In the noon sun, the huge bell tower located on the central axis of Seren once again made its own loud sound on time.

A total of three bells ring.

The first time I dedicate to the eternal God of the Sun, thanking Him for witnessing the peace in the city of Seron.

The second time I dedicate to the gentle goddess of March, thanking him for protecting the stability of the city of Seren.

The third time is dedicated to the armistice treaty signed here by the Kingdom of Watel and the Kingdom of Terran two hundred and ninety-nine years ago. Without it, there would be no Seren City today.

This is Seren City.

A neutral city that was destined to be associated with war, contradiction and conflict since its inception.

However, in today's Sailun City, it is hard to see the traces of war. Between the prosperous streets and buildings, sculptures and decorations with peace as the theme are everywhere.

Everything is to commemorate the hard-won peace and the precious friendship between the two powerful kingdoms - although there have been several frictions and conflicts in the past two hundred and ninety-nine years, fortunately, both of them can eventually reach an agreement on their opinions.

As the old proverb says, “Water and Delan will say hello to each other, and there will be no more storms in the world.”

The special geographical location and special historical status have given this small town a unique style. The place west of the central axis belongs to the Kingdom of Watel. The buildings here are as cold as blades, mostly with sharp and steep lines and towering spires, and the decorations on the streets are mostly gray and black.

The city area east of the central axis belongs to the Kingdom of Terran, which is filled with various rich colors, blue, green and bright red and yellow, decorate almost all the houses. From a distance, people may even think that they have come to the world-famous flower sea landscape of the Kingdom of Terran.

Those tourists who come here will regard this scene as a wonder of the world, and those who have lived here for a long time have long been accustomed to enjoying customs and cultures from two different countries at the same time. Only those who are very suspicious will regard the East XC area as the sharp claws of two giant beasts testing each other...

Cultivation is the last situation.

Now, he looked at everything in the city of Seren and instinctively brought the maximum malice.

On the streets, people who began to decorate the houses and feast their festive flags were already seen. On the colorful flags, two tightly held hands were depicted, which were flags used to celebrate the "Seren Armistice Anniversary".

"Armature Day" is a very special festival.

In order to commemorate the hard-won peace, the city of Seren will enter a strict lockdown ten days before the beginning of the "arms Celebration" every year, and no random entry or exit is allowed - until the festival day, that is, eight days later, the heirs of the Kingdom of Voter and the Kingdom of Terran will arrive at the city of Seren at the same time. The two sides will meet and have friendly conversations under the large bell tower of Seren, and once again reiterate the willingness of peace between the two sides, and then announce the official start of the celebration.

It is said that this tedious process is to imitate the real scene of the armistice that year.

"Why don't I remember writing this kind of thing?"

Xiu Ge took his eyes helplessly from the busy and joyful residents and began to reexamine the people and things in the tavern.

"Since Seren City has been blocked now and I can't leave easily, I have to think of another way."

Xiu Ge's eyes fell on the customers who were in and out, and the female wine waiter Sally who was lying among the guests, and his thoughts also turned.

In the past two days, he has been collecting information and information in Saren City as much as possible. However, until now, Xiu Ge still knows nothing about the upcoming changes in the city eight days later. His fear of the future is like a deep black haze, pressing heavily on Xiu Ge's heart, making it difficult for him to breathe.

Xiu Ge stared at the cup on the table, and the tea in the cup swayed gently, and the light and shadow flashed in it, making people dizzy.

In this state, the chaotic sounds in the tavern seemed to have become a little farther away.

In order to solve the current predicament, Xiu Ge has "returned" to the strange world he saw more than once. Although he never saw the strange figure in a black suit again, the objects hanging with various "prices" and "conditions" still stopped in place.

After visiting the entire office area, Xiu Ge found that most of the conditions in that world were not something he could afford and pay now. The only thing that could be considered "cheap" was a storage locker on his work station.

He had repeatedly confirmed that in front of the drawer on the penultimate floor, the words made of black mist were written with the words "Twenty Silver Coins".

This is a cheap condition.

For businessmen with a certain family background or wealthy families, this is only a small amount of money, but for those who are busy making a living every day and night, twenty silver coins are enough to become a huge burden.

In order to get these twenty silver coins, Xiu Ge looked up and down the old house where he lived. In the end, he only collected ten silver coins and a bunch of fragmented coins. This is why he still had to calm down and continue writing the manuscript left by his body in this situation.

"Tomorrow is the day to submit the manuscript, with a total of thirty silver coins paid..."

Xiu Ge silently calculated in his mind: "But if I only use these silver coins to 'open' those cabinets tomorrow, it means I will waste almost a whole day again, which is not a wise choice."

Thinking of this, Xiu Ge couldn't help but raise his head and his eyes floated to the agile figure that was rotating like a butterfly between the dining table not far away.

Xiu Ge sighed: "I didn't expect that I had to borrow money from someone in just three days after I arrived in this world."

...

"Twenty silver coins?"

After hearing the words of cultivation, the young and beautiful female servant suddenly became cautious.

In desperation, Xiu Ge had to explain: "Don't worry, Miss Sally, I'll be able to pay back this money to you tomorrow... It's urgent, and you should know that I don't have the habit of gambling money or going to "Shuihua Street"..."

Sally wrinkled her nose: "Spit, who cares about these!"

Xiu Ge looked at her patiently, making her expression and eyes look honest as much as possible.

Finally, the girl was defeated while looking at each other, and she sighed: "Okay, okay, that's almost all my savings..."

While complaining, she went to the grocery room next to the kitchen and soon received a small wooden box with a lock.

"For the sake of our friends!"

Sally tucked the wooden box into Xiu Ge's hand, and the weight passed from his hand made Xiu Ge speechless for a moment.

The girl carefully looked at the expression on the face of the young man in front of her, and then smiled with satisfaction, as if she had exchanged her large savings for something precious.

"Remember to return it to me tomorrow, Mr. Ernst, I know where you live!"

After leaving this sentence, Sally left Xiu Ge and re-entered her work. She had only left for a while and someone in the tavern began to make noise.

After getting what he wanted, Xiu Ge did not intend to stay in the noisy beer hall, so he wrapped the heavy wooden box in his coat and left the tavern with his manuscripts that he had yet to be refined.

As for the "sneak version" that he promised to Schubert, he is going to talk about it later in the evening.

After about half an hour, he finally returned to his residence, a three-story building, which was said to have been purchased by the Ernst family in Saren City nearly a hundred years ago. The specific reason is unknown. The only thing Xiuge knows is that it has indeed been abandoned here for a long time, so that there has even been no novel legend among the people like "the ghost in Ernst's old house".

However, every time he returns to the old house, Xiu Ge feels that the legend has some truth. Whenever he walks between the old decorations and the walls, he feels that he is the legendary ghost.

Although the old house was dilapidated, it was not small in size. After returning here, Xiu Ge took a lot of time to close and lock all the windows and doors. After that, he came to the bedroom on the second floor, and then hugged the heavy wooden box and lay on the bed blankly.

Soon, a faint feeling of sleepiness came, so Xiu Ge obediently closed his eyes.

The moment he entered sleep, the dream of nothingness also came, and an invisible strange force acted on his body in a strange way, stripping his spirit and leading it to another world.

Soon, a cold feeling awakened Xiu Ge's consciousness again. He opened his eyes suddenly, and the familiar desks and various devices appeared in front of him again. However, in this depressing darkness, he still did not see anyone else.

The heavy wooden box was right in front of him, so Xiu Ge reached out to open the wooden box, took out the twenty silver coins accumulated by the hardworking girl, held them and squatted down in front of the table.

The second-last drawer of the locker is well remembered to repair the garment clearly. I have always used it to store some useless things, such as useless documents, replaced work cards, unused mobile phones, and mooncakes and rice dumplings that I couldn’t redeem.

The moment she stretched out her hand, Xiu Ge wanted to laugh inexplicably.

He felt somewhat ironic that he placed his hope of changing his destiny and future on a drawer that he would not want to open at all.

As the distance between Xiu Ge's palm and the line of text shortened, the silver coins lying in his palm began to silence and buzz. Finally, when his palm stretched before the floating black text, the change occurred.

The silver coins turned into fine dust in the violent trembling. Then the strange words composed of black mist immediately changed. The original words disappeared, replaced by black tentacles suspended in the air. They swung rapidly, rushing towards the silver coin powder floating in the air, like sea anemone tentacles busy filtering sea water in the ocean, swinging back and forth in the ball of powder.

The predecessor of Xiu Ge's body, once worked as an apprentice in the Magic Academy in the Kingdom of Watel for two years. Although during that time, like other apprentices, he was busy dealing with various physical work and chores every day, he also saw many strange scenes. The memories left in his mind provided some confidence for Xiu Ge, and also made him not seem too distracted when he witnessed these strange changes with his own eyes.

As a magician apprentice who wasted two years in the academy but was only worthy of learning two basic "tricks", Xiu Ge was very much looking forward to the changes in front of him at this time.

"I hope these twenty silver coins can be exchanged for something useful... Otherwise, I can only find another way."

Xiu Ge carefully looked at these swinging black tentacles, as if observing the pets he raised. He saw that under their activity, the silver-white powder made of silver coins quickly disappeared. Then, these "eating and drinking" black tentacles reunited together, forming a spherical thick fog.

Then, the thick fog gradually dissipated.

Xiu Ge tentatively extended his hand to the drawer. This time, he did not touch the invisible wall again, and his fingers successfully touched the handle of the drawer.

He suddenly felt that this scene looked familiar.

It seems that the card draw looks similar when playing mobile games by yourself.

Thinking of this, he relaxed a little.

"It's a pity that there is no way to play songs now. Otherwise, at such important moments, I have to play some festive songs, and then wash my face and hands..."

Xiu Ge smiled and shook his head, then calmed down his thoughts, reached out and grabbed the handle of the drawer, and pulled it out vigorously.

Then I regretted it.

The moment the drawer opened, he saw a huge black mist erupting from the drawer. At this time, he was half kneeling on the ground, leaning forward, and it was too late to dodge, so he was submerged in it by the rich black gas.

The next moment, these black mist suddenly contracted, forming a huge solid tentacle in Xiu Ge's horrified gaze. On this tentacle, countless shadows kept shaking, like huge suction cups attached to the tentacles.

In extreme horror, Xiu Ge quickly pulled back, but before he could withdraw two steps, the tentacle suddenly stretched over. It was like the wrists and feet used by those soft creatures to hunt, tightly entangling Xiu Ge's legs and waist in an extremely rapid posture. The huge force made Xiu Ge's legs unable to move. Before he could make the next reaction and movement, the huge tentacle tightened further, and then raised Xiu Ge into the air.

"What the hell is this... what the hell thing?"

Xiu Ge opened his mouth and roared silently.
Chapter completed!