Chapter 29 Abyss Fissures and Hanging Rain
“Woo, woo, woo”
The train slowly stopped after a long whistle.
Finally, Innocence City has arrived.
There were no accidents in the second half of the train journey.
Ji Xun also felt that it was natural.
After the fierce battle before, almost everyone now probably thinks that he and the wanted criminal "Lone Wolf" Baron are 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, so you can jump into a vast ocean.
People in the carriage are already packing their bags, with eager expressions on their faces.
"Lao Meng, where are you going after you get off the car?"
"Of course, go to Fengyue Tavern and stay there for half a month 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 exiled from the royal city."
"Bah, those old bustard pimps It’s all nonsense! Let’s go and identify it together.”
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When we arrived in Innocence City, the most talked about thing among the hunters was all kinds of romantic places.
Taking risks with your life, nothing can release that kind of pressure better than physical pleasure.
In these ten hours, Ji Xun heard the names of at least dozens of different taverns 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 in the car "has become the current "0.85", and I obviously feel that my strength has increased a lot.
Physique, agility, toughness, elemental affinity and other data have been improved.
Although I still feel weak.
But you must know that this is the result he obtained without any strength training or medicine.
Only takes a few hours!
If there were more corpses, wouldn't it be possible to become stronger just by 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 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 I swallowed with extraordinary properties will be noticed by others, so it’s 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.
The train stopped, and workers in blue coarse cloths controlled various steam mechanical arms to begin unloading the goods on the train. Almost all steam machinery and equipment are spray-painted with the words "Nugget Pier No. XX".
Dock?
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 from the corner of my eye and saw no suspicious guy.
It was the group of little devils in tattered clothes who walked through the crowd and attracted attention. Although he is not very old, 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 the traces of rocks. He felt a little strange: "Is it still underground?"
What could he think if the ruins were underground? Yes, but the train has been running for ten hours and it's still underground.
With doubts, he continued to walk out with the flow of people.
Not long after walking, the view 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.
The real Innocence City is still on the other side of the cliff!
“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.
Ji Xun then realized what the "abyss rift" he 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.
Also!
There is no sky 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 through the cracks.
But even a steam boiler more than a hundred meters high, in front of this crack, is like a grain of rice dropped in the soil.
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 crack.
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 fell 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 can't understand: "Is the gravity in the crack opposite?"
There are 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 split.
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 calming down 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 continues to move forward, the surrounding fog becomes thicker and thicker, but the road ahead is still invisible.
He looked out the window. There was nothingness above his head, and a bottomless abyss beneath his feet. It seemed that he could still see huge shadows of some 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 is like a small boat, swimming in the endless void, surrounded by smoke and clouds, so vast that it seems unreal.
Ji Xun was deeply attracted by this suffocating mystery.
This crack seems to be the door to another world, a new and unknown world is 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 the crack was more than ten kilometers wide.
On the opposite rock wall, there was a scene of feasting and feasting!
It was a house on stilts, with all kinds of dazzling neon signs hanging on them.
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, and we guarantee that you will be satisfied~"
"We are having a mask party at the Train Tavern tonight. You You can do whatever you want~"
"The Imperial Bathhouse allows you to enjoy the service like a king, and the second bath is half price!"
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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 wallets of returning hunters 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 this city.
The city is large and its layout is extremely complex.
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.
This side of Downing Street is the most prosperous, and brass is often used instead of 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 outfits. There are punk-style young men wearing leather jackets and pants with bright iron nails, young girls wearing Lolita skirts, calm middle-aged people in suits and leather shoes, and girls in linen clothes selling flowers. , a boy wearing a deerstalker hat with a cigarette case slung around his neck.
If it weren’t for the fact that almost everyone was equipped with guns, knife points and mechanical equipment, this would be a harmonious and lively urban street scene.
Ji Xun walked on the street, looking at this completely new world, with the people coming and going reflected in his eyes.
At this moment, a door to a new world opens.
Unknowingly, I 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 he had to find a place to sit first, so he walked in.
Because he heard from the hunters that the tavern is 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, ￥1000/day, daily settlement! If you make a major discovery, the maximum bonus is one million!"
"The Lion Mercenary Group is recruiting professional mercenaries, retired Priority, card master apprentice ￥13,000/month, formal interview with spell card master, preferential treatment!"
"The Hunter Guild recruits contract hunters to be responsible for land reclamation and investigation."
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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.
Looking at another recruitment page, the salary of ordinary people is much less.
"The municipality is recruiting sewer dredging workers, 1800/month"
"Haisen Pharmaceutical Company is recruiting alchemy apprentices, 4500/month, you need to know basic alchemy knowledge"
"Green Machinery factory apprentice, ￥2800/month, including room and board”
"Boiler worker at Nugget Wharf, ￥3000+/month, more work, more reward"
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Ji Xun looked at it and had a rough idea of the price and wage levels in Innocence City. .
The risks of a career are obviously directly 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, and it is worth the money for a large mercenary group.
Ji Xun entered the tavern without looking too much.
He wanted to take a sip of wine to slow down, learn about the world, and get some news.
For example, the "Thirteen Paths to God" and the "Fifty-two Extraordinary Career Sequences" he heard on the train before.
There are also those magical cards, the hanging rain in the cracks of the abyss, and the magical black technology of steam
There are too many secrets in this world.
The mystery is right in front of you, you can reach out and touch it.
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.
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(End of this chapter)