For the residents living in the 17th, 12th and 9th districts, today is definitely not a good day, because while they were still sleeping in the bed, a group of city guards and city guards broke in and drove them all to other surrounding districts.

On the streets, they are not even allowed to take salutes.

Although they were very angry about this incident, they did not dare to complain, because there had been a few brave and aggressive boys who tried to fight against these guards and city guards through some of the relationships they had established in the past.

After driving them away, they all turned into corpses and were randomly dumped on both sides of the road, waiting for the body collectors to come and clean them up.

However, compared to these ordinary residents who were kicked out of their homes without bringing anything, the bosses of the factories in District 9 suffered heavy losses. Their losses were not just as simple as stopping work for a day;

Some contracts that require delivery within a time limit cannot be completed, and considerable compensation must be made, and some compensation amounts even exceed the contract goods themselves.

But even so, these people have not thought of resisting, because there are some well-informed people among them. They found out that the move of clearing out three urban areas in Hushang Town was not done by the nobles of Hushang Town, but by members of the Wizards Association.

A decision made by a senior executive.

If it was just the nobles of the town of Seventh Lake, they, businessmen with extensive connections, could unite and encourage the forces behind them to hold the nobles of the town of Seventh Lake accountable. As long as the Alcott family was not involved, they would

It can force the nobles to bow their heads and make short-term decisions, thereby reducing some losses.

But once this matter involves the higher-ups of the Wizards Association, no matter how strong the power behind them is, they will not dare to act rashly. They may even throw them out directly to please the higher-ups of the Wizards Association.

"Do you know what this is for?" Standing on the edge of the platform where District 9 can be seen, a factory owner asked his friend next to him nervously.

"It should be related to the ruined capital." He is also a factory owner, but obviously the person being questioned has a different status and can know some secret things.

The Abandoned Capital is not a big secret to capable people, but most ordinary people have never heard of it, so this simple answer aroused the curiosity of some people. It is a pity that this factory

The Lord seemed to be worried and did not dare to say more. He just used a few simple and vague words to explain it away.

However, when these factory owners were talking, they did not notice that there was a guard not far away from them, eavesdropping on their words. And when the people around him were paying attention to other places, he quietly followed them.

He backed away from the crowd, then quickly ran to a remote place, took out a bottle of medicine and poured it on himself quickly, then jumped into the lake and quickly swam towards the edge of the nearest platform in Area 9.

There are dangerous monsters hidden in the lake during the Silver Moon Period. This is something that everyone in the entire Hushang Town knows. During this period, let alone swimming in the lake, even boats and rafts cannot be launched into the water.

However, the young guard did not encounter any danger when swimming in the water. Even though some dangerous creatures hidden deep in the lake were attracted by the vibration of the water waves, they were about to approach the guard.

He swam away quickly as if he felt something disgusting, causing the guard to have no accidents along the way.

After entering the ninth district, the guard relied on his familiarity with the terrain to get into an alley that few people had walked through. He passed through some secret passages in the factory area and took a short time to arrive at the tenth district.

The seventh, twelfth and ninth city districts were sandwiched between the small lake area and guarded a small wooden house on the edge of the platform, waiting for what he was expecting to happen.

The guard's name was Bell, and he was the guard captain of a factory owner. He had served as a soldier on the front line in the foggy area. With his military exploits on the front line, even if he could not become a knight when he came back, he would at least be able to serve as a city guard or security guard.

Served as a senior official.

It was a pity that Bell gave up his position and handed over his qualifications to the orphan of his comrade who had saved him on the battlefield. He was introduced to become the guard captain of a factory owner.

The reason why Bell did not hesitate to use his last bottle of wizard potion and sneak back to the ninth district this time was to wait for an opportunity, an opportunity that would allow him to further transform into his ancestral form, and also allow him to regain his noble qualifications.

Opportunity.

Different from other ordinary people, Bell has a certain understanding of Abandoned City. When he was at the Mechanical Fortress in the Fog Area, he heard more than one comrade mention the opening of the entrance to Abandoned City, and he also knew about Abandoned City.

When the entrance opens, some mysterious things will come out.

According to the description of the comrade, those mysterious things can help the people possessed by them to complete the ancestral state of a higher form. The best evidence for this is that the person who is not of noble origin has entered the recessive ancestral state.

The comrade himself is a state-of-the-art character.

Bell knew very well that his body had no possibility of further transformation due to past injuries, but he was not willing to be a guard captain all his life. He hoped to obtain a higher status, especially after seeing those who

After living the luxurious life of a nobleman, he even felt a little regretful about giving up his original qualifications.

Now he has an opportunity to further his ancestral transformation. As long as his body's ancestral transformation reaches a higher level, he will be able to go to the front line of the fog area again, make military exploits, and regain the qualifications for a knighthood.

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So when he learned that the Abandoned City would appear, Bell immediately made a decision, used the wizard-expelling potion he had kept for many years, and sneaked back to District 9.

In the hiding place, Bell waited for several hours, but still did not see any movement on the lake. He began to doubt whether his judgment was wrong. Perhaps the entrance to the abandoned city did not appear in the lake area in the middle of the three urban areas at all, but in other places.

The place, or perhaps the ruined capital will not appear at all.

Just when Bell's mind was in chaos and his thoughts were wandering, several floating airships slowly flew over the 17th District from the direction of the Noble District, and finally docked over the lake near the 17th District.

Seeing the floating airship, Bell couldn't help but show joy on his face. He quickly took off his clothes, then followed the method his comrade gave him, cut his hand, and smeared a pattern on his chest with blood.

Then he quietly waited for the mysterious thing in the ruined city to appear.

However, just as Bell was preparing to be possessed by the mysterious thing in the abandoned city, on a floating airship, the spiritual wizard Jesse seemed to be aware of it. He looked at the wooden house where Bell was, and then smiled: "Again

A guy who is not afraid of death really thinks that foreign objects coming out of the abandoned city are so easy to deal with."

The words of the spiritual wizard Jesse also attracted the attention of other people. They all used their own methods to check the situation of the wooden house. Each of them had a look of disdain on their faces. They had no intention of paying attention anymore. They only had the clothes on their backs.

Leo, who was in a big box, still recorded the patterns painted on the chests of the people in the wooden house through the spiritual network.

The reason why Leo pays attention to this pattern is because this pattern is a pure Turing root. The entire root is composed of three basic radicals. The meaning of the root is mainly to guide, absorb and integrate. It is not possible to learn from the words of other people around.

It sounds hard to hear that the people who came out of the house must be aliens who want to absorb and fuse and run out of the ruined city when the entrance opens later.

Although this Turing root is very simple and is only the most basic Turing root, the combination of the three basic radicals is very inspiring. Leo feels that if he can drill out the combination, he may be able to use this picture

Based on the root word Ling, a more complex root word Turing is created.

Perhaps it's because Leo has been obsessed with collecting all kinds of knowledge in the past two days, which makes his curiosity and desire to collect extremely strong. As long as there is knowledge that he has never seen before, he can't help but include it in the information.

In the library, do some research.

Just when Leo was habitually studying the root of Turing, the black-robed wizard Rise suddenly said to Charles Longco who was standing aside: "Aren't you going to stop this guy? If he really succeeds in possessing him,

It's probably another quarry rebellion."

Charles Langke glanced at the black-robed wizard Rise coldly, and said in a deep voice: "Whoever caused the trouble will clean it up. If your fourth tower hadn't spread the possession runes, how could there have been so many people doing this?"

A kind of self-destruction thing?"

After saying that, Charles Langke turned around and returned to the cabin of the airship. After a while, he took out a box, opened it in front of everyone, and then handed the bracelets inside to Leo and others, and said: "This

The bracelet will guide us to enter the thirteenth floor of the big library, but the entry location is different, so we have to meet at the entrance of the big tree cave, and then go to the forty-third floor. Don't rush in alone.

The level of danger is definitely not something that one of us can handle alone."

After listening to Charles Longco's narration, everyone put their bracelets on their hands. At this time, Leo suddenly said: "Expeditioner, do you have any extra bracelets?"

Charles Langke was stunned for a moment, frowned, and asked in confusion: "Are you going to take others into the abandoned city?"

"It's not a human, it's a puppet." Leo pointed to the big box behind him.

"Is this Peter Alcott's Puppet Maid? I have also heard of this work, but I didn't expect that he actually entrusted it to you before he died. It seems that you have an unusual relationship with him.

"Charles Longco looked at the box behind Leo with curiosity. He did not take out the bracelet, but asked without objection: "Can you open it and take a look?"

Upon hearing Charles Longco's request, Leo did not refuse. He took down the box and opened it in front of everyone.

Although everyone present is a powerful wizard, they are also very interested in Peter Alcott, the puppet maid, because this puppet maid's fighting power is so amazing that countless foreign objects in the fog and cult masters have died in its hands.

, even many wizards from the Wizards Association who snooped on Peter Alcott's mechanical knowledge fell into its hands.

However, after seeing this puppet, everyone showed disappointment, because they could not find any traces of witchcraft and magic in this puppet. Although the puppet in front of them was very beautiful, it was not the same as the one in the rumors.

There is a huge difference between puppet maids.

"Is this Peter Alcott's puppet maid?" Sorohan, the nightwalker who has always been taciturn, couldn't help but wonder in his heart and questioned: "Why doesn't it have any power at all? Why does it look so ordinary? It's just an ordinary body.

It's a puppet, and it's not a moving mechanical puppet, it's just a wooden puppet." As he said that, he looked at Leo and asked: "Could it be that Peter Alcott's puppet was stolen before it was handed over to you?

Has it been replaced?"

After Nightcrawler Sorohan said these suspicious words, everyone around him couldn't help but nodded. After all, they had also heard what happened at Peter Alcott's wake and knew that Anna Alcott was interested in her son.

The puppet maid values ​​​​so much that it is not impossible to replace the relic before handing it over.

Everyone's misunderstanding was seen by Leo. Sorohan's words were an invisible help, helping him save the time to explain, so he pretended not to care and said: "For me, the authenticity of this puppet is

It doesn't matter, I just promised Peter Alcott to send his puppet to the abandoned capital. It doesn't matter whether this puppet is Peter Alcott's maid puppet, as long as the inheritance proves that it is, it

that is."

"What a cunning guy!" Lang Baxian, the similarly taciturn Mist Walker, looked at Leo and said expressionlessly.

Others smiled slightly, after all, for them, a cunning collaborator is far more useful than a slow-down fool.

After satisfying his curiosity, Charles Longco no longer dwelled on such trivial matters as why Leo would want the puppet to wear a bracelet. He took out one of the extra bracelets and handed it to Leo, watching Leo put it on

The bracelet was put on the puppet's wrist, the box was closed again, and the box was carried behind the back.

At this time, bursts of exclamations suddenly came from other airships, and then they saw the mercenaries, adventurers, etc. sent by the nobles of the Seventh Lake Town to participate in the execution of the abandoned capital, all rushed to the edge of the ship, their heads

He stretched out the railing and looked down.

As for Leo and others, they didn't need to look down to know what was happening below, because just now a powerful energy wave surged out from under the ship and instantly occupied the sky above.

Leo can easily see this purple-black light energy fountain through his spiritual vision skills, and others can also feel the breath of this energy through various witchcraft, but they do not have spiritual vision to see it.

The scene is so intuitive.

Afterwards, everyone and others stretched out their heads to look at the lake under the boat, and saw a huge whirlpool appearing on the lake. In the center of the whirlpool, some silver-white light spots were swimming in disorder, and they thought from time to time.

He wanted to rush out of the whirlpool, but was pulled back by an invisible force.
Chapter completed!