After years of fighting, the inner city professionals in Chaos City suffered heavy losses.
The residents sighed.
Especially recently, after learning that the desert was blocked, the resentment in the hearts of professionals in the city has reached its highest point.
However, the Lord of Chaos City was indifferent to this.
Whether it was wartime or now, she had only one way to control the city.
That is strength oppression!
Keep the obedient ones and kill the disobedient ones!
The high-intensity oppression brought by this kind of strength has made most residents in the inner city of Chaos City live cautiously.
Seriously recalling it, this miserable, inhumane life began after the Town of the Dead appeared in Chaos City.
Before that, they lived in the inner city of Chaos City, most of them willingly.
Although the city lord is also there, most of the time he doesn't care. Even if someone occasionally violates the most important regulations in the city and goes to the outer city, they will only be fined simply and will not suffer any physical pain.
After all, this is their privilege as residents of the inner city. They do not have to suffer physical and mental punishment like residents of the outer city for littering.
But after the Town of the Dead appeared in Chaos City, everything changed.
The rules in the city suddenly became strict, and they were divided into small groups. The residents in the small groups ate, drank, and had sex together.
And there is joint and several liability.
If one person commits a crime, the whole team will be buried with him.
That's right, it's a burial.
Under the high pressure, everyone in Chaos City became panic-stricken, and their treatment of team members became mainly kind and gentle.
It’s no longer the beatings, scoldings or threats before...
They are also afraid that if their attitude is too bad, the opponent in the same team will not be able to bear it, and they will take the initiative to commit trouble by injuring the enemy by one thousand and damaging themselves by ten thousand, implicating the entire team and encountering an unreasonable disaster.
This change was not relieved until the war with the orcs began. The whole team would not be implicated in being shot to death just because one person in the team littered...
If pressed, the Lord of Chaos City seems to have become a different person since he left the Town of the Dead.
She didn't care at all how the residents of the city cursed her. She only cared about one thing, and that was how to further squeeze these guys.
In terms of just squeezing the residents, the Lord of Chaos City is better than An Kai.
An Kai didn’t slap residents to death for littering...
Not to mention the unreasonable implication.
When Ankai and Malken sneaked into the inner city of Chaos City, he saw this strange scene.
There are as many as a dozen people and as few as five or six people. They are inseparable. No matter where they go, they are always together.
And on the faces of these people, even if they had a truce with the orcs, there was no leisurely and relaxed mood.
On the contrary, he became even more nervous and frightened.
Looking back three times in one step, you are not only observing the surrounding environment, but also observing the behavior of your companions...
"This is?"
An Kai was quite confused and didn't know what these guys had gone through.
In [Side Story], there is no mention of the lifestyle in the inner city of Chaos City...
This strange scene in the city made Ankai's heart skip a beat.
"Aren't these guys all poor?"
He frowned slightly, and then told Malcolm to follow a small team of six people back to their home...
When Ankai saw the scene in their home clearly, the Ankai people were dumbfounded...
It is no exaggeration to say that the mice shed tears when they came.
The house is surrounded by bare walls, and there is not a trace of food as far as the eye can see.
Someone took out a piece of moldy black bread the size of a palm from his pocket, which immediately attracted everyone's attention.
There were expressions of excitement on their faces. After being assigned by a more powerful professional, all six people were given a piece of moldy bread of the same size.
Bite it in your mouth and make a crunching sound.
But six people were exposed
There are six people with satisfied expressions. The one with the lowest strength is at the second level and the third level, and the one with the highest strength is at the third level.
At this moment, I felt satisfied because I ate a piece of moldy bread that tasted like a brick.
An Kai didn't know what they had gone through.
But through the performance of these six people, he confirmed one thing, that is, the food shortage in the Good House was much worse than here.
At least the residents of the Good House will not be satisfied with a piece of moldy bread.
They only scold life for being unfair...
Ankai and Malcolm, who witnessed all this, looked at each other and saw the confusion and doubt in each other's eyes...
When Ankai and Malcolm were puzzled, the six of them finished the bread in their hands.
There was an annoyed expression on his face, as if he was annoyed that he didn't have any left to eat next time...
"You bitch, don't let me leave here!"
"That stinky bitch treats us as human beings, why doesn't anyone resist?"
"Resist? Can you fight against a fifth-level professional? You are also an earth element [Elemental Mage]!"
"Damn! One day, I will kill her!"
"Save your strength, if the orcs come, you will still have to work hard..."
"Mad! This stinky bitch!"
"Oh...the bread is so delicious..."
…
In the house, some of the six people cursed the Lord of Chaos City angrily, while others accepted the reality, but they had one thing in common, they were all complaining about the unfairness of life at this time.
Ankai and Malken, who had been observing, suddenly opened their eyes!
In Malcolm's sight, there was a thread with a cursed breath above the heads of the six people, rising into the air and rushing in one direction...
In An Kai's eyes, phantoms similar to the six of them flew out of their bodies, with angry faces, cursing about the unfairness of life, and kept rising into the air.
An Kai stood in a room without a roof, looked up into the sky, and saw a torrent of many shadows...
As he looked, there were people reaching out to him in the torrent, inviting him to join.
At this moment, an upset emotion suddenly emerged in my heart...
An Kai subconsciously activated [Meditation], and his upset emotions disappeared...
"Sir...this city may be a formation..."
Malcolm spoke slowly with uncertainty.
Without him, the formation of a formation that can cover a city and affect the entire city cannot be completed overnight.
And the requirements for those who set up the formation are also very high.
Before coming to the desert, Malcolm had only seen a formation covering a house at most...
The existence of that kind of formation can already be called: a strong formation!
However…
After arriving in the desert, Malcolm was dumbfounded.
First, I encountered a formation that sealed the entire desert, and now in a city, I saw a formation that enveloped a city and could indiscriminately affect the emotions of the residents in the city...
When did the formation become so simple?
Ankai nodded after hearing what Malcolm said. After the two exchanged views about what they saw, Ankai confirmed that this was the formation.
Malcolm was curious and didn't understand why An Kai could see things more clearly than him.
But he didn't think much about it. He was already used to Ankai's magic...
The reason why An Kai sees things more clearly than Malcolm is because of his [meditation].
The [Meditation] spell that comes with time travel has more and more effects as the proficiency increases...
After observing for a while, they found that the six people were venting for a while and then fell asleep. Ankai and Milken exited the room.
At this moment, Ankai has two choices before him, one is to leave here, the other is to continue exploring...
It’s not An Kai’s character to go through all the effort and abandon his good family to come here and return empty-handed...
Think about it again and again,
As well as confirming with Malcolm, the two were ready to leave after exploring.
At this moment, Ankai also understood why the city lord of Chaos City left Chaos City carelessly.
It turns out that here, just like him, he also has a backup plan.
The existence of this formation is the best protection, not to mention that there must be a strong person at the end of the torrent of humanoid shadows.
The probability of level five is very high...
Malcolm's aura enveloped Ankai, and the two of them walked in the opposite direction of the torrent of phantoms.
As for exploring the secrets at the end of the torrent?
An Kai is not interested, and he doesn't like to explore such unknown things...
He is here to seek money, and the right way is to search for resources before he is exposed.
…
Deep inside Chaos City.
It is also the end point of the torrent of humanoid shadows.
There is an ancient castle built underground.
The castle is completely black, with no doors, windows, or entrances or exits.
In the castle, there is only one main hall and no other rooms.
The empty hall was pitch black, and you couldn't see your fingers.
Only the ground of the main hall is emitting a faint light. If you look closely, you can see some of the veins of the six-pointed star array...
The end point of the torrent of humanoid shadows is exactly in the middle of the six-pointed star array...
There, there was a figure in black robe, sitting cross-legged...
A torrent of humanoid shadows poured into her body in an orderly manner...
"Oh? Did my promotion surprise happen again?"
"Ah!"
A cold voice slowly echoed through the hall, and in front of the figure, a round mirror suddenly appeared...
The mirror shows the deserted inner streets of Chaos City...
"Hide your figure?"
"Boring!"
The figure sitting cross-legged on the six-pointed star array gave a disdainful drink, and the mirror disappeared.
To her, any accidents don't matter, as long as they don't affect her promotion.
Everyone thought that the Lord of Chaos City suddenly changed his temperament.
This is not the case…
All this is because of her!
"Did the orcs discover a secret when they evacuated?"
"It's also possible that the twenty-eighth prince is afraid of death!"
"But with the current strength of the Good House, it is enough for my promotion needs."
"Ha! Old man, sealing off the desert? I want to see which of us takes this step first!"
"Horoscope, horoscope... I am the brightest star..."
After a few mutterings, the dark castle fell into silence again.
Only the torrent of humanoid shadows with mouths that are constantly opening and closing are pouring into this place...
…
Searching in the opposite direction of the torrent, Ankai and Malcolm finally saw the existence of the shop.
The first one is an equipment forging shop.
When Ankai and Malcolm entered with joy...
"unlucky!"
In the shop, there was only a withered corpse that had been dead for an unknown period of time.
As for equipment, there is none.
Even the wooden floor was completely stripped away by later people.
There were more and more shops in the empty streets. At the end of this road, An Kai also saw the reward building that he had longed for.
Unfortunately, there used to be two silver pillars made of silver coins in front of the door of the bounty building, but now they are nowhere to be seen.
An Kai and Malken explored one after another until they came to the door of the reward building, but they found nothing...
Although the shop exists, there is nothing inside.
One is cleaner than the other...
There was only a finger's worth of dust, which proved that no one had entered the shop for a long time.
The reward building is also the only open shop on this shopping street.
Different from the reward tower in the outer city, it once stood at the door
The cool and beautiful lady who greeted the guests has disappeared.
Entering it, the smell of dilapidation hits your face.
The beautiful woman on the first floor of the reward building who was in good shape and well-toned was in charge of redemption, but she also turned into an old man who could hardly breathe.
Leaning on the empty bar, breathing hard.
A state of being ready to die at any moment...
At this moment, the emotion of "blood loss" echoed in An Kai's heart...
"Sir...the second level and the fourth level..."
Malcolm whispered something, and he was talking about the old man who was struggling to breathe.
Otherwise, Malcolm said nothing more.
An Kai's complexion has become increasingly ugly to the naked eye.
Judging from Malcolm's past experience, if he talks about something at this time, it is very likely that An Kai will become the unlucky guy to vent his anger...
Looking at Ankai's increasingly ugly face, Malcolm secretly thought it was a pity. If he had known this, he would have brought Nurnasius with him.
This way An Kai has an outlet to vent, and he doesn't have to worry...
"What a careless thing!" Malcolm made a note in his mind. If this happens again next time, he must remember to bring that bitch Nurnasius with him...
The bounty building in the inner city of Chaos City is the same as that in the outer city.
It also has three floors.
Unwilling to give up, An Kai and Milken continued to walk to the second floor.
Stepping into the second floor, it was similar to the first floor, and I felt a sense of ruin. What was different from the first floor was that there were no guards here who could even breathe hard.
No one, nothing.
But Ankai, who had just stepped here, smiled, and he and Malcolm looked at the stairs together.
There was a faint smell of meat coming from there.
Under such circumstances, in the inner city of Chaos City, can anyone still eat meat?
An Kai felt that he would not return empty-handed this time...
Malcolm also breathed a sigh of relief. He thought the same as An Kai. It seemed that he didn't need to suffer any disaster...
Hidden by the gray aura, Ankai and Malken walked towards the third floor...
It only took the two of them two seconds to reach the third floor.
A fat man's figure had his back to them, roasting fresh animal meat.
These are not important. What really makes An Kai satisfied are the detectors scattered on the ground and several wooden boxes that emit the fluctuations of the magic stone.
Detectors can be sold to refugees from the seven countries, which is a good income.
What really surprised and made An Kai happy was that he didn't expect to see his old friend here.
And this old friend also prepared such a generous gift for himself.
With Malcolm in front and An Kai behind, they took one step forward and entered the third floor...
"Fifth level! Fifth level! Fifth level!"
"Unknown...first order...unknown..."
As soon as the two entered, they suddenly remembered two sharp voices on the third floor.
The fat man who was grilling meat suddenly trembled, turned around quickly, looked at the empty entrance, and then breathed a sigh of relief:
"Sir, the emotion detector hasn't been developed yet, but I guess it will be soon."
"My body attribute detector is almost successful. When used in conjunction with the emotion detector, I will definitely be able to bring you the most suitable puppet."
"It's a pity that I don't have many magic stones and gold coins here. As you know, my detectors are all made of gold coins and magic stones..."
"If you can...hehehehe..."
The fat man rubbed his hands, and when he spoke, the flesh on his face swayed back and forth...
He thought that the person coming was a strong man behind the scenes of the fifth-level Chaos City. After all, that strong man always hid his figure when he came here...
As for the sound of the first order, he automatically ignored it and regarded it as a malfunction...
As everyone knows, it's not that the detector is malfunctioning, but that his old friend from the city outside Chaos City is here.
An Kai took one step forward and came to the fat man.
He grabbed his neck suddenly and lifted the fat man up: "Damn it, fat man!
You are living a very prosperous life in this inner city of Chaos! "
"Uh...it's you, you idiot..."
