Witch Punk 2840

Chapter 14 Cake Tower City

A witch is a creature that relies on magic power to survive. Even if she doesn't do anything, the witch will consume 1 mole of magic power every day-this is the knowledge about the witch recorded in the cup, and it is also the common sense confirmed to Lilian just now .

But magic is not like air, which is readily available.It's like humans live on food, but food doesn't grow from the ground by itself, someone has to plow it.

The main source of magic power of Debusota is drilling—a huge device driven by a witch contract, starting from the center of the city, penetrating the thick etheric sea, drilling into the seabed, and continuously flowing from below the seabed Draw out the magic power and supply it to every corner of the city.

There are seven such wells, all owned by the same company in Uptown, Ether Exploration.

Therefore, ether exploration holds the lifeblood of the city and essentially rules it.

According to Lilian, in Debusota, about 20% of witches work directly for ether exploration, and more than 50% of witches work for ether exploration, ether exploration's subsidiaries in various industries, or other companies related to ether exploration. Related companies with close business relationship.

Ether Prospecting has laid magic power transmission pipelines throughout the city. Any witch can use the magic power pipeline to withdraw the magic power he needs anytime and anywhere as long as he registers his information at the company registration point.

Of course, any amount of magic power drawn through the magic power channel must be limited to the witch's personal credit line in ether exploration, and the corresponding amount will be deducted when the magic power is obtained.

If the drawer is an employee of Ether Exploration, an Ether Exploration subsidiary or a related enterprise, the magic power she draws will be automatically deducted from her salary every month, and the corresponding credit line will be released.

If the drawer is not the above-mentioned employee, he must repay Ether Prospecting by himself before the deadline of each month. If he fails to repay after the deadline, he will be regarded as a breach of contract, and the defaulter will be targeted by the most professional debt collectors of Ether Prospecting—— At least so far, no living person has successfully escaped the debt collection of these debt collectors.

The existence of ether exploration also directly led to the division of the city into three districts:
Uptown, Midtown, and Downtown.

As its name suggests, the city of "Debusota" is like a three-story cake tower.In the center of the city, the uppermost city is located in the highest position, where shareholders and senior managers of Ether Exploration, Ether Exploration subsidiaries or related enterprises mainly live.

In the middle-level area surrounding the upper urban area, most of the residents are middle-level managers and employees of the above-mentioned enterprises.The rest are witches who are not directly related to ether exploration, but also have a good source of income—for example, Lilian, who has several properties in the lower city and the edge of the middle area, and can only earn a good income from rent every month .

As for the people living in the lower urban area, some work in various low-end service industries, some are low-level employees of some small enterprises, and some are engaged in certain gray industries; and finally there are some people who are engaged in industries that have only emerged in the past two years. Industry - Whaling.

Whaling, as the name suggests, is the industry of hunting whales.

According to Lilian, a whale is a huge and dangerous creature that lives in the depths of the etheric sea.In the past, people in Debusota did not know the existence of whales. Until a few years ago, a traveling witch who passed by the city accidentally talked about whales during the conversation:
"You asked me how I replenished my magic power while crossing the etheric sea? Oh, this is about a creature called a whale. They live in the depths of the ether, and their huge bodies store a large amount of whale oil. Whale oil contains extremely dense magic power.

"What? You want to hunt whales? I advise you not to do this. Whales are extremely dangerous creatures. The torrent of magic power shot from its back cavity can wipe you out in an instant—of course, for strength As far as this witch, who has already reached the pinnacle of beauty, is just a troublesome stupid guy, you can kill it with a little trick, and replenish the magic power needed for travel from whale oil..."

In this way, under the temptation of magic, the desperadoes in the lower city began to organize. They entered the etheric sea in a simple fishing boat, trying to find the whale that the traveling witch spoke of.

After countless failures, a lucky boat finally spotted the whale. They returned to Debusota and told the news to the people in the lower city.

So more people entered the etheric sea, trying to hunt whales.And that brought more failures, disappearances, and deaths.

Finally, about two years ago, a few powerful and lucky witches, driving a specially modified boat for hunting whales, finally succeeded in hunting down a not-so-big whale. When they dragged the whale back to the port, the whale The words of the traveling witch were finally confirmed when the whale oil was cut from his body and the magic power was extracted from the whale oil.

And these witches also became rich overnight. They squandered these magical powers, enjoyed themselves for a while, and then spent huge sums of money to build a more advanced ship, and entered the etheric sea again, ambitiously preparing to hunt again whale.

Then, they never came back.

It wasn't until a few months later that another ship found the wreck of that ship.

But this tragedy can't change people's desire. In the past two years, more and more people in the lower city have entered the etheric sea, trying to hunt whales.

Although most people fail, and many even leave their bodies behind, only a very few succeed.

But so what?Whaling means getting rich overnight, changing the status quo, and hope; and the people who live in the lower city lack hope most.

……

goo—

A sound came, interrupting Xia Ye's meditation.

She looked in the direction of the voice and found that Lilian was clutching her stomach with a flushed face.

It seems that this is the source of the "goo" just now.

"Witches are also hungry and need to eat." This is also one of the little common senses I just learned from Lilian.

Although witches can survive only by magic power, they still have the desire to eat, just as they still retain the desire to sleep.

In addition, the price of food is very cheap, so as long as the witch is not too tight, she will eat three meals a day.

As for where the food went... Xia Ye didn't have the nerve to ask, anyway, she was also a witch, so she would know in two days.

"No, I'm sorry..." Lilian said with a blushing face.

"It's nothing. I just got absorbed in my thoughts. Is it time to eat?"

Xia Ye looked out of the window while talking. The sky outside the window was indeed much darker—this world cannot see the sun, but there are still days and nights—this is also one of the common senses Lilian told her.

"Well, it's already 6 o'clock in the afternoon." Lilian took out the crystal ball, and on the surface of the palm-sized rectangular crystal, a number was displayed:
6
"so……?"

"So I'm going to cook, sister Xia Ye, you can look forward to my cooking skills!" When it came to cooking, Lilian seemed to radiate light all of a sudden.

(End of this chapter)