Lin Wu nodded: "She is my mother, from the Chi family of the underground city. I looked her up, she is an orphan, and lived in an orphanage when she was young. But there was a fire in the orphanage, and the information of her and a companion was burned. Calculating the time, it was more than 30 years ago."

"Later, she grew up like an ordinary person, completed her studies, got married and had children, and lived a normal life. But eighteen years ago, she went to the North City of China for no reason and was hunted down. Later, she became mentally ill due to the stimulation and revealed the existence of the underground city. This caused many people to compete to find the underground city."

"Combining all of this, I have thought that she and her companion are not orphans, but something happened at home, so they fled to the orphanage and deliberately set fire to burn their information and replaced it to escape danger."

Calculating the time, it matches exactly what the city lord said.

The city lord's eyes deepened, and he shook his head and said, "I don't know the identities of the two Chi family members. In fact, I haven't found them yet. But I did get in touch with the Chi family members who escaped from the underground city. This happened eighteen years ago. At that time, there were surviving Chi family members who escaped from the underground city. I have been keeping an eye on them, and they were discovered."

"Who is that?" Lin Wu paused. "Is it Lu Guichi? According to the time, he should have been a child of only a few years old at that time. Later, someone arranged for him to replace Lu Guichi's identity and live in hiding."

The city lord curled his lips and said, "My people found a little boy. He must be the person you are talking about."

"should?"

"Yes. There are fewer and fewer Chi family members left, and there is a hidden force that frequently targets them. In order to protect the clan members, they don't meet each other unless necessary. I am also trapped in the assassin city, and I will not go out to see them. There are too many people watching me."

"Trapped?"

Lin Wu's eyes fell on the iron chain that bound the city lord.

The city lord noticed her gaze and glanced at her, but he didn't care and said calmly: "I will continue to talk to you."

"When I learned that the Chi family had escaped from the underground city, I thought there were still some members of the clan left in the underground city, so there was hope again. But their situation should be very bad, and they might be imprisoned by other clans in the underground city."

As long as there are still members of his tribe, he cannot give up and must reunite the Kongtong Seal.

When the Kongtong Seal opens the door to the underground city and seals in the alien objects from the outside world, they can also follow in to rescue the remaining tribesmen and take revenge.

So on the one hand he arranged people to protect the remaining members of the Chi family, and on the other hand he went to look for the two people who had escaped, hoping that there might be someone with a phoenix tattoo among them, and at the other hand he was also firmly guarding those alien objects.

Unfortunately, things did not go as he wished, and he never found those two people.

None of the remaining Chi family members had a phoenix tattoo.

Moreover, the rest, including him, were all extraordinary people, and more or less, they were all injured by past events, so it was difficult for them to have offspring. They could not place their hopes on newborns.

Based on this, he considered a way out.

If you cannot return to the underground city during your lifetime, at least you should settle the alien objects in the outside world.

So from then on, he and several of his cronies spent a lot of manpower, material and financial resources to build special venues in Danmaya in R Continent, Northwest China and the Polar Ice Prison, using various external forces to trap alien objects to ensure that they would not escape and prevent innocent people from entering.

Lin Wu thought about Danmaya's underground palace, the ancestral hall and maze in the Blackback Mountain, and the huge ice prison here.

She was shocked to think that it took more than just a huge amount of money to build all that. It was simply all she had.

“During this process, I know that some clansmen, out of selfish motives, used things like murals to leave behind the underground city and the experience of our Chi family in two other places. They don’t want the Chi family to disappear completely without leaving any trace in the end, and hope that someone will discover it.” said the city lord.

Lin Wu was silent for a moment. "Someone has discovered the mural. It is top-level information in the central institutions of China. Many experts and talents have studied the murals you left behind and have benefited greatly from it."

"That's good."

The city lord smiled imperceptibly.

"For many years after what happened, there was no news of any new members of the Chi family. The two members of the Chi family who escaped were nowhere to be found either. In fact, I suspected that they were dead. After all, they would probably become alienated if they encountered danger. Once they become alienated, they would die young and could not escape petrification."

"The existing Chi family members have also petrified and died one after another due to their lifespans reaching the end. I can't stop this. I can only watch as the number of people decreases."

"Twenty-three years ago, there were only two people left in the Chi family that I knew of, besides me."

The city lord's voice became increasingly hoarse. He said, "I didn't want to be left alone in the end, so I found a way to leave the Killer City, go meet them, and then share my power and lifespan with them, so that they would fall into a deep sleep, and in this way I could avoid the Heaven's will and survive."

"I placed them in the northwest of China and Danmaya in R Continent. They are guarding there. If there are outsiders, they will wake up. But... once they wake up, they will still die."

"I thought these two places were very secretive and no one would break in. But I didn't expect that an accident happened in the northwest of China eighteen years ago."

She was silent for a moment, then said, "I know about the northwest. Someone who explored the underground city went there and met a...deer man."

No wonder she and Bo Yuting didn't meet him when they went there again.

It turns out that the other person had been gone eighteen years ago.

"I have seen the one in the Damaya Underground Palace. He was a snake man. He was very friendly to me and saved me in the explosion. He was injured and almost couldn't heal himself. But I fed him my blood. Later, he sent me and my friend out of the underground palace, and he... stayed there."

The snake man didn't leave at that time. Did he know that he would die? The city lord looked at Lin Wu with a much gentler look, revealing the pity and kindness of an elder looking at a younger generation.

He said, “You’re sad.”

"...Well. The one from northwest China, I haven't seen him yet. The one from Danmaya...I actually thought about killing him." Lin Wu said frankly.

The city lord said, "You don't need to feel guilty about this. You are a member of the tribe that we have finally found. Even if he doesn't have the phoenix tattoo, he should protect you. It doesn't matter if he dies for you or because of you. It's best if you survive and live longer."

Lin Wu didn't know what to say.

Finally, she could only ask: "What about you, City Lord? Why are you like this now?"

The city lord looked at himself and said, "I should have died thirty years ago."

Lin Wu was slightly surprised: "But you are not..."

The city lord said casually: "I can live a long life, but I can't live forever. While I have great power, I am also overdrawing my life. Moreover, the source of my power is the foreign object in the dungeon. I left the dungeon and lost contact with it. It no longer supplies me with power, so I am gradually overdrawing and becoming weak."

Thirty years ago, his life had actually come to an end, and he should have died at that time.

But he can't die.

There are so many things that have not been resolved, and the remaining members of the Chi family still need him. He also wants to go back to the underground city to see if there are any surviving members of the family and avenge them.

He needs to live.

"In order to survive, I did one thing - I made a deal with the alien creatures here and shared my power."

"It's just that I was too weak at the time and couldn't resist their erosion. They occupied my body and soul and lived with me. So I couldn't move them anymore."

"I can't leave either. Because the alien creatures here can take over my body and go outside with me. If I'm not careful, they might control me to hurt people, or they might use me to escape to the outside world. If I lose control, it will be a disaster for the outside world."

So, he was "trapped" here.

He has stayed here for the past few decades, except for going out twenty-three years ago to rescue the remaining two members of the tribe.

That was the only time he ignored the risk of hurting innocent people outside. He had been alone for too many years and really didn't want to become a loner and lose even the last of his clan.

When Lin Wu heard this, his throat felt like it was being strangled for a moment.

The city lord continued, "In fact, the alien creatures here have never given up on completely devouring me. My body and lifespan are constantly overdrawn, and they are not as powerful as the alien creatures. I can only become weaker and weaker."

"When I went out 23 years ago, I shared my available strength with my tribesmen, which further weakened me. The alien creature took advantage of the opportunity and wanted to completely devour me and take over me."

"At that time, I..." After a while, the city lord lowered his voice, "I was really too weak to do anything, and the foreign body... almost succeeded."

Lin Wu seemed to have guessed something, "What did you do to survive that danger?"

"I used the people around me. I distributed the foreign power and aura in my body to others to reduce my burden. This gave me a chance to breathe and also stopped the foreign objects." The city lord said calmly.

Lin Wu was speechless for a moment.

So, that's how it is.

(End of this chapter)