Chapter 2: No Choice
Du Yueming sat in front of the window, carefully observing the silk scarf and card in his hand.
Both of these objects have the same symbol on them – irises and crosses.
The center of the iris overlaps the cross, and it looks like a sword stuck in the center of the shield.
Unlike the glittering family crest of ordinary nobles, it is pure black, with delicate patterns and meticulous details in the sun, and it has a deep feeling.
The fleur-de-lis flower represents magnificence, mission and beauty, and the black cross represents solemnity and judgment, such a family crest with a deep texture is by no means possessed by ordinary families, and such a family is by no means from a small city like Yangxi City.
Although Du Yueming didn't understand the symbolic meaning of this emblem, he looked very awesome, and instinctively made Du Yueming feel that these two things were of great significance.
For Du Yueming, in fact, the meaning doesn't matter anything, what matters is whether the 100,000 gold coins on that card are real. Gold coins are the only criterion for testing the truth, this is a sentence that Du Yueming believes incomparably.
Du Yueming carefully put away the silk scarf and card. At this time, the guy on the iron bed stretched his waist, probably awake.
It was a boy about the same age as Du Yueming, he fumbled for a while, and finally picked up a pair of eyes and put them on. This guy's name is Fang Delin is Du Yueming's roommate in this rotten airship, and the friendship between the two can be traced back to two years ago, when this guy picked Du Yueming back.
Fang Delin looked malnourished and yellow-skinned, a pair of round glasses took up half of his face, and his dark brown hair was of the fluffy and curly type, he was obviously a person who didn't care about his external image, and his hair and stubble were messy in the air.
What happened last night was really a bit fantastical, and I should have fallen in the alley. Didn't this guy carry me back?
"Brother, how did I come back last night?" you know?" Du Yueming asked tentatively.
"Ha, Xiao Du, you are sleepy, you haven't gone out at all yesterday, and you have been lying in bed unconscious for a long time. After Fang Delin finished speaking, he patted Du Yueming's shoulder, to the effect that "you haven't slept well, so take it slowly", and then went out with a bunch of parts on the table.
In place, Du Yueming was quite shocked and a little speechless.
Fang Delin should not know anything. Could it be that last night was really just a dream? But how do you explain the silk scarf and the black card? It's all quite weird. It seems that the only way to go to the bank is to pass the gold coin.
Du Yueming took out three silver coins from under the pillow, which he had recently blackmailed from an unlucky ghost in the back alley of the stinky leather tavern, and it was also his hard-earned money.
This rotten airship crashed into the lower part of Yangxi City, which is interspersed with dilapidated tin houses, and there is no such thing as a planned block littered with alchemy waste thrown away from the upper city, and it smells of rusty metal as soon as you go out.
Living in such a place is simply an ordeal, but the only person who can seem to be tired of it is Fang Delin. When he went out, Du Yueming watched this guy excitedly rummaging through something in the scrap factory, looking like a hunting dog looking for food.
Before going to the bank, the delicate-minded Du Yueming still refused to give up the search for clues, and he deliberately went to the alley last night. I came to the alley on the edge of the upper town, but there was no trace of blood or car prints on the rotten black stone road. Oh, by the way, not even the brass pipe is gone, is it burning like a match? Damn it.
Maybe it was because the heavy rain last night had been washed away, and there were no traces left on the ground except for a few puddles of rain? But Du Yueming didn't seem to give up, he must find the traces of last night. For this reason, this kid also deliberately went to the house rented by the gangsters, as well as the stinky leather bar where they often mingled, and finally Du Yueming simply walked around the downtown area, but there was no one to find at all, and those gangsters also seemed to have evaporated from the world.
Du Yueming gave up. After all, they are like stray hyenas scavenging in the wasteland, abandoned by the world, no matter what, no one cares at all. If you can't find someone, I'm afraid it means you can't find it again.
After passing through the long and chaotic streets of the lower city, after paying the protection money to the guards guarding the junction of the upper and lower towns, Du Yueming finally came to the Medici Bank in the upper city. Pushing open the thick door with the black immortal bird emblem painted on it, he walked very low-key to the self-service counter in the corner.
In front of him is a gray stone pillar nearly 2 meters high, the outside of the stone pillar is a variety of lines, the stone pillar is not a whole, but two sections, the connection does not seem to be very tight, and many biting gears can be faintly seen in the gap in the middle.
"Bells and whistles, isn't this an ATM? "Although Du Yueming was born as an orphan in a small town, his soul had actually fused with a soul-piercing guy a few years ago, so he knew that this thing was equivalent to something on a certain planet.
The black card was put into the groove on the stone pillar by Du Yueming, the alchemy machinery began to operate, the brilliance flowed, and the number of light patterns was displayed on the table of the stone pillar - 100,000!
Du Yueming's heart was pounding, he rubbed his eyes, and the number was still so clear.
There are three currencies in this world, copper, silver, and gold, and the purchasing power of a copper plate is almost equivalent to a dollar on the earth, and the exchange ratio between the three is 1 to 10. So what this number means to Du Yueming, who is poor and white, is self-evident.
The first thing Du Yueming did when he became a wealthy man was to buy a single-family apartment in Uptown and a classic car with good performance. Come up and buy a house and a car directly, saying that this Xiao Du is really realistic.
At nightfall.
Du Yueming was lying on the comfortable bed in his attic. It's amazing to think about it, a thug in the lower city has become an upper-class man with a car and a house in the city because of a strange rainy night. He no longer has to nest in a rotten airship that is hot and humid, and he no longer has to fight with people for a few copper plates. Mmmm, tomorrow I can pick up the friend Fang Delin who took me in, didn't that kid always want to study in Shangcheng and learn mechanics or something.
Everything is there, everything will be there, and that rainy night has made him say goodbye to the past.
Iris with the emblem of the cross......
That rainy night...... That gentleman......
He had a silver pocket watch on his chest, and he walked down in the midst of the storm with a large black umbrella on his shoulder, and he held out his hand to himself, and he said to himself that he would go to the highest point of the city to find him.
Du Yueming suddenly recalled that night, and the details of that night in his mind became clearer and clearer. He felt his head weigh heavily, and the images were like imprints, unable to disperse.
It may be a choice. To go to that person or not?
Du Yueming was a little hesitant, now his mind is very messy, he opened the window, maybe it would be better to blow the night breeze and wake up.
The moment she pushed open the window, Du Yueming was stunned.
Not far away, in the center of the city, a tower nearly three hundred meters high towered above all the buildings, standing majestically under the blue dome.
There were no stars in the sky tonight, just a huge full moon that served as a backdrop for the tower.
The tower is surrounded by a circle of light and energy vapor, like the beating heart of the city. This is the Tower of Magical Energy, the heart of a city, a super alchemy machine that drives the city, burning cheap black stone but spewing out thick energy vapor to provide inexhaustible power for the city. It is the great "giant" that drives the city, and it is also the highest point in the city.
Du Yueming was stunned for a while, until a trace of night wind penetrated into his sleeve, and he sneezed before coming back to his senses.
There was a hint of stagnation in the air, and the hustle and bustle of the city was unusually quiet tonight.
The night breeze was light, Du Yueming suddenly felt a little chill behind him, and he subconsciously flashed to the side. Almost at the same time, an almost transparent silk thread gently brushed past Du Yueming's neck, and the pain immediately surged up. Du Yueming touched his neck, and there was blood on one hand, but fortunately it was only a skin injury. Thanks to his instinctive induction, he flashed to the side, otherwise he would have hit the ground just now.
Du Yueming turned around in horror, and at some point, a white-robed man with a mask had actually appeared behind him.
How did this come in? Quietly?
It should not be an opponent of one level. Run. Only run.
Du Yueming made a decision at the moment, and directly climbed out of the window, jumping down like an agile leopard. Du Yueming had cultivated a little vindictiveness, otherwise the previous extortion business behind the stinky leather tavern would not have gone so smoothly. The height of five or six meters is not a problem at all for a person like Du Yueming who has cultivated fighting spirit. After landing, Du Yueming spread his legs and ran wildly towards the Magic Energy Tower.
Du Yueming was a smart guy, and he knew that there might only be one safe place now, and that was the highest point in the city, the Magic Energy Tower.
He also suddenly understood that the torrent of fate was roaring, and he may have no choice.