Chapter 37 [Nutrient Solution 9000 plus update]
"Please take a seat."
The city lord sat down on a scarlet high-back chair and made a "please" gesture to Gu Liangyi and Yi Yan at the door.
There was only one chair left in the room. Gu Liang glanced at him and sat down opposite him.
With a creaking sound, the door was closed from the outside by the servant.
The space here is small and closed, with dim lighting, which reminds people of the tomb chamber of a pyramid. The candlelight on the table is swayed by the wind at the door, casting a hideous and strange shadow on the damp and ancient stone wall.
Being in it, staying for a few more seconds will make you feel like you are suffocating.
Gu Liangyi suppressed his inner uneasiness and waited with bated breath for the city lord to speak first.
The shops in the city must still be open. Although the headquarters is most coveting the key, the city lord will definitely not give out such an important thing easily...
Looking at the irregular object in front of him, Gu Liang was confused.
No, this guy really took it out like that!
Instantly, the same thought flashed through Gu Liangyi and Yi Yan's minds -
Why not just kill him here and take the things away...
But the city lord looked at Gu Liangyi's silence and misunderstood his meaning. He curled his lips coldly and said, "Sure enough, you are not a demon god at all."
"...Oh?" Gu Liangyi's heartbeat quickened, but his tone remained steady, "Why do you say that?"
"Legend has it that the devil has an erratic temper and places great value on his mechanical creations." The city lord looked at him mockingly. "If it were a real devil, he would have turned against me the moment I asked your death row slave to hand over the mechanical creations."
After his disguise was exposed, the young man in black robe in front of him was not as panicked as he imagined.
He sighed and even asked calmly, "So?"
“…Why?”
"Whether I am a demon or not should have little to do with you, the city lord." The young man in black robe laughed and directly exposed the city lord's little thoughts. "Is the profit brought to you by the shop this month not worth a harmless little lie?"
"You are quite cheeky."
The city lord lowered his eyes and suddenly turned the "key" in his hand. With a click, the chair under Gu Liangyi instantly deformed, trapping his limbs on the seat.
He threatened with murderous intent: "Tell me, if I kill you here and then occupy the shop, what can you do?"
Almost at the moment he made his move, Yi Yan, who was standing behind Gu Liangyi, raised his hand and fired without hesitation!
“Bang!!!”
The gunshots rang out in the small space, making people's eardrums buzz.
Several members of the special action team who were on standby on the first floor were all shocked when they heard the gunshots!
Jin Xuan's pupils shrank. Unlike the others, as the deputy captain, she subconsciously lowered her head to look at the data displayed on her watch.
All vital signs are stable...heart rate...Why is Gu Liang's heart rate so fast and slow?
Such strange data made Jin Xuan, who should have reacted immediately, start to hesitate.
And just a few seconds later, a short message popped up:
"Stay on standby."
Jin Xuan suppressed her inner uneasiness and shook her head at the group of people around her.
In an emergency, due to the seven minutes and twenty-four seconds transmission interval, the command center is unable to send messages to them immediately, so their first commander is always Gu Liangyi himself.
...Of course, this is under the premise that his life is not in danger.
Inside the secret room on the second floor.
Several bullets were frozen in a wall of air. As the city lord waved his hand, they fell to the ground one after another, making a series of crisp impact sounds.
As the controller of Morton City, the city lord's strength is far beyond that of an ordinary fallen wizard. Long before he uttered that sentence, he was already on guard against Yi Yan's sudden outburst.
Having used up all his magazines, Yi Yan decisively took out his dagger and blocked Gu Liangyi. However, his extremely tense emotions were stirred up again by a calm voice coming from behind him:
"It's okay, get out of the way and let me talk to him."
Yi Yan's body stiffened.
But after a moment, he finally chose to believe Gu Liangyi and obeyed the order.
The city lord was both fearful and greedy about the instantaneous mechanism in the opponent's hands. After confirming that Yi Yan couldn't do anything to him, the smile on his face became even more unscrupulous.
"Talk?" He sneered disdainfully, "What qualifications do you have to talk to me?"
The young man in black robe was not shaken by his words. He just tilted his head and said to Yi Yan: "Unbutton my collar."
Yi Yan looked at him, lowered his eyes, and quietly extended his hand.
Through a layer of tactical gloves, he unbuttoned Gu Liangyi's chest one by one. His cold fingertips touched the pale and hot chest, and Yi Yan's breathing involuntarily quickened for a moment.
Gu Liangyi leaned back in his chair and looked up at Yi Yan quietly.
His eyes seemed dazed for a moment, but he quickly regained his composure.
"Is this what you want to show me?" The city lord stared at the beating and flashing electrocardiogram monitor on his chest, his brows twisted unconsciously, but his tone was very contemptuous, "What is this, a glowing sequin?"
"No," Gu Liangyi said calmly, "This is an antimatter bomb. You can think of it as a destructive weapon that is very suitable for destroying humans together with them."
"Once my heartbeat exceeds a certain range, it will issue an early warning and explode directly. By then, not to mention the people in the tower, the entire Morton city will be razed to the ground."
In the liaison department of Mo Da, Zong Qinyuan, who was holding a quick-acting heart-saving pill and watching the surveillance video, suddenly felt his eyebrows jump. He turned his head and looked at the school doctor who was taking his blood pressure: "Are you sure that the command center attached to his chest is just a heart rate monitor? The kind that will warn if it exceeds the range but will not explode?"
The school doctor looked at the soaring blood pressure readings and nodded silently.
The city lord obviously didn't believe Gu Liangyi's words: "How is it possible! I——"
Gu Liangyi calmly turned the ring on his middle finger.
“Ding Di—Boom!!!”
The loud explosion outside made the city lord's face change immediately.
Before entering the tower, the special task force members, in accordance with the command center's requirements, scattered dozens of remote-controlled mini-bombs in the outer corridors, so that they could be used as a threat when necessary to ensure Gu Liangyi's life safety.
Of course, the antimatter bomb itself is just a lie made up by Gu Liangyi.
For now, this thing only appears in science fiction novels and reports used by the Bald Eagle Country to deceive upper echelons into extorting military spending. Human technological level is far from being able to understand its principles.
But no matter whether it is true or false, as long as it works at the critical moment, it’s fine.
Next, Gu Liangyi continued to tell the city lord several science fiction stories, and also gave a popular science introduction to the power of antimatter bombs after they exploded, such as 1 gram could destroy half a continent, etc. The city lord's face turned from pale to blue and then to green after listening to him.
Even if the person sitting opposite is not a demon god, he is definitely a devil!
"Mad!" He couldn't help but curse.
The city lord suddenly pushed the door open, grabbed a panicked servant and asked him about the situation. When he learned that the outer wall of the tower, which was stronger than stone, had a big hole blown out, he was so angry that he wanted to skin the culprit alive!
But when the city lord turned around, Gu Liangyi reminded him: "Don't make me too nervous, otherwise I won't be able to control my heartbeat."
The city lord clenched his fists, and after a moment, he forced a stiff smile and suddenly removed all the restraints on Gu Liangyi.
"It's just a joke," he said with a fake smile, "Don't worry about it, let's sit down and talk."
Gu Liangyi said, "I'm a little tired."
The city lord's face twitched violently, but he stared at Gu Liangyi fearfully as he buttoned up his shirt slowly and methodically. However, he was still concerned about that bomb and did not dare to confront him head-on.
In his opinion, the most solid thing in the world is the tower left by the devil. Even a knife cannot leave a mark on it, but the black-robed young man in front of him can easily destroy a corner of it - so, what if what he just said is true?
Gu Liang stood up and, in front of the city lord, openly picked up the bullets that had fallen to the ground and put them all in the pockets of his black robe.
"This time, I want to ask you for something."
Although he said "asking for something", his tone and attitude did not mean that at all. The city lord took a deep breath and reluctantly asked, "What do you want?"
"A badge that allows you to enter and leave the fortress at will."
The city lord stared at him for a while and suddenly laughed.
"So you want to join my Judgment Seat?" he asked with interest, "So you deliberately disguised yourself as a demon god and did what happened today, just to show me your strength?"
The city of Morton welcomes all powerful fallen mages. The most powerful ones among them will be invited by the city lord to join the Central Inquisition and have the power to enter the fortress freely. This is well known.
In recent years, there have been many people who have recommended themselves, some have failed and some have succeeded, but this is the first time that someone like Gu Liangyi has taken a different approach and left such a deep impression on the city lord.
The city lord's anger disappeared in an instant. Although he was still a little unhappy in his heart, when he thought that Gu Liangyi did everything to become his subordinate, he couldn't help but feel a little elated.
Seeing his anger turn into joy, Gu Liangyi felt a little relieved.
Sure enough, the analysis of the psychological experts at the command center made sense. To deal with someone like the city lord, you must give him a beating before giving him a sweet reward. When you don't want to break up with him yet, blindly flattering him will make him look down on you. Sometimes, being a little tougher will have unexpected results.
"Of course I can give you the badge," the city lord said, "but mages who want to join the Inquisition must pass the test."
Gu Liangyi grabbed the badge he threw to him.
It was too easy to get, so he became cautious: "What test?"
The city lord snorted and laughed, and instead of answering, he asked, "The real demon god has awakened, did you know that?"
Gu Liangyi's pupils suddenly shrank.
The city lord waved his hand and asked the servants to escort them out of the secret room.
"Good luck, brave young man. I hope to see you again one day."
Before the door closed, he spoke to Gu Liangyi in an uncomfortable, sticky and cold tone.
After going down to the second floor, Jin Xuan and the others were obviously relieved to see Gu Liangyi intact.
Their expressions also relaxed a lot. But Gu Liangyi, who had been calm before, now looked very tense, which made Jin Xuan a little confused, but in front of so many fallen mages around, she couldn't ask questions, so she could only suppress her doubts in her heart for the time being.
Gu Liangyi led everyone out of the tower in silence.
As soon as they returned to the store, Jin Xuan couldn't wait to ask, "Did you get the stuff?"
Gu Liangyi nodded quickly, but before Jin Xuan could smile, he said solemnly:
"Let everyone who remains in the city pack up their things and leave immediately!"
Jin Xuan was stunned for a moment: "Why?"
"The city lord will spread the news of my obtaining the badge at the banquet as soon as possible," Gu Liangyi said, "but he just told me that the real demon god has awakened... The worst guess has come true. We were tricked by him because of insufficient intelligence."
But Yaroslav next to him was still a little stunned. He didn't quite understand what Gu Liangyi meant: "Why do you say that?"
"Because no one knows when he will come to see the city lord. Think about it, what if the city lord tells him that the 'key' is actually in our hands? Also, what if the demon god finds out that we are actually from another world?"
Upon hearing this, the faces of all the special forces members around changed.
"Return to school immediately! We can't stay here any longer!" Yi Yan ordered without hesitation, "Everyone, pack lightly and leave in three minutes... Gu Liang, are you okay?"
Gu Liangyi suddenly covered his chest, and after two seconds, he slowly shook his head at him.
In fact, he had felt something was wrong several hours ago. He always felt like he was dreaming even though he was awake, as if his limbs were no longer under his control.
But looking at the data on the monitor, his heartbeat remained within the normal range, as if those abnormalities were just his illusions.
Gu Liang thought that the most important thing now was to evacuate from here as soon as possible, and everything else could come later.
He looked up at the speaker on the table and said, "Xiao Mo, seal off the underground weapons warehouse and data monitoring room. Enable double password authentication in ten minutes. If you make a mistake in entering password, activate self-destruct mode immediately!"
Two seconds later, a familiar mechanical female voice sounded in the shop:
"Ding ding, Xiaomo received it."
"The ten-minute countdown begins—five hundred and ninety-nine, five hundred and ninety-eight..."
The shop was in chaos.
At this time, the city lord also welcomed an expected uninvited guest in the tower.
"Since you have taken good care of my pet, I can spare your life. However, I hope you can be more sensible than that woman from the Magic Guild."
The demon god Feng Puchenchen, who had rushed over from the headquarters of the Magic Guild, grabbed the city lord's neck and pressed him against the wall of the secret room, and questioned him in a hoarse voice with his terrifying face, whose meridians and blood vessels were exposed and looked like a shriveled mummy.
"Tell me, where are my ship keys?"
As Gu Liangyi expected, facing the demon god, the suffocating city lord sold him out without hesitation:
"In... the Seris store... ahem, I thought they were your followers, so I gave them to them..."
"Seris Shop?"
The demon frowned and suddenly let go of his hand: "Where are they?"
The city lord knelt on the ground and coughed heartbreakingly for a while before he smiled flatteringly at the Demon God's impatient cold eyes and replied tremblingly: "They should have left the city, sir. These humans have many strange devices in their hands, you'd better be careful."
"organ?"
The demon god seemed to have suddenly thought of something, and suddenly raised his eyes and stared into the void for a long time.
The city lord didn't understand what he was looking at, but if Gu Liangyi was here, he would find that the void in front of the demon god was also lit with a similar light screen - but the various data and sections on it were much more complete than his.
"So it was you who were spying on me..."
The demon's sharp teeth rubbed up and down, and his already ferocious expression became even more terrifying because of his surging anger.
He recalled the difficult days of trekking in the desert after he had just woken up from the sleeping cabin.
That was his weakest moment, and he was hit by the drone released by Mo Da. After using his magic power to shoot down the drone, the Demon God was forced to recuperate for several weeks before he recovered.
Of course he dismantled the drone. Although the technological level of the lower civilization was very backward, the demon was just a cleaner of the higher civilization after all, and his level was not necessarily higher than that of the scientists on Earth.
He barely figured out its structure with the knowledge he learned on his home planet three thousand years ago, but soon, the demon god got tired of this method of slowly increasing civilization points.
Anyway, as long as we kill the representative of the opposing civilization, we can win the battle, right?
The demon thought grimly.
Back then, in order to accumulate energy to return to his home planet, he chose to sleep in a sleeping cabin for three thousand years.
But when he woke up, he was devastated to find that after three thousand years, this damn continent of Ansel had not yet developed the technology to enable space travel!
His spaceship also fell into a complete dormant state. Apart from the basic garbage disposal and recycling functions, all other functions were unusable. If he had not researched the artificial energy of Magic Crystal in this world before falling asleep, he would have been completely finished.
The appearance of the light screen can be said to be his only hope at present.
Although he didn't understand why this civilization, which had more advanced technology than his home planet, chose him to fight against the Earth civilization, but that was enough, the demon thought, he didn't want to wait any longer.
In a way, the light screen is fair.
The civilization where the demon god lives is far more developed than that of the Earth, so he has been fighting alone, while humans have gathered the power of the world.
But it would be ridiculous to underestimate the power of the demon itself.
In the sky, the devil descended from the sky riding a bone dragon.
After a loud bang, he jumped off the bone dragon's head expressionlessly and stood on the ruins of the collapsed shop. The surrounding houses were also crushed by the huge body of the bone dragon. For a while, screams and cries were heard everywhere on the street.
"Tell me, where are your representatives of civilization?"
He bent down, reached out and grabbed a white speaker that was still buzzing in the ruins, and asked in a cold and hoarse voice.
The demon's eyes remained calm at his cruel and brutal behavior.
Just ants.
“Sizzle…Crack…”
Under the heavy pressure, the sound coming from the speaker had been distorted. The demon frowned and put it close to his ear, trying to hear it more clearly, but he still didn't understand its meaning due to the language barrier.
"Five, four, three..."
The countdown is still counting, but at this point, the shop is already empty.
"…Two, one, the countdown is over."
The demon's heart suddenly trembled.
The next second, a blinding white light suddenly flashed before his eyes.
"boom--!!!"
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