"Before answering your question, little brother, do you remember, did you experience anything abnormal before you came here?" With a smile, Gu Yue turned his head to look at Zhu Bufan and asked, obviously he clearly knew that before Zhu Bufan and Huo Ling came in, they must have gone through some kind of abnormal event, otherwise it would be impossible to come to this place.

"Brother Gu Yue, let's call me Zhu Bufan. Hearing Gu Yue's title, Zhu Bufan frowned slightly, and then continued: "Indeed, as Brother Gu Yue said, this young lady and I were both stunned by a burst of red light, and after waking up and passing through a hall completely made of bluestone, we found that we had come here. ”

"Sure enough. After sighing, Gu Yue continued in a tone that had already been expected: "Actually, you are not the first batch of outsiders, many outsiders are like you, they are inexplicably 'sucked' in, and this kind of thing happens many times a year. ”

"Suck it in?" Noticing the strangeness of Gu Yue's words, Huo Ling's eyes froze, and he said in an indifferent voice, but in this voice, he couldn't hide a trace of nervousness, after all, this statement was still a little too terrifying, sucking it in, Huo Ling even doubted whether he was in the 'belly' of some fierce beast, you know, in the Gods and Demons Continent, although the belly of the demon beast can form its own world, it is not non-existent, the most famous is the ancient demon beast 'whale suck'.

Seeing that Huo Ling actually saw through the mystery in his words, Gu Yue couldn't help but pay more attention to this woman with a graceful figure, although at this glance, Gu Yue saw the beautiful curves of Huo Ling's pretty face from the slightly transparent veil and scarf, and her heart was also a little shocked.

"Ahem. ”

After a slight cough attracted Gu Yue's attention, Gu Yue realized that she had lost her temper just now, and with a smile, Gu Yue continued: "That's right, it's 'sucking' in, maybe you are a little unbelievable, the place you are in is actually a space inside a giant tower, and this is the first layer of the giant tower. ”

"Giant Tower, you say, we are in a tower?" Seeing this huge Black Yan City, as well as the vast plain before entering the city just now, Zhu Bufan and Huo Ling looked at each other in astonishment, let alone believe what Gu Yue said at this time.

"This is indeed true, the space in this tower is huge and amazing, in fact, in this first layer, in addition to Heiyan City, there are two cities of equal strength, and the city lords of the three cities jointly manage the vast land of this first layer of the tower. ”

Seeing that Gu Yue didn't look like he was lying, and in fact Gu Yue had no reason to lie, Zhu Bufan gasped again, he was able to build three huge cities in it for people to live in, if what Gu Yue said was true, then this giant tower must have been heavily compressed into a huge space, thinking of this, Zhu Bufan said carefully: "Brother Gu Yue, do you know what the name of this tower is, and how many floors it has?"

"The name of this step is not a secret to those of us who live in the giant tower, almost everyone knows it, this place is called the 'Demon Burning Demon Refining Tower', as for how many floors the tower has, I can't answer you, because I don't know it myself, this tower is too huge, some people once speculated that this tower is straight to the heart of the earth, but no one knows whether it is true or false, after all, the gods who can make such things, how can we guess?"

"Mr. Gu Yue, did you just say that many people are sucked into this Demon Burning Demon Refining Tower every year?"

"What else can I do?" With a wry smile, Gu Yue continued: "This place has its own world, and no one knows how to leave, so after most outsiders come in, they either rely on their own strength to go to the next layer to find a way to leave, or find some forces in the tower to settle down and live here, after all, this is also a world of its own, and it is not difficult to survive." ”

"In this way, it seems that Mr. Gu Yue is also a little involved with the outside world, right?" After listening to Gu Yue's words, Huo Ling suddenly said.

"Indeed, what this young lady said is not wrong, Gu Yue's ancestor was indeed sucked in from the outside world, and after finding a way to leave, the ancestor established a foundation here. ”

For Huo Ling to be able to deduce from a few sentences that his life experience is related to outsiders, Gu Yue couldn't help but feel a pang in his heart, he actually didn't see through Huo Ling until now, because no matter how he felt, Huo Ling's cultivation seemed to be hovering between the body and the sky, but Gu Yue always felt that Huo Ling was not so simple.

"I care more about that woman than the one who used the poisoned fire. ”

Recalling the words of the woman in the inn, Gu Yue finally understood that the woman had already seen Huo Ling's extraordinary, and she had only really faced Huo Ling until now, and the gap could be imagined. But thinking of the woman's identity, Gu Yue was relieved, of course, a trace of jealousy was inevitable, after all, the relationship between the two was not very harmonious.

"By the way, Brother Gu Yue, we killed the commander of the city guard army on the street just now, but there doesn't seem to be any unexpected trouble? What is going on?" Zhu Bufan, who had recovered a little from the shock of the blow in the place where he was, asked another question, the authenticity of the Demon Burning Demon Refining Tower needs to be investigated, but this is a more urgent question, in Heiyan City, he provoked the military of Heiyan City, Zhu Bufan needs to make an assessment of the seriousness of this matter.

"Actually, it's not a big deal. ”

Compared with Zhu Bufan's concern, Gu Yue said very easily: "The so-called city guards of Heiyan City are actually an order issued by the city lord of Heiyan, as long as their own cultivation has reached the five heavens of quenching, and there are more than ten subordinates who have reached the realm of quenching, they can apply to the city lord of Heiyan to become the city guard of Heiyan, and there are twelve places to become the commander of the city guard, and there are three commanders at each city gate. ”

"After applying to become a city guard, then they have to help the city lord of Heiyan collect taxes from entering the city at the four city gates, and then pay them every month, and these city guards are not fixed, as long as they have the strength, knock them down and have enough qualifications, they will immediately be able to become the new city guard commander, so the battle for the commander of the city guard army is staged every day, of course, these so-called city guards are responsible for trivial affairs such as collecting gate taxes, and it is clear that it is just a miscellaneous work in Heiyan City with an official identity. ”

After listening to Gu Yue's narration, Zhu Bufan and Huo Ling finally understood what this so-called Black Yan City Guards was.

To put it bluntly, these so-called city guards are some civilian thugs recruited by the official of this Heiyan City, and they are deformed things with a semi-official skin, which is quite similar to some public security joint defense or something, they hang official clothes, and do official things, but they do not completely belong to official people.

When Gu Yue said the nature of these city guards, Zhu Bufan also understood the intention of this city lord of Heiyan City, he directly used this semi-official identity to let those cultivators who had nothing to do gather and sharpen their heads to be a leader, after all, no matter where or what dynasty, the official identity is very tempting, especially in these places where the city is dominant.

And set up twelve places, which is more tolerant of competing for places with each other, and gives these guys an open excuse to compete, constantly weakening and squeezing each other, so that these unstable factors are constantly being consumed by themselves, and this city lord can also collect taxes safely, without having to trouble his own people, as for the behavior of these guys deliberately pumping heavy taxes, the city lord of Heiyan is even more blind, mainly because all the city residents know what kind of nature these city guards are

Of course, if something really big happens, for example, when there is too much fishing and causing a big problem, the city lord can stand up and simply say: "This is their behavior, this city lord doesn't know, and now that he knows, he will punish them." "And then destroy all these angry guys.

Of course, since they are dead, then the things they loot will naturally go into the pockets of his city lord, so that when they come and go, it is equivalent to his city lord raising a pig, and letting the pig go around looking for something to eat, and when he gets fat, the city lord will slaughter the pig with a knife, and he does not have to take responsibility, because the city lord's measures can indeed restrain these guys who are easy to cause trouble.

"This city lord is not simple. After quickly analyzing and filtering it, Zhu Bufan whispered with an awe-inspiring expression, seeing that Zhu Bufan had completely understood the purpose of the Black Yan City Lord in just a short period of time, Gu Yue's heart was shocked again.

"This man and woman don't seem to be fuel-efficient lamps. ”

"Actually, in Heiyan City, the real army is the Heiyan Army under the command of the Lord of Heiyan City, each of them is a carefully selected elite soldier, and their combat effectiveness is not comparable to those rabble. As she spoke, Gu Yue suddenly stopped, "By the way, look at me, I've been talking, and I forgot to take Zhu Bufan to exchange money, by the way, what are you going to use to exchange money?"

"Well~~ I plan to sell some jade talismans for some money. After thinking for a while, Zhu Bufan turned over his hand and turned out five crystalline flame talismans, and said, "The power of these flame talismans is not bad, so I want to see if they can accept it." ”

"Collect! Of course accept!" Seeing the jade talisman in Zhu Bufan's hand, Gu Yue's eyes lit up for a while, although the fire talisman was not a high-grade jade talisman, on the contrary, it only belonged to a relatively low-level jade talisman level, but the jade talisman was scarce, and the refiner was even rarer, even a low-grade jade talisman was the object of everyone's snapping, and now Zhu Bufan just took out five jade talismans with a flip of his hand, how could this make Gu Yue not feel happy?

"Hehe, I'm a little rude, but Zhu Bufan, you can rest assured, here, the jade talisman is definitely a tight thing, after all, although it is big here, it is not a simple matter to find the materials for refining the jade talisman, your five flame talismans can be exchanged for quite a lot of money, but it is a bit of a waste to exchange them in the money bank, it just so happens that Lan Yuexuan will hold an auction meeting in the next few days, and these five jade talismans should be qualified to enter the auction, because it is Lan Yuexuan, and he has not sold jade talismans for a long time. ”

"That's it~~It's okay~~~" Seeing Gu Yue's slightly excited look, and even said that these five jade talismans had been able to enter the auction house for auction, Zhu Bufan had a new understanding of the jade talisman stock in his hand, and Huo Ling, who had scraped away a lot of jade talismans from Zhu Bufan before, had actually shown a smug smile directly under the cover of the veil.