Volume 19 Chapter 74 Underground Exchange

"So big?" Priestess was obviously shocked by the city in front of her.

In fact, the city in front of us is not too big in terms of area. In our country, there are 80 cities of this size, not to mention 100. However, those cities are all built on flat ground, but this city But it is built underground. Not to mention how difficult it is to find such a huge cave, even if such caves are everywhere, the workload of transporting building materials to such a place with inconvenient transportation and then building a city is definitely more work than building it on the ground. The same city requires two or three times more labor, so it is absolutely a miracle to see such a huge city underground.

Although I was shocked by the scale of the huge city in front of me, to be honest, if it were me, I would never choose to build a city here. It’s not that dungeons are useless, but it’s because of the location of the city.

Originally, no matter how big the city in front of us was, all we could see was the construction area in front of us. The reason why the priest sister and I were shocked just now is because we saw the whole city at once, and the reason why we can see the whole city is because our current location is higher than the city. That's right, it's higher than the city.

The city in front of me was designed by someone whose head was kicked by a donkey. The main part of the city was actually built below the water level. The highest point in the entire city is the port area where we are standing now, and the entire port is a section that can be said to be both a city wall and a dam. After passing through this port area, there are three relatively wide overpass-like roads connecting the city below to the port, which is dozens of meters above the city ground. In addition to these three wide overpasses, there are many other roads on the edge of the port. There are few small stairs and manual lifts.

"Master, someone is coming." Sister Priest and I were observing the city below, but Pepper suddenly reminded us. I turned my head and looked at the direction Chili was pointing, and then I took the priest sister and hid behind a pile of goods nearby.

The area we are standing in is not called the port area for nothing, because it is indeed a port. Although the body of water we climbed up to is underground, it is not closed. Our access to the water was just a small crack in the rock formation, but the water was connected to two wide waterways. The minimum width that we can see in these two waterways is more than fifty meters, and the top of the waterway is sixty or seventy meters high from the water surface, and the water depth below is more than a hundred meters. In other words, if the extended part of the waterway is the same as the section we see, then this waterway can definitely be used as a canal, and it is still a quite large canal. In addition, the materials accumulated on the port and the dock with a ship parked not far away also show that the port does lead to a certain place. Otherwise, it would be impossible to repair the shipyard here, and there would never be so much material accumulated.

After we all hid behind the cargo pile, a small group of NPC patrols walked past us in neat steps. However, what was strange was that although this patrol walked in very neat steps, the NPCs that formed the team were obviously not A military branch. The professions and levels of the five NPCs in this five-man patrol are completely unrelated to each other. Such lineups are very common in player teams, but in NPC teams based on scale and cooperation spirit, Such a miscellaneous army is rather strange.

"That team just now...?"

"Did you also find out?" I said while watching the patrol go away: "If I guessed correctly, this city should not be built independently by a certain guild, but a city built by multiple guilds. shared city. The members of these patrols should be a mixture of troops provided by multiple guilds, that's why they are so 'chaotic'."

"Is that so?" Priest mm looked at the patrol team going away and asked: "Should we go inside the city to see the situation? If the guys from the Black Sun Alliance have no status here, we might as well just go in and arrest them. Those guys just leave.”

I thought for a while and said: "If they are just ordinary people here, it doesn't matter. I am afraid that they are not ordinary people here. If the people here are with them, we in the Frost Rose Alliance are not afraid of them. , it’s just that things will become quite troublesome.”

"Anyway, we still have to take a look before talking, right?" the priest mm said.

I nodded and said: "Then let's go to the city and take a look. Anyway, this is a city shared by many guilds, and the people should be very mixed. As long as we pretend to be ordinary, we shouldn't attract attention. But we have to first Leaving this port area, this place seems to be an area not open to the public, and our presence here will definitely alarm the managers here."

"Then let's get out of here first."

After confirming the plan, I asked Amynis to disguise the two of us first, then put away Sayoko and walked out of the port with only the peppers.

Pepper's mental induction is basically similar to biological radar. Any thinking creature entering this area will be discovered, so we can just turn back and forth among the dense cargo and buildings in the port area without having to hide at all. In the end, we directly 'touched' the edge of the port area without meeting anyone.

Unlike the previous port area, which was full of goods and buildings, the edge of this port area is not so easy to live in. If you want to get down from here to the city below, you can only use small stairs and elevators besides taking the three large overpasses. But the problem is that both manual elevators and stairs are exposed in the dam-like port. Outside the walls of the area, that is to say, from the top of the stairs to the city below, which is equivalent to a height of more than ten floors, we will be in a completely unobstructed state. During this period, as long as there is anyone below If the guard raises his head, we will be exposed immediately.

In fact, there was originally a way to safely take the stairs down to the ground without being discovered, and that was to use invisibility. With Emmenis's illusion skills, it is really easy to make us completely invisible. However, it is a pity that this method cannot be used at all, because the stairs in the port area are all made of metal. It is true that no one can see us after we become invisible, but the metal ladder jingles noisily by itself. Could it be that the guard below is a fool? When people hear the sound of the ladder and find that no one is visible, they will immediately think that someone is invisible. When the alarm goes off, there will be a blockade up and down, and it will be useless for us to be invisible. As for the manual elevator, although it is hand-cranked, it has a passenger box just like the elevator. If the passenger box moves by itself when no one is around, it will definitely attract a large group of guards faster than a metal ladder. So the invisibility trick is completely useless here.

After looking at the height, which was almost forty meters above the ground, I thought for a while and suddenly turned around and asked the priest mm: "Do you mind if I carry you and jump down?"

The priest sister was stunned by my question, but she quickly responded and nodded: "It's okay."

Now that everyone agrees, I won’t be polite. We quickly put away the peppers and asked Ermenis to add a large-scale invisibility for us, and then jumped out from the edge of the port area. The wings behind us instantly opened to support the weight of the two of us. Since I only needed to land on the ground, I didn't even need to fan myself. I just let myself spread my wings and slowly glide to the roof of a building in the city. After taking two tight steps to stop myself, I jumped down from the back of the building. After landing lightly, I put the priest mm down, canceled the invisibility and continued to activate the illusion, pretending to be two ordinary players.

"Okay, don't be nervous when you go out for a while, just pretend that you are shopping in the system city."

The priestess nodded and said, "Don't worry, I'm not stupid." I could only smile when she said that, and then walked out of the alley behind the building and onto the street.

The situation in the city is indeed similar to what I thought. There are a lot of pedestrians walking back and forth on the street, and there are all kinds of people. There are two of us, and there is no difference at all. The priest sister was a little nervous at first. It was obviously her first time to sneak in in disguise like this, but her adaptability was very good. Within two minutes, she was completely back to normal. She looked like she was shopping casually.

"Who do you think built this city?" Priestess asked while observing the shops on the roadside.

"The system fixed it." I said casually.

"System repair?" Sister Priest was stunned by what I said, and then asked in confusion: "Didn't you say before that this place is jointly managed by several guilds?"

"Yes, this city is indeed jointly managed by several guilds, but you just asked who built the city. This city is a system city, so I am right when I say it was built by the system."

"But……"

"No need to, this situation is easy to explain. Although the city was built by the system, it was conquered. Now these guilds manage it together, so now the city is actually owned by these guilds."

"I see, no wonder the city is so weirdly built. But how did you guess that this is a system city?"

"I didn't guess it, I saw it." I pointed to the top and said, "I saw the palace when I came down just now."

The palace is actually equivalent to the guild headquarters. Even if the average player guild builds a city, it is impossible to make the entire city look like a barracks. There are always divisions such as commercial areas and living areas in the city, and the guild headquarters is usually the guild office or office, and various administrative orders in the city are issued here. System cities are cities established by the system in the early stages of the game. Of course, they also need to have administrative units that issue decrees. However, system cities do not belong to any guilds, so there is no monastery headquarters, and only palaces can be built. Because it is an administrative building built by the system, there are only a few architectural styles, and the structure is very different from the buildings built by players themselves. I just casually glanced at the palace in the sky and discovered the palace, so I was sure it was a systematic city. But at that time, I also discovered that there were several guild flags stuck on the outer wall of the palace, so I could conclude that the player guild had taken down the place.

The priest sister reacted after hearing my explanation, but before she could speak, our attention was attracted by the commotion of the crowd in front. I saw a large group of people squeezing in at the door of a store in front, and there were many people nearby rushing that way. Although we really wanted to know what was going on there, because we were afraid of exposing our identity, the priest sister and I didn't dare to ask anyone casually, so we had to squeeze in and take a look ourselves.

Because it was relatively far away, many people had already gone in by the time we arrived at the door of the store, and it seemed less crowded outside. The priest sister and I followed the crowd and entered the store. Who knew that as soon as we crossed the threshold, our eyes were blurred. When we regained our sight, we realized that we had actually entered a huge space. Look at the area and the height of the building. , it definitely uses hyperspace technology, because the space inside is dozens of times larger than the house outside.

The interior structure of this store looks very strange. It doesn't look like a store, but it looks like a waiting room at a station. To our left is a long row of counters. Behind the counter, there are more than thirty NPCs standing in a row that looks like a ticket window. Opposite, on the wall facing the gate and on the wall to our right are rows of slides. There are two people standing next to the slides on each floor, removing some special signs with writing on them one by one. The edge of the slide is then pushed to the center of the slide, and these connected words can just form rows of text content.

I took a brief look at the texts hanging on the slides. The contents were basically mission requirements, followed by mission rewards. From the perspective of these tasks, the things hanging on these two walls are actually equivalent to the task bulletin boards in professional unions, except that the arrangement used here is more advanced and can display more content. Of course, if it is our guild, we can simply use the crystal screen directly. It is definitely much more convenient and faster than this kind of slide that requires manual word changing.

Although we roughly understood the function of this store after looking at the task bulletin board and the row of counters, the tasks hanging on the wall surprised us, because none of the tasks displayed on it were normal tasks.

The so-called normal tasks are legitimate tasks issued by the system, guilds or even individuals. For example, a low-level player looks for someone to help him level up and promises a certain amount of reward for how long. These are normal tasks issued by individuals. Some guilds sometimes issue tasks such as collecting resources, which are considered normal tasks. There are also various tasks released by the system through various NPCs, which are also considered normal tasks.

However, the mission here is different. The bulletin boards on the two walls are all abnormal tasks. For example, one of the tasks is like this. "Revenge mission: Kill the designated player at least once. The client is responsible for providing target location information. The target person is a level 970 thunder mage with high attributes. Each time the target is killed, 0 crystal coins will be awarded. No need to go up. Hand over the seized items, the task time limit is one week."

A mission like this is completely a mission of entrusting others to help with revenge. According to the real situation, this is basically a business run by the evil forces, which is similar to hiring a murderer to kill someone. Of course, in addition to such tasks, there are many more exaggerated tasks. For example, one mission is to disrupt a certain guild's collective leveling operation, and another mission is to sneak attack someone's damage output personnel while they are fighting the boss, and so on, which are basically not a good thing anyway.

"Is this the mission center of the underground forces?" Priestess said in surprise as she looked at the missions on the wall.

Compared to what the priest mm thinks, I think a lot more. The Black Sun Alliance has nothing to do with our guild. Even for money, there is no reason to target a guild like us that hedgehogs like us are absolutely untouchable. If the boss of the Black Sun Alliance escaped here after we knocked on the door, it may explain a problem. Maybe the mission of the Black Sun Alliance to attack our guild was obtained here. That is to say, there may be someone else who is really hostile to us, and the Black Sun Alliance may just be the executor.

"What are you thinking about?" The priest sister said several words to me while I was in a daze. Seeing that I didn't react at all, she couldn't help but push me.

"Huh? Oh, I was wondering if the reason why the Black Sun Alliance attacked our guild was because they received such a mission here, right?"

The priest mm was about to answer, but suddenly pointed to the wall on the right and said: "Look, the third row from the top is the row where the brands are being changed."

I turned around after listening to the priest sister's words and immediately discovered that a new mission was posted on the slide she was talking about, and its content was actually... "Attack me?"

That's right, the newly posted mission on that slide is the mission to attack me. The content requirement is to attack me at a designated time and place and hold me for an hour. The person who issued the task would be responsible for guiding me to that location at that time, and the group that took over the task only had to wait there to hold me back. The mission requires that the group that accepts the mission must ensure that there are no less than 2,000 players and NPCs, and their combat effectiveness cannot be less than 1,000 levels. The mission reward is five million crystal coins and a level 1,200 unknown variety of magic pet egg.

"Damn it, who sent this mission? Who dares to accept this kind of mission after holding on to Ziri for an hour?" I had just finished reading the mission board when I heard a person next to me complain.

The guy's words seemed to resonate with many people. As soon as he finished speaking, someone else immediately answered: "Yes! Isn't this obvious nonsense? Are you going to hold Ziri back for an hour? Is this possible? As long as Ziri doesn't want to Who else can stop him? I think if anyone can hold Ziri off for five minutes, he will be considered the top player in the country."

"Actually, there are people who can hold Zi Ri for an hour." Someone else interjected: "It's a pity that the people with that strength are basically in the Frost Rose Alliance. The best person here can probably hold him back." Ten minutes of Purple Sun is as high as the sky. But speaking of it, this reward is really tempting! It’s a pity that I don’t have the ability to take it!”