Chapter 17 The Real Essinger
"The sound is not coming from the direction of the city, it seems to be the sound from the other side." Sumei pointed to the opposite direction of the city.
"It's true that it didn't come from the direction of the city! But why is there such a large group of cavalry?"
As we were talking, the cavalry brigade over there had already rushed over. The cavalry brigade that came was not large in number, but of high quality. Although the equipment is not very neat, at least their mounts are high-end war horses, and there are no strange things like camels and wild boars.
Su Mei and I pulled to the side of the road. I had already taken back all the magic pets. Logically speaking, they wouldn't attract anyone's attention!
The rumble of horse hooves gradually approached, and four neat columns ran over at a charging pace. As we expected, the cavalry was not targeting the two of us. The large group of cavalry rushed past us without even looking at us. There was a knight on the side of the cavalry who was not in the queue. His horse stopped suddenly when passing beside us.
"Hello, I am Dark Lancer. The president of the Demon City Mercenary Group."
"Hello, big brother!" Sumei began to show the image of an innocent little angel in front of others again.
"Oh! What a cute little sister!" The Dark Lancer couldn't help but pat the little witch on the head (Sumei was still in my arms, so it's not surprising that the Lancer could pat her head on the horse). "Are you two from Yunxiao City?"
"Yeah!" I nodded.
"That's great. I heard that there was a large-scale collective PK outside Yunxiao City. Do you know about it?"
"I know, I know, but I didn't go there. The fight there was very chaotic, and it was inconvenient for me to take my sister with me!"
"Well! Could you please tell me which city gate it is? My brother was also stuck inside. He asked me to help him PK, but he only said it was at the city gate, not which gate it was! We contacted him later, He never replies!"
Our current location is in the northeast of the city. It is the same distance from here to the east gate and north gate of the city, so this knight wants to ask about the specific location. "The person fighting in the melee is Dongmen, but you'd better ask him whether he is in the city or outside the city."
"Why?"
"Because the center of the melee is the city gate. There are people inside and outside the city. The road has been completely blocked. Even if you use cavalry to charge hard, it is impossible to get in! If your friend is in the city, you'd better It’s better to go around through other city gates. You can’t get in from the outside!”
"That's too bad. He hasn't responded since we contacted him. He is probably having a fierce battle with someone else and has no time to read the messages! I wonder if my brother has seen my friend? He is a demon warrior, his name is Ziying, and he has two heads on his head. The big horns are easy to recognize.”
"Horns?" I thought for a moment. "Sorry, there were too many people, I didn't pay attention!"
Xiao Sumei suddenly shouted. "I saw it. That brother was so funny. He had two goat-like horns on his head. I thought it was funny, so I took a few more glances!"
"Then do you know the specific location?" The Dark Lancer jumped off his horse excitedly and asked.
"It seems to be in the city. It should be some distance away from the city gate."
"Okay, thank you little sister, you are so cute! Goodbye!" The Lancer jumped back on his horse and shouted: "Take the south gate, we will go around the city!"
Watching the cavalry run away, the two of us quickly summoned Night Shadow and ran away. It would be bad when they realized it! Su Mei was laughing all the way while riding in front of me. She is such a cheerful and lively little girl!
"Brother? You have a guild badge on you. Do you have a guild?"
"Of course! Why should I wear a badge if I don't know how to do it?"
"What kind of guild is this? I don't think I've seen this kind of sign before. Is your guild very small?"
"Yes! It's indeed not big." China's current population is 1.5 billion (the protagonist's era, not ours now), and the number of players of "Zero" in China has now exceeded 400 million, with an average of nearly 90 million online players , large and small guilds range from 70,000 to 60,000. On average, a guild will have nearly 10,000 people. Relatively speaking, the number of people in our guild is really small, and a guild with several thousand people is still below the average level!
"Then what's the name of your guild? Is it as big as ours in Baihua Valley?"
"My guild is called Frost Rose Alliance, and it only has a few thousand people. How many people do you have in Baihua Valley?"
"I don't know the specifics, but it's about 10,000 people! There really aren't many people in your guild!" Sumei suddenly stretched out a finger. "Can you take me to your guild's headquarters to play around? I haven't seen what other players' guilds are like!"
"This...!" To be honest, I'm a little embarrassed. The reconstruction plan of the magic city of Essinger has been temporarily shelved due to the approval issue of the Dark Temple. This means that anyone can register a city on that land first, so this place The fewer people who know, the better. But since Su Mei wants to go see me, how can I have the nerve to lie to her?
"What's wrong? Don't you have a guild station?"
"That's right?"
"What do you mean it counts? If you have it, you have it. If you don't have it, you don't have it. If you don't have it, does it mean you have it or not?"
"I have the address of the guild's headquarters, but the city hasn't been built yet. But the city walls are already there."
"That's enough. With a city wall, the basic structure of a city is almost the same. I can also help you design the city layout and architectural style."
"you?"
Xiao Sumei said with an angry look: "What's wrong with me? I majored in civil engineering in college, so helping you design a city layout is no small feat!"
"Oh! The little one is blind, but he turns out to be an expert!" I deliberately made Su Mei happy, and the little girl looked so cute like a little adult.
"That's pretty much it! Come on, take me there!"
Essinger is still quite far away from here. Even if Yeying is fast, it will take an hour to get there, so it is faster for us to teleport directly to a city near Essinger and then fly there by Lucky Flyer. Although the nearest city is the holy city under the Temple of Light, I really don't want to go there again. Although I am not afraid of those sacrifices, I don't want to cause any complications when I take Su Mei to visit my guild residence this time.
In the end, we decided to run out of the teleportation station in the Holy City. There was really no other way. Not to mention other cities were too far away. In the end, we had to go back to the Holy City to enter the Forest of Fantasy. This holy city seems to be an outpost deliberately placed at the entrance of Essinger by the Temple of Light. I think the Holy City is not very big anyway. As long as I run faster, I will definitely be hit by the enemy by chance!
I didn't linger after teleporting out of the city with Su Mei. I immediately summoned Ye Ying and rushed to the city gate at lightning speed. I don’t know who coined the saying, Enemies meet on a narrow road, but it definitely makes sense. No, I met those terrible sacrifices again. However, things seem to be a little different this time. More than thirty people on the other side crowded together and leaned towards the side of the road, obviously making way for me. Of course I wasn't polite and immediately asked Ye Ying to walk over from the other side against the wall.
Although the Demon Spirit Knight was chased by them in a very embarrassing manner last time, the Demon Spirit Knight's one shot killed ten of their sacrifices in seconds. In terms of actual damage, they still suffered a loss. So when they met me this time, they were obviously not as arrogant as last time. In fact, in addition to the demon knight, Ye Ying also helped now. I was still taken by Scott when I escaped last time. It's strange that they are not afraid of such a big monster this time!
After passing that special section of road, we quickly ran out of the city. As soon as we left the city, I summoned Lucky to take over Ye Ying's job. There are too many monsters in the forest, so it is more practical to fly there! With the last experience, we passed much faster this time and easily passed through the forest and entered the Essinger area.
Plague landed smoothly (there is a gravity barrier in the forest, remember). I jumped off the ground first, and then picked up Su Mei, who was already stunned. "Welcome to the Magic City of the future, the paradise of dark forces!"
"Wow!" Su Mei was so surprised that she lost consciousness for the first time, and her little mouth turned into a cute O shape. "So big?"
"Of course, the Magic City!" Although I didn't build it, this will be my city in the future, and pride is inevitable.
"I thought it was a city like our Feihua City! So it's so big? This... this... is simply a capital city!"
"It's the capital in the first place! Why do you think this place is called the Magic City? Isn't it the capital of the dark forces?"
"Awesome! This city is almost the same size as the three main cities in the system! It seems to be slightly larger!"
"Of course, there are three main cities in the system, and I only have one magic city. If we don't build it bigger, wouldn't it be even more embarrassing?"
"Take me over quickly and take a look."
I hesitated. "The grooves on the city wall are full of skeletons, aren't you afraid?"
"What's a skeleton? Isn't it just a person's support system? There's nothing to be afraid of!"
Oh my God! Is this a little girl? Shaking my head, I led her towards the edge of the city. As soon as we reached the bottom of the city wall, Xiao Sumei jumped off me and rushed to the foot of the city wall. She stood by the city wall, placing one hand on the wall and looking up at the top of the wall. I walked over and looked towards the top of the city wall.
The height of 450 meters is equivalent to more than a hundred floors. Standing at the foot of the city wall and looking up, it feels like the city wall extends all the way to the sky. The slight inclination angle of the city wall not only does not affect the overall feeling, but makes the city wall even more imposing. Magnificent.
The place where we are standing now is the entrance to the city, that is the passage. The 30-meter-wide passage looks like a sliver of sky here. The super-high mountain makes the passage appear extremely narrow. In fact, the city gate of the system's main city is only 16 meters wide, and this passage is almost twice as wide.
Su Mei suddenly knocked on the wall, then turned around and stretched out her hand to me. "Give me something sharper."
"What are you going to do?"
"Forget it, you better do it!" Su Mei pointed at the wall, "Aim here and hit it hard!"
"Oh!" Although I was confused, I still did it, picked up the dragon gun, pointed it at the wall and stabbed it. With a golden sound, the dragon gun fired a string of sparks and then bounced away. "Damn! Can a divine weapon block this thing?"
Su Mei looked at the place where I just hit her, then put some of it in her mouth with her finger, tasted it, and nodded. "really not bad!"
"What's so good? You have to tell me what it is when you ask me to do hard work, right?"
“The location of your city is great!”
"Nonsense! I know even if you don't tell me!"
"The entire wall and foundation of this city are made of a single piece of crystalline rock. Such a large piece of crystalline rock is really rare! When we built Feihua City, we spent a lot of effort to buy a little bit of crystalline rock to build the city's government hall. I didn’t expect your entire city to be made of crystalline rock! It’s so unfair!”
"Is this crystalline rock very precious?" My auxiliary occupation is not a miner, and I know nothing about digging stones.
"Crystalline rock is of course very precious, because the system store does not sell it at all. When players build a city, they usually go to the stonemason NPC in the system city to buy stones to build the city, but the stonemason does not sell this kind of crystalline rock at all. Our crystalline rock They are all collected from players. The production of this thing is very small, and even if you find it every time, you only have a little bit. There is no way to collect it in large quantities. You will be lucky if you can use it to build a council hall!"
"Then what are the advantages of this thing?"
"The advantage is that it is hard. This thing's defense is super high. Even if it is directly hit by the magic crystal cannon, it can only blow up a few fragments. If you want to completely penetrate the crystalline rock wall with the thickness of an ordinary city, you need to aim the magic crystal cannon at a Repeatedly attack dozens of times. If it were your city wall, I guess a magic crystal cannon with a magic crystal might not be enough! I’m afraid the magic crystal will use up the magic power before the city wall can be broken through!"
"Haha! I didn't expect my city wall to be such a good thing!"
"Isengard doesn't have a moat. The stronger city walls are probably to make up for this flaw! Okay, take me in and have a look!"
I summoned Ye Ying, took Su Mei and jumped up. Although the entrance to the passage is blocked by rocks, Yeying is now relatively large and can easily jump between the rocks. After easily crossing the rocky area, we entered the flat road smoothly. Su Mei saw the Juling Tower in the center of the city at a glance. It was right in the center of the city and could be seen from this passage.
"What is that?"
"That's the Soul Gathering Tower, the center of the city. There should have been the Dark Temple above it."
"Oh! It is indeed a very good design!" Su Mei anxiously urged me to speed up.
As soon as she left the passage, Su Mei immediately felt the hugeness of the city. The area of this behemoth was already the size of a large city. The empty city was full of rubble. Although it was very 'messy', it was easy for us to see the whole city.
"Come on, I'll take you to the top of the tower."
"Wait!" Su Mei suddenly wanted to go down.
I had no choice but to take her down to the ground, and Su Mei ran directly to the rubble at the edge of the street and turned over. After flipping through it for a while, she turned back to me and said, "Help me lift these things!"
I looked at the large piece of bricks he pointed at and had no choice but to help lift it. Although there was a lot of rubble, the area we had to clean was not large, and it was over in a while. Su Mei studied the ground intently, and she even fumbled with her hands in the ravines on the ground.
I couldn't help it anymore, so I walked up and asked, "What are you looking for?"
"aisle!"
"aisle?"
"Esinger has a good drainage system and anti-seepage layer on the ground. Ordinary cities don't need these things. The only possibility is that there are underground buildings here!"
"You mean Isengard has a city under the city?"
"I'm afraid it's not just as simple as the city under the city! My auxiliary profession is an architect, and I have reached level 18 now, but at such a high level, my skills can't even see the city's drainage system design! Press It’s true that at my level, I can easily see all the design and structure diagrams of a city, but I can’t see anything in this city except the structure of the city walls!”
"Isn't it so mysterious? From what I told you, I thought I was here to find the mysterious Mayan civilization!"
"Don't tell me, there might be something down there!"
"But there's no entrance here!"
"So I'm looking!" Su Mei started to explore the ditches on the surface again, and followed the ground all the way to the bottom of the Juling Pagoda in the middle of the city. The drainage channels on the surface did not flow out of the city but were all gathered together. Below this pedestal. We walked around the platform base several times and didn't see anything strange. The flat platform base with no gaps at all really didn't look like an entrance!
By the way, isn't Ling the God of Darkness? Maybe she knows the structure of the Magic City! I summoned Ling and Scott. Both of them are high-level members of the dark forces. They should know something about these things. "Do you two know that there is something like a dungeon in Essinger?"
"Dungeon? I don't know, I'm not Essinger's guard!" Scott may not be in a high enough position, and he doesn't know these things!
Ling's answer was beyond my imagination. "You mean the underground city? Isn't Essinger the underground city?"
"What? Essinger is an underground city? Except that the city wall is relatively high, it is no different from an ordinary city!" Su Mei asked her in disbelief.
"This is originally an underground city! The place we are standing on now is the rooftop of Essinger, and the real city is still underground. This is just the original scope of the Dark Temple, and the city wall you see is only the inner city wall. We In fact, there is an outer city wall! The forest outside is the original city limits."
This is really explosive news! The huge Essinger is actually just the tip of the iceberg, and the real city is still under the ground!
"Is this city always like this or has it sunk?" Su Mei seemed to have grasped the key to the problem.
"The main part of Isengard was originally on the ground. Later, during the God War, the Temple of Light used the Super God Curse at the expense of 3 main gods of light and 3,000 high-level angels. As a result, the entire Isengard sank 500 meters There are so many meters that the original city sank underground, and the part that was supposed to be the temple was mistaken for the city!"
"Don't be so exaggerated, right? According to you, isn't the actual area of Isengard more than ten times its current size?"
"To be exact, it's more than 9 times, and that's just the surface area. In fact, even if it doesn't sink, Essinger itself has an underground city. This is a double-layered city. There are two identical cities above and below the ground. But The underground part is upside down! If you can pick up Isinger as a whole, you can see that Isinger is actually two cities connected bottom to bottom."
"Scary city!" Su Mei said almost to herself.
"Is there a way to raise the city from the ground up?" What I hope most is that the entire city can be raised up. Think about it, with 9 times the area and double-layered city walls, isn't this the best city in the world?
"There is a way, but it's a little troublesome!"
"you say!"
"As long as there are light stars from the Light Temple and dark stars from the Dark Temple!"
"The Temple of Darkness is okay, but the Temple of Light? Wouldn't that cost my life?"
Sumei suddenly shouted. "Didn't you mention a certain ring when you first accompanied me to the Temple of Light and were mistakenly recognized by the priest?"
"You mean the Ring of Light?"
"As long as you get the Ring of Light, you can enter the temple in a dignified manner, and when the time comes, you can get the Star of Light out, isn't it?"
"You are dark enough to have thought of all this!"
"Then do we still want to see this city?" I looked at Su Mei.
"What are you looking at now? The city's area is 9 times that of here, and it's 18 times larger with the underground city. I've looked in vain, so I'd better hurry up and find a way to get those two stars. By the way, I want to join you. Yes, please accept me as a member!"
"Join a guild? Don't you have a guild?"
"I'm quitting the membership right now!" Su Mei immediately called up the guild function to apply for withdrawal, and then used a private message to contact Hongyun to help her quit the membership. Once you join a guild, you cannot leave it easily. You can apply to withdraw from the guild or you can withdraw by force. Applying to withdraw from a membership requires the consent of the guild president and more than 50% of the elders. This withdrawal does not affect personal attributes. You don’t need to say hello to the Elder Council to forcefully retreat, just cancel it directly, but this will directly lower the level by one level, and the evil value will increase! "Okay, my withdrawal is over, you can accept me!"
"Why do you want to join our guild? Doesn't your Baihua Valley have more people than my guild?"
"What's the use of more? Our guild is extremely poor, and the money to build the city is all cobbled together by everyone. It took a lot of effort to build a city with only that small amount of space, which is almost the same as a county seat. It's not like you. The city is simply a municipality, no, it will be even bigger than the municipality when it is all raised to the ground!"
"After doing this for a long time, you came to my city?"
"Tch, if you want to find a beautiful woman these days, you need money, a car, and a house. I am a beautiful woman anyway, and you have everything, so of course I will follow you!"
I was so dizzy after being told, what are children these days thinking about? "Where did I get the money, the car, the house?"
"You took me to Yunxiao City to buy so many things. You always asked for things first and then asked the price, and you never counter-offered. This shows that you are very rich!"
"I'm dizzy! That's just me. I don't like to bargain when buying things. Men basically have this problem!"
"You don't need to say it, you have a lot of money anyway, that's for sure! On the way here, your dragon called Night Shadow can be regarded as a Ferrari in the game. No one can catch up with it when it runs. Absolutely What a beautiful car! And you have so many dragons, it’s a private jet!”
"Is this okay?" Ye Ying can only run faster. Even Ferraris and those that can fly are all private jets. So what do Aina and Ling mean? Personal secretary?
"Ignore the first two, this Essinger counts as your city no matter what? Why should I hesitate about such a big house? There will be no house bigger than yours in the entire game!"
"Depend on!"
"No matter what, you want me to join the club! Otherwise I will cry!"
"Okay, okay, please don't cry. I can't resist the wolf!"
Inviting Su Mei to join the party, she clicked accept and then happily jumped on me. "Brother, that's so nice. Come on, give me a stamp!" He said and gave me a kiss on the face. I'm so big! However, these things on the 10-year-old Su Mei only make her look cute, without the delicate pretense of those adult girls. A child prodigy is a child prodigy. After all, she is only 10 years old, and her life experience will not be the same as that of adults!
After finishing the work, we took Su Mei and teleported directly to the Lost City. Our goal this time is the Dark Temple. No matter what, we have to get the approval for building the city first, otherwise even if we get the Dark Star and the Bright Star, it will be the same. no good!