"Come, let's go in and take a look!" Manager Zou nodded. He also wanted to go in and see what was going on.
In the past, no one was allowed to enter the treasure vault. However, it was different now. Even the resources inside had been handed over to the Sacred Dynasty. Even if there were still resources inside, they would definitely be worthless goods.
Moreover, the current situation was very strange. They naturally couldn't care less. They wanted to go in and see why the City Lord hadn't come out yet.
After entering the treasure vault, the environment inside was a little dim. Fortunately, there were spiritual lamps in the passageways, so they could see clearly inside.
"City Lord! City Lord? " The two of them led a group of people into the treasure vault, but they didn't find any trace of the City Lord. The butler couldn't help but shout a few times.
Due to the narrow space, apart from the butler's echo, there was no other sound in the treasury.
"Manager Zou, why is the City Lord missing?" The butler was puzzled.
Although his voice wasn't very loud, if there were really people in the treasure vault, they should still be able to hear him, right?
Moreover, his echo was so clear that it was enough to prove how quiet the treasure vault was. With the City Lord's strength, how could he not hear their movements?
"Something doesn't seem right!" Manager Zou suddenly felt that the situation wasn't too good. The current situation made him feel that something might have happened to the City Lord.
"Everyone, split up and search. If you find the City Lord, report immediately!" The butler said to the people behind him.
"Yes!" Everyone picked up their torches and spread out to search the entire treasury.
Although the passageway was a little narrow, after entering the treasure vault, it was still very spacious.
It was like an underground palace. The place was very spacious, and there were many rooms inside.
However, these rooms weren't for people to stay in. They were used to store all kinds of resources.
In the past, all the resources handed over by the various cities of the Alliance were stored in these places.
But now, these rooms were all empty. Obviously, these resources had been taken away by the people of the Sacred Dynasty.
Looking at these empty rooms, Manager Zou felt a little heartache.
Although these resources didn't belong to him, the monthly salary that the City Lord gave them came from here.
Now that there was nothing here, wouldn't the City Lord not be able to take out their salaries in the future?
However, this was only a momentary thought. Right now, the treasury was so quiet. Other than their own people and the flickering flames, they did not find anyone else, nor did they find any trace of the City Lord.
"Butler, Manager, there's a corpse here. His clothes seem to belong to the City Lord!" Just as everyone was searching, a voice suddenly came from the deepest part of the treasury.
Hearing this voice, Manager Zou and the butler were startled, and they hurried towards the innermost part of the treasury.
"This is …" When they came to the innermost room of the treasury, there was indeed a corpse lying there.
But the most shocking thing was that this corpse was actually a dried up corpse. All that was left was skin and bones. It was impossible to tell what the deceased looked like when they were alive.
However, from the clothes he was wearing, he was undoubtedly the City Lord.
"City Lord!" The butler's face was filled with shock and grief.
He had never expected that the people of the Sacred Dynasty would not only take away all the resources of the Wu City Alliance, but also kill their City Lord.
Manager Zou looked at the dried up corpse and did not say anything.
Although he had already guessed that this might be the result, he could not help but feel somewhat disappointed when he saw it for himself.
The City Lord was dead. This was enough to prove that their cooperation negotiations had failed.
Unfortunately, he did not even know how the City Lord had negotiated with them, nor did he know how far they had gone.
Did the Sacred Dynasty not agree from the start, or did they kill the City Lord because of some friction and conflict during the negotiation?
All of this seemed to be a mystery forever.
"Take the City Lord's corpse out and inform the ladies!" Manager Zou sighed and said helplessly.
It had to be said that the City Lord was very smart. He had left the ladies in a secret place instead of hiding them in the treasury.
Perhaps he had already thought of this. Otherwise, if he had brought the people of the Sacred Dynasty in, the ladies would have been buried with the City Lord.
However, now that the City Lord was dead, Wu City was going to change.
After leaving the treasury and returning to the courtyard of the City Lord's Mansion, the sky was still dark, but the entire Wu City had become very quiet.
Everyone seemed to know that the experts of the Sacred Dynasty had left Wu City and that everyone was safe, so no one was shouting on the streets anymore.
However, this quiet atmosphere seemed to be a form of silent mourning for the City Lord's death.
When the ladies came out of the secret room and saw the City Lord's corpse, they immediately burst into tears.
Tonight was destined to be a sleepless night, but to most people, this was just a false alarm.
However, to many people, this was the night their lives ended.
The next day, news of the Wu City Alliance being attacked by the Sacred Dynasty spread quickly to the other cities. Even the news of the City Lord's death could not be kept a secret.
Many people were not surprised to hear this news.
This was because everyone knew that the Wu City Alliance was one of the few cities in this region that had not declared their allegiance to the Cheng Family.
Now that they had been attacked by the Sacred Dynasty, they were unable to resist them, and even the death of their City Lord was a matter of course.
However, to the other alliances around them, it was extremely fortunate, especially the alliances between the Qiu Feng Alliance and the Wu City Alliance.
They had thought that the Sacred Dynasty's next target would be one of them, so they had been very worried these days.
However, they had never expected that the Sacred Dynasty would skip them and go straight to the Wu City Alliance.
"Did you see that? This is the power of the Cheng Family. The Sacred Dynasty has long known that we have pledged allegiance to the Cheng Family. There are experts of the Cheng Family in the city, so they skipped us and went straight to the Wu City Alliance.
As expected, without the Cheng Family's help, the Wu City Lord would have ended up dead in the end.
Fortunately, when we saw that the situation was not right, we quickly submitted to the Cheng Family and invited the experts of the Cheng Family to take charge, "some of the alliance's City Lords said with a smile.
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