Chapter 5: The Lamb to the Slaughter
In the City Lord's Mansion of White Light City, a man wearing a purple crown and dressed in white was sitting on the main seat in the center of the hall with his eyes closed at this time, the man was wearing black hair behind him, and his face looked impeccable, but if you look closely at the corner of the right eye, you can still see that there is an imperceptible knife-like scar on it.
"City Lord", with a hurried voice sounding, a man in black walked in briskly from outside the hall at this time.
"What's the matter?", the white-robed man sitting on the main seat opened his eyes at this time and looked at the subordinates in front of him.
"The thirty boys and men of the fourteenth year old you asked for have all been gathered," the man below replied respectfully.
"Oh, it's pretty fast this time, so let's do it immediately as planned", a faint smile appeared on the corner of the white-robed man's mouth.
"Yes, by the way, city lord, there is still something to report" The man looked up at the city lord sitting in front of him, "The person called Xiong Lei is staying in the waiting room at this time, saying that he wants to see you, you see?"
"Time doesn't allow us to wait any longer, so it's impossible for me to give him the person he wants to exchange, so let's go and get him 10,000 star coins, let him go"
"This..."
"What's wrong" The man who was called the city lord seemed to be a little dissatisfied at this time, staring at the subordinates in front of him and said.
"City Lord, aren't you afraid that he will reveal our plans in a hurry?"
"Hehe, what if it is leaked, I didn't blatantly do this even if I gave them face, besides, since ten years ago, this world is no longer the old guys of the coalition government" Speaking of this, the white-robed man seemed to be a little impatient, and waved his hand, "Go down, time is running out, start the plan as soon as you come back."
"Yes!" Hearing this, the Kuroko man quickly and respectfully exited the hall.
"There are still three years to go at most", looking at the empty hall, the white-robed man slowly got up and walked inside, leaving only a voice floating over the hall.
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Lin Chen and Su Ying were escorted by several strong men to a room that looked relatively spacious, the room was very spacious, and nothing was placed, and when Lin Chen came in, there were more than twenty teenagers and girls about the same age as him standing in rows.
There were several burly men with weapons in their hands, as well as escorting Lin Chen, and Lin Chen could clearly see that the children standing in the middle were like a group of little sheep surrounded by evil tigers, and their eyes were full of sluggishness and despair.
"Go over and stand up" When Lin Chen and the others entered the room, both of them were slapped hard from behind, and one stumbled into the crowd.
Lin Chen and Su Ying found a corner and stood up, the two glanced at each other, and each handed each other a comforting look.
Taking a breath of cold air, Lin Chen forced himself to calm down in his mind, observed the surroundings, and prepared to deal with emergencies at any time, of course he also knew that it was almost impossible to escape in this situation.
"It seems that you can only take one step at a time," Lin Chen thought silently in his heart.
At this time, a man dressed in black walked in from the door, standing in front of Lin Chen and them, and the strong men with weapons around them all quickly moved behind him after seeing this man come in.
The man glanced around Lin Chen and them with his gaze, and then said, "Congratulations, you are all very lucky to be able to do something that all Lingyang Star people, including me, are looking forward to, and that is to enter the Nine Heavenly City!"
As soon as the man finished speaking, there was a burst of surprised voices from the crowd below, and at this moment, Lin Chen saw a tall bald boy directly in front of him suddenly said loudly, "You want to go so much, why don't you go?"
After hearing this, a strong man behind the man immediately picked up the weapon in his hand and aimed it at the person who had just spoken, the strong man was holding a special gun-type weapon made of black steel by Lingyang Xing, Lin Chen believed that if that thing was fired at the bald head in front of him, he was afraid that even he behind him would be finished together, so Lin Chen hurriedly moved to the side.
"Huh?" the man half-turned around, pressed the muzzle of his gun down with his hand, and then turned to look at the person who spoke before, and smiled, "Of course I want to go, but I can't help it, forget it, it's all this time, and it's okay to tell you."
"Do you know where the creatures came from?" the man looked at the children in front of him.
When he heard the words of the man in black, Lin Chen was also shocked in his heart, because this was also a question he wanted to know, for ordinary people on the ground, everyone only knew that the spiritual object was found in Baiguang City, but because Baiguang City was very mysterious and the quota for entering the city was very strict, so for ordinary people, few people might know this detail.
"At the bottom of the light curtain of the Nine Heavenly City, that is, above the center of the White Light City, a small number of spiritual objects will actually erupt from the light curtain within a certain time every three years, and all the spiritual objects circulating on the Lingyang Star also come in this way."
"And our White Light City Lord, that is, the Baiheng people, ten years ago, by chance, found that there was such a loophole in the protective shield around the Nine Heavenly City, when the spirit object was sprayed, with the help of some means, people of your age could be teleported in a very short period of time, so I said you are all lucky."
"Hiss..." The room suddenly fell into an eerie quiet atmosphere, "What's inside?" Lin Chen heard someone around him suddenly ask such a sentence.
"I don't know about this, I'm afraid that the entire Lingyang Star, including the city lord, can't answer you, so this is exactly where we need you" The man showed an extremely strange smile on his face, and took out a two-centimeter-sized box from the storage ring in his hand.
The man then carefully took out a blood-red stone pillar-shaped object from the box, and Lin Chen found that after the man took out this thing, the strong man standing behind him also shook his hand holding the weapon slightly.
"Come, everyone will drop a drop of blood on it, don't worry, it doesn't hurt at all" The man glanced at the subordinates beside him, turned his head to Lin Chen and said.
There was a clear commotion in the crowd, but it quickly fell silent under the threat of the strong man with the gun, and the men in black walked up to everyone one by one, and everyone took turns to break their fingers and drip a drop of blood on it.
Looking at the man who walked in front of Su Ying on the side, Lin Chen gritted his teeth in pain, bit a small cut on his index finger, and dripped a drop of dark red blood on the stone pillar held by the man, Lin Chen clearly saw that when his blood dripped on the surface of the stone pillar, it was quickly absorbed, and the stone pillar faintly emitted a red light.
At this time, Lin Chen suddenly felt that the pendant on his chest, which was next to him, suddenly emitted a warm heat that made him feel warm, and it quickly returned to normal.
"All right," the man stood back on his feet as he walked up one by one, "now you'd better listen to everything I say, or you'll be in for it."
"Everyone, get down on your knees!" the man said with a smile on his lips as he looked at everyone in front of him.
Lin Chen suddenly found that the faces of everyone around him, including Su Ying, suddenly became extremely ugly, as if they had suffered some great pain, although Lin Chen didn't know why he was fine, after thinking for a second, he also pretended to be uncomfortable.
"You.... You've just... Done.. What?" A short-haired young man standing in front of the right side of the crowd stared at the man in black in front of him and said intermittently, only to see him bent over, covering his chest with his hands, and his voice sounded like he had been tortured inhumanely.
"Didn't you hear what I said, you better be obedient, or I'll see you can hold on for a few seconds," the man snorted coldly, and then laughed.
"Poof" Lin Chen suddenly saw the bald young man in front of him suddenly knelt on the ground, and after holding his chest and exhaling a few long breaths, the painful look on his face disappeared immediately.
"Poof... After a while, there were probably more than half of the people kneeling at the scene, and a strange color flashed on Lin Chen's face, and he immediately pretended to kneel to the ground.
"I don't know why I'm okay, but I hope he didn't notice my abnormality" Lin Chen pretended to look like he was going to live after the catastrophe on the ground, and glanced at the man in black standing in front of him and several people behind him out of the corner of his eye, and after finding that they didn't seem to notice him, a hanging heart also relaxed.
"Very well, get up," the man glanced at the young men and women who were kneeling on the ground in front of him, and their eyes were full of frightened expressions, and their faces showed a look of satisfaction.
"This is a very special control system spirit creature, everyone present had better listen to me, I don't think there should be any of you who want to feel the pain just now, hahaha" The man said with a laugh.
Lin Chen saw that except for a few people around him who were as strong as Su Ying, most of them had a color called fear in their eyes, and he even heard the unique sound of children crying because of fear coming from many places.
"Take them back, and gather there tomorrow" The man in black put away the blood-colored stone pillar he was holding in his hand, and ordered his subordinates around him, leaving the figures of thirty young men and women present who looked like lambs to be slaughtered, and turned around and left the room.