I, permanently add attributes, ascend to become a god

He stood up and put away the warning traps set on the door and windows.

Lin Chen sighed: "What a hassle! I want to buy some puppets or something to help me keep watch."

There is one bad thing about being a lone ranger, which is that there is no one to help you, and you have to do everything by yourself, and night watch is no exception.

The low-level warning trap set up by Lin Chen can only be used in the early stages. The main warning still depends on Lin Chen's meditation and distracted perception, which is a bit unable to keep up with Lin Chen's strength.

A dedicated security guard or prop shop would give you a lot of peace of mind.

After taking out the toiletries from the storage space and having breakfast, Lin Chen pushed open the door and came to the survivor accommodation.

"Ms. Tina! Why are you sleeping here?"

Lin Chen looked at the girl sleeping on the ground in surprise, her golden hair spread around her body, and the girl curled up on the ground tiredly.

Tina woke up and said, "Huh?"

"Didn't I tell you to go to bed early yesterday?"

Lin Chen had no choice but to pull the dazed Tina up from the ground.

Tina apologized: "Well, those kids were so pitiful yesterday, so I..."

Hearing the conversation between the two, the girls lying on the ground nearby woke up.

A young girl said, "Lord Chenxi, Miss Tina was overworked because of taking care of those children..."

Lin Chen looked at the girl and asked, "You are... Liz, right?"

After he rescued the survivors from the prison yesterday, he casually appointed the girl who seemed the calmest and most organized as the manager, and then went back to the house to rest.

Liz nodded.

She glanced at the girls around her, and dozens of girls, led by Liz, knelt on the ground in front of Lin Chen.

The girls shed tears and said, "Thank you very much, Master Chenxi, for saving us!"

Liz choked up and said, "If it weren't for Lady Dawn who killed Aginia for us yesterday, I'm afraid all of us in Cartagena would have become sacrifices to breed the monster."

Lin Chen waved his hand and said, "Everyone, get up. No need to thank me. I just did it for the sake of convenience."

"Besides, I'm leaving Cartagena soon. You guys will be on your own from now on."

Liz wiped her tears and nodded: "Lord Chenxi, don't worry about us. Although there are no adults, we have lived here since we were young. There are also supplies left by the deceased, which are enough for us to live for the time being. Although it will be much more difficult, as long as the children grow up, Cartagena will be rebuilt in a few decades!"

"No matter what, Lord Dawn avenged the dead residents of Cartagena. This will be remembered forever in our hearts!"

It is undoubtedly a very daunting task for dozens of sober girls to take care of the remaining lost people and hundreds of children.

Lin Chen said silently: "As for the erosion in your bodies that is suppressed by the medicine, I will talk to the Hope Church headquarters after arriving in the Holy City. Maybe there will be a way to heal you by then."

Liz said gratefully: "We have no way to repay Lord Chenxi's kindness, but Lord Chenxi must be careful of danger on the way to the Holy City."

Lin Chen asked curiously, "Did something happen?" He was just about to inquire about the information about the next journey.

Liz nodded and said, "Although Cartagena is located in a remote area, there are occasionally caravans and travelers coming from San Lorenzo. But before we were locked up, there had been no news from San Lorenzo for a long time."

"We didn't care before, after all, San Lorenzo is too far away from us."

"But Miss Tina said that the plague in Andariel lasted for three months without any support. And here, Aginia directly cleared out the entire population of Cartagena and didn't even bother to cover it up."

Liz speculated: "I suspect something may have happened in San Lorenzo, causing the Church of Hope to not care about us marginal gathering points."

Tina exclaimed in doubt: "That's impossible! San Lorenzo has never fallen in hundreds of years! Behind it is the Holy City!"

Lin Chen was thoughtful. San Lorenzo was also mentioned in the intelligence collected by Lin Chen. It is a must-pass place to go to the holy city.

More than 200 years ago, the Church of Hope was at its peak, so it raised an army and formed a pioneer corps to open up the Black Mist area. San Lorenzo was the gateway to the Holy City area at that time, and outside was the Black Mist area.

The pioneer corps set out from San Lorenzo, dispelling the black fog along the way and opening up gathering points for mankind.

Gathering points such as Andariel and Cartagena belong to the areas that were pioneered back then.

The tombstones that Lin Chen saw before arriving in Cartagena, as well as the roads between gathering points, were all products of the bloodshed and sacrifices of the pioneering army at that time.

Across the portal of San Lorenzo is the human base of the Black Mist World, the headquarters of the Church of Hope, and the Holy City area!

Therefore, Sanluo Lunso has always been responsible for communicating between the two sides and managing many gathering points. When the gathering points encounter difficulties, it is responsible for providing support.

I have to say that Liz was very perceptive. She dared to infer from tiny details that something big had happened in San Lorenzo, which had not had any problems for hundreds of years.

Lin Chen affirmed: "Lis, what you said does make sense. I will be careful on the road ahead!"

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Outside Cartagena.

"Tina, are you sure you want to go with me? It might be dangerous along the way!"

Lin Chen sat on the bicycle and confirmed again. He originally thought that a nun like Tina would stay to take care of these poor survivors, but he didn't expect that Tina was determined to go with him.

Tina sat in the back seat and said affirmatively: "Well, Andariel and Cartagena both suffered huge disasters, and San Lorenzo is likely to have problems. Once San Lorenzo has problems, the gathering points outside it will be at great risk. I must return to the Holy City to report the intelligence on the border."

"And didn't the survivors just use drugs to barely suppress the erosion? After all, I am a nun born in the Holy City. If I speak up, it will be easier for me to gain the trust and support of the Hope Church headquarters."

Tina begged, "Please, Master Chenxi, take me with you! I have a reason to go back!"

Lin Chen shrugged and replied, "Okay, but if it's really dangerous along the way, I'm sorry, I can only prioritize saving myself."

Tina grabbed Lin Chen's cloak and said, "That's enough!"

Chapter 115: Traces of the Dead

After a long drive, the outline of the building gradually became clear on the distant horizon.

"Dertmouth, here we are!"

Dirtmouth, a settlement on the road between Cartagena and San Lorenzo, has a population of several thousand.

Lin Chen stepped on the brake and Tina got out of the back seat.

Lin Chen looked at the town in the distance with a serious expression: "Something is wrong, it's too quiet!"

He didn't see a single living creature along the way. Logically, there would be people working, and staying in the town would only starve to death.

As Lin Chen moved forward, the gate of Dirtmouth appeared in front of Lin Chen. The surface of the gate was covered with scratches, and it was completely open and unguarded.

Lin Chen and Tina approached slowly, and a stench of corpse wafted in the wind.

Lin Chen has become accustomed to this situation. Since he came to this world, he can die wherever he goes, and once he dies, the whole town will die. Whenever Conan comes, he will call him "big brother".

"The Stone of Sanctuary is still in effect, but the residents of Dirtmouth are still dead."

Lin Chen stepped into Dirtmouth cautiously, and saw all kinds of corpses scattered on the streets.

Before they died, they were terrified and grasped the ground tightly as if they had seen something incredible.

Looking at the miserable state of the corpse, Lin Chen sighed and said, "It seems we are too late! He has been dead for a long time."

Tina knelt down on the ground in sorrow and prayed for the dead people: "May hope protect them!"

Lin Chen surveyed the scene and found a large number of claw marks on the houses and streets. These marks were obviously not left by humans.

Tina covered her mouth and said, "Is this, a black beast?"

She speculated: "The gathering points established outside the Holy City area often face attacks from the beast tide in the Black Mist area, just like our Andariel."

"The black beast's attack is very fierce!"

"It should be that they were unable to resist the attack of the black beast tide and all of them were killed."

Lin Chen had a different opinion: "Maybe. But there is a big problem!"

"The number of bodies is wrong!"

Lin Chen counted the bodies back and forth and said, "According to my inspection, there were originally thousands of residents in Dirtmouth, but there were no more than 400 bodies left on the ground. More than 9% of the bodies disappeared!"

"And all the bodies were badly mutilated."

Lin Chen searched the entire Dirtmouth but couldn't find a relatively complete body. All the bodies he found had at least two limbs broken, and most of them were elderly people and children.

Lin Chen touched his chin, inspiration coming to him: "The black fog monsters are indeed very aggressive towards humans, but they will not drag away human corpses."

Tina exclaimed, “Lord Chenxi, are you saying that someone stole the body?”

Lin Chen nodded and said, "Not bad!"

Tina wondered, "Why do you do this?"

"That's what I'm wondering about, what's the value of a corpse?"

Lin Chen racked his brains to recall what he had learned in school: "Corpse... the value of corpse... the person who is best at using corpses..."

"Dead, undead, ritual, sacrifice..."

Some famous dark and evil schools began to emerge in Lin Chen's mind.

"It is known that there is a high-level demon behind the black fog. Demons have always been closely related to dark and evil sects... In other words..."

Lin Chen's eyes lit up, and he quickly ran out of Dirtmouth and found the answer he wanted in a grove near San Lorenzo.

This is the very edge of the Stone of Refuge, where the protection effect is the worst, and we are almost entering the black fog area.

There are complex patterns carved around more than a dozen large pits, and the ground is covered with skeleton footprints.

Tina was very shocked when she saw these formation diagrams: "What is this?"

"What is this? It can't be wrong! The ritual of resurrecting the dead!!!"

Lin Chen's face looked grim. He was in trouble. It turned out to be a spellcaster, and an undead spellcaster who had completed the ritual.

Lin Chen's mind had already evolved what happened at that time.

An undead spellcaster set his sights on Dirtmouth. He gained the support of high-level demons through unknown means, instigated a large-scale tide of black fog beasts to attack the town, and massacred Dirtmouth.

Then, after the beast tide was driven away, the corpses were collected and a large-scale undead resurrection ceremony was performed.

The bodies that were severely mutilated were abandoned voluntarily because the chances of their resuscitation were slim.

The so-called ritual is that when a person's power is limited and cannot achieve the goal, the magician will develop various rituals to reduce the difficulty and consumption of casting spells, and use rituals to leverage greater power.

A well-prepared mage is a head-harvester on the battlefield.

Resurrection of the Dead is one of the most basic spells. Basically, everyone who follows the dark and evil schools must learn it. It has a very high upper limit and a very low lower limit.

It can revive giant dragon corpses to form a bone dragon army, and it can revive osteoporotic skeleton soldiers. A farmer with a dung fork can kill them all.

The undead resurrection ritual is to reduce consumption, turning the power originally required to revive 10 skeleton soldiers into the power required to revive 100 skeleton soldiers.

Lin Chen was not worried about how powerful this unknown necromancer was. A mage who had to rely on external forces to massacre a city full of civilians in Dirtmouth could not be that strong. The key point was that he could actually control the black fog beast tide!

"This wizard is either a complete rookie or an egomaniac!"

"You didn't even destroy the used formation diagrams. What? Do you think the information isn't leaking fast enough?"

Lin Chen looked at the formation diagram on the ground and sneered. Who is he looking down on?

He is not like the natives of the Black Mist World, who slipped through the net of the 9-year compulsory education. He has listened to the lessons seriously! Although his grades are not as abnormal as Ye Lingxue's, they are really not bad.

Ah, you said why you can't get the first place in something even after traveling through time and space, Lin Chen said it's just like physics and mathematics... There are some things that you just can't do even if you travel through time and space and space are reborn, for example, all of these magic arrays require basic knowledge of mathematics and physics, such as calculation of spatial spell coordinates and the like.

So Lin Chen learned sword (not)

All in all, from Lin Chen's perspective, this magic circle was only slightly stronger than his level. Lin Chen even felt ashamed of this necromancer.

With this level of necromancer, to command thousands of skeleton soldiers, all he has to do is select them all with one click and attack directly. There is no such thing as micro-control.

Just as Lin Chen was thinking, the magic circle began to flicker, and a skeleton soldier climbed out of the pit, ready to set off towards San Lorenzo according to the predetermined order.

"This is incredible. It has been transforming for so long and it is still not complete... Can this formation be any worse?"

Looking at the skeleton soldiers that were shaking even when they walked, Lin Chen was filled with frowning eyes. What a waste.

【Skeleton Soldier】

Health: 100%

Energy value: 20/20

Power: 11

Agility: 7

Constitution: 8

Intelligence: 2