Chapter 2529: Territory threat

In addition to these security measures, Qiao An also used the 7th ring spell "Phase Gate" to create several secret passages.
These invisible spiritual passages can only be used by Qiao An himself and those who know the password, including emergency escape passages, shortcuts in and out of the lair, as well as secret passages that lead directly to Tisitea Lair, Varak Lair, prison and slave camp.
Qiao An didn't have the propensity to spy on other people's privacy. These secret passages were just prepared, and it might be useful someday.
After completing these tasks, Qiao An suddenly realized that since becoming a beholder, less than a month after he was full, his mentality and way of thinking had undergone a significant change.
Compared to humans, he seems to be becoming more and more like a real beholder.
Qiao An came to Udinese to observe and study the social ecology here. Going to the countryside is the prerequisite for research, but the psychological transformation has come so fast and so drastically that it has exceeded her expectations. She is not sure that this is a good thing. Still a bad thing.
It is difficult to require a monster to abide by the morals and laws of human society; on the contrary, when a civilized person is far away from human society and public life and wanders alone in the wilderness, it is easy to abandon humanity and eventually transform into a complete beast.
Qiao An is unwilling to give up halfway through and abandon her ongoing social experiment, but she also does not want to lose her humanity and abandon the bottom line of why people are human, so she decided to take precautions in advance.
Every weekend in the dead of night, she would spend an hour shutting herself in the "mage's secret room" and reading the books and documents she carried with her in the mirror.
Most of them are academic papers and journals, and there are also some literary, historical and philosophical masterpieces, which are the crystallization of the wisdom and civilization of the human world, and are the results of countless ancestors who have been tirelessly pursuing truth, goodness and beauty for thousands of years.
The purpose of Qiao An's reading these articles is very simple, which is to awaken the pride of being a human being, and avoid falling into the inhuman world too deep, and eventually lose the will to return to the human world.
Those who stare into the abyss should be careful, when you find that you no longer want to use the same language to communicate with the same kind, you are no longer one of them.
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The underground world hardly feels the changing of the four seasons, nor can you see the sunrise and sunset. From morning to night, the "timing column" gradually lights up and slowly goes out from the bottom to the spire, and time just passes quietly day by day.
Qiao An has been in Udinese for almost two months, and has gradually adapted to the new environment and identity, occasionally recalling the surface world he lived in before, and the human identity in the past, but feel a little strange.
This morning, while meditating in her bedroom, she suddenly received a telepathy from the "Mythical Magic Alert", informing her that Tisitaia and Varak had just entered the guard zone set on the periphery of the lair.
These two subspecies beholders have a deep awe of their owners, and will not come to see them unless they have to.
Qiao An floated to the desk, raised an eye stalk and touched the "remote mirror", the mirror surface showed psychic brilliance, and then the scene outside the door of the waiting room appeared.
"Eye of Gauss" Tsitea and "Eye of Director" Valak, floating outside the door, were talking in a low voice.
Judging from their preoccupied air, Qiao An guessed that they were in trouble.
At this moment Tisitaia stretched out an eye stalk and patted the closed door. A "Magic Mouth" immediately appeared on the smooth stone door, and asked in Mitra's unique arrogance: "What's the matter?"
"Dear Master, Valak and I have important matters to report to you."
Tisitea answered tremblingly.
At the same time, a "Magic Mouth" appeared on the wall of Qiao'an's bedroom, repeating Tisitaia's request.
"I see." Qiao An said to the "Magic Mouth" on the wall, "You two come to the reception room and report to me."
The magic "Magic Mouth" can be set in pairs to form a group of remote "interphones".
Qiao'an's instructions were transmitted to Tsitiya and Valak via the magic mouth, and at the same time, the stone gate in front of them also opened.
Qiao An initially planned to send directly to the reception room to wait for the two subordinates, but then realized that this was not in line with the arrogant style of the beholder family.
When meeting his subordinates, Mitra always had to let the other person wait in the reception room for a while, and then show up unhurriedly, to show that his time is more precious than the other person's, as if he really is a big man with every opportunity. Taking time out of his busy schedule to meet his subordinates, the other party should be grateful.
Qiao An doesn't like this kind of hypocritical manner, she is purely wasting the time of meeting the two sides, but as a beholder noble, out of the consideration of maintaining Mitra's past image, she has to be patient for a while before drifting out of the bedroom. , Go through the tunnel and shaft to the reception room to meet Tisitea and Varak who are waiting for her.
"What's the matter?" Qiao An asked straightforwardly.
"Master, I just received two not-so-good news. Your two properties... seem to be threatened."
Tisitaia said carefully.
Qiao An had long discovered that the two subspecies of Beholder servants had very different personalities.
"Eye of Gauss" Tizitaia can speak well, is good at communication, and is relatively smooth in life.
In contrast, the "Eye of the Director" Varak appeared taciturn, a little dull, and belonged to the type of "being able to act and not force too much".
So when they had something to report to their master, Tisitea always made a statement.
"Two industries are threatened?" Qiao An imitated Mitra's reaction in this situation, his sharp voice seemed a little nervous, "Which two industries? Who is threatened? You tell me clearly!"
"It's the lakeside dock, and... the magic crystal mine."
Tisitaia couldn't help but wiped off the cold sweat, and under the fierce stare of the owner's ten eyes, he bit the bullet and answered her question.
"This morning, your kobold servants went fishing as usual. However, as soon as they arrived at the dock, they found that the kobold who was in charge of the fishing boat was strangled to death in a shack by a fishing line. The two boats that had been docked by the trestle were gone. A piece of the rope tied to the stake was left behind, and someone apparently murdered the guard, then cut the rope and stole the kobold fishing boat."
"My fishing boat!" Qiao An suddenly interrupted her narration sharply.
"Yes, yes! It's your ship, of course it's your ship!"
Tisitaea quickly corrected her verbal error and slowed down so as to leave more time for herself to ponder her words and sentences, lest there be any words that were inappropriate, and anger the nervous and moody "giant-eyed tyrant".
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