Chapter 87 A Shocking Day
"Why does the boss look so depressed?"
"I think so." Malu's expression seemed a little bit overwhelmed. "If you get the reward that the boss gets, you will become like this."
Tel scratched his hair and said to himself, "I really can't imagine the boss fighting with that thing."
“Dongdong.”
At this moment, the bell rang, indicating that the Thane dungeon was about to close.
The members of the exploration team felt that this day was particularly long, as if they had stayed in the dungeon for several years. All kinds of disgusting monsters and traps made them exhausted, and the days were like years.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they thought that they could finally go back and rest.
"I don't want to come down here for at least a week," Stellan said with a tired look on her face.
The flame monk shouted enthusiastically, "What are you talking about? You and Lord Fire God are destined to be together. You should come down every day!"
Stellan gave him a look that looked like he was a fool.
Roger stroked the Poké Ball in his hand with a silly smile on his face, Perry held the scroll in his hand, wanting to cry but unable to, and the Holy Light Knight looked at the cross with complicated eyes, but finally decided to take it back.
As the last bell rang, the adventurers' figures gradually became blurred.
Noisy sounds came from their ears, and when they opened their eyes again, they had returned to the outside world. The sky was dark, and the cold moonlight sprinkled on the ancient city, which was completely unable to block the lights all over the city.
The area near the portal is extremely lively, but not harmonious at all.
Looking around, people were arguing, and the two parties in the quarrel were undoubtedly adventurers and the guards of the Bede family.
"Why do you want to check our harvest? Even the Earl doesn't have this right!" shouted the adventurer.
The guard held up a piece of paper and said, "According to the new law, the Beder family has the priority to purchase the ore produced in the Thane Underground City. I don't care about your other gains, but you must hand over the ore."
"I'll sell it to other merchants instead of you!"
"Oh," the guard chuckled, "Go ahead and look for it. As long as you can find a merchant in Bed City who dares to buy the ore, I will kneel down and apologize to you."
"What do you mean!"
The adventurers looked at each other. They had only stayed in the dungeon for one day, so why did something so drastic change seem to have happened after they came out?
What on earth was Count Philip doing?
At this time, the miners belonging to the Bed family came out one after another. Five or six hundred people went in, but only less than a hundred people came back, but the remaining people all had gains.
The guards stopped arguing with the adventurers and instead shouted at the miners, ordering them to hand in the supplies quickly.
The atmosphere at the scene froze for a moment, and people hurried back to the city, trying to find someone to find out what had happened.
Stellan frowned as she watched the farce and said to herself, "The Bede family clearly didn't act like this before. How could they change so suddenly?"
Roger gave a disdainful smile and looked at the guards with a playful look.
Leon patted Stellan on the shoulder and said, "Let's go to the guild first. Mr. Sid must know something."
The guards did not stop them this time, and they soon returned to the guild, where they were told by the staff that Sid had been waiting for them.
Pushing open the door of the conference room, Sid turned around, opened his arms, and said with a gentlemanly smile: "Welcome back, the stars tell me that you will definitely gain a lot."
"We have gained a lot. We have cleared the Thane dungeon."
Sid showed an expression of "as expected". He waved his hand, and the instruments on both sides of the room began to play automatically. Glasses of bright red wine flew in front of everyone. He was the first to raise his glass and said, "Such a significant moment should be celebrated. Thank you all for your hard work!"
"Let's talk about the celebration later," Leon frowned and asked, "Mr. Sid, may I ask what happened today? What's the situation at the Bed family?"
Sid drank the red wine in one gulp, put down the glass, and said casually: "What else could it be? It's nothing more than greed being awakened, and making an irrational decision."
"You may not know that Earl Philip returned to Bede from the Royal City yesterday, bringing back His Majesty's orders and a wide variety of treasures. As soon as he came back, he issued several new orders, just like what you saw today."
There are three commands:
First, people belonging to the Bed family have priority to enter the Sen underground city, and the rest of the people are not allowed to resist.
The second is that the Bed family has the priority right to purchase the ore produced in the Sean Underground City. However, all the merchants in the city have been dealt with, and no one dares to purchase the ore, which means they can only sell it to the Bed family.
The third is to collect tickets from adventurers who enter the dungeon, and to levy taxes every month based on the number of entries, which is a considerable amount.
"Is Philip crazy?" Stellan was so angry that she called him by his name. "Doesn't he know the fate of those lords who dare to tax the dungeon?"
"It was because he knew that that he made other preparations,"
Sid said slowly, "With the support of the king, he temporarily mobilized the elite mercenary group that only obeys the king. According to the time, they should arrive tomorrow."
The Holy Light Knight suddenly raised his head, and there was surprise in his tone. He asked, "Which mercenary group are you talking about?"
"Yes, that's them,"
Sid nodded.
"Light Eagle Group,"
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The Bader family residence.
"I don't understand. My father clearly knew that what he was doing was wrong. Why did he continue to do it?"
The third young master Sally, who had not appeared for a long time, walked back and forth in the room, his face full of annoyance.
"If we continue like this, we will be attacked by adventurers sooner or later. What's the use of the Light Eagles? Even if we can rely on them to suppress the adventurers by force."
He ruffled his silver hair in annoyance and muttered to himself:
"Why did he lock me up? Why wouldn't he listen to any of my advice? I only said that workers should be given priority to enter, but I didn't say anything about levying taxes. I just went to the royal city, why did he become like this!"
Ever since Count Philip went to the royal city to deliver the potion, he seemed like a different person. The originally gentle and refined man suddenly became hot-tempered and would get angry at the people around him at any time. Sally just gave him a few words of advice and was locked in the room, with guards guarding the door.
He even suspected that Count Philip had been infected by the king's strange disease!
But after secretly asking a pastor to take a look, it turned out that there was nothing wrong with my father.
So what on earth stimulated him?
The brave Elsa folded her hands on her knees and sat obediently. She thought that she should behave well when Sally got angry.
The current Count Philip is not cursed, nor is he disguised as a demon. Elsa can tell.
If it were a demon, she would have picked up her knife and started fighting long ago.
As for the current situation
Elsa glanced at Sally secretly. If her partner came to his senses and decided to use her power to get out of trouble, she would definitely help.
I'm not good at speaking, but that's just a bit of strength.
At this moment, Sally suddenly said to her:
"Elsa, do you remember my previous speculation?"
Elsa nodded, and Sally continued:
"I have always wondered why the dungeon changed. The map after the change is not chaotic. In some aspects, such as the location of traps and the distribution of monsters, it seems that the decision was made after careful consideration. It is as if someone is controlling everything."
"The teacher told me that all this is due to one thing - the dungeon has its own consciousness."
"Just like the holy sword of the brave, the scepter of the elven queen, and the hammer of the dwarf king, those items miraculously gave birth to consciousness. So the dungeon can also be considered an item. It is possible that it will give birth to consciousness like an item spirit, and it will manage everything in the dungeon."
"If it is conscious, if it knows what its father has done,"
Sally clenched his fist and said:
"Will the rampage incident of a hundred years ago happen again?"
"I can only pray that the underground city consciousness is like a newborn baby, knowing nothing. I hope it has no way of knowing what is happening in the outside world, and I hope it won't go berserk."
However, the "underground city consciousness" he mentioned already knew about this shit.
“Why is today’s turnover lower?”
Gong Qiying replayed the video in the crystal ball, and his expression gradually changed.
(End of this chapter)
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