Chapter 209 The Dark Elf’s Little Temper

() Cities on the ground need city walls because the places where people live are relatively flat. In this place with easy access in all directions, if there is an invasion by enemies or wild beasts, it will be difficult to protect yourself without city walls. Of course, in modern society, with the advancement of weapons and changes in human status in nature, things like city walls have lost their role. However, in its original state, the city wall was still a very useful defensive facility.

However, although the defensive role of the city wall is very obvious, it is only limited to the situation on the ground. The settlements in this underground world are caves. These caves themselves are a relatively closed environment, with only some underground passages connecting each other. Theoretically, as long as these passages are blocked, the defense effect should be better than that of city walls. of. However, this dark elf capital is so weird that it actually built a walled city in an underground cave. Isn't this simply unnecessary? . .

Susis was not surprised at all when he heard Kristina's question. He just explained casually: "Do you know where we dark elves lived before?"

Kristina is not an idiot, and she is a legal profession. Compared with warriors, players with legal professions need to know more about the background knowledge of the game. Kristina immediately guessed the reason just after hearing Susis's rhetorical question.

It is true that the dark elves building city walls in the underground world does feel superfluous, but it is reasonable that this behavior is unreasonable. Dark elves are not born creatures of the underground world. They are actually the same race as white elves. They have a common ancestor and both live on the ground. Even now, many dark elves still live on the ground, but there are slightly more dark elves living in the underground world. . .

Because the Dark Elves were originally ground creatures, even if they moved underground, they still maintained many of the habits on the ground. For example, the dark elves still arrange their schedules according to day and night changes, which is not seen in pure underground creatures. After all, there is no difference between day and night in the underground world. For the creatures of the underworld, day and night are the same. So they don't need to differentiate between day and night. The dark elves only have the ability to distinguish between day and night because they have brought their habits from the ground underground.

Building city walls is also a habit of the dark elves. Unlike most White Elf cities, the Dark Elf city is not a plant city based on the Tree of Life, but a stone building complex that is closer to humans, so the Dark Elf likes to build city walls. Even when I went underground, I didn't give up this habit.

In fact, building a city wall in the underground world cannot be said to be completely useless, just a bit uneconomical. We had noticed it before when Susis led us here. The dark elves have actually set up checkpoints in various passages. In other words, the dark elves actually thought of using passages to guard them, and the city wall is more of a psychological comfort for the dark elves. Moreover, if the first level fails, there is a city wall that can reorganize the defense. The front line is better than being completely defenseless after the passage is breached. However, the probability of this is very low, so generally speaking, the reasons for building city walls are mostly due to psychology and habits.

The dark elves are a relatively powerful force in the underground world. As the capital of the dark elves, this place is naturally very prosperous. As we gradually approached the edge of the city, more and more creatures of various races appeared on the surrounding roads.

"Zero" is a fantasy game. In addition to humans, there are many kinds of intelligent creatures. However, even though we have seen the mixing of various races in the above-ground city, we are still surprised by the situation in the underground city. Compared with the surface city, the creatures in this underground city are not only more diverse, but most of them have very unique looks. It would not be an exaggeration to describe the chaos of demons dancing on this street. Most of those terrifying underground races have no body hair. Those with scales or cuticles on their body surfaces are better, but the most disgusting thing is that many of them are simply covered in folds and sarcomas. Even I sometimes feel like I can't bear to look at this strange race of creatures.

Although Kristina is not a very squeamish kind of girl, she does not belong to the carefree type. Basically, her aesthetics are relatively normal, so the underground races in front of her make her very uncomfortable. Get used to it, especially after arriving near the city gates.

Although it was not all smooth sailing in the underground cave before, there were many roads to take, but when we arrived at the city gate, the flow of people began to gradually gather. This dark elf capital only has a semi-curved city wall. The main part of the city is retracted in a concave cave with no external access. Therefore, the outer city wall actually only surrounds less than half of the city. In one direction, the remaining parts are natural protection composed of natural caves.

Since the city wall is not very long, there are naturally few gates. A total of three city gates were opened. If everyone wanted to enter the city, they could only gather at these three city gates, so the roads began to become more and more crowded. It's better to come outside. As the roads gradually become more and more crowded, it is inevitable that there will be crowds of people. If this were in an above-ground city, it would be okay if it was a little crowded, but this was an underground city, and Kristina couldn't stand it if she was crowded together with creatures that were more disgusting than toads. In the end, she had no choice but to walk with her magic shield on. Although the magic shield consumes magic power, her magic power recovery speed can barely sustain it, at least this way she doesn't have to come into contact with those creatures.

Although I am a man and have a slightly higher endurance than Kristina, I have to say that the creatures here are really weird. There are actually many creatures with mucus on them squeezing into the city. In this situation, I can't bear it, but we have to go to the city this time, so I have to endure it even if it's uncomfortable.

Susis probably knew that we were not adapted to this environment, so he deliberately smiled and talked to us to distract us. "Do you think we have too many people here? In fact, this is not the case in normal times. The main reason is that the war with the White Elf has recently occurred, and it is likely to continue, so the empire is hoarding supplies to prepare for war. Most of these are from outside. Caravans, that’s why there are so many people. Although our city is quite prosperous, there are usually not so many people. Of course, from the aesthetic point of view of surface creatures, some of these underground creatures are indeed too long. It’s a little disgusting, but on the other hand, based on their aesthetics, it’s actually quite disgusting for us too.”

"Are we disgusting?" Kristina was stunned for a moment. Then I understood. Indeed, each creature has its own aesthetic habits. If we find some creatures disgusting, they may also find us disgusting. Maybe you think sarcoma is a disgusting thing, but the other person thinks your bare body is disgusting.

With Susis's interruption, our attention was gradually distracted, so we quickly passed through the crowded section of the city gate. After entering the city, they spread out along the roads. Naturally, the flow of people became sparse and sparse, and our discomfort gradually recovered.

According to the previous contacts with the Dark Council, the Dark Elf side now knows the situation of the family that led the two races to fight, and the Dark Elf Empire is also very cautious. In order to prevent this from being framed by the Dark Council, they have also returned their own Someone was sent to conduct a secret investigation. After confirming that the matter was true, he agreed to the arrival of Kristina and me.

According to the results of the communication that the Dark Council helped us communicate, Kristina and I are equivalent to the supervisors of the White Elf this time, and our main job is to supervise the extermination of the Dark Elf family. After all, if this matter wants to calm down, this family must be wiped out, and Bai Jingling is not worried that An Jingling will complete this matter, but now if Bai Jingling sends someone to supervise, the family will definitely be alerted, so We, the third party trusted by Bai Jingling, become the best observers.

Guided by Susis, we soon reached the rear of the city. There is actually a second city wall here. According to Susis. Behind this city wall is the real capital of the dark elves. Those outside should be regarded as the places where subordinate races and low-status low-level dark elves live.

Because I have already said hello beforehand. So we arrived without any trouble. There were people waiting for us at the gate of the inner city. As soon as we showed up, we were immediately taken to a small square. I was shocked as soon as we entered the square, because the square was already full of people. At a glance, there were probably thousands of people, and these were all Dark Elf combatants, except for a large number of people. In addition to the swordsmen, there were also crossbowmen and magicians mixed in. There was clearly an entire army on the square.

"This is……?"

"Aren't you going to deal with the Sisby family? These are the troops responsible for execution." Susis said.

Hearing this, I looked at Susis in surprise and asked, "Isn't it right? I haven't even met your king yet, and the army has already been organized?"

"Of course the faster the better for this kind of thing. After all, it's difficult to keep such a big thing secret. The faster we go, the lower the chance of leaks."

I nodded when I heard this. Although it was indeed a bit too fast, I had to say that it made sense. Since they have even prepared the army, I naturally have no objection and can directly inform them to implement it.

After Susis got my consent, he went to contact the person in charge here. The other party had been ready for a long time. In fact, he was just waiting for me, the observer, to arrive. Susis and the other party just had a brief exchange and the team started to take action. Moreover, these people were obviously professionals, and they acted quickly and without making a sound. As an observer, I naturally don't have to go to the front line in person. As long as there are no accidents in the battle, my task is just to follow and watch. Of course, if something unexpected happens, I will still take action.

Of course, the target Sisby family cannot all gather together and wait to be killed. In fact, the people in this family are usually very busy, so the members of the family are scattered in many different places, but the Dark Elf side In order to ensure that the operation was completely effective, we had already figured out the location and power distribution of the opponent's personnel, so our team started to disperse after leaving the small square.

Since the Dark Elf's operations were so efficient, I thought the opponent was quite generous. However, when I walked out of the square and saw that the opponent's troops were actually divided into dozens of groups, I immediately frowned. This secret spirit is clearly unconvinced! This is causing trouble for us.

In fact, I can understand the mood of the Dark Elf. After all, they got into a battle inexplicably because of this matter, and the losses were so heavy. In the end, they suddenly discovered that the cause of the disaster was on their side. Anyone else would feel uncomfortable. Therefore, although the dark elves agreed to annihilate this family in accordance with their rationality, they still couldn't swallow it, so they thought of such a neither soft nor hard way to trick us, which is usually a small way to regain some face.

Although I understand the dark elves' intentions, I am not someone who is willing to be tricked. Besides, this time this matter is handled by someone else. This is our own business. Taking a step back means taking a step back. You won't suffer any loss anyway. It's not bad to give the other party a little face benefit to ease the relationship. But now I'm working in Bai Jingling, and I've said all my big words before. If I slip up halfway, wouldn't I slap myself for being big?

Since we can’t let others cheat us, we have to solve the immediate problem. Looking at the troops that were suddenly divided into several groups, I began to plan to summon the Gate of the Earth. But I didn't expect the other party's commander-in-chief to come over first. As soon as this guy came over, he immediately started to apologize hypocritically: "I'm so sorry. We got the news that the Sisby family members are now scattered in many different places. In order to ensure the integrity of the operation, we can only divide our troops and do it at the same time." Action. I know you are an observer and need to follow the action, but we still have to put the elimination of the Sibi family first. So I can only apologize to you. But you can choose to follow any of the teams to supervise the completion of this Extermination plan."

Although what this guy said seems to be quite good, his tone and expression are clearly deliberately deceiving, and if you listen carefully to his words, you can also find the mystery. Although this guy asked me to follow the team to observe, the entire team was divided into more than a dozen teams running in different directions. There were only two of us here, Kristina and me, which meant that even if we were divided, we could only follow. Two teams. According to this situation, if the other party really didn't mean it, they should at least tell us which two teams are responsible for the main tasks. Even if I don't care about the scattered Sisby family members. I always have to follow the team that raids their family, right? But now the other party not only didn't tell me which team was going to deal with the Sisby family's nest. Even in order to prevent me from judging based on the number of people in the team, they actually evenly allocated the number of people in the team. That is to say, the number of people in the several teams that were divided was almost the same. In this way, it is impossible to guess the other party's destination based on the number of people alone.

Now that I think about it, the other party must have already planned to trick me like this, otherwise they wouldn't have assembled their team and waited for us to come. They deliberately arranged the operation in advance and launched the attack as soon as we arrived. The purpose was to prevent me from having time to conduct preliminary investigations in the city, so that I could not decide which team to follow based on the specific location of the Sisby family. .

These dark elves are really bad, and these guys are so boring that you can't really notice it as an average person.

The commander-in-chief of the operation must have been a participant in this little trick, so he turned around and left after saying this to prevent me from asking him which team was going where, and I guess he must have planned it in his mind. Well, even if I asked him, he would pretend not to hear and run away.

Although this guy was bored, I didn't care at all. This little trick is fine for bullying newcomers, but it's not that good for me.

I deliberately said loudly to myself: "Damn, why are there so many teams? Which one should I follow?" When he heard me coming here, the guy in front couldn't help but want to laugh. , it’s a pity that he hasn’t laughed yet, but I suddenly changed the topic and continued: "Fortunately, I have many people, otherwise it would be really troublesome. Scott, let the ring knights separate, and each of them will bring two hundred unicorns." Warriors, go and follow these teams. Remember that your task is to supervise. As long as the dark elf friends in front don't miss, you don't have to participate in the battle."

"Understood." The commander-in-chief of the dark elves in front started to turn around after hearing what I said, but when he turned around, he happened to see the scene where Scott answered me, and then he saw Scott A large number of soldiers poured out of the gate of the earth around them, followed the bell knights in front and dispersed, and ran out separately with those teams.

The guy who was planning to trick me was dumbfounded when he saw this situation. What made him even more depressed was that all my Qilin warriors were cavalry. Although most of the roads in the underground world are not suitable for horses, the Qilin Warrior's mounts are not horses, but a four-legged beast that he has never seen before. At first glance, such a creature seemed to have very powerful athletic ability and could not be restricted by the terrain, so he was immediately dumbfounded.

Yuan's little idea has completely lost its effect at this moment. They can't blatantly tell us not to follow them. They can only rely on our lack of manpower to cause us trouble. But now, not only do we have enough manpower, but we also seem to have a lot of people. To the point of being scary.

In the astonished gaze of the guy, the Ring Knight rushed out with the Kirin Warriors. Then follow those teams.

After the scattered team dispersed, I didn't move anywhere. Instead, I stretched out my left hand, and a red flame suddenly appeared above my wrist. Then the flame began to roll, and the speed became faster and faster. Finally, when it turned into a fireball-like flame, it started to slow down again and finally stopped. When I removed it, Xiaofeng's beautiful bird-of-paradise form appeared on my wrist.

Turning to look at Xiaofeng, I said softly: "Go up and help me keep an eye on it." Then I flicked my wrist upward. Xiaofeng immediately used my power to fly into the sky, and in the blink of an eye it turned into a large cloud of fire that covered the entire city, causing a commotion in the city below.

After finishing all this, I leisurely caught up with the commander who was still in a daze, and said: "Okay, I now have the eyes to monitor the whole city. You should act quickly. I will be here to watch you execute it. Mission.”

Although I was so angry that my teeth were itching, but now even if I lose my teeth, I can only swallow it in my stomach. The other party had no way to deal with me. I could only grit my teeth and groan, then turned around and chased one of the teams and left the scene. .

Of course, Susis saw my actions. Although she didn't know about this beforehand, she was not blind or stupid, so she naturally saw the other party's plan. Even though he is a dark elf. But Susis had no sense of belonging to the Dark Elf Empire. She naturally watched this incident as an outsider. Only now did she come over and tease me jokingly: "Are you really a person who doesn't want to suffer losses?"

"Whether you suffer a loss or not depends on the situation. If you still suffer a loss, I will also suffer."

"Then you mean you shouldn't eat this time?"

I nodded and said: "The key point is more troublesome to tell you. Anyway, we can't suffer this time, so I won't give in at all. Oh, by the way, now I don't have to follow them to see the execution process. You Are you free to take us around the city?"

Generally speaking, the system cities in the game will have some specialties and so on, so of course when you arrive in a city, you should first visit the various trading venues in the city. Moreover, according to the consistent settings of the system, it seems that the more cities that players cannot reach, the higher the value of the special products there, so I have now developed a habit of buying new cities that are not marked on the guild map. When you arrive, you will definitely want to visit the trading market.

When Susis left the Dark Council, the order given to her by the Sith Speaker was to take good care of us and obey our orders in everything, so she immediately agreed to this simple request without any hesitation. As for my mission, with Xiaofeng watching over the city, the Ring Knight and so many Kirin warriors, nothing can escape my eyes.

After confirming that I wanted to go shopping, Susis began to take me out of the inner city. Although this infield is the home of the Dark Elves, it is a place where the ruling class lives, and there is no commercial activity in this kind of place. Real business activities are all conducted in the outer city, and even high-end luxury goods are absolutely impossible to sell in the inner city. After all, according to the ruler's point of view, it is impossible for high-level dark elves to go into business, and those who do business can only be ordinary dark elves or alien races. Placing such a group in the inner city should obviously be considered a safety hazard, so it was safer to place it in the outer city.

Although this business is outside the inner city, according to general business rules, the spending power of rich people is obviously higher than that of poor people. Therefore, although this business district cannot set up shops in the inner city, they are all closely connected to the inner city. of city walls. So as soon as we left the inner city, we immediately saw rows of shops, and the place was bustling with people at this time. Obviously the business was quite developed.

"Come on, this is the largest commercial street in the royal capital. We entered the inner city from the east gate before, so we didn't see it here. Now let me take you for a walk." (To be continued.)