After hundreds of years of construction and expansion, the tiny land that was originally only a hundred square meters in size has turned into a small city.
In the distance stands a towering city wall that can't be seen to the end, tightly surrounding the entire city.
The gray buildings in the city are scattered in an orderly manner. Stone roads crisscross between the buildings, and many star card masters dragging black cloaks come and go.
However, compared to the modern society full of skyscrapers in the outside world, this city is a bit crude. The buildings that enter are all low-rise buildings with a height of less than ten meters, which seems to bring people back to the junction of urban and rural areas in the last century.
Lu Li, who saw this scene for the first time, looked around curiously through his goggles.
Being in such a scene gave him a feeling of confusion in time and space, as if he had traveled back to his childhood in his previous life.
"These buildings, including the farthest inner city wall, were built without relying on modern equipment at all. They were made from star cards." Lin Miaohan walked beside Lu Li and acted as a tour guide with great interest.
Modern devices in the Star Card world, ranging from mobile phones and razors to airplanes and cars, all rely on Star Power to operate.
However, due to the different star power environment within the star power source, these modern devices will become scrap metal once they enter the source. This greatly increases the difficulty for star card masters to explore the world within the source.
Fortunately, star cards have blossomed in the historical torrent of development, and several generations of card makers have produced countless functional star cards for land reclamation.
There are low-level star cards such as [Digging Art] and [Transportation Art], as well as high-level star cards [Forest Wooden House] and [Strong Wall Tower] that can directly create buildings.
As for the star card that can create skyscrapers, it is actually technically possible.
But...it's simply not necessary.
The Eastern Federation is a super federation with a population of nearly 2 billion, but the number of registered Star Card Masters in the Star Card Association is only over 200,000. Considering the population mobility in the Source of Light, the population capacity of the initial camp city only needs ten Ten thousand is enough.
This is why the city is full of low-rise buildings.
"It's really a complete small city. Although it's not as prosperous as the big cities outside, it still has the basic functions." Lu Li sighed.
On the market street not far to his right, there were many star card masters standing in front of stalls selling items, and there were even barter transactions.
On the front left is a street shop selling fast food, and next to it is a shop that rents and sells star beasts for transportation.
In addition, there are goggles stores, black clothing stores...
A small city can be said to be small but well-equipped.
Just as Lu Li was looking around, the sky suddenly turned dark.
For a moment, the adjustment function of the goggles failed to keep up, causing Lu Li's field of vision to briefly become dark.
"It's dark, take off your goggles." Lin Miaohan reminded her.
Lu Li took off his goggles and found that the dazzling morning sky above his head had been shrouded in a layer of black gauze at some point, filtering out most of the light.
The night in the city became darker and darker, and within a few seconds, the entire city was completely dark.
The sky was bright and dim, exactly like the nightless sky above Xinghai Town.
The bustling star card masters also took off their goggles, relaxed their bodies, and slowed down unconsciously.
Work at sunrise and rest at sunset. Now that it's dark, it's time to rest.
"This is the effect of the Star Card [Dark Barrier]." Lin Miaohan explained.
"Huh?" Lu Li was slightly stunned and asked, "I remember it's not a second-level star card, does it have such power?"
[Dark Barrier] can summon darkness and cover an area of ten meters in diameter. If you want to cover the sky above this city, you obviously need to use tens of thousands of star cards at the same time to do it.
"As long as there are enough." Lin Miaohan pointed to the ground ten meters away in front of her and said, "Here, look over there, there is a black stone slab."
Only then did Lu Li realize that the stone slabs paving the road were of different colors.
Among the brown stone slabs, a dark stone slab will appear every ten meters away.
"They are [Dark Barrier] release points."
Captain Xiong took over the conversation and explained: "This is an idea proposed by a star card master fifteen years ago. He issued an initiative to all star card masters who came to this city - in the source of light Create darkness.
There are tens of thousands of black stone slabs scattered throughout this city. If a star card master wants to bring darkness to others, he can stand on a nearby black stone slab at nine o'clock in the evening and release [Dark Barrier] towards the sky.
When tens of thousands of star card masters do this at the same time, darkness falls. "
After listening to Captain Xiong's introduction, Lu Li was a little surprised: "I thought the star card masters who released [Dark Barrier] were all official staff of the association. How can such a non-mandatory thing be carried out so well?"
The night curtain in the sky is tightly closed, with almost no gaps, which shows that there are a lot of star card masters participating in tonight's night curtain.
"How can there be tens of thousands of staff... In fact, there were not many people who participated in the Dark Night Initiative at the beginning. Basically, there were only star card masters who had been working in the source of light all year round."
Captain Xiong continued to explain: “They may not see the night for several months in a row, and they are very tired from the torture of the day, both physically and mentally, so they became the first batch of people to join the initiative.
After the night fell, other star card masters also found that walking under the night made them feel relaxed, and even the quality of their sleep improved a lot. "
"So more and more people are joining the Dark Night Initiative?" Lu Li asked.
"That's right." Captain Xiong nodded, "After all, a [Dark Barrier] only costs more than a thousand star coins, which is not expensive for those star card masters who can get around in the source of star power."
"Sometimes there are bosses who want to spread their wealth." Qiu Mingxue turned her head and joined in the conversation between the three of them. "They might wholesale a lot of [Dark Barriers] and give them to other Star Card Masters for use."
"This is really..." Lu Li felt a little emotional for a moment.
Things like day and night are taken for granted only when they are lost.
This is true for the day in the Antarctic eternal night realm and the night in the source of light.
However, unlike the star card masters who enjoyed the dark night in the city, Lu Li and the other five had just arrived at the source of light. They did not miss the dark night above the inner city and walked straight towards the distant city wall.
The inner city of the initial camp was not large, and Lu Li and the other five were all Star Card Masters of level three or above, so their pace was not slow.
In just an hour, they had reached the border of the inner city.
Standing in front of them was the south gate of the initial camp city.
