But what he saw shocked Lin Wu.

On the thick ice wall not far away, there were three iron chains extending out with a cold metallic luster. They should be made of an extremely hard alloy. One end was deeply embedded in the wall, and the other ends were tied to a person leaning against the ice wall.

But the other party cannot be simply regarded as a human being.

The other person's naked upper body was still a human body, but the lower body was not legs. Instead, it was a thick and long black snake tail!

It's an orc!

This was not the first time Lin Wu had seen this, so he was actually quite accepting of it and was not too surprised.

In addition, judging from the voice just now, the other party was the reason why she entered the Ice Prison - the City Lord.

Lin Wu had expected that the city lord was not a normal person. After all, she had figured out that the city lord would be a member of her clan, so it was normal for the city lord to be a person like Lu Guichi. This could also explain why the city lord had never shown up before and was always behind a thick curtain when he met her.

However, the city lord's description at this moment was simply shocking.

He was covered in blood, and his exposed upper body was covered with bloodstains of varying depths, some so deep that the bones were visible, and the flesh and blood looked like it had been torn out alive. There was already a large pool of blood under him, which had frozen into ice, indicating that he had not just been injured, and had probably been in this state for the past three days.

Looking further down, the city lord's snake tail was also in a terrible condition.

The ground was covered with bloody black snake scales, and the wounds on the snake's tail were full of pits and pits. Some of the wounds were as big as half of Lin Wu's fist, and there were quite a few of them. There was almost no good place on the entire snake's tail.

Injuries of this magnitude have seriously exceeded the scope of self-healing ability.

When Danmaya's snake man was killed and injured, Lin Wu felt that the other party's situation was already very miserable, but it was not even half as bad as the city lord's injury.

Lin Wu felt that the city lord had absolutely lost the possibility of self-healing. She had thought that the city lord was seriously injured, but she had never thought that the city lord's condition was so tragic.

She stayed there for a moment, and the city lord, who was standing not far away with his head down and motionless, took action first.

He took a few deep breaths, pulled himself together, and looked up at Lin Wu. His eyes had completely turned into snake-like pupils, dark and vertical, which was creepy.

Lin Wu didn't see his face because he was wearing a half black mask, revealing only his bloodless thin lips and a well-defined chin. The face he could see was also extremely pale.

Lin Wu was not far from him, only three or four meters away. But she could not sense the city lord's aura at all. If she hadn't seen him move, she would have thought he was dead.

In this situation, even if Lin Wu had many questions he wanted to clarify, he was stuck and didn't know what to say.

The city lord found her reaction a little funny, and her voice was hoarse as if it was filled with blood.

"This injured city lord doesn't feel anything yet, what's with that expression on your face? Come over here quickly."

"ah?"

"It's too far. This city lord doesn't have the strength to shout loudly, and can't move."

The man glanced at his arms that were entangled in chains. The remaining chain was tightly wrapped around his waist, which greatly restricted his movements.

Lin Wu finally came back to his senses, hissed slightly, and stood up.

Suddenly my hand touched something.

Lin Wu glanced over and saw that she was shaking hands intimately with a frozen and stiff broken arm...

"Fuck." Lin Wu shook it off, stood up and stepped back subconsciously, then he didn't know what he stepped on and staggered.

She stood up quickly, looked around, and then her face froze.

This is a huge ice cave, surrounded by piles of white bones, broken limbs and body parts, like a purgatory on earth.

Looking at the city lord again, Lin Wu understood: "Is this the seventeenth floor of the Ice Prison?"

The city lord nodded slightly.

"Then I was just..."

"Eighteen levels deep."

"? How did I get in? And how did I get out?"

The city lord sighed softly and said, "Come here."

The city lord glanced at her and said, "The path you took, there is a foreign creature deep in the sea. It woke up early because of you and wanted to devour your soul. But its actual location is far away from you, so it can only bring your soul body over. Now, your soul body is back."

Hearing this, Lin Wu subconsciously looked at himself.

There are no scales on my hands anymore.

I touched my body, but found nothing.

Lin Wu also touched the Phoenix brand.

At this moment, she felt a little burning on her shoulder. Lin Wu put her hand on it. It was her tattoo. It was still there!

Lin Wu put down the snacks and looked at the city lord: "Then the vortex we encountered is actually the entrance to the seventeenth floor?"

The city lord said: "Almost."

Lin Wu asked, "Where are Ren Ke and the others? Why don't I see them here?"

The city lord said slowly, "The Ice Prison is bigger than you think, each layer is bigger than the previous one. Moreover, the last three layers are actually already inside the ice wall, but they are connected to the other layers by mystical magic. Now the area covered by the seventeenth layer is very wide, and I don't know where they landed. I just had time to get you here."

He looked at himself and said, "I don't have much ability now."

Lin Wu thought about it and decided that it would be better not to be with her, as she was definitely the most dangerous.

After confirming this, Lin Wu was in the mood to think about other things.

She took out the sign and said in a deep voice, "I thought the road the city lord pointed out was an entrance and the sign was a key. Now it seems not. City lord, you asked me to go there just to confirm whether I was a vessel. What is the sign used for? What about the seal you just mentioned?"

The city lord raised his head and looked at her steadily, his vertical pupils carrying an indescribable meaning.

"I thought that when you saw me, you would first be curious about why I am not a human and what this has to do with you."

"That's all nonsense. Since you have been paying attention to me, you must know what I have experienced. The fact that I can come here means that I also understand the hint you left and know that you are also a member of the Chi family. So don't say anything extra."

Lin Wu simply sat down on the spot.

This made her eyes almost level with the city lord.

Looking at the bloody and weak City Lord, Lin Wu felt very complicated and said, "City Lord, let's get straight to the point."

The city lord laughed and said, "Okay. You are much smarter than I thought. In this case, I can tell you everything without worry."

"you say."

Lin Wu nodded.

The city lord opened his mouth and said, "I am your ancestor, call me first and let me hear you."

Lin Wu: “…”

The city lord said slowly, "This place is simple, but I am not a picky person. If you want to kowtow a few times, I will accept it."

Lin Wu: “…………”

Lin Wu suppressed the urge to raise his middle finger and said elegantly, "Knock to your mother, I don't recognize you."

"According to the time, you, City Lord, are probably my grandfather. But nothing is so coincidental. There were so many clansmen sent abroad back then. I am definitely not from the same branch as you. We have no connection at all."

Want to take advantage of her? No way.

The city lord said nothing, just looked at Lin Wu with a smile.

Lin Wu was stunned: "???"

The city lord said something shocking: "I have lived much longer than you think, so long that I can't remember clearly. However, it is at least two or three hundred years."

Lin Wu was surprised: "It turns out that you can live a long life after becoming an orc?"

The aura of the city lord suddenly changed, and it was so cold and gloomy that it made people's hearts tremble. He said calmly: "No. Among the strange people of the Chi family, only half survived. I was one of the accidents, and I was alive until now because of the backlash."