Volume 19 Chapter 74 Underground Exchange

"So big?" Priest mm was obviously shocked by the city in front of him.

In fact, the city in front of us is not too large in size. In our country, there are not only 100 or 80 cities of this size. However, those cities are built on flat ground, but this city is built on underground. Not to mention how difficult it is to find such a huge cave. Even if such caves are everywhere, it is necessary to transport building materials to such inconvenient transportation and then build a city. The workload will definitely be two or three times more than the construction of the same city on the ground. Therefore, it is absolutely a miracle to see such a huge city under the ground.

Although I was shocked by the size 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 is not that the dungeon is useless, but because of the location of the city.

No matter how big the city is in front of us, we can only see the building area in front of us. The reason why Priest mm and I were shocked just now was because we saw the whole picture of the city at one time, and the reason we could see the entire city was because our current location is higher than the city. That's right, it's higher than the city.

I don’t know which designer designed the city in front of me, but the main body of the city is actually built below the water level line. The highest place in the entire city is the port area where we are now standing, and the entire port is a part of something that can be said to be a city wall or a dam. After passing through this port area, there are three relatively wide overpass-like roads connecting the city below and this port that is dozens of meters above the city ground. In addition to these three wide overpasses, there are many small stairs and manual lifts on the edge of the port.

"Master, someone is here." Priest mm and I were observing the city below, but Chili suddenly made a sound to remind us. I turned around and looked at the direction that Chili pointed, and then pulled the Priest mm to hide behind a pile of goods next to me.

The area we are standing at is called the port area, which is not called for nothing, because it is indeed a port. Although the water we climbed up just now is underground, it is not closed. The passage we entered that water is just a small crack in the rock layer, and this water is still connected to two wide waterways. The minimum width within the range we can see in these two waterways is more than fifty meters, and the rock top of the waterway is six or seven years away from the water surface.

Ten meters high, and the water depth below is more than 100 meters. In other words, if the part extending the waterway is the same as the section we see, then the 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 where a ship is parked not far away also show that the port does have a certain place, otherwise it would be impossible to repair the dock here, and so many materials would never be accumulated.

After we all hid behind the pile of goods, a small team of NPC patrols walked past us with neat steps. However, what is strange is that although this patrol team is very neat, the NPC that forms the team is obviously not a group of troops. The professions and levels of the five NPCs in this five-man patrol team are completely unrelated to each other. Such a lineup is very common in the player team, but in the NPC team with scale and collaborative spirit, such a miscellaneous army is more strange.

"That team just now..."

"Did you find it too?" I said as I watched the patrol go away: "If I'm right, this city should not be a city built independently by a guild, but a shared city built by multiple guilds. The members of these patrol teams should be mixed forces provided by multiple guilds, so it's so messy."

"Is that true?" Priest mm looked at the patrol that was going away and asked, "Do we want to enter the city to see the situation? If the guys from the Black Japanese League have no status here, we might as well go in and catch those guys and leave."

I thought for a while and said, "If they are just ordinary people here, it's nothing. I'm afraid that they are not ordinary people here. If the people here are in the same group as them, our Frost Rose Alliance is not afraid of them, but things will become quite troublesome."

"No matter what, we still have to look at it first, right?" said the priest mm.

I nodded and said, "Then let's go to the city first. Anyway, this is a city shared by multiple guilds, and the staff should be very complicated. As long as we disguise it as a little more ordinary, it should not attract attention. But we have to leave this port area first. This place seems to be an area that is not open to the public. Our appearance here will definitely alarm the managers here."

"Then let's leave here first."

After confirming the plan, I asked Emmenis to disguise the two of us first, then put away Sha Yezi and walked out of the port with the peppers.

The mental sensing of pepper is basically the same as that of biological radar. Any thinking creature will be discovered when entering this area. Therefore, we can turn back and forth between the dense cargo and buildings in the port area without hiding. In the end, no one touched it and directly touched the edge of the port area.

Unlike the port area full of cargo and buildings before, the edge of this port area is not so easy. If you want to go down from here to the city below, you can only use small stairs and elevators except for those three large overpasses. But the problem is that whether it is manual elevators or stairs, they are exposed outside the walls of the dam-like port area. That is to say, we will be completely unobstructed within the height of more than ten floors of the city below. During this period, as long as any guard below raises his head, we will be exposed immediately.

In fact, there was another way to safely walk the stairs down to the ground without being discovered, which was to use invisibility. With Emmenis's illusion skills, it was very easy to keep us in a completely invisible state. However, it was a pity that this method was useless at all, because the stairs in the port area were all metal. After we were invisible, no one could see us, but the metal ladders of no one were jingling. Could it be that the guards below were fools? When people heard the ladder sounded and found that they could not see anyone, they would immediately think that someone was invisible. When the alarm sounded, it would be useless to keep us invisible. As for the manual elevator, although the thing was hand-cranked, it had a passenger box like the elevator. If the passenger box moved by itself without anyone, it would definitely attract a large group of guards faster than the metal ladder. So the invisibility trick was useless here.

After looking at the height of about forty meters above the ground, I thought for a while and suddenly turned around and asked the priest mm, "Don't you mind if I hug you and jump down, do you?"

Priest mm was stunned by my question, but he quickly reacted and nodded, "It's okay."

Since everyone agreed, I was not polite. I quickly put away the peppers and asked Emmenis to add a large-scale invisibility to us. Then I jumped out of the edge of the port area. The wings behind me instantly spread out to support the weight of both of us. Since I only needed to land on the ground, I didn't even need to fan it. I let myself spread my wings and slowly glided to the roof of a building inside the city. After running for two steps, I jumped down from the back of the building. After landing lightly, I put the priest mm down and canceled the invisibility and continued to activate the illusion. Disguised as two very ordinary players.

"Okay, don't be nervous when you go out later. Just treat yourself shopping in the system city."

Priest mm nodded and said, "Don't worry, I'm not stupid." I could only smile when I heard her say this, and then walked out of the alley behind the building and turned to the street.

The situation in the city is indeed similar to what I thought. There are many pedestrians passing by on the street, and there are all kinds of people. If we have more, we can't tell at all the abnormalities. Priest mm was a little nervous at first, and it was obviously the first time she was sneaking in like this, but her adaptability was very good. Within two minutes, she completely returned to normal and looked like she was shopping casually.

"Who do you think this will be built by the city?" Priest mm asked while observing the shops on the side of the road.

"The system is repaired." I said casually.

"System repaired?" Priest mm was stunned by my words, and then asked in confusion: "Didn't you say that this place is jointly managed by several guilds?"

"Yes, this city is indeed managed by several guilds, but you just asked who built the city. This city is a system city, so I said it was not wrong to say that the system was built."

"But……"

"No need, this situation is easy to explain. Although the city was built in a system, it was destroyed. Now these guilds are managed together, so now the cities are actually owned by these guilds."

"So that's it, it's not that the city is so weird. But how did you guess that this is a system city?"

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

The palace is actually equivalent to the headquarters of the guild. Generally, even if a player guild has built a city, it is impossible to make the entire city look like a barracks. There must always be districts such as commercial areas and living areas in the city. The guild headquarters are generally guild offices or offices, and all kinds of administrative orders in the city must be issued here. The system city is a city established by the system at the beginning of the game. Of course, there are administrative units that issue government orders. However, the system city does not belong to any guild, so it is impossible to practice the guild headquarters, so it can only be built. Because it is an administrative management building established by the system, there are only a few architectural styles, and the structure is very different from the buildings built by the player themselves. I just glanced at the sky and found that the palace was a system city, so I found that several guild flags were inserted on the exterior wall of the palace, so I could conclude that this place had been defeated by the player guild.

Priest mm reacted when she heard my explanation, but before she could speak, our attention was attracted by the commotion of the crowd ahead. I saw a large group of people rushing in at the door of a shop in front, and there were many people rushing there nearby. Although we wanted to know what we were doing there, because we were afraid of revealing our identity, Priest mm and I did not dare to ask people casually, so we had to squeeze in and look at it ourselves.

Because we were far away, when we arrived at the door of the shop, many people had already entered, and the outside seemed less crowded. Priest mm and I followed the tails of the crowd and entered the shop. Who knew that as soon as we crossed the threshold, we felt a flash in front of us. When we recovered our eyes, we realized that we had entered a huge space. Judging from the area and the height of the building, we definitely used hyperspace technology, because the space here is dozens of times larger than the house outside.

The interior structure of this shop looks very strange, not like a shop, but to the waiting room of a station. Located on our left is a long row of counters, and behind the counter are more than 30 NPCs, forming a row of places like ticket windows. Opposite, on the wall opposite the door and on the wall on our right are rows of slides. On each floor, two people stood on the edge of the slide with special signs with words and pushed the edges of the slides one by one to the center of the slides, and these connected words can form rows of text content.

I roughly looked at the text hanging on the slides. The content was basically all task requirements, and there were task rewards later. Judging from these tasks, the things hanging on these two walls are actually equivalent to the task bulletin boards in the professional union, but the arrangement method used here is more advanced and can display more content. Of course, if it is our guild, you can simply use the crystal screen directly. It is definitely much more convenient and faster than this slide that requires manual change of characters.

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

The so-called normal tasks are legitimate tasks issued by the system or guild or even individuals. For example, a low-level player asks someone to take him to level up for how long, which promises to pay. This is a normal task released by individuals. Sometimes some guilds will publish some tasks such as collecting resources, which is also considered normal tasks. Also, various tasks released by the system through various NPCs are also considered normal tasks.

However, the tasks here are different. The announcement boards on these two walls are all abnormal tasks, such as one of them is like this. "Revenge-seeking mission: kill the designated player at least once, the client is responsible for providing the target position information. The target person is a level 970 level thunder mage, with high attributes. 200 crystal coins are rewarded for each time the target is killed. There is no need to hand over the seized items, and the task time limit is one week."

A task like this is a task that entrusts others to help with revenge. If it is in reality, it is a business run by criminal forces, which is similar to buying murderers. Of course, in addition to such tasks, there are many more exaggerated tasks. For example, there are a task that is to destroy the collective leveling operation of a guild, and another task that is to sneak attack some people to damage the output personnel when they are brushing the boss. Such things are basically not a good thing anyway.

"Is this the mission center of underground forces?" Priest mm said in surprise as he looked at the mission on the wall.

Compared to the idea of ​​priest mm, I have more thoughts. The Black Japanese Alliance originally had nothing to do with our guild, and even for money, it would be unreasonable to put the target on a guild like us, which is absolutely untouchable. If we contact the boss of the Black Japanese Alliance who escaped here after we hit the door, it is very likely that a problem will be explained. The Black Japanese Alliance's mission to attack our guild may be taken here. That means, someone who is really hostile to us may be someone else, and the Black Japanese Alliance may just be an executor.

"What are you thinking?" Priest mm said several words to me while I was in a daze, and couldn't help but push me when I saw that I was reacting at all.

"Hmm? Oh, I'm wondering why the Black Japanese League attacked our guild was also here to receive such a mission, right?"

Priest mm was about to answer, but suddenly pointed to the wall on his right and said, "Look, count the third row at the top and down, which is the one that is changing the sign."

I turned my head and immediately noticed that a new mission was hanging on the slide she was talking about, and the content was... "Assault me?"

That's right, the newly-hanged task on the slide is the task of attacking me. The content requires an attack on me at a specified time and place and delaying me for an hour. The task publisher will be responsible for leading me to that place at that time, and the group that takes the task can just wait there to hold me there. The task requires that the group that takes the task must ensure that the player has no less than 2,000 npcs, and its combat effectiveness cannot be lower than 1,000 level. The task reward is five million crystal coins and an unknown variety of magic pet egg of level 1,200.

"Damn, which silly posts this task? Hold Zi Ri for an hour, who is tired of living and dares to take on such a task?" As soon as I finished reading the task board, I heard someone next to me complain.

That guy's words seemed to resonate with many people. As soon as he finished speaking, someone answered, "Yes! Is this obviously nonsense? Is it necessary to hold Zi Ri for an hour? Is this possible? As long as Zi Ri doesn't want to stay, who can stop him? I think anyone who can hold Zi Ri for five minutes will be considered a top expert in the country."
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