Chapter 3832: The Kingdom of Mountains

Chapter 3831 The Country of Mountains

Zuniga opened his mouth, and after a few seconds, he pursed his lips and nodded slightly.

"Okay, let me do the introduction next."

Zuniga was silent for a moment, thinking about what he wanted to say.

From the perspective of the principle of reciprocity, whatever depth Angel spoke of, he should also speak to the same depth.

Although Zuniga was a little confused by what Angel said before, he could tell that even though the information he said was concealed, it was sincere enough.

Therefore, if he wants to introduce himself, he must at least reach the depth of Angel's description.

There is also a sense of scale here.

After a moment, Zuniga finally spoke. But before speaking formally, he said softly: "I am very grateful to Mr. Angel for his generosity just now."

"Of course I won't be too stingy."

"It's just that compared to yours, my past may not be as exciting as sir..."

After a two-second pause, Zuniga officially began to speak.

"My name is Zuniga. I was once a king and now I am a beggar."

The first sentence Zuniga spoke made Angel raise his eyebrows slightly. However, he slowly raised his gaze and looked at the NPC information above Zuniga's head.

"Zuniga"

"How does it feel to fall from a high position and become a beggar? Just ask Zuniga, but Zuniga may not necessarily answer your rude question. Zuniga seems to be a A beggar, but there is a little-known secret hidden behind him.”

"Contacting Zuniga may trigger the side mission "The Bloody Throne"."

From this information introduction, we can know that Zuniga was indeed in a high position. But what Angel didn't expect was that this so-called "high position" actually referred to the "king"? !

Zuniga: "The country I live in is actually not that big. It is in the gap between several big countries. Because the terrain here is difficult and it is adjacent to several countries, many of them are still feuding. For the sake of peace, several big countries After consultation, it was decided to make this dangerous land their strategic buffer zone.”

"As time went by, this buffer zone slowly turned into a no-no-no zone, and a small country was born here."

"This small country was not an independent country at the beginning, because its birth was behind the game of several big countries."

"Just because of its special geographical location and the right opportunity, this small country has gradually improved a little bit, and it can also make ends meet among the big countries and survive in the cracks."

"This also gives this small country the capital to enter the world stage."

"And this small country is my country. It's called..."

When Zuniga mentioned the name, he suddenly got stuck, as if he was recalling something. After a few seconds, he came back to his senses: "...It's called the Kingdom of Mountains."

"Because it is surrounded by mountains and protected by mountains, and our capital is also among the mountains..."

When Zuniga was telling the background of the Country of Mountains, Angel whispered: "You were stunned for a few seconds just now. What were you thinking about?"

Zuniga rubbed his temples: "I didn't think about anything. Maybe I am too old and my past memories are a little blurry. I was just thinking about the past..."

Angel was noncommittal and continued: "Before you tell the story, I want to ask a question."

"Excuse me."

"You said that the country of mountains is surrounded by several big countries. What are the names of those big countries?"

Zuniga was stunned for a moment, as if his whole body was stuck.

When Angel saw this scene, he immediately understood that Zuniga was also affected.

Angel originally thought that Zuniga might be a "dream" NPC, but now it seems that he should still be a gifted citizen created by the power of the fairyland.

After a few seconds, Zuniga came back to his senses: "I seem to have forgotten...Is this important?"

Zuniga's expression was very calm, and he seemed to have forgotten this question without any doubts.

You know, he said that he was the king of a country, but he couldn't remember the names of the surrounding countries. This situation would definitely feel strange or abnormal to anyone with normal thinking.

But Zuniga is now very calm and has no doubts in his mood. This is completely different from the caution he showed before.

Apparently, Zuniga was also influenced by the powers of Faerie when it came to the "World Information" part.

Angel said silently: "It's not important, you can continue."

Zuniga vaguely felt that something was wrong, but after careful consideration, there seemed to be nothing strange about it. He stopped thinking about it and continued: "I am the tenth king of the Kingdom of Mountains."

"I once thought that I could become a wise king and lead the country of mountains to a higher stage. But..."

A trace of sadness flashed in Zuniga's eyes.

"However, the country of mountains did not become better, but...perished."

Why perish?

The answer given by Zuniga surprised Angel: "Without any warning, just on an ordinary night, Diomo Mountain suddenly disappeared."

Mount Omo is where Omo Castle, the capital of the Kingdom of Mountains, is located.

Omo Castle is a mountain town. All buildings are built on Mount Omo. Nearly 300,000 people live here.

But on this day, Mount Dioma disappeared directly from the map, and 300,000 people disappeared along with the royal capital.

"The entire royal capital has disappeared? Then what were you doing at that time?" Angel's eyes flashed with surprise.

Zuniga: "I was invited by the University of Neighborhood to make an academic visit. When I came back, Omo City had disappeared, and the entire Dimo ​​Mountain seemed to have been flattened..."

"I learned about the situation that day from some nearby residents."

Dimo Mountain suddenly disappeared around seven o'clock that night. One second ago, some people saw the bright lights on the mountain, and the next second, it was pitch black.

No one can tell what happened.

"From that day on, I began to look for the whereabouts of Omo City and my people."

"But there was no result."

"Later, I learned from a magician that the entire mountain suddenly disappeared without any signs, and it was most likely swallowed by the dark corner."

"Although it is rare for the dark corner to swallow a city, it is not uncommon. There are some similar records in various countries."

"So, if it was not deliberately erased, it could only be related to the dark corner."

Zuniga once speculated whether a powerful magician had attacked Omo City? But there are traces of the magician's actions, and there will be residual energy.

But Zuniga did not find any energy residue in the pit of Mount Diomo at that time, so it is highly likely that it was not the magician who did it.

Then there is only one possibility, that the Dark Corner really swallowed up Mount Diomo.

"Later, I began to look for the Dark Corner, wanting to enter the Dark Corner to find my people... Finally, I found the entrance to the Dark Corner."

Angel: "???"

"How did you find the entrance to the Dark Corner?"

Zuniga: "On the top of Mount Diomo, there stands a throne standing in the clouds. This throne was soaked in the blood of our clan when it was first built. Every generation of kings will perform blood sacrifices and ascend the throne before taking the throne."

When Zuniga inherited the throne, he could sense the location of the throne at any time. Once there was an invasion by foreign enemies, he could summon the throne, and the warriors within the range of the throne would enjoy the bonus of energy points.

It can be said that this throne is a movable halo-type prop.

"After the disappearance of Mount Diomo, I could no longer sense the location of the throne." Zuniga: "Until one day several years later, I sensed a very faint breath of the throne in a capital city of a neighboring country..."

Zuniga immediately went to find the smell.

Then, he came to an ordinary residential building.

This residential building has twelve households on each floor, a total of six floors. The breath of the throne that Zuniga sensed was on the sixth floor.

He quickly came to the sixth floor, where everything seemed normal at first glance, until he walked to the end and saw an extra door.

There were originally twelve households, but on the sixth floor it became thirteen households.

And the door of the thirteenth household was the source of the breath of the throne.

Zuniga walked into the door of the thirteenth household without hesitation.

"Then... I arrived at the dark corner."

Angel: "?!!"

Zuniga had actually been to the dark corner!

There was no fluctuation in the soul resting place, which meant that Zuniga was telling the truth!

This made Angel unable to help but show a look of surprise. You know, there are many people looking for the dark corner, and many people have been to the dark corner... but there are very few people who come out of the dark corner.

Zuniga not only went into the dark corner, but also came out of the dark corner?

Angel suppressed his inner surprise and asked: "What is it like in the dark corner?"

Zuniga did not answer Angel's question immediately, but continued to talk about the situation at that time: "After I entered the dark corner, the door behind me disappeared."

"More importantly, after I entered the dark corner, my perception of the breath of the throne also disappeared."

In other words, Zuniga was trapped in the dark corner.

But Zuniga didn't care. From the moment Omo City disappeared, Zuniga's life goal had become: to find Omo City and find my people.

Although he was trapped in the dark corner, he didn't care, and even felt happy. Because he finally had the opportunity to complete his life goal.

Zuniga began to search in the dark corners...

"You asked just now, what are dark corners like? I don't know how to describe it, but I heard that dark corners in different places are different. But most of the dark corners are human buildings."

"The dark corner I went to was inside the building after entering, and there was a corridor in front of me that I couldn't see the bottom. There was a dim light above my head, and there was a door every twenty meters or so in the corridor."

"When you open the door, most of them are closed and empty rooms, and occasionally you will encounter a new corridor."

"There is no gap leading to the outside in the entire space, even if you occasionally see The window, after opening, is also a new corridor..."

"I just kept wandering in the dark corner."

"I don't know how long I wandered... maybe a month? Or a year? Because I have no concept of time in the dark corner."

"I just know that I wandered for a very long time."

"During the wandering, I experienced corridors of different styles, saw halls wider than the city, and went to bottomless swimming pools..."

"Until one day, I felt the breath of the throne again under a deep swimming pool."

Zuniga dived into the swimming pool without hesitation.

Dive 20 meters.

Dive 100 meters... dive 300 meters...

When Zuniga felt that the surroundings were full of high pressure, he saw a huge whale comparable to a mountain.

However, the whale is not a living creature, just a statue placed on the wall of the swimming pool.

The whale opened its mouth, and there was a faint light inside.

The breath of the throne that Zuniga sensed came from the mouth of the whale. Zuniga did not hesitate and swam over immediately.

Then he passed through a light door and came to a new corridor...

As before, in this new corridor, he lost his sense of the throne again.

However, this corridor is not long. It seems to be only about a hundred meters. There are no doors on both sides, but there is a door at the end of the corridor.

Zuniga: "I walked and walked, and when I got to the door, I stepped right in."

Angel: "Then what?"

Zuniga smiled bitterly: "There are two things I regret most in my life."

"The first thing I regret is that I was not in the royal capital when Mount Dioma disappeared."

"The second regret I have is stepping through this door."

"Because after stepping into this door, I left the dark corner and returned to the outside world. But at this time, I was no longer in the residential building where I was originally, and I was even far away from the mainland of the country where I was..."

"I'm here, Mist City."

"A city I have never heard of, a continent I have never been to."

From that day on, Zuniga began to wander around this continent, hoping to sense the aura of the throne again and go to the dark corners.

He started from the City of Mist. He has been to the City of Dreams, the City of Desire, and the City of La La... but he has never felt the breath of the throne again, nor has he stepped into a dark corner again.

Over the years, he has heard a lot of information about the Dark Corner, and he also knows that the Dark Corner has been opened many times, but even if he was in that city when the Dark Corner was opened, he still could not sense the aura of the Dark Corner.

Later, he learned a piece of information from a magician in La La Land: wherever there is a city, there will be dark corners. But dark corners appear most frequently in newly built cities.

Although he didn't know whether the information was true or false, he still decided to take a gamble.

Then, he came to Modern City.

This is an extremely young city.

I stayed there for more than ten years, until now.

"This is my story." After Zuniga finished speaking, the atmosphere was obviously solemn. Even the Fengwen boy covered his mouth and didn't dare to say a word.

Angel glanced at the unruffled spiritual resting place and understood that Zuniga was telling the truth.

"I thought I would keep my past in my heart forever, but I didn't expect to say it out today..." Zuniga: "Outlanders like you shouldn't care about dark corners or not."

"But because of this, I am more willing to tell you these stories."

Just like, some people cannot express their feelings to those close to them. But when meeting a stranger, he is willing to talk about a truth.

Precisely because people outside the world don't care, he won't put pressure on others by speaking out.

Angel was about to say something, but before he could say anything, he felt the message from Wonderland suddenly hit his face...