Chapter 125
Several people came to the innermost part of the mansion, an inconspicuous small room for storing sundries.
"Lord, there is a secret room under this room, but it needs a mechanism to open it. I wonder where the old thief Wiggins hid the mechanism to open the secret room. Let's look for it together." The servant said respectfully.
"What mechanism is it? It's too troublesome."
Cheng Yu controlled his strength and punched the ground.
Boom!
The hard stone ground collapsed, and a big hole appeared in front of Cheng Yu.
"So this method can be used to crack it? Lord, you are so powerful." The servant praised.
"You go and guard outside the room, I'll go down and take a look."
Cheng Yu wanted to see how much money Wiggins had plundered in Dark Night City over the years.
Mei Weier followed Cheng Yu and jumped into the secret room.
The secret room below was 40 to 50 square meters, with a wooden shelf in the middle.
On the upper shelf, there are gold bowls, cups, vases and other gold utensils, as well as many exquisite gemstones and stone carvings.
On the lower shelf, there is a box of medium size.
Cheng Yu walked over and put all kinds of gold utensils into the system warehouse.
He opened the box on the lower level, which was full of gold coins.
"Fuck, this old thief is really rich."
Cheng Yu estimated that there were at least one or two thousand gold coins in the box.
After putting a box of gold coins into the system warehouse, Cheng Yu looked around the secret room.
In the empty secret room, in addition to this wooden shelf, there is an inconspicuous black iron box in the corner of the secret room.
Cheng Yu walked to the black iron box, pulled off the iron lock on the outside of the iron box by brute force, and opened the box.
There was not gold inside, but a crystal clear light blue conch, the size of a palm.
"What is this?"
Cheng Yu picked up the light blue conch and looked at it. It was light in texture and did not look like a shell made of calcium carbonate.
If it were on Earth, Cheng Yu would think that this conch was a plastic handicraft, but this is a different world, and there is no plastic at all.
"Meiweier, do you recognize this thing?"
Cheng Yu showed the conch to Meiweier beside him.
Meiweier took a look and said, "From the patterns carved on the conch, it seems to be something of the mermaids."
There are many races on the Celsis continent, and the endless sea outside the continent is the territory of the mermaids.
According to the "Encyclopedia of Plants and Fauna on the Celsis Continent", the mermaids are also called the sirens, and they use beautiful and moving songs to confuse passing ships.
How could there be something of the mermaids in Wiggins's small treasury?
Cheng Yu couldn't figure it out.
"How do I use this?"
"I don't know."
Meiweier shook her head.
"Okay."
Cheng Yu didn't know what this thing was, so he put it into the system warehouse.
After looting Wiggins's small treasury, Cheng Yu and Meiweier came outside the mansion and familiarized themselves with the environment of Dark Night City.
The two walked on the streets of Dark Night City. The streets were bumpy and the houses were dilapidated. The pedestrians on the street were wearing patched coarse cloth clothes. They were pale and thin, and looked malnourished.
Maybe in another 20 or 30 years, when these people die of old age, Dark Night City will completely become a deserted dead city.
Cheng Yu walked to the foot of the city wall and looked up at the four or five-meter-high city wall. The city wall was built with rubble. There was no concrete or other pouring between the stones, and it was not solid at all.
Walking along the base of the city wall, when passing by the city gate, Cheng Yu saw several civilians driving wooden stakes in the open space outside the city and hanging the bodies of Wiggins and his family on the stakes.
Some civilians stood at the city gate to watch the excitement.
A middle-aged man wearing a black magic cloak stood in the crowd. He was Carter, the only magician in Dark Night City.
Cheng Yu walked up to Carter, "Why did they hang Wiggins' body on a stake outside the city?"
"Lord."
Carter saw that it was Cheng Yu, and he stood up and saluted respectfully.
"Fish monsters haunt Dark Night City at night. In the past, Wiggins drove out the old, weak and sick people who couldn't pay for food. The fish monsters ate the old, weak and sick people outside the city and would not invade Dark Night City. Today, the Lord ordered the old, weak and sick people outside the city to live in the city. The fish monsters have nothing to eat and may invade Dark Night City. Hanging Wiggins' bodies outside the city for the fish monsters to eat and temporarily blocking the fish monsters' invasion is also Wiggins' last contribution to Dark Night City."
Before Cheng Yu came, Maxi said that the sea outside Dark Night City was polluted by the God Meteorite Forbidden Zone, and the fish in the sea turned into monsters.
"Are there many fish monsters at night?"
"Fish monsters mainly live in the sea. They don't like sunlight and can't stay on land for too long. Dark Night City is three kilometers away from the coastline. A few fish monsters will go to the vicinity of Dark Night City to look for food."
If there were many fish monsters, the old, weak and sick outside Dark Night City would have been eaten long ago.
"Fish monstersAre they very powerful?" Cheng Yu asked again.
"Most of them are first-level monsters, and there are also second-level or third-level monsters, which are very powerful."
Carter, as the ceiling of Dark Night City's combat power, can't beat the fish monster, let alone those thin ordinary people.
"Are there fish monsters around Dark Night City every night? I want to see what the fish monsters look like."
"Sometimes there are, sometimes not, but there must be tonight."
"Why must there be tonight?"
Cheng Yu was a little puzzled.
"Fish monsters are attracted by the smell of blood. Some people may not be eaten by fish monsters when they encounter them, but if they are people with wounds on their bodies, it will be miserable."
"Wiggins and others had their heads chopped off. At night, the strong smell of blood will attract many fish monsters."
Carter explained.
Cheng Yu felt that the habits of fish monsters were somewhat similar to those of sharks.
"Tonight, let's climb up the city wall together to see what the fish monsters look like. "
"Lord, please don't embarrass me. I'm just a first-level magician."
Carter frowned, looking embarrassed.
"Here you go!"
Cheng Yu took out a gold coin and threw it to Carter.
I just arrived at Dark Night City and am not familiar with it. If you don't understand something, you need to ask Carter, and you may need his help.
A gold coin is a huge sum of money in Dark Night City.
Carter immediately looked serious, straightened his chest, and said seriously: "No problem, Lord."
"Oh my god, my friend, you change your face too quickly."
Cheng Yu was shocked by Carter's change of face.
"It doesn't matter whether it's money or not. The main thing is to serve the Lord." Carter said with a smile.
"Come to Wiggins's mansion to wait for me in the evening."
"Yes, Lord." "
Cheng Yu took Mei Weier to continue strolling in the city and familiarize himself with the environment of Dark Night City.
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After dinner, it was getting dark.
Carter came to Cheng Yu's house early and waited.
Cheng Yu took Mei Weier out, and the three of them went to the city gate, climbed up the city wall, and waited for the fish monster to appear.
The gate of Dark Night City was closed, and the headless bodies of Wiggins and more than a dozen others were hung on wooden stakes in the open space, emitting a strong smell of blood.
"When does the fish monster usually appear?" Cheng Yu asked Carter.
"It will appear when it gets dark."
As soon as Carter finished speaking, a strange sound of cooing came from the darkness outside the city.