Chapter 17: The Immortal City
In the base camp of the immortal old Joe, in the very center of the immortal city, under the fortress of the "Silver Meat Grinder", there is the personal arsenal and treasure house belonging to the old Joe.
The proceeds from the sale of guns and ammunition to the entire ruins, as well as looted property and treasures looted from the Bitter Springs Brotherhood, are stored here. The protection level of the treasure house is top-notch, which means that Old Joe's entry will also trigger an alarm. Because of the technical level, the most primitive method was adopted, but this local method worked unexpectedly. Intrusive thieves often steal by simulating a password, key, or the appearance of their owner, and Old Joe has only countless alarm bells that will chil wildly whenever they come into contact with any light, sound, or temperature change, and a group of guards with loaded guns.
This design protected Old Joe's treasures for decades, but today the entire treasure vault is full of alarms.
Old Joe stood in the treasure vault with the door wide open, and watched with a blank face as his war boys transported the exaggerated amount of cash in trucks with heavy machine guns.
Until the tenth truck drove out of the treasure house, the inattentive people couldn't see whether the mountain of banknotes inside had decreased, which showed that Lao Qiao had accumulated so much money in the past fifty years. Compared to the hungry scavengers and workers who wore only these barely mere clothes, it was a horror and pain that could only happen in a borderless place like the Ruins.
These are billions in cash, and Old Joe doesn't care about them. For him now, as long as that Sigma is in hand, the Sigma Imperial Court will give him at least more than 10 billion, Lao Qiao is not a fool looking ahead, in order to maximize benefits, he is willing to make some investments in advance.
The last truck stopped in the underground plaza outside the treasure house, and the unusually tall leader of the War Boys jumped out of the car and trotted all the way to Old Joe.
When he stood in front of Old Joe, people realized how tall he really was. Old Joe is a normal human male, even if his back is not straight because of his age, he is about 1.8 meters. But this "giant" was genuinely twice as tall as Old Joe, and Old Joe didn't look up in time to think about a question, and only saw the exaggerated belt of the war boy leader decorating the skull and bullet casing.
Although tall and strong, as Old Joe's loyal subordinate and follower, Andre "Giant" the leader of the War Boy Vehicle Group still has enough longing and respect for his leader.
"Boss, it's finished, are we really going to give this to the waste?"
Despite asking about the situation with doubts, Andre bent down as best he could, lowered his head, which was almost the size of Old Joe's upper body, and cautiously raised his questions at the minimum volume he could control.
"Andrey." Old Joe slowly raised his head and stared at the giant's brown eyes like bronze bells, without anger, as if he had noticeably better patience with his more loyal subordinate.
"You know what, to give back, you have to give? Didn't I teach you that it's not difficult to kill a person with a fist, and it's not difficult to kill a gun. But what about when you're facing a monster? ”
"That.. I don't know, I just know that there is nothing I can't kill" The giant obviously didn't understand what Old Joe meant, and could only answer with the first thought in his mind.
"You just have to think of a way, dig a trap, set a trap, and you're good to go. That's what we're going to do today. ”
Of course, Old Joe knew that the big man would definitely not be able to react now, so he tried to stretch out his hand and pat his broad chest, and walked out of the underground treasure house by himself.
"Go ahead, pile up the money in the square at the door, and then give you thirty minutes to call me at least one of all the households in the city, and I'll do the rest myself!"
Andre was not smart, nor was he ever a strategist, and the reason why he was where he is today is only because of his absolute trust in old Joe's rationality. If there was a fire pit in front of him, and Old Joe told him to jump down, he would ask why, but he would never fail to do it.
Shaking his head, he put down these things that he couldn't figure out for the time being. The giant strode back into the car, blew his whistle, and ten trucks roared out of the underground treasure vault, the guards closed the gates from the outside, and all was calm again.
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Despite the Demon King's best efforts, the Undead City is too far from the bullet farms and slums. Liu Xinming doesn't know how to drive, even if he loses the locomotive of the war boy he just solved on the side of the road, he can't use it. And the demon king, in Liu Xinming's memory, the "sparring" between the former demon king who he had just transferred to this body and the former demon king who transferred to his own body was in a one-sided beating, Liu Xinming clearly remembered that he used many instantaneous displacements to beat himself to a very large number of meat and eight vegetarians-
But he won't! Now all he has is the powerful body left by the former demon king, ten rings that he doesn't know what to do, and an ordinary picture frame pendant inlaid with the portrait of the girl who embraced himself in his dream, or with the real demon king. Nothing else.
On the way to run, the Demon King began to recall every time Old Jack got drunk, he talked to him about the Immortal City, the "big city" that he had never been to, but could appear in the distance every day. In order to achieve the goal of saving Celia as soon as possible, and it is too far away, his body will not feel tired and does not need brain intervention and control when running at full strength, Liu Xinming began to plan a miniature version of the immortal city like a sand table in his brain, and rehearsed his plan again and again.
The undead city, originally called "Viper City" under the control of the Brotherhood, corresponds to the ruins that are still in the hands of the Brotherhood, and the northern city "Vulture City" is known as the most terrifying city among the four cities in the ruins, and to the west, the Brass Throne has no citizens at all, and the entire city is full of berserkers and fanatics who are admiring it, and they do not participate in the comparison.
The southern oasis is home to a large number of nomads, but in order to control the population, the priests of Veznan have not allowed anyone to enter the mana barrier of Nehekhara for a long time. As for Vulture City, in order to make more people willing to trade here, coupled with the huge number of people of the Bitter Spring Brotherhood all compressed into one city, the security conditions here are extremely good, and even citizens will be hired to clean the streets and auction houses.
The ruins of the scariest, dirtiest, darkest city - the undead city. It was renamed the day after "Immortal Old Joe" became the new war boss and grabbed the city with the gun in his hand and the war kid behind him. Here, there is only one rule, the first child of each family, must join the old Joe's "war boy" and the others, there is no rule.
It can be said that the Immortal City is a paradise for the wicked, a hotbed of crime, and as long as it doesn't make trouble for Old Joe, any sin and darkness is allowed here.
Although there are some honest scavengers who moved in during the Bullet Farm era, they are now only huddled together for warmth, hiding in the eastern part of the city, relying on a stronger demographic advantage than the criminal gangs to protect themselves.
This time, in order to be less hindered, the Demon King decided to enter the city through the eastern gate.