Fantasy Game: Infinite City

At the same time, the main building of the manor has 3 floors.

A cold-looking woman was standing in the middle of an empty study, observing everything. She had almost no expression and looked a little awkward. After looking around the study, she walked to one of the bookshelves and laid down several books of different heights horizontally.

"Click."

There was a crisp mechanical sound coming from the study, and a carpet on the right side of the room moved. The sound came from under the carpet. The woman walked to the place where the sound came from, lifted the carpet, and there was a secret compartment with a crack opened underneath.

Outside the study door, a man was leaning against the wall at the corner of the corridor, with his hands folded across his chest and his eyes closed. His ears moved slightly from time to time, as if he was listening to something. Soon, his extraordinary hearing caught some specific sounds.

First there was the sound of fingers sliding across a wooden container, then the sound of paper being folded, followed by the faint sound of the folded paper rubbing against the cloth, and finally the sound of the carpet being moved. After hearing these sounds, the man with his back against the wall opened his eyes and changed his hiding position, so that he could observe the door of the study without being discovered.

"Click."

A few minutes later, the sound of the door lock being opened reached the man's ears. The man observed that the door handle was gently turned and the study door was opened a crack. With his sharp and powerful hearing, he could hear the sound of a hand holding the door frame behind the study door. The man hid his body back again, watching the direction of the door closely, and then a woman came out.

This woman was the first player Su Wen saw leaving her room before, and this man was another player who was following behind. But in fact, this woman, like Su Wen, decided to leave the room after she found that the number of players had decreased again.

The woman still had no expression on her face and started to return the same way she came. The man wanted to follow her again, but he heard a knock on the door, and the knock did not come from nearby, or even on this floor.

The man stood up straight, put his hands together, and made a hand seal. Suddenly, an irregular black portal appeared behind him. Dozens of arms of different sizes and shapes stretched out from the portal, grabbed his body, and quickly dragged him into the portal. When the man opened his eyes again, he was actually back in his original guest room. He slightly adjusted the collar of his clothes, walked to the door, turned the handle, and opened the door.

"Excuse me, distinguished guest, the master invites you to his study for a conversation."

The person knocking on the door was a middle-aged man in a butler's uniform. This man looked exactly like the receptionist when he entered the manor before, but the man could tell from the other person's body shape and the tone of his voice that they were not the same person.

"Then I'll trouble the butler to lead the way for me."

"No way. You're welcome. This way."

The butler respectfully extended his arm to the other side of the corridor, and then left the door. The man walked out of the room, deliberately not closing the door tightly, leaving a gap, and followed the butler. While following the butler, the man kept using his sharp and powerful hearing to observe the environment on the road. The information he got made him feel that something seemed a little wrong.

everything is normal.

Be it the servants in the manor or the family members of the manor owner, their behaviors and conversations were all normal, without any abnormality at all. However, it was this normal environment that made the man feel a little uneasy.

"It's here. The master is already waiting for the guests inside."

The housekeeper led the man to the door of a room. This room was different from the ordinary guest room or the study room the man had seen before. First of all, the door of this room was two metal doors. From the location inside and outside the manor, except for the door at the entrance of the manor, almost all other doors were made of wood. There was a sturdy bolt on the two doors in front of him, and a heavy lock was hung on the open bolt. From this point of view, there should be something in this room that needs to be protected.

After the butler pushed open the two metal doors, he stood aside respectfully and bowed his head slightly to show respect. The man looked at him and walked into the room in front of him. When entering the room, he turned back and secretly glanced at the inside of the opened metal door. There was no handle, no door lock or bolt. The two doors could only be locked from the outside. It was not normal for such a room to appear here.

After entering the room, the man quickly observed the structure inside the room. The room was very large, with some decorative crafts hanging on the walls on both sides, and several heavy bookshelves. Most of the bookshelves were covered with a thick layer of dust, and only a few places were clean. On the ground in the center of the room was a carpet made from the skin of a huge brown bear, which was about five or six meters in size.

Behind this huge and expensive carpet was an old, ornate wooden desk, on which were scattered some ancient books and a bottle of almost empty ink. On the left side of the ink bottle, a feather pen was placed on a pile of papers. There was nothing written on the papers, but there were some unclear marks, which should be the writing marks left by the paper that was previously placed on top.

There are also two ornate wooden containers next to the desk, which are filled with a lot of things that look like scrolls, as well as some rolled up kraft scrolls or parchment scrolls. There is no dust on them, which means they are probably used frequently.

A man in a formal suit stood in front of the window next to the desk. He looked to be about sixty years old, but he was very strong and had broad shoulders. If you didn't look at his face, you might mistake him for a middle-aged man in his thirties. On the windowsill was a display stand with an ornately carved shotgun and a handful of worn sabers that also looked quite old. The man standing by the window was sliding his fingers over the two weapons. From his expression, he seemed to be recalling the stories about the two weapons.

On the left side of the desk, near the bookshelf, there was a long sofa, and next to the sofa were two antique chairs. A woman was sitting on the sofa, who was the other female player he had just followed.

On one of the antique chairs, there was a burly man sitting, who seemed to be dozing off. Although his figure looked bloated, he was not fat. To describe it in an easily understandable way, he looked more like an ancient general with a pot belly, but his limbs were very developed and he looked very powerful.

In the aisle behind the sofa, separated from the bookshelf, stood another man. He had one hand on the back of the sofa and the other hand holding a book taken from the bookshelf, reading. He looked like a book lover. He was tall but not thin, and wore leather gloves on his hands.

"Sir, the guests have arrived."

"Well, where's the last guest?"

"The guest is washing up and will be here soon."

"I understand, go and do your work."

"Yes."

After delivering the message to the owner of the manor, the butler bowed and left the room, closing the door. The owner of the manor, who was standing by the window, said a few polite words to the man who came in last, asking him to take a rest first and talk business after everyone arrived. The man walked to another antique chair next to the sofa and sat on it. From this angle, he could observe the movements of the owner of the manor and the other three people in the room at the same time.

About ten minutes later, there was a knock on the door again and a maid pushed open the door.

"Sir, the guests have arrived."

"I see."

As the door was opened again, Su Wen walked in. She had changed back into her original clothes. The owner of the manor exchanged a few polite words with her and asked her to find a place to sit down.

"Now that all the guests have arrived, I will start talking about business. First..."

"boom!"

Just as the owner of the manor was about to speak, the door of the study was roughly pushed open, and the tall man in bounty hunter's clothes walked in aggressively.

"Why didn't you call me? Instead, you asked someone else to come..."

"Get out."

"That's what I do! Why don't you let me..."

"roll."

"Father! I..!"

"If it weren't for your willfulness, how could you... I'm able to let you go home because of the relationship between father and son. If you still have this temper, so reckless and wanton, don't call me father anymore. Now, get out of my study!"

The tall and aggressive man did not get angry after being scolded by the owner of the manor. From his expression, it can be observed that he felt very guilty. After the owner of the manor became more and more agitated, the man had to leave the study and left quickly.

"I'm sorry, my guests, my ignorant son made you laugh. Now let's talk business."

The owner of the manor calmed down his excitement, walked to the desk, and began to communicate with the other five people in the room. According to the owner of the manor, his name is Magnus, and he is a duke of this country. No. 175, Paulson Street, is a piece of property awarded to him by the king. It is the place where he lives most often among his many properties. His closest family members basically live here. A year ago, something happened in the manor, which caused a big commotion at the time.

Magnus's manor underwent a renovation a year ago. When renovating an area in the manor, the workers in charge of the renovation discovered a secret room behind the wall of a room in that area. For various considerations, the workers reported the matter to Magnus, but this secret room was not built by Magnus. It should have been here when the manor was first built and before it was rewarded to him by the king. So Magnus asked the workers to stop the renovation and immediately went to the palace in person to report the matter to the king.

But the king was also puzzled, because no one else had lived in the manor since it was built. Due to the busy state affairs and the king's trust in Magnus, the king told Magnus that no matter what was inside, it was a reward to him and he would not ask about it anymore. After Magnus returned to the manor, out of curiosity, he took people to open the secret room sealed behind the wall.

There was nothing special about the secret room, but there were several large boxes inside. The boxes were well preserved and had not been infested by rats. Magnus had the boxes carried out.

After opening the large boxes, Magnus discovered that they contained a large number of ancient books and scrolls that seemed to span a wide range of time. Some seemed to be hundreds of years old, while others were from more than ten years ago, which was around the time when the king awarded the manor to Magnus.

There were a lot of words and patterns written on the ancient books and scrolls, but the language was not the local language, nor the language of the surrounding countries, so basically no one could understand it. It was at this time that one of Magnus's sons came back from outside. He was the bounty hunter mentioned earlier, and his name was Ha Jin.

As a bounty hunter, and an insider who knows the trade well, Ha Jin often deals with all kinds of people, including some shamans, witches, wizards, etc. who know and use mysterious powers. Although Ha Jin's job is a bounty hunter, the objects he needs to find or destroy to collect the bounty are mostly monsters in remote areas or remote locations of the kingdom, or guys related to monsters. Ha Jin himself actually has some talent in mysterious powers.