"Get to work, you lazy ghosts." Several demon overseers wielded thorny whips, driving the demon laborers carrying mud balls towards the Demon Star Tower.
These demon laborers appeared mostly lacking in intelligence, reacting slowly, but extremely strong, only knowing where to go after being whipped.
Their intelligence didn’t seem much different from the cows and sheep in the village, appearing scary but strangely docile.
Seeing this, Xiao Jie opened his backpack and equipped the Shepherd Whip he got from the Newbie Village, blending in and whipping the nearby demon laborers.
Thundering Whip! Crack, a crisp sound. Several demon laborers immediately quickened their pace.
Surprisingly, Xiao Jie quickly got the hang of it. These demon laborers, at the end of the day, had the temperament of livestock.
Xiao Jie moved quickly, driving a few here and a few there, soon gathering a group of dozens, marching in an orderly way toward the Demon Star Tower under his command.
The closer to that giant tower, the more laborers there were, hundreds or thousands, gathering into a massive stream that converged into an enormous team, leading to the huge pit below the Demon Star Tower.
What on earth are they building here! Seeing each demon laborer carrying or hauling such mud balls, Xiao Jie became more certain that the surroundings of the Demon Star Tower were barren wastelands, not even a complete stone to be found, so these mud balls must be artificial building materials.
Needing so many mud balls for construction, could this be the Demon Star Tower’s sinister plan? If so, as long as I follow the team into the worksite, I could complete my reconnaissance mission directly.
However, while the idea was beautiful, reality was harsh. Before reaching the pit entrance, Xiao Jie noticed many kobolds guarding the entrance, even holding some human-headed canine demons as pets.
These kobolds barked furiously at the approaching demon overseers.
"You—keep going inside, you guys go back and keep working."
The kobolds’ status was clearly higher than the demon overseers, most of whom were driven back, with only a few allowed to continue driving the laborers into the pit.
Xiao Jie felt uneasy, being stopped would be bad.
But since they’re kobolds, maybe that could work...
Thinking this, Xiao Jie opened his backpack—feeding the beast!
He threw a piece of Secret Dog Food over.
"Hey, what smells so good?"
"Let me have a taste."
The kobolds instantly scrabbled for it, and Xiao Jie quickly took advantage, cracking his whip twice to drive the demon laborers inside.
Soon he entered the interior of the Demon Star Tower.
A huge corridor stretched before him, with numerous twisting paths branching upward on both sides, looking up, the corridors were like a labyrinth, walking through them was like being inside a giant ant nest.
Soon Xiao Jie reached the second checkpoint.
At the end of the corridor was a vast open area, where demon laborers dragged mud balls, leaving them on the ground, forming a mound almost like a small hill.
Many ant-like demons were performing secondary processing on these mud balls.
The demons Xiao Jie drove in were evidently just transport units, the real users of these mud balls were the ant people inside the Demon Star Tower.
One ant person saw Xiao Jie standing still and chirped at him, its antennae almost touching Xiao Jie’s face.
Xiao Jie activated the Beast Language Skill and finally understood.
"Out, out... continue working, continue working... more mud balls, more mud balls."
The demon overseers were clearly not high-level members, being summoned around even by these obvious worker ants.
To rely on this outsider status to blend in to the destination didn’t seem feasible.
Fortunately, the cooldown for the Phantom Spirit Pearl was only ten minutes, and now it was ready again.
Xiao Jie pretended to walk back, reaching a nearby passage, he saw no one was watching and used the Invisibility Talisman to slip into the passage.
Xiao Jie wasn’t sure which way to go, but observing the direction the ant people carried the mud balls, it was clearly upwards.
He started heading up as well.
Along the way, he saw several different types of demons. Due to the Phantom Spirit Pearl only transforming into humanoid creatures, even a demon transformation could only be into humanoid demons.
Xiao Jie dared not use it recklessly.
As the Invisibility Talisman’s time was about up, he finally spotted a few humanoid demons, human-legged below, but with four arms on their spider-like upper bodies.
They were walking in formation, not knowing where they were headed.
Xiao Jie immediately followed, trailing at the back, and as the Invisibility Talisman’s last few seconds ticked away, he decisively activated the transformation Skill again.
Phantom Spirit Pearl—Transform!
With a poof, the white mist dissipated, and Xiao Jie turned into an identical humanoid spider.
The Phantom Spirit Pearl would automatically adapt to the surroundings, making it very convenient.
The humanoid spiders didn’t notice the addition to their ranks, continuing towards a hole, with Xiao Jie following for a while until they reached outside a cave.