After two dry coughs, the old prime minister directly skipped the words of the star mark and continued.

"The clock tower in Alparan is a symbol of Alparan to outsiders, just a famous landmark. But in reality, the bell tower is not as simple as it seems. ”

Saying this, the old prime minister's face had become serious, and with a wave of his hand, all the sounds around the star mark disappeared, and only the old prime minister's voice could be heard. Seeing that the old prime minister isolated the voices around him, and Starmark also put away his cold face, he knew that the main topic was reached, and this big event that was enough to make the royal family make a big move and use Abner and others as bargaining chips to blackmail him was about to be revealed.

The old prime minister's serious voice came out at the right time: "The bell tower is actually not just a landmark building, its real role is that the martyrs of the open land built it in order to suppress the monsters of war. ”

"The bell monster, the monster that looks like a clock, haven't you heard it's extinct?" Starmark said casually.

The old prime minister shook his head lightly, "It's just announced that it is extinct, in fact, the bell monster has always existed, this monster has a very special body structure, even if it is killed, it will be resurrected after a period of time, and until now there is no way to completely eradicate them, so the ancestors built the bell tower to suppress this clan in it." ”

Brands looked at the star marks and said, "The heart of the clock is the power core of the entire bell tower, and it is also the soul of the bell tower, and it is the hub for maintaining the energy of the bell tower to suppress the monsters. For hundreds of years, although there are occasionally some monsters in the clock tower, but under the dual control of the caretaker and the heart of the clock, those small fights are under control, but just three years ago, the caretaker of the clock tower suddenly reported that the heart of the clock was abnormal. ”

Hearing this, Xingji's eyes also changed slightly, he is a thief after all, he has studied many places, plus he is a disciple of Abner, through several of his senior brothers, especially Andre, he actually knew the true role of the bell tower for a long time, and knew that the heart of the clock is not only the power source of the bell tower, but also a treasure to guard the bell tower, otherwise with his temperament, he would have tried to start with the heart of the clock and watch. Although the old prime minister has not said anything abnormal in the heart of the clock, Starmark understands that this matter is definitely very tricky.

Immediately, Starmark didn't plan to continue pretending to be ignorant, and asked directly, "What's wrong?"

The old prime minister glanced left and right to make sure that everyone was normal, and no one could hear his conversation with Starmark, before he spoke: "The heart of the clock... Mutiny. ”

"Mutiny?" Starmark was stunned, he originally guessed that the heart of the clock should be damaged, or the energy was depleted or something like that, but he didn't expect it to be a mutiny, which made Starmark exclaim in his heart, "That thing still has a mind?"

The old prime minister seemed to see the thoughts in Starmark's heart, nodded and said, "As you think, the Heart of the Clock does have a simple mind, because it itself is an alchemy creature created by hundreds of alchemy masters back then. ”

"Isn't the thinking of an alchemical creature very simple, and it will never betray the orders of its master, why would it betray?" Starmark wondered, he still had some knowledge of alchemy creatures.

Common sense says it is. The heart of the clock only has simple thinking, and will only follow the orders left by the person who created it, but the simple thinking also gives the bell monsters suppressed in the bell tower an opportunity, if the speculation is correct, there should be a clock monster who does not know how to integrate into the heart of the clock, replacing the original thinking of the heart of the clock. ”

Hearing this, even Star Scar held his breath, although he didn't know the exact number of monsters suppressed in the middle building, but I am afraid that there were more than 10,000, if these bell monsters gushed out, the consequences were unimaginable.

Starmark narrowed his eyes: "Then what are you looking for me, I don't have the ability to help you suppress those bell monsters." His displeasure was evident in his voice, not only because Abner was under house arrest, but also because the royal family had known about the change in the clock tower three years ago, and why it had not been resolved to this day.

With the old prime minister's ability to observe words and colors, he naturally saw the reason for Xingji's displeasure at a glance, he did not have any dissatisfaction with this, but glanced at Xingji with appreciation, in his opinion, this son is not bad-hearted, if it is that kind of selfish person, he will not show this emotion.

Therefore, the old prime minister directly stated the reason: "We found Xiaoyou actually didn't want to make a big move, tens of thousands of monsters were suppressed in the bell tower, although we are absolutely sure that it will be suppressed again, but it will require a war, and the end of the war is likely to be the destruction of Elparan." When the time comes, millions of people in Alpalan will be displaced, and that's not what we want to see. So, in the past three years, we have only sent more people to seal the bell tower, and at the same time hired dozens of outstanding alchemists to recreate a new heart of clocks. We need the help of Xiaoyou to infiltrate and integrate this clock heart into the original one, so that the crisis of the clock tower can be lifted, and the millions of people in Alpalan can be saved from the invasion of war. ”

"It's that simple?" Starmark asked with a suspicious look as he looked at the old prime minister.

The old prime minister smiled: "Yes. ”

"Okay, I need to prepare, I'll be here with the falling star in three days, you have my money and the heart of the clock ready. ”

Hearing this, Starmark readily agreed. In fact, the reason why Starmark did not hesitate was not only because of the displacement of millions of people, but because he had figured out one thing, and the person who asked him to carry out this mission was none other than his teacher Abner. At first, he thought it was the falling star that was causing the trouble, but when the old prime minister said that he would pay for the falling star, the star mark knew that this matter probably had nothing to do with the falling star, and the other party was obviously showing favor to himself.

Although Xingji is still quite confident in his own strength, but for this kind of thing, there are more suitable candidates for him in China, he has not yet reached level ninety, and there are a lot of strong people above level ninety who are more suitable for this task than him, after all, whether he is famous or strong, he is not the top column in China, and all those who really choose to do it themselves should be the teacher Abner.

Moreover, Miller died to deal with Abner, and the new emperor Milley would never dare to repeat the mistakes of the past, so he was the only one who could put Abner under house arrest, not to mention Andre and Krell, two important members of the court. Although Starmark didn't know what the teacher's intentions were, since it was Abner's intention, he was willing to choose to comply, even if it was very dangerous.

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"Traces, back?" The landlady who was in a good mood greeted Starmark.

Starmark just nodded, and without answering, went straight back to his room, still thinking about the heart of the clock, and why his teacher Abner had chosen to go there.

Pushing open the door and entering the rented room, when Starmark entered his bedroom, he was stunned for five seconds before he burst out with a sad cry of grief, "Bastard, which bastard actually stole something to my house!"

Just as Starmark shouted, the falling star on his bed was gone, and the quilt was scattered on the ground, apparently someone had come here and taken it away.

"My gold coins, 200,000 gold coins, who is it! Don't let me know who it is, dare to steal my things, I will make you regret being born into this world!" Starmark screamed in pain, but he was still able to maintain some rationality, and first went to the window and door to check some of the precautions he usually left, after all, he was a thief himself, so he naturally did not believe in social stability, and he sneered at what the saint said about not closing the door at night. So don't look at the starmark room is not big, but there are a lot of small organs in it, especially among them there is a tracking spice called thyme, although it usually smells colorless and tasteless, but as long as the tracker takes special drugs, he will smell the smell of this spice very clearly. And the thyme is attached to the person's body, the smell can last for a week, and it is difficult to remove, after all, the star mark is not long after all, he is sure that he can find the other party before the fragrance is disposed of by the other party.

However, Starmark's face soon changed, because he found that the mechanisms he had set up had not been activated, whether it was the door of the house or the window, and the thyme had not been contaminated, which proved that the person who entered the house and burglarized did not trigger these mechanisms.