Witch Punk 2840

Chapter 28

After flying for a few minutes, the high-rise buildings that filled Xia Ye's field of vision suddenly disappeared.

Instead, there are a large number of low buildings below. They are disorganized and dilapidated, and some of them have even collapsed in half, but in the remaining half, there are still traces of human habitation.

Xia Ye looked into the distance, and found that this building group that looked like ruins stretched far away, and at the end of the field of vision, a few huge machines that looked like dock cranes could be vaguely seen, with hexagonal lines. There, too, the dome bends down to meet the horizon.

"Where is it?" Xia Ye turned her head and asked Lilian.

"Sister Xia Ye, this is the downtown area." Lilian replied, "The store we are going to go to next is in the downtown area."

"Here...is there a store?"

Seeing Xia Ye's puzzled expression, Lilian smiled lightly and said, "Let's go down, sister Xia Ye will know when the time comes."

The two swooped down, and after a few seconds, they plunged into the strange buildings.Immediately afterwards, she saw Lilian land directly on the street, so she also landed and put away the broom.

Looking around, it was only then that Xia Ye discovered that those buildings that looked very short in the sky just now were not short at all. The buildings without any plan stretched crookedly upwards. The short ones had seven or eight floors, and the tall ones There are dozens of layers.

Although it is messy and dilapidated, it is by no means lacking in vitality.There are billboards of all kinds, large and small, and residents and merchants are mixed in each building; both sides of the narrow street are full of vendors, so it becomes narrower. Pedestrians are crowded in the center and move forward by walking.

Speaking of which, Xia Ye is no stranger to this kind of environment, she has been to similar places before crossing, and not only one place.

"Why aren't there many people flying in the sky?" Xia Ye asked, pointing to the top of his head.

"Because of three reasons." Lilian said while leading Xia Ye through the crowd.

"First of all, of course, brooms are very expensive. Flying usually consumes mana, but if you choose to walk, you can save a lot of money. For the residents of the lower city who are mostly in a cup, compared to speed and convenience, of course it is better to save money. Magic is more important.

"Also, sister Xia Ye, look at the top of our heads, because there is no one to manage, and all kinds of billboards have already been hung up like this. If you want to fly, you will hit one, so it's better not to fly."

Xia Ye imagined a flying witch smashing a human-shaped hole in the billboard, and couldn't help laughing out loud.

"Finally, there is another reason. Flying in the downtown area sometimes has another risk... Ah, we are almost there, not far ahead." Lilian pointed to a short building in front of her and said.

At this time, the two had already walked into an alley. There was no one else in the alley, and it was much quieter than the street just now.

"There is another risk, and that is..." Lilian continued the topic just now.

boom--! ! !
But just as she started, her voice was interrupted by a loud noise.

The sound came from behind, Xia Ye turned around in surprise, and saw a witch flying out of a building at the side and rear—not flying on a broom, but was hit by a huge shock wave, and her body was hit together with countless fragments of the wall Fly into the air.

Her clothes were tattered and her witch hat was gone, revealing her messy brown curly hair.Despite her distressed appearance, the witch was miraculously unhurt.She twisted her body in mid-air, unfolded the broom, and flew towards Xia Ye and Lilian with a "huh".

Xia Ye raised her eyebrows, one hand held Lilian behind her, and the other hand had already grabbed Xiuji lying on top of her head - if the other party made any dangerous moves, she would throw Xiuji over first.

But the brown-haired witch seems to have just picked this direction precisely.She casually glanced at the two people standing in the alley, ignored them, then speeded up and disappeared between the gaps between the buildings.

A second later, two other witches flew out of the hole in the building where the explosion happened just now, and chased after the brown-haired witch in the direction where she disappeared.

When they passed above Xia Ye, Xia Ye heard intermittent conversations:
"... I didn't expect that she still has magic power to use..."

"It doesn't matter... Even if there is not much left, it will definitely not go far..."

"The bubble shield is also broken... it will be able to..."

After the two groups of people disappeared without a trace, Lilian breathed a sigh of relief.

"It's scary... But it's good that it doesn't affect us. But even if there is any danger, don't worry if there is sister Xia Ye?"

"But I may also leave you and run away." Xia Ye said deliberately.

"Hmph, sister Xia Ye knows how to scare me, so you won't...?"

Xia Ye didn't answer, but asked instead: "What happened just now?"

And Lilian obediently didn't ask the question just now: "That... is what I just wanted to say, the third reason why few people fly in the downtown area."

"Ok?"

"The witch who ran away should have gone bankrupt." Lilian explained, "Once there is no magic power in our body, we will die immediately, but no one is not afraid of death, so when a person looks at the magic power of the cup day after day When there is a reduction in the amount of food, and you can’t find any supplementary sources, you can only make some extreme attempts.”

"for example?"

"Such as borrowing, or directly robbing. But the vast majority of people will choose to borrow first, because this approach at least seems to be less risky, but in fact, even if they can live longer because of this, most people will not be able to survive this period. Find enough magic power in time to repay the debt, so when the repayment deadline comes, they will be hunted down by the debt collection agency just like the witch just now."

"But..." Xia Ye thought about it, and said: "That witch has a broom, and it seems that she has at least one contract on her body. If she is a person who lacks magic power, why does she still have these things?"

"The broom may have been rented or robbed. As for the contract... There are actually quite a few people like this. The amount they owe is too large to be repaid at all. Therefore, they will often transfer the broom before the magic power in their bodies is frozen. They are all spent to buy and sign as high-level witch contracts as possible. These contracts are often of a combat nature, so that when the debt collection team goes to collect debts, they can choose to use violence-either Either the debt is sorted out with the debt collection squad, or the debt is sorted out with herself."

"However, even if she solves the debt collection team, so she doesn't have to repay the debt, it should be difficult to borrow magic power again, right? There should be something on the blacklist here, right?" Xia Ye proposed again based on the experience of her previous life. a doubt.

"Yes, it is said that every debt collection company has a list, but the records of each company are different, and they rarely communicate with each other. But the most critical problem is not here, but those who solved their debt problems through violence. In the next period of time, not only will there be no debt, but there will likely be a source of income..."

When Lilian said this, Xia Ye had roughly guessed the reason, and sure enough, she heard Lilian continue to say:
"In the lower city, there is never a lack of market for strength, and these people have proved their strength through their own survival. Many commissions will find them, and whaling ships will consider them when recruiting whale hunters, and even many debt collectors The company will in turn invite them to join..."

"Ah! No wonder Luka invited me to join the lightning debt collection." Xia Ye suddenly remembered what happened yesterday, and it seemed that he was also regarded as that kind of desperado.

"Uh..." Lilian didn't know how to answer the conversation for a while, but she was the one who called the lightning debt collector.

Fortunately, Xia Ye only brought it up because he thought it was interesting, and he didn't mean to settle old scores: "So, maybe the witch who flew over just now might be able to turn around?"

Although Lilian had never heard the term 'salted fish turned over', she also understood what Xia Ye meant, and she nodded: "Actually, this kind of thing is quite common in the downtown area, which is why everyone is reluctant to fly into the sky, because The sky here has become a battlefield for debt evaders and debt collectors, if it is affected, you can only consider yourself unlucky."

As if to confirm Lilian's words, just after she finished speaking, a fire suddenly rose in the sky in the other direction, and several witches whizzed past in the distance, and a figure could be vaguely seen falling from the sky.

interesting……

Xia Ye admired the battle in the distance, and the corners of his lips curled up involuntarily. Compared with the well-ordered middle-level area, the lower city is obviously a much more interesting place.

That's right, this is my favorite game...

(End of this chapter)