Chapter 16: The Watson District

"You have a new message from Olivia......"

The information panel on the window pushes out an information tooltip, and the sender's name is a bit outrageous.

Oh~

Lying on the window frame, the wind chimes bathed in the orange-red sunset sun flicked their tails, turned their heads to look at the window that suddenly made a sound, and called out to Zhu Jue, who was sitting behind the computer desk.

"1103, play message!"

Zhu Jue held the pen and copied some characters on the note, and said without looking back.

"Now start playing the message: Zhu Jue, before June 10th, you have to get your own residence certificate in Dawning City, I will help you get a place for the on-site assessment of the archaeological association, and I need time to sort out the content of the assessment, there shouldn't be too many problems in this regard, after all, the combat department you want to test does not require high professional knowledge in archaeology. ”

After communicating with Olivia in Anling City before, Zhu Jue, who returned to Shuguang City, thought twice about it, and finally decided to follow Olivia's advice and find a way to join the Archaeological Society.

On the one hand, Zhu Jue needs a channel where he can obtain "zero" information, it is obviously unrealistic to investigate by himself, and if this kind of organization that can be wanted by the whole world can be found casually, they are not worthy of existing for so long.

On the other hand, Zhu Jue's existing ability comes from the spiritual pollution source monster, and the result of enhancing his spiritual power through gems and ancient crystals can only make his existing ability stronger but unable to give birth to new abilities, which he is obviously not difficult to satisfy, so he still wants to get in touch with more things about spiritual pollution source monsters, and now that the grotesque studio is gone, the Archaeological Association is undoubtedly the best choice.

After listening to Olivia's message, Zhu Jue just wrote down the date of June 10th, casually set a reminder for this date in the memo on the computer, and then put all his attention back to the booklet in front of him.

The Book of Dekien

Zhu Jue's initial concept of this book was roughly similar to the summoning content about human-faced rats and ghouls that he had received, and it was an ominous evil product, so although he got it, he never had the intention of reading it.

However, Olivia's description of the "Dao Master" and "Merlin" in the "Zero" religion made Zhu Jue realize that their abilities may not only come from the sacrifice of evil gods or monsters that are the source of spiritual pollution, but the source of their power cannot be so simple.

Taking out the two remaining dark purple talismans in his hand and placing them on the edge of the keyboard, his eyes stayed on the mysterious characters on the front of the talismans, Zhu Jue had an exchange with the shopkeeper of Xiangfeng Restaurant after obtaining these two talismans, and the latter mentioned the "Xuanjun Seven Chapters of the Secret Sutra".

Therefore, Zhu Jue can conclude that this book is undoubtedly deeply entangled with the cult in Rong Xia City, and now that he thinks about it, he is a little annoyed why he didn't stay for a few more days at that time, but he couldn't wait to return to Yecheng, and now it is naturally impossible to pursue the clues of five years ago.

But then again, Zhu Jue at that time was not interested in these things at all, even if he knew that there was such a strange book, he probably didn't have much interest.

"Listen, son of the earth, listen to the voice of your master, the son of the stars. ”

"You have to learn that there is neither height nor depth here, everything is integrated into one......

"The children of the Mother of Darkness fill the universe, and great wars are fought within and outside them. ”

"This war will decide the fate of the universe, and the seeds of the gods will manifest everywhere and again. ”

The booklet began with a passage that Zhu Jue had heard from Flo's mouth, and when he personally read out this specious and vague text expressing some kind of mysterious information, that long-lost sense of confusion came to his mind without warning.

It's just that compared to five years ago, Zhu Jue's spiritual will is stronger now, and this is just a summary of Flo's knowledge gained in the dream world, it is incomplete, and there are even many mistakes.

Zhu Jue only read a few paragraphs and found that there were many typos in them, and it was clear that Flo was in a worried state of mind when he wrote these things from his memory, and he was not interested in reliving that nightmarish feeling to correct the typos, so many of these contents were also wrong.

"Tsk...... I can't stand it anymore. ”

I don't know if it's because of the typos in the booklet and confusion and I don't know the so-called passages, or because of the mental trance when reading, Zhu Jue only read it for about 10 minutes before he had to give up reading, and instead held two agate stones to keep his spirit stable by absorbing energy.

The existing content does not help Zhu Jue much, as I said before, most of it is something that he cannot understand, "angels", "evolution", "creatures", such words often appear in it, but it does not help Zhu Jue to understand this book.

Closing the booklet, getting up and walking into the studio, putting it in with the bags of gems, Zhu Jue just took a honey-colored agate stone and stuffed it into a necklace that he had made when he came back yesterday.

In the middle of the silver chain was a hollow iron ball, where the gem was placed, but it was worn close to the body, so that Zhu Jue could absorb the energy in it anytime and anywhere, and he was ready to absorb as much as possible in the coming week to prepare for that trip.

But until then, he had things to do.

Take one of the prayer vouchers belonging to the Church of Usar and one of the three materials on the table and put it in your pocket.

"Wind chimes, go shopping~"

shouted towards the windowsill, and the wind chimes rushed over and jumped into Zhu Jue's arms.

The gentleman could not reveal any information about the Shuojin Bank on the phone, but he did not forbid Zhu Jue to investigate it himself, and the prayer scroll and the coins themselves were a collection of information.

In order to be somewhat sure in the next assembly, Zhu Jue decided to take these two things and ask someone before that.

Where to?

Naturally, it's the Watson district.

Zhu Jue inquired about the situation in various urban districts of Dawning City, and Watson District was, to a certain extent, a "bazaar" and "entertainment area" for the middle and lower class residents of Dawning City.

The antique shops he was looking for were quite a few in the neighborhood.

Take Metro Line 3 and take about 6 stops up from Parakeet Street.

The buildings in front of you are very different from those in the Heywood area.

The entire Watson district can be said to be the gathering place of the world's diverse cultures, but while the culture is blended, it retains some of its own unique style in some places, such as the aristocratic community here.

Don't get me wrong, the "noble" prefix in this aristocratic community is not because of the identity of some people, it is purely a name chosen by the people who live here to enhance their style.

Western restaurants, taverns, and night clubs are the main tone here, although the building is still tall, but the style is mixed with ancient Roman and Gothic styles, such as the bell tower that Zhu Jue is passing by now is a very representative building.

The crowd ranged from blonde men in tuxedos to women in tuxedos adorned with lace flowers, and occasionally holographic projections of men in Scottish skirts with strange instruments playing melodious music.

The setting sun was still hanging in the sky, and the light passed through the tall city buildings, reflected on the surface of the big red fire hydrant on the side of the road, and scattered a light of unknown color.

Zhu Jue also saw that one of the signboards was left with a lump of bird droppings, hanging diagonally in the center, and "shining" in the sunset with the fluorescent signs.

The streets here are not spacious, although they are better than the Heywood area, but they are still not as good as the other urban areas that Zhu Jue saw on the Internet before, only three lanes, and the number of aerial rail cars is not much different from the Heywood area.

Probably because I haven't gone out shopping with Zhu Jue for a long time, the wind chimes seem very excited, from the beginning of the subway to Zhu Jue's area around Zhu Jue running around, a while jumping to the fire hydrant to pretend to be a meerkat, with three tails to support the body, like a person half squatting, two small paws on the chest, let his little belly all exposed to the sunset, and then run to the window of the nearby western restaurant to stare at the steak on the table of others, there is a lot of intention to eat the steak with his eyes, wait until the guests inside notice it, and trot back to Zhu Jue, between his legs, almost let the latter himself wrestle。

Oh~

Passing by an alleyway, the wind chime's footsteps suddenly stopped, stared at a nearby alley, and shrugged its nose, from where it smelled blood.

"What's wrong...... Oh, it turned out to be an underground bazaar. ”

Zhu Jue looked at the past, there are more than a dozen steps between the streets and lanes here, and there are some glass doors at the bottom, Zhu Jue, who has seen the "Raiders" before coming, immediately recognized that it was the entrance to the underground market.

Above-ground mall, underground market.

This is a succinct description of the current situation in Watson District in an online forum.

Malls and bazaars mean the same thing, but in many people's minds, the former is obviously more formal.

To put it simply, the Watson district is a commercial area on the ground that is dedicated to the ordinary people of Dawning City, and the underground market is dedicated to those "special people".

For example, the supermarket on the ground sells toy guns with plastic BB bullets, and the shops on the ground may sell heavy sniper rifles with armor-piercing bullets......

"Let's go down later, it's not the time yet. ”

The underground bazaar is closed during the day, until after 10 p.m., in part to protect the general public and avoid unnecessary clashes as much as possible.

Walking through two blocks, Zhu Jue soon saw his destination.