As soon as he slowly put down the History of the Hidden World City in his hand, Tang Zhen glanced at the corpse beside him.
If nothing unexpected happens, this corpse should be the last city lord of this space city. As for why he ended up like this, Tang Zhen needs to continue to find the answer.
After looking through the remaining books, Tang Zhen picked out something similar to a diary and opened it carefully.
Just by glancing at it, Tang Zhen knew that he was going to find something.
The owner of the diary had a strange and lengthy name. Tang Zhen was not interested in remembering it, so he tentatively called him the Lord of the Hidden City.
This diary records the life experience of the reclusive city lord. At the beginning, it was unremarkable. It was nothing more than the trivial life of a preparatory city lord. Even in order to protect his safety, the future city lord actually once took over.
They have never left the Space Tower City.
After all, with the cornerstone platform providing exchangeable supplies, they can live a self-sufficient life.
Of course, it is not just him. In fact, many residents of the Hidden City have never had the opportunity to take a look at the outside world throughout their lives. Under the deliberate concealment of the powerful people in the City, they even think that what they see is the entire world!
Although he was deliberately deceived, it is not actually sad. After all, in the chaotic world of Loucheng World, being able to live a peaceful and happy life is definitely what countless people want.
As for those monks in Loucheng who have to go out due to their missions, they must strictly keep this secret to prevent some of the residents of Loucheng from being restless and wanting to go to the outside world and bringing unnecessary crisis to the hidden Loucheng.
The Hidden World was hidden from the outside world, and naturally it was unwilling to come into contact with the outside world. Even though the Hidden World Tower City was already quite powerful at that time, it was still low-key and unusually low-key.
So until Hidden World Tower City was promoted to the national level, many residents still didn't understand the truth of the matter, but even if they knew it now, it wouldn't be a big deal. With the strength of the national-level Tower City, Hidden World City could definitely suppress people with a radius of thousands of miles.
Low-level building city!
The peaceful days will not last forever. During a mission to invade another world, the hidden city encountered a huge crisis.
After they were transported to another world by the cornerstone platform, they unexpectedly discovered that it was a very desolate-looking place. Many buildings had been destroyed for a long time, and there seemed to be no trace of biological activity at all.
The monks in the Hidden City, who thought they had arrived at a dead end, began to explore the world, but soon they made an extremely surprising discovery!
It turns out that there are a large number of deep caves on the surface of this world. After careful exploration, the Loucheng monks unexpectedly discovered a source stone deposit at the bottom of a cave!
This is a real mineral deposit. Huge source stones are condensed into one body. They look extremely huge and sparkle with dizzying colorful brilliance.
The monks in Loucheng, who were extremely surprised, immediately started to cut these source stones neatly, and then sent them back to Loucheng one after another.
The harvest this time is so great that you don’t need detailed statistics to know that these Origin Stones are enough to exchange for a massive amount of points, allowing Hidden World Tower City to spend many years free of charge!
However, when they were looking for the origin of the world required for the mission, they found that there were no clues at all. It seemed that the power of the origin of the world had dissipated.
Moreover, after careful study by Loucheng scholars, it was determined that this world is indeed constantly "dying", which is why there are no living creatures and it looks extremely desolate.
As long as such a "dead" world is either completely destroyed or reborn from Nirvana, no matter what the outcome, it will take millions of years!
It is very likely that the original power was taken away by someone first, or dissipated due to other reasons, which led to this situation!
After learning this result, the monks in the Hidden World City were extremely disappointed. They originally thought that the harvest this time would be beyond imagination, but now it seems that this may not be the case.
If you fail to complete the origin plundering mission given by the cornerstone platform, you will be punished, which cannot be compensated by these origin stones.
So I'm afraid I'm going to lose money on this mission!
But the problem is that Cornerstone Platform will never go to such lengths to do such useless things, so the origin of the world must still exist in this world, but it is hidden too deeply, and they have not discovered it!
After realizing this, Hidden World Loucheng started digging three feet into the ground again. As a result, when the Loucheng monks entered a ruined city in this world, they accidentally awakened the enemy hidden underground.
Countless giant insects of various shapes poured out from the ruins, desperately attacking the Loucheng monks.
Facing powerful enemies whose number was almost dozens of times their own, the monks in the Hidden World Tower City were beaten back and forth. They could only shrink back and retreat, and finally retreated into the Tower City in embarrassment.
Because of the special concealment of the Space Tower City, those giant insects were unable to damage it, which made the monks of the Hermitage Tower City, which suffered heavy losses, heave a sigh of relief.
The residents of the building city, who thought they could rely on the space building city to avoid the insect tide, did not know at this time that the disaster had quietly befallen them.
This disaster did not come from the outside world, but spread from the inside of Loucheng. The spatial Loucheng that could provide them with safety protection could not help them this time, and even became an accomplice of the enemy!
At this time, the owner of the diary had become the Lord of Lou City. He recorded the process of the disaster in detail in the diary, making Tang Zhen seem to have seen the scene at that time.
"The expedition mission has been going on for a year, and now there are densely packed giant insects everywhere outside the passage. They seem to be able to sense the existence of the building city, so they have been lingering at the exit and refused to leave.
It is almost impossible to break through the blockade of these giant insects and continue to collect the origin of the world."
"Someone told me today that there seems to be something wrong with the Loucheng treasure house where the Origin Stones are stored. Part of the Origin Stones suddenly disappeared, but no one entered there from the beginning to the end, and the door of the treasure house did not move at all.
I went to check it myself and found nothing unusual, but I don't know why, but I felt uneasy in my heart."
"Recently, everything seems to be normal, but I always feel that something is wrong, but I can't tell..."
"Someone came to tell me today that some residents in Loucheng behaved very abnormally. They often locked themselves in their houses and didn't know what they were doing?
The uneasy feeling in my heart became more and more intense, so I sent someone to check, only to find that they had already disappeared!"
"More and more residents of Loucheng are missing. They seem to be melting into the air. No matter how you search, you can't find them. Even in the past two days, some monks have started to disappear!
I know this is definitely not a good thing, so I immediately summoned my subordinates to make sure this matter is thoroughly understood!"
"During the discussion today, a few people looked very strange in their eyes. They looked at me directly, and their smiles were also very strange. It even gave me an extremely strange feeling, as if they had been replaced by someone else.
Lose!
I vaguely guessed a possibility, and immediately ran to the Loucheng Treasure Room, but along the way, I saw many residents showing that weird smile."
"The situation has become extremely bad, I seem to have to prepare early!"
"Damn it, there is actually a kind of terrible bug inside the heads of those dead Loucheng residents. They were controlled by this bug, so they desperately wanted to open the passage and let the bugs outside in!
God knows how many residents of Loucheng are controlled by insects. For the stability of Loucheng, I must kill them all, no matter how many people die!"
At this point in the diary, it suddenly became scribbled, as if a child who had just learned to write scribbled on the paper, but finally wrote a sentence.
"Food, reproduction..."
There was another sentence immediately following, and the handwriting returned to its original appearance, but the content was shocking.