The carriage slowly stopped at the door of the city lord's mansion.
They had not formally submitted an invitation to visit before, so they needed to ask the host for permission in advance before they could enter.
A group of three people waited at the door, not daring to show bored expressions even after a long time.
They don't dare!
"Please come in, the city lord and Mr. Qiao are waiting for you inside." After a while, the housekeeper came out to welcome the person in.
The Byron family knew that the City Lord's Mansion had been renovated, and they were shocked by the dazzling whiteness when they came outside the City Lord's Mansion. However, only after they came inside did they understand what it means to be so white that it causes neurasthenia.
"Mr. Byron, Ms. Byron, and Miss Byron, what are you doing here so late today?"
Norman had changed into a new set of clothes, and his whole body was almost only white and gold. The sofa was spotless, and even the carpet under his feet was a white carpet made of snow fox fur.
The shoes they wore were new, but they still left gray footprints on the white carpet, which were particularly abrupt on the carpet.
Several people were a little embarrassed, and Norman also frowned. Looking at the footprints, he resisted the urge to burn the carpet and pointed at the carpet. The housekeeper quickly took the servant over and replaced the carpet.
It has become a gray color where dust is less visible.
"Actually, we are here to apologize." Mrs. Byron said first: "My daughter Eliza accidentally bumped into you and your friends today, so we came here..." Mrs. Byron said with a smile on her face.
Wearing a decent smile, he didn't care about what Norman did.
"You don't need to apologize to me, you should apologize to Joe." After hearing what Mrs. Byron said, Norman said calmly: "Andrew, go and tell Mr. Joe and ask him to come to the reception room after changing."
Eugene and Qiao Nan have added friends. On Eugene's panel, Qiao Nan is his only friend. However, Eugene cannot check the other person's level or profession.
Qiao Nan set it up so that Eugene could not see his specific information unless he agreed.
After adding friends, Qiao Nan directly opened the hidden mission description shared because of the team formation.
Hidden mission: [Secrets of Bangal City]
Mission description: You accidentally discovered something unusual about Bangal City. In order to explore all this, you decided to investigate in depth. However, when you investigated in depth, you found that things were not as simple as you saw.
The blood in the underground castle of Hollas, the mysterious missing ordinary citizens, where did they go and why?
Mission goal: Investigate the secrets of Bangal City and discover the truth
Mission reward: gold coins*500, random items*2 [random drop distribution]
The mission rewards are very average, and it’s not easy to read the mission description.
It should be a series of tasks, and there will be deeper and more secret clues later.
The city of Bangal does not seem to be as peaceful as it appears, and does the newly appointed city lord Noel know about it?
While thinking about the significance of this task, Qiao Nan changed into new clothes, buttoned them in front of the mirror, then tied up the tail of her half-long golden hair that was scattered behind her head, and dressed neatly.
At this moment, there were footsteps at the door, and then a gentle knock on the door.
Eugene quickly tidied up the room, stood aside with the things he brought in, and opened the door. The butler Andrew stood at the door, bowing slightly and inviting Qiao Nan to go out.
Qiao Nan had finished cleaning up, and Eugene had finished all the explanations. He nodded to the housekeeper and followed him away.
The housekeeper kept his head down and didn't see that Qiao Nan was not wearing a mask. Moreover, it was meal time. Most of the servants were eating in the servants' canteen. There were not many servants in the corridor.
The housekeeper would lower his head to salute, and then quietly look at Qiao Nan from the corner of his eyes.
"Who is that person?" The servants discussed excitedly after the two of them had gone far.
"He is so good-looking! Even more beautiful than the Lord of the City!"
"This is a guest invited back by the Lord of the City." A well-informed person knew about this, "But... he was wearing a mask when he came back."
The distance between the guest room and the reception room is a bit far, and it took almost ten minutes to walk outside the reception room.
The housekeeper stopped at the door, knocked on the door to indicate that they had arrived, and then stepped back and opened the door to let Qiao Nan in.
"Long wait." A polite smile appeared on Qiao Nan's face, and the corners of her mouth couldn't help but twitch when she saw the carpet on the floor.
"Ah!" Eliza covered her mouth and exclaimed softly: "Are you Mr. Masked Man?"
Not to mention Eliza, even the well-informed Morton and Mrs. Byron were stunned and stared at the person who came in from the door rather impolitely.
Norman straightened his back subconsciously, and his gaze fell on his face almost greedily. His eyes were so deep that he couldn't see enough.
Yes, that's the teacher.
Even though he is younger and his brows are softer, it is still the teacher's face, even younger...and still as alluring as before.
As long as you appear in front of everyone, you will attract everyone's attention...
People can't help but hide him.
After being stunned for the first time, Eliza subconsciously used her new feather fan to cover the lower half of her face. She only dared to look at him quietly with her eyes. Her heart was pounding. It was obvious that the girl was thinking about a person.
Except Qiao Nan.
Norman frowned slightly and interrupted the ambiguous atmosphere between the two. He pointed to the seat next to him: "Qiao, come sit here with me."
His tone was normal, and as soon as he finished speaking, a servant came over and cleared the seat next to him, spread out soft cushions, and straightened out all the wrinkles, making sure that the sofa was absolutely clean and comfortable.
Although Qiao Nan comes from a wealthy family, he has lived the life of a novice since he was a child. After he came to the game and climbed to a high position, he did not like being served by others. Rather than being surrounded by people, he preferred to be alone and read a book.
Or training, one person can spend a whole day alone.
Qiao Nan politely thanked the servant, sat down on the sofa, maintaining an elegant sitting posture on the soft sofa, and then returned the fan to Elisa.
The corners of Norman's mouth smoothed out in an instant, or even turned up.
Among nobles, if a man returns the fan to a woman, it means rejection.
The expression in Norman's eyes was extremely gentle, with a faint smile, and the tenderness in his honey-like golden eyes seemed to flow out in the next second, leaning towards the man who was not looking at him.
Eliza suddenly realized something, her eyes moved back and forth between the two of them, and she couldn't help pinching the fan bones, making a crunching sound.
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The knights wearing uniform light armor were moving things from the Hollas house in an orderly manner.
Boxes of jewelry and precious materials were moved out of Hollas' castle. Edman fell to the ground softly, watching blankly as his property was being moved away.
How could this happen?
He was just deprived of his title, so why should his property be taken away with him?
Edman originally wanted to grab them, but he was pushed away before he could even touch the bodies of these knights.
"Let me see, it's not because of that masked person that Noel was so cruel." Edman was helped up by his wife. His clothes were messy, his neatly arranged hair was now scattered, his eyes were red, and he had been there for a long time.
There is no more arrogant and powerful posture during the day.
"He is killing the chicken to scare the monkeys." Edelman was panting like an ox. He watched helplessly as his home was ransacked. How could he not be angry?
When he thought that all this happened because of that mysterious masked man, he was so angry that he wanted to cut him into pieces. And Noel was also the culprit, and neither of these two people was a good person!
"Master, then let's..."
After watching the knights collect all the things and making sure that everything was gone, Edman calmed down a little. "Fortunately, these knights didn't check carefully, otherwise they would have discovered the things in the basement..."
"Otherwise... let's say goodbye." The middle-aged woman looked hesitant, her hand holding Edelman trembling, and fear flashed across her eyes.
Their children were hugging each other and sobbing softly, in a low and sincere voice, which made those who cried upset.
"Give up?" Norman sneered, raised his hand and gave the other party a slap in the face. His slap hit her face hard, causing the weak middle-aged woman to stagger and fall to the ground.
Even if you can’t help me, you still want to interfere in my affairs?!”
After Edman finished speaking, he ignored his wife and children who were still lying on the ground. He dusted himself off and turned to the basement of the castle.
At the beginning, he did not hide from his wife about his contact with demons.
The reason is simple.
A person can only live a hundred years at most. His talent is not good and he cannot cultivate at all. He is already almost fifty years old. How many fifty years can a person live?
If nothing else happens, he will die in another twenty or thirty years at most.
How could he let go of so much glory, wealth and power so easily?
If an ordinary person wants to live forever, apart from practicing cultivation or encountering rare miracles, there is no other serious way.
Except for exchanging with monsters.
If you pay a little price, you will get eternal life!
Why not go for such a good deal?
With a crazy expression, he pushed through the secret passages and reached the deepest part of the basement.
It was a pool of blood.
The blood pool was the size of a basketball court, and the blood inside was surging with fishy bubbles and pungent odor.
There is only this blood pool in the basement, and the open space surrounding this blood pool is painted with complicated and mysterious formations with red blood. The pool of blood seems to have its own consciousness, constantly removing the filth that has sunk to the bottom of the pool.
They vomited out the objects and from time to time brought out some corpses that had not yet decomposed.
Among these corpses, there was the corpse of the long-dead ancestral city lord. This corpse was mostly rotten, and the appearance of the other party was almost unrecognizable.
"The great demon king Amos.
I, Edman Hollas, pray for your coming
In the name of the Most High, allow me to pray to you.
Please fulfill my wish and I will offer you a rich sacrifice