Returning from the abyss

Chapter 595 The Mystery of the Dark Sage

Ana's residence in this area was a dilapidated small courtyard, the door wasn't even locked, and it opened with just a push.The objects in the yard were already covered with a thin layer of dust. She pulled a piece of cloth from the clothesline to wipe a stool, then gave up on the cleaning work, and said to Lu Ning and Yan Rong, "Look for yourself. Can you sit there, I don't want to clean up."

"Just stand." Lu Ning couldn't find a clean place, "We also want to learn about the outer city in these two days, after all, we may often deal with this place in the future."

"I'm familiar with everything around here, what do you want to know?" Ana said bluntly.

"What's the origin of that steel heart seal?" Lu Ning first asked a question that she was more concerned about. She pulled out the dagger a little bit, and there was a brand mark on the place where the hammer hit before, and the shape was exactly the same as before. I have seen traces of rainbow flowers.

"Have you noticed it too? It's actually not a secret. The hammer used there is a treasure from the ruins, but the specific situation is probably only understood by the owner there. It's not that no one has made up their minds, it's just that both thieves and robbers have gone to it." If you don’t return, you will slowly become honest.”

"But aren't nobles collecting treasures?" Yan Rong asked.

"That's right, but the treasure is something left by the king after all, and it seems to have its own complicated ownership transfer rules. It can't be snatched without causing an out-of-control effect. There are still a few people in the outer city who own the treasure and are very famous. "Ana thought for a while, "For example, the famous lone ranger 'Twilight', the legendary assassin 'Red Oriole', the workshop owner 'Rattlesnake', the reclusive 'Dark Sage' on the border..."

Lu Ning's eyes jumped when she heard the name.

"Wait, Ana, we haven't heard of these people in detail, can you tell me about their deeds?" She dragged the topic on that without any trace.

"Oh, no one in Chendu and Hongying has ever seen what a real person looks like. They only have a name. One is a person who has dealt with several high-level noble rewards alone. He must often go looking for relics. As for Hongying, it is a professional Assassins who assassinate difficult targets will kill that person no matter where they are inside or outside the city, but they don’t accept the jobs of nobles and ordinary people.”

"Then who are the Rattlesnake and the Dark Sage?"

"Rattlesnake is probably the most obvious. He has a huge workshop in an outer city and only accepts customized orders. He has written in the advertisement that he uses treasures to manufacture, and he must have sufficient confidence. Diablo The sage is the most mysterious. It is rumored that he lives in seclusion in a border area. If he can be found, he will give that person an answer, a blessing and a mission. The possibility of treasure is also very high."

"But we've never heard of the border." Lu Ning pretended to be puzzled, "The outer city and the wasteland are mainly the difference between these two places, isn't it? But if he lives on the border between the two, if he wants to find Easy, right? Surely not that simple."

Ana also frowned and thought for a while: "I've never heard of any boundaries, probably created to create this person's mystery? In fact, it's almost certain that people like them have treasure in their hands, otherwise How could it be possible to keep your identity undisclosed?"

Indeed, I said before that if you really want to find someone, Eyesight's information network can easily find out a person's real identity, including the current location, and only treasure can have a similar shielding effect.

"If we want to find these people..." Lu Ning whispered.

Of course Ana heard this sentence: "You can't find these people if you look for it deliberately, otherwise why hide yourself? I can only say that if you are lucky, you will meet them."

It seems that Ana just heard about it, but Lu Ning didn't expect to get the complete news from here, just a beginning.

"Hmm... Another thing to ask, there is a ticket booth nearby, and the conductors there seem to belong to nobles?"

"Aristocrat? Are you talking about that servant?" Ana immediately understood who Lu Ning was talking about. "That kid just got a chance to sneak in from the outer city by chance. Do you remember the foreign officer Eosek from Eyesight? A real nobleman." People are like him. On the surface, they must maintain etiquette and respect for you, and everything must be considered. Is that kid's attitude still that bad?"

"...Yes." Lu Ning did not expect that the conductor would always be of that virtue.

"If you really want to beat him up, don't beat him too hard, the nobles don't bother to show their heads." Ana grinned, "I made some chili water for him before, but no one from the nobles came to knock on my door."

"Hey, let me just say Lu Ning, if you didn't stop me at that time..."

"You can beat him up tonight." Lu Ning interrupted Yan Rong with a stern face, "Actually, we just want to go there to learn about the train, because it seems to be an intercity transportation network. There should also be people in the network who travel between the inner city and the outer city of the capital, right? Otherwise, why would they send people to the outer city?"

"That's true, but it's a dedicated line." Ana really knew.

"Can you tell us about it? After all, we have no relevant memories at all." Lu Ning hurriedly said.

"It's not too difficult to find out, it's just... quite difficult. To take a special train, you just need to take any train and arrive at the terminal station. The so-called terminal station is the departure station of the special train. If you have the qualifications, you can You can take the special train to the inner city of the capital."

"Sounds like no difficulty? Two tickets?"

"There are two difficulties." Ana stretched out her finger, "The first one is the qualification to take the special line. No one knows what the qualification is."

"How could it be? Since this news is in a semi-public state, why don't you be brave enough to try it?" Lu Ning wondered, "Even if you can't take the ride, there is always a channel to know the ride requirements, isn't it?"

"This is the second difficulty..." Ana gritted her teeth, "All trains are operated by Dacapo, and the large-scale event that Dacapo is dealing with is a rotary train. Every train will not reach the terminal, but is running Return to the starting point at the instant of the 'event', so no one can reach the terminal normally."

"If that's the case, why are there rumors about the eligibility to ride?" Yan Rong asked.

"Someone must have resorted to unusual means. In short, I only know that it is absolutely impossible to reach the terminal by car. I thought it was fun to ride once, and I fully understand how amazing it is."

"So this is the same as the infinite line of sight, and it is the result of the 'event'?" Lu Ning thought, "What kind of situation are these nobles dealing with..."

"Who knows? We only know that these incidents were handled by the nobles themselves, but they haven't been handled well for decades. If it's not that they are too incompetent, then these are actually recurring things." Ana shrugged Shrugging, "I told you, is it really okay for you to care about such a big thing when you first enter the city? Not long ago, we were almost in danger in an event with a line-of-sight of a kilometer."

"Curious, you also know that we have lost all our memories, even if we try to find our family and relatives, we may not be able to find them." Lu Ning said innocently, "So this is the first time we have heard these rumors. "

"It's better for you to improve your own strength, whether it's customized weapons or enhanced surgery. Wen Dongyang must have told you to try to go to a regular place, right? That's because you wilderness people don't care about those unlicensed operators. Some merchants have no discernment, and although the side effects of intensive surgery in some black clinics are obvious, the effect is not bad." Ana scratched her hair, "Let's go to dinner, and I will explain it to you on the way."

Ana is obviously not a man of the city, and lives a more casual life, so when talking along the way, she inevitably talked about some of her past experiences. From the fragmentary information, Lu Ning probably knew how Ana grew up. of.

She has no parents, and she has never even met or seen a photo. She grew up in an orphanage as long as she could remember, but the orphanage in the outer city was only run by some rich people with a good heart. When she was six years old It was destroyed by a fire set by someone who did not know, and then Ana and some children who escaped by chance started a wandering life.

Ana didn't mention how she survived. She can only guess from a few words that these children went through the process from being abducted secretly to being able to attack and knock adults unconscious and steal all their belongings from behind. The number of newcomers has increased and decreased.When I was around eight years old, a new batch of rich people came to this neighborhood after some incidents had happened before. They felt that so many street children were unsightly, and planned to pay for a little "training".

Ana is one of the unqualified ones. She hates reading very much, and she doesn't like etiquette. Her companions endured it in order to get a better life, so she sneaked away by herself and used a sum of money she stole. Performed the first augmentation surgery on myself—and since then, it has been out of control.She is familiar with the way of survival here, and has also made her own reputation.Those of her partners all met the so-called "job standards" when they were around 15 years old, entered factories or office buildings, and started stable jobs, but Ana did not regret her choice at all.

"If going to that boring place to work until I die is my future life, then I'd be as happy as I am now." Ana smiled with satisfaction, and then pointed to a sign with neon lights in front of her, "This is it! My favorite restaurant!"

Lu Ning and Yan Rong looked at the signboard, and there were four big characters of [Red Soup and Old Pot] that seemed to be burning, which was not an unexpected result at all.

It's not that the two can't eat spicy food, but it's hard to accept this kind of shop that makes food like lollipops for a short time, not to mention that this shop is exactly the kind of shop that Wen Dongyang said without the label of aristocrats.

Ana happily lifted the curtain and walked through the door: "Uncle Deng! I'm here again!"

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As night fell in the outer city, there was a faint light of candles flickering in a narrow bungalow. Two people walked along the alley, stretched out their hands and pushed open the door. The face of the visitor.

Liu Yunqing handed out the plastic bag in his hand, and the person in the room took it. After a rustle, the cold room immediately smelled of food.

"Sister Liu, Brother Kong, do you have any clues?"

"Today, I had a chat with the people flying flowers and willows." Liu Yunqing leaned on the door frame, keeping the light on the lighter, "Maybe not all the tourists who come here are groups from outside cities like ours."

"What did they say?" asked another, slightly calmer voice.

"It's too chaotic. The rule of the seven nobles is between reasonable and unreasonable. The situation in the outer city is also weird and unpredictable. On the one hand, there are normal residents like ordinary people, and on the other hand, there are all kinds of people. Strange and chaotic powers are walking around." The man beside Liu Yunqing said.

"It stands to reason that in this situation in general scenarios, groups like ours should have rules for class division, but in fact there are no rules at all. The nobles don't measure the level of receiving rewards at all. Allowed, those who don't know how to measure their own strength can easily die suddenly." The steady voice said, "According to our tasks, I suspect that different parts of the people are assigned different initial tasks, and the more you sit back, the closer they will be. together."

"You mean after entering the inner city?" Liu Yunqing raised his eyebrows.

"Exactly."

There was silence in the room, save for the slight sound of chewing.

The flame in Liu Yunqing's hand went out.

"How is Jiang Yueying's situation? I don't want to lose staff just a few days after the start."

"It's a little bit more stable, but if it needs to be treated, it may have to be treated in the clinic here. It's just a little affected by the way of the samurai by mistake, so it's amazing to come back and bring back some information. "

Liu Yunqing sighed.

"I'm not blaming her, these big incidents are not that troublesome if they can be avoided. At least we have to stay united."

"What's the matter?" asked a calm voice.

"Li Yiju, you know the flying flowers and the willows... what kind of personality are those three Yin Tianyou?"

"know."

"But there are six people in a team. The relationship between the three of them and the other three teammates is obviously not very harmonious. If the team is not given a task this time, I doubt they will just split up. Don't say this is a chaotic scene, even if it is a normal scene This is also a high-risk situation here.”

Two more sighs.

Liu Yunqing walked into the room and lit up the candles a little, finally able to see a few people's faces clearly.

The two young people not only look young, but actually don't have much scene experience. The third-level newcomers are more reliable Li Yiju, who is about 40 years old, and Kong Xiu, who is a bit bookish beside him. Jiang Yueying, who was lying on the bed, was also a good fighter, but she was always a little unlucky.

"Let me tell you some good news." Li Yiju said after taking two mouthfuls of food, "Today I found out some news about the Dark Sage."

(End of this chapter)