Douluo's twin Douluo

Chapter 469 Underground Castle
In the early morning of the next day, Gan Jue got up to take a shower and tidied himself inside and out.After all, today is to attend the high-level meeting of the Mingzu. As the Lord of Dead Soul City, it is necessary to have a good image.

But after tidying up and having breakfast, Bai Kou finally sent someone over to lead Gan Jue after Gan Jue had practiced to Si Shi again.

This meeting was an internal meeting of the Ming clan, so Ning Rongrong and Gu Rong could not participate, so they could only continue to stay in the room to practice, waiting for Gan Jue to come back.

And Gan Jue could only follow the attendants alone, and after wandering around the underworld for a long time, he was taken to a lounge, where he saw Bai Kou who had been waiting there.

"Aunt Bai, bring me here first, are you going to tell me something?"

After the attendants retreated, Gan Jue looked at the small lounge and asked Bai Kou with a smile.

"No, I have nothing to explain to you. Wait a minute, you are the most important among all people, you can do what you say, even if you make some jokes, they won't dare to fart."

"..., That's not what you said, Aunt Bai."

Hearing Bai Kou's domineering words, Gan Jue complained to Bai Kou helplessly.

"Okay, it's getting late, let's go down first, they should have been waiting for a long time."

"Go down?"

A question just popped into Gan Jue's head, and in the next second, Bai Kou walked to a wall of the lounge, reached out and pressed the nose of a strange beast in a relief of strange beasts on the wall.Immediately, the ground of this lounge shook immediately, and after a soft sound of mechanical operation, a deep hole leading directly below appeared in front of Gan Jue.

"It's amazing. It turns out that this meeting was held in the underground secret room."

"Of course, the Mingzu is so big, it is inevitable that there will be eyeliners from other forces, and the way of martial arts is full of strange things. What if there are some strange soul skills that hear and see the scene of our high-level meeting of the Mingzu? So it is safer to go to the secret room underground. This can basically prevent most eavesdropping."

As Bai Kou said, he gave Gan Jue a follow-up look, and jumped down first.Naturally, Gan Jue didn't have any fear, and jumped down almost immediately, without even using the wolf spirit to explore the way, and just disappeared into the entrance of the cave. After about three seconds, there was the sound of him landing at the entrance of the cave.

"Good fellow, Bai Yi, this secret room of yours is really quite secretive. With this entrance, ordinary people can't get down."

After landing, Gan Jue looked up at the fist-sized hole above his head, and said to Bai Kou with some sighs.He fell for three seconds, which means that the height of the hole from the ground is 50 to [-] meters. Generally, if a soul master below a soul saint does not have some special abilities, a fall of tens of meters is enough to cause them serious injuries.

"Hmph, otherwise, do you think that anyone can come to our Underworld's underground castle!"

Bai Kou said with some pride, walked to the side of the candlestick, stretched out his hand and twisted it, the fist-sized hole above it was immediately closed, and no more light could be seen.And Gan Jue took advantage of this time to figure out the environment he was in. .

The environment he is in now is inside a cylinder with a diameter of about five meters.It looked as if he had fallen into a dry well or under a high tower. Apart from the hard stone walls and the candlestick that existed as a lighting and mechanism, there was only one closed door left.

"Come on, let's go out."

After Bai Kou greeted Gan Jue, she pushed open the closed door.And at this moment, the two greetings with strong awe in their tone rang out.

"Hallmaster White."

These are two guards guarding the door. Both of them are in their 40s and [-]s. Gan Jue just sensed them a little and found that their strength is at least above that of the Soul Sect.

It seems that the guards of the underground castle by the Ming clan are really strict. Even the entrance door is guarded by guards, and the lowest strength is the soul sect.I'm afraid, this is the real strength of the Mingzu, what they introduced with Gu Rong, Ning Rongrong and the others before was only on the surface.

"Come on. Let's go to the lobby."

Beckoning to Gan Jue, Bai Kou walked in front and began to lead the way for Gan Jue. Although the two guards saw Bai Kou's attitude towards Gan Jue, but because they didn't know Gan Jue's identity, they didn't say hello to him.Anyway, Gan Jue is very satisfied with this attitude.This is the attitude this guard should have.

While following Bai Kou, Gan Jue was also observing the underground castle.

This place is quite old at first glance, and the stone walls passing by have many years of erosion.But maybe it's because the castle itself is relatively strong, so the traces of those years will only make people feel that the underground castle is ancient, and it doesn't look dilapidated.

Every passage in this castle has a width of about three meters, which is unusually wide, and every ten meters or so in the passage, there will be two candles, illuminating the passage brightly.And every fork in the road, there will be two guards guarding it. Except for some soul masters who really have special abilities, it is basically impossible for someone to invade and not be discovered.

"Xiaojue, put on your dead soul ring. The people in this underground castle are all from our dead soul city. They will definitely not betray our ethnic group. There is no need to hide your identity so carefully."

As Bai Kou said, she didn't know when she took the Death Soul Ring that belonged to her.

It was an exceptionally delicate black dead soul ring, engraved with a symbol that looked a bit like a '9' and a bit like a string balloon, and the dead soul stone inlaid on it was even bigger than the blue dead soul ring of the young city lord of Qian Jue.

"Okay, but Aunt Bai, which ring should I wear? Is it the one of the young city lord, or the one of the city lord? Do the high-level people here know that the teacher has passed away?"

"Of course they know it, and they also know that there is a new city lord succeeding in Dead Soul City. It's just that because you have been practicing on Sea God Island for the past few years, they have only seen the deputy city lord Long Xiao at most, and have never seen you as the new city lord, so you should still wear the ring of the city lord that Jiu'er gave you."

"it is good."

Gan Jue nodded, and put on Su Jiu'er's dead soul ring, which represented the supreme ruler of Dead Soul City.Under the exquisite dress of the dead soul ring, he also has a bit more majesty.

While reaching out to caress the Death Soul Ring, feeling the familiar aura attached to it, Gan Jue smiled and asked Bai Kou:
"Aunt Bai, how has brother Xiao been doing these past few years? Since Dead Soul City is developing rapidly, it means that he still manages Dead Soul City very well."

"It's not bad. It's not as good as Jiu'er, but it's not bad. It's just that he spent too much energy on management, so his progress in strength has been very slow. Even if he has enough Death Soul Stones, his current soul power is only around level 76 or seven. Anyway, when I went back three months ago, he was like this."

"Well, I hope Brother Xiao can enjoy it."

Gan Jue touched his nose and smiled.Because it was supposed to be his duty as the city lord to manage Dead Soul City, but he left it to Long Xiao.Going back to Dead Soul City in the future, it is estimated that Long Xiao's complaints will be inevitable.

Shaking his head, Gan Jue continued to follow Bai Kou.The Underworld's underground castle is very large, and the passages are also intricate. Gan Jue followed Bai Kou for more than ten minutes before finally turning into a new passage.

"Hall Master Bai!"

Different from other passages, this passage was seven or eight meters wide, and there were guards and servants standing on both sides. The moment they saw Bai Kou, a group of people immediately lowered their heads and performed a unique etiquette for Bai Kou in the City of Dead Souls.As for Gan Jue, he also saw a different light coming from the end of the aisle.

"Going out ahead is the main hall of this underground castle. Get ready and come in front of me. But don't be too restrained. If you have any questions or don't understand, just ask them to explain to you. You just need to remember one thing, you are the biggest here!"

While giving instructions, Bai Kou stopped and landed in a position behind Gan Jue.

"Don't worry, Aunt Bai, I understand."

Gan Jue nodded without being stage frightened, so he led Bai Kou out of the end of the passage and into the main hall of the underground castle.And those waiters and guards who were waiting on both sides of the passage also followed them in.

The main hall of the underground castle is very vast and majestic.It is in the shape of a hemisphere as a whole, with a diameter of about 50 meters. Although the height is not as high as the entrance that Gan Jue entered just now, it is estimated to be 30 meters. The entire dome wall is carved with lifelike relief murals, and countless brilliant night pearls are inlaid on it, illuminating the entire hall like daylight.

Of course, these are just the background of the hall.After Gan Jue walked out of the passage, the first thing he saw was a huge throne above the ground, and in front of the throne, there was a huge stone table with various documents and books.The whole looks unusually dignified.

And under the throne, there are stone chairs of different shapes, separated on both sides, there are a total of twenty, and in front of each stone chair, there is also a stone table, which can be used for office work or for dining.

At this moment, most of the stone chairs were filled with middle-aged men or women. They were discussing in groups of three or four. When they sensed someone coming from the passage beside the main seat, they immediately stopped whispering and stood up. They cast their eyes on Gan Jue and Bai Kou who came out of the passage.

Bai Kou didn't tell them that Gan Jue was coming today, but just informed them that everyone who could arrive at today's meeting must be present.So now when they saw Gan Jue and Bai Kou coming out together, their eyes naturally had some doubts, and some of them even started to exchange eyes with each other.

Of course, their eye contact didn't last long. When they finished looking at Gan Jue's whole body and saw the Death Soul Ring on Gan Jue's finger, which represented the highest status in Death Soul City, a look of shock immediately appeared on his face, and he couldn't hide it.

Obviously, they did not expect that the new city lord would be so young.Moreover, I actually met the other party on this occasion.

Gan Jue also saw the surprised looks and gazes of everyone in the field, but he didn't pay much attention to it, and walked directly to the main seat above, and sat down.Then he patted his side, and said to Bai Kou who was still below:
"Aunt Bai, come up and sit with me. The seat is so big, it's more than enough for two people."

". Good~."

Originally, Bai Kou was planning to find a seat below, which would effectively help Gan Jue establish his majesty.After all, if even she gave up her seat, how could the other people sitting below dare to say more?
However, since Gan Jue has said so, she should sit down with Qian Jue, which is also good for Gan Jue, that is, if there is anything, she can explain it to him by Qian Jue's side.

When Su Jiuer was in power, she liked the big chair very much. She liked to curl up her whole body on the chair to deal with things, so by the way, the big chair has become a kind of atmosphere in Dead Soul City, even here.Even if Gan Jue and Bai Kou sat together at the main seat of Nuo Da, it wasn't crowded at all.

"Why is there nothing to eat or drink here?"

Gan Jue looked at all kinds of accounts and documents on the stone table in front of him, and after muttering a bit distressed, he raised his hands, and when the blue light in his hands flashed, two crystal clear blue crystal water glasses appeared in his hands.After that, Gan Jue flicked the rims of the two cups with his palm, and the two cups, which were still slightly icy, appeared on the stone table.

Picking up a cup, taking a sip, and uttering a soft moan, Gan Jue turned his eyes to the people below, and just looked at them silently.

Feeling the embarrassing atmosphere in the field, Bai Kou picked up his own cup of Bing Kuo Luo, took a sip, then leaned back and took the main seat, just watching Gan Jue work silently with a faint smile.

And the people below felt Qian Jue's gaze, and their hearts were all terrified.Although Gan Jue didn't show any aura, it was obvious that this new city lord was definitely not a good person.

"You guys, do you know my identity?"

"Yes, my subordinate, Hua Ye, who is in charge of the eastern region of the Mingzu Star Luo Empire, greets the city lord!"

Almost as soon as Gan Jue's voice fell, a middle-aged man sitting in front of the third stone chair on the left immediately bowed deeply to Gan Jue who was sitting on the main seat, and when the others saw this, they quickly introduced themselves while bowing deeply to Gan Jue.

"Okay, let's all get up. Aunt Bai, are there any people in those empty seats? Who are they?"

"There are people there. The fifth and fourth ones on the left are the person in charge and guardian of the southern region. They are too far away and there is no time, so they have not been notified. The seventh is a regional person in charge of our headquarters. Two days ago, he was in charge of escorting a group of acquisitions to the front line, and he has not returned yet. The first one on the right is a guardian of our Mingzu headquarters, an 85-level veteran Contra named Bai Xi. In recent years, she has been leading some strong people of our Mingzu to the front. As for the last ninth and tenth places on the right, they are the two heads of our Hades in the Heaven Dou Empire, and now they are still lurking in the territory of the Spirit Empire, collecting information about the Spirit Empire for us.

"Understood"

Gan Jue nodded, Bai Kou's explanation, coupled with the introduction of these people just now, he also gradually understood the operating mode of the Mingzu.

The Ming clan divided the entire Star Luo Empire into five regions, east, west, north, south, and central.Among them, the four areas in the southeast, west, and middle areas have a person in charge and a guardian, which is equivalent to a piece of paper and a military. One is in charge of management, and the other manages the guards and handles some secret affairs (it used to be responsible for collecting souls, but now it has been cut a lot, only collecting various information.).The northern part, which is the headquarters of the Mingzu, is more complicated, because it has to manage all the regions, so the headquarters has many more important departments than other regions.

For example, in addition to the basic person in charge and law enforcement, there are also the coordination department, actuarial department, inspection department, and logistics department, each of which has a person in charge sitting below.

"Okay, since you all know my identity, then I won't say anything more. Aunt Bai has been managing the Mingzu all along. I trust her very much, and I don't plan to intervene. I am here this time, apart from getting to know everyone, I just want to know a little about the current situation of the Mingzu.

So, now, the person in charge of each region, please tell me about the income and expenditure of your own region in the past two years after the war started.Well, let's start with the East. "

"Yes, City Lord!"

Hua Zhi, the person in charge of the east, stood up immediately after hearing Gan Jue's order.He first cupped his hands to Gan Jue and Bai Kou who were on the main seat, and then began to speak loudly:
"Affected by the war, all the soul fighting fields in the southern region of the Star Luo Empire have been closed, and the transportation of materials for the soul fighting fields has always been a very large income segment for our Mingzu, so even if the dividend income of the fighting spirit fields is not discussed, in the first year of the war, our main transportation business compared to the previous year when the war did not start, the net income was 40.00% 340, and the total income was only [-] gold soul coins.

Of course, as we cooperated more closely with the Star Luo Empire later on, many of the mainstream transportation business of the Eastern Empire was handed over to us, and the profits were made up.So our eastern net income last year was 720 million, an increase of 40.00% 20.00 compared to the previous year, only [-]% [-] less than the year before the closure of the Soul Arena, and this year's cooperation with the empire is closer and the trend is good. It is hoped that this gap will be bridged. "

Gan Jue nodded. The various data given by the person in charge were already very accurate, and Gan Jue immediately saw the impact of the Ming clan in the eastern region of Xingluo after the war between the Wuhun Empire and the Star Luo Empire.

"That is to say, this year, the eastern region is expected to achieve the level of profit before the income. Right? Okay, then, Master Hua, I also want to ask, before the war started, what was our annual net income for the soul fighting field in the eastern part of Xingluo?"

"Back to the city lord, in the last year when the fighting spirit field was closed, the dividend income of our eastern fighting spirit field was more than 520 gold soul coins."

"520 thirty thousand ah"

Gan Jue was talking about this number. He remembered that Bai Kou had told him that the income of the Ming clan accounted for only a little more than 500% of the soul fighting arena, but even so, there were more than 2 in just one eastern region.Then the entire Star Luo Empire added up, isn't there more than [-] million gold soul coins?Coupled with the previous soul fighting arena on the side of the Heaven Dou Empire, tsk tsk. It seems that this fighting arena really makes money.

"Okay, I understand the people in the eastern region, and the people in the other regions can also introduce to me."

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To be continued.

　Ps: I'm sorry, I didn't update it yesterday, so it counts as a day off, and there is one more day in this month. ( )
　　
　
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