Isn't it?
Rhodes' expression was a little stiff.
Are you reliable?
You won't trick me, will you?
But Lauren just laughed a few times and stepped out of the car, taking out a strange weapon from her arms.
It has a longer barrel and a thick stock. It looks like a classical firecracker, but it has no trigger and no powder hole.
"It's called the Raven. It's a limited-edition Raven-type spirit gun produced by the Seamans factory in 1301. It has a large caliber of 12 millimeters, is gas-guided, rotates automatically and locks. It weighs 7.1 thousand angstroms. It uses real silver bullets and has an effective range of 110 yards. The maximum psychic power is 60 ticks, and the bullet exit energy level is 31."
He thrust the gun into Rod's hand.
"My favorite when I was a boy, I give it to you now. It is very powerful and is best used for self-protection when you are weak. There are still seven bullets in the chamber. You can reload it yourself after use. "
Rhodes took the "Raven" and held it in his hand for a closer look. The biggest feeling this gun gave him was that of harmony and unity. From the muzzle to the tail of the gun, it was a complete hook. There were a large number of complicated patterns engraved on the gun body. But it does not lose its streamlinedness at all.
But, how can I shoot without a trigger?
Rod looked at Lauren with questioning eyes.
Lauren smiled and said: "Hold the butt of the gun, concentrate the spiritual energy in the palm of your hand, and pour it into the gun. When the spiritual pressure column is full, it will open..."
boom!
Huge gunfire echoed through the quiet neighborhood.
A small water tower standing in the middle of the street was hit. The real silver bullet fired at high speed penetrated one side of the water tower and released energy on the other side, blowing a big hole in the back of the water tower.
The clear water gurgled down, making the muddy neighborhood even muddier.
There was no one on the block. In the surrounding simple houses, many figures appeared at the windows, seemingly looking for the source of the abnormal noise in the block.
Lauren laughed and said: "Notify the Outer City District 1 Administration Office. The maintenance costs and losses will be recorded in your account. Don't expect me to pay. I just taught you how to use it and didn't ask you to shoot. "
Rhode's hand was numbed by the huge recoil of the spirit gun, and he was also numb when he heard this.
"I still need to compensate for this...but I was just careless...aren't we investigating a case? Can't this be considered a loss of official duties?"
Lauren's helpless smile widened: "If I write this down as a reimbursement item, Lily will kill me. This cannot be considered official loss. It is just an accident caused by personal negligence and cannot be reimbursed."
Rhodes was not very happy. He suffered a huge blow before the incident started. He only had forty-two silver cords in his pocket and planned to save up to buy some items.
"Don't take it too seriously, it's just a small thing."
Lauren snapped her fingers, and the horseless carriage automatically backed up along the route it came from.
"The important thing is the investigation. Your life or death depends on our investigation."
Lauren walked forward quickly.
Rhodes felt a chill in his heart and quickly followed his lead.
The street was covered with mud, and their shoes and pants were soon covered with specks of mud.
This place is completely different from the college. The lights in the college are endless, with rows of street lamps as far as the eye can see. Every building is covered with all kinds of lights, as well as illuminated murals, hangings, stone statues, and even Trees, grass, vines and other plants.
Bright light illuminates every corner of it, like a neon city that never sleeps with classical elegance and artistic flavor.
If you don’t look up, the view is perfect.
But here, everything is different.
The thick, dark fog was right above my head, and I could see it without raising my head. The dirty streets were lined with dilapidated houses, without any layout, crowded together.
There is a lamp in front of every house, either hanging on the door or retracted in the window grille. The lamp is old and dim, which is in sharp contrast to the exquisite, elegant lamps made of brass and crystal in the college. .
Shadows are everywhere here, filth is everywhere, and the stench mixed with fermentation and fermentation acid goes straight to the nose, making people sick.
Not only is this place incomparable to the academy, but compared to the environment outside User Medical Center, it is like hell.
Rhodes held his breath and felt as if something was shattered in his soul. He seemed to have seen the real side of the world.
Lauren, on the other hand, looked calm and turned a blind eye to everything around her, as if she had long been accustomed to it.
After a moment, Rhodes couldn't help but ask: "Mr. Lauren, is this a slum?"
Lauren replied calmly: "No, this is Trorian King City, Lower City, Outer City, District 1, Firehammer Street."
There seemed to be a trace of sarcasm hidden in his words, which would be difficult for people without certain experience to detect, but Rhodes had more knowledge of the world than anyone else and was keenly aware of it.
He was dissatisfied with some opinions within the royal city.
This made him feel very bad, and he couldn't help but ask: "In such a crisis, don't we unite closely around the holy fire, with the king as the core, and work together as one to protect our homeland?"
Lauren sneered: "If it is true as we have been preaching all year round, why are there doomsday sects with the goal of extinguishing the holy fire and destroying mankind?"
He suddenly turned around, glanced at Rhodes with a slightly complicated look in his gray eyes, and his tone returned to calmness.
"I really underestimate you, Rod. Where did you get this tone?"
Without waiting for an answer, he continued.
"The Royal City is divided into the Upper City and the Lower City. The Lower City is divided into the Inner City and the Outer City. The Holy Fire is in the Upper City. The first area of the Outer City is the furthest away from it. At the edge of the Royal City, the power of the Holy Fire radiates. There is only a little left here, and we cannot light up this place like the college district. We don’t have that much spare light and can’t light up that many spiritual lamps.”
Is it really a resource problem, or a disease of poverty that cannot be cured?
Rhodes thought for a while and changed the question: "What are peripheral vision and spiritual lanterns?"
Lauren explained unhurriedly: "The afterglow is the light from the guardian fire, which can dispel the black fog in a small area. The spirit lamp is a specially made lantern that can project light on it." In the finished space, of course, it cannot be too far away.”
"It seems that your memory loss is very serious. This is our most commonly used item. Every house will hang a spiritual lamp, especially in the outer city."
Rhodes suddenly understood how the room with no lights but a dim light came from.
"Will a spiritual lamp with residual light stay on?" he asked curiously.
"Requires phlogiston."
"What is phlogiston?"
"Raw materials added to the fire to maintain burning. The higher the intensity of the guardian fire, the higher the level of phlogiston required. Yu Guang only needs the lowest level of phlogiston to stay alive. This is also the most acceptable to the people of the royal city. ——They only need to spend a small amount of money to maintain the glimmer of light for a month.”
"But……"
The block was very long and getting darker. Rhodes suddenly realized that some of the lights had gone out and the room was filled with darkness.
"A light went out."
Lauren suddenly quickened her pace, and Rod had to jog to keep up.
"Some are abandoned houses, some have been killed."
Rhodes asked in surprise: "Aren't you going to take it back?"
Lauren's eyes were always fixed on the street: "It's not necessary."
Rhodes hesitated for a moment. He saw a black figure visibly shaking in an abandoned wooden house.
"But, there seems to be a ghost inside..."
There was a loud bang.
Something exploded in front of him, and black debris flew everywhere, but none came close to Rhodes.
Lauren stared at the figure on an abandoned warehouse, slowly raised the iron rod in front of Rhodes, and her tone was still calm and soothing.
"Ghost, no one is scary."
