Chapter 35: The Strange City of the Gods
Shortly after leaving the bombed city, I followed the coordinates to find the city of the gods. Like the information given by the military god before, the area of the city in front of him is very large, although it has not yet reached the state of Issinger, which is almost the same as the municipality in the real city, but it has definitely reached the size of the top city in reality, and the flow of people in the vicinity is naturally terrifying. Even now, when Russia is waging war against our country, there is still a constant stream of players coming in and out of the gates. "Asuka, that's it-, land quickly."
"Understood." The bird suddenly swooped down from the sky, and then pulled up at Bibhou, who was about to hit the ground, and slid forward with its belly facing forward for more than ten meters before it counteracted the impact. At this time, I jumped off with a slight kick on Asuka's back, and Asuka quickly disappeared into the open phoenix space after I left.
The City of the Gods is a big city, and neither the number of personnel nor the size of the city is comparable to the previous town, so there is no possibility of using the previous stealth infiltration here, and it would be strange if there were few special personnel in a big city like this who could fight invisibility. When the time comes, I'll be alone in the city in broad daylight, and even if others don't know who I am, they will definitely know that I'm not here to do good things.
For this kind of big city, the correct way to lurk is to disguise yourself and then dive in. I've done this kind of little thing N times before, and with the help of Amenes, I easily disguised myself and walked through the city gate in the form of a frost warrior.
Although this frost warrior is not a special class in Russia, it is definitely one of the most popular professions, so the doorman let me in without even looking at me. After all, almost all of them come and go in front of them every day, and if they have to check each one, they don't have to rest, and it will also cause traffic jams at the city gates.
Once I had managed to blend into the city, I started walking along the city's main road towards the city center. Everything I saw and heard along the way gave me the impression that the city was very similar to Isengard.
It's not that the architecture in the city resembles that of Isengard, but the technical prowess that is integrated into all parts of the city. Although the buildings here are all built with a pointed dome structure that is unique to Russia, the rest of the building is full of technical prowess.
First, I found a drainage system on the streets of the city. Don't think that these things are everywhere in reality and think that these things are not important, in fact, these things are just the embodiment of a city's technological level. The reason why Paris, France is called the most advanced city in the world is because Paris has the world's first underground drainage system, and in the game, so far, except for Isenger, I have only seen Sana city have a drainage system, except for the 7 in front of me, the other two are all cities of our Frost Rose Alliance. That said, I've only seen this thing in our own city outside of this city so far.
In fact, the drainage system in the game is not a simple service device, it appears in the game as a city functional facility, if a city has such a facility, it can improve a certain level of urban satisfaction according to the operation of the facility.
This city satisfaction is a city attribute approved by the system, and of course, it is mainly valid for NPCs. This satisfaction setting will be directly related to the speed of the city's development, the monthly taxes paid, and the speed and quality of NPCs. A city with a high level of city satisfaction will have a rapid increase in the number of NPc, and then you can confidently and boldly expand the city. Of course, you can still expand your city if you don't have enough NPCs, but there will be all kinds of problems when you expand your city, such as buildings collapsing and slow construction. Because the construction and maintenance of cities in the game require the participation of free NPCs, if there are too few free NPc, then all kinds of auxiliary work in the city will not be able to recruit workers, and then various facilities will quickly damage or fail to operate because no one maintains them, in short, there is a lot of trouble. Of course, you can also have combat NPCs or players take over the work of freelance NPCs, but unless you are forced to do so, no one will normally do that. Not to mention the salary of combat NPCs and players, even if they give you free work, the number is definitely not enough. The number of free NPCs in the game is usually more than 30 times that of combat NPCs, and if the number of free NPCs is insufficient, it will also affect the number of combat NPCs, which is definitely a headache for city managers. In addition to the abundant drainage system, I also found a kind of thing in the city, a railcar.
It's something like a tram, but instead of following the rails, it's a magic marker on the ground. What's even more peculiar is that this kind of car is still unmanned, there is no biological traction in front of the car, the power system is completely installed in the chassis, and the body is almost a large flat plate. But this car never stops, people who need to get in the car can jump on it directly, anyway, the people in the game are exaggerated a lot, and it is not a problem to jump on and jump off if you want to jump on this kind of vehicle with a driving speed of only a normal person's trot speed.
In addition to these two things, I found a little bit in the city. First of all, not far from the city gate, I found a strange machine. It looks about the size of a bank ATM, "There's nothing on the front that can be manipulated, and I don't know what it's for." After going some distance deep into the city, I found a similar device, and after that, I found a lot of these things, and I felt that there were stores of this thing everywhere in the city. Although I was very curious, I couldn't ask questions, so I had to write them down first.
After walking for a while, I walked through the outer area of the city, where there is a teleportation array used inside the city, which can teleport people to other areas of the city, this kind of thing is found in very large cities, after all, most cities in the game have neither buses nor taxis, and mounts are generally not allowed in the city, so these big cities must install teleporters, otherwise people will be exhausted from the east of the city to the west of the city.
Because I had just taken a brief look at the outskirts of the city, I didn't plan to walk anymore, and directly used the teleportation array to enter the core area of the city.
Large cities usually have two or three walls, and the core area of the City of the Gods is located inside the second wall. When I left the teleportation array, I felt that the style here was very different from the outer city, and the two sides of the inner city wall were like two cities. Although there are some technical equipment stored in the outer city, it does not feel much different from the general city, but the inside of the second city wall is indeed a completely different look. Huge steel buildings and all kinds of strange-shaped equipment are everywhere, and if it weren't for the fact that my coordinates were still in the city, I don't know if I would have thought that the teleportation array had made a mistake and sent me to Cybertron, the home of the Transformers!
"Hey." I was lamenting the size of the building when I heard a voice shouting. I didn't care, though, but after a while the voice screamed again. "It's you, the one in the white armor, don't be in a daze there, come here."
This time, I don't need to be called by anyone, and I'm sure he is calling me. "You called me?" I asked, pointing to my nose. "Nonsense, who are you not called?" The man said impatiently: "Hurry up and get on the car, so many people are waiting!" "Do you know where I'm going?" I asked, surprised. "That's what you said." The guy said impatiently, "What else can you do when you come to the inner city of the City of the Gods but come to the auction?" ”
I don't know what the auction will do, but I'm also a master of infiltrating hostile cities many times, and of course I know that I can't ask again at this time, otherwise I'll have to go. "Haha, I forgot about this stubble." I ran over quickly with a haha, and jumped into a car parked there. It's said to be a car, but in fact, this thing is not much different from those rail buses outside the city, the only difference is that this thing runs faster than that kind of bus, and secondly, this thing is equipped with a steering wheel, which can be manually operated without walking on the track.
After I got into the car, the flatbed truck quickly drove towards the city under the driver's control, and on the way, several shuttle cars from several other teleportation arrays converged, and finally formed a convoy of more than a dozen cars, and there were hundreds of people pulling up the car alone.
After a period of driving, the convoy finally stopped in front of a huge building, and the occupants jumped off. I don't know anything, but the best thing to do at this time is to go with the flow. After jumping out of the car with the crowd, the crowd began to stand in pairs, and many people even took out a small black card from their bodies. At first I was wondering what the card did, but I soon realized what the trouble was.
I saw that in front of my platoon was a gate, and there were eight guards standing at the door, and next to the guards was a refrigerator-sized machine with a socket on it. Anyone who passes by the device will insert their card into it, and a red area will light up on the device. When someone puts their hand on the red area, the red area will instantly turn green and make a crisp beep, and the receptionist in the door will quickly lead the person into the building.
Although I don't know how that thing was made, I do know that it is a security identifier at all, and it is a two-way recognition type with a special key and palm print. It is estimated that as long as there is one thing wrong, it will be surrounded by guards immediately. I'm not afraid of those guards, and no one can stop me if I really want to run anyway, but the problem is that once I startle the snake, the investigation will become even more difficult in the future.
Even though the line was moving slowly, I was getting closer to the security gate anyway, and it was impossible to leave now. Seeing the team moving forward little by little, I became more and more anxious. However, the so-called urgency makes wisdom, at this time I happened to be in a hurry, and that wisdom was finally born. "Emmenes." I connected directly to Amenis with psychic contact, but didn't release her. "What are your commands?"
"I'm going to release you right away, you first use the absolute mirror image to copy yourself as a mosquito, and then help me make a copy of the palm pattern of the guy behind me and paste it on my hand, can you do it?" "I could- replicate the palm print with the same mirror technique I used last time in Egypt, but there was a time limit, so ...... "just hold on for a few seconds." That's definitely no problem, and within half an hour, you won't be able to show a flaw. "Then do it quickly." "Understood."
Aimenes quickly turned into a mosquito and flew out of the phoenix space. Because the size of the mosquito is very small, the phoenix dragon space is only a little open, and no one notices this slight change. Aimenes, who successfully left the phoenix dragon space, quickly flew into the palm of the guy behind me, and then activated the mirror branch energy, quickly copied the pattern of the guy's palm, and then flew back to my palm to mirror it to my hand as it was. Now, judging from the palm prints, there is no difference between the two of us.
Once I had done that, I quickly retracted Amenes, and then unleashed the power of the Death Tattoo, instantly summoning more than a dozen Death Guards. The level of the Reaper Guard is half of my level, that is, nine hundred, this umbrella level is not too high, but plus the Reaper Guard can partially copy my attributes, so their combat effectiveness is actually much higher than that of players of the same level, at least the gang on the scene was instantly messed up.
"How?" Seeing that there was chaos here, the guards quickly rushed over, and some of the guests who reacted also joined the guards and began to besiege the Death Guards, facing the disparity in number and quality, the dozen or so were destroyed, and the God Guards were quickly killed, but my purpose was also achieved. The moment the god guard appeared, I turned frightened and jerked back, knocking the guy to the ground, and I dragged the card off his hand, and then threw another fake card that Amenis had copied in advance beside him. Sure enough, after the guy found out that the card had dropped, he picked up the fake card next to him, got up and ran out of the combat area without looking, for fear of being implicated.
Because the battle just now messed up the team, I also took the opportunity to squeeze to the front, and by the time the gate restarted, I was very close to the door. After reviewing a few people in a row, it was my turn. I walked over to the machine as usual, and shoved the card in the same way as the people I had seen earlier. Since it was originally the real card I stole from me, I naturally succeeded in activating the block area, and then I covered it with my palm again.
Bite. A crisp prompt sounded, the lights turned green, and the waiter inside quickly ran up and led me inside, and the team behind began to move again, as for what would happen to the guy I changed the card, that wasn't my concern.
When I entered the building, I realized that it was a bit like the entrance to a movie theater, except that instead of a movie theater, I entered a strange venue. Like a movie theater, this place has a huge sloping audience area, densely packed in a semicircle, and it looks like there are at least one or two thousand seats. Also, there was a small picture room above our heads, apparently the VIP area. The waiter took me to a seat and began to explain to me. With his introduction, I quickly understood how to use some of the things on the spot.
As the driver said, this is a detention fair, and I'm sitting in the buyer's seat. The seats here are quite wide, and as long as they are not super fat people, they can sit three people side by side. The backrests behind the seats are very high, and there are also baffles on both sides to completely separate the adjacent positions, although they are not completely enclosed, but as long as others do not leave the seats, it is impossible to see what the other people are doing. Of course, the people at the auction table can see the whole room. There was a small table in front of the seat, on which a crystal ball was placed in addition to drinks and some fruit. The main thing the waiter explained just now was the usage of this thing. According to his introduction, this thing is equivalent to a remote control for bidding, and every time you want to bid, you only need to touch the crystal ball, and the price will be automatically increased once. If you want to add more than the standard amount of a single auction at a time, you can directly press your hand on the crystal ball to come up with that number, and then the crystal ball will automatically add that much price, which is more convenient than a computer.
As the people entered the venue one by one, the scene gradually became noisy, and I became nervous at this time, because I found that many of the people who came to participate in the detention and sale did not come alone. The seating at the site is so wide, obviously it is also for many people, and people here often come in groups of two or three. I didn't start worrying until this time, what if the guy I dropped the card just now also came with several people? The person around him will definitely be able to come in, and if he contacts the organizer of the conference, he will soon be able to confirm the identity of that person, and then I will not be directly exposed?
Although I was a little worried, I didn't leave this position, and I wouldn't necessarily be found anyway, and even if I did, it wouldn't necessarily be a good fit. With this mentality, I waited until the beginning of the conference without waiting for those guards, it seems that I have a good character, that guy came alone, there is no way to confirm his identity in a short time.
As the conference began, the rather noisy Yue-chang suddenly fell silent as a woman stepped onto the central stand. The moment I saw this woman, my pupils suddenly shrank. It was a surprise that the woman turned out to be the Frozen Banshee, and she actually appeared at the venue, and as the organizer.
The frozen banshee wearing an ice suit looked unusually cold under the stage lights, and the cold temperament with the breath of death made the males present feel like they had seen drugs, knowing the danger, but they still couldn't help but want to get closer.
"First of all, thank you for coming here at this time." The Frozen Banshee said words of thanks in her voice, which had no warmth, but her words cleared my previous doubts about why she was here. To be continued!