Chapter 8 The City Lord’s Secret

I have been in the game for so long, and I have been to the Lost City dozens of times. This is the first time I have returned to see the city lord. After putting away Ling and the Demon Spirit Knight, he followed Clark around half of the city and were taken to a very inconspicuous place in the city. "Don't the mayor want to see me? Why did you bring me here?"

Clark didn't answer me but opened the door of a private house. "come on in!"

I was confused, but I still went in. Clark waited for me to come in and closed the door with his backhand. Then he ran to stand in front of the wardrobe next to the bed without explaining to me. Clark grabbed a door handle on the wardrobe, and instead of pulling it out, he turned it around. The wardrobe suddenly ran away for a distance, and the place where the wardrobe was originally located was vacated. Clark walked to the wall and knocked on it twice. The place where the wardrobe was originally stood suddenly sank.

When Clark arrived, I jumped onto the sinking square platform. The platform quickly dropped to a depth of seven or eight meters underground before stopping. This was actually a tunnel! As soon as the two of us walked down the tunnel, the "elevator" behind us automatically rose back up. It's not dark in the tunnel, there is light shining from the front. Clark led me forward.

"Hey, big brother? Didn't you say that the city wants to see me? Why did you bring me to the tunnel?"

"This is the passage leading to the city hall!"

"But why don't we go above ground? Could it be that the city lord's residence is underground?"

"Buildings in dark cities have always been half above ground and half underground. Of course, the place where the city lord lives must be more hidden, so we simply built it directly underground. This entrance is specially designed, just go in and don't go out!"

"Then why did the city lord come out?"

"There is a staircase in the city hall that leads directly to the ground, but that staircase is sealed by magic. You can only go out but not in!"

"Dizzy! It's so troublesome!"

"It's not troublesome! It's just a passage for exiting and a passage for entering!"

As we talked, we arrived at the end of the tunnel. It seemed that the tunnel was not very long. I was shocked as soon as we came out of the tunnel. We actually appeared on the ground, and it was a huge forest! "What...how did this happen?"

"Hey! This is a magical illusion. In fact, we are still underground! Follow me and don't get lost. Getting lost in the illusion is no joke!"

"Oh!" I quickly followed Clark, for fear that I would get lost and not be able to get out!

This fantasy forest is not very big, so we walked through it quickly. A garden-like place appeared before us. The city lord in red armor was standing in the middle of the garden, slightly bent over and not knowing what he was doing. His bright red cloak blocked our view. The city lord, who has his back to us, has not noticed our arrival.

"City Lord, Brother Ziri is here!" Clark reminded.

Before the city lord turned around, a small head suddenly popped out from half the height of the city lord's red cloak. This is a very cute little girl, she looks about seven or eight years old, with a sweet little face and two small dimples when she smiles. The city lord finally turned around and walked over holding the little girl's hand. "You are Ziri! Thank you very much for your help today. Come let us sit down and talk!"

The city lord said to sit down, so I started looking for a bench, but this place was simply a garden in a forest. Not to mention benches, I couldn't even find a stone that could be used as a bench. I could only look back at the city lord, but he was sitting cross-legged on the grass! Seeing him sitting like this, I had no choice but to follow the local customs. Fortunately, the clear mountains and green waters here are surprisingly beautiful, and you can feel the breath of nature even more when sitting on the ground.

The little girl next to the city lord did not sit down with us, but started running in a circle around the city lord, and kept laughing. Children are so innocent, and they can laugh for a long time about simple things, but it is difficult for us grown-up people to understand to true happiness!

The city lord reached out and picked up the little girl who was still circling. "Tingting, please stop making trouble and go over there to play by yourself? I want to have a conversation with my uncle!"

"Tingting, come with me! I'll take you to your aunt to get a doll!" Clark walked over and picked up the little girl.

The little girl blinked innocently. "Really? The doll Auntie gave Tingting last time was so cute!"

"Of course, we want Auntie to make a lot more dolls this time!" I really can't believe that Clark, who is so big, can coax a child into a set of dolls!

Although the little girl was happy to have the doll, she still asked the city lord. "Dad, can I go?"

The city lord nodded and said in a loving and slightly majestic voice: "Yes, but don't take too much. Auntie has her own work every day. Don't mess around when you go, you know?"

"Yes! Tingting is the best behaved!" the little girl assured, and then eagerly urged Clark to take her to get the doll.

The city lord watched Clark walk away with the little girl in his arms before turning to face me. "Get ready first, I'm going to take off the helmet!"

"Ah? What?" I didn't understand what the city lord meant, but the city lord had already started to take off his helmet. I was shocked when the helmet was taken off! No matter how undead he is, the ghosts are much cuter than him! What was exposed from the helmet was a faceless head. Only the left half of the highly decomposed head was missing, and the right half was missing. But the right eyeball is still hanging on the head through a string of nerve tissue, as if it will fall off at any time. Half of his brain was exposed, and a large piece of it looked like smashed tofu! And the left half of his face is not very complete. The chin seems to have been hit by something, and it is completely tilted to one side. The cheekbones are all protruding and sticking out. As for the ears... they have been turned back together with the scalp. Come and hang it around your neck! The sight in front of me almost made me vomit on the spot, but luckily I held it back.

"I look scary, don't I?" the city lord asked self-deprecatingly while stroking his helmet.

"To be honest, it's quite scary! But, we are men, looks don't matter, as long as we are capable!" I said this as if I felt a little uncomfortable standing and talking, but I really didn't know what to say to comfort him. good!

The city lord handed me a white paper roll, and I took it and opened it and read it. This is a painting. The background in the painting seems to have been seen somewhere. After thinking about it for a while, I suddenly realized that the background in the painting is the scenery here, but it is not the same as our current angle. In the middle of the painting there are two people, a man and a woman. The girl is very beautiful, and she looks exactly like a rose. She was sitting on a swing hanging from vines. The green vines and her white dress formed a beautiful picture. There is a man standing behind the woman, and he is pushing the swing. The man was wearing red armor, with a happy smile on his face without a helmet. The man is very handsome, and he belongs to the very masculine type. If today's celebrities were half as handsome as him, they could charm a girl with just one look. I suddenly realized something was wrong. Isn't this super handsome guy's armor the same as the one worn by the city lord? Could it be that... I looked up at the city lord in surprise. He nodded. "Yes, that's me. I'm handsome, right?"

I nodded, looked down at the portrait and then looked up at the monster-like city lord. "you……!"

"It's nothing, I've been dead for so long anyway, I don't care anymore!"

"What about your daughter?"

"She didn't know that I looked like this. After I died, I didn't let her see my face for fear of scaring her! I told her that my helmet was stuck and couldn't be removed or opened, so she didn't Noisy. Tingting is a very well-behaved... child!" The city lord said, his voice choked up.

"What will you do when your daughter grows up? She will always know!"

"He won't grow up!" the city lord said coldly. After a slight pause, the city lord continued: "There are two main reasons for coming to you this time. One is to thank you for your information. Because of your timely notification, we completed the preparations before the enemy arrived, that is, because at the beginning During that time, a large amount of the opponent's air force and magicians were consumed, so the subsequent battle was so easy."

"You don't need to thank me. I just dropped by to report a message. I have no actual contribution. Besides, my equipment is still in Clark's shop. If I don't report the message, the Lost City will be destroyed by the Temple of Light. Then my Isn’t the equipment finished?”

"You don't have to be modest about this. Your information is definitely valuable, and it's of great value! As a thank you, I decided to give you a heavy armored dragon in return!"

"An armored dragon?"

"Here comes someone!" the city lord shouted to the back. A knight from the Mysterious Force ran out from nowhere, and behind him was a huge monster!

The monster in front of us, called Ankylosaurus, is very similar to the Tyrannosaurus in dinosaurs (you can refer to the image of the American version of Godzilla), but it is smaller. However, it is only smaller than the Tyrannosaurus, and its actual height is still close. 4 meters high. The heavily armored dragon's body is covered with pitch-black scales, and it looks like its defense is quite high! As a reptile, its tail is not very long, only about 4 meters long. You can tell at a glance that it is quite powerful! Its two hind legs are very thick, and the muscles show the explosive power of these two legs! But in comparison, its front paws are much smaller, but it is big, so no matter how small its front paws are, they are still thicker than my thighs!

The most prominent thing about the Ankylosaurus is its big head, which is almost half the size of its body and has a huge mouth. The Death Knight who led it out pulled the reins, and it suddenly opened its mouth and screamed. The sound was as thin and sharp as a broken gong. But when it opened its mouth, it exposed its neat fangs. Good guy, these teeth are long, and the tip alone is more than two inches long. Whoever bites it will definitely be missing an arm or a leg. This guy's fangs are so white and shiny. I don't know what brand of toothpaste he usually uses. I'll change it to that brand too!

The eyes of Ankylosaurus are very big, and have upright pupils like cat eyes. They look very scary! I found that its eyes have double eyelids, and the inner layer is transparent, just like aquatic animals. Coupled with the fact that there are fins on its tail, I estimate that this thing can move underwater, and it seems that the speed of this thing underwater should not be slow! Driven by the Death Knight, it actually squatted down, and then I saw a saddle at the connection between its neck and body. It seemed that this was the position of the knight. This guy has three rows of dorsal fins on its back starting from a little behind the saddle. The sharp dorsal fins can effectively protect its back from attacks. There is also a pair of retracted membrane wings on both sides of the dorsal fin. It seems that this guy can still fly, but I don’t know how long it can fly at one time for such a big guy! After all, there are only a few real dragons like Lucky!

"What level is this thing?" I happily touched the armored dragon's head.

"This is a level 750 creature, and its number is very rare!" the Death Knight replied. "This kind of one with wings is especially rare!"

The city lord came over and took the reins and waved his hand for the death knight to leave. "How's it going? Do you like it?"

"I like it, but I only have 10 demon servants and 1 demon pet left! Where should I put my head?"

"Don't you have demon knights? Give them to them!"

"What? Give it to them? Can the demon knight also carry a magic pet?"

The city lord asked me strangely. "Don't you know? All humanoid NPCs can carry two magic pets!"

"Is this okay?"

"Of course! Otherwise, why do you think the war horses that your demon knights ride all day long are not counted as the number of demon servants? You don't think that one demon knight plus one demon soul horse equals one demon servant, right? Those are actually all demon servants. It’s the demon knight’s familiar, so they can summon war horses at will!”

"Then if I let the Demon Spirit Knight accept other Demon Spirit Knights as magic pets, and then the cycle continues like this, won't I have my little brother all over the world?"

"What a beautiful idea you have! NPCs who become demon servants or demon pets can only accept non-humanoid demon pets!"

"Oh!" Hey! According to the city lord's intention, doesn't that mean that Aina and Ling can accept two more magic pets? Doesn’t that mean I still have 5 demon pet vacancies? It seems that it is best for me to find a humanoid demon pet for the remaining vacancy, so that I can earn one more possession! This is how the system loopholes are exploited! Hahahaha, I am such a genius! After I was happy, I looked at the armored dragon and started to feel depressed again! "From now on, the demon spirit knights will all ride heavy armored dragons. I rode Ye Ying and walked in front, not to mention being a leader. I just became a clearer!"

"It doesn't matter, I know you have a nightmare mount, so I prepared this thing for you." The city lord 'touched' a gem from his body. "This is a transformation gem. If you set it on the saddle, your magic pet will have the ability to transform. Remember that after the nightmare transforms into a heavy armored dragon, the attack power and defense power will be greatly improved, even better than the real one. The armored dragon is even more powerful, after all, the nightmare level is higher! But after transforming into the armored dragon, you can't use magic at all. Also, the transformation itself has no time limit, you can keep him in one form, but There must be an hour between the two transformations, which means that you have just changed him from a nightmare to a heavily armored dragon, and you have to wait at least an hour before you want to change him back again!"

"That's nothing! There are still many benefits in comparison!" Ye Ying will be able to rush to the front line like a lucky man when he becomes a heavily armored dragon. This time, I, the dragon and phoenix knight, can finally ride on a dragon, although it is fake. Dragon, after all, can be considered a kind of dragon! "By the way, didn't you say there were two things? What else is there?"

"One more thing is my personal problem. I hope you can help me get my wife back!"

"Is that the woman in the painting?"

"Yes! If you see her, show her this painting. The two of us painted it together. She recognizes it!"

"Did you two draw it together?"

"Yes, this is a combination of two paintings. First she was sitting on the swing for me to draw, and then we changed positions and she was adding me in!"

"Creative and romantic!" I extended my thumb. It will definitely be fun to paint a picture like this when I go back to look for roses! "By the way, is your wife a human now or...?" I don't know what to say. He died on his own, but took his daughter with him. It's hard to tell whether his wife will live or die!

"She should still be alive!"

"Then what's her name? Where will she appear? Give her a rough location so I can find her better!"

"Her name is Anna, I don't know where she is! If I knew, I would have found her a long time ago! But she is a light priest, and she should still be in a temple now. She doesn't know that I am dead. It is best for you to see her Don’t tell her the news that I’m dead, just say that I’m doing something great and I’ll go find her when it’s over.”

"Don't you want me to bring her back?"

"How can I see her when I'm like this? If you were like me, would you go to see your girlfriend? Apart from scaring her, what else can the meeting do?" After he finished speaking, he put on his helmet to cover it up. Looking at his own head, it seems that he is still very inferior to his current image.

"Then you are not allowed to bring your daughter to her? You are already an undead, wouldn't it be nice for your daughter to follow you?"

The city lord raised his hand as if to say something, but a clear child's voice interrupted him. "dad!"

I forgot about it and almost sat on the ground in shock! The cute little girl hugged her head to her chest and ran over. There were still a few pieces of something unknown on her headless neck 'exposed'. The little girl ran to the city lord and shouted: "Dad, help me install it, but it fell again!"

The city lord turned around to help his daughter with her fallen head. Looking at his back, I suddenly understood what the city lord was doing when we first arrived! The city lord quickly turned back and said in a vicissitudes of voice: "As you can see, Tingting died with me 30 years ago. If she becomes an undead, she will no longer grow up. She has been a child for 30 years, but That’s fine, so she won’t be in as much pain as me!”

"I understand! I will definitely help you find your wife!"

Clark ran over soon after. "This little girl ran so fast, didn't she see you?" Clark was worried that Xiao Tingting, who suddenly ran back, would see the city lord. Fortunately, the city lord put on a helmet in advance.

"This is a heavy armored dragon egg, and this painting, please keep it!" The city lord gave me the things and then turned to Clark and said, "You can help Brother Ziri make a dragon saddle, and help me give it to him by the way. I'm in a bad mood, so I won't send you off!" After the city lord said that, he turned around and took his daughter away. Looking at the backs of these two people, I felt so uncomfortable that there are such miserable people!

"Let's go!" Clark took me out of this illusion and returned to his shop.

While Clark was helping me make the dragon saddle, I summoned the demon knights and gave them the heavy armored dragons. I kept the remaining 10 and used them when I found 10 more demon servants. Anyway, my Demon servants are limited to cavalry, so I’m not afraid that I won’t be able to use them! Remembering the transformation gem, he quickly summoned Ye Ying and took off the saddle. There is no need for Clark to install gems. After all, I am also an auxiliary professional blacksmith, and I have practiced a lot of skills after working with Clark for so long!

Clark is indeed not an ordinary blacksmith. In the time it took me to install a gem, he made a saddle! After Clark handed me the saddle, he went into the room to get my dragon suit. I distributed the saddles to the demon knights and kept the extra ones first.

"Scott, please hatch all these armored dragons quickly and let me see them!"

"OK!"

After Scott finished speaking, he was about to walk out. I grabbed him. "Where are you running?"

"I'm going to hatch dragon eggs on the street!"

"Can't it be done here?"

"Here?" Scott looked around the room. "No, the room is too small, and the armored dragon is too big!"

"It's okay, Lucky is much bigger than Ankylosaurus, and it wasn't the size of a kitten when it first came out!"

"We are different from you! Once the NPC's familiar is hatched, it will directly reach its adult form, so what we hatch will be a fully armored dragon!"

"Isn't it? Then if I get you a dragon, will it be level 1000?"

"That's impossible! A magic pet cannot exceed the level of its master. We are level 850. If we hatch a dragon, it will directly hatch a level 850 dragon, but that dragon will never reach level 1000!"

"It seems there are still restrictions! Forget it, let's go out and hatch the armored dragon!"