Chapter 123
Cheng Yu and Mei Weier spent the night in the woods.
The next day, Mei Weier turned into a pitch-black dragon and took Cheng Yu away on the wind to the east.
The sunrise scene at an altitude of 10,000 meters was extremely spectacular. A red sun slowly rose from the sea of clouds, and the golden light shone in all directions.
It was a pity that there was no camera, otherwise I could take a photo.
Near noon, Cheng Yu stood on Mei Weier's head and finally saw the long golden coastline of the Black Sun Empire.
However, beyond the golden coastline was an area shrouded in endless darkness and fog.
The foggy area was endless, and it was unknown how large the area was.
And the land opposite the huge foggy area was Cheng Yu's territory.
Looking from top to bottom, Cheng Yu's territory was in a long strip, with an area of more than 500 square kilometers, a coastline of more than 50 kilometers, and a land depth of 10 kilometers, which happened to be the part of the coastline connected to the dark foggy area.
None of the other noble lords wanted this scrap, so the king gave it to Cheng Yu.
There is a small stone city in the territory, which is smaller than Bailu Town.
Although it is nominally a main city, it is more like a human settlement, and the buildings in the city are also dilapidated.
"Human, you are really lucky. The God's Meteoric Forbidden Zone is next to the territory." Meiweier said sarcastically with a smile.
"A certain dragon doesn't speak, and no one thinks you are dumb." Cheng Yu said.
Meiweier began to descend. During the landing, the huge dragon body turned into a human girl, and a pair of black wings grew on its back. It pulled Cheng Yu's wrist and landed on a small hill outside the Dark Night City.
Dark Night City is close to the sea, and the land is saline-alkali land. Some salt-alkali-tolerant plants grow there, not as bare as Cheng Yu imagined.
The two walked towards the Dark Night City, which is one kilometer away.
The wall of Dark Night City is made of rubble, about five meters high, and looks shaky.
Three white-haired old men sat at the foot of the city wall, their eye sockets sunken, skin and bones, like three mummies sitting there.
"Hello."
Cheng Yu walked over and greeted the three old men.
"Who are you?"
The three old men looked at Cheng Yu with their cloudy eyes. This young man did not look like a native of Dark Night City.
Cheng Yu put the medal of nobility on his chest, "My name is Cheng Yu, a baron, appointed by the King of the Black Sun Empire to become the lord of this part of Dark Night City."
Lord?
The old men stood up as if they had found something rare, circled around Cheng Yu, and looked at him carefully from front to back.
"Young man, you are really okay to be the lord of Dark Night City?"
One of the old men suspected that Cheng Yu was a fool.
"Most of the young people here have fled to other places, leaving only the old, weak and disabled like us. You are so young, and you still come here to be the lord?"
Another old man also suspected that Cheng Yu was a fool.
"Dark Night City has been without a lord for many years. The actual ruler now is Master Wiggins. It may be a bit troublesome for you two to take over this place."
The third old man did not doubt that Cheng Yu was a fool, but told him a more realistic problem.
"No, Dark Night City is a place where no one lives, with a permanent population of only more than a thousand. Is there still a ruler?"
Cheng Yu thought that Dark Night City was just more than a thousand poor people, and everyone was in a state of poverty.
"Yes, if you want to live in the city, you have to pay a bag of food to Master Wiggins every month."
"Those of us who can't pay the food can only live outside the city and fend for ourselves."
The old man sighed, and the wrinkles on his face seemed to deepen a bit.
Natural disasters are terrible, but man-made disasters are also tormenting.
The famous five-star critic MacArthur said that where there are people, there are classes.
The more than a thousand people in Dark Night City are like a small society with clear classes.
The poor can only live outside the city, the rich live in the city, and the richer ones can eat fish and meat.
"This is too outrageous."
Cheng Yu thought of the president of a poor small African country in the past. The people were so poor that they couldn't even afford to eat, but the president could still own a private jet and hold a birthday party worth tens of millions of dollars for his daughter. When he ran out of money, he asked the people to sell blood and organs.
"Meiweier, let's go."
Cheng Yu took Meiweier to the gate of Dark Night City.
At the gate of the city was a large area of shacks built with rags and thatch, which looked like slums.
Seeing Cheng Yu's well-dressed clothes, a ragged old woman came to Cheng Yu to beg.
"Sir, please have mercy on me. I haven't eaten for two days."
"Why are there so many shacks here?"
Cheng Yu took out a silver coin and threw it to the old woman.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you sir."
The old woman thanked him repeatedly, and then introduced Cheng Yu, "Dark Night City is divided into the inner city and the outer city. OurThose who couldn't pay the food were driven out of the city by Master Wiggins and could only live in shacks. "
Cheng Yu was puzzled, "What's wrong with living outside the city?"
There are many villages outside Snow City, and the people in the villages live quite well.
"Ah~ You don't know, you may encounter monsters outside the city at night." The old woman shook her head and lamented.
Building shacks under the city wall is slightly safer than in the wild.
"Okay, thank you."
Cheng Yu walked through the slums, which were full of elderly people.
At the gate of Dark Night City, two young men holding spears stood there.
No need to think, these two young men should be Wiggins's people.
"Who are you?" The two young men looked at Cheng Yu vigilantly.
"My name is Cheng Yu. The King of the Black Sun Empire rewarded me with the land of Dark Night City. I am now the lord of this land and come to take over Dark Night City. "
The two young men did not dare to act on their own, in case the other party was really a big shot, it would be bad to anger the big shot.
"You wait here, I will ask Master Wiggins for his opinion first, and then decide whether to let you into the city." One of the young men said.
"Hehe, Dark Night City is my territory, and you still want me to wait?"
Cheng Yu sneered and walked directly into Dark Night City.
"No entry without Master Wiggins' order. "
The two crossed their spears into an X shape to block Cheng Yu.
Mei Weier waved her hand casually, and repelled the two with just the wind of her palm. They vomited blood and fainted.
Cheng Yu walked into Dark Night City.
The people in the city lived a little better than those outside the city. Those outside the city lived in thatched huts, while those in the city lived in earthen houses.
And the people in the city were younger than those outside the city, all of them were middle-aged and elderly people.
The nearby residents saw that Cheng Yu and Mei Weier were obviously not from Dark Night City, and they all came over to see the curiosity.
"Who are you two?" someone asked.
"My name is Cheng Yu, and I am the new lord of this piece of land in Dark Night City. I am here to take over Dark Night City." Cheng Yu explained his purpose.
"Dark Night City actually has a new lord."
"What do you think of coming to such a poor place as Dark Night City to be the lord? "
"Now Master Wiggins is in charge of Dark Night City. If you want to take over Dark Night City, you must first get Master Wiggins's consent."
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"Where does Wiggins live?"
Cheng Yu decided to meet this local tyrant first.