"Woo, woo, woo..."
The train slowly stopped after a long whistle.
Finally, Innocence City arrived.
...
There were no accidents during the second half of the train journey.
Ji Xun also felt that it was reasonable.
After the fierce fight before, almost everyone now probably thought that he and the wanted criminal "Lone Wolf" Baron were in the same group.
Now that the mastermind has jumped out of the car and escaped, there is no point in looking for him.
And it can’t be found.
After that melee, the atmosphere in the carriage was completely mixed. The olfactory spell card master couldn't identify him before, but it was even harder now.
The most important thing is that now the train has arrived.
When you get off the bus, there is no space limit, and you can jump into the sea freely.
People in the carriage were already packing their bags, with eager expressions on their faces.
"Lao Meng, where are you going after you get off the car?"
"Of course I'll go to Fengyue Tavern and spend half a month there first!"
"Hahaha, I think so too. I heard that a group of new girls have come to the Ginza Tavern recently, and they are very good. Rumors say they are nobles who have been exiled from the royal city..."
"Bah, those old madams and pimps are just fucking talking nonsense! Come on, let's go and identify them together."
"..."
When they arrived at Innocence City, the most talked about thing among the hunters was the various romantic places.
Risking your life, nothing can release that pressure better than physical pleasure.
In these ten hours, Ji Xun heard the names of at least dozens of different pubs and romantic places. He already had an intuitive impression in his mind that the entertainment industry in Innocence City must be very developed.
Everyone was getting ready to get out of the car, so he calmly left from the iron box containing the body.
Looking at the changes in his attribute panel, Ji Xun was filled with emotion: "The strength data has increased by 0.09 in more than three hours, which is not bad."
From "0.76" before getting on the car to "0.85" now, I obviously feel that the strength has increased a lot.
Data such as physical fitness, agility, toughness, elemental affinity, etc. have all been improved.
Although I still feel weak.
But you must know that this is the result he obtained without any strength training or medicine.
It only took a few hours!
If there were more corpses, wouldn't it be possible to become stronger just lying down?
"If only there were more bodies..."
Ji Xun tasted the sweetness and murmured in his heart.
After the [Devil's Feast] skill is upgraded, it may have even greater effectiveness.
But don't worry about this for a while.
He stood up and squeezed into the crowd.
I don't know if the corpse that has been swallowed by me with extraordinary properties will be noticed by others, so it is best to leave the train first.
...
After leaving the can-like carriage, the air suddenly felt fresh.
Although there is a strong smell of soot in the air, it is a hundred times better than the mixed stench in the carriage.
As soon as the train stopped, workers in blue coarse cloths controlled various steam mechanical arms and began to unload the goods on the train. Almost all steam machinery and equipment are spray-painted with the words "Nugget Pier No. XX".
pier?
Not a station?
Ji Xun was slightly confused.
He wore a half-face gas mask, lowered his buckskin hat and walked through the crowd.
I looked around with my peripheral vision and saw no suspicious guy.
However, it was the group of little ghosts in tattered clothes who walked through the crowd and attracted attention. Although he is not young, he is a very skilled thief. Everyone knows that the hunters returning from the cave are full of treasures, and the dirty hands of the little devils quietly stretch out their hands.
Ji Xun only had a tactical backpack on him, and his expression didn't look like he was happy about making a fortune. There were no thieves to bother him.
The crowd was all walking in the same direction, and he followed suit.
The buildings near the station are similar to those seen in Devil's Crossing Camp before. Tall chimneys emitting white smoke can be seen everywhere.
The surrounding lighting was still gas lamps. Ji Xun looked up and could vaguely see traces of rocks. He felt a little strange: "It's still underground?"
He could figure out that the ruins were underground, but the train was still underground after ten hours of driving.
With doubts in his mind, he followed the flow of people and walked out.
Not long after we had walked, our field of vision suddenly became clearer.
At this moment, Ji Xun was suddenly shocked by what he saw in front of him.
Only then did he realize that this was really a dock.
And the real Innocence City is still on the other side of the cliff!
.......
"What...what is going on?"
Ji Xun looked at the huge cliff in front of him that looked like the end of the world, and didn't know how to describe the shocking scene in front of him.
In fact, he felt that he had never been so surprised when he discovered that he had traveled through time.
Deep in the ground, there is a huge crack. It is like a bottomless pit, with no bottom and no top.
Only then did Ji Xun realize what the "abyss rift" he had heard from the hunters before was.
He originally thought it was a crack in the earth, but he didn't expect it to be so exaggerated.
It felt as if we had reached the end of the world, with no way forward and nothingness in sight.
besides!
Is there no sky at all in this world?
Ji Xun looked up and saw that the sky above the rift was also filled with endless fog and darkness.
No wonder the words sun, moon, and stars are rarely heard in the mouths of hunters.
In order to facilitate people's passage, dozens of huge steam boilers on the Nugget Pier are billowing white smoke. The huge cable car is driven by steam power, dragging carriages slowly between the cracks.
But even a steam boiler with a height of more than 100 meters is like a grain of rice dropped in the soil in front of this crack.
Ji Xun felt a deep shock from the bottom of his heart.
Human beings are like an insignificant speck of dust in front of this huge abyss.
And even more magical is the rain in the abyss.
In the field of vision, raindrops were rustling, as dense as a curtain.
But the raindrops did not fall downwards, but toward the sky.
This is "hanging rain".
Looking again, when those huge cable cars entered the cliff, they suddenly reversed 180 degrees and then continued to move forward.
Ji Xun really couldn't understand: "Is the gravity in the crack opposite?"
There are actually two directions of gravity in this underground world?
It feels like the world is like a mirror, and then a crack breaks out and the whole world is divided.
.......
Under the cliff is a bottomless black hole. If you fall down, you will feel like you will be exiled into the endless void.
After gathering his thoughts, Ji Xun also queued up to buy a ticket and took the cable car.
The cable car reached beyond the cliff and suddenly turned over. The hunters had long been accustomed to it. They changed directions and stood on the "roof" like a normal means of transportation, and then quickly followed the cable car into the sea of clouds.
Ji Xun also felt the sudden reversal of gravity and was amazed in his heart.
As the cable car continued to move forward, the surrounding fog became thicker and thicker, but the road ahead was still invisible.
He looked out the window. There was nothingness above his head, and there was a bottomless abyss under his feet. It seemed that he could still see huge shadows of unknown creatures moving through the mist.
Staring into the abyss, the abyss is also like the eye of the world, staring at the visitors who come and go.
The cable car was like a night boat, swimming in the endless void, surrounded by smoke and clouds, so vast that it seemed unreal.
Ji Xun was deeply attracted by this suffocating mystery.
This rift seemed to be the door to another world, a new and unknown world waving to him.
After the cable car drove for more than half an hour, a hazy light appeared at the end of the field of vision.
Ji Xun looked into the distance and finally recovered from the shock of facing something huge.
He made a rough estimate of the distance and found that this fissure was more than ten kilometers wide.
On the opposite rock wall, there was a scene of feasting and feasting!
It was a house built like a stilted building with various neon signs hanging on it.
The Innocence City has arrived!
...
With a bang, the cable car hung upside down, and gravity reversed again.
As soon as I got off the cable car, a group of pretty tavern girls and pimps gathered around me.
"Hey, handsome man, do you want a drink? The girls in our Catwoman Tavern are famous for their delicate bodies. We guarantee that you will be satisfied~"
"We are having a mask party tonight at the Train Tavern, you can do whatever you want~"
"The Imperial Bathhouse allows you to enjoy services like a king. Quanguo will accompany you to take a bath. The second one is half price!"
"..."
Ji Xun ignored the pimps soliciting business and walked on the street.
This is the "Downing Street" that hunters mentioned most along the way.
A few short blocks are filled with hundreds of gambling stalls, pubs and various entertainment venues. This is the neighborhood that never sleeps in the Innocence City.
These sexy and intoxicating nightclubs will drain the returning hunters' wallets immediately.
Ji Xun walked into the city.
Innocence City is still a cave city with a unique architectural style. Steam and machinery are the main tone of the city.
The city is large in area and extremely complex in layout.
The building is tall and built against the mountain. Hundred-meter-high buildings are densely packed into a forest, and the buildings are connected by various pipelines and high-altitude corridor bridges. There are also a large number of buildings with hollow iron frames inlaid with glass, which look very dark and magical.
The green light overflowing from the depths of the city in the distance is the elegant fluorescence of alchemical dust.
The Downing Street side is the most prosperous, with brass replacing steel, adding a bit of bright color and nobility to the street. The stained glass inlaid in the tavern also shines with colorful colors under the light of the lights.
Ji Xun has already understood that the Sinless City itself is an ancient ruin.
The clothes on the street are no longer limited to various adventurous attires. There are punk-style young men in leather jackets and pants with bright iron nails, young girls in Lolita skirts, calm middle-aged people in suits and leather shoes, and girls in linen clothes selling flowers. , a boy wearing a deerstalker hat and a cigarette case around his neck...
If it weren't for the fact that almost everyone is equipped with guns, knives and mechanical equipment as standard, this would be a harmonious and lively urban street scene.
Ji Xun walked on the street, looking at this completely new world, his eyes reflecting the people coming and going.
At this moment, a door to a new world opened.
Unconsciously, we came to a Y-intersection. The rusty iron sheet on the side of the street was graffitied with the street sign "13 Downing Street".
There is a huge locomotive-shaped building here, with a huge wine glass on the illuminated signboard and the signboard of "Old Gun Tavern".
Ji Xun thought of finding a place to sit first and walked in.
Because he had heard from the hunters that the tavern was one of the best places to get information in Innocence City.
For professional hunters, they spend more time in taverns than at home.
As soon as he entered the door, Ji Xun saw various recruitment announcements posted on the wall.
A group of people pointed at the announcement.
"The Banner Hunter Group is recruiting wilderness hunters, ￥1,000/day, daily settlement! If you make a major discovery, the maximum bonus is one million!"
"The Lion Mercenary Group is recruiting professional mercenaries. Priority will be given to those who retire. Card Master Apprenticeship: ￥13,000/month. Formal Spell Card Master Interview, favorable treatment!"
"The Hunter Guild recruits contract hunters to be responsible for land reclamation and investigation..."
"..."
Ji Xun glanced at it and found that the wages of hunters were generally good, and the pioneer hunters in Rijie had the highest wages.
And looking at another recruitment page, the salary of ordinary people is much less.
"The municipal government is recruiting sewer dredging workers, 1800/month"
"Haisen Pharmaceutical Company is recruiting alchemy apprentices, 4,500/month, and you need to know basic alchemy knowledge."
"Apprenticeship at Green Machinery Factory, ￥2800/month, including food and accommodation"
"Boiler worker at Nugget Terminal, ￥3000+/month, more work, more reward"
"..."
Ji Xun took a look and had a rough idea of the price and wage levels in Innocence City.
The risks of a career are clearly proportional to the benefits.
He even suspected that the previous owner was the so-called "pioneering hunter".
In layman's terms, they are cannon fodder who risk their lives.
No strength, poor equipment, and poor.
Just like the extra-dimensional space of 407, every time you open an unknown door, you may face unknown risks. At this time, cannon fodder is of great use.
Sacrificing a cannon fodder can reveal some unknown information, which is worth the money for a large mercenary group.
Ji Xun didn't look much and entered the tavern.
He wanted to take a sip of wine to slow down, learn about the world, and get some news.
For example, he heard about the "Thirteen Paths to the Gods" and the "Fifty-two Extraordinary Career Sequences" on the train.
There are also those magical cards, the hanging rain in the abyss and the cracks, the magical black technology of steam...
There are too many secrets in this world.
The mystery is right in front of you, within reach.
When the wind blows, he dances in the wind, and when it gets dark, he walks alone at night. Even when he falls into the abyss, he can still smile brightly.
Ji Xun likes this new world.
