Chapter 339 : Chapter 339

Chapter 339: Ninglan Qiuyu's Calculation

"Yes... a seed."

Ninglan Qiuyun's voice slowly came out, confirming Ninglan Qiuyu's doubt.

And at this moment, in front of this seed, Ninglan Qiuyu walked forward on his own accord.

He reached out his hand, wanting to gently hold this white crystal product that was like a work of art.

Ninglan Qiuyun at the side did not stop his action, letting Ninglan Qiuyu go forward.

When Ninglan Qiuyu's fingers fit into the hollowed-out white crystal, at this moment, the world in Ninglan Qiuyu's eyes changed.

The seed that was originally in his eyes seemed to have sprouted with life at this moment.

A golden light burst from the seed, and the flashing power made Ninglan Qiuyu even unable to open his eyes.

And at such a time, he felt that the white crystal he was holding in his hand was merging with him like water at this moment.

He felt the rhythm from that seed.

He squinted his eyes in disbelief and looked at the thing in his hand.

He watched with his own eyes as a blood-colored thread wove the golden power into a chain and pierced directly through his chest.

At this moment, his mind finally cleared up, and regret flooded his heart.

But before this emotion could ferment, a big hand suddenly slapped his shoulder.

"Ah—"

At this moment, Ninglan Qiuyu finally let out a low roar of lingering fear as if waking from a dream, and then began to pant heavily.

At this moment, he lowered his head and looked at his intact chest, then at the seed in front of him.

There seemed to be no golden chain, nor any red thread.

All of this was like his illusion.

"Just now..."

"Just an illusion. From now on, you are the City Lord of Ninglan New City."

"What is this thing, you tell me! You inexplicably brought me here, I touched this thing, and you say I'm the City Lord. What do you mean!"

At this moment, Ninglan Qiuyu's emotions also erupted.

Just now, he even thought he had died just like that!

"Literally. I was once the same as you, not understanding what this represented. I just followed my father's instructions. When I was confused, when my will was not firm, I would come here and meditate tightly for a while, and many problems could be solved."

"You can perhaps understand it as an extraordinary artifact. No one knows who made it, nor can any scholar understand its extraordinary principle. But that faint, golden thread, perhaps that is the Destiny that those Nightmare Demons talk about."

"Golden... thread? Destiny!"

Ninglan Qiuyu was a little puzzled, but just as his peripheral vision glanced at that seed, that golden power condensed into a thread and had already wrapped around his wrist.

This scared him so much that he immediately pulled back his right hand.

When he looked at it again, there was nothing.

Suddenly, a chill ran down Ninglan Qiuyu's back.

What kind of strange object was this, why was there such an existence under the Ninglan Township Fortress?

He found that this was the first time he had not understood his father, nor had he understood Ninglan New City.

Why had things turned out like this?

But when he put his gaze back on his father, that originally burly and sturdy figure had become thin at this moment.

Even when he saw him before, the other party had already become much thinner, but he hadn't paid attention to this change.

But now, he had to pay attention.

It had only been a moment!

"You!"

"So... he passed down the position of City Lord with such determination back then..."

At this moment, Ninglan Qiuyun said with emotion, but his voice had already become as thin as a mosquito's buzz, and in the next moment, he fell down just like that.

Thus, this City Lord who had dedicated his life to Ninglan New City had fallen.

And Ninglan Qiuyu, for everything that had just happened, didn't even subconsciously reach out to support him.

Everything around seemed to have stagnated and fallen into a dead silence.

"Is this old thing dead?"

Until a charming female voice echoed in this small secret room.

Then, a figure separated from Ninglan Qiuyu's body, and her body emerged from the dream.

"Dead. Help me see what this thing is," Ninglan Qiuyu said in a flat tone.

Although he knelt down and checked the other party's breath, he then subconsciously moved away from that white crystal and seed.

"This? Hehe... just an extraordinary item," this Nightmare Demon casually explained to Ninglan Qiuyu, but a trace of surprise and joy flashed in the depths of her eyes, which was well concealed by her.

"Extraordinary item? What do you mean? It won't be harmful to me, right?"

He frowned and asked.

"Extraordinary items, I don't know much about them either. I only know that most extraordinary items are unrepeatable miracles."

"Unrepeatable miracles? Then this is very precious?"

At this moment, a gleam flashed in Ninglan Qiuyu's eyes, and he immediately asked.

"It is indeed very precious, but you have to be alive to use it. What? Just now I saw that you were very disgusted with this thing. Now that you hear it's valuable, your eyes are shining?"

"Have to be alive to use? So this is indeed a very evil thing..."

Hearing the other party's description, Ninglan Qiuyu also calmed down, but he did not completely believe what the other party said, because he was very clear that he was not the other party's master.

Every action and every choice of his was a game against the other party.

"Yes, most extraordinary items have very peculiar abilities, but there is a price to use them. And the weaker one's own strength, the greater the price to be paid. Do you want to try?"

"Tsk..."

Ninglan Qiuyu frowned and tsked.

He would not use himself to test this thing.

His life was more precious than anyone else's!

"Don't be so disgusted. Didn't you already use it just now? It seems to have established some kind of relationship with you."

"What? Did this old guy still set me up even in death?"

Suddenly, Ninglan Qiuyu looked at the figure that had fallen to the ground, and the look of disgust on his face became even stronger.

"Do you know what the price of this... extraordinary item is?"

"You want to know? Then beg me."

The Nightmare Demon at this moment looked as if she would tell him if he just lowered himself and begged her, but in the end, she was met with Ninglan Qiuyu's indifference.

"Beg you? That's not necessary."

"Alright really, you have no sense of romance at all. Isn't it just a price? Hasn't someone already paid it for you?"

The Nightmare Demon said, her gaze turning to the ground.

"I see. Then since the price has been paid, what is its effect?"

"I don't know, I'm not an expert in this area, so how would I know about this kind of thing? But I suggest you'd better get rid of this thing. Maybe... its effect is to use you as a consumable to continue Ninglan New City?"

"You should know that the City Lords of Ninglan New City, except for the first generation, were all short-lived, right? If you don't want to follow your father's old path and die suddenly in your prime, you know what to do."

"You don't need to remind me."

Ninglan Qiuyu closed his eyes and then opened them again.

He found that his hallucinations seemed to be a bit serious.

He once again saw that golden thread wrapping around his body.

When he looked closely, he couldn't see anything.

This must be the influence of this so-called extraordinary item.

He had to leave this place.

The farther away, the better!

"Oh? You're just going to lock this good thing here?"

The Nightmare Demon asked curiously as she watched Ninglan Qiuyu leave this place and even lock the door behind him.

"Otherwise, do you still want me to carry this thing with me?"

"That's true. But you've gained a lot on this trip. I didn't expect your cheap father to be so supportive of you. You know, he almost wiped out all the Nightmare Demons we had planted in the Ninglan Township Fortress in the end. What a terrifying guy."

"He cleaned them all up?"

"Yes, how annoying. If we only rely on the remaining Nightmare Demons to attack those outsiders, it may not meet your expectations."

"I know what you mean, but how is the thing I asked you to do? I asked Ninglan Qiuyue to move most of the combat power of the underground city up. Don't tell me you can't even take down an empty underground city."

"Don't worry. After your good sister showed me the way, the remaining Nightmare Demons have all gone down. Don't say we didn't put in any effort."

"I hope you don't mess it up for me."

Ninglan Qiuyu snorted coldly, then turned and left this place.

He needed to prepare for some of the things that were about to happen.

Since it had been confirmed that the original City Lord had died, then he also had to start preparing for the handover of the City Lord's power, and also the inauguration speech, to explain the whole story to the citizens.

But before that, he still needed to conquer one place.

The underground city.

Since he had become the true City Lord, how could he let the underground city live in its own system?

He had to complete the control of the underground city as quickly as possible to deal with the crisis of the coming beast tide.

Not only the beast tide, but also to completely eliminate the outsiders.

The outsiders were a common enemy for him and the Nightmare Demon.

Even if the outsiders had contributed a lot in this resistance and seizure of power, the outsiders were ultimately outsiders.

The root of all that had happened was inseparable from the outsiders.

He was not the kind of person who would be reluctant to throw them away after using them.

At this moment, as long as he waited for the people of the underground city to send a request for help to the surface, he could rightfully lead the people to truly liberate the underground city.

From then on, the underground city would no longer be a completely isolated existence from the surface.

You know, the existence of the underground city was very low-key.

Some people could live in Ninglan New City for a lifetime and might not even know that Ninglan New City had such an existence as an underground city.

The first time Ninglan Qiuyu heard of this place, the underground city, he couldn't even believe that his father, the City Lord of Ninglan New City, would sometimes speak politely to others.

You know, his father was the lord of a city!

Those in charge of the underground city, the scholars... he would always remember their attitude.

What was so superior about those people?

He had personally been to the underground city.

What he saw told him that those guys were no different from them.

Just because they had mastered the most high-end extraordinary skills, mastered an invincible combat force, they held the lifeline of Ninglan New City!

Since he had become the lord of a city, how could such a combat force as extraordinary skills be controlled by others?

Absolutely not!

So since some things had already been decided, there was naturally no possibility of him being soft-hearted.

At this moment, it was no longer about the means, but only about who got the benefits in the end.

That was what was real.

When he got to the underground city, he would use the so-called anchor he had mastered, plus the so-called soul-substance he had collected along the way, to summon the Nightmare Demons and let them fight underground.

It just so happened that even if the battle spread too far, it would have nothing to do with Ninglan New City on the surface.

Then, under the pretext of helping the underground city to rebuild, he could also completely reshuffle the underground city, so that it could be better controlled by him.

When he emerged from the underground passage, he was met by a panicked city guard.

After all, they had just occupied the Ninglan Township Fortress, and then their leader had disappeared.

This was a big deal.

"Alright, notify the others. I'm fine. Has anything else happened here during my absence?"

Ninglan Qiuyu said, and then followed the city guard back to take charge of the overall situation.

"Yes, Miss Ninglan Qiuyue has come to see you again. She seemed very anxious."

"Anxious?"

Ninglan Qiuyu asked, pretending to be puzzled.

"Then did she say anything?"

"We don't know about that. Miss Ninglan Qiuyue didn't tell us little people about these things."

"Then where is she? I'll go find her," Ninglan Qiuyu said, and made a gesture as if to go and find her.

When he found Ninglan Qiuyue, she was already very anxious.

"Ninglan Qiuyue, I heard something happened here."

"The underground city! Something happened in the underground city. The Nightmare Demons have invaded there!"

Ninglan Qiuyue said anxiously as soon as she saw him.

"What? Are you sure? You mean those Nightmare Demons have retreated to the underground city?"

"I'm not sure. The connection between the underground city and the surface has been cut off," Ninglan Qiuyue was also very anxious at this moment, but she didn't have much contact with the underground city.

The only one she was familiar with and was on her side was the captain of the Earth Patrol Team, but he had also been brought up.

Now that the communication was cut off, it was most likely the work of the Nightmare Demons.

Plus, with the approaching energy tide outside the city, the surging of the Earth Vein energy also greatly hindered wireless communication.

Now they were completely in the dark about what was happening in the underground city.

"Then let's mobilize the army and support the underground city."

"Huh?"

This time it was Ninglan Qiuyue's turn to be surprised.

She didn't expect Ninglan Qiuyu to make such a decisive decision.

She had been prepared to take the Earth Patrol Team back alone.

After all, she was the one who had brought the Earth Patrol Team up.

She was also responsible for this kind of thing happening in the underground city.

"Are you surprised?"

"I thought you would be more concerned about the position of City Lord."

"In your eyes, am I that kind of person?"

"Of course."

"Hehe... the underground city is also a part of Ninglan New City. As the new City Lord of Ninglan New City, I naturally have an obligation to help them solve their difficulties."

"I don't think you think so in your heart..."

Ninglan Qiuyue said in a low voice.

"So what? Does what I think matter? What's important is that the underground city needs support right now, isn't it? I'll mobilize the city guard and the resistance army. I see you've been chatting with those outsiders quite a bit. I'll leave the matter of the outsiders to you. After all, we still need their cooperation to wipe out the Nightmare Demons."

"I hope you don't pull any tricks."

Ninglan Qiuyu watched his sister's departing figure, but the joy in his heart was somewhat irrepressible.

By shifting all the contradictions and conflicts to the underground city, even the worst-case scenario would not affect his rule.

And those outsiders.

By cleaning up a few of the powerful ones, the remaining weak ones would all have to rely on his protection.

It would be as easy as pie to clean up those small fries.

And it would be best if those Nightmare Demons and those outsiders were both badly injured.

He had the anchor for the Nightmare Demon's teleportation.

Without this key thing, without anyone sacrificing to obtain soul-substance, the Nightmare Demons would not be replenished.

For him, the Nightmare Demons were actually the easiest to deal with.

At that time, the entire underground city would be a closed arena.

But that was the worst-case scenario.

And this would require the City Defense Army to survive this beast tide, which would undoubtedly be very risky.

The extraordinary armaments that Ninglan Qiuyue had brought up had not reached the military supply standard for the regular City Defense Army to resist the beast tide.

But... as long as Ninglan New City got through this difficult time, then Ninglan New City would usher in a new era.

An era controlled by him.

Just thinking about it made him feel excited.