Tokyo underground city

Chapter 75 The Supreme White

After chatting with the mummy swordsman, Lin Huai'en quickly adjusted his mentality and reinvested in exploring the middle area of ​​the Salt 10 shelter.

To be honest, the mummy swordsman's words had a great impact on him, but they also further stimulated his interest in exploring the deep dungeon.

Therefore, he reorganized the classification of dungeon explorers, especially some information related to deep exploration.

He looked at the notebook in his hand: "First of all, start with myself."

"I am now a gray card level explorer, also known as [Gray Card Apprentice], with levels ranging from 0 to 15."

"Adventurers of my level can basically only move around in dungeons on floors 1 to 5."

"This part of the underground city is called [Extremely Shallow Underground City]. Normally, this part of the area is very dangerous. Ordinary people can enter as long as they apply for an underground city pass."

"And going down from the [Ultra Shallow Level] is the [Shallow Underground City]. That is, the dungeon space from the 5th to 20th floors."

"This part of the dungeon is no longer a place where the [Gray Card of Apprentice] can enter. Only the officially recognized [Red Card of Endeavor] and the further [Blue Card of Cangjian] can enter here. Some regional activities.”

Lin Huai'en pondered for a moment: "The above are the [safe areas] recognized by explorers as being less dangerous."

"And starting from the 20th floor, there will be a [main tunnel] connecting multiple dungeons."

"Almost all countries have set up underground city customs at the exit on the 20th floor, specifically responsible for detecting and releasing explorers from other countries."

"The 20th floor of the underground city customs does not allow explorers from every country to enter and exit at will, but it is much looser than the border restrictions on the ground. Firstly, the customs is short of manpower; secondly, the explorers are all in the United Nations after all. Records have been filed within the Underground City Department, and the reliability and traceability of the information far exceed that of the general public."

"Further down on the 20th floor is the [Mid-level Dungeon], which is the scope of activity of [Blue Card of Cang Jian] and [Purple Card of Profound Purple Card]."

"Compared with the shallow dungeons with 5 to 15 floors, the mid-level dungeons starting from 20 to 35 floors are larger in area and the dungeon ecology will be more complex. They also have to face competition from explorers from many countries. Therefore, the explorers' The death rate is also much greater than that of shallow layers.”

"So the number of corporate explorers who 'focus more on safety than on profits' will decrease rapidly starting from the 20th floor. The number of treasures and relics that can be found will also increase rapidly, but there will be conflicts with explorers from other countries. The probability will also rise sharply."

"But generally speaking, although the explorers in the middle space occasionally compete with each other, they are relatively restrained with each other. Even if they are in a no-man's land, they will rarely make a deadly move and force the opponent's entire team to perish."

"But starting from the 35th floor, all mid-level explorers will arrive at the final fortress called the 'Frontline Base'."

"This is the end of human civilization. Only the best among dungeon explorers can pass through here and continue to the [Deep Dungeon]—"

"That is, the [Profound Purple Card] and the [Immortal Black Card]."

"And the [Deep Dungeon] that starts at level 35 and ends at level 50 is even more vast, and it can even make people mistakenly think that it contains an entire continent. However, according to the [Black Card] explorers who have actually reached the 50th level, What they said is just an illusion of the [Profound Purple] people, because——”

"Compared with the real [Abyss Layer], [Deep Dungeon] cannot be compared in terms of area or ecological weirdness."

"An ordinary explorer's level will be capped when it reaches level 150. Even if he kills more monsters, his experience and level cannot be improved, and it is impossible to obtain more talents and skills."

"And this level limit of 150 is what the mummy calls [the shackles of the Holy Spirit]. Black card explorers who cannot break through to level 150 will basically stay at level 50 and no longer go deeper."

"And these people, on Wilderness House, are called [ordinary black cards] or [lower black cards], that is, black card explorers who cannot attack the [supreme white card]."

"And from the 50th floor down, it is the realm of [high-level black cards] and [white cards]."

"That's the so-called [Abyssal Layer]."

"The [Superior Black Cards] are the most powerful group of all mortal explorers, and they are also the most promising ones to attack the [White Cards]."

"And among them, those who finally broke through the limit of level 150 and gained new powers are known as the [Supreme White] and are considered to be existences that have broken through the human category."

"'Under the abyss, white cards are invincible'."

"No matter how many [upper black card] level explorers there are, it is impossible to hunt down a white card explorer in the abyss."

"And in the area above the abyss, it would take about ten black card explorers to be able to surround and kill a white card explorer."

"But even so, it still doesn't help."

"Because once you become [Supreme White], it means that the white card explorer becomes an immortal existence. Even if the physical body is destroyed, the pass cannot be damaged. As long as you return to the ground and use the resurrection machine, you can recover immediately Flesh.”

"So, there is only one way to kill Bai Ka -"

"Then go to the [Absolute Layer] below the 65th floor."

"It is a place where no white card explorer can survive, and no one can return..."

After chatting with the Mummy Swordsman, Lin Huai'en carefully collected information and legends about explorers of all levels, especially the [Black Card] and [White Card].

Then he immediately discovered that compared to the exhaustive level from [Gray Card] to [Black Card], most of the information related to [White Card] stayed in the category of "legend".

Even the United Nations Dungeon Agency is not sure how many [White Cards] have appeared in the entire human civilization.

"There are 17 people with records of their appearance."

"Five of them have been sealed, or are confirmed to have gone to the extreme layer and perished."

"These appearance records refer to close sighting reports above the 50th floor; or close communication reports from black card explorers below the 50th floor who are affiliated with more than three different frontline bases."

"There are only 12 white card explorers who have returned to the 35th floor or above."

"This is because, once they become [Supreme White], the upward suppression suffered by white card explorers will become very terrifying. Therefore, almost no white card explorers will go without any preparation. Go to the forward base on the 35th floor, let alone go to the surface world.”

"In the United Nations Underground Agency, there are only seven white card explorers with records of returning to the surface world, and almost all of them are supported by world-class powers."

"And no one's ground stay record lasted more than three months."

Seeing this, Lin Huaien frowned:

"At this point, the Dungeon Department's records are very different from the story told by the mummy swordsman."

“‘Telaris’, as a high-ranking Holy Spirit, has stayed in shallow dungeons like Salt 10 Shelter for at least 18 years.”

"How did she do it?"

Lin Huai'en looked at the information in his hand and suddenly circled the words "Dungeon Power" and "Eternal Kingdom".

"If the Goddess of Salt and Terraris, as upper-level holy spirits, have any desires..."

"It's probably returning to the ground..."

"Although the white card is invincible, it is only within the abyss layer."

"Going up to the abyss level, even white card explorers are at risk of being besieged to death and sealed."

"So there is no need and they will not come back."

"But in the [Abyss Layer] below the 50th floor, where there are almost no human beings, even if you gain immortality, it has no meaning."

"So after becoming [Supreme White], the white card explorers either went to the extreme world, or they started to think about what to do to return to the ground."

"And the most extreme case—"

"It is to turn the surface world into a world full of magic like the underground city..."

"So, this is the plan of 'Eternal Kingdom'..."

"In order to maintain such a huge amount of magic power, the Salt Goddess needs to consume the wilderness hearts of the entire underground city. And she also needs to allow ordinary people in the surface world to continuously transform into explorers - or Holy Spirits - in order to maintain eternal life. The power the country needs..."

"And because of the existence of the Eternal Kingdom, black-card explorers like the Mummy Swordsman, or the 'Holy Spirit', can obtain eternal life in the surface world; while white-card explorers like 'Telaris' can gain eternal life in the ground world. Normal life in the surface world..."

"But... the ground world doesn't know what happened, forcing the people of the Salt Civilization to abandon the ground world and move into shelters to survive. Then a series of problems occurred in the Salt 10 shelter..."

Lin Huai'en was writing and drawing in his notebook while thinking, and on the activated map that popped up beside him, the "Telaris Index Finger" was writing down his thoughts at a speed that was beyond his reach.

Lin Huai'en only wrote a few key points, but when it came to the activation map, it turned into a long article.

Magic Pen even thoughtfully helped him label the date and keywords.

He only needs to think of relevant dates or relevant tags, and the magic pen can immediately rewrite the previous article on the activated map.

It's just that the writing speed will be a bit slow, and Lin Huai'en needs to skip a paragraph from time to time and let the magic pen start writing again from the next paragraph.

"But even so, it's more than three times as fast as my own handwriting..."

Lin Huai'en took a photo of the article written by the magic pen and saved it on his mobile phone. He sighed: "It would be great if the activated map had the display speed of a mobile phone, or if the mobile phone had the intelligence of the 'Telaris Index Finger'..."

But you can't have your cake and eat it too, which has been a problem since ancient times.

Putting away his unrealistic thoughts, Lin Huaien finished his rest. He looked at the map of the middle area of ​​the Salt 10 shelter on the "Book of Terraris" and couldn't help but sigh:

"The Salt 10 Shelter is really huge. Just clearing the entrance to the middle area [Salt and Crossroads] took me more than ten days!"

[I have revised it several times, but I don’t know how readable it is. 】

[But I always feel that it’s time to hand over the “detailed” settings. 】

[Thanks for posting it in the afternoon. 】