In fact, as early as the first few times he entered the royal city, Joey had already set his eyes on this villa located next to the garden.

According to the information he had gathered from other places, he knew that the villa was the residence of a high-ranking official in charge of finances in a nearby city, and that this official was also a high-ranking priest of a certain god, so there must have been a large number of items related to the royal city and even the city of the gods, and each of those items was a great fortune to take out.

It's just that although he had a lot of weird monster knights around the villa at that time, it was not difficult to see with his eyes that these knights were not easy to mess with, and he also found that the living dead were not good in front of these knights, as long as they got close to these knights, these knights would not hesitate to chop up and smash these living dead.

It was precisely because of the barrier of these knights that he had to give up this treasure house, but he was not willing to give up in his heart, so every time he entered the royal city, he would come to this villa to take a look and see if he could find an opportunity to sneak in.

"What's going on?" Joey, who didn't expect anything at all, was pleasantly surprised, most of the monster knights he saw as the biggest obstacle had fallen to the ground, and the ground was in shambles, with some huge stake-like arrows stuck to the ground, as if they had experienced a war.

Although there were still some monster knights roaming around the villa, the remoteness of their wandering was no longer an obstacle for him to enter the villa.

Seeing this, Joey didn't think much of it, and immediately ran towards the villa with his backpack on his back.

Joey was able to enter and exit the royal city so many times, not only relying on his luck, but also relying on his extraordinary observation, when choosing the route, he also carefully checked the surrounding situation through his own observation, avoiding the edge of those stake-like arrows, avoiding the place where the monster knight who was not completely dead fell, and leaning towards the villa along the inner edge of some houses and woods.

It took about ten minutes for him to come to this undefended villa without danger.

Just as he had predicted, there was indeed a huge treasure in this villa, and any item in the house, even the vase on the table, had a clear royal mark, and the gold coins he could exchange for were enough to fill a bathtub.

While Joey was dazzled, he also forced himself to calm down, and instead of rushing to pick up an item and stuff it into his backpack, he carefully searched for it in the villa.

Because he knew very well that this time it was just luck, there had been some battles here before, which caused those knights to suffer heavy casualties, and there were loopholes in the patrol area, but just like the living dead, those knights would probably recover soon after death, and then this place would be cordoned off again, so instead of some common items in the royal city that were slightly valuable, it was better to look carefully in this villa, maybe you can find some precious items that can be crazy outside, such as religious items related to the gods, etc.

Although Joey seems to be careless when searching the villa, the locations he searches are all carefully selected by him, because through his years of thief career, he can easily find some small places that are not easy for ordinary people to find, and those small places are likely to hide some precious treasures.

Just as Joey reached the third floor and began to search the fifth hidden little place he had chosen, a loud roar came from the window, startling him.

Worried about what was going to happen, Joey immediately ran to the window and looked outside, but what puzzled him was that there was no difference between the outside and when he came in.

Just when he was puzzled, the loud noise came again, this time he was sure that the sound was coming from the small garden not far away, and he couldn't help but look in the direction of the small garden.

In the lower part of this royal city, such a gorgeous little garden was built very abruptly, no matter how you look at it, it is eye-catching, in fact, when Joey first came to the royal city, he had already noticed this small garden.

It's just that he never had the idea of entering the little garden, because he thought that it would be dangerous enough to finish these ordinary living dead, and if there were any fierce monsters in the woods of the small garden, then he would undoubtedly kill himself by entering.

Hearing this loud noise coming from the small garden, although Joey didn't understand the reason for the loud noise, he guessed that there might have been some great changes in the small garden, so he was extremely glad that he had decided to speed up the search process while he had decided before, because he was worried that the change in the small garden would extend to this villa.

Returning to the hidden little place he had found before, Joey moved the table and chair next to him away, and tapped it carefully, and soon an unusual knocking sound came from a piece of the floor on the wooden planks on the ground and the wall.

Joey immediately took out his tools and dug open the floor, revealing a small hole hidden by the planks of wood, and inside the hole was a well-sized stone box.

Joey suppressed the joy in his heart, quickly took the stone box out of the hole, then carefully placed it on the table, carefully looked around the box, and after finding no precautions, he moved a wooden cabinet to himself, and then stuffed a small blade into the gap between the lid of the box, clamped the knife with pliers, and hid behind the cabinet, turning the pliers vigorously to let the knife warp the lid of the box.

There was no major movement from the lid of the box, but a very strange black gas overflowed from the box like a snake, hovering in the air, and then gradually dissipated.

Although the black gas dissipated, Joey still did not approach the box immediately, but waited patiently beside it.

Joey's idea was to wait a few hours before approaching the box, because whatever was spilling out of the box, a few hours should be enough time for it to dissipate completely.

But the louder and louder sound in the little garden also indicates that the source of the sound is approaching the edge of the small garden, and whatever the reason for the sound is or what is making the sound is not a good thing for Joey.

Urged by a loud voice, Joey finally gave up waiting, found a random cloth, covered his mouth and nose, and covered most of the exposed organs and skin of his body, and even his eyes were covered with a very precious silk, and his eyes could barely see through the light silk.

After taking some simple precautions, Joey carefully approached the stone box and stopped for a moment, as soon as there was an abnormality, then he would definitely turn around and leave immediately.

However, it was obvious that he was a little worried, the black qi that overflowed before may have completely dissipated, or maybe it didn't have any harmful effect on itself, all in all, he didn't feel any discomfort, nor did he feel any danger around him.

Joey, who was a little relieved, did not take off the protection on his body, but continued to wear this protection, walked to the stone box, and used a small blade to completely open the stone box that had opened a gap, and did a little bit I don't know if it was useful to cover it, in case something came out of the box again.

However, after the box was opened, nothing unusual happened around it, except for the louder and louder outside, and a loud noise getting closer.

Joey breathed a sigh of relief, and took off the silk from his face, and instead of throwing it on the ground, he stuffed it into a pair, although this kind of silk is a common item here, but when it is put outside, it is a treasure, and every noble lady of the kingdom will be willing to pay a lot of money to buy one.

After packing up the valuable things on his body, Joey paid attention to the stone box, and when he saw the contents of the stone box clearly, he felt a little disappointed, a little surprised, and a little expectant, and involuntarily rubbed the ring in his hand a few times.

I saw that the stone box did not contain the treasures that Joey was expecting, nor did it contain religious objects related to the status of another high-ranking priest of our lord, but a statue, and this statue can be found everywhere in the city, that is, a statue of a monster snake with large front teeth.

It's just that this statue is different from other statues in the city in that the shape of this statue is very similar to the ring in Joey's hand, both are in the shape of an Ouroboros, but the only difference is that the ring is a big snake with a snake tail in its mouth, while this statue has a snake tail wrapped around the snake's head.

And in the middle of the ring formed by the Ouroboros, a layer of black oil-like substance wandered back and forth, as if it contained some kind of life.

Seeing this, Joey instinctively felt that something was wrong with this statue, especially the black oily substance, according to his past practice, no matter how precious the thing was, as long as he felt that something was wrong, he immediately turned away, but this time he violated his own principles, because he found that his own heart had a very strong desire to hold this statue in his hands.

This strong desire from nowhere even outweighed his vigilance and self-control, causing him to reach out and grab the statue inside the box, and as his hand approached the statue of the strange snake, the black oil in the middle of the statue moved faster and faster.

Just as Joey's hand was about to touch the statue, a loud bang suddenly came from the wall behind him, and the entire stone wall collapsed, filling the room with a cloud of dust in an instant.

The loud bang was accompanied by a huge wave of air, which lifted Joey's whole body out of the way, and slammed it on the floor on the side, and the box on the table also fell to the side, and the statue inside the box rolled to the ground, but the black oil in the statue never got out of the ring-shaped blank.

Although Joey is a living dead, it doesn't mean that he won't feel pain, and the fall out made him unable to get up for a long time, and he lay on the ground for a while before he barely sat up, and after getting used to the pain in his body, he couldn't help but look at the collapsed wall.

I saw that the wall had been completely shattered, as if it had been smashed with a huge hammer, but fortunately, the structure of the house was very strong, and even if a cliff reached him, it would not affect the solidity of the whole house.

As Joey wondered what had hit the wall, he noticed that there seemed to be some fabric mixed in with the rubble, and with curiosity, he leaned up to take a look, only to see a humanoid monster with short hair trimmed like a church monk and wearing a strange costume lying on it.

The reason why he is said to be a humanoid monster is because the appearance of this kind of human monster is very similar to that of a human, but it only has a bunch of round ears, not a pair of pointed ears like them, and the skin of this monster is also very rough, even now it is much worse than Joey who is the living dead, this is not the weirdest, the most incredible thing for Joey is that this person has a lot of hair on his face and mouth, as if his hair has been transplanted up and down his face and lips.

Maybe it was because the humanoid monster looked like it was unconscious, which lowered Joey's vigilance, or maybe it was because Joey's own curiosity was too strong, all in all, after seeing this humanoid monster, he couldn't help but reach out and touch him.

It's just that before Joey touched this humanoid monster, the humanoid monster suddenly opened its eyes, revealing a pair of colored eyeballs that were completely different from Joey, staring at Joey, and at the same time, the monster's hand didn't know when, grabbed Joey's outstretched wrist, and the huge power in his hand made Joey unable to break free and escape.

"It's over, it's over this time!" a thought came to Joey's mind, and he was worried that if he was killed in the royal city, he didn't know if he could be resurrected.

However, what Joey feared did not happen, and instead of attacking him, the humanoid monster let go of his grip on him, sat up from the ground, patted the dust on his body as if nothing happened, walked out of the broken wall, looked in the direction of the small garden for a moment, and then turned his head to look at him like a man with intelligence.

It was then that Joey realized that the loud noise that kept coming from the small garden was now gone, or more accurately, the loud noise inside the small garden after the humanoid monster smashed the wall from the outside.

"Who are you?" asked Joey couldn't help but ask the humanoid monster.

At the same time, the humanoid monster also opened its mouth and made some noises to Joey.

Although Joey couldn't understand what the other person's voice was, he had a strange idea in his head about what the voice meant, and that meaning was the same as the words he asked, "Who are you?"

Joey didn't know why he could understand the meaning of the other party's voice, but he was sure that the other party was a sapient living being, not one of those living dead who only knew how to attack anything, which made him immediately excited, and he subconsciously thought that the humanoid creature in front of him might be a descendant of the legendary royal city gods.