The robots in the sky, after sweeping through the village and finding no issues, all disappeared. The village soon returned to its usual lively state, as if no one was surprised by the adventurers' vanishing.
Outside the village, Davies, who had been scared unconscious, slowly woke up. She found herself lying amidst a pile of slimes, and was startled again, jumping to her feet.
"I say, you're already level ten, and you must have slain thousands of slimes. You even dared to provoke a Cyclops before. How come you're so timid now?" Ye Ling couldn't help but tease Davies, seeing her jumpy demeanor.
"M-Master..." Davies looked at Ye Ling pitifully, her eyes welling up, unsure of what to say. The series of events had dealt a huge blow to her young mind.
Seeing Davies' pathetic state, Ye Ling sighed slightly and said, "Don't worry, I won't hurt you... It's just that something happened in the village, and we can't go back for now." The game's management robots had just "disinfected" the village, eliminating all adventurers within. Davies wouldn't know what would happen if she went back now.
"Th-then what should we do now?" Davies asked timidly, not daring to doubt Ye Ling.
"Where is the royal city of this country? I'll take you there," Ye Ling said.
Davies pointed north, "The royal city is to the north... but..."
"But what?"
"But to get to the royal city from here, you have to pass through the Silent Forest and Moonshadow Canyon, which are both high-level areas for level 50 and above..."
Ye Ling chuckled, "That's fine, I'll clear the path."
However, the Primordial Underworld King beside him frowned and said to Ye Ling, "Kid... you just drew the system's attention by dealing with a level 25 Cyclops. If you make another move, I'm afraid you'll alert the enemy and let that bastard, the King of Wisdom, escape..."
Hearing the Primordial Underworld King's words, Ye Ling also realized. He was currently on a black account. If he were to deal with monsters in this world, the system would definitely detect the anomaly. Once or twice might be fine, but if the number increased, the Primordial King of Wisdom would surely sense it. Their purpose for coming here was to find the Primordial King of Wisdom. They hadn't even seen a Hundred-Quality Star Person yet. If they scared away the Primordial King of Wisdom in this virtual world, it would be extremely difficult to capture him again.
Thinking of this, Ye Ling stroked his chin and his gaze fell on Davies, looking her up and down. Davies felt a bit creeped out by Ye Ling's stare and asked tremblingly, "M-Master... is there something on my face?"
Ye Ling suddenly asked, "How do you level up the fastest?"
Hearing Ye Ling's question, Davies trembled all over, her eyes filled with growing fear. Still, she replied with a sob, "Hunting other adventurers allows you to inherit half of their experience points... That's the fastest way to level up..." At this moment, Davies felt that Ye Ling was about to make a move on her. Her legs felt weak, and she trembled uncontrollably, on the verge of fainting again. "M-Master... I-I'm only level 10, killing me won't do you any good..."
"Are there any adventurer organizations with a bad reputation around here? I'll help you level up faster," Ye Ling suddenly asked again. Davies, who was about to continue begging Ye Ling, was stunned by his next words. "Ah? M-Master, you want to help me level up?"
"Your level is too low now, you won't be able to reach the royal city. I'm in a bit of a hurry, so I need to help you level up faster." Davies' mind was still buzzing. She really hadn't expected things to turn out this way, but she instinctively replied, "In the forest west of the village, there's a gathering of outcasts who specialize in hunting adventurers on missions. They've already gained a notorious reputation nearby, but their leader, Butcher..."
"Then it's them." Before Davies could finish, Ye Ling grabbed her and took to the sky, flying towards the forest west of the village.
Deep within the western forest, an outcast camp. Over a dozen fierce-looking men surrounded two adventurers kneeling on the ground, crying and begging for mercy. The leader of the outcasts was a well-built man about 1.8 meters tall, with a scar on his left cheek. He held a giant axe and walked indifferently towards the two adventurers. This sturdy man was the leader of this outcast camp, Butcher. Butcher ignored the pleas of the two adventurers. With a swing of his axe, the heads of the two adventurers fell, and his level changed from 19 to 20.
"Long live the boss! After we catch a few more unlucky fellows, we can return to the village and chop down that damned god!" A scrawny man with scars stepped forward and flattered Butcher. He was called Rat, the second-in-command of the outcast camp, and his status was the highest after Butcher. Butcher put down his giant axe, and the ground shook twice. Fear flashed in the eyes of the surrounding outcasts. Butcher had become even stronger.
"Tell the brothers to divide the belongings of these two guys." Butcher sat by the campfire, tore off a whole leg of lamb from the roasted lamb on the fire, and instructed Rat while gnawing on it.
"Got it!" Rat excitedly rubbed his hands together, took out their backpacks from the two gradually disappearing corpses on the ground, "Brothers, come and get your share of the money!" Upon hearing Rat's words, the surrounding outcasts' eyes lit up, and they all swarmed forward, surrounding Rat! "Hey, hey! Don't grab! There's enough for everyone!" The entire camp was bustling. If an outsider saw it, they would think a party was being held here.
At this moment, Ye Ling arrived at the camp with Davies.
"This is the place, right?" Ye Ling glanced at the group in the camp frantically stripping the two corpses and asked Davies. Davies's face was grim as she saw the frantic behavior of those people, and she nodded, "Y-yes, this is it..."
"Very good, follow me..." Ye Ling nodded and, without waiting for Davies's reply, walked straight into the camp. Butcher, who was gnawing on a leg of lamb, narrowed his eyes slightly upon seeing Ye Ling and Davies enter, then shouted loudly, "Guys, we have guests!" Butcher's shout made the outcasts who were fighting over treasures stop and turn to look at Ye Ling and Davies. Davies couldn't stand their predatory gazes and instinctively hid behind Ye Ling.
"Hey! We got lucky today. We just killed two unlucky fellows, and now two more have shown up, and there's even a girl..." Rat lewdly sized up Davies behind Ye Ling and said with a smile, "The brothers are in luck today!" Behind him, everyone burst into laughter. Ye Ling glanced at the outcasts present, then turned back to Davies and asked, "How many levels would you gain if you killed these people?"