Downtown Noxus for Darius,

It's like a stranger you know best. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

In a sense, this is the first time he has come to this magical place, because when he came to this world, he was already a soldier of the garrison legion, everything here is in the memory that exists in his mind, and when he returns here again, the intimacy that comes from the depths of his mind knows to him.

Hometown, I'm back again.

The mysterious starlight of the vast galaxy has never shone here, and there is no sun that radiates light and heat here, and there is only endless darkness around except for the braziers at the tops of the buildings and under the eaves. This is not a world of light, and the people who come to this place are forsaken by the light.

There is no sky visible in the lower town, or rather, the sky is made up of hard, cold rocks, and the surrounding stone walls are a monotonous gray, with an air of cold and death. The dark tunnels zigzag through large and small caves, like large beehives buried underground, forming a huge underground world.

Looking at the memory in his mind and being immersed in the scene are completely different concepts, he only knows that the lower city is very large, but how big it is, it is estimated that only the gods can figure it out.

At this time, Darius is walking on the road called "Spiral Ladder", which is a huge stone staircase that connects the entire underground world, its starting point is located on the surface of the upper city of Noxus, and then extends straight down, there are countless platforms in the staircase, behind each platform, there are countless caves, no one knows how deep this huge "spiral ladder" is, but no matter which layer of the underground it is, if you want to go to the surface, you must come here.

Darius wasn't going to the surface, he was going to Passage Four. Although there are many caves in the lower town, most of them are small areas, and there are numbered passages that connect to the caves that can accommodate the larger towns below.

Passage 4 connects Wende Town, one of the main settlements in the lower city.

It is not clear how many people there are in the two districts of the entire city-state of Noxus, because there is no census in this country. Of course, the lower town can't be found even if you want to, there are countless wanted criminals and undocumented slaves, as well as stowaways, who will never be subject to any official inspection.

But there must have been a lot of people, for the great stone staircase was now crowded with caravans and passers-by, and Darius was one of them, and he had now changed into the light leather armor that adventurers often wear, a dagger pinned to his waist, and two daggers and some silver coins in the package on his back. He can't hold a huge axe all the time here, that's too eye-catching.

According to the memory in his mind, he finally found the fourth passage that was close to the surface, and in front of him, a huge transportation team was congested at the entrance of the passage, and he could only wait helplessly waiting in line at the back.

Although in recent years, scientists in Zu'an have made a lot of new projects, similar to the glowing greenhouse, which can enable a few areas to grow food, but this is far from enough for the consumption of countless residents underground, so every day there are teams that smell business opportunities to deliver food to Xiacheng.

Food has become one of the most scarce things in the lower city, and in Darius's childhood, the most worrying thing every day was how to fill the belly of himself and his brother.

Speaking of which, his younger brother, Draven, who has never met, must have served in a certain legion. He had been asleep for five months, and it happened that the recruitment season had passed, so when he returned here, he had no way to find his brother.

The large procession finally entered the passage, and Darius followed from a distance, observing with great interest, the most common means of transport here was not horses, but a large lizard.

Well, it's a lizard again, but luckily it's not humanoid, otherwise Darius can't help but take out his weapon again.

These creatures called rock lizards can usually be three meters in size, under the strict selection of animal trainers, only the most vigorous rock lizards will be kept until now, food with special herbs will make these originally irascible creatures docile and stronger, huge wooden boxes are fastened with ropes to their broad, flat backs, and the tamed creatures have metal muzzles on their mouths, driven forward by humans.

They don't have hard hooves like horses, these lizards don't make a sound when they walk on the road, and the convoys are not armed guards, because although the security in the lower city is not very good, no one dares to fight the idea of these convoys, this is an unwritten rule, they transport food, and everyone understands the truth of fishing with all their might.

In his memory, there was a time when a transport team threw away a bag of grain, and as a result, all the forces in the lower city were united, and it only took half a day to catch the thief and chop off his hands.

After passing through the long tunnel, I finally came to the open cave, and the place where the runes lit up in the distance was the famous Wende town in the lower city.

Except for the darkness, this place is not much different from other small towns, there is an underground river that runs through the edge of Wende Town, disappears into the rock crevices, and the buildings are no more than three floors, and are basically brick and stone structures, but most of the residents here are craftsmen, and since there is no farmland to plant, the farming profession does not exist in the lower city.

Stepping down the hard stone road, following the town's main road and turning left at the market, Darius finally arrived at his destination, a bar that didn't seem to have much business.

The chic dark wood sign was engraved with the strange name of the bar, the trout in the river, and Darius pushed open the door and walked in, the bar was very spacious, the dark and fragrant wood formed a long bar, and the cabinet behind it was filled with dense drinks. No wonder there was no noise outside, there were no customers in the bar at all, no, not only no customers, but even the clerks didn't see it.

Darius walked to the bar and whispered, "Is there anyone here?" ”

There was no answer for a long time, so he raised his voice again.

"Is there anyone here!?"

"Boom!"

A sound came from behind the bar, and Darius looked over as a plank of wood was lifted from below the floor behind the bar, and a shiny, bald head appeared in his field of vision.

It turns out that there is a basement under the bar.

"Are you here for a drink, lad? Something? The bald man climbed up from the basement and put the plank back in front of Darius.

At this time, he saw the appearance of this man clearly, on his slender cheeks, a pair of blue eyes were unusually bright, and the embarrassed stubble covered his chin, and the years had left wrinkles on his face, and he could vaguely see the handsome appearance of his youth.

"No, I've been introduced to a gentleman named Aldrich."

The bald man smiled, stretched out his hand and touched his smooth and shiny head,

"I said, if a stranger dares to come here to drink, I am Aldrich."