Chapter 376 34. Layer of Ashes
The generous Annan distributed a... silver coin to his accomplices.
The reason is that they need money at any time.
They didn't say anything, after all, Annan could have given him nothing.
Annan asked Alice and the others to continue searching the mayor's manor. The rich students at Gwen College didn't care, but Annan did.
Some of the food scattered in the hall was still intact, but Annan was not sure whether it could still be eaten. "Are you hungry?" Annan asked, everyone shook their heads.
Even if they are extremely hungry, they don’t want to eat the food here...
“Let’s talk about it when we get to the upper level.”
Who knows whether eating these things will make them grow longer What tail or second head comes out.
“Do we really want to hunt other colleges?” Amy asked as she hid far away and rummaged through the mayor’s pocket with her long hands. “Doing this will make Salz College Get into trouble..."
"How big is the Tatooine Empire?" Annan asked him.
"It's... very big. If placed on the World Island, it would occupy one-fifth of the area."
"For such a large empire, the nearest academy is hundreds of miles away from us. They don't have that much time...and as long as they win the championship, the dean and the vice-dean will bear everything."
Amy was still hesitant, so Annan had to tell him: "This is actually the vice-dean. arrangement.”
“…Is that so?”
Amy, who raised her head in astonishment, looked into Annan's mysterious black eyes: "We will think of robbing the golden invitations, and so will those colleges. Maybe we are already a step too late. If we just foolishly search for the golden invitations in the bottom nest, those colleges will plunder them." The invitation letters from other colleges will exceed ours several times..."
"I...I understand." Amy strengthened her confidence, "I will help you get the top ten!"
“No, it’s us.”
Alice and the others came back after searching. The good news is that a treasure chest full of coins has been found. The bad news is that most of the coins are silver coins, with only a few gold coins mixed in with some smelted gold particles - they should be the main currency in circulation in the bottom nest.
The little rat girl hadn’t woken up yet, so Annan packed some food and sent it to the old witch doctor.
Annan thought that the old witch doctor knew something and his behavior told ancient secrets.
"This meteorite from the world of death has brought a curse... It is settling... We are inside it..." The old witch doctor accepted Annan's gift and opened his dirty yellow teeth. Mouth: "Before it becomes...leave..."
"We won't be here long." Annan replied.
The bottom nest is depressing and the longer they stay, the more uncomfortable they become. They only stayed here for three hours before they began to miss the sky.
But for the bottom nesters who were born and grew up here, a good life is more important than anything else.
Gray Wolf said he wanted to stay and frequently looked at the mayor's manor in the distance. That place left an indelible impression on him...
As a result, a wild dog pounced on him, and the two of them fought like wild beasts on the streets of Dark Light Town. The wild dog said that he was stupid, that the upper class environment was better, and there were fewer curses. Gray Wolf said that he was ignorant and would fall down if he could not survive at the top, so he might as well own a town.
After the fight, Gray Wolf awkwardly saluted Annan and the others, and walked towards the mayor's manor without looking back.
The strength of the bottom nest is limited, at least there are no elites in Dark Light Town - or it may have been cleaned up by Gwen College. The Gray Wolf should be able to sit on the bench for a while, as long as they don't run into players like Gwen Academy again.
Theophilus satirized the gray wolf as a short-sighted man who lost his only chance to return to the surface.
Wild dogs trying to get to the upper levels therefore work harder.
"Where is the nearest way to the upper level?" Annan asked.
The wild dog said that it was only half a day away. The ladder was controlled by the queen ant stronghold. If you wanted to go up, you had to be searched by them first.
"Queen ant?" Annan suddenly asked, and then the familiar feeling of gaze emerged.
“Why are you looking at me like that? This kind of stronghold must have a golden invitation. I smell the golden invitation... and the gold itself.”
Alice looked away.
"Are there no more searches on the Dawn Level?" Theophilus asked. "This place is too big."
It takes half a day from Dark Light Town to the nearest upper passage... The Bottom Nest Competition only lasts one day in total.
"Are there any other gathering places on the way to the queen's stronghold?" Annan asked the wild dog.
The wild dog shook his head: "But it's not far. The nobles just need to take a short detour..."
"Forget it."
It's better to stay at the Queen Ant stronghold to guard other colleges.
“Where’s the little girl?” Alice lifted her head up.
“Go ahead and take her with you.”
Annan picked up the little rat girl from Alice's back. She was not awake yet, but her breathing returned to normal.
There were no mounts in Dark Light Town, so they used the Light Feather Technique to rush on their way. On the way, they asked Wild Dog for information on the third to last floor.
The third to last layer is the ash layer. It seems that there is no dawn layer, which sounds promising, but the environment there is indeed not good... The layer above it is the garbage burning ground of the Imperial City, and the burned ashes settle and seep into the ashes layer, leaving ashes like snowflakes floating there all day long.
"Then why isn't it called Snowflake Layer?"
No one answered him, and the wild dog didn't know the answer either.
Two hours later, they approached a stronghold made of wooden boards and stones, with many skeletons piled in the corners. In the stronghold, a simple circular step followed the rock pillars deep into the ash layer.
There was no movement at the Queen Ant stronghold, but they saw several corpses lying in the open doorway.
"We are late again." Theophilus shrugged.
Annan entered the queen's stronghold without comment.
The corpses lying everywhere have long since cooled down, and their blood has solidified. There is no living person in the entire stronghold. And their injuries showed that it was not the Magic Academy that attacked them.
Also because those guys didn't have the pride of mages at all, the stronghold was completely ransacked, even the gold invitations were taken away.
But it also proved Annan’s conjecture: the golden invitations and other colleges are moving to the upper levels.
"Just go up."
Annan no longer wasted time and took the lead in stepping up the steps.
Going around and around the rock pillars, about three or four meters above the ground, Alice suddenly grabbed him, then picked up a stone and threw it forward.
The spell trap was activated, and a pair of invisible hands pushed the stone off the steps.
"The hand of mischief, a disgusting little trap..." Alice said.
You can’t kill anyone if you fall from this height, but there’s no problem if you break a leg.
“Aren’t they warriors?” Annan asked the resentful Theophilus to walk in front.
“Maybe it was the second wave of people who did it.”
They are the third wave.
But there was only one trap, and there were no more surprises until we approached the top of the rock.
Theophilus stepped onto the third to last floor, and Annan and the others followed him onto the ashes floor.
The "snowflakes" that greeted them fell from the sky, pale under the light. One player stretched out his hand and watched the "snowflakes" fall on his fingertips. With a slight twist, they turned into black ashes, and the same black snow spread into the depths of the dark space.
So this is not called the snowflake layer.
(End of this chapter)