Chapter 224 The Mystery of Disappearance
On the abandoned ruins of the old city of Vermilion Bird City, it suddenly became bustling with noise.
Countless players were shuttling among them, and from time to time someone shouted:
"Has anyone seen Fu Chen?"
"No, we've searched everywhere and haven't seen anyone."
"Damn, is this guy a rabbit? So good at hiding."
Someone raised a doubt:
"Could he have already escaped outside?"
Others held different opinions:
"All the exits of the ruins are tightly guarded by several major guilds. Logically, he shouldn't be able to leave the city with the key."
At this moment, in the ruins of the old city, hundreds of thousands of players were shuttling back and forth.
Because of the sudden appearance of Fu Chen, the ruins became bustling and lively.
Among them, some were searching everywhere for the whereabouts of Fu Chen;
while dozens were encircling and killing the spirit monsters on the map;
Someone suddenly discovered that the experience provided by the spirit monsters here was unusually abundant.
Moreover, the probability of dropping rare equipment was astonishingly high, almost every three monsters would drop a piece of rare level equipment.
In the huge player base of Hua Country, even rare level equipment was extremely sought after.
Because rare equipment starts to come with special additional attributes.
Encountering some exceptional additional attributes, rare equipment could be sold at a high price comparable to epic level equipment.
Not to mention there was even epic level equipment dropping here.
Causing some players who originally came to take advantage, to instead agree to return here after the event to farm monsters for equipment.
It is foreseeable that after today, this place will become a popular leveling spot.
Although tens of thousands of players came this time, numerous torches lighted up the entire ruins of the old city like daylight.
But the players here did not seem crowded at all, showing how large this map was.
At this moment, a dragon's roar came from the sky, countless people looked up.
Watching the Elf Dragon flying overhead, envy was revealed in everyone's eyes.
Someone couldn't help but sigh:
"If I could have a mount like that, I'd die without regret."
But next to him, someone taunted:
"Stop dreaming, a mount of this level will never be something players like us can afford."
As he spoke, the player looked at those handsome guys on Nightmares on the other side and sighed:
"If I could have a mount like those cool guys, I'd be satisfied."
At this time someone suddenly said:
"According to the official rumors, everyone has a chance to get a flying mount after reaching level 30, who knows if it's true."
"Level 30? I'm only level 19 now, damn, that's something for next month."
At this moment, standing on the Elf Dragon were: Lin Yi, Shengshi Drunkard, Luoshen Liunian, Lord, Phantom City Xia Haitang, Famous Clan Kun Shao, Divine Hall Madman, Qing Yi Wuhui, Heavenly Dao Wuchang, and other guild leaders.
Four to five minutes had passed since the Shengshi Drunkard's key was stolen till now.
And Lin Yi, controlling the Elf Dragon for low altitude carpet-like searching, had gone back and forth several times.
But so far, Fu Chen seemed to have evaporated from here, not even a shadow was seen.
In a situation where all exits were blocked and hundreds of thousands of players searched, nothing was found.
This left Shengshi Drunkard and the others confused and puzzled.
Famous Clan Kun Shao couldn't help but say:
"Could that guy possibly have used some method to escape the city?"
"Impossible!"
Upon hearing this, Shengshi Drunkard was the first to firmly deny:
"If Feng Hua saw him enter the city with his own eyes, then I'm sure he's still here, just hiding somewhere we haven't found yet."
But Luoshen Liunian held a different opinion:
"Now all the major exits of the old city ruins are guarded by our major guilds, not even the moat is left out."
"But after so long without finding him, I think the likelihood of him having already left is higher, or else he couldn't evade these hundreds of thousands of eyes."
Hearing Luoshen Liunian's words, Shengshi Drunkard suddenly became silent.
At this time, Phantom City Xia Haitang was puzzled and asked:
"Why don't we just go block him at the Ice Dragon Cave, instead of wasting time here? Anyway, no matter how he hides, he must pass through the Ice Lake to enter Xuejian Valley."
For this question, everyone looked at Shengshi Drunkard.
Then Shengshi Drunkard revealed a key piece of information, which was:
"The longer the key holder possesses it within 12 hours, the better the things will be when the treasury opens."
Upon saying this, Shengshi Drunkard couldn't help but be furious and said:
"After this event is over, I think there's no need for Divine Court to exist."
As soon as Shengshi Drunkard's words fell, everyone subconsciously looked at the silent Divine Hall Madman.
After all, no matter what, the predecessor to Divine Court was the current Divine Hall.
Even now, as a "new guild," Divine Court still contains many high combat and managerial players with the Divine Hall prefix.
People often mistake Divine Court and Divine Hall as the same guild.
Suddenly seeing everyone looking at him, Divine Hall Madman coldly said:
"I've disliked Fu Chen for a long time, I'll only want to see Divine Court destroyed more than any of you, count me in when handling him."
Hearing Divine Hall Madman speak like this, everyone didn't doubt it, directly ignoring this issue.
Then Lord frowned and said:
"The problem now is, where is Fu Chen hiding?"
Qing Yi Wuhui:
"There are three minutes left till the next report point."
Luoshen Liunian spoke up at this time:
"Just in case, we still need to station people on the road, especially important junctions like the Vermilion Bird City Gate."
Shengshi Drunkard pondered for a moment, nodded, and agreed to Luoshen Liunian's suggestion.
Subsequently, under the arrangement of several guild presidents, the guild members started to take rapid action.
Meanwhile, inside the ruins of the old city, the search task was still being tensely carried out.
After all, the entire ruins of the old city were so large, there were just too many places a person could hide.
At this time, Phantom City Xia Haitang suddenly looked at Lin Yi, couldn't help but tease:
"Speaking of which, our Feng Hua God, why don't you say a few words?"
Everyone then realized that Feng Hua seemed not to have spoken much from the beginning.
The legend says that the predecessor of the old city ruins could be traced back to before the Anti-Magic War, when it was named: Hundred Races City.
Within the city lived many different races, including Human Race, Elf Race, Dragon-man Race, Witch Race, Blood Race, Corpse Demon Race, and more than a dozen other races.
In the early millennia after the city was built, although the races couldn't say they lived in harmony, at least they coexisted peacefully.
Until one day, someone discovered that the Blood Race was secretly feeding on human blood;
The Corpse Demon Race was secretly researching and transforming corpses;
And the Witch Race had been secretly researching black magic, violating the Hundred Races Covenant.
Just as the tribes were preparing to judge these few races, the Abyss Demon Race suddenly descended.
The matter of the race judgment was thus shelved.
Afterward, the Blood Race and Corpse Demon Race, among others, crossed the sea and went as a race to the undeveloped Western Continent at that time.
And Hundred Races City became like this in a single night after that.
Later, the Anti-Magic War fully erupted, and all races were overwhelmed with stopping the Demon Race.
So what exactly happened in this city at that time was never investigated in time.
To this day, what happened in this city at that time is still little known.
That's all Lin Yi knows about the history of this city.
Lin Yi knows that the ruins of the city actually hide many unknown secrets.
In the previous life, Lin Yi also received two ordinary tasks related to these ruins, but the task content was nothing more than some simple searching that could be directly ignored.
However, Lin Yi knows that these ruins certainly hide secret rooms or passages.
Because many tasks hidden in these ruins were to be triggered when the global servers merged, and then triggered by Corpse Demon Race or Blood Race players.
And those so-called secret passages and secret rooms were merely dug out by these races for their shady activities.
However, what puzzled Lin Yi now was how could Fu Chen possibly know about those secret passages or rooms?
Even Lin Yi, as a reborn person, was not aware of them!
Or maybe he was just hiding in some very secretive place, temporarily undiscovered?
But as time went on, Lin Yi had reason to suspect that Fu Chen probably left the ruins through a secret passage.
What puzzled Lin Yi was: How did he find that passage leading out of the city?