Volume 3: The Land Outside the Law Chapter 6: The Land Outside the Law
At such depths, the sea water is not much inferior to steel. The carriage was hit by the sea and made a "dangdang" sound, and the walls were deformed as if they had been hit by a hammer.
Powerful sound waves echoed through the carriage, and many passengers fell to the ground, hunched over and groaning violently.
The steady lights on the Charon also flickered on and off, and the shadows hit everyone's faces, setting off the distorted faces with different expressions.
It would be ridiculous to make the decision to abandon everything and accept the invitation, only to die halfway before you even reach your destination.
The Charon let out a deafening roar, and veins appeared in the walls, like beasts ready to attack contracting their muscles.
In the seawater, the Charon accelerated violently, broke the shackles on its body, and fled into the distance through the heavy undercurrent.
It was a deeper than darkness, fragmented and chaotic.
But as long as you can escape the place where the two "suns" shine, everything is worth it.
Spinning, jolting, shaking, the Charon was shocked enough to make ordinary people faint.
Qianzhou's hands firmly clasped the seat, watching the shadows pass by the window. Silver flames echoed through the carriage like water waves, extinguishing some other thoughts.
I don't know how long it took, but the sky suddenly brightened outside. With a violent impact, the Charon fell heavily to the ground, rolling a few times before barely stopping.
After a while, the passengers who were smashed in the car came back to their senses one after another.
"I'm sorry, ladies and gentlemen. There seemed to be a little accident on our journey. "The conductor suddenly appeared in the carriage – at the same time, to be exact.
He wears a large-brimmed hat and a blue-gray jacket, and his expression is reserved and arrogant.
"The Charon can't move on for the time being. "But you're in luck." This happens to be at a point in the Passageway, and perhaps you can find another way to continue to the Grey Garden. ”
([Ash Abyss] is the name of outsiders for the Gray King's territory, in fact, the real name is [Ash Garden])
The conductor's tone was not so much an announcement as it was a "command". The condescending look didn't take any of the passengers into account.
"Then everyone, get out of the car!"
With a heavy sound, the thick iron door slowly opened, and a dim yellow light shone into the carriage.
Soon the conductor's shadow dissipated, leaving only a car of strangers looking at each other.
Qianzhou stood up, carried his bag behind his back, and strode towards the unknown land.
When the dust on the ground brushed the black boots, a strange scene was taken in by a thousand boats—
Sky...... No, the canopy is completely non-existent! only the yellow waves of smoke and sand that never cease rolling in the sky.
A dim yellow light shone through it and shone on the yellow-brown barren land.
There is no soft grass and water here, only dust and rock, earth and stone!
Look beyond the small plain in front of you and into the distance—it's a mountain, a mountain of countless mountains!
Steep, gentle, treacherous, treacherous...... The red barren mountains of different shapes are connected together, forming thousands of majestic mountain ranges.
In front of such a majestic mountain, Qianshu sincerely felt his own insignificance. It's like countless giants standing on the earth at the same time!
"This is ......"
"Marnwit, where the mountains meet!" said Qianzhou as she heard the girl behind her.
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"Marnwit" means "the place where the mountains meet" or "the mountains of a thousand mountains" in ancient sayings. As you can see from the name, the mountains are the main body of the mountain in Marnwit.
On board the Charon, the conductor said that this happened to be a node on the fairway.
There are countless dangerous places in the abyss, and the slightest carelessness will lead to great terror.
After countless abyssal explorers paved their roads with bones, they discovered some relatively safe routes connecting the abyss.
These routes were collectively referred to as "fairways" after being pioneered by later generations. ”
The areas on the "waterway" that are relatively safe and can be repaired and traded are called "nodes".
Malnwitt is a prime node, named after trade and minerals.
Thousands of boats walked through the towns at the foot of the mountain, passing by stalls.
Marnwit is mostly barren mountains, and there is not a trace of green in sight. But at the cost of this, the underground of Malnvuit is extremely rich – or rather, the underground is where the real Malnvuit is.
There is a vast space underneath Marnwit, and countless lives live in it. After a hundred years of excavation, the mine road extends in all directions, like a labyrinth.
In addition to the natives of Malnwitt, there are also countless alien transcendents who have come for the sake of the mines.
Most of the stalls that Thousand Boats pass by are run by these extraordinary, usually selling rare ores or relics of transcendents who died in the mines—as for how these transcendents died, that's up for debate.
In addition to the stalls that can be found everywhere, the architecture in the town is also very distinctive – yes, extraordinary.
Most of these buildings are made of local materials, with rock as the main body of the building. The style of the house is arbitrary, and some of the structures do not even conform to mechanics - this is created with extraordinary power.
The transcendents shaped their houses to their liking, and over time they formed this trade-oriented town with different styles.
Qianzhou walked and looked at the goods on the stall.
He wasn't very interested in the rough stones and the otherworldly items—the rough needed to be refined, and Qianzhou didn't have the skills to alchemy, and the otherworldly items didn't necessarily fit him.
Instead of going around and around, Qianzhou stopped in front of a barbecue stand.
Unknown meat is placed on the grill, and the meat is roasted to an emerald green color on a black fire. The color is strange, but the aroma is very attractive.
This intrigued the hungry Qianzhou.
"Boss, how do you sell this meat?" asked Qianzhou.
"Two grams of gold, or the equivalent in currency. The issuing country (region) of the currency needs to join the [Interbank]. Said the straw hat boss.
In all fairness, this is not cheap.
The gold here does not refer to ordinary gold, but to ritual gold that has been refined by alchemy to symbolize [sublimation].
As for the "Banking Alliance", the full name is "Banking Alliance". The currencies of countries (regions) that join the [Alliance] can circulate in both the Abyss and the present world.
After hesitating for a while, Qianzhou still paid for it. He has very little place to spend his money anyway.
When the boss handed the meat to Qianzhou, a gunshot rang out out out of nowhere. The essentiated bullet pierced the air with a screeching sound.
The head of the boss of the electric stone fire exploded like a watermelon, and the red and white splashed all over the ground.
A silver halo flashed from under Qianzhou's eyes, bouncing off the splatters of blood and brains—but the meat was probably inedible.
Qianzhou looked around, and everyone turned a blind eye to this. Only the wind that swept the dust blew through the ground, making a "whirring" laugh.
"Yes. This is a place outside the law without restraint and morality!"