders are unwilling to take the adventurers’ place, leading to an imbalance in the building, eventually swallowed by darkness.

Originally, this building had no adventurers left, but Li Yi’s arrival gave these people hope, wanting to use rules to bind him, to make him the building’s new provider, allowing them to take thirty percent of his loot without doing anything.

Ultimately, true darkness isn’t the sky outside, but the greed and ugliness in humans’ hearts.

Of course, the establishment of rules is not entirely flawed; it has advantages too, as before mighty adventurers, the weak have the right to survive.

Li Yi was new and didn’t wish to challenge traditional rules, he simply said calmly: "You want a share of the loot, no problem, but you’ll have to go on an adventure outside the building with me."

"You, you, and you, lastly you, Bai You."

He pointed at people who had spoken before, calling them out one by one.

Those being named had two extreme reactions—either excitement, feeling like they could go adventuring, or fear, lacking the courage to leave the building, only thinking about sharing the loot.

"No, I’m too weak, I don’t want to go adventuring," someone quickly refused.

But Sun Fei shouted, "You don’t have the right to refuse, unless you willingly give up sharing the loot."

"Then, then I give up my share of the spoils." The person hesitated for a moment and spoke.

He cared more about his own life than the spoils.

Sun Fei continued, "It’s too late, you accepted a share of the spoils just a few days ago, remember the Golden Mouse? Once you’ve taken the spoils, it means you must fulfill the adventurer’s duty and become our teammate, otherwise you’ll be expelled from this building."

He was very familiar with the traditional rules.

So, in situations where Li Yi had no teammates, as long as they accepted Li Yi’s spoils, they had to contribute.

Of course, this was premised on Li Yi sticking to this demand; if he softened, indulging them, it would be disastrous.

"Whoever doesn’t go leaves this building." Sun Fei said again, "If you want a share of the spoils, those whose names are called must come with us."

Everyone fell silent again.

The rules protected them and restrained them.

No matter how unwilling they were, how much they wanted to avoid it, in the end, ten or so young people stepped forward.

"Follow me." Li Yi said expressionlessly, then strode out of the building.

"We’ll go, anyway, we’re weak, can’t deal with monsters, let him kill the monsters when the time comes."

"Right, every monster should leave us our benefits, can’t leave behind any Gold Coins."

"This person’s very strong, we’ll surely harvest a lot this time."

These people followed Li Yi out of the building and started discussing among themselves, excitement showing on their brows.

Li Yi didn’t speak, leading them out of the bright building into the darkness outside.

And without the protection of the Holy Corpse, the Evil God’s curse in Li Yi’s hand immediately took effect.

The monsters in the nearby darkness were immediately drawn over.

"What was that?" In the group, someone looked around nervously, wondering if it was an illusion, something seemed to have brushed past just now.

Above them, the familiar dead soul monsters appeared again, making strange sounds and flying quickly with scythes in hand.

Yet Li Yi stopped at this moment, not continuing to move forward.

"Hey, why did you stop? There’s a lot of monsters here, it’s not safe for us to stay here, let’s hurry to the passage, don’t you have Golden Mouse Skin? Maybe you can get a huge treasure." Someone urgently shouted to Li Yi.

Li Yi still didn’t speak.

His silver eyes pierced the darkness, realizing the monsters had come.

"Ah!"

In the next moment, a miserable scream echoed in the group as someone was instantly pounced on by a monster in the darkness, then quickly dragged away.

The dead soul monsters also swung their scythes into the crowd, slicing off someone’s head.

Blood splattered, stunning everyone around.

Then they realized they were being attacked by monsters.

"Help, help!" They called out loudly, then swung their crude weapons wildly.

Sun Fei, in the crowd, remained silent; he understood Li Yi’s intention, using the guise of adventure to lead these selfish, weak people to die in the darkness.

This situation wasn’t rare, adventurers forcibly clearing out the weaklings inside the building helps restore order within.

So their cries for help were destined to be futile.

The Evil God’s curse attracted too many monsters; these ten or so people were almost all dead in an instant.

"Why are you doing this?" At this moment, the girl named Bai You looked at Li Yi and questioned, "You don’t want to take them on adventures, but there’s no need to kill them, there aren’t many people left in the building; your actions will destroy it."

Li Yi calmly said, "Too many freeloading parasites, only by eliminating some can more people survive, I’m saving this building, not destroying it."

"So, am I also a parasite?" Bai You asked.

Li Yi retorted, "Are you special?"

Bai You immediately fell silent.

She could sense the changes in the Holy Corpse, detect the position of monsters, and was quite respected by the people inside the building... But after truly entering this darkness, she realized there was nothing really special.

In the next moment.

A large pale arm extended out of the darkness, grabbed Bai You, and quickly dragged her into the darkness, disappearing from sight in an instant.

Li Yi watched all this, without intervening, quietly waiting for these people’s disappearance.