Chapter 34 Colorful Eggs and Buying a City

Lin Chen's operations were truly baffling to many.

Now, Heavenly Moon City had become Lin Chen's private city.

This place was originally a player city. Now that the Jianghe Huhai guild had withdrawn, the entire city was practically a ghost town. However, Lin Chen seemed quite satisfied. He said to Liu Mengyao, "Next, let's go to the Illusion Tower in the city and get both pets to level one hundred. Then, let's log off for today. What do you think?"

Illusion Tower!

This was the specialty of Heavenly Moon City...

The Illusion Tower dungeon was an excellent leveling spot, especially suitable for pets, because it contained monsters from level one to one hundred. This was why Jiang Haihe had spent ten billion to acquire the city as his guild's main city.

Now, all of this belonged to Lin Chen.

"Let me set the permissions... I'll give you the position of Deputy City Lord!"

Lin Chen smiled. "This way, you can directly enter the city whenever you want."

The city was empty.

However, there were guards.

These guards were all NPCs, a type of mercenary. You just had to pay them a salary every month.

Those without permission would be stopped by the guards at the gate.

If you forced your way in, you had to have enough strength, at least enough to easily take on a dozen level eighty elite monsters to have a chance of getting through.

In addition, buildings like the Illusion Tower and the City Lord's Mansion could not be entered without permission.

Because both places had protective formations.

And all the buildings in the city belonged to Lin Chen.

NPC merchants or player merchants who wanted to set up shop here had to pay taxes to the city lord.

Right now, Heavenly Moon City was deserted.

NPC merchants also needed to make money. With no players around, who would they do business with?

It could be said that Lin Chen had bought a dead city.

But Lin Chen didn't care.

What if the apocalypse arrived and monsters from the game began to invade?

His city wouldn't have to worry about people coming in then.

For the next two hours, Lin Chen and Liu Mengyao stayed in the Illusion Tower leveling up their pets. This was also to prepare for the upcoming dungeon. The new expansion had been released at two o'clock, but Lin Chen knew very well that it would be at least three days before anyone cleared the new dungeon.

So Lin Chen still had time.

When pets reached level one hundred, they could awaken another skill.

Still feeding them Divine Beast Pills directly, Vermilion Bird's fifth skill appeared.

[Infernal Hell: Vermilion Bird brings the flames of hell to the mortal realm. Within a 300-yard radius of itself, random bursts of flame will appear irregularly, dealing magic attack * 3 damage to opponents hit and stunning them for three seconds. Cooldown time: ten minutes. Can be upgraded!]

Another powerful output skill!

No, it should be said that it was a crowd control skill.

With Infernal Hell active, probably no one would dare to approach the area where Vermilion Bird was located. This skill was especially suitable for team battles, with a large range and strong lethality. The only drawback was the irregularity of the flames, which brought many uncertainties.

But Lin Chen was already very satisfied.

Next, he didn't plan to continue leveling up anything. After all, he needed materials, and he would wait for tomorrow's big price drop.

Besides, Lin Chen knew that it was almost dinner time in the real world for Liu Mengyao, and she had to log off. So, the two exited the Illusion Tower, and Liu Mengyao said to Lin Chen, "Rest early! Take me to Nantianmen (South Heaven Gate) tomorrow! By the way, you..."

Liu Mengyao suddenly hesitated.

"What?" Lin Chen asked.

"Nothing..." Liu Mengyao smiled.

"You're keeping me in suspense?"

Lin Chen said jokingly.

"Really, it's nothing. I'm logging off, bye!" Liu Mengyao waved.

Then, she logged off on the spot.

Lin Chen felt a little strange, but he didn't think too much about it. He didn't log off, but stayed to study the array blueprint he had obtained. According to the materials required on it, there were five high-grade magic stones and some talismans.

He could handle the talismans himself, but he didn't have any high-grade magic stones. However, Zhang Chunlin definitely had them. Lin Chen sent him a message directly, and Zhang Chunlin quickly mailed them over.

"Consider these materials my treat... By the way, I also got a set of equipment, but not as extravagant as yours. I got a set of supreme-grade, which is still a grade below divine-grade. Haha, although it's just a set of supreme-grade equipment, in the past, it would have been worth tens of millions!" Zhang Chunlin sent a voice message.

"Not bad!"

Lin Chen laughed. "Then, how about joining me in the new dungeon tomorrow?"

Zhang Chunlin quickly responded, "Okay! But let me state first that I'm a businessman, and my skills are definitely not as good as yours."

"It's okay, just follow my commands. It's settled then."

Lin Chen closed the chat window.

He didn't deliberately try to get Zhang Chunlin to play with him. Since Zhang Chunlin had the awareness to get a good set of equipment, Lin Chen naturally pulled him into the team.

However, he would probably need some more teammates for the new dungeon.

"I can only find them slowly!"

Lin Chen wasn't in a hurry. He started trying to study the array first.

He came to a courtyard in the backyard of the City Lord's Mansion, which would be his resting place in the future. The City Lord's Mansion itself already had an array, but Lin Chen didn't care and set up this array in his courtyard.

It was considered an extra layer of protection.

At the same time, it was also to gain experience.

It took half an hour to complete the array, and then Lin Chen returned to the room to feel it. In fact, he didn't need to feel it; he could directly see the results from the attribute panel... In the array, all of Lin Chen's attributes were increased by thirty percent!

"Good lord, this is just a level one array, and it adds so many attributes. What about a level ten array?"

Lin Chen didn't dare to think about it too much...

After all, it seemed that there were no level ten arrays in the entire "New World" game.

The most common high-level arrays were the city defense arrays of the main cities. Lin Chen had learned that the attribute bonus for NPCs in the corresponding faction reached 2x, but that was only a level eight array.

Because of this, no red-named players had ever dared to directly break into the NPC main cities.

If someone could break in, they would probably become famous in one battle.

After all, the guards of the NPC main cities were all powerful Divine Guards, whose strength had already reached level 120. With the addition of the array, they were simply incredible.

After setting up the array, Lin Chen returned to the City Lord's Mansion and opened the City Lord interface on the city lord's throne. Then, he chose to recruit some craftsmen to build the city and renovate all the buildings inside.

Here, Lin Chen spent another full 100 million gold coins.

This money had to be spent.

After all, it was uncomfortable to see his city dilapidated.

At this time, Lin Chen discovered that there was a special recruitment option in the City Lord interface.

Clicking on it, he could actually recruit many NPCs of different races, and these NPCs could all sign soul contracts.

[Soul Contract: Once signed, you can never betray!]

"Should I get some over?"

Lin Chen didn't consider it for too long and chose to go in and take a look.

Although he didn't know whether these recruited NPCs would betray him when the game descended into reality, this didn't prevent Lin Chen from looking to see which NPCs could be recruited with a "riding a donkey while looking for a horse" mentality.

As a result, Lin Chen was speechless to find that the levels and strength of the NPCs inside were astonishing.

[A Qi, Catgirl race, Strength Evaluation: SSS, Level 100, Class: Assassin. Recruitment Price: 30 million!]

[Xiao Mei, Rabbitgirl race, Strength Evaluation: S, Level 100, Class: Priest. Recruitment Price: 10 million!]

[Roaring Sky Divine General, Sky Dog race, Strength Evaluation: SSS, Level 100, Class: Berserker. Recruitment Price: 30 million!]

[Xiao Li, Fox Fairy race, Strength Evaluation: SS, Level 100, Class: Mage. Recruitment Price: 20 million!]

[Glory Knight Order, Commander Black Dragon race Dragon General, Strength Evaluation: SSS, Level 100, Class Knight. Recruitment Price 500 million (including the entire Glory Knight Order of forty-nine knights)]

[...]

Many good NPCs!

There were a bit too many.

Generally speaking, it would be good to find an NPC with S-level strength in the recruitment hall that was refreshed once a day. What was going on?

Lin Chen quickly realized that it should be because many players had quit or destroyed their accounts and sold their main cities, causing all these NPCs to be unemployed... Looking at the strength and price list of these NPCs, Lin Chen was really tempted.

What to do?

Gamble or not?

If he won the gamble, his strength would increase greatly!

Even if he lost, it would only be about 600 million gold coins in total. According to the current market price...

Less than 100,000 RMB!

"I'll do it!"

Lin Chen gritted his teeth and sent a message to Zhang Chunlin again.

He directly asked for 1 billion gold coins!

The price of gold coins had fallen again. 1 billion gold coins could be obtained for 120,000 RMB. Then, Lin Chen began to recruit. First, he recruited the entire Glory Knight Order, and then he recruited the Catgirl, Rabbitgirl, Roaring Sky Divine General, and Foxgirl.

Then, Lin Chen also recruited a Glory Warrior Corps and a Glory Mage Team. These two teams were not as expensive as the Knight Order, and their strength evaluation was slightly worse. It just happened to spend all of Lin Chen's gold coins!

With a flash of light, all the recruited NPCs came to the hall through the teleportation array.

"Roaring Sky Divine General, greetings, City Lord!"

"Dragon General, greetings, City Lord!"

"Hee hee, Xiao Li greets, City Lord..."

"Hello, City Lord."

"Ah, City Lord, you're so handsome. I'm Xiao Mei."

"..."

Good lord.

As soon as they met, the Rabbitgirl was about to cling to Lin Chen.

Although this was a game, the "New World" game was so realistic!

Lin Chen could even feel some sensations that made people swallow involuntarily...

"Alright."

Lin Chen stood up and said, "From now on, you will be the four guardians of Heavenly Moon City. Roaring Sky Divine General will guard the East City, Xiao Qi will guard the West City, Xiao Li will guard the North City, and Xiao Mei will guard the South City. In addition, the three Glory Corps will all be renamed the Heavenly Moon Corps. You will be responsible for taking turns guarding the city gates. You may all leave!"

"Can people guard the City Lord's Mansion?" Xiao Mei looked at Lin Chen, her pair of fair and cute rabbit ears twitching...

This was too tempting!

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