Before leaving work, the boss held an impromptu meeting.
The content of the meeting was that the economy was in the doldrums, so the company had to cut back on some of its expenditures. The boss encourages everyone to work at home and work with the company to overcome the difficulties, and the company pays the minimum wage according to the city’s minimum wage for home-based employees.
Simply put, there is no money, so people can go home and stay there, and the company pays the legal minimum wage. As for when it will get better, it depends on luck.
Lu Yao listened with excitement.
This could be too suitable for his buddy’s situation today.
Only after the meeting, he hurriedly found his boss, expressing his willingness to go home and work with the company!
“What are you getting together for!”
“This has nothing to do with you, go to work on time every day.”
“Home office, that’s a policy arranged for the elderly. You’re a young man, you need money for everything, what can you do with that little minimum wage? Can you find a girlfriend? Can you buy a house?”
Boss Huang angrily criticised him, then gave him a $300 pay rise on the spot, telling him to go to the finance office to collect it.
Afterwards he said bitterly, “Xiao Lu, I also came here when I was young, don’t get carried away. Persevere, perseverance is victory, we all have to persevere!”
Lu Yao cried and laughed a little.
What he was thinking was that a home office was less money, but he couldn’t starve. There was more time to stare at the simulator.
Boss Huang thought that he had lost his fighting spirit and wanted to lie down.
In short, the boss was not giving himself the opportunity to home office.
Lu Yao couldn’t do anything about it.
At least with 300, it wasn’t nothing.
After work, he bought two pounds of ribs and ingredients in a beautiful way, ready to go home and let the small fire to brine on.
.…..
Cactus was busy in the kitchen.
Lu Yao sat in front of the computer and paid attention to the simulator.
The underground battlefield in the Eastern Continent was still blocked off, and the follow-up sweeping work had yet to be completed.
Lu Yao gave the order and Isabelle began to investigate further.
She cast [Mass Prayer] and called out a Black Orb of the Dead from the ruins of the underground idol, and then began simultaneous translation.
“My lord, Catalina said that the Tapestry God used all the Faith Props to light the Flame of Faith, so there is no residue.”
Lu Yao wasn’t surprised.
The idol had blown itself up, so there was no reason for the other party to leave behind the body props.
“As for the reason, Catalo isn’t sure either.”
“Catalo’s intelligence isn’t high, and many times he can’t accurately understand the will of the gods. Most of the time, Catalo carries the idol on his back to keep it safe.”
“The one who is really in charge of affairs is the smarter and wiser Horner. Horner is another apostle and the tapestry god’s most capable assistant. Both the strains and the fungus people are commanded by him.”
Lu Yao was alert.
–Where was Horner?
“When [Egil’s Fire] descended the meteor, Horner died in the Fungus Man.”
It’s all right then.
More details about the Tapeworm God were not clear to Apostle Catalpa. His position under the Tapeworm God was similar to what the Blood Knight was to Lu Yao, both being direct executors.
Although Catalo’s stats and abilities weren’t outstanding, its [Advanced Immunity] still made Lu Yao have a few eyeballs.
……
[Advanced Immunity LV1]
Has a chance to avoid the damage received and has a high probability of not being affected by spell abilities.
……
It was this ability that was triggered, allowing Gatello to luckily avoid the [Egil’s Fire] bombardment and escape into the underground with the idol on his back.
It was a pity that Lu Yao was now running out of Apostle Seals.
Nowadays, faith is consuming a lot, and unless there are individuals with special advantages, he will not consider increasing the number of apostles for the time being either.
The establishment should be strictly controlled.
Since he had come all the way here, Lu Yao let Isabelle come to the ground battlefield and summoned the sludge-like Horner.
Horner fed back new information.
“…… In [Whistler]’s divine Palace, the Tapestry God is listed as the 19th, and the Skeleton Hat God is listed as the 18th. They are the two weakest Gods in the Divine Palace, so they were ordered by Whistle Blower to descend in rank and enter this Shard World.”
“After descending in rank, the gods fell from the pantheon of gods, so the divine palace was unable to learn specific news from this side.”
“The Tapestry God has a faith prop [One-Way Door], and the key can be sent out of this world through lower creatures-such as fungus people.”
“Because the key has not yet been found, Lord Tapeworm God has not opened this prop. Once opened, the door will be fixed in a certain position, unable to move, and extremely eye-catching.”
Lu Yao had seen one-way doors in Salt Pond Castle.
This special teleportation door only went out but not in, and had no small limitations.
Even the teleportation doors into the Golden Wilderness and the Black Abyss were the same. Once opened, the door was fixed in place and could not be hidden, making it easy to be noticed.
Unfortunately, the [One-Way Door] had been destroyed by the Tapestry God’s self-explosion.
“My lord, when an apostle loses his body, his dead soul will gradually sink into the Sea of Miasma, never to be awakened again.”
Isabelle inquired, “Is it necessary to persuade Horner and Catalina to send them to Sanilo?”
Lu Yao’s eyes lit up.
He almost forgot about Saniro, the ghost retirement home.
This path was not bad.
There was another garbled code exchange on Isabel’s side.
“……”
She turned her face and knelt on one knee, “My lord, I’m very sorry. Catalpa is unwilling to join …… It says that it is the apostle of the Tapestry God and will follow the old God even in death, and it will go to the Sea of Miasma and perish with the old God.”
Lu Yao said in his heart that it was a pity.
He quite liked this earth elemental, and he didn’t expect it to be a die-hard apostle, so he could only say that it wasn’t meant to be.
“Horner, on the other hand, wishes to join you under your command, my lord.”
Isabelle continued to relay, “He hopes to become your Apostle, and Horner says that he is more intelligent than Catalpa, and has been valued more by the Tapestry God in the past.”
Lu Yao frowned.
This is a race to the top?
It seemed that the higher the intelligence of an individual in the Pixel World, the better they could judge the situation. Individuals with low intelligence like Savage Heroes, Blood Knights, Yeti, and Earth Elementals were instead more pure, and more loyal and dedicated.
Lu Yao rejected this Horner who took the initiative to seek employment.
Relying on belittling his former companions to elevate himself, this kind of goods, Lu Yao had no interest in. He even cancelled Horner’s eligibility to enter the Ghost City of Saniro and sent it to the Sea of Misery to rebuild itself.
……
After resolving the two Gods sent in by [Whistle Blower], Lu Yao opened his next project without stopping.
This matter was also a hidden danger that had existed ever since he had come into contact with the simulator.
The God of the Forest.
Lu Yao mobilised the Blood Knight, Yeti and Skeleton Man Fellows and had them lead the Corruptor Squad in a deep excavation of the Western Continent’s Underground Forest Lodge. They quickly dug through an underground tunnel.
Phyllus manoeuvred the Skeleton King Armadillo to lead the way in front, and Lu Yao locked his viewpoint above its head.
After entering the underground, the game interface shifted to a brand new scene.
An underground hut wrapped in tree roots appeared on the screen. The hut was in an underground cavern and was made of stones, the roof was covered with loose yellow thatch, and there was some moss and creepers growing on the walls.
Even if it was buried deep underground, everything around the hut was full of life.
The stone hut was displayed as [Forest Hut].
Lu Yao manually controlled the Blood Knight to move to the doorway, and a LV30 [Jungle Gargoyle] rushed out from inside. He controlled the Blood Knight and easily hacked over the little monster.
The door slowly opened.
Lu Yao manoeuvred the Blood Knight into the house.
The screen switched again to an overhead view of the hut.
Inside the house floated a thick green leather book.
Underneath the book was a hammock, and on the bed lay a woman clad in black. Her figure was hazy, more like a phantom.
It couldn’t be said that it resembled Isabel, only that it was exactly the same.
Even if the pixel resolution wasn’t clear, Lu Yao could still tell at a glance.
Sure enough.
Isabel and the Forest God were directly related.
Lu Yao clicked on the flying green book.
It displayed [Book of Memory].
He clicked again, and the Book of Memories flew around in the air like a large green butterfly, and the phantom of the woman on the ground disappeared without a trace.
The Blood Knight cloaked his sword, but it passed through the book, unable to do any damage to it.
A specific method to read the Book of Memories?
Lu Yao pondered.
It couldn’t be that he wanted Isabelle to read it, could it? And then do a God of the Forest Filth Transformation or something like that.
Read it?
Reading?
Lu Yao directly ordered a miracle.
Lightning!
[Book of Memory] dodged XZ under the power of the miracle and fled in panic.
Lu Yao increased his strength.
The forest hut was not spacious inside, the Book of Memory had limited space to move, and it was constrained by a certain rule that prevented it from leaving the hut. The Green Book dodged back and forth, becoming more and more strained.
Under the lightning ranged bombardment, eventually the Book of Memories crashed and landed, scattering into a field of white paper. Most of the white papers were burnt to ashes by the lightning, Lu Yao withdrew in time, but only three pages survived.
Lu Yao clicked on one of the pages.
The paper spread all over the screen at once, and words appeared on it.
“…… That was before I lived in the forest, and was adored by a king and a prince at the same time.”
“They started a duel for my sake. It was difficult for me to see them fight father against son, so I had to tell them that I loved neither men nor women, but only the gods.”
“How? The king and the prince always thought that I became a court sorcerer because I was devoted to them. If truth be told, I actually preferred the Queen, who gave me slow boxes of love letters and poems.”
“Being admired and loved by too many people can be a nuisance.”
“In the end, I retired to the forest to live a peaceful life, and that’s where the name Forest Witch came from. But still, every now and then someone would come and sing to me, send me roses and nightingales, ask me to marry him, or ask to marry me …… Alas, sometimes they were so annoying that I turned them into frogs and sparrows.”
“This way even if they continue to chirp and show their love, I won t feel annoyed, and all will be happy …….”
Lu Yao looked confused.
What the hell!
A secret emotional diary written by a forest goddess?
