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For Li Qianfan, it is certainly a good thing to have a few fearless personal bodyguards in this increasingly dangerous desert city.

But at the same time, he was also greatly restricted and could no longer move freely as before.

Therefore, after coming out of the temporary base of the Jiuzhou Alliance, Li Qianfan deliberately guided everyone to the direction of the official residence quietly on the grounds of "being curious about the World Tree".

As mentioned before...

The official residence is located in the center of Loulan City, which is what players call the Imperial Palace.

The reason why players call it the Imperial Palace is entirely because the official residence covers a large area and is surrounded by high walls. It looks like a palace, so it is mistakenly called the Imperial City.

But in fact...

The real name of this place is "Inner City".

The official residence is just a special building in the inner city, and it is also the core of the entire city.

In ancient times, the area ratio of the outer city to the inner city was usually seven to three.

Among them, the inner city is the city and the outer city is the city, and together they are called "city and city".

Taking the Zhongzhou Imperial City as an example, ordinary people can only live in the outer city, and only dignitaries are qualified to live in the inner city.

Going deeper into the inner city is the Forbidden City where the emperor lives.

Loulan City has no emperor, so there is no need for the Forbidden City, so the inner city is the core of Loulan City, and only local dignitaries and powerful families can live here.

Therefore, not only is the architectural style of the inner city completely different from that of the outer city, but even the walls used to separate the inner and outer cities are painted with exquisite wall surfaces and lifelike statues.

If the outer city shows the most simple side of this desert city, then the inner city obviously shows the most luxurious side of Loulan City.

However, it is a pity that...

Since the roots of the world tree are in the back garden of the inner city, as the world tree grows bigger and bigger, the inner city, which was originally as luxurious as the Old Summer Palace, has ushered in a catastrophe.

Most of the buildings have turned into ruins, with only the outermost ones barely standing.

Among these buildings, there is an official residence that was once an important office.

"The building in front should be the palace..."

"I just looked and there is a gap in the wall over there. Just climb up along the vines and you can see what's going on inside..."

"But I guess there should be a secret sentry there. If you are accidentally discovered, you will have to fight the people inside head-on..."

"What should we do? We are so close, but the NPC still has no reaction. Do we have to kill in front of the World Tree to trigger the subsequent tasks on him?"

"Don't do that? We are so few in number, and we are already half a beat behind others. We don't even have any skills. Why should we fight them head-on?"

"Why don't we go back and ask for help first? Let's hear what the president says?"

You know, in order to protect Li Qianfan's safety, Zhushen Wendao has spent a lot of money this time, and sent the elites who are usually highly valued by him.

As elite troops, they naturally cannot act too rashly, and they must consider everything before taking action.

Li Qianfan's current character is a drug dealer, so when he was talking to Fat Tiger just now, he intentionally or unintentionally revealed his idea of ​​going to the roots of the World Tree.

For players, this is undoubtedly a very obvious clue.

But the problem now is...

Except for guessing that the inner city has long been occupied by the Storm Temple, the Jiuzhou Alliance currently knows nothing about the situation in the inner city.

If they act rashly, I am afraid that if they are not careful, their ten-man team will face a tragic end of annihilation.

Therefore, after everyone observed the situation in the inner city, they immediately started a heated discussion about whether to advance or retreat.

Some people think that they have come here but have not collected any information, and they can't report to the gods when they go back.

Some people think that even if they don't go in, they should at least go to the door to take a look, at least to confirm whether there are any tasks inside.

While everyone was arguing about this...

Li Qianfan, who was the key protected object, quietly came to a corner of the room.

A place where the World Tree could be seen through the window.

Don't forget the real purpose of Li Qianfan's trip, which was -

[Find the "source of life" of the World Tree and hand it over to the tree man BOSS. 】

Although the tree man BOSS had previously given this task to Li Qianfan in a light tone.

However, Li Qianfan's intuition told him that this task was not as simple as it seemed.

The tree man BOSS was not trustworthy.

Don't forget that in Li Qianfan's eyes, it was a red-named NPC, not a green-named NPC!

This guy was alwaysHostile target, and the mission log only said that the player needs to help the "Lost Treeman" completely eradicate the hidden dangers of Loulan City, but did not specify how to eradicate it.

Not saying it clearly means that there is a lot of room for maneuver.

Li Qianfan is too familiar with this feeling, so after coming out of the underground cave, he has been thinking about what the so-called "origin of life" is.

"Life Essence", "Life Source", "Life Fruit", "Life Origin".

It is not difficult to see from the words of the tree man BOSS before that the "origin of life" should be the highest-level existence of the life family.

Such an important mission item usually only drops after killing the final BOSS.

And the one who is qualified to become the final BOSS...

Obviously, only the huge world tree in front of him.

But is the truth really that simple?

Thinking of this, Li Qianfan couldn't help but silently put a question mark in his heart...

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