Clear clothes and immortals

Chapter 191 The Conspiracy of the City Lord's Mansion
After leaving the gathering point, Shuxuan went straight to Heicheng. This time, she had enough beast stones, and the guards guarding the gate didn't stop her.Shuxuan handed in enough animal stones at the gate of the city, exchanged for a small wooden token that allowed her to live in the city for two days, and entered the city.

"This black city is indeed worthy of the name of the black city. Everything in this city is mainly black, but the atmosphere in this city is too depressing! If you live in this kind of place for a long time, normal people will probably be driven crazy !"

After Shuxuan entered the city, she saw that the streets were filled with buildings with black as the main color, and most of the pedestrians on the road were wearing black clothes, and these people seemed lifeless, walking on the road without making a sound When Shuxuan saw this scene, she couldn't help being startled, "Even if there are strange beasts outside the city, the city is still safe! Why do these people become lifeless? The breath of the living, I almost regard this place as a ghost land."

As Shuxuan walked towards the center of the city, after walking for a long distance, the crowd here began to get a little angry.

Shuxuan looked at the open shops around her, found a restaurant and went in, ordered a pot of tea and a few small dishes, and sat on the seat listening to the people passing by.

However, it was still relatively early at this time, and there were not many people coming to the restaurant. Even if there were people chatting, they were talking about irrelevant things, which would not be of any help to Shuxuan.

"Objectively, your food is here."

Shuxuan waited for a while, and Xiaoer came over with the dishes Shuxuan had ordered.

"Hey! Wait a minute."

Shuxuan saw that Xiao Er was about to leave after putting down the food, so she quickly stopped him.

"Objective, what else do you want?"

Xiao Er turned around and asked Shu Xuan, bending over.

"Let me ask you, has anything strange happened in this city recently?"

"Objectively, where can anything happen in this city? Everyone is busy killing strange beasts outside the city! Even if they enter the city, it is for repairs, why would someone make trouble? Objectively, there is still something going on here! Just I won't talk with you anymore, or if the boss finds out, he will definitely scold me!"

Xiao Er said with a smile on his face, but he didn't say any useful news.

"Wait a minute!"

As Shuxuan said, she took out a high-grade spirit stone from the space and put it on the table, and said to Xiaoer, "I came from another place, but I feel a little weird when I see this black city. Tell me carefully, what is going on in this black city, please tell me carefully, as long as you speak well, this spirit stone will be yours."

"Okay! Be objective, just ask if you want to hear anything! I promise, no one in this black city can know better than me!"

When Xiaoer heard Shuxuan's words, his eyes lit up instantly. He sat on the stool beside him and said confidently.

"What? Are you not afraid of your boss scolding you now?"

Shuxuan looked at the waiter who couldn't move his eyes when he saw the Lingshi with a funny face, and said.

"Scared! But just for this spirit stone, even if he scolds him, it's worth it! I work for him here, and I can't earn such a spirit stone in a few months!"

Xiao Er smiled and said, but his eyes never left the spirit stone.

"Okay! It's just a piece of spirit stone. As long as your answer satisfies me, I can pay you a few more spirit stones."

Shuxuan saw that Xiaoer couldn't move his eyes when he looked at Lingshi, she was not angry at all, she just smiled lightly and said, "But if you dare to make any wrong ideas, then..."

While talking, Shuxuan picked up the spirit stone on the table, and with a slight force in her hand, the spirit stone disappeared, leaving only a pile of white powder slipping from Shuxuan's hand.

"Ah! My spirit stone..."

Seeing Shuxuan crushing the spirit stone, the waiter in the shop cried out in distress, looked at Shuxuan with sad eyes, as if she had done something heinous to her, and said to her accusingly, "How can you Such a waste? Do you know how rare such a spirit stone is? You just crushed it, you..."

"What kind of eyes are you looking at? I warn you, if you dare to look at me like this again, I don't mind letting you try who is stronger between your bones and this spirit stone."

Seeing Xiaoer's sad expression, Shuxuan suppressed a smile, and said with a serious expression.

"I... I just don't say anything."

Xiao Er shrank her neck when she heard Shuxuan's threat, but her eyes were still full of heartache when she looked at the Lingshi powder.

"Okay! Don't make such a pitiful face! This spirit stone is not yours yet!"

Shuxuan looked at Xiao Er's appearance, knocked on the table and said, "As long as you answer my question well, there will still be spirit stones."

"Yes. If there is anything you want to know, senior, just ask me. There is nothing in this black city that I don't know."

As soon as Xiaoer heard Shuxuan mentioned that there were still spirit stones, he became energetic, sat up straight, patted his chest and said.

"I have nothing to ask. Just watch and tell yourself! Tell me, has anything happened in this black city recently?"

"Yes. If you want to talk about the recent events in this black city, the most disturbing thing should be the matter of the eldest son of the Lin family in the south of the city. It is said that the eldest son of the Lin family met a girl while shopping a while ago. As soon as it was built, he was shocked, and he was thinking of marrying the girl back home, but who knew that the girl was also arrogant, and she didn't like him at all, so the two fought on the spot, if it wasn't for the Lin family The guards came quickly, and the eldest son of the Lin family was given... by that girl, but even with so many guards, the girl still escaped from the city after injuring Young Master Lin, and now the Lin family is searching all over the city. Where is this girl!"

Speaking of this, Xiaoer made a gesture of wiping his neck, with a look of regret in his eyes, "This Mr. Lin is idle, and he knows all day long that he leads his Lin family to bully men and women outside. That mysterious woman taught her a lesson, and everyone in the city clapped their hands and praised it! But everyone sighed in their hearts, why did the guards of the Lin family come so timely! It would have been better if it came a little later."

"What else? Do you mean that you know everything about Heicheng, and you mean this kind of thing where the sons of rich families rob people's daughters? If that's the case, then I really can't give away my spirit stones. .”

Shuxuan was not interested in what Xiao Er said at all, so after Xiao Er finished speaking, she frowned and said.

"Don't! Senior! Didn't I pick out some interesting things to say because I don't know what senior wants to hear? Well, senior, what do you want to hear, you just say it, and I will definitely not let you You are disappointed."

When Xiaoer heard Shuxuan said that he would not give him the spirit stone, he panicked immediately, stood up and said.

"Okay, just sit down! Standing like this is too attractive."

Shuxuan saw that the people in the restaurant were looking towards her, and quickly asked Xiao Er to sit down, "I ask you, after I entered the Black City this time, I found that the atmosphere in this city is really weird, and Everyone in this city is downcast, as if there is no vitality at all, has this black city always been like this?"

"Of course not! Although the Black City used to be pitch-black, it wasn't so depressing. However, since a while ago, the atmosphere in this city has become depressing. Beasts attack humans suddenly, and this black city restricts people's entry. If they want to enter, they must hand in enough animal stones, and their lives are in danger at any time outside the city. Living in such an environment for a long time, these people will naturally become Don't be angry anymore."

Xiaoer sat on the stool obediently, shook his head and said helplessly.

"Doesn't this mean that everyone needs to turn in enough beast stones to live in the black city? Why do I see that many people in this city are just ordinary people? And I think they look like that They never look like they have killed strange beasts, so why can they live in the city?"

Shuxuan heard more than once that she needed to pay the beast stone to live in the city, but thinking of what she saw after entering the city, she asked Xiao Er strangely.

"This is the order of the city lord, but there are people living in this city, so we can't drive them all out because of this strange beast incident, right? Even if this order was issued by the city lord, but the city There are still quite a few masters, if they all riot, it will be very troublesome for the city lord to fight against them, so this regulation is only for people outside the city."

Xiao Er shrugged and said.

"So this is ah!"

After listening to Xiao Er's explanation, Shuxuan continued to ask, "Then do you know what caused this? And did this change happen suddenly? Did you feel any abnormality before this? And this abnormal For something as big as a beast attacking humans, there must be no warning at the beginning, right?"

"Senior, why are you asking this? Are you still thinking about solving these problems? But I advise you not to waste your time. There were many people who had the same idea as you before, but they all failed in the end. gone."

After listening to Shuxuan's words, Xiaoer asked suspiciously.

"You don't have to worry about what I want to do! You just need to tell me what you know."

Shu Xuan didn't intend to answer Xiao Er's questions.

"Senior, although you are very powerful, I still advise you to leave this matter alone, otherwise no matter how powerful you are, you may not be able to leave Heicheng safely."

Xiaoer heard Shuxuan's question, looked around vigilantly, and then said to Shuxuan.

"Oh? According to you, you know the inside story of this matter."

Shuxuan knew from the look of the waiter in the shop that he must know something, and the identity of the instigator behind this incident must be unusual.

"Senior, why can't you understand? You really can't control this matter. It's best not to even ask."

Seeing that Shuxuan still had plans to continue asking questions, Xiaoer said with a troubled face.

"I don't want to worry about it, I just ask casually, you can just talk casually, don't worry, I have set up an enchantment around here, people outside can't hear what we said."

As Shuxuan said, she took out another spirit stone and put it on the table, then looked at Xiao Er.

"This…"

Only then did Xiaoer realize that there was no sound around him at some point. He looked at the spirit stone on the table with a struggling look on his face. Seeing him like this, Shuxuan knew that he was still fighting in his heart, so He took out another spirit stone and looked at Xiaoer, the meaning was obvious, as long as you tell the things, these things are yours.

"Okay, since you want to know, I'll tell you everything! Anyway, I don't know much, so it shouldn't matter if I tell you!"

In the end, when Shuxuan added the spirit stones on the table to the fifth piece, Xiao Er finally couldn't help it, and said as if she was going all out with her teeth.

"Okay! Then you can talk about it."

"This was half a year ago! One night when I went out, I drank some wine and came back a bit late. I didn't know why I slept in the grass by the roadside, and I was caught in the middle of the night. I was awakened by the noise, and I was about to ask about the situation? But I saw a group of men in black, and they were sitting not far from me, warming up by the fire."

"I wanted to say hello, but before I left, they started talking, and although I was separated by a distance, I still had a general idea of ​​what they said. It turned out that these people They are people from the city lord's mansion. They went out this time to accept the secret mission given by the city lord. I thought that since this was a secret mission given by the city lord, if I let them know that I was still hiding, they would definitely not let it go. Me, so I continued to hide there without making a sound, but I didn't expect that my hiding would let me hear this shocking secret."

Having said that, Xiao Er wiped the sweat from his head, looking terrified.

"What did you hear? It made you afraid like this?"

Seeing Xiao Er's appearance, coupled with her previous guesses, Shuxuan already had an idea in her mind, but now she still wanted to hear Xiao Er tell this matter with her own ears, because she couldn't believe her own speculation.

"Yes. At that time, I heard someone saying that how many people's grievances they collected this time, and how much is left to complete the task assigned by the city lord. I didn't understand what they meant at first, but after hearing that they He said that he had traveled to so many places, and all of them were in remote places that couldn't be more remote. People were dizzy, and then another person replied, saying that there is a village nearby, why not just go to that village Let’s collect grievances here.”

"But as soon as this person put forward his idea, it was rejected by the previous person. He said that this place is too close to the crowd, and it is easy to be discovered by others, which is not good for the next task. The people who live there are ordinary people. There are so many of them, so it is better to split up. If you move quickly, you will not be found. power."

"Finally, what this person said convinced everyone, so they separated. After they left, I waited for a long time to make sure that there would be no more people here before I came out of the grass and returned to the city."

(End of this chapter)