The city lord closed his eyes and didn't look at Lin Wu again.

His voice was so soft that it was almost inaudible. "He was a child abandoned by his family, so he was an orphan. After arriving in Killer City, I saw that he looked a bit like my former brother, so I decided to keep him by my side and raise him. I also treated him as a member of my clan, so that I felt like I was not alone anymore."

"Some of the Chi family's aliens can change their appearances at will. When I raised him, I was not too weak and could become an ordinary person. Until that time when the alien almost invaded me, I was so weak that I could no longer maintain my human form. He heard the noise and rushed in, and saw me like this."

What was Chongjun’s expression at that time?

He can't remember.

He was almost out of his mind at the time, the only thing he was clear about was thinking of a way to barely save himself. And Chongjun was right next to him, and he attacked him.

Foreign bodies were not successful.

He also fainted.

Fortunately, he woke up early.

If it was any later, Chongjun would have been corroded to death by the foreign aura.

He wanted to take it back, but Chongjun stopped him and said he wanted to help him.

He was silent for a long time, and asked Chongjun if he was not afraid of seeing him like that.

Chongjun said he was not afraid.

Later, he followed Chongjun's words, leaving the foreign aura in the other person's body and suppressing it so that it would not get out of control under normal circumstances.

This revealed to the city lord.

After that, he was too weak to recover his human form, and the foreign objects were constantly eroding him. In order to slow down this process, he began to keep leaving the power of the foreign objects in the people of Killer City. As long as he controlled it properly, it would not harm people, nor affect their lives, and it would make him live longer.

"At that time, I just wanted the people around me to help share some of my pain. But later, the former deputy city lord who was promoted by me discovered that there was something strange behind the eighteenth floor of the Ice Prison. He used this to threaten me and almost caused the foreign object to get out of control. That was when I wanted to kill the former deputy city lord."

"I didn't have enough manpower at the time, and the former deputy city lord had gradually developed a considerable influence, so I couldn't touch him for the time being."

"Also, the foreign objects in the ice prison were getting stronger and stronger. I had a feeling that I might not be able to hold on for long before being devoured again. So I did another thing at that time."

"In fact, I have previously transferred the former Eight Rakshasas to guard the Ice Prison. It is too dangerous there, and basically everyone stationed there will get into trouble. But I gradually discovered that if a foreign object swallows a person, it will behave itself for a while. But what follows will also be more powerful. But it is better than being completely out of control."

Lin Wu said: "So over the years, you have been constantly looking for people to enter the last few levels of the Ice Prison. In this way, you are delaying the time when they explode out of control?"

The city lord nodded calmly, and then said self-deprecatingly: "I never thought that I would do this in the future. Even if I tried my best to train them and deliberately let them learn some mysterious arts that could save their lives, hoping that they could live longer, it would be difficult to hide the fact that I let them die."

Lin Wu was silent for a moment, then said, "To some extent, you have done your best. There is no need to blame yourself."

This is a disguised way of sacrificing a minority to protect the majority.

It is right and it is wrong.

We cannot simply judge right or wrong.

"I have a question. Fan saw a petrified Rakshasa in the Ice Prison. What's going on? Is the other party a member of the Chi family?"

"No. That was what I did. He almost destroyed this place, causing it to collapse and foreign objects to pour out. So I used his blood sacrifice to stabilize it, and he turned into stone." said the city lord.

Lin Wu thought for a moment, "But this is not a long-term solution after all. You can delay for a while, but you can't..." She paused, "Me? Do you want me to take over your position in the future and help you solve the alien objects here?"

The city lord looked at her deeply.

After a long moment, he nodded.

He asked: "Do you know when I knew of your existence?"

The city lord smiled and said, "No, it was eighteen years ago."

Lin Wu was stunned: "At that time... wasn't I just born? How did you know about that when you were here?"

"Because at that time, another member of the Chi family came to the outside world from the underground city." The city lord said, "My people noticed it. It was a little boy."

"But before I could find him, he was taken away."

"At the same time, something happened in the underground city. The gate was almost opened, and a meteorite carrying an alien object appeared and landed in Lingnan, China."

"I asked someone to check this first, and then a young man took the initiative to find my people, followed them, and saw me."

"He said he was also a member of the Chi family, and he was with the little boy who just escaped. He told me about the current situation of the Chi family in the underground city."

It turned out that what he thought was right. There were indeed a few Chi family members still alive in the underground city, but they were in a very bad situation. They were imprisoned by other tribes and their blood was drawn for experiments, hoping to make a phoenix tattoo that could pass through the gate. But they didn't have a phoenix tattoo at all, and their blood didn't work, so they were abused and lived a life worse than death.

Finally, those tribes lost their patience and wanted to kill them as a blood sacrifice. They knew they were too weak to resist, so they tried every means to send a child out of the dungeon to survive, using the remaining blood of the boy with the phoenix tattoo.

They hid it until the day when they would need it.

The movement of the meteorite was caused by them to buy time for people to leave, to attract the attention of other ethnic groups and make them too busy to take care of themselves.

In order to make such a noise, the remaining members of the Chi family in the city are gone.

In other words, all the surviving members of the Chi family are now in the outside world.

"That person also told me that after they escaped, they were hunted down by a force named Huo. They were also the organization that I found out about the two members of the Chi family."

"He knew that I was one of the tribe members, and he hoped that I could help them cover their tracks. He had already found a way to place the little boy, and wanted to live in hiding."

"I promised him."

"Besides, my place is no longer safe. There happened to be a meteorite in Lingnan. It is so dangerous that not many people dare to go there. It is a good place to hide secrets. So at that time I tried to send a Kongtong Seal fragment I had there and seal it up."

Lin Wu's face froze slightly.

"That person must be Jian Chonghe. He has always been in contact with Lu Guichi. He is also the one who makes Lu Guichi change his identity sometimes."

"I don't know. He gave me a fake name and asked me not to investigate him and the little boy. He wanted to reduce the risk as much as possible and let the little boy grow up safely."

The city lord said: "It's not easy to have new members of the tribe, so I agreed. I also hope that they can live in peace. So I gave him a unilateral way to contact me for help, and I didn't take the initiative to look for him."

Lin Wu was now certain that it was definitely Lu Guichi and Jian Chonghe!

"After he left, I asked someone to investigate the Huo family. I found something very interesting. Their ancestors were the ones who escaped in the chaos when the gate of the underground city was opened during the alien riot." The city lord suddenly said, which surprised Lin Wu.

"The first few people of the Huo family are no longer alive. They were corroded by foreign objects when they fled and could not live for long. Their descendants therefore did not live past fifty. To solve this problem, they began to find ways to return to the underground city. As time went by, no one knew how they spread the news of the thrilling underground city. They thought that the underground city had amazing wealth and treasures that could make them immortal."

"So they have been secretly trying to find out about the underground city. Thirty years ago, they discovered two abnormal members of the Chi family, and they started to track them down. They didn't find anything, so they disappeared. It wasn't until eighteen years ago that they discovered traces of the Chi family again and tried to find the underground city."

Lin Wu frowned.

No wonder the Huo family did all that and were so obsessed with the dungeon.

She pursed her lips and asked, "Don't you want to kill them for revenge?"

"Haven't you already done it?" the city lord asked with a smile.

(End of this chapter)