Chapter 7

Watcher? What kind of thing is that? Ang tilts his head and looks at the old lich in confusion.

Ang's emotion is "confusion," but he is a skeleton, and his eye sockets cannot convey emotions. In the old lich's view, this "tilting head to look at people" action is more like "sternness," scaring the old lich into reacting immediately, forcefully covering his own mouth.

"I didn't say anything, I don't know anything." Covering his mouth, Feilin's words are muffled, but his originally turbid eyes become radiant, as if flickering with the light of hope.

Feilin's inexplicable behavior leaves Ang somewhat confused, standing blankly in place and looking at him.

This kind of "blankness," in Feilin's eyes, has another meaning: dissatisfaction, Lord Watcher is very dissatisfied.

Feilin feels a chill in his heart. He realizes he has lost his composure, hurriedly rubs his face, lets his expression and demeanor return to normal, picks up the staff on the ground, tidies up his clothes, and finally stands straight. Although his expression is still somewhat unnatural, one can no longer see his loss of composure just now.

Aiske returns from the entrance and says in surprise: "What's wrong? City Lord, this is just a little friend. You wouldn't have scared it, would you?"

Little friend? Feilin feels a thud in his heart, carefully aiming at Ang, and seeing that he has no reaction, he feels relieved, saying: "Indeed a quiet friend."

While speaking, he moves to the side, and then roars in his heart: Little friend? His age might be older than your great-great-great-great-great... grandfather. You actually dare to call him a little friend!!

Feilin's inexplicable behavior makes Ang somewhat uneasy, hurriedly walking toward Aiske.

Aiske looks at Feilin in confusion, not seeing any abnormality, and turns to say to Ang:

"Don't be afraid, Feilin is a good person. However, there is soul suppression between you undead creatures, just get used to it. Enter this door, and inside is the underground city. It is very safe here, there are no predators. As long as you don't attack others casually, you can live until your bones rot. Find a place you like to stay. If you have anything, come find me..."

Aiske mutters a lot and leads Ang far away.

Feilin wipes the cold sweat that does not exist on his forehead and sighs longly, but soon shows an excited look again. The Watcher has appeared, the underground city is saved!

If Feilin were not a lich who had lived for thousands of years, if he hadn't worked at the world transit station, he might not have known about the Watcher at all.

Watcher is the manager of the teleportation channel, the observer and guardian of the world. This is not a formal noun, just a conventional term for some insiders in the world transit station, and it has not been acknowledged by the Watcher.

Lord Watcher does not have a fixed form. Sometimes it is a skeleton, sometimes a zombie, and can even be a ghost. But the common feature is that they all have a magical leather accessory.

No fixed form means that those are not the Watcher's main body, but the projection of consciousness. Powerful Watchers project consciousness from other places onto temporary shells, observing and guarding the world transit station.

Because of the shell, the Watcher's strength will not be very strong, and occasionally they will be killed by some bored guys. But it doesn't matter, it's just a temporary shell, and it will not cause impact on the Watcher. Instead, those guys who killed the shell have to face Lord Watcher's anger.

The most angry time, the teleportation channel sent a team of powerful Black Knights, a full twelve Black Knights, and slaughtered all four hundred people of that devil merchant group.

Since then, no one has dared to kill those inconspicuous skeletons and zombies casually, unless the skeleton zombies take the initiative to attack. Many people say that the Watcher is very likely the projection of Lord King, otherwise how could he drive a whole team of Black Knights?

Of course, those are things from almost a thousand years ago. Since the world transit station closed, this originally barren and desolate death world has gradually returned to its original level.

Without the entrepot trade of the Undying Empire, the economy here has declined, grain production has decreased, the population has plummeted, and the remaining people have hidden in several underground cities to survive.

And now, perhaps even surviving is no longer possible. The grain of the underground city has decreased year by year, and even these five thousand people now may not be able to be fed. If there is no new source of grain, the underground city may have to starve two-thirds of the people to death.

This is a very terrible humanitarian disaster. Feilin tries his best to avoid it, sending out several batches of envoys to other underground cities to seek grain, but without exception, they were all rejected.

This is normal. Not only is their underground city short of grain, but other underground cities are also short of grain. If they sell to others, they will have to starve to death themselves.

If it were a normal situation, Feilin would launch a war mobilization at this time, mobilizing all the power of the underground city to grab other people's grain.

However, the Breath of Rest prevented this situation from happening. No underground city can brave the Breath of Rest to launch a war.

The war path does not work, and the final choice may only be the Undead Scourge.

However, at this critical juncture, the Watcher appeared. What does this mean? This means that the world transit station may reopen.

Even if it doesn't reopen, with Lord Watcher's ability, solving a little grain supply problem is easy, and they don't have to go to the last step.

Thinking of this, a hopeful look burns on Feilin's face. The wind element rolls up his body, and he floats into the underground city without touching the ground.

Walking through a dim tunnel, the front suddenly opens up. A slightly downward slope extends into a huge underground space. A large number of houses excavated along the slope extend down along two main roads.

Some oil lamps are lit on both sides of the main road, providing lighting for the road. Various creatures walk and talk on the road, a busy scene.

Aiske, walking in front, turns back and says to Ang: "Alright, you are safe once you enter here. As long as you don't attack others casually, no one will hurt you. So, I wish your soul peace, see you when you have time."

After speaking, Aiske boards the wooden cableway and slides toward the cliff on the opposite side. Although he has seen Feilin, the underground city does not have only Feilin as a manager, and he still needs to report the situation to other management levels.

Ang and the little zombie are thus thrown down, looking somewhat bewildered at Aiske who is gradually drifting away on the cableway.

The sound of "kacha kacha" rings out. Ang turns his head to look and sees a white bone skeleton carrying a wooden basket, inside which is coal, walking up along the stairs.

The little zombie's eyes light up, and it wants to pounce over with its mouth grinning. In the Sea of the Departed, it went out early and returned late every day to prey on skeletons. Today it walked for a day and didn't eat anything, so it was already hungry and thirsty.

Ang grabs its collar, stopping its movement. Aiske has said several times "don't attack others." Skeletons should also count as other "people," right?