It's weird to apply for Witch Academy as a boy

"What about you and Ning Lanqiuyun? Are you also colluding with each other?"

"Yes...No..."

"What do you mean?" I listened to this nightmare demon admitting it and then shaking his head to deny it. Is this a collusion?

Or was it forced?

"Ning Lan...Qiu Yu...beg us..."

"Begging you to do it? So Ning Lanqiuyun was schemed by his son. Was it his initiative, or did you take advantage of his desire for the city lord position and induce him to do so?"

"Is there...a difference..."

"Haha...yes, that's really funny."

At this moment I chuckled, it was the joy of witnessing the diversity of human nature, and the shock of seeing a novel-like plot being played out in reality. It is said that power is a seductive poison that can make people pick up the butcher knife and put it on the necks of their loved ones.

According to the information previously obtained from the nightmare demon in Ning Lanqiuyue's body, Ning Lanqiuyu's patricide was also planned by the nightmare demons. It seems that they had planned it from the beginning. Ning Lanqiuyu's existence is simply the perfect tool for them.

They are ambitious, motivated, and have consistent goals, but only have cognitive information gaps. They are the best tools, the kind that will help count money even after being sold.

"But I still have some questions. How did you find Ning Lanqiuyu? Regarding your plan to seize the luck, when you first arrived in Ninglan New City, you should have looked for the city lord first, instead of making a plan centered on Ning Lanqiuyu."

Even if the destruction ritual requires the city lord's son, as long as his father is killed, his son will inherit the throne, instead of going through the trouble of letting Ning Lanqiuyu rebel.

From a God's perspective, all this is doing is superfluous, and there should be quite a few nightmare demons who died "innocently" in this process.

"What's the difference...? Aren't they all... the same..."

"I'll give you one last chance." I said in a deep voice.

"Locate! Locate... We, the Nightmare... need to locate the coordinates if we want to descend here... That... is in the hands of Ning Lanqiuyu... At first, we can only... can only communicate with him..."

"Even if he comes... it will cost a huge price... He needs his cooperation and... the Advent Ceremony... He... is not easy to deceive..."

"Location coordinates, haha, I thought it was easy for you to come here."

"The void is huge... special means are needed to reach it..."

"So you haven't shown your true terror in front of that fool yet? He's still being kept in the dark by you, thinking he can use you and then get rid of you?" After all, this is the most reasonable explanation.

If Ning Lanqiuyu wanted to use this nightmare to achieve his own goals, imagine that a person suddenly got the devil's things and could summon them to fulfill your wishes. Then when using this devil, you must also consider whether you can control the other party.

After all, Ning Lanqiuyu wanted to be the city lord, not a younger brother under the devil, so he needed a deterrent method to kill the donkey after it had done its job.

"Yeah... probably..."

"What does it probably mean?"

"We...are just...using each other, calculating against each other..."

"Hehe... that's right. He has the guts. If he wins in the end, then he'll be a hero, and no one will know the game behind it. If he fails... then he'll be a sinner, and he'll even bring trouble to the entire Ninglan New City. He's indeed an ambitious man who would cooperate with the Abyss Demon."

To put it bluntly, the history of Ninglan New City is nothing but the glory written by the victors.

Perhaps in Ning Lanqiuyu's eyes, if he failed, he would just die, so he wouldn't care about the flood after his death.

But he could obviously wait, but he couldn't.

Faced with the two choices of something that would be his sooner or later, and taking the risk to get it now, he chose the latter. No matter what kind of mental struggle and entanglement he went through, the result would not lie. This mentality destined Ning Lanqiuyu to not be a qualified city lord.

The survival of Ninglan New City requires a person with a firm mind who perseveres day after day, rather than a mediocre person who cannot even suppress his inner desires and who has ambitions that do not match his cognition.

But it’s not my turn to judge this either.

I just need to make my choice, and now the choice I face is also very clear. I can agree with Ning Lanqiuyu's behavior and cover up for him, or I can deny Ning Lanqiuyu's behavior and expose his despicableness.

Now that we have understood this level, right or wrong is actually not important. What is important is the stance and the side you stand on.

After all, they define right and wrong at that level, and coincidentally, I am also a very open-minded person and will not impose right and wrong on others.

My rationality made me choose to understand him. After all, everything had already happened. There was no need for me to impose my own values ​​​​on Ninglan New City. After all, even if they were rotten to the core, it had nothing to do with me. But his behavior made me uncomfortable.

My instinct is naturally to choose to expose the other party, but the consequences of exposure are unknown, and may even lead to worse and unpredictable results. Moreover, the city lord does not seem to have a second son.

So, both options make me uncomfortable.

Then just don't make a choice.

I choose to wait and see.

Chapter 339 Ning Lanqiuyu's Calculation

"Yes...a seed."

Ning Lanqiuyun's voice came out slowly, confirming Ning Lanqiuyu's doubts.

At this moment, Ning Lanqiuyu spontaneously walked forward in front of the seed. He stretched out his hand and wanted to gently pick up this white crystal product that looked like a work of art. Ning Lanqiuyun on the side did not stop him and let Ning Lanqiuyu go forward.

When Ning Lanqiuyu's fingers pressed into the hollow carved white crystal, at that moment, the world in Ning Lanqiuyu's eyes changed. The seed that was originally in his eyes seemed to have sprouted life at this moment. Golden light burst out from the seed, and the flickering power made Ning Lanqiuyu even unable to open his eyes.

And at this moment, he felt that the white crystal in his hand was merging with him like water, and he felt the rhythm coming from the seed.

He squinted his eyes in disbelief at the thing in his hand, and watched helplessly as a blood-colored thread wove the golden power into a chain that pierced directly through his chest.

At this moment, his mind finally cleared up and regret surged in his heart, but before this emotion could ferment, a big hand suddenly patted his shoulder.

"what--"

At this moment, Ning Lanqiuyu let out a low roar of fear as if he had just woken up from a dream, and then began to breathe heavily.

At this moment, he lowered his head, looked at his intact chest, and then looked at the seed in front of him. It seemed that there were no golden chains or red threads extending from it.

It was all like an illusion to him.

"Just now…"

"It's just an illusion. From now on, you are the mayor of Ninglan New City."

"What is that? Tell me! You made me come here for no reason, and after touching such a thing you said I am the city lord, what do you mean?" At this moment, Ning Lanqiuyu's emotions also burst out. Just now he even thought he was going to die!

"It's just the literal meaning. I used to be like you, not understanding what this meant. I just followed my father's instructions. When I was confused and my will was not firm, I came here to meditate closely, and many problems could be solved."

"You may understand it as an extraordinary artifact. No one knows who made it, and no scholar can understand its extraordinary principle. But the faint, golden thread may be the luck that those nightmare demons mentioned."

"Golden...thread? Luck!" Ning Lanqiuyu was a little puzzled, but just as he glanced at the seed, the golden power condensed into a thread and wrapped around his wrist.

This frightened him so much that he immediately pulled his right hand away, and when he looked again, there was nothing.

Suddenly, Ning Lanqiuyu felt a chill on his back. What kind of strange object was this? Why did such a thing exist underground in Ninglan Township Fort?

He found that this was the first time he didn't understand his father or Ninglan New City. Why did things turn out like this?

But when he set his eyes on his father again, his originally sturdy and strong figure became thin at this moment. Even though the other party had become much thinner when he saw him before, he did not pay attention to this change. But now he has to pay attention to it. It only happened in the blink of an eye!

"you!"

"So... he was determined to pass on the position of city lord at that time..." At this moment, Ning Lanqiuyun sighed, but his voice had become as thin as a mosquito, and the next moment he fell straight down.

At this point, the city lord who dedicated his entire life to Ninglan New City fell down.

Ning Lanqiuyu didn't even subconsciously reach out to help after seeing what was happening at the moment.

Everything around seemed to be frozen in deathly silence.

"Is this old man dead?"

Until an enchanting female voice echoed in this small secret room.

Then a figure separated from Ning Lanqiuyu's body, and her own body emerged in her dream.

"Dead, help me see what this thing is." Ning Lanqiuyu said in a flat tone. Although he squatted down to feel the other party's breath, he subconsciously distanced himself from the white crystal and the seed.

"This? Haha...it's just an extraordinary item." The nightmare demon casually explained to Ning Lanqiuyu, but a hint of surprise and joy flashed in the depths of her eyes, but she concealed it well.

"Extraordinary items? What do you mean? Will they be harmful to me?" he asked with a frown.

"I don't know much about extraordinary items, but I only know that most of them are miracles that cannot be replicated."

"A miracle that cannot be replicated? Then this is very precious?" At this moment, Ning Lanqiuyu's eyes flashed with a gleam, and then he asked.

"It is indeed precious, but you have to be alive to use it. Why? I saw you were disgusted with this thing just now, but your eyes light up when you heard it was valuable?"

"Do you have the life to use it? Is this really a very evil thing..."

After hearing the other party's description, Ning Lanqiuyu calmed down, but he did not completely believe what the other party said, because he knew very well that he was not the other party's master, and his every action and every choice was a game with the other party.

"Yes, most extraordinary items have very unique abilities, but using them requires a price, and the weaker your own strength, the greater the price you need to pay. Do you want to try it?"

"Tsk..." Ning Lanqiuyu frowned and said "tsk". He would not use himself to test this thing. His life was more precious than anyone else's!

"Don't be so disgusted. Haven't you just used it? It seems that you have established some kind of relationship with it."

"What? Is this old guy still plotting against me until his death?" Ning Lanqiuyu looked at the figure falling to the ground, the look of disgust on her face becoming even stronger.

"Do you know this... extraordinary item? What is its price?"

"You want to know? Then beg me~" The nightmare demon looked like he would tell you if you just humble yourself and beg him, but in the end he was met with Ning Lanqiuyu's indifference.

"Please? That's not necessary."

"Well~ Really, you have no sense of romance at all. It's just a price, hasn't someone already paid it for you?" The nightmare demon said, looking at the ground.

"I see. Now that the price has been paid, what is its effect?"

"I don't know. I'm not an expert in this area, so how can I know anything about it? But I suggest that you get rid of this thing. Maybe... it wants to use you as a consumable to continue Ninglan New City?"

"You should know that except for the first generation, all the other mayors of Ninglan New City are short-lived, right? If you don't want to follow your father's old path and die suddenly in the prime of life, you know~"

"No need for you to remind me."

Ning Lanqiu Yu closed his eyes and then opened them again. He found that his hallucination seemed to be a little serious. He saw the golden thread wrapped around his body again, but when he looked carefully, he could not see anything.

This must be the influence of this so-called extraordinary item, he must get out of here.

The farther away the better!

"Oh? You just locked this good thing here?" The Nightmare Demon looked at Ning Lanqiuyu leaving here, and even locked the door with his backhand, and asked curiously.

"Or do you want me to carry this thing with me?"

"That's true, but you have gained a lot from this trip. I didn't expect your cheap father to support you so much. You know, he almost wiped out all the nightmares we planted in Ninglan Township Fort. He is really a terrifying guy."

"Everything cleaned up?"

"Yeah~ It's really frustrating. If we only rely on the remaining nightmares to raid those outsiders, it may not achieve your expectations."

"I know what you mean, but how is the thing I asked you to do going? I asked Ning Lanqiuyue to move most of the combat power in the underground city area. Don't let me make it so that I can't even take down an empty underground city area."

"Don't worry, after your good sister showed me the way, the remaining nightmares have gone down. Don't say we didn't contribute."

"I hope you don't screw this up for me."

Ning Lanqiuyu snorted coldly, then turned and left. He needed to prepare for some things to come.

Now that it has been confirmed that the original city lord has died, he must begin preparing for the transfer of power as city lord, as well as giving a speech to explain the whole story to the citizens of the city.

But before that, he still needed to conquer a place.

Underground city.

Now that he has become the true lord of the city, how could he allow the underground city to develop its own system of life?

He must take control of the underground city as quickly as possible to deal with the crisis of the upcoming beast tide.

It's not just the beast tide, it's also about completely eliminating outsiders. Outsiders are the common enemy of him and the nightmare. Even though outsiders have made a lot of efforts in this resistance to seize power, outsiders are outsiders after all. The root cause of everything that happens is inseparable from outsiders. He is not the kind of person who will not be willing to throw away outsiders after using them.

At this moment, as long as he waits for the people in the underground city to send a message for help to the ground, he can then lead people to truly liberate the underground city. From then on, the underground city will no longer be completely isolated from the ground.

You should know that the underground city has a very low presence. Some people who live in Ninglan New City all their lives may not know that there is such a thing as an underground city in Ninglan New City.

When Ninglan Qiuyu first heard about the underground city area, he couldn't even believe that his father, the lord of Ninglan New City, would sometimes speak politely to others. You know, his father is the lord of a city!

Those underground city leaders and scholars... he will always remember their attitude. What exactly makes them superior to others?

He had been to the underground city area in person, and what he saw told him that those guys were no different from them. It was only because they mastered the most advanced extraordinary skills and possessed unrivaled combat power that they held the lifeblood of Ninglan New City!

Now that he has become the lord of a city, how can he be controlled by others with his extraordinary skills?

It's impossible!

Therefore, since some things have been determined, there will naturally be no chance of being lenient. At this moment, regardless of the means, it is natural to only see who gets the final benefit, that is the real thing.

When he arrived at the underground city, he used the so-called anchor he had and the so-called soul essence he collected from the battles along the way to summon nightmares and let them fight underground.