Returning from the abyss

Chapter 593 Outer City Ecology

After eating, everyone formed their own groups and began to wander around the outer city—of course, inquiring about news was the real goal.

Except for Jean and Alex to find ways to find people, the rest of the people have to investigate things related to the mission.For example, the information related to the Dacapo train, the status of the inner city of the royal capital, whether the so-called royal emblem has a special name, who is the dark sage, and where are the three areas such as the eternal corridor...

Lu Ning was in a group with Yan Rong, and Yuan Jie was in a group with Lian Bisheng. Zhu Qinyuan said that it was more convenient for him to inquire alone. After they agreed on a time and place, they chose their own way to part.

The streets of the outer city seem to have no plan at all, and the houses are built in and out. Although they may look good individually, there is only one word to describe them together.Nest is basically responsible for the construction industry in the outer city, and the price can be said to be very cheap. The most expensive thing is the land and internal equipment.

It is precisely because of this situation that money can be built, the outer city is full of all kinds of remote alleys, alleys and other places. There are also many drunk people lying in the corners of the walls, and some even was dragged into a deeper place.

"It's obvious that the nobles didn't want to manage the outer city well at all." Yan Rong frowned, "They did provide a lot of things, but those were just to maintain a superficial peace..."

"It's not surprising." Lu Ning walked past a wall covered in graffiti. Although she couldn't understand the content of the graffiti at all, she could feel the decadence and depravity in it through it, without any positive taste at all.

As he walked, Yan Rong noticed that there were fewer and fewer pedestrians on the road. Lu Ning looked around and soon discovered the reason: bright lights appeared in the windows of many factories, and some of them could still see the busy people. silhouette.It's not just the people who are busy, it's as if the factory itself is bustling like crazy - the lights are bright enough to tell everyone, "Look, we're working hard."

This side of the outer city is suffocating... In Lu Ning's memory, even in normal urban life, even when going to work or school, there are still people on the streets, as if there are always some people who are free to wander around every day Go shopping and maintain a sense of excitement.In the outer city, it seemed that everyone was stuffed into the same timetable. After the lunch break just now, people quickly disappeared in various factories like ants returning to their nests.

Except for a few.

There are indeed some scattered people on the street. These people are obviously different from those office workers in suits and leather shoes, and the ferocity of their bodies can be felt from afar.These are small groups similar to Mercury Trigger, who gave up their stable and boring jobs, and turned to seek some more exciting life with their lives. They carried weapons, chasing the rewards offered by the nobles like vultures chasing corpses, and at the same time for the group Everyone else is wary.

Lu Ning and Yan Rong also tried their best to keep a distance of more than two meters from these people. Maybe it was because their clothes were too obvious, and there was no one who came to make trouble with them.

The two walked for a while, and saw a small building with a green roof. The words "Ticket Booth" were simply hung on the eaves. What caught people's attention was the "D" coat of arms that was the same as that on the carriage.

Dacapo is in charge of the traffic in the outer city, ranging from the legendary train line to the route of a bicycle. Nest's blind building doesn't seem to affect Dacapo's route planning at all. Their ticket outlets are scattered all over the city. As long as you have money to buy a ticket, they can ensure that you get on the bus on time.

Of course, for Lu Ning and Yan Rong, it was a good time to see if there were any clues related to the train.After the two walked in, they found that the lobby area was small, and there was a sleepy conductor behind the counter. Judging from the D emblem on his collar, it was not difficult to understand why he dared to be so passive and sabotage.

Lu Ning went to a promotional shelf next to her and took a copy of each brochure. Of course the conductor saw it, but she didn't say a word—not even a greeting.

"Brother, don't you want to say something?" When he didn't speak, Yan Rong took the initiative to get closer.

"Where are you going?" the conductor asked, holding his head and hanging his eyes.

"I heard that there is a rumored train line in Dacapo, but I just don't know what conditions are required to take it."

As soon as Lu Ning slapped her head, how could she have forgotten that Yan Rong's speaking skills were terrible.

"What? Where did you come from? Go, go, go, this is the place where the tickets are sold, you have to ask someone else to go." The conductor waved his hand like chasing flies, Yan Rong's eyes suddenly widened, and Lu Ning ran over to grab it in time her.

"Sorry, we are from the wasteland, and we want to know the convenient way to get to the city."

"Take a carriage!"

"The carriage is free and has a fixed location. In case we need to come here immediately if we have any urgent matters, don't we need to prepare some emergency measures? Please introduce it to us, we are not familiar with this place." Lu Ning explained, "I remember it as a black It should be considered a rule in the city to provide services immediately, right?"

The conductor stared at Lu Ning for a long time before nodding: "You can buy express tickets."

"What is an express ticket?"

"The blue booklet in your hand, page [-], read it yourself!" The conductor said impatiently, "If you don't understand, read that one more, it has all the introductions! If you don't buy a ticket, just go, don't Block the guests behind!"

Lu Ning turned her head, who is behind?Except for her and Yan Rong, no one came to buy tickets at this point.

She tried her best to pull Yan Rong out of the door, and she was afraid that Yan Rong would hit him with a fist later.After taking some time to suppress Yan Rong's anger, Lu Ning took out the booklets and flipped through them.Sure enough, I found something about the express ticket on the blue fourth page.

[Express ticket service scope - taxi, flying car, mechanical beast car, bus, tram, train, fixed-point bombardment.

Tear up the boarding page of the express ticket, and the designated vehicle will park in the safe area closest to the passenger within 20 seconds (only those who use the ticket are allowed to ride!).

The express ticket is valid for [-] days and will be burned automatically when it expires. Please pay attention to the usage time. 】

"Let's not talk about what kind of black technology this is, at least it mentions trains, right?" Yan Rong raised his brows, "That means the existence of trains is not a secret, and other manuals should introduce different means of transportation? "

"Yes, there is, but it is a little different from what I thought." Lu Ning picked up a green brochure, "I have also read this part of the introduction about trains before, and only said that it is a mode of transportation between cities , has a relatively 'extremely fast' speed, but it does not explain the conditions of those special trains at all."

"Uh...then if we inquire about ordinary trains, won't we only get information about ordinary trains? Since they are specially marked, those trains must be different, right?"

"It must be different. After all, the intercity does not seem to include the inner city. But no one knows that it is not necessarily..." Lu Ning smiled, "When you mentioned the rumored train, that guy showed no desire to answer Attitude? Not an attitude of not knowing."

"Sure enough, I just..."

"Wait." Lu Ning pressed Yan Rong quickly with her eyes, "That person is wearing Dacapo's family clothes, which means he must be a member of the family, and it's normal for him to know, but we can't do anything to these noble families in the outer city. Do you understand? If you must find an opportunity...it's better to use other methods."

"What way? If the nobles can really handle this, we will be noticed as long as the guy on the opposite side moves a little bit." Yan Rong was a little annoyed, "There are some completely unknown people pressing down on it, and the feeling of being tied up is not good Sample."

"Anyway, we can't afford train tickets now. Also, why do you think exploring the ruins is listed first? This should be a road."

"Exchange with treasure?" Yan Rong immediately understood.

"According to what Lan Tu said, if the outer city is really stable, it must establish a relationship with the nobles, and the most direct way in our hands is the treasures that the nobles are collecting, the treasures left by the king." Lu Ning said, " We don’t need to use any tricks, just trade openly and aboveboard, and exchange information about the train with the nobles, even if we can’t really get it, the importance of this information can be seen from the bid.”

"Understood." Yan Rong nodded slightly.

After making a plan here, Lu Ning actually has another way in mind, which is to use the method of private transactions with a single person to bypass direct transactions with nobles, and instead trade with people like conductors.Since it is within the main mission, getting the ticket itself is not a problem, but entering the inner city is the most troublesome.

After leaving the ticket booth, the two continued to stroll down the street.The nobles' control over the outer city can be seen almost everywhere, and the more critical facilities are completely inseparable from the coats of arms of the nobles.For example, Mist is in charge of major hospitals and clinics, Sacrifice is in charge of industry associations, banks and other facilities, and Eyesight is mainly engaged in information and communication services.Of course, these are only the core industries of various nobles, and a part of the retail industry is also under the control of the nobles.On the contrary, secondary processing industries such as metallurgy and furniture have almost no noble participation.

"Did you notice it?" Yan Rong whispered to Lu Ning after looking around, "These nobles basically control the lifeblood of the city. This is a rope that looks loose but is tied around the neck."

"That's right, basic production is all in the hands of nobles, and people can only carry out secondary or even tertiary industries, while traveling, eating, seeing a doctor, self-protection, communication, finance... these are all in the hands of nobles, and they can instantly transfer the An outer city turned into a dead city." Lu Ning nodded, "Although such a person in the normal world also needs to consider the loss factor... The problem is that this world is not normal, is money really meaningful to nobles?"

At this moment, Yan Rong paused and pointed to the front: "Lu Ning, that house..."

It was a house with a different style from the outer city. It was obvious that the main body was made of wood, and it was specially built in a hexagonal shape, like a huge tent.There are still many people queuing at the door of the house. Of course, those who will be queuing up at this time are those "groups".

Lu Ning and Yan Rong walked over and lined up at the end of the line. No matter what it was, since there was such a rare line up, the two couldn't help being curious.

In front of them was a woman in a long western dress, with two gorgeous rapiers hanging from her waist, and a huge lady's wide-brimmed hat on her head. Just standing next to her could smell the perfume she was wearing. Taste, very strong.

Everyone in the team was very quiet, and they didn't talk in low voices. Lu Ning and Yan Rong just kept quiet. As the team moved forward, they also lined up behind them. Behind them was a man in a patched Tang suit. The old man, he was leaning on crutches tremblingly, looking like he was about to fall at any time, so Yan Rong paid more attention to him.

As the team moved forward again, the old man took a step forward. As a result, the crutches rubbed against a stone on the ground, and his body immediately tilted. Yan Rong stretched out his hand to stop the old man from falling.

"Oh...thank you...ah..."

Yan Rong smiled slightly: "Old man, pay attention to your feet, the ground here is not smooth."

The old man nodded repeatedly, Yan Rong turned his head and glanced at his arm, this movement was very subtle, only Lu Ning who was beside her saw it.She gave Yan Rong a look, and Yan Rong nodded slightly, and then the two of them followed the team in silence again.

About 10 minutes later, the two arrived at the door. The woman in front of her was obviously more excited and stepped into the door quickly.Lu Ning waited and watched at the door.

There was a thick curtain like a quilt hanging in front of the door of the house. When the woman pulled up the curtain slightly, she could feel a hot air blowing out of it, and the indoor temperature was very high.Since the people who went in did not leave from the door, there was either another exit or something weird inside—Lu Ning was more inclined to the former, after all, this place would not be like this if he dared to blatantly cause trouble in the outer city open the door.

Soon, a light at the door turned green again, and Lu Ning and Yan Rong walked in together.

"Two people?"

As soon as they entered the hot room, the two heard a hoarse bass.There is actually a fully enclosed furnace in this wooden building. It is not big, but if the heat is conducted, it can easily set the whole room on fire.

There was a big anvil next to the furnace, and a strong shirtless man sat in front of the anvil, rubbing his unshaven chin and looking at Lu Ning and Yan Rong, with a sense of appreciating them.

On the wall behind the man hangs a metal plate, on which it is written crookedly in bright yellow paint: Steel Heart Iron Seal, [-]/[-] chance of success, [-]/[-] chance of failure, do not strengthen garbage, no intention to disturb!

"It's good enough to enter here together, the two of you should trust each other quite a lot? Then according to the rules, one weapon per person, don't fool around with the standard garbage from the weapon factory, I will only strengthen high-quality weapons here."

Lu Ning understood, no wonder there are so many people queuing here, but this success rate is really a bit of a gamble.

(End of this chapter)