Chapter 16: Spring Greetings Everywhere (3)
"Do you need anything else?"
"I'm looking for the ferryman to the abyss."
Louisa tosses a silver moon coin to the clerk, as is often seen in novels where a rich man tips a laborer.
"Please come with me over here."
The clerk still kept a smile in business, opened the paper door in the back kitchen, and gently closed the paper door after the two entered.
The inside looks the same as a normal kitchen, except that it is narrower, and when you look to the left, you can see a long, bottomless passageway, and several chefs are busy at this time, and when they see the clerk come in, they raise their heads slightly, and she waves her hand, indicating that she is not here to pick up food.
As soon as Beatis stepped into the back kitchen, the fragrant, earthy smell mixed with the heavy smell of oil smoke immediately hit her nose.
"Miss, I'll cross the river with you."
The clerk didn't ask them for their purpose - most of the ones who knew the code were the only ones, and the reason why she repeated the crossing of the river again made Louisa understand what she meant, and immediately took out a gold moon coin.
"Is it enough?"
"That's enough, miss, please move over here."
With that, she picked up a lantern placed on the kitchen counter and walked briskly, unlike the graceful and slow way she had just received the guests.
After walking about a few dozen steps, Beatis suddenly felt an imperceptible hot wind blowing towards them, and with the faint light, she could see what seemed to be a stone arch in front of her, and the sound of Kuang Ci Kuang Ci came from time to time.
"Watch your step."
The clerk reminded them, and the two of them did so, stepping through the archway, and at first glance they saw a row of small mine trucks for cargo transportation parked on the side.
When I looked up again, I could see that the road ahead was gone, replaced by a cliff surrounded by an iron fence, and on top of the cliff, a row of conveyor belts that looked like iron chains were raised high.
"Please."
The clerk opened the side door of a minecart and glanced at Louisa.
"You don't have to be here in person."
"Someone reminded me of this, but I think it's better to come in person, forget it, it's nothing."
With that, she stepped straight into the minecart and sat down, her slightly disgusted and helpless tone and movements almost making Bhatis think that she really knew something.
"Come on, too, and sit next to me. Grinding since just now, scared? ”
Louisa shouted at her, and she came to her senses and ran quickly.
"I'm so sorry, Miss!"
After taking their seats, the clerk lowered the guardrail that had been erected above.
"Please take care of it."
After the admonition, before the nervousness could be put in his mind, the minecart was pushed by the clerk, and then something grabbed the minecart and was pulled hard, and the huge bump made Beatis "Ah! She couldn't help but close her eyes and clutch the guardrail with both hands.
The hot wind and cool breeze blow in at the same time, and this time it is more intense, and you don't need to feel it carefully to fully appreciate it.
On a minecart? It's like a roller coaster ride!
When they opened their eyes, they were in a narrower tunnel that could only accommodate one minecart, the speed of the minecart was fast, and there would be some downhill from time to time, and the rapid speed and the constant darkness around them made Beatis unable to hold back any longer, and at this moment, fear prevailed over reason.
"Wow, ahhh
"Don't be afraid, Xiaobai."
Louisa put her hand over hers.
"I'll protect you, you'll be fine."
"Woo woo woo I don't listen, you make a note!"
Afterwards, whenever Bhatis remembered this sentence, she would always laugh at her own stupidity.
But Louisa didn't feel any rudeness in her behavior, but said with a gentle chuckle that could be heard clearly in the wind.
"Okay, it'll stand, but—can you trust me, open your eyes now?"
This Christine must have cast some kind of demagogic magic on herself.
Otherwise, why didn't the heavy eyelids and frightened heart obey at this moment, and even at the cost of tears that couldn't hold in her eyes, she had to open her eyes.
The minecart had slowed down, and the darkness had been lit up by the starlight in front of her, and she was in the middle of the galaxy, while Louisa on the other side was looking at her with a wand in her hand, smiling.
"Don't cry, little fool."
The warm breeze gently kissed away her tears, and time seemed to stand still in this moment, only the moving minecart beneath her reminded her that everything was still going on.
This time did not last long, the starlight dimmed in her eyes, and she realized that she had left the tunnel at this moment, so she turned her head stiffly.
The narrow field of vision just now suddenly became extremely wide—
On the roofs of different shapes, the round and flat chimneys are steaming one after another, and the city under your feet seems to be painted by the painter as a golden yellow perched in the darkness after splashing ink.
It was incomparably gorgeous, although she didn't know if it was the underground city or the person sitting next to her who gave her the starry sky.
As the minecart slowly descended from the sky, the sound of people and wrought iron in the streets began to reach her ears.
All the houses here are architecturally uniform, with dark facades and bright yellow windows, and the residents walk carefully under the eaves in dark clothes, and there is no second color in the whole dungeon.
The minecart arrived at its destination, on a high platform, down a slope that was relatively simple and only two people waiting.
Both men appeared to be middle-aged men, one sitting on some old wooden wheeled carts, while the other was surrounded by small minecarts and wooden crates, seemingly sorting out goods.
"Two young ladies, do you need anything?"
The man who appeared to be a coachman leaning on the wooden cart approached and asked.
Perhaps it was because he saw that Louisa was richly dressed, different from the stingy guests he had received and were entrusted to, but now he smiled, and there was a hint of brilliance in his cloudy eyes, which had not been able to see the sky for a long time.
"Can you take us to the inn?"
"We'll be happy to help, please get in the car."
Although the exterior of the wooden wheeled cart looked old, it could be seen that the interior was still often renovated, and the driver sat in front of it, began to pull the wooden handle that controlled the wheels, and the car began to drive.
Louisa noticed a sack placed next to the coachman, and from the corners, it appeared to be a cylindrical thing.
"Speaking of which, it's our first time here, and we don't know much about this place, do you have a map here that you can give us a copy of?"
"Of course, of course! Take it. ”
Flattered and in a good mood, the coachman, who was addressed by honorifics, handed Louisa a map of the quality of cowhide in the sack.