Mr. Smith jumped to the second floor of the Gray Tower, casually looked at the silent figures inside, and replied, "Almost?" ”

"Almost?" The red-robed bald head frowned with some dissatisfaction: "Neither my colleagues nor I like such an inaccurate statement. ”

Mr. Smith shrugged his shoulders very anthropomorphically: "Whether or not it will be the so-called agreed time depends on whether he is willing to ......"

He looked at Xu Nan, who looked confused, and then, he felt that he was surrounded by a group of red-robed bald heads!

"Is that him?" The man at the head let out a low, excited, puzzled voice.

"You are the Child of Destiny who is fighting on the front lines of the rebellion against the Gods of Heaven?" The voice of another red-robed man became even lower, and the atmosphere of the scene became more and more indescribable.

"Please make up your mind, hiring us will be the right choice for your life!"

More and more red-robed shadows surrounded them.

Xu Nan stretched out an index finger from this group of bald heads with difficulty:

"Wait......"

"Let me take a look at the situation."

He doesn't like this group of bald guys very much, but he always feels that the words and deeds of these people and the aura on their bodies are weird.

Coupled with the strange gray towers they live in, they have a sense of incompatibility with the entire holy city of Ansu.

This made Xu Nan have a kind of thought, "These guys shouldn't be the nails of the holy city of Ansu, and the purpose of Hu Smith stuffing them into himself is not to complete the task that Luo Mang quietly hinted at" and so on.

"Got the situation?" The red-robed elder brother in the lead was stunned for a moment, and then he straightened his robe and looked at Xu Nan seriously and seriously: "We are the administrators of the Gray Tower. ”

"Of course, the world of the Gray Tower has been eaten away from now."

"And we're just a bunch of lost dogs who want to take revenge on the gods of the Purs."

……

Grey Tower Administrators, a special and historic group.

The origins of these people are too complex to be examined, but what they all have in common is that they have been trained by the Grey Tower and have some unbreakable beliefs and consensus.

They are the remnants of the world of the Grey Tower.

The Gray Tower World, on the other hand, is the seventeenth world that has been annexed by the Pur World on record.

Like Earth and Affaria, the world of the Grey Tower was once a universe with its own brilliant civilization.

In the original intersection with the general world, the world of the Gray Tower was known for producing efficient and honest Gray Tower administrators. At that time, many city-states were proud to have an Ashtower administrator.

At their peak, the Greytower Administrators had a very high vision for selecting employers, and some mixed city-states or hopeless kingdoms would not contribute their outstanding abilities.

As a result, having several Grey Tower Administrators often becomes a symbol of a power or city's potential.

The Greytower Administrators have undergone special training, and unlike ordinary officials, they have very efficient administrative handling skills, and they may not be the best strategists, but they must be the best executors.

They were the lord's best assistants, and of course, they demanded a lot of money.

Corruption scandals are rare for the Grey Tower administrators, and occasionally, they are dealt with by the Grey Tower organization in some way and secretly. Most people admire this organization, but there are also many who think that this organization uses some kind of anti-human magic to control these so-called administrators.

Regardless of the truth, there is no Grey Tower administrator in sight in the world now.

Because their world has been annexed by the Universal World, leaving no trace - the only physical trace is the little desert area in the middle of the southern continent of the Universal World.

When it comes to the Southern Continent, it has to be mentioned that in the history of the development of the universal world, there was originally only a distinction between the New World and the Old World.

The New World is now the Northern Continent; The Old World refers to the Western continent today, that is, the old world controlled by the goddess of magic. At that time, the so-called Southern Continent was just a chain of islands hanging below the Northern Continent.

But this island chain, which is regarded as a fixed anchor by the Pur gods, is constantly being used to annex other worlds.

Gradually, the island chain that annexed countless worlds became bigger and bigger, and the island chain itself became traceless, and it is rumored that the island chain of the southern continent was a mysterious area corresponding to the Eden island chain built by the gods on the main material world!

But this statement is just speculation after all.

Today's Southern Continent seems to be thriving, but behind its prosperity, there is the silence and annihilation of many worlds - not every race can remember the blood feud of their ancestors, and too many things have been drowned in the dust of history.

The gods who can resist the invasion of time have become one of the few commentators of history.

Of course, not all beings will easily forget these blood feuds.

After the Gray Tower World was merged with the Pur World, the gods led by Ferlando easily made a judgment: they thought that there should be no such anti-human thing as the Gray Tower Administrator in this world, and the Gray Tower Organization should not exist!

As a result, the Gray Tower organization disappeared, and only a few remnants of the administrators endured the humiliation and wanted revenge.

But they weren't Arcane Empires after all.

In the final analysis, the administrators of the Gray Tower are just some civil officials with extraordinary energy and persistent beliefs.

They don't have the ability to plot for thousands of years like the Arcane Empire, and escape into the turbulence of time to compete with the gods in a race that transcends time. Most of the Greytower administrators have been eliminated.

And these people in the holy city of Romans are some opportunities that Romans encountered by chance when he was young.

According to Mr. Smith's recollection, at that time, Romans had just opened up the half-plane, and he was in high spirits shuttling back and forth between the planes, adding bricks and tiles to his own world—at that time, he wanted to grab something he saw and stuff it back into the half-plane.

It's not so much about filling the half-plane with life, it's about adding more snack reserves to your back kitchen. Xu Nan secretly made up in his heart that Luo Mang was running around the universe at that time, indiscriminately stuffing people into the half-plane, and as a result, he accidentally stuffed in the embarrassing experience of a group of bald men.

After all, these bald heads have serious expressions, wearing red robes, they are not serious bald heads at first glance, and the taste must be average......

"At that time, these members of the Grey Tower were completing a secret transformation of themselves, they were being hunted by the bounty hunters of the Celestial Realm, and Mr. Romans saw it and easily stuffed this group of people in."

Mr. Smith explained, "He took the bounty hunters to feed the dragons, but these people, the dragons didn't eat, so they were kept. ”

Later, Romans learned the story of these sufferers, and sighed, but did not know what to do with them.

He made a promise to them that he would find a suitable employer for them.

Before that, they lived in the holy city of Ansu and recuperated.

Obviously, Xu Nan was the right employer he had chosen for these Gray Tower administrators.

In all fairness, the ability of the Grey Tower Administrator is well known, and each of these people, singled out, can govern a city or even a city-state!

Aside from the tension with the gods of the Celestial Realm, these Grey Tower Administrators are an immeasurable asset.

But Xu Nan quickly figured out the important reason why Romang wanted to keep them for himself!

"It seems that the property under Mr. Romang's own name is not very clean!"

As we all know, the Gray Tower administrators can't put sand in their eyes, and in the environment they work in, there must be no corruption, otherwise the real-name report letters will annoy the lord to the point of headache.

Xu Nan complained secretly, but he also fell into long-term consideration.

After Mr. Smith's explanation and the statement of the leader of the Gray Tower, he roughly understood the condition of these red-clothed hunk men in front of him-

They are indeed remnants of the Grey Tower Order, but unlike the previous Grey Tower administrators, they are no longer human.

When Romans rescued them from the bounty hunters of the Celestial Kingdom, they had begged a lich to intervene and transform them into half-undead beings, and the price they paid was that their souls were permanently imprisoned in their bodies, and in order to resist the decay of their bodies, they had been permanently bound by the lich's powerful and eerie circle.

Theoretically, as long as the circle doesn't collapse, they can live forever; Of course, the needs and enjoyment of normal people, they will naturally never be able to touch.

They don't need to eat, they don't need to excrete, and their only need for substances is a lot of ice and deodorant. Ice cubes are used to keep the circle in place and deodorant is used to mask the slight smell of decay.

Of course, these are all plus points for the city lord of Xu, who doesn't like free labor? In particular, they don't need a salary, and the only requirement is that their employer must be someone from a hostile camp to the Celestial Divine Kingdom.

Although Xu Nan is a person from Paradise Lost, he is also an earthling, coupled with the identity of the Azure Dream Realm, it is basically impossible to change the situation of hostility with the gods, in a sense, he is indeed the best employer candidate for this group of people.

And Roman, his identity is the guardian of Paradise Lost, Paradise Lost's position is somewhat ambiguous, and before the hole cards are completely opened, they are all in an absolutely neutral state, which is also an important reason why they were condemned by the Arcane Empire and Stephensand before.

As the guardian of Paradise Lost, he really doesn't use these people directly.

From the above point of view, these gray tower administrators are very good human resources, and Xu Nan should accept them directly without saying a word.

But the problem is that the city lord himself is not very clean.

He was still thinking about how to deduct the profits of the mine.

If a large number of Gray Tower administrators are really used, the efficiency will be high, and it will be a long-term benefit for the Anonymous City, but for the city lord himself, it will be a bit of a headache.

"But these are all side matters, and it's a big deal that they don't interfere in the affairs of the mine."

"Besides, when the development lord of the anonymous city grows, it makes sense for me, the city lord, and it is short-sighted to be obsessed with petty profits."

Xu Nan made up his mind, but he still didn't make a decision directly, but first selected ten Gray Tower administrators to take away for trial.

The trial is good, take some more people.

Anonymous City is indeed very short of administrative talents now, and most of the current affairs are being handled by flowing fire, which makes the silver-haired little Lori angry every day, and the posture of the city lord is less, but the poisonous tongue module has been unlocked from time to time, which makes Xu Nan painful.

Among those professionals who follow Xu Nan, there are few suitable talents, everyone is a superpowered professional, who can rest assured to take care of tedious government affairs for you?

can follow you, it is already for the sake of your good background and strong ability to draw cakes.

Theoretically, these Grey Tower Administrators could free the Flames and put the Anonymous City into normal operation more quickly.

As for the actual effect, we can only wait and see.

……

In addition to the ten Gray Tower macho men, Xu Nan also took four Ekano tin dragons with him when he left Romang's back garden.

He made the following contracts with these tin dragons:

The first is to work for Xu Nan for free for a thousand years, digesting heavy metal mines such as gold and silver on call, without food and accommodation.

Second, after a thousand years, Xu Nan promised them freedom.

Third, Xu Nan will protect them from being eaten.

Well, that's all, gone. The third one was added at the strong request of the tin dragons, which shows that this group of Econno tin dragons has had enough of trembling in the shadow of the Great Demon King of Romans.

After Xu Nan proposed to pick some dragons to take away and promised not to eat them, let alone the Ekno Tin Dragon, a large number of dragons surrounded him and wanted to throw themselves into his arms, and the sharp-eyed Mr. Smith also grabbed out a transformation dragon made up as an Ekano Tin Dragon.

Faced with the dragons' eyes for help, Xu Nan could only sigh helplessly.

You can't empty the teacher's snack library no matter what you say, right?

In the end, he only took the four honest Ekano Dragons with him, and then returned to Anonymous City without any problems.

……

Two weeks later.

The emergence of Ekano Tin Long directly solved the problem of metal ore refining in Anonymous City.

Of course, Xu Nan concealed the existence of these four dragons from the outside world, after all, most of the area of the Anonymous City was still an unlocked mysterious area for the residents, and Xu Nan, as the city lord, could naturally use the privileges to create a mysterious and powerful effect.

Even the professionals on the earth, in the face of Huang Chengcheng's gold nuggets, are amazed, and from time to time they gnaw twice with their teeth, they can't help but admire Xu Nan's methods.

This gold and silver can be exchanged for food and supplies in any corner of the world. But Xu Nan was still not satisfied with this, after all, the appearance of large-scale gold and silver on the market would have a huge impact on any city-state in the Northern Continent, and he hoped to obtain some more secret means.

"Now it's icy and snowy outside, and the worst winter has come, but the rations of the Anonymous City are stretched."

"These ice people have such a big appetite, and hybrid rice can't meet their needs."

In the office of the city lord's hall, Xu Nan couldn't help but rub his temples.

An Ash Tower administrator is meticulously debriefing:

"According to current estimates, our food reserves will be depleted in three weeks at most."

"This is still the most basic wheat and rice, and the lack of fruits, vegetables, and meat products will seriously affect the physical fitness and fertility of residents......

"According to the situation in the city, our suggestion is to buy food from outside."

Xu Nan closed his eyes, he was not surprised by this conclusion, although the dwarf demons were capable, but in order to save energy, Liuhuo closed half of the plantation, and the harvest of hybrid rice did not correspond to the huge number of ice plains at all.

The only way to make up for this huge food shortfall is to buy out.

But where to purchase this batch of grain to make up for the food shortage in the Upper Anonymous City is a question worth considering.

Paradise Lost was directly passed by Xu Nan, not that the things that the warlocks ate in the ice field people can't eat, but the food eaten by the Warlocks Ron is high-end goods, and the cost is too high for Xu Nan. The same goes for Stephen Sand.

The remaining paths seem to have to be chosen only from the forces of the Northern Continent.

Xu Nan thought about it for a while, and finally set his goal at Bantuo Port.

"It seems that it is necessary to contact that Dragon Vein City Lord again."

He thought about it, took up his pen and wrote a letter, and asked him to hurry to the port of Bantuo.

It's just an attempt, it really doesn't work, and he has some options.

The food problem is only one of the many problems in the grass period of the anonymous city.

For Xu Nan, the most serious problem at the moment is the energy problem.

As time passes, the number of danger indicators in the energy furnace gets higher and higher.

The strange things that Xu Nan had gotten from the low-level alchemy center had basically been squeezed dry.

Liuhuo reminds Xu Nan every day that if this continues, the energy will be exhausted within a week.

Although Xu Nan has revised the energy consumption setting from the initial air-conditioning system to the second-level ventilation system, maintaining the operation of the city and heating the more than 30,000 people is a large amount of consumption every day.

If the energy problem cannot be fundamentally solved, sooner or later the Anonymous City will go out.

In this regard, Flowfire provides three options.

First, hunting higher creatures, the heart or other parts of each higher creature can contribute to the maintenance of the status quo of the energy furnace. For example, a high-level Great Demon Heart can basically last for three months.

Second, ask Stephen Sand for help. Stephen Sand's Sky City technology is inherited from the Arcane Empire, and it is still blue. Their alchemy has found a new path of development after breaking away from the Arcane Empire, and has opened up one peak after another.

Third, the dark side of the universe energy draws from the magic circle.

Among them, Liuhuo strongly recommends the second plan, considering the ambiguous relationship between Ansuli and Romang, it is not impossible for Anonymous City to get Stephen Sand's energy technology, it depends on how much Xu Nan has to pay.

As for option one, energy shortages are an option.

The third option is the next choice that Liuhuo strongly opposes.

However, from the point of view of the difficulty of implementation, the third option is the easiest.

Because this [Dark Side Universe Energy Absorption Circle] is the magic circle that comes with the cloud climbing ship.

The Arcane Empire in history also used this magic circle to maintain a huge energy consumption.

"Can you tell me why you don't recommend this plan?" Xu Nan couldn't help but ask.

"Because this magic circle is a curse."

Flowing Fire warned earnestly: "The discovery of this magic circle has brought the Arcane Empire to its peak. ”

"But it also pushed the empire into the abyss from which it will never recover."

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