Chapter 33: Archery
Before Nie Li and the others came here, the various families had already explored the ruins of Gulan City, but unfortunately they didn't find much, and few people came to explore after that. Chen Linjian didn't know where to get a map of the ruins of Gulan City, so he decided to come in a group.
"Finally arrived at the ruins of Gulan City, we have two roads to choose from, this is the map!" Chen Linjian spread out the map and pointed to some of the routes on it.
The crowd gathered around the map and talked about it.
"The first line is from the west gate, follow the city wall, and you can quickly enter the main city, but what can we find along the way? Of course, we have to enter the private houses in the city to make some gains!" said one of Chen Linjian's subordinates.
"I agree with him!"
"Yes, we should investigate this residential area!" the crowd chimed in.
Chen Linjian was silent for a moment, looked up at Nie Li, and asked, "What do you think?"
Everyone was a little surprised, they didn't expect Chen Linjian to ask Nie Li's opinion at such a time.
Ye Ziyun's clear eyes looked at Nie Li, and Hu Yanlanruo also stared at Nie Li intently.
Now everyone is already very concerned about Nie Li's opinion.
Nie Li spread his hands and said: "If you came here just to search this private house, then it is a big mistake, the people who came before us must have searched these private houses, and we are afraid that we will find nothing if we search again, in general, who is the richest person in a city? Is it a commoner? Of course not, 90% of the wealth of a city is gathered in the hands of the big family!"
"This city is hundreds of miles in radius, there are so many houses, and many places have been destroyed, how do we know which one is where the family and the big family live?" Shen Yue retorted beside him, and he had to refute everything Nie Li said.
"You go on!" Chen Linjian looked at Nie Li meaningfully, he obviously agreed with Nie Li's inference.
"It's actually very simple to find the location where the big families live, where the density of buildings is the most sparse on this map, where is it! Ordinary big families will have their own independent courtyards!" Nie Li continued.
All eyes fell on the map.
"It's here!" Huyan Lanruo said in surprise.
"Yes, it should be here, a lot of the buildings here are huge!"
Chen Linjian frowned slightly and said: "This area has been searched, although some good things have been found, but there are not many! Some people have already dug this area three feet into the ground, and they haven't found a place like a secret room!"
"I'll just say, what you can think of, everyone else has already thought of! Do you think that so many families in the Radiant City are vegetarians!" Shen Yue snorted coldly.
Nie Li frowned, stared at Shen Yue and said, "Can you shut up first when I speak, since you are so smart, then let you speak?"
Shen Yue was about to refute, but when he saw Chen Linjian glaring at Shen Yue, he snorted coldly and said, "Shut up!"
Shen Yue opened his mouth, and finally closed his mouth depressedly, although he was a descendant of the Divine Family, he could not be compared with Chen Linjian in terms of status, and he didn't dare to refute Chen Linjian with ten dares.
"This area has been searched, and it is normal, let's continue to look at the map, this area inhabited by the big families is right on the central axis of Gulan City, because this is the most heavily guarded and safest place in Gulan City. Nie Li pointed to an area behind the clan and said, "This area should be the location of the City Lord's Mansion!"
Shen Yue nodded, Nie Li's inferences so far were correct, but even the City Lord's Mansion, those who came first had already searched, including underground, and still didn't find much.
"Let's continue to look at the map, it's only a few hundred meters away from the City Lord's Mansion, there are three areas, do you know what these three areas are for?" Nie Li looked at Chen Linjian and asked.
"Of these three areas, one is the school field, which is the place where the city lord trains his troops, and one has built a dense stone fortress, which is empty, all of them are built of black marble, and they can't even be chiseled! The other one doesn't know what it does, it's right next to the stone fortress, overgrown with weeds and trees!" Chen Lin Kendao had already learned the map of Gulan City well before he came here.
Hearing Chen Linjian's words, Nie Li smiled slightly and said, "It's about the same as my judgment!"
Chen Linjian's eyes lit up, and he said, "You mean, these three places are very suspicious? Could it be the stone fortress? But I have also searched there!"
"That stone fortress should be a refuge when disaster comes, when the demon beasts come, they will definitely enter this stone fortress to hide, maybe there will be some dark rooms to hide treasures, this open space near the stone fortress, it is obviously a trap area, it is used to resist the demon beasts, if you enter here to investigate, maybe you don't know how to die." And I think the most suspicious place should be this school field!" Nie Li said with a faint smile.
"Why is the most suspicious place in this school field?"
The school field is a muddy open space, a square for military training, what is there to be suspicious?
"The most inconspicuous place is often the safest place! What's more, this city lord actually arranged the school field on the central axis of the city, this should not be simple, there are probably very important things hidden under the school field!" Nie Li pointed to the map, "Let's go around here first, let's search first!"
"Well, it's decided!" Chen Linjian closed the map and said with a slight smile, since the direction was determined, they could save a lot of time and take a lot of detours.
Chen Linjian's subordinates looked at Nie Li's eyes with a trace of admiration, and at this time, no one looked down on Nie Li, and felt that it was a matter of course for Nie Li to choose a treasure first.
Hu Yanlan raised her head, her eyes flashed with brilliance, Nie Li's strict reasoning made her very admirable, she faintly felt that Nie Li's was not simple, otherwise how could a bronze star ignore her charm technique?
"The man I chose must not be simple!" Hu Yanlanruo thought proudly, although Nie Li completely ignored her, she still identified Nie Li.
If Nie Li knew Huyan Lanruo's thoughts, he would definitely cry bitterly, what kind of limelight would he be! I'm afraid I won't be able to shake it off after being stuck to this kraft candy!
Ye Ziyun pursed her lips and smiled, the moving style made Nie Li stunned, Ye Ziyun's smile had a unique and familiar taste.
Seeing Nie Li's soul-granting appearance, Hu Yanlanruo was going crazy, she was such a sexy and touching beautiful girl standing in front of Nie Li's eyes, Nie Li was like a blind eye, and there was a Ye Ziyun in her eyes, it was simply too hateful! Nie Li, I hate you!
Nie Li didn't bother to care what Hu Yanlan Ruo thought in his heart, he took out the crossbow arrow from his backpack, took out the Zilan herbal medicine, and smeared it on the arrow.
"Nie Li, what are you doing?" Huyan Lanruo and Ye Ziyun both looked at Nie Li suspiciously.
Nie Li shrugged his shoulders and said, "It's nothing!"
"Alright, let's go!" Chen Lin shouted, and the team slowly marched towards Gulan City, they walked along the edge of the city wall, choosing a relatively fast and safe path. If you follow the original path, I am afraid it will be very difficult, because some areas with complex terrain often hide a lot of monsters.
The roar of demon beasts came from inside the ruins of Gulan City, and in addition to the demon beasts, there were occasionally some people passing by in groups, all of them were from the City of Radiance, who came to explore the ruins of Gulan City.
Just as Chen Linjian, Nie Li and the others were going deep into Gulan City, a group of people appeared at the entrance of Gulan City.
The group was dressed in black robes, a total of fifteen people.
"Are you sure those boys are all children of the nobility?" asked a black-robed man in the lead, glancing at the few people next to him, he was tall, a head taller than the others.
"Yes, Deacon Yunhua!" replied a black-robed man next to him.
"Very good!" Deacon Yunhua showed a hideous smile and said, "Capture the three people with the most noble status, exchange them for ransom with those nobles, and kill all the others!"
The Dark Guild is a strange existence in the City of Radiance, often kidnapping the children of the family in exchange for ransom, they are like a group of leeches, living in the shadows of the City of Radiance, relying on various dark means to accumulate money and provide cultivation resources for guild members. Although several families in the Radiant City have joined forces to fight the Dark Guild on several occasions, whenever they want to eliminate the Dark Guild, the Dark Guild seems to have disappeared out of thin air.
It is said that the headquarters of the Dark Guild is hidden in a very secret place in the Holy Ancestor Mountain Range, and it is a very powerful and terrifying force, and even Lord Ye Mo cannot completely eradicate it.
Whoosh, these black-robed people swept towards the depths of the ancient city.
Inside the ruins of the city of Quran.
Nie Li and the others marched with great difficulty all the way, and from time to time there were huge giant apes with blue arms swept up from the ruins, these demon beasts were two meters tall, and their thick arms were like black iron pillars, but their movements were extremely flexible, and they were basically silver-level.
Six cang-armed giant apes flew through the ruins of the broken wall, trailing Nie Li and the others in the distance.
These blue-armed giant apes have very amazing wisdom, and when they saw that there were more than thirty people here, they didn't dare to come, but just waited for the opportunity from a distance.
"These cang-armed giant apes are really annoying!" Chen Linjian frowned and said, although these cang-armed giant apes did not rush up to attack, they also had no way to take the cang-armed giant apes, and as time went by, there would be more and more cang-armed giant apes, and once the number of blue-armed giant apes following them increased, they would attack them in groups.
At this moment, only a whoosh was heard, and a cold light swept through the shadows in the corner.
Chen Linjian and the others quickly saw that it was an arrow, and this arrow passed through the gap between the branches at a very tricky angle, and shot towards one of the cang-armed giant apes.
Burst!
The arrow struck the gibbon ape, and the gibbon fell from the high wall in the distance with a wail, smashing up the dust in the sky. The giant ape struggled on the ground, but could not get up.
Seeing this, Chen Linjian immediately swept up, swung his sword and slashed down, and with a poof, the blue-armed giant ape splattered blood and died on the ground.
Everyone looked back in amazement and found that Nie Li was leisurely walking out of the shadows.