Every day Xiao Zhi wondered whether any country's officials had been assassinated on the mainland, while continuing to work.
Perhaps it is the benefit of being a clerk. Whenever he completes a job, he will receive experience rewards, which barely fills the emptiness that he feels like he is a social animal when he is playing games.
During this period of time, the workload in the trade zone has exploded, making Xiao Zhi's experience gradually increase, and his current level has reached 215.
But he didn't want to continue to enjoy the joy of this promotion at all, and every day he hoped that a political leader from another country who died unjustly would come from the sky to take over his job. It's a pity that those who are currently optimistic about them are still alive and kicking, and there is still a long time before the end of their lives.
There was no other way, Xiao Zhi could only continue to drag his senior brother into the water, Wei Di helped a lot in secret, and almost became a non-staff member of Hesse. In exchange, Xiao Zhi promised to collect more and more exciting Hessian gossip for his senior in the future.
The arrival of the knights also solved the security problem in the trade area. As long as they stood in front of the conflicting parties with a blank face, the two parties that might fight would suddenly become as quiet as chickens.
Probably this is Hesse's characteristic security management law.
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Xiao Zhi is working in his office in the trade area.
Suddenly, Xiao Zhi received a call from Teague, and it happened that he was the only one in the office at the moment, so Xiao Zhi directly took out Teague's communication card.
Teague's voice sounded very happy: "Mr. Qi, how are you doing recently?"
Xiao Zhi: "You're still alive... What's the matter with you?"
Teague: "It seems that you are not in a good mood recently, but I am here to report the good news to you. I hope you will feel better after hearing it. The batch of potions I prepared before have been cleared and belong to your income. There are ten million golden shells, when are you going to come and take them?"
When Xiao Zhi heard it, it was really good news.
Unexpectedly, there are so many. This guy Teague is really talented in being a profiteer. The profit of being a profiteer is so great, no wonder the wind of profiteers is prevalent in the Xiyue clan.
But he is too busy now, ten million can not let him leave Hesse, Xiao Zhi said: "I am very busy now, let me put it with you first, I will go to you when I have time."
There was a smile in Teague's voice: "You are so relieved of me."
Xiao Zhi said nonchalantly, "You can also take the money and try running around."
Teague: "Forget it, being hunted down by Athanasis is a terrible thing, especially a rich and powerful Athanasi like you."
Teague knew that Xiao Zhi had gained more than 100 million at the Xinghai auction, if he dared to run away for 10 million, maybe some of the 100 million would become his wanted bounty.
Moreover, after seeing Xiao Zhi make a move, Teague didn't want to be his target at all.
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Xiao Zhi hung up the contact with Teague and resumed his work.
After a while, there was a sudden commotion in the trading area outside. Xiao Zhi put down the work in hand, put on the white gauze he used to cover his head and went out to check the situation, don't let someone fight again.
When he went out to take a look, he found that the source of the commotion was quite familiar to him.
It's Alifa.
Alifa was circling above the trade area, it flew very low, and when its wings flapped, it set off gusts of wind in the trade area. Many people have seen Lord Hesse riding on Alifa's back, and they know that this is Lord Hesse's exclusive mount.
"The lord's mount!"
"Where's the lord? Has the lord come to inspect!!!?"
"No, it seems that I didn't see the lord..."
"Then what is it for?"
"Could it be...it's hungry..."
While watching Alifa, the crowd couldn't help discussing below, squeezed forward out of curiosity, and backed away out of fear, naturally there was a commotion.
Xiao Zhi was also surprised, what is Alifa doing here? Did it find something interesting
At this time, Alifa also saw Xiao Zhi.
It swooped down suddenly, heading towards Xiao Zhi's direction, its huge body cast a large shadow, frightened the surrounding crowd to stay away from the range of the government affairs center, and ran a long distance before they dared to continue watching.
With a bang, Alifa landed in front of Xiao Zhi.
"Gu!" Alifa said to Xiao Zhi.
It looked different from usual, its tone was much shorter, and it didn't flick its tail coquettishly as usual. Instead, it pawed the ground with its front legs, as if a little anxious.
Xiao Zhi couldn't help frowning, and said in a low voice, "Did something happen?"
Alifa nodded.
Xiao Zhi glanced at the government affairs center, and said to Alifa: "Alifa, I'm very busy now, if you lost a toy, you can ask Lance for help."
Alifa shook his head violently, as if he wanted to describe something, but found that he had no language talent, so he could only bend down and motioned Xiao Zhi to climb on his back.
Looking at this posture, it seemed that something unusual happened. Xiao Zhi had no choice but to float on Alifa's back. This time there was no Frost windshield, so he could only hold on tighter.
Xiao Zhi rode Alifa and left the trade area at a fast speed.
The onlookers looked at their backs as they went away, and couldn't help discussing again.
"Who is that person who just came out?"
"You don't know yet? I knew it by looking at that outfit. It must be the clerk. His fine before almost took off my big underpants."
"Why can the clerk ride on the mount of the Hessian lord? Isn't the bone dragon in the legend exclusive to the lord?"
"Yeah...why?"
"I heard that Hessen basically has the final say on the current Hessen. The previous fines were fined as he said; the trade zone was built as soon as he said; and ah... there is a gossip saying, The planning of the transportation network was handed in decades ago, and the lord has never passed it, but the clerk passed it as soon as he said it!"
"Hey, why does this statement sound a bit weird..."
"You mean...they..."
"I don't know anything, it's just that this person was from the Xiyue clan before he was alive, you know what the Xiyue clan looks like."
"Is he not showing his face because only the lord can see it?"
"Hey, let him take power again, let him ride his own horse, and even come here to pick him up, the lord is enough to spoil him."
"I'm so envious..."
"What is there to envy, don't you just rely on your face for food?"
"Just be sour...you have a good-looking face if you have the ability, and then stand in front of the lord to see if he will give you a meal, or give you a sword to give you a heartbreak."
"Tch, Hessen will have to finish the game sooner or later."
"Damn, this guy dares to say that Hessen is done! Beat him!!!"
"Dare to look down on us! A living person is a bitch!!!"
"If it's Hessen's, give it to me!!!"
A new round of unrest has begun in the trade zone.
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Xiao Zhi was led by Alifa, and flew all the way back to the Palace of Skulls.
Alifa stopped at a certain location in the Hall of Bones, raised his head and pointed to the window of a certain room, motioning Xiao Zhi to take a look in the room.
Xiao Zhi floated up a little strangely, went to the window and looked inside.
In the room is a cobweb-like silk thread, which looks very bright, not like the reflection of the material, but more like the light emitted by itself.
These bright threads occupy almost the entire room, and in the middle of them, something seems to be wrapped in them. The thing in the middle is wrapped tightly, and it has almost become a cocoon, making it difficult to see what it is.
"Goo!" Alifa urged.
Thinking that this is the Hall of Bones, Xiao Zhi suddenly had a bad guess.
He reached out and pushed the window, only to find that the window seemed to be locked from the inside and could not be pushed at all. Xiao Zhi didn't care about that much anymore, he just blasted open the window with a fireball, and then entered it.
Entering the room, the angle of view is wider than that of the window, Xiao Zhi discovered the source of these threads—memory slate.
The memory slate is lying quietly on the table at this moment, with countless bright silk threads extending from the slate, the picture makes people feel uneasy.
Xiao Zhi carefully approached that "cocoon", and then saw a familiar black corner of his clothes.
Really Assen!
Asen stood quietly on the spot, motionless, his whole body was wrapped in silk threads, Xiao Zhi couldn't see his face clearly, but he couldn't see any trace of his struggle, quietly as if he had fallen into a permanent deep sleep.
Xiao Zhi's heartbeat suddenly went out of order.
He took a few steps forward, trying to pull away the silk thread wrapped around Asen's body, but found that his hand passed through the thread like this, and he couldn't touch it at all!
He tried to pull Asen again, but Xiao Zhi soon discovered that these silk threads seemed to be attached to Asen's body, and would change positions along with his movements, still tightly entwining him.
Suppressing the momentary panic that surfaced in his heart, Xiao Zhi turned his head to look at the memory tablet.
His understanding of the tablet of memory only exists in the data.
However, the current state has never been recorded in the data. I don’t know if there are some unknown secrets on the memory slate, or if Dana did something to her cherished memory slate before she died.
But obviously, the current state is not right, and the memory slate seems to be out of control. I don't know how this state will affect Asen.
Xiao Zhi walked towards the memory slate, since this is the source of the problem, can the problem be solved from here
Just when he was about to touch the memory slate, the silk threads that occupied most of the room suddenly disappeared, and the memory slate returned to its original appearance.
Xiao Zhi looked towards A Sen, just in time to see A Sen slowly falling backwards.
Before he had time to think, he suddenly stepped forward and caught Asen's fallen body.
The body in his arms has the soft touch of the human body, but there is no warmth at all. Asen's eyes are closed tightly, and his chest does not rise and fall, as if... dead.
Xiao Zhi was startled, almost feeling sad.
Then he suddenly realized that Asen is an undead, so it is normal...
But without various vital signs, how would he judge Asen's state? Xiao Zhi roughly checked A Sen's appearance, but he didn't see any scars, but A Sen just couldn't wake up.
At this time, footsteps sounded at the door.
Lance's voice sounded: "Seventeen, are you in there? Alifa came to find me and Dean, what happened?"
Since Alifa was able to find them, it shows that they are very reliable people in Alifa's heart.
According to Dean's understanding of Alifa, Alifa should have a good relationship with him. After Yuanhai and his party, the relationship between Alifa and Lance has improved a lot. Not only have they stopped fighting, but sometimes Lance can be seen playing with Alifa with toys.
Xiao Zhi signaled them to come in by themselves.
When the two entered the room, they were shocked to see this situation.
Dean glanced around the door subconsciously, and after confirming that there was no one there, he quickly closed the door, and then walked towards this side: "Lord, what's going on?"
Xiao Zhi didn't come much earlier than them, so he could only describe what he saw.
Both Lance and Dean looked serious, Lance didn't speak, and Dean walked to Xiao Zhi's side and began to check the status of the lord.
After a while, Dean frowned: "There is no trauma, no trace of curse or light magic..."
Xiao Zhi asked: "Has this happened to the lord before?"
Lance shook his head: "No, the lord has never fallen."
Xiao Zhi: "Is there a doctor in the Skull Palace?"
Xiao Zhi had no hope for this question, because based on his observations during this period, the answer was no. Not only is there no skeletal palace, but there are no doctors in the whole of Hesse. At most, there are some pharmacists who make medicines and produce some medicines to repair the trauma of the undead.
After all, the undead can't even die, so do they still need a doctor
Sure enough, Dean said, "No."
"And..." Dean changed the subject, "It's best not to spread the news of the lord's accident. According to Hesse's law, the lord is the strongest one, so he can convince the crowd. Once he becomes weak... what will happen? It's hard to predict."
There was silence in the room, and the other two knew that he was right.
Hessen can be unified because of the absolute strength of the lord. Mu Qiang's undead will submit to the strong, but some people may have the heart to replace the strong when they are weak.
After a while.
Xiao Zhi said: "Since it's not a curse or light magic, then the problem should be the lord's body, recalling what impact the stone slab had on him, that's why it became like this."
Lance and Dean nodded in agreement.
The three of them discussed again, Xiao Zhi said: "I will find a way to save the lord, and you will be responsible for stabilizing the situation in Hesse."
Dean hesitated: "You are alone"
Xiao Zhi nodded: "I have some friends from other races, maybe I can get clues from them. Don't worry, I won't tell about the lord's affairs. To be on the safe side, I will do it myself."
Lance and Dean looked at each other.
They have been in Hessen for hundreds of years, and they have no friends from the outside world at all, and the living people they have known have died a long time ago. In this situation, they really can't help. With his prestige, there is no problem in controlling the situation.
Lance said, "Then be careful."
Dean: "Take Alifa, it can help you fight if there is danger, and it can take you to escape if you fail."
The three placed the lord in another room in the Hall of Bones, because they couldn't find a bed anywhere, and Lance went out and moved a large bed back. The style was quite gorgeous, and I don't know where it came from.
After putting the lord on the bed, Lance and Dean left the room.
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Just walking near the entrance of the Hall of Bones, Lance and Dean happened to bump into someone.
Tall, with a sinister expression, red eyes, and some green spots on his skin, this is another Hessian knight commander, the poisonous corpse Katril.
Katril didn't mean to say hello when he saw the two, he took a step to the side, intending to bypass them and move on.
"Catriel." Dean stopped him, "What are you doing with the lord?"
Katril paused slightly: "Appointment."
Among the knight commanders in Hesse, since there are Lance and Dean who chose to be loyal to Frost after being defeated, there are naturally people who surrender to power but never give up the challenge, and Katril is one of them.
Lance and Dean suddenly felt that something was wrong, and they must not let him pass.
Lance reached out and stopped Katril: "Let's wait another day, the Lord is in a bad mood today and doesn't want to see anyone."
Katril: "I'll know when I go to see him. If he wants to fight with me, it's just right."
Lance still didn't let go, trying to think of new excuses.
Catrill looked suspiciously at Lance, "Could something have happened?"
His sinister gaze turned to the corridor behind the two of them, one hand was already holding down the ax on his waist, and his voice was cold: "Get out of the way, I want to go there!"
There seemed to be something dangerous brewing in the air, and a little spark would detonate it.
At this time, Dean on the side suddenly chuckled: "Then you go."
As he spoke, he reached out and pressed Lance's raised hand down, and continued to look at Katril with a smile, as if expecting to see some joke again.
This turning point made Katril suspicious: "Are you hiding something from me?"
Dean raised his eyebrows: "Want to know?"
Katril was impatient: "Are you going to tell me or not?"
Dean glanced at the depths of the corridor, and then lowered his voice mysteriously: "Do you know who the lord is with now? The clerk is the one everyone has been discussing recently. There are only two of them inside now, and the door is tightly closed. close."
He especially emphasized the pronunciation for the two of them, and instantly added a certain inexplicable meaning.
Dean's tone was relaxed: "Anyway, Lance and I were kicked out, you can try your luck."
Katril hesitated. He had also heard some rumors about the relationship with the lord and the clerk. If he went in and disturbed something now, the lord might be very angry... He might even send him to attack Blaise alone. .
Katril frowned, turned and left to come back another day.
At this time, a big slap was placed on his shoulder, and Lance's voice came from behind him: "The trade area is short of people recently, and you came just in time, why don't we go help together."
Before Katril could refute, Lance and Dean supported him from left to right, and walked toward the trade zone irresistibly.
Catrill: ? ?
When and how hard have you two been working
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After seeing off Lance and Dean, Xiao Zhi forced himself to look away from Asen, he opened the address book, and began to look for a solution to the problem.
He entered the keywords "npc" and "treatment", and many results appeared immediately.
Because of various strange reasons, there are quite a few players who need to find ways to heal NPCs. The methods introduced by the players are basically three: find a doctor, find a priest, and find a mage.
Doctors are for living people, this can be crossed out directly.
Most of the priests have some connection with Blaise, and the priest skills of the light system have a purification effect, which can be removed just like critical strikes for the undead.
Then there's the mage left.
There are many types of mages mentioned by players. Gentle wood spells have the ability to heal and recuperate the body. White magic can communicate with various natural energies flowing in the world to heal injuries. There are also some mages who specialize in curses or witchcraft. can be treated.
Xiao Zhi's finger lightly tapped on the word Mage: "Master... who do you want?"
Since the person in need of healing is the Hessian lord, the mage's position is particularly important.
Xiao Zhi, who is well aware of the player's style, doesn't want to think about the player at all. The player's behavior is too uncontrollable. If that person is happy and directly starts a live broadcast, wouldn't the whole continent know that there is something wrong with the Lord of Hesse? It is necessary to suppress the situation with a large army.
If you choose an NPC, it's hard to find someone who is good at healing, doesn't favor Blaise, and is willing to get close to Hesse...
While thinking, Xiao Zhi quickly browsed the contents of the address book.
Suddenly, he saw a gossip post. The theme of the post is to expose the internal struggle of the top management of the Dolly Alliance. Several forces are vying for each other, and all kinds of tricks are frequently used. It is even more exciting than TV dramas.
It wasn't these things that attracted Xiao Zhi's attention, what he cared about was one of the details.
There is a Xiyue tribe named Eugene, who used to be a top white mage, but accidentally missed a treatment during a treatment, which caused the death of the eldest son of the Duke of Warren, which made the Duke of Warren furious and prepared to execute him directly .
But Eugene escaped, and later Archduke Warren issued a wanted order on him, making him a wanted criminal of the Dolly Alliance, and he dared not return to the Dolly Alliance at all.
The post broke the news that the death of the eldest son of the Grand Duke Warren was actually the result of a contest between several political opponents of the Grand Duke Warren, and Eugene was just a scapegoat.
Presumably Archduke Warren knew the truth, but he needed a punching bag, and the hapless Master Eugene was chosen.
Even the top mages are so vulnerable in the vortex of political struggles. Due to the influence of Grand Duke Warren, it is not convenient for other countries to accept Eugene, so he has to stay in exile.
It is said that this mage Eugene is currently working as a black doctor in Borderlands, but his healing skills are indeed very effective, and he is quite famous in the black world. As long as the money is in place, he can cure everyone.
Xiao Zhi's eyes lit up slightly, a top white magician, who was expelled and had nowhere to go, stayed in the chaotic no man's land, and didn't pick patients, it was as if he was tailor-made for the current situation!
He immediately decided that this was the man.
There are a few more things to do before you get ready to leave.
It must not be a matter of a few minutes for him to leave this trip. It is obviously unreasonable for the clerk to disappear suddenly when the trade zone is too busy, and it would be bad if it attracted the attention of interested people.
Xiao Zhi immediately contacted his senior brothers.
Seventeen: Brother Wei Di, do you want to experience the life of a clerk
Hello: haven't I been experiencing all this time
Seventeen: Not a cloud experience, but an all-round, immersive experience.
Hey: Why do I have an ominous premonition...
Hey hey hey: something happened to Hessen
Seventeen: Well, I need to leave for a period of time, about a few days, I'm not sure, I want Brother Wei Di to pretend to be me for a while.
Hello: Me? Will he be beaten to death
Seventeen: I basically walked sideways in Hessen, so there is no need to worry. I will also ask people to help protect you and ensure your safety, and you are also very familiar with the work in the trade zone. Let people send the documents to the government affairs office to reduce the chance of meeting people, so it is not easy to be exposed.
Hey: Okay, it's really exciting to think about it...
After agreeing, Xiao Zhi asked Wei Di to come to Hessen, and then quietly smuggled him to the government affairs hall.
Xiao Zhi pinched a face similar to his own for him, then gave him his uniform and the white gauze covering his head, and asked Wei Di to activate the dead soul crystal. In an instant, a counterfeit clerk appeared, and there was almost no difference except that the whole person looked a little listless.
In order to be sure, Wei Di also drank the voice-changing potion, making his voice the same as that of Xiao Zhi.
Xiao Zhi went to ask Lance and Dean again, and told them his plan to go out.
He also said that this undead named Sixteen was his friend, and he came to help this time, hoping that they could help him conceal his identity. The two solemnly agreed, and said that they would definitely guarantee the safety of Shiliu, knowing that this was for the stability of Hesse.
After finishing everything, Xiao Zhi was going to use the teleportation crystal to leave Hesse directly.
"Gu—" Alifa's big head appeared outside the window, it seemed to know that Xiao Zhi wanted to leave, its huge wings kept flapping, as if saying that it also wanted to go together.
Xiao Zhi floated to the window, and lightly touched Alifa's big head: "Alifa is here? Your goal is too big, can you make it smaller like last time?"
"Hey!" Alifa nodded, and then turned into a small bone dragon just like last time.
Without further delay, Xiao Zhi took Alifa with him, put on a black cloak, activated the teleportation crystal, and disappeared in place instantly.
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the next day.
Wearing the clerk's clothes and the white veil given to him by Xiao Zhi, Wei Di imitated the clerk's external appearance and inspected the trade area accompanied by Lance.
In fact, it was just a formality, saying that the clerk was still there.
As he walked, he could still hear the people around him discussing the clerk.
"Have you heard? It is said that the clerk and the lord have that kind of relationship."
"What kind?"
"Didn't it rain one day before? There was an undead squatting in the woods to hide from the rain, and I accidentally saw them walking with umbrellas in the rain. The umbrella held by the lord himself was very close!"
"Wow… "
"That's right, it's said that the trade zone was specially built for the clerk."
"Hiss..."
"And more! Just yesterday, the lord specially sent a bone dragon to pick up the clerk, and then stayed alone in a room with the clerk. There were only two of them. The door was locked, and no one could enter! The knight commander kicked out!"
"Even the bed is broken!"
"Wow… "
Wei Maternal Single Di: "..."
Is it his illusion? Why does the content of the discussion seem a little strange
At this time, a courageous skeleton waved at Wei Di: "Scribe, was the lord strong yesterday?"
Wei Di hesitated for a moment. As a clerk, he should not be able to speak ill of the lord, and the Hesse lord must belong to the group of bigwigs who are very powerful in the whole continent, so he nodded.
The few gossiping people suddenly became active, with a somewhat meaningful feeling: "Oh~~~~~~"
Veddy: "…"
Does nodding mean something weird in Hessian culture