"Then you are..."

"I regret it too. I agreed to it only because I had to live."

The city lord explained everything to Lin Wu in detail.

"First, the situation was too chaotic at the time, and we needed someone to take charge and clean up the mess."

"Second, the alien objects outside the underground city have not been resolved yet."

"Third, the Chi family has already declined, and the remaining members are all seriously injured and on the verge of death. They need a safe environment to recuperate, and they need someone to protect them to prevent others from taking action again and making the Chi family extinct."

There are many more reasons.

But these three points are the most important.

He just wanted to accomplish these three points.

At the very least, we cannot leave such a mess for the remaining tribesmen, otherwise they will still die. We cannot leave hidden dangers, otherwise the sacrifice will be meaningless and the disaster will still come again.

Lin Wu could understand the first two points.

Regarding the third point, Lin Wu frowned and said, "The Chi family paid such a huge price. Shouldn't the people from other tribes try their best to help you recover and repay you? They wouldn't be so heartless as to attack you under such circumstances..."

"They didn't take action at first, and even actively treated the seriously injured Chi family members, hoping to make them better." The city lord said lightly, "But this is only because they have a shadow of the alien creatures, and they are afraid that the alien creatures will come back, but no one can go."

"Maybe there were other factors, or maybe they were sincere, but they were not enough to gain the Chi family's trust. Later, they did..."

Lin Wu was furious: "Did they still attack you?!"

The city lord took a deep breath and said, "That will happen decades later."

"During that period, the Chi family gradually recovered and re-established their clan system. At this time, the Chi family discovered that after becoming aliens, their abilities far exceeded their imagination, such as self-healing ability. Therefore, the Chi family recovered faster than other clans."

"Me too, and I'm working on how to safely go out and deal with the alien objects outside. Eventually I discovered that the gate was closed by our sacrifice, and it also left the aura of our Chi family. People from the same bloodline can actually go out through the gate."

"We discovered this because the person who was sacrificed had a widow who was pregnant and gave birth to a boy. He was a normal person, and we didn't find anything at first. Later, when he grew up, he was accidentally injured by the alien aura on us. In order to save his life, he had to become an alien, and then a phoenix tattoo appeared on his body."

It was that tattoo that got him interested, and he was taken to the gate of the dungeon, where he discovered that he could enter and exit freely.

"He alone is not enough to deal with the alien creatures outside. We did a lot of experiments, such as giving his blood to others to leave, but they were rejected by the gate. Later, among the descendants of other tribesmen, there was a person with a phoenix tattoo. It was a girl, and she could enter and exit the gate."

"After many attempts and experiments, we finally determined that the spiritual inheritance of the Kongtong Seal is random. It depends on fate, and it may appear in any branch. Only those who have it can enter and exit the gate. But for many years afterwards, no one with a phoenix tattoo appeared."

They speculated that with the inheritance of bloodline, the spirituality of the Kongtong Seal was dispersed and diluted, becoming less and less. There might never be another person with a phoenix tattoo, or it might take decades for one to appear again. The probability was extremely small.

It was almost impossible for the existing two tribesmen to go out and deal with the alien objects, so they turned to studying whether they could artificially create the phoenix tattoo.

"We have been trying for several years and finally found a way to make a tattoo by mixing the blood of people with phoenix tattoos with special substances. We have also experimented and found that we can use this to get out. But -"

The city lord sighed softly.

"It's not true after all. Artificial tattoos can help you get out, but they will also be rejected by the gate. It will be very painful to pass through, and you will almost die. And after using it once, the tattoo will disappear."

Lin Wu understood: "You can only use it to go out, but not to go back in?"

The city lord nodded.

Lin Wu thought, no wonder the Huo family wanted to do so many tattoo experiments.

With Lu Guichi and Jian Chonghe around, they might succeed, but they definitely don't want to enter the dungeon and never get out, spending the rest of their lives in the danger-ridden world inside the gate.

It would be better for them not to go in and just stay outside.

So they tried again and again to make a real tattoo.

"After the tattoo was successful, I selected some elite members of the Chi family and asked them to leave the underground city and go to the outside world to explore for news about alien objects and find opportunities to solve them. Since I couldn't get any news from the outside world from inside the gate, I was not sure of success. I could only send people out one after another, even if it was just to initially stabilize the situation outside." said the city lord.

Changing the subject, the city lord said, “But this noise was too loud and attracted the attention of other tribes.”

"This happened about 60 years ago. When they saw that the Chi family could go out, they also wanted to go out. The Chi family told them the reason, and when they heard that going out would be life-threatening, they behaved themselves."

"But what I didn't expect was that something unexpected happened so quickly."

"The alien creatures in the center of the city started to move, and the gate began to become unstable. They wanted to break through the seal and get out, but they were afraid of the countless petrified Chi family members outside the formation, so they didn't force their way in for the time being. This gave the Chi family a chance to deal with it, but the alien creatures took advantage of it and used the power in us to control us and hurt people."

“Although the Chi family responded promptly, several people were still injured. This caused panic in the underground city.”

"Those tribes are worried that we will become aliens and kill them in the future. As the saying goes, those who are not of our race must have different hearts. We are no longer considered human, and they can no longer regard us as compatriots."

Lin Wu felt like he had been screwed and it was hard to describe in words.

This was the first time she wanted to kill that idiot so much.

"Then what?" Lin Wu asked through gritting his teeth.

The city lord said, "Actually, I didn't know at the time. Because when I went to the center of the city to check, I found that the aliens outside had established contact with the aliens outside. They wanted to collapse the underground city in exchange for freedom. It was probably something like this. In short, the aliens outside have gone out of control, and the Chi family members who were sent out before are probably in a bad situation."

"So after considering it, I decided to go out and deal with those alien creatures myself, and leave the affairs of the clan in the city to the other descendants I have trained."

After leaving the dungeon, he found that the outside world was indeed not in a good state. While alien creatures were causing chaos, many resentful undead spirits were born. People were deeply troubled by them, and the new master was overwhelmed to deal with them.

So he could only gather the Chi family members, and find ways to disperse the alien objects in three places, set up garrisons, and have the Chi family members do their best to deal with them. If they were too powerful to be solved, they would seal them up.

"These three places are exactly the Lingnan and Northwest regions of China, the Danma mine in Continent R, and the Polar Ice Prison... Oh, that's not right, aren't there four places?" Lin Wu wondered.

The city lord shook his head and said in a deep voice: "In the beginning, there were indeed only three. Northwest China, Danmaya in R Continent, and here. As for the Lingnan region of China, I will tell you what happened later."

"And the alien objects here were brought by me personally. Most of the powerful alien objects are in the polar regions, because it is desolate and uninhabited here, even if they cannot be controlled, it will not cause too many casualties."

The power he possesses is also very strong and can suppress it.

"Other places were quickly controlled. The Chi family established a station and prepared for a long-term presence. But my place is still very tricky. Because my power comes from the same source as the aliens from outer space, in essence, I am the same kind as them. I can't find a way to kill them for the time being."

"Therefore, I went to Shisanling in person to ask for a solution."

"But the lords of the Thirteen Ridges did not see me. I only saw a master who guarded the snowy area. He told me that karma is destiny, with a beginning and an end. What can solve the chaos of alien objects from outer space is the Kongtong Seal that supports us to survive."

After returning from the Snow Region, he thought about it for a long time and believed that the Kongtong Seal was a top-level magic weapon. Even if it was destroyed, perhaps the fragments were still there and could be reshaped.

So he began to organize people to search for the fragments of Kongtong Seal.

After several years, two were found in the outside world.

There is another one that he believes is inside the dungeon.

But he could no longer return to the dungeon, and the materials for making tattoos were not available in the outside world, especially the blood of people with phoenix tattoos.

Unexpectedly, God favored them, and the boy with the phoenix tattoo came out and was discovered by their people.

Originally, they only had two people with phoenix tattoos, who were extremely precious and important and could not afford to get into trouble. However, the Chi family was really worried about them, so they had to send a lone man out to risk his life to look for them.

This was good news for them, so he immediately asked this person to take the message back and try his best to find the third fragment of the Kongtong Seal, then bring it out and give it to them, and find a way to integrate it.

The boy went back and they waited patiently outside.

"We waited and waited, but received bad news." The city lord said, "In the end, we only waited for another girl with a phoenix tattoo. She brought the third fragment and died in front of us."

Lin Wu: “???”

The city lord said in a cold voice: "Because the people in the city discovered that we were looking for the Kongtong Seal, those tribes insisted that we were in league with the alien creatures from outer space, otherwise why didn't they solve the problem for so long? They were even worried that when the Chi family became stronger, they would seek revenge on them."

"So they decided to strike first, using their trust to deceive him into believing that there was an alien object moving in the center of the city, and then killed the Chi family when they were least prepared."

"At that time, the Chi family didn't have many people left, and they were tricked by them using the Kongtong Seal fragments. In the end, they only had time to let the girl escape to the outside world with the Kongtong Seal, hand it over to us, and tell us what happened."

When the girl came to them, she was seriously injured and extremely weak.

After saying that, he fell in front of them.

At this point, they had completely lost contact with the city lord's Chi family. They didn't know if there were any members of the Chi family still alive in the underground city, nor did they know the situation with the alien objects in the city.

After the city lord finished speaking, there was a dead silence between the two of them, and no one spoke again.

Lin Wu looked at the wounded city lord and felt very upset.

She asked, "What happened next? How did you know that the Kongtong Seal required... my blood sacrifice?"

"Because of that girl. After she died, the Kongtong Seal reacted to her body and generated spiritual power. But she was already dead and petrified."

The city lord said quietly, "We need to wait for the next person with a phoenix tattoo."

Lin Wu said: "But you just said that the probability is pitifully small."

The city lord laughed, his voice was bitter and sarcastic, with a strong sense of powerlessness.

"That's right. None of us knew if there was any hope at that time."

"The tribesmen were extremely angry, but they didn't even have the chance to return to the dungeon for revenge."

"At this time, the alien creatures in the Polar Ice Prison were also restless. I had to suppress them and train useful manpower. The Killer City appeared at this time."

At that time, he was really blinded by hatred. He wanted to avenge his dead tribesmen one day, so he wanted to train killers.

"I actually thought about releasing the alien creatures here and perishing together. The idea was still very strong. I almost did it." The city lord said, "But more than 30 years ago, I had hope again."

More than 30 years ago? This time point made Lin Wu keenly aware of something.

"What hope?"

"At that time, a group of people appeared from all over the world, and they were secretly searching for the two members of the Chi family. Upon hearing the news, I ordered people to investigate and found that none of the existing members of the Chi family were exposed." said the city lord.

Lin Wu reacted instantly: "Escaped from the underground city?!"

The city lord nodded, "However, I used all my connections but still couldn't find the two people. I only know that they are a boy and a girl, in their teens."

Lin Wu's heart skipped a beat, and he straightened his upper body and blurted out: "Is the woman in that group called Chi Yangzhi?!"