As a residence of the lord, this building with forecourt and backyard, two-layer dome in Roman style is more magnificent than ordinary buildings in Snow City. In this city known as the country of ice, architecture has become crystal clear under long-term cold temperature. Even the most dilapidated thieves' guild still possesses extraordinary charm at night under magical lighting. It's even more so for the majestic and noble building of the lord, which exudes an ancient flavor but also carries aristocratic taste.
Xiao Hua has seen the decline of the thieves' guild, but he hasn't had a chance to see the magnificence of the lord's mansion. After getting off the carriage, Xiao Hua
He was dazzled by the strong magic lights outside the lord's mansion. After getting used to these much brighter magic lights than those in other places of the city, Xiao Hua looked at the two-story lord's mansion again.
Under the dark night sky, with strong magic lights as a backdrop, this Roman-style building of only two floors looks extremely majestic. Even though Xiao Hua had been to the official residence in Baihu's main city that was much taller than this one, he still felt very shocked. This building has an unparalleled dazzling beauty!
There were two silver-armored swordsmen guarding the entrance of the official residence. Players with PK values would be prohibited from entering, while ordinary people could pass freely. Xiaohua walked in quickly after a brief moment of daze.
Walking into the front hall of the mansion, which is where houses are sold. But at this time, the spacious hall was quiet and only an old man with a thin body sat in front of an ancient wooden table wearing black magic robes.
This old man is Lei Te, the chief of public security and a great wizard in water system. Lei Te noticed that someone came in, raised his head to look at Xiao Hua.
"I want to buy a house in the city." Xiao Hua saw an old man and directly stated his purpose. According to what he knew, there were two peace officers in Snow City, one male and one female. Today it happened that the male was on duty. If it had been the female officer, he would have tried using the title of "Borrowing from All Books" for its +5 charm attribute towards women to see if there might be any unexpected benefits.
However, Xiaohua did not expect this idea. After the incident of the thief's union, Xiaohua realized that even with 5 points of charisma, it was impossible to trigger a task when facing high-level NPCs. The only benefit is that you can buy items from system female NPCs at a lower price. But buying houses is different from trading in the system store. Even if your charisma is higher, they will not give you any discount.
"Please wait." The magician Leit nodded expressionlessly and took out a scroll from among a pile of leather documents beside him. After unrolling it, he laid it on the wooden table. A quick glance showed that this was indeed a magic map made of sheepskin.
Liet muttered a spell in his mouth, and then waved an old magic staff in his hand. A blue crystal mist floated on the table surface. The mist soon disappeared, but the magic map on the table began to become uneven, forming tiny house models within seconds. If you are familiar with Snowfall City, you can immediately recognize that this is a miniature of Snowfall City reduced by hundreds or thousands!
Although he had heard about it before, Xiao Hua was still amazed. The old man used some kind of water magic that could have such a miraculous effect.
The shape of the house model on the map is exactly the same as that in Snow City, except for the fact that different colors are used to mark the models.
"The black marked places are absolutely not available, and the red ones have already been occupied. If you like them and they're willing to sell, you can pay a certain fee to move in there. The green marked houses are empty, so you can choose freely." Rait pointed at various colored model cottages on the magic map with his bony fingers and explained.
"What about that gray area?" Xiao Hu pointed to a number of houses on the map, which were not any one of the above three colors but presented as gray-white.
"That's where a missing citizen used to live." A slight shock appeared on Rait's dry and wrinkled face.
"The citizen is missing?"
"Yes, in recent years there have been a series of missing residents. Under the order of the lord, all security teams in the city were mobilized to investigate, but no trace was found for any of them. As an officer responsible for public safety affairs, this is my fault!" said Leit with regret.
"Sir, I don't know if I can help you in this matter?" The conversation proceeded as Xiao Hua knew it would. Xiao Hua took advantage of the opportunity to continue the dialogue according to what he knew.
"Of course. We welcome anyone who can help us, if you can solve the mystery of missing residents, both Lord and I will reward you handsomely!" The old wizard Leit showed a kind smile, but his eyes without luster still made people feel strange even when he was smiling.
This story originates from Royal Road. Ensure the author gets the support they deserve by reading it there.
System prompt: Do you accept the task "Missing Citizens"?
Xiao Hua of course would not hesitate to take on this task.
Missing citizens: In recent years, there have been more than a dozen mysterious disappearances of citizens in Snow City. If you can find out why they disappeared and solve the case, you will get an excellent reward!
Task difficulty: A level! The task can be shared, but no more than five people are allowed to share it. It is recommended that you complete it in a team!
Successfully received the task, Xiao Hua smiled. When he was wandering in the forum before, thinking about buying a house after getting the auction token money, he accidentally saw how to receive "the missing citizen" specific steps on the forum. Now according to the post's instructions, really got the task!
"Missing Citizens" task first appeared half a year ago. A player in Snow City who was very smart found that there were something wrong with the color of house model when he bought houses, and then triggered the task. But he couldn't figure out how to trigger it for a long time, so he shared the task with others. As a result, the method of triggering the task spread widely.
A task of difficulty level A, and it was issued at the lord's mansion. The reward for this task is self-evident. Countless people rushed to the lord's mansion to take on tasks. After more than ten days after so many people took up these tasks, no one has made any progress in their respective tasks.
Then, a player who was curious bought a house marked with gray. The task finally changed, but not progress, but failure of the mission! After this person bought the house and stayed in it for one night, he died mysteriously in the house. When he resurrected, the mission failed. Thirty minutes later, the mission automatically deleted itself and could no longer be accepted!
This thing is a breakthrough, after being studied by some players. In order to continue with the next task, you must buy a gray house!
But someone stood up to oppose it and put forward another opinion, thinking that the system could not make such an unfair task. From the strong openness of the second world, this is a kind of open-ended task with multiple solutions. Although rich players can go on to the next step by buying gray houses, ordinary players can also proceed to the next step through some means or triggering certain events.
Compared with the first player's statement, the second person's statement is more acceptable. Unfortunately, no one has found a normal way to break through this task since it appeared. People who want to complete this task can only enter the next step by buying gray houses.
In desperation, a very small number of players who are rich and want to get rare item rewards bought a gray house for one million. They found that no matter how many people appeared in the room, they would be killed inexplicably after staying there for a while!
By this way, enter the next task step. Everyone knows that the gray room is key to the mission, but the problem is no one can survive in it! After ten players bought a gray house and failed their missions in Snow City, nobody was willing to give fifty million yuan for nothing to the system. The "Missing Citizens" mission has become one of the currently unsolvable tasks for players.
Xiao Hua saw this interesting task and thought he had a fake skill, which seemed to be able to give it a try. If he failed, he would only lose 500,000 yuan, and the house could still be used after failure, so his loss was not big. But what if he got lucky and succeeded? Xiao Hua is still upset about the high rewards of random world tasks in the internal test, but unfortunately that's a random task, theoretically there is almost zero probability for him to encounter again, so since there are such high reward tasks right now, no matter how, he must take a chance!
However, even with the illusion, Xiao Hua felt that this task should not be completed by him alone at present. But this task must be taken over when buying a house, otherwise it cannot be taken again. So Xiao Hua decided to take it down and put it on his body first, anyway, there is no time limit for the task.
"Sir, I want to buy that house. Can I?" Xiao Hua pointed at a gray house in the northeast of Snow City and asked.
"According to the law of Allen Continent, the lord has the right to dispose of property that is missing and without relatives. But our lord does not advocate this law, and he never disposes of houses owned by missing citizens. As a member of Allen Continent, you have the right to buy this house, but the lord also stipulates that buyers must pay double the price as additional compensation in case the resident returns."
Xiao Hua nodded and paid the gold coins, gaining ownership of the house.
After leaving the official residence, Xiao Hua had no intention of going to see his newly bought house. The room was not considered before he completed or failed his mission
He used it. Called a carriage, Xiao Hua walked to another famous building in the city.