It took Yang Jia some time to figure out what had happened.
It turned out that everything that had happened before was part of the City Lord's prediction and plan. He had deliberately spread the news of his quest for the City Lord's Seal, encouraging Zheng Yizhao and Liu Chang to unite. Then, he pretended to be lured away by Zheng Yizhao, leaving behind an empty City Lord's Mansion for Liu Chang to attack. But in reality, he had not left at all, but was hiding in a secret passage beneath the City Lord's Mansion.
Liu Chang and Zheng Yizhao intended to divide and conquer, transferring the City Lord's men out so they could take advantage of the situation. The City Lord, in turn, was using this opportunity to detain Zheng Yizhao so he could devour Liu Chang's men. Furthermore, judging by his subsequent actions, Liu Chang's arrival at the City Lord's Mansion was within his expectations, and he had already planned to use these men as sacrifices to the Phoenix, awakening it.
He succeeded.
In fact, the matter was not that complicated, but during the process, no one realized that this was actually just a trap. This shows the superb means of the city lord.
The phoenix, which the city lord had spent so much effort to awaken, was clearly the key to becoming the city lord. So when it landed on Yang Jia, Yang Jia automatically gained its approval and became the new city lord. As for the original city lord... Yang Jia, remembering the scream he'd heard before fainting, probably knew he was in grave danger.
Indeed, the phoenix is a divine bird, but also a ferocious beast. Awakening it without recognition would naturally lead to backlash. At that time, the land was a sea of fire. According to Bai Ting, the fire was so intense that not even a trace remained. It's not surprising that the city lord burned to death.
Following Bai Ting's suggestion, Yang Jia opened his travel guide and turned to the page of Phoenix City Chronicles. Sure enough, he saw his name appear on the second line, side by side with Li Bai.
System message: Player Yang Jia has gone through untold hardships and become the lord of Phoenix City, opening a new chapter in the game.
Yang Jia's heartbeat suddenly became violent.
It was not for himself to become the city lord, but for the four words "Player Yang Jia" in front of it.
These four words, of course, are very common in the eyes of others, and they would not pay much attention to them at all, but for Yang Jia, it is far from that simple.
She was clearly an NPC. Although she had recently noticed many changes in herself, and was no longer the same as an ordinary NPC, becoming more and more like a player, Yang Jia always knew clearly that she was different from them.
This is her biggest secret, the kind that absolutely cannot be discovered by anyone.
But now, the four words "Player Yang Jia" written in gold letters on the system message defined her identity, like a final conclusion. From now on, no player should doubt her identity anymore. After all, it was acknowledged by the system.
This was beyond Yang Jia's expectations and left her puzzled.
Even if he could become the city lord by getting the Phoenix's approval, it would be fine. After all, NPCs can do that, too. For example, the previous city lord clearly wanted to do that. But how did he become a player again?
I don’t know how the system program of this game is run.
Her mind was a mess of thoughts, but most of them flashed by. Although she still didn't understand how it had developed to this point, in the final analysis, this change was indeed a great thing for Yang Jia. She tried hard to suppress her ecstasy so as not to show it too obviously.
After thinking about all this, Yang Jia looked up and saw everyone staring at him. He quickly explained what had happened. His teammates had all died and returned to the city when the phoenix first showed its power. He heard that she had actually obtained a potion that could resurrect her, and that she had been resurrected immediately after death, possessed by the phoenix, and that this was how she was able to become the city lord. While surprised, he was also naturally very envious.
To achieve this final result, many accidents and coincidences need to be connected together, but Yang Jia happened to achieve them all. What kind of luck is this?
Finally, Zheng Yizhao, with a complex expression, spoke for everyone, "If I didn't know this game was automatically run by the system mastermind, I would have suspected you had some connection to the game company and had access to internal data."
But in fact, precisely because Zheng Yizhao knew what the "Real" game was, he understood better that there was no game company at all. It was just an empty shell. They couldn't even access the game data, let alone the so-called "internal data."
Although this project is mysterious and Zheng Yizhao only knows a little bit about it, he believes that there is absolutely no possibility of cheating in this game.
I can only say that Yang Jia’s luck is incredible.
But if you calm down, you'll find that this kind of good luck is still within an acceptable range. It's not like everyone hasn't played other games before, and it's not like they haven't seen people with good luck. Yang Jia is not an exception.
So Bai Yu smiled and continued Zheng Yizhao's words, "It's not that exaggerated, right? If that's the case, then Burns has better luck, right?"
Li Bai was the calmest among them. After the explanation, she asked Yang Jia, "Check your body and see if there is anything different."
Since Phoenix had surrendered and become the city lord, some changes were bound to occur. These changes would be difficult for others to detect, and Yang Jia had to verify them himself. In fact, this should be the first thing he did after waking up, but because this incident was so unexpected and shocking, he had to figure it out first.
After she reminded them, the others also realized this and looked at Yang Jia expectantly.
Yang Jia also calmed down and began to examine himself.
As a player, the first thing to look at is of course the data.
Name: Yang Jia
Occupation: Lord of Phoenix City
Equipment: Phoenix Platform
Title: None
Level: 17 (1350872/13107200)
Strength: 21
Constitution: 23
Agility: 22
Health: 800/2300
Physical strength: 40/100
Yang Jia was a little surprised that the phoenix was actually a piece of equipment. After all, it looked like a living creature before! Most importantly, she didn't find this piece of equipment on her, let alone how to use it.
Other than that, there seemed to be no change in her stats. Oh, her health and stamina had dropped significantly, probably because she had just woken up from a coma and had overdrawn her energy.
I checked other parts of my body and there didn't seem to be anything unusual.
Yang Jia then raised his head and said, "It's just an extra piece of equipment called Phoenix Tower. But I don't know where it is or how to use it."
"Let's try this." Just as everyone was thinking hard and planning to give Yang Jia some advice, Zheng Yizhao suddenly spoke.
Yang Jia looked over and saw Zheng Yizhao taking out the city lord's seal.
She was a little surprised; she hadn't expected Zheng Yizhao to actually bring this thing out. Everyone else's thoughts were similar to Yang Jia's. Regardless, Yang Jia had effectively robbed Zheng Yizhao of an opportunity, preventing him from becoming City Lord and shifting his plans. The City Lord Seal, as a crucial item, was bound to be useful. Zheng Yizhao's best option was to keep it in his possession to contain Yang Jia.
Zheng Yizhao smiled at this. "Why are you looking at me like that? Do you think I'm such a stingy person? Not to mention that this thing was originally found by Yang Jia and Li Bai, it's only natural to return it to its original owner. Even if it wasn't found, since Yang Jia is the city lord, there's no point in me keeping it. The most urgent thing is development. No matter who becomes the city lord, the same thing applies."
Regardless of whether he is really so open and honest in his heart, the fact that Zheng Yizhao could say such words is enough to make everyone look at him with admiration.
If someone else were in his position and this happened, they would at least feel uncomfortable, even if they didn't hate Yang Jia.
Because the position of city lord wasn't something decided by chance. They had already made an agreement to let Zheng Yizhao take the position. Now that something unexpected had happened, it was Yang Jia's fault. Zheng Yizhao's grace at this time naturally improved everyone's impression of him.
Yang Jia thought about it and took the city lord seal without any hesitation.
The moment the City Lord Seal was in hand, it suddenly shone with light and floated above everyone's heads. Within the radiant light, a shadow emerged. The shadow took the shape of a platform, a phoenix painted vividly on its front. A closer look revealed mountains and rivers scattered throughout the phoenix's body, even a faint hint of a city at its center.
"This is the map of Phoenix City!" Zheng Yizhao, who had read a lot of information and documents recently, was the first to recognize the pattern and blurted out.
Yang Jia looked up at the floating seal, then looked at the "Phoenix Terrace" outlined by light and shadow, and finally understood the functions of these two things.
Just like the legend goes, with these two things, one can hold the power of Phoenix City.
Thinking of this, Yang Jia stretched out his hand and touched a certain place on the phoenix pattern. Then the pattern in front of him suddenly enlarged, and the irrelevant parts were put away. The place where Yang Jia touched continued to expand in front of everyone, and soon it appeared clearly.
Exactly where they are now!
This was the outskirts of Phoenix, a vast industrial park. The factory owned by Yang Jia occupied a small portion of it. Yang Jia positioned the map on the factory, and it felt like he was looking down at the entire facility from above, everything clearly visible. The people living there were represented by sesame-sized green dots.
The place with the most green dots is the factory building, and there are also eight small green dots in the room where they are.
Seeing this scene, everyone couldn't help but gasp and felt a creepy feeling.
"Yang Jia..." Xia Hanhai asked softly, "Could it be that... you can just snap your fingers and kill these villains...?"
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