Chapter Twenty-Three: The Iron Mask Demon King
? Heping Harbor is different from other cities Ding Huo has seen.
The first is that Heping Port is located on the vast sea, tens of thousands of meters away from the coast, the reason why it was built in such a location is probably because the coastline here has a pocket-shaped twist and turn, forming an inland sea, although it is a city in the sea, but there is no need to worry about wind and waves.
The second is that the Peace Harbor looks very ...... Irregularity.
The area is comparable to that of a city, and the port of peace is not a regular circle, square, or other shape, but seems to be spliced together by various urban modules, and is roughly divided into three districts when viewed from above.
The most central area is very busy, with a very dense density of buildings, but there are no high-rise buildings, and the area is the smallest.
On the south side, there are many high-rise buildings, the tallest of which is more than ten floors, and on the floating foundation of the sea, it is possible to build such a tall building, with the assistance of various magic guides, and there are also green trees on the other side, which is obviously an aristocratic area.
On the north side of the central area, it is extremely dilapidated, with all kinds of wooden floating foundations, built one after another, as if patches one after another, extending to the north, all kinds of dilapidated houseboats, densely overlapped, and the straight line length stretches for tens of thousands of meters.
The three areas are clearly demarcated, as if talking about the peace alley, although people of all identities can be accommodated, there are also untouchable rules here.
When they saw the Peaceful Harbor, Ding Huo and the three of them had already changed their outfits, Ding Huo put on a clown mask, Ami put away the very conspicuous white 'colored' unicorn, and the 'communication' tool was replaced by Ami's magic flying carpet with a serious shortage of energy.
"The Magic Flying Carpet can probably last a few kilometers. "But it's also very conspicuous." ”
There's no way around it, you can't swim through.
"Babel is in this city, I feel it. "Chisdis was like a goddess, the whip of thorns in her hand trembled, and her reaction was violent.
"I don't know if Henry Henry is there. Ding Huo felt that there was no way to determine this.
Although Chisdis said that Henry Henry had Babel with him, since he was injured, would the Pirate King choose to appear in such a "chaotic" and "chaotic" city?
In short, the three of them rode on the flying carpet and entered the area of the Port of Peace.
Although the city is 'chaotic' and 'chaotic', there is still an official management agency, and as soon as the flying carpet entered the port of peace, the three of them heard a request to suspend sailing according to the designated hanging.
So the magic flying carpet landed on the platform of the flying ship.
A guy in a black 'colored' dress who looked like a city official imposed a tax on the trio of three gold coins, explaining that it was a city building tax.
"Are you an official of the Kaiyang Kingdom?" Ding Huo asked him.
"Heping Port is an autonomous city, and we officials are all elected by the residents of the port, nominally under the leadership of Kaiyang State, but in fact we practice democratic politics. ”
Oh, and it's advanced.
After 'paying' the taxes and sending the officials away, Chisdis began her journey to find Babel, and Ding Huo and Ami's target was Henry, and the two targets could be together, so they followed all the way.
The spaceship platform is in the central area.
The central area is also the old town, and after the officials collected the taxes and fees, they left behind an atlas with text descriptions.
According to the introduction in the atlas, the central area is the prototype of the earliest construction of the Heping Port, which was built 100 years ago, when the Kaiyang Kingdom built this sea bunker in order to cope with the strong enemies coming from the sea.
Later, this sea bunker was repeatedly captured by pirates, and the pirates liked this sea city, so they signed an agreement with the Kaiyang side to make the bunker a neutral area, and the two sides were not allowed to use force here.
In the decades that followed, the city of the Bunker became safe and peaceful, and was given the name of the Port of Peace, where merchants from all over the world invested and used it to turn over all kinds of goods brought by sea.
Land transportation can only use airships or horse-drawn carriages, long-distance transportation of airships is extremely expensive, horse-drawn carriages are too slow, and the Nanban continent is surrounded by sea on three sides, if you take the sea route, you can reach most of the national ports, and the speed is very fast, although there are pirates, but the huge benefits are enough to offset the risk.
As a result, merchants from all over the world invested in Heping Port and built a new city, also known as the aristocratic district.
The prosperity and security of the port of peace also attracted criminals from all over the world, fishermen from the vicinity, and desperate people who came here to make a living, and they parked in the houseboats on the north side of the port of peace, and gathered more and more, forming a large urban area that was not in the urban development plan, but actually existed, for decades.
Known as the slum, this area is the largest and has the most complex inhabitants.
When Ding Huo and the three of them got out of the flyship platform, they saw the city in the central area of Heping Port.
Because it is a sea floating bunker in the prototype form for war purposes, all kinds of buildings in the central area have the black and ugly and thick style of the imperial capital of all countries, but the prosperity of the city has dissolved this roughness, and all kinds of magic lights have transformed the signboard text on all the buildings, even in the noon sun, it also looks colorful.
Among the various military blackstone buildings, there are all kinds of wooden buildings of different old and new ones.
The climate on the sea is hot, and most of the people walking on the streets wear short clothes and short trousers, and very few wear long robes.
And in these few minutes, passing in front of the three people, there were pedestrians of different races of various skin tones, hairstyles, and decorations.
The streets are narrow, probably only accommodating three carriages in parallel.
Everywhere there is a fishy smell and the saltiness of the sea.
Instead of a new and expensive gadget like a magic guide lamp, the old shop only hung a mottled and old wooden sign with the words 'Madeir, 432', telling the story of the bakery, or clothing store, for nearly 100 years.
In the crevices of the stone pavement under your feet, because of the 'tide' of the sea, the moss and vines were nourished, and under the trampling of pedestrians, they survived tenaciously and dyed the slate green.
On the 'dew' balcony on the second floor at the corner of the street, the wrought-iron fence creates an ancient pattern, a few lily orchids swing elegantly in the noise of the market below, and ancient vines climb up from the black stone wall.
This is an old and new maritime city.
"Ha, there is a zero-1 airship fuel for sale, which is amazing, in many countries this is a prohibited item, only for military purposes. Ami said happily.
At the entrance of the 'gate' of the airship platform, there is a flyship fuel store, and when Ami walked into it, he saw the powerful material sales resources of Heping Port, of course, the price was extremely expensive.
Ami replenished 100 units of airship fuel, enough for the Magic Flying Carpet.
The three of them left the airship fuel store and followed Chisdis's instructions to head out of the central district.
"That direction...... It's a slum. ”
Ami rummaged through the map to determine where they were at the moment.
Ding Huo suddenly said, "Someone is eyeing us." ”
The clothes of Ding Huo and the three of them, as well as Ami's behavior of flipping through the map while walking, all represent that they are new travelers who have just arrived in Heping Port, and there are some practitioners in Heping Port, who take travelers like Ding Huo as their 'business objects'.
On the street corner in front of him, a shirtless young man with black 'color' skin and 'lean' skin, swimming freely like a fish in the crowded crowd, approached Ding Huo and the three in a blink of an eye.
When approaching the three of them, the dark-skinned young man bumped into Chisdis, he had good acting skills, it looked like he had fallen, maybe after hitting Chisdis, the purse that Chisdis hung on his waist changed its ownership.
However, he probably didn't see the green 'thorn' whip sticking out of Chisdis's hair.
The thorny whip was aimed at the heart of the dark-skinned youth like a poisonous snake, and Ding Huo guaranteed that in the next second, the dark-skinned youth would turn into a corpse.
Ding Huo stretched out his hand, grabbed the dark-skinned young man by the throat before he could find death, and dragged him over.
"Hmph. Chisdis snorted coldly, shook her hair, and the whip of thorns retracted like a serpent.
"Don't kill people casually, you'll get into trouble. Ding Huo said.
"Little prince, you are really kind. Chisdis said and walked back to the slums.
In the eyes of people other than Chisdis, Ding Huo, a wanted criminal known as the Iron Mask Demon King, is definitely not related to kindness.
However, Ding Huo felt that compared to Chisdis, he must be very kind.
The three of them continued to walk, and Ding Huo had not let go of the dark-skinned young man, he had been dragging it with his arm, looking like the feeling of an old friend reuniting, and then turned a street corner, and further on was the slum, where there were fewer pedestrians, and Ding Huo let him go.
"Ahem, ahem, ahem, ......!"
The young man fell to his knees and coughed up tears, but he still struggled and said, "Don't, don't kill me!"
"Did anything happen in Heping Harbor in the early hours of this morning?" Ding Huo asked.
"What's going on...... "The young man looked very confused.
"For example, there are high-level fighters. Ding Huo reminded.
"This ...... I don't know. The young man shook his head at once.
Ding Huo felt that he was lying, so he stretched out two fingers, one left and one right, and pressed his head hard.
"Ahhhh
"Yes! There are high-ranking fighters passing through the Peace Harbor! It's two, and they're still fighting! It's early in the morning!" the young man roared.
And so it was......
Ding Huo nodded.
Skywalker chased down Wood 'Leg' Henry, although Skywalker may have been injured, but Wood 'Leg' Henry's injury was undoubtedly more serious, Skywalker would not let go of the opportunity to cut off one of the Seven Demon Kings, so he would definitely chase it all the way.
If Babel had been in the Port of Peace, Henry the Wooden 'Leg' would have passed through here.
However, is Henry still not there?
"I really don't know! How could I know such news! I have to ask our boss! Let me go!" the young man cried into tears. ~