Ana's residence in this area is a dilapidated courtyard. The door is not even locked and opens with a push. The objects in the yard were already covered with a thin layer of dust. She pulled a piece of cloth from the clothesline and wiped a stool before giving up the cleaning work and said to Lu Ning and Yan Rong: "See for yourselves. Can you sit somewhere, I don't want to clean anymore."
"Just stand." Lu Ning couldn't find a clean place. "We also want to get to know the outer city in these two days. After all, we may often deal with this place in the future."
"I'm familiar with everything around here. What do you want to know?" Ana said cheerfully.
"What is the origin of that steel core seal?" Lu Ning asked a question that she was more concerned about first. She pulled out the dagger a little bit, and there was a mark on the place where it had been hit by the hammer. The shape was exactly the same as before. I have seen traces of rainbow flowers.
"Did you also notice? In fact, it's not a secret. The hammer used there is a treasure from the ruins, but only the owner of the place knows the specific situation. It's not that no one has made an idea, but both thieves and robbers have gone there. If you don’t reply, you will gradually become more honest.”
"But aren't the nobles collecting treasures?" Yan Rong asked.
"That's right, but after all, the treasure is something left by the king. It seems to have its own complicated ownership transfer rules. This kind of thing that does not cause an out-of-control impact cannot be snatched casually. There are still a few people in the outer city who hold the treasure and they are quite famous. Ana thought for a while, "For example, the famous lone ranger 'Morning and Dusk', the legendary assassin 'Red Warbler', the workshop owner 'Rattlesnake', the border reclusive 'Dark Sage'..."
Lu Ning's eyes jumped when she heard that name.
"Wait a minute, Ana, we haven't heard of these people in detail. Can you tell us about their deeds?" She moved the topic to that point without leaving any trace.
"Oh, no one in Chen Dui or Hong Ying has seen what the real person looks like. They only have names. One of them is a person who single-handedly handled the bounties of several high-level nobles. He must often go looking for ruins. As for Hong Ying, he is a professional Assassins who kill difficult targets, inside and outside the city, will take that person's life no matter where they are, but they don't accept the jobs of nobles and ordinary people."
"Who are Rattlesnake and Dark Sage?"
"Rattlesnake is probably the most obvious one. He has a huge workshop in an outer city and only accepts customized orders. He writes in his advertisements that he uses treasures for manufacturing. He must have sufficient confidence. Dark The sage is the most mysterious. It is said that he lives in seclusion in a border area. If he can be found, he will give that person an answer, a blessing and a mission. His kind of omniscient person has mastered everything. The possibility of treasure is also very high.”
"But we have never heard of the border." Lu Ning pretended to be confused, "The outer city and the wasteland are mainly the differences between these two places, aren't they? But if he lives on the border between the two, he will have to find it. It’s easy, right? It’s definitely not that simple.”
Ana also frowned and thought for a while: "I have never heard of any boundaries. Is it probably a place created to create the mystery of this person? In fact, it is almost certain that people like them have treasures in their hands, otherwise How is it possible to maintain your identity without being exposed?”
Indeed, I have said before that if you really want to find someone, Eyesight's information network can easily search out a person's true identity, including their current location, and only treasure can have a similar shielding effect.
"If we are looking for these people..." Lu Ning muttered quietly.
Of course Ana heard this sentence: "You can't find these people if you look for them, otherwise why would you hide yourself? I can only say that if you are lucky, you can meet them."
It seems that Ana only heard about it, but Lu Ning didn't expect to get the complete news from here, it would be nice to have a beginning.
"Hmm... I'm asking about another thing. There is a ticket booth nearby. The conductor there seems to belong to a noble?"
"Belonging to the nobility? Are you talking about that servant?" Ana immediately understood who Lu Ning was talking about, "That kid just got the chance to sneak in from the outer city. Do you remember the foreign affairs officer Aiosek from Eyesight? A real aristocrat. People are like him. On the surface, they must maintain etiquette and respect for you, and everything must be considered carefully. Does that kid still have such a bad attitude? "
"...Yes." Lu Ning didn't expect that the conductor would always be that virtuous.
"If you really want to beat him, don't beat him too hard. The nobles won't bother to beat him up." Ana grinned, "I got him some pepper water before, but no one from the nobles came to knock on my door."
"Hey, I'm just telling you, Lu Ning, if you didn't stop me then..."
"You can take advantage of tonight to beat him up." Lu Ning interrupted Yan Rong with a straight face, "Actually, we just wanted to go over and learn about the train, because this seems to be an intercity transportation network. And the aristocrats specially opened it There should also be people traveling between the inner city and the outer city of the royal capital in the network, right? Otherwise, how could they send people to the outer city?"
"That's true, but it's a dedicated line." Ana really knew.
"Can you tell us something? After all, we have no relevant memories at all." Lu Ning quickly followed.
"This is not something too difficult to find out, but...it's quite difficult. To take a special line train, just take any train and arrive at the terminal. The so-called terminal station is the departure station of the special line train. If you have that qualification, you can You can take the special train to the inner city of the royal capital."
"Sounds like it's not difficult? Two tickets?"
"There are two difficulties." Ana stretched out her finger. "The first one is the qualification to take the dedicated line. No one knows what the qualification is."
"How could it be? Since this news is semi-public, why don't you be brave enough to try it?" Lu Ning asked strangely, "Even if you can't ride, there is always a way to know the ride requirements, right?"
"This is the second difficulty..." Ana gritted her teeth, "All trains are operated by Dacapo, and the large-scale events that Dacapo is dealing with are rotary trains. Each train will not arrive at the terminal, but will be running. It returns to the starting point at the moment of the 'event', so no one can reach the terminal normally."
"In that case, why are there rumors about qualifications for riding?" Yan Rong asked.
"Someone must have used abnormal means. In short, I only know that it is absolutely impossible to reach the terminal by taking a car. I thought it was fun and took it once, and I completely understand what a wonderful feeling it is."
"So this, like infinite sight range, is the result of an 'event'?" Lu Ning thought, "What are the events that these nobles are dealing with..."
"Who knows? We only know that these incidents were handled by the nobles themselves, but they have not been handled well for decades. If it is not that they are too incompetent, then these are actually recurring things." Ana shrugged Shrugging, "Let me tell you, is it really okay for you to care about such a big thing when you first enter the city? Not long ago, we were almost in danger in an incident with a thousand-meter visual range."
"I'm curious, you also know that all our memories have been lost, and even if we try to find our family members, we probably won't be able to find them." Lu Ning said innocently, "So this is the first time for us to hear these rumors. "
"You'd better improve your strength, whether it's custom-made weapons or undergoing enhanced surgery. Wen Dongyang must have told you to go to regular places as much as possible, right? That's because you wasteland people are not interested in those unlicensed operators. Some merchants have no discernment. Although some black clinics perform intensive surgeries with obvious side effects, the results are not bad." Ana scratched her hair and said, "Let's go have dinner. I'll explain it to you in detail on the way."
Ana obviously doesn't have much wealth and lives a casual life, so she couldn't help but talk about some of her past experiences while talking along the way. From the fragmentary information, Lu Ning also roughly knew how Ana grew up. of.
She has no parents, and has never even met or taken photos of her. She has grown up in an orphanage as long as she can remember. However, the orphanage in the outer city is only run by some well-meaning rich people. When she was six years old, It was destroyed by a fire set by an unknown person, and then Ana started a wandering life with some children who were lucky enough to escape.
Ana did not mention how they survived. She could only briefly guess from a few words that these children had gone through a process from being secretly abducted to being able to attack adults from behind and steal all their belongings. They also followed the streets. There has been an increase or decrease in the number of new people joining. When I was about eight years old, something happened in this neighborhood, and after it was cleaned up, a new batch of rich people came. They felt that so many street children were an eyesore, and they planned to spend money to "train" them.
Ana is the unqualified one among them. She hates studying and doesn't like etiquette. Her companions put up with it in order to get a better life, so she sneaked away on her own and used the money she stole. I gave myself my first augmentation surgery—and since then, it’s been out of control. She is familiar with the way of survival here and has made a name for herself. Her friends all met the so-called "job standards" when they were around fifteen years old and entered factories or office buildings and started stable jobs, but Ana did not regret her choice at all.
"If my future life is to work in that boring place until I die, then I might as well be as happy as I am now." Ana smiled with satisfaction, then pointed to a neon sign in front of her, "This is it! My favorite restaurant!”
Lu Ning and Yan Rong took a look at the signboard, and saw four large characters "Red Soup Old Pot" that seemed to be burning. The result was not unexpected at all.
It's not that the two of them can't eat spicy food, but it's just that it's a little hard to accept a shop that makes dishes look like lollipops for a short period of time. Moreover, this shop is exactly the kind of shop that Wen Dongyang said without the aristocratic label.
Ana happily raised the curtain and walked in: "Uncle Deng! I'm here again!"
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Night fell in the outer city, and a small candlelight flickered in a narrow bungalow. Two people walked along the alley, stretched out their hands and pushed open the door. A flame lit up, illuminated by the dim light of a lighter. The person's face.
Liu Yunqing handed the plastic bag in his hand out, and the people in the room took it. After a rustling sound, the smell of food immediately filled the cold room.
"Sister Liu, Brother Kong, do you have any clues?"
"I had an exchange with the people from Fei Hua Fu Liu today." Liu Yunqing leaned on the door frame, keeping the light of the lighter on, "Maybe not all the tourists who come are from outside the city like us."
"What did they say?" asked another slightly calmer voice.
"It's too chaotic. The rule of the seven nobles is somewhere between reasonable and unreasonable. The situation in the outer city is also so weird that it's unpredictable. On the one hand, there are normal residents like ordinary people, and on the other hand, there are all kinds of people. He is walking around with the power of a strange and chaotic god." The man next to Liu Yunqing said.
"Logically speaking, in a general scenario like this, groups like ours should have rules such as grading, but in fact there is no such thing. The nobles don't measure the level of bounties at all. If someone accepts it, they will Granted, those who don't know how to measure their own strength can easily die suddenly." The calm voice said, "Based on our tasks, I suspect that different groups of people are assigned different initial tasks, and the further they sit back, the closer they will get. Together."
"You mean after entering the inner city?" Liu Yunqing raised his eyebrows.
"Exactly."
The room fell into silence, except for the slight sound of chewing.
The fire in Liu Yunqing's hand went out.
"How is Jiang Yueying's situation? I don't want to have attrition in the first few days."
"It's a little stable, but if you want treatment, you may have to receive treatment at the clinic here. I accidentally fell into the way of the samurai, only suffered a little impact, and came back like this and brought back some information, which is already amazing. "
Liu Yunqing sighed.
"I don't blame her. These big incidents wouldn't be so troublesome if they could be avoided. At least we have to stay united."
"What seems to have happened?" asked a calm voice.
"Li Qianqian, you know what the personalities of Feihua Fuliu... and Yin Tianyou are, right?"
"Know."
"But there are six people in a team. The relationship between the three of them and the other three teammates is obviously not very harmonious. If the team is not given a task this time, I doubt that they will break up the team directly. Let alone a chaotic scene, even if it is an ordinary scene This is also a high-risk situation.”
Two more sighs.
Liu Yunqing walked into the room, lit the candle a little brighter, and finally could see a few people's faces clearly.
The two young people not only look young, but actually don’t have much experience in the scene. The third-level newcomers, the more reliable ones are Li Miqiang, who is about forty years old, and Kong Xiu, who has a bookish temperament next to him. In addition, Jiang Yueying, who was originally lying on the bed, was also a good fighter, but she was always a bit unlucky.
"Tell me the good news." Li Miqiang said after taking two bites of his meal, "Today I found out some news about the Dark Sage."
