Chapter 546 - Silencing (2/2)
The City Lord’s expression instantly fell, a guard by his side shouted directly. “All of you are so unappreciative of favors! It’s really too…”
Before he could finish, the City Lord stopped him with a raised hand, his eyes dark as he said with a small smile. “Alright, since you are unwilling to stay behind, then I shall not force you against your will, take your leave.”
“Thank you City Lord!” Lonemoon shot a look towards Chef, then turned and walked outwards. But the City Lord and his guard behind them did not follow, as if really intending on watching them leave.
Yet they’d barely taken a few steps out when they heard a creak, the ground beneath their feet weighed down, the initially flat ground had disappeared. All four of them fell down together, they could faintly catch the curses of a certain City Lord from the top.
“Unappreciative fools, all of you deserve to become the food for the monsters!”
The most alarmed person amongst the four of them was Fang Fang, she screamed out loud directly. Whereas Lonemoon and Yi Qing were prepared long beforehand, Chef reached out and pulled Shen Ying into his arms and Lonemoon lifted the terrified Fang Fang.
They landed within seconds, the sound of rushing water sounded by their ears.
Lonemoon brought out a pearl and shook it, their surroundings then lit up at once. It was then that they had a clear view that they were standing on a protruded rock, a dark river several meters wide was below it, filled with sinister looking monster fish that would leap out of the water from time to time, revealing a mouth full of sharp teeth.
Fang Fang’s expression became graver, she instantly broke free of Lonemoon’s hand and hid, seeming habitually, behind Shen Ying. “What… what is this place?”
No one answered. Instead Yi Qing glanced her hand that was grabbing his Master tightly and frowned before pointing to the right. “Father Niu, it’s there!”
“Wh… What’s there?” Fang Fang still wore a look of fear and bewilderedness. “Why did the City Lord suddenly trap us in here?”
“He did not think of letting us live from the start.” Lonemoon explained, “He must not want any outsiders to know that he had gotten the merman. So, for people like us in the know, we either become his subordinates or dead people who cannot speak!”
Fang Fang’s eyes widened abruptly, disbelief written all over her face, as if not expecting that a dignified City Lord would do such a despicable thing. Lonemoon had long guessed that the City Lord was no good thing, otherwise why would that innkeeper dare to open an illegal inn so brazenly in the city.
The reason why they came over here was because he had checked out the entire city last night, just not the City Lord Abode, so he made use of the opportunity to do so. Only, he did not expect to really make a discovery, a place without Spirit Qi could have spirit herbs growing and high level demon beasts, he had to admit that this was really odd. Moreover, both Chef and him had detected a trace of Spirit Qi when they saw the seventh-level demon beast earlier.
Originally, they could pretend to accept the City Lord’s offer and slowly investigate thereafter. But it was too troublesome, and they would not be able to investigate openly, not to mention it being a definite waste of time, it’d be better if they just fall out with him
But he did not expect that this trace of Spirit Qi just happened to appear in this underground river, it could be considered an accidental find. Pity that Spirit Qi was too weak and this place was weird, they could not use their spells and naturally could not use their divine perception to search for it, it was very troublesome.
However, as long as they find the source of the trace of Spirit Qi, they would surely be able to figure out what was up with this place. Only this girl named Fang Fang… would be experiencing an unexpected calamity.
“Master, let’s go!” Yi Qing said and lifted Shen Ying directly, leaping and ending strength from the protruding rocks on the banks of the river, he moved forward in the direction of the river flow.