Su Hai's drops were quite distinctive.
Silver coins +1000 Women's panties (pink) x12 Women's panties (red) x12 Women's panties (purple) x12
There was a whole pile of women's underwear. Clearly, the freckled girl hadn't been making things up. This man had been a real lecher.
After putting away the only thing worth taking, the 1,000 silver coins, Zhou Heng studied the silver doors before him, which stood at least thirty meters tall. He didn't act immediately. Judging by Su Hai's reaction earlier, there should have been some special mechanism here. He was waiting for fate to give him a hint.
But even after a long while, fate gave him no hint. Instead, a voice came from behind him.
"You were right not to open them. These doors were personally forged by a powerful level 100 blacksmith. No one outside the Su Family, a Longevity Family, can open them."
Zhou Heng looked toward the voice and discovered that it was the freckled girl who had warned him earlier.
"You have a way?"
Zhou Heng carefully studied the freckled girl. Both her face and her eyes held a youthful innocence, but for some reason, he kept feeling that this was a disguise. Having lived two lives, he could see an inextinguishable flame burning fiercely in the depths of her eyes.
"My name is Su Lanlan." The freckled girl winked at Zhou Heng and spoke with a grin.
Zhou Heng paused, then seemed to think of something. His eyes narrowed slightly. "You're at odds with the Su Family, the Longevity Family?"
Su Lanlan rubbed her nose and nodded firmly. "Correct, but there's no prize."
Zhou Heng gave her a long look, finally understanding why fate hadn't offered a hint. The person who could open the doors was right in front of him. What hint was there to give?
"What do you need?" Zhou Heng asked succinctly, trusting that she would understand what he meant.
Su Lanlan gazed at the silver doors and pondered for a very long time. As though finally making up her mind, she grinned again. "I want a token inside. It's the Frost City Lord Token. Once I have it, I can take Frost City for myself. My talent requires a main city to unlock. Also, if you really did kill Su Ling, I want the City Lord Document you have."
"Not enough! Just opening a door doesn't make this a fair trade," Zhou Heng said.
Su Lanlan seemed to have expected this. She took a sheet of White Paper from her trouser pocket and tossed it to Zhou Heng.
"This is the only thing my mother left me before she died. She said it could lead to the ultimate truth behind what the Longevity Families are plotting in Sakas."
"It's very special. It can't be stored without a huge inventory. You must put it somewhere safe."
As he watched the White Paper fly toward him, Zhou Heng's gaze sharpened slightly. Others might not recognize this White Paper, but how could he fail to? He already had three more sheets.
If the truth was as Su Lanlan said, then this White Paper was something valuable that he had to get to the bottom of.
After pondering briefly, Zhou Heng nodded. "Once you open the doors, I'll give you the City Lord Document. You can take the City Lord Token."
Only after they reached an agreement did Su Lanlan breathe a sigh of relief. She carefully walked up to the silver doors, but rather than opening them right away, she motioned for Zhou Heng to step back a meter.
Once Zhou Heng complied, Su Lanlan called in a low voice, "Do it!"
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
Countless silver arrows shot out of thin air, stopping three inches in front of Su Lanlan.
"These are invisible arrows. They're terrifying. A single arrow can deal 100,000 true damage. Without sufficient strength, or unless you're a member of the Su Family, you can't withstand damage on this level."
As Su Lanlan explained this to Zhou Heng, she stood at the very center of the silver doors and knocked three times. Only after she repeated this seven times, for a total of twenty-one knocks, did the silver doors slowly open with a creak.
"You can come in now. It's safe!"
Su Lanlan led the way, with Zhou Heng following behind, and the two entered Frost City's true treasury one after the other.
There were only two things in the treasury, supported by cloud-white stone pillars.
One was a token, presumably the City Lord Token Su Lanlan wanted. The other was a skill book.
"Every direct descendant of a Longevity Family has this skill book."
"The Su Family originally prepared this skill book for their second young lady, Su Ling. But after you killed her, it was left here for someone from the family's upper ranks to take back. Someone from an insignificant side branch like me isn't eligible."
"Honestly, if you hadn't killed Su Hai and done your part, I'd snatch this good stuff from you no matter what."
Su Lanlan glanced at the skill book and huffed.
Zhou Heng didn't answer her. Curious, he picked up the skill book and cast Appraisal on it.
Empire Fortune Quality: unknown Experience gain +10% (permanent) After learning this skill, you can see the Sakas Empire's fortune and use your own "Empire Fortune" to improve activities including, but not limited to, forging, medicine crafting, and excavation. Learning requirements: none
"It really is a rare find."
No one could turn down something that permanently increased experience gain, not to mention its true function: improving the odds for all sorts of activities.
After learning "Empire Fortune," Zhou Heng tossed the City Lord Document to Su Lanlan.
With the City Lord Document in hand, the smile on Su Lanlan's little face grew even brighter. She nodded to Zhou Heng in thanks. "Thank you. You need to leave as soon as possible. The Su Family's reinforcements will arrive in thirty minutes at most. Su Hai didn't recognize you, but that doesn't mean the family's other experts don't know who you are."
Zhou Heng looked deeper into the treasury. Without replying to Su Lanlan, he simply waved and headed farther inside.
"Zhou Heng, huh..."
The innocence and radiance vanished from Su Lanlan's face, replaced by an unprecedented solemnity.
She tightened her grip on the City Lord Token and City Lord Document. Finally, she gave Zhou Heng one last, long look before turning and heading out of the treasury.
From this moment on, she could no longer be that innocent girl with someone to shelter her...
Zhou Heng strode to the far end of the Frost Treasury and soon saw the flute-playing statue Su Hai had mentioned. Compared with the one he had discovered in the Deepwater Flood Dragon Worm Secret Realm, this one was even taller and grander. It stood a full thirty meters high, exactly reaching the treasury's height limit.
Reaching the far end where the statue stood, Zhou Heng looked up from below and could vaguely make out the man's face. Because of the hair, however, he could only glimpse a small part of it. Even so, he sensed a hint of pity in the statue's eyes?
With his previous experience, Zhou Heng found the process much more familiar this time. Without thinking much of it, he took the Elegant Ancient Flute from his inventory and tried holding it up.
Soon, just as he expected, the Elegant Ancient Flute trembled slightly, then floated toward the thirty-meter statue. It settled where the statue's stone flute was and merged into it.
As a faint glow bloomed from the Elegant Ancient Flute, a completely different flute melody from the last one drifted through the air.
This melody was low and drawn-out, as though recounting an unknown tragic epic.
Zhou Heng immersed himself in the melody, feeling its low, lingering weight. Suddenly, a faint light blossomed between his brows, and he... actually returned to the real world.
Looking at his utterly familiar little dump of a room, Zhou Heng was completely stunned.
I didn't log out of the Boundless Endless world, so how...
Just then, he sensed something unusual in front of him. Focusing his gaze, he discovered a figure of light standing directly before him.
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