In the silent, empty subway car, Chen An sat on the seat.
He breathed calmly, feeling a little nervous in his heart.
Through the glass window, the scene outside is the darkness of the subway tunnel.
Slowly, until the subway seems to have stepped out of the underground...
Looking out the window again, the view outside suddenly became clearer.
"This is..."
Chen An's pupils suddenly shrank.
The scene outside the window was actually a vast desert of yellow sand!
Dead silence!
Empty!
desolate!
On the low yellow sand ground, there were only scattered withered plants and nothing else.
There were no critters, and no buildings further out.
Chen An took a deep breath, stood up, and walked to the window to see more clearly.
"It's really...an unreal world."
Slowly, time passed quietly. Here, the concept of time also became blurred. With the unchanging scene outside the window, Chen An stared at the yellow sand. He didn't know how long it had passed.
A city slowly appeared in his sight.
No, maybe not a city.
It was a huge ring, a huge ring that bulged slightly from the ground.
The ring is like a sandbag, but there is a city wall on top of the sandbag. On all sides of the ring, many narrow railways come from the other end of the yellow sand.
Incredibly complex.
The "Guantong" subway train where Chen An is located is also one of them.
The subway slowly drove up the sand dunes, and the view suddenly became clearer.
As Chen An quickened his breathing, what came into view was a complex city like a "trading post" in a novel or a wasteland movie.
The whole building is built in the style of a wasteland base city. There is no high technology and no strict guarding. Chen An only feels a strange and complex twist of dilapidation and hope.
"Dear passengers, this subway has arrived at the terminal - Ruandu."
"Ruan? Ruandu?"
Chen An muttered this strange name, and as the car door opened, he got out of the car with alert eyes.
The place where you get off the bus is an empty platform, and you still need to walk along the yellow sandstone road for a while before you can reach the main entrance.
Through his sight, Chen An could vaguely see that the subway lines in other parts of the Circular Sand Dune were also connected to this door.
Perhaps, this is the only gate in this city.
"Is the unknown journey about to begin?"
Chen An muttered, his body trembling slightly, a mixture of nervousness and excitement in his mind.
When he was in the car, he tied both the Smiling Rabbit and the Crying Rabbit around his waist, and they looked a little funny now.
He touched the heads of the Smiling Rabbit and Crying Rabbit puppets.
"Can you protect me?"
Chen An whispered.
...
...
Ruandu, outer city slum, main entrance.
Chen An hasn't reached here yet, and there are only two guards wearing dark gray soft leather armor standing here.
The faces of the two guards were shrouded in black veils, covering everything but their eyes.
Their eyes couldn't be said to be sharp, and they didn't even have the energy that a guard should have. They just stood here listlessly, performing their work.
The gate is made of scrapped bronze shells and other debris, which were pressed and piled into bricks. It is not strong or powerful.
About six or seven meters high, there are two big words "Ruandu" hanging on it.
The surrounding walls were also tattered barbed wire and looked like they were powered by electricity.
Inside the gate of the city, on a slightly tall tower, a little girl in a black dress and red eyes was sitting on the platform of the tower that was used as a "fence".
She has black hair hanging down to her shoulders, wearing a bunny earring, her eyes are scarlet, and her little face is quite delicate.
She was wearing a black gauze skirt that covered her small breasts and went all the way to her thighs until her white and tender legs were exposed, swinging freely underneath.
The girl was holding the stone platform with one hand and swinging the other hand in the air.
As Chen An arrived, she kept staring at the door and froze slightly.
"It took a day and a half to get here, so it's not too late."
She whispered to herself in a tender voice.
As soon as she finished speaking, she stood up from the twenty- to thirty-meter-high tower.
The corners of his mouth formed an arc and his body turned slightly.
With your back to the bottom...
Fell down!
From the air... suddenly fell towards the ground!
Amid the exclamations of scattered people around, Yin Qiaoxian's figure drew a perfect arc in the air, and her little feet wrapped in small leather boots landed firmly on the ground.
The men and women around them all have different looks and ages, but what is the same is their tired eyes.
After seeing Fairy Yinqiao, she was obviously a little afraid.
Looking at the eyes of the people around him, the smile on Yin Qiaoxian's lips grew stronger and stronger.
"This is...the taste of freedom..."
Yin Qiaoxian took a breath of the dusty air with some intoxication, and moved her neck again.
There was a bit of gloom and resentment in his eyes as he looked towards the door.
"It would be better if...without you."
...
...
Chen An shyly walked to the gate and looked at the broken door and the guard holding a stick there, trembling slightly in his heart.
I didn’t travel through time, did I?
Why is this place like the Wasteland Base City...
I thought the world of Jingjingtie would be very luxurious.
"Hey, brother, can I go in?"
Chen An smiled and greeted the guard guarding the door.
The guard's cloudy eyes moved slightly, but he didn't speak.
There was silence for a while, and Chen An felt that the atmosphere was a little awkward.
"Then I'm going in."
After entering the gate, what you see is a mess.
It's like a slum here. The yellow sand ground is covered with messy dirt, chewing gum, littered cigarette butts and discarded cans. The low houses not far away also seem to be supported by rags.
Here, Chen An also saw "people" for the first time.
As Chen An's footsteps stopped, he looked warily at these people who suddenly appeared.
At this moment, the curtains of these low and dilapidated houses were lifted, and figures were revealed on the surrounding street corners. A woman lying on the ground who did not know whether she was alive or dead raised her head.
Chen An felt that the eyes of these people were full of deathly silence and despair!
Being stared at so suddenly made me feel a little frightened.
Suddenly, the woman lying on the ground not far from Chen An, wrapped in dirty clothes on tattered sheets, waved towards Chen An.
Chen An swallowed and walked slowly.
"newcomer?"
The woman's voice was hoarse, and her appearance looked like she was in her thirties or forties, but she was aging prematurely, and the wrinkles at the corners of her eyes were somewhat conspicuous.
"OK."
"First game?"
"OK."
"Do you know all the rules of Soft City?"
Chen An shook his head.
The woman's yellowed, chapped face showed a slight smile, and she waved her hand. From somewhere on the side, a young man emerged.
The young man looked to be in his twenties, about the same age as Chen An.
He was wearing a vest embroidered with pink flowers, bright green pants, and leather shoes with worn-off heels.
Seeing the young man approaching, the woman said: "Monkey, take him to the bank and familiarize yourself with the rules."
"Okay, Sister Hua, leave it to me."
The young man smiled strangely and rubbed his palms.
Chen An was about to refuse, but saw Sister Hua turning her head to look at him.
There was a strange expression on Sister Hua's mouth.
"Brother, after you pass the second game...if you figure it out, remember to come find me."
She patted the other side of the dirty sheets where she lay.
"Don't mess up your face, you look very attractive to me."
