Cataclysm King Chapter 29

  Chapter 29 Abyss Fissure and Upside Down Rain

   "Woo, woo, woo"

   After a long whistle, the train slowly stopped.

  Finally, the City of Innocence has arrived.

  There was no accident in the second half of the train.

  Ji Xun also felt it was a matter of course.

  After the fierce battle before, almost everyone now probably thinks that he and the wanted criminal "Lone Wolf" Baron are on the same side.

   Now that the mastermind jumped out of the car and fled, it's useless to find him.

   And I couldn't find it either.

  After the scuffle, the atmosphere in the carriage was completely mixed. The spell card master of the smell system could not identify him before, and it is even more difficult now.

   Most importantly, the train has arrived now.

   There is no space limit when getting off the car, but the sea is wide enough to let fish jump.

  The people in the compartment were already packing their bags, with urgent expressions on their faces.

   "Lao Meng, where do you go after getting off the bus?"

   "Of course, go to Fengyue Tavern to soak for half a month first!"

   "Hahaha, I think so too. I heard that a group of new girls came to the Ginza Tavern recently, and they are very nice. The gossip says that they are the nobles who were exiled from the royal city."

   "Bah, those old pimps are all **** bragging! Come on, let's go and identify it together."

   Arrived in the city of innocence, the most talked about by the hunters are all kinds of wind and moon fields.

   Take risks with your life, nothing releases that pressure better than physical pleasure.

   During these ten hours, Ji Xun heard at least the names of dozens of different taverns and Fengyuechang. He already had an intuitive impression in his mind that the entertainment industry in Innocence City must be very developed.

  Everyone was about to get off the car, so he calmly left from the iron box containing the corpse.

  Looking at the changes in his attribute panel, Ji Xun was also deeply moved: "The strength data has increased by 0.09 in more than three hours, not bad."

   From "0.76" before getting on the car to the current "0.85", it is obvious that the power has increased a lot.

  Physique, agility, tenacity, elemental affinity and other data have all been improved.

  Although there is still a sense of weakness.

  But you must know that this is the result he obtained without any strength training and medicine.

   Only takes hours!

  If there are more corpses, wouldn't it be possible to become stronger while lying down?

   "If only there were more corpses"

  Ji Xun tasted the sweetness, and murmured in his heart.

  【Devil's Feast】After the skill is improved, it may have a stronger effect.

   But don't worry about it for a while.

  He got up and squeezed into the crowd.

  I don't know if the corpse that has been devoured by me will be seen as abnormal, it is better to leave the train first.

   Leaving the canned carriage, I immediately felt that the air was fresh.

  Although there is a strong smell of soot in the air, it is a hundred times better than the smell mixed in the compartment.

  The train came to a complete stop, and the workers in blue coarse clothes manipulated various steam mechanical arms to start unloading the goods on the train. Almost all steam machinery and equipment have the words "Nuggets Wharf XX" sprayed on them.

   Dock?

   Not a station?

  Ji Xun was slightly puzzled.

  He wore a half-face gas mask, lowered his buckskin hat and walked past in the crowd.

   I looked around from the corner of my eye, but I didn't see anything suspicious again.

   It was the group of little devils in tattered clothes who were weaving through the crowd and attracted attention. Mingming is not young, but he is a thief with good skills. Everyone knows that the hunters who came back from exploring the caves are full of treasures, and the dirty hands of the little ghost heads quietly stretched out.

   Ji Xun only had a tactical backpack on his body, and his expression didn't look like he was elated after making a fortune, and he wasn't bothered by thieves.

  The crowd was walking in one direction, and he followed suit.

  The buildings near the station are similar to those seen at the Devil's Crossing camp before, and towering chimneys emitting white smoke can be seen everywhere.

  The surrounding lights are still lit by gas lamps. When Ji Xun looked up, he could vaguely see traces of rocks, and felt a little strange: "Is it still underground?"

  He could figure out that the ruins were underground, but it was still underground after the train had been driving for ten hours.

  Holding doubts, he followed the flow of people and continued to walk out.

   Not long after walking, the field of vision suddenly opened up.

   At this moment, Ji Xun was shocked by the scene before him.

  It was only then that he realized that this place was really a pier.

   And the real city of innocence is still on the other side of the cliff!

   "What's going on here?"

  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.

   Even, he felt that he had never been so surprised when he found himself time travelling.

   In the depths of the ground, there is actually a huge crack. It is like a bottomless pit, with no bottom and no top.

   Only then did Ji Xun realize what the "abyss fissure" was that he had heard from the hunters before.

  He thought it was a crack in the ground, but he didn't expect it to be so exaggerated.

  It seems to have reached the end of the world, there is no way forward, and there is nothingness in sight.

besides!

  There is no sky in this world at all?

   Ji Xun looked up, and there was also endless fog and darkness above the crack.

   No wonder hunters hardly hear the words sun, moon, and stars.

  In order to facilitate people's passage, dozens of huge steam boilers on the Nuggets Wharf are billowing with white smoke. The huge cable car is driven by steam power, dragging the carriages slowly through the cracks.

  But even a steam boiler more than 100 meters high, in front of this crack, looks 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 imperceptible speck of dust in front of this huge chasm.

   And even more amazing is the rain in the abyss.

  In the field of vision, the raindrops are rustling, dense as a curtain.

  But the raindrops are not falling, but falling toward the sky.

   This is "upside down rain".

   Looking again, when those huge cable cars drove into the cliff, they also suddenly reversed 180 degrees, and then continued to drive forward.

  Ji Xun really couldn't understand: "Is the gravity in the crack reversed?"

  There are actually two directions of gravity in this underground world?

  It feels like the world is like a mirror, and then it falls through a crack, and it splits the world.

  Below the cliff is a bottomless black hole. When you fall down, it feels like you will be exiled into the endless void.

   Concentrated his thoughts, Ji Xun also lined up to buy a ticket and boarded the cable car.

  The cable car went beyond the cliff and suddenly turned over. The hunters have long been accustomed to it, and just like a normal means of transportation, they changed the direction and stood on the "roof", and then quickly rushed into the sea of ​​clouds with the cable car.

  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 denser, but the road ahead was still invisible.

  He looked out the window, there was nothingness above his head, and a bottomless abyss under his feet, as if he could still see some huge shadows of unknown creatures moving through the mist.

   Staring at the abyss, the abyss is also like the eyes of the world, gazing at the passing people.

  The cable car is like a night 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 rift seems to be the door leading to another world, a brand new and unknown world is beckoning to him.

  After the cable car traveled 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 then recovered from the shock of facing such a huge thing.

  He roughly estimated the distance, and the gap was more than ten kilometers wide.

   On the opposite rock wall, there was a feast of lights!

  It was a house like a house on stilts, with all kinds of dazzling neon signs hanging on it.

   Innocence City has arrived!

   With a bang, the cable car hangs upside down, and the gravity is reversed again.

  As soon as I got off the cable car, a group of tavern girls and pimps surrounded me.

   "Hey, handsome guy, do you want to drink? The girls in our Catwoman Tavern are famous for their delicate bodies, I guarantee you will be satisfied~"

   "We have a masquerade party at the Train Tavern tonight, you can do whatever you want~"

   "Emperor Bathhouse, let you enjoy the service like a king, with full fruit escort, half price for the second one!"

  Ji Xun ignored the pimps soliciting business and walked on the street.

   This is the "Downing Street" that hunters mentioned the most along the way.

  The short blocks are filled with hundreds of gambling stalls, taverns, and various custom venues. This is the nightless block of the city of innocence.

  These colorful and intoxicating night shows will drain the wallets of returning hunters in the first place.

  Ji Xun walked into the city.

   Innocence City is still a catacomb city with a unique architectural style. Steam and machinery are the main tone of this city.

  The city has a large area and its layout is extremely complex.

  The building is towering and built against the mountain. The 100-meter-high buildings are densely forested, and there are various pipelines and high-altitude bridges connecting the buildings. There are also a large number of buildings with hollow iron frames and inlaid glass, which look very dark and magical.

  The green light overflowing from the depths of the city in the distance is the ethereal fluorescence of alchemy dust.

  Downing Street is the most prosperous side, and brass is often used instead of steel, adding a bit of bright color and extravagance to the street. Under the illumination of the lights, the stained glass inlaid in the tavern also radiates a colorful and luxurious color.

  Ji Xun already understood that this innocent city itself is an ancient relic.

The clothes on the street are no longer limited to all kinds of adventurous attire. There are punk-style leather jackets and trousers with bright iron nails for young people, young girls in Lolita skirts, and calm middle-aged people in suits and leather shoes. Girls in sackcloth who sell flowers , a boy in a deerstalker hat with a cigarette case around his neck.

  If not almost everyone is equipped with guns, knives and mechanical equipment, this would be a harmonious and lively city street scene.

  Ji Xun was walking on the street, looking at this completely novel world, the people coming and going were reflected in his eyes.

  At this moment, a door to a new world opened.

  Unknowingly, they came to a Y-shaped intersection, and the street sign of "No. 13 Downing Street" was graffitied on the rusty iron sheet on the street.

  Here is a building in the shape of a huge locomotive. On the illuminated signboard is a huge wine glass with the signboard of "Old Gun Tavern".

   Ji Xun thought about finding 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 inquire about news in the city of innocence.

   For professional hunters, they spend more time in taverns than at home.

  As soon as he entered the door, Ji Xun saw various recruitment notices plastered on the wall.

  A group of people pointed at the announcement.

   "The Zhanqi Hunter Group recruits wasteland hunters, ￥1000/day, every day! There is a major discovery, and the highest bonus is one million!"

  「The Lion Mercenary Corps is recruiting professional mercenaries. Retirement is preferred. Apprentice card masters are ￥13,000/month. Official spell card masters will be interviewed, and the treatment will be favorable!」

  「The Hunter Union is recruiting contract hunters to be responsible for land reclamation and investigation.」

  Ji Xun took a glance, and found that the salaries of hunters are generally good, and the daily salaries of land reclamation hunters are the highest.

   And looking at another recruitment page, the wages of ordinary people are much less.

  「Municipal recruitment of sewer dredging workers, 1800/month」

  「Haisen Pharmaceutical Company recruits alchemy apprentices, 4500/month, need to know basic alchemy knowledge」

  「Green Machinery Factory Apprentice, ￥2800/month, board and lodging included」

  「Nuggets Wharf Boiler Worker, ￥3000+/month, more pay for more work」

  Ji Xun took a look, and roughly understood the prices and wages in Innocence City.

  Occupational risks are clearly proportional to benefits.

  He even suspected that the original owner was the so-called "land reclamation hunter".

  In layman's terms, it's cannon fodder to gamble with your life.

  No strength, poor equipment, poor.

  It's like the different-dimensional space of 407. Every time you open an unknown door, you may face unknown risks. At this time, cannon fodder will be very useful.

  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 wants to take a sip of wine slowly, learn about the world, and inquire about some news.

  For example, the "Thirteen Paths to God" and "Fifty-two Extraordinary Occupational Sequences" he heard on the train before.

   There are also those magical cards, the upside down rain in the abyss fissure, the magical steam black technology

  There are too many secrets in this world.

  The mystery is right in front of you, within reach.

  Dancing with the wind when the wind blows, walking alone at night when it is dark, he can still smile brightly even when he falls into the abyss.

  Ji Xun likes this new world.

   Thanks to 'super pineapple' 1000 and 'Mu Chenxi' 500 for their support

  (end of this chapter)

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