Chapter 1381 - 1381: From Agriculture to Steam

After collecting the spoils of battle, Yang Yu and his companions took a short break before proceeding to the Fourth Floor.

Crossing the same sphere, Yang Yu and his companions arrived at the Fourth Floor.

The scenery on this floor was quite similar to the Third Floor.

Except... rays of light gradually became solid; the rulers here were not ants, but a group of monsters with monkey bodies and chicken heads.

These monsters similarly ignored the presence of Yang Yu and his companions, living their own lives.

They cultivated fields, dug canals, and scattered collected seeds into the soil. Various grains rooted and sprouted at a visibly rapid pace, growing vigorously and bearing large quantities of food in no time.

These monsters with monkey bodies and chicken heads, like chicks pecking at grains, merrily enjoyed the food they had cultivated.

Suddenly, two monsters began to crow, jumping into a strange dance, and their necks intertwined.

After that, the female monsters with monkey bodies and chicken heads had their necks gradually swell and laid an egg.

A sharp little beak pecked open the eggshell, and a small monster emerged from the egg.

The little monster wobbled out of the eggshell, started pecking at the grains beside its parents, and then grew quickly at an unimaginable speed.

In almost the blink of an eye, it looked exactly like its father and swiftly joined the ranks of those cultivating fields and planting crops.

One after another, crows echoed throughout the monster village as eggs were laid by monsters, hatching new little monsters.

The number of monsters skyrocketed at an unimaginable speed as they continued to chop down forests and cultivate farmland.

No matter how much the population increased, there was no sign of food shortage.

Yang Yu realized something was wrong and immediately issued an order to his companions:

"Act now. Until they reach the limit of this space's capacity, they won't stop growing.

Destroy the food they are consuming first to prevent further proliferation, then gradually eliminate them."

Without any hesitation, Bai Jin cast a flame magic instantly, burning the grains the monsters were eating.

The monsters, who originally lived peacefully, also noticed the presence of Yang Yu and his companions. They took out various stone tools, ready to execute Yang Yu for daring to break their tranquility.

A battle was imminent. Due to letting these monsters proliferate excessively, Yang Yu and his companions now faced twice the number of enemies as originally anticipated.

Thankfully, both this floor and the previous floor were spacious enough to allow Yang Yu and his companions to use their speed advantage to continuously maneuver against the monsters with monkey bodies and chicken heads.

The monsters spent most of their time frantically chasing and were gradually defeated by Yang Yu one by one.

Yang Yu and his companions spent almost two days and one night to completely strategize the Fourth Floor.

It's worth mentioning that only the initial few monsters dropped equipment. The proliferated monsters not only didn't drop equipment but also provided paltry experience.

Fortunately, once Yang Yu noticed something was off, he promptly minimized losses and avoided spending more time.

Having strategized this floor, Yang Yu confirmed the idea within his heart that Hero Lux was attempting to interpret the process by which human civilization was birthed with his method.

The Hall of History sought to narrate not merely the history of Hero Lux defeating the Demon King.

The monsters on the Fourth Floor were as high as Level 130, with enhanced attributes. The proliferated monsters possessed the same attributes as the original monsters.

After Yang Yu commanded Bai Jin to destroy their food, those monsters chased Yang Yu and his companions day and night, making them afraid to relax for even a moment.

After the battle, Yang Yu ignored the scattered spoils on the ground and rested with his companions in place for a full day, adjusting their status before counting the spoils and proceeding to the Fifth Floor.

On the Fifth Floor, light gradually gathered into eight strange-looking, two-meter-tall clay dolls, each adorned with various patterns.

Here, the monster Level increased by ten compared to the previous floor, reaching Level 140.

The patterns on the dolls changed over time, bit by bit, depicting the transformation of agricultural civilization.

The monsters on this floor were not as mild as those on the previous two; as soon as Yang Yu and his companions entered a specific range, they would launch a fierce attack.

The strategy to defeat them was quite simple.

One simply needed to avoid moving to the clay dolls while controlling attacks to prevent harming other dolls, enabling each to be defeated one by one.

What Yang Yu did not expect was that after defeating the massive clay dolls, a smaller-than-normal bronze figurine was hidden within.

After Yang Yu defeated the bronze figurine, it shattered into pieces, revealing an iron doll within.

In resignation, Yang Yu and his companions concentrated their firepower to break the iron doll.

After defeating the iron doll, this nested set of challenges came to an end.

The doll fragments transformed into beams of light and gradually dissipated, leaving behind all sorts of spoils.

By this floor, both the quantity and quality of the spoils began to soar.

Yang Yu obtained more than forty pages at once and even got two pieces of epic equipment suitable for his companions.

However, at Yang Yu and his companions' current level, typical epic equipment was nearing obsolescence and somewhat inadequate.

Even so, epic equipment could still fetch a high price in the market.

In this world, most epic equipment is like antique paintings, collected by various learned figures at considerable prices, not lacking sales avenues.

After defeating all the dolls in succession, a "Death God" wearing a black robe and raven mask appeared in front of the sphere leading to the next floor.

From this floor onward, Yang Yu and his companions would face the Layer Guardians.

If Yang Yu's intuition was correct, the Death God before them represented a massive epidemic.

During that massive epidemic, no matter how much humans prayed to the gods, they could not be healed, only able to watch the tragedy unfold.

The surviving humans gradually transformed in their thinking, choosing not to entrust their lives to the intangible gods, but instead began living in the present, exploring the unknown and novel, researching the principles of various things, and eventually, a new era slowly commenced.

The theme of the Sixth Floor is the era of human enlightenment portrayed through painting.

In this layer, paintings depicted starry skies, oceans, new continents, and other histories that couldn't exist in the same timeline.

In each painting, Yang Yu and his companions were granted a specific role and needed to solve various problems based on the prompts to clear each painting.

And the Layer Guardian of the Sixth Floor was a massive robot steaming all over.

Its enormous head was shaped like a train, with steam-spraying vents serving as its weakness.