After all, it was a sewer, and there was a sinky smell of sewage flowing everywhere, and there was a choking smell in the air.

But in the huge drainage system, there are still a few fairly clean roads.

The Rat King and the Pig's Head are familiar with the road, picking up clean places to walk, at this time I suddenly realized a problem, if I let myself touch the intricate official road system, there is a chance that I will get lost, it seems necessary to let the Rat King be a guide again.

After passing through several pieces of no-man's land divided by official roads, the pig's head gradually became puzzled: "Sir? ”

The Rat King responded: "Huh? ”

"I can't figure it out, why do you always pick a place where no one is walking today, according to your habit, shouldn't you go to the shantytown now?"

"I don't want to see anyone right now."

The pig's head scratched his scalp, but he didn't ask any more.

In his eyes, the Rat King today seems to be very different from usual.

It was the Rat King who took the initiative to speak: "The gladiator we saw today...... Very strong, he was stronger than we expected, and although I hate to admit it, I must say that he hurt my self-esteem and I want to be quiet now. ”

"But sir, he doesn't seem to be particularly strong compared to other gladiators, and I heard that it was not easy for him to win the first few fights."

"That's really a way to please the crowd, and if he kills his opponent every time, the arena won't give him a match very often, and his odds will be lowered."

"Well, he's a smart man."

"He's probably smarter than anyone we've seen before. Pig head, I have a feeling, maybe this feeling is a little unrealistic, but I think that this person may be stronger than the king in yellow. ”

"It's impossible, humanity can't compete with the old rulers. Unless...... Unless it's someone like Boss Wu. Sir, who do you think is stronger than that gladiator and Boss Wu? ”

"I don't know. But in my heart, no one in this world can surpass him, and the myth of the sea market is not so easy to break. Okay, let me be quiet for a moment, I don't want to discuss that right now. ”

"As you wish."

After that, the two of them were silent, but walked in a sullen manner.

The only sound of footsteps echoed in the long drain was left in my ears.

After nearly an hour, the pighead and the rat king finally arrived at the steel villa deep in the sewers.

This villa should not be the base camp of the Rat King, because there are no guards to be seen around the villa, and he should not come often, the exterior wall of the villa is hung with a thick layer of rust, and it is obvious that few people have come to take care of it.

The pig's head couldn't help but speak: "Sir, how did you get here?" ”

The Rat King sighed, "I want to stay here for one night, you go back, don't tell anyone else I'm here." ”

Hearing this, I dodged into the shadows by the side of the road.

The pig's head bowed deeply to the Rat King, and then quickly turned away, and he happened to pass by the shadow where I was, but did not see me.

The Rat King entered the villa alone, and the door was deliberately not closed.

When the pig's head was far away, I crept into the villa.

When he entered the house, the Rat King was sitting on the couch facing the door, and he leaned his whole head on the back of the couch, looking up at the ceiling in a daze.

I closed the door and heard the rat king say, "This is my great-grandfather's house, when the new town had not yet been built, and the sewers were still the richest part of the old town. ”

"Your ancestors were nobles?"

"It used to be." The Rat King sighed and looked at me directly, "Do you need me to be your guide?" ”

I withdrew the concealment technique, and scattered the aura on the ghost candle, and faced the Rat King for the first time in his true face.

When the Rat King saw my face, he was stunned for a moment, but quickly came back to his senses: "You will still be disguised?" ”

"Sort of," I sat down at the couch, "this is who I am, and since you choose to believe me, I should be honest." ”

The Rat King smiled, "What are you going to do next?" ”

I thought about it for a moment and said, "It's a thankless task to wander around your territory like a headless fly." Can you try to recall if there's been anything weird going on in your gang lately, and we might as well have a rough target? ”

The Rat King leaned down and stared at his knees for a while before he spoke: "Strange things happen every year, this year is very rare, this year my people are very stable, almost no trouble, but now it seems that this is the biggest anomaly." ”

"In the last year, have you recruited any new recruits on a large scale?"

"Every year, we recruit new people, but it's not on a large scale...... By the way, in the first half of this year, there were a few underground people who switched to my camp together, and this kind of thing happens every year, but that time there were a lot of people who switched over, more than 20. But I looked at them and didn't find anything suspicious. ”

"Didn't you suspect the pig's head before, with the pig's head as the internal response, they should be able to easily pass your investigation, right?"

The Rat King nodded, "Are you going to find them?" ”

"Lead the way."

I was pressed for time, and the Rat King seemed to be aware of this, and he immediately got up and beckoned me to leave the villa, and I put an amulet on his back as I went out.

During this time, the Rat King took me through the waterways that no one could walk, and he told me that the Underground people who had switched to him six months ago lived in a relatively independent shanty town, which was located at the junction of the official road system and the underground world, and that no one else would usually go there.

The reason for setting up such an independent shanty town is because the people in the waterway have a deep fear of the underground world, and they are more repulsive to the underground people, so the rat king can only set up a shanty town there and place all the underground people who have taken refuge in him there, after all, these people have lived underground and are not so afraid of the underground world.

In addition, they are placed there, firstly, to keep an eye on the exit of the underground world, and secondly, to make it easier for those who want to sneak into the surface to sneak out.

The Rat King said that the sewer is equivalent to a buffer zone between the underground world and the surface world, and the meaning of its existence is to prevent the forces of the underground world from infiltrating the surface on a large scale, and at the same time, allow some underground people to sneak into the surface quietly.

If their access to the surface is completely blocked, those underground people will starve to death because they cannot obtain enough supplies from the surface, and they will definitely start a large-scale war in order to survive.

But if there is no buffer zone, all the people underground will definitely rush out of the surface, the huge number of people means a huge weight, when everyone is concentrated in the upper layer of the market, this rotten steel city will inevitably collapse, and secondly, the resources on the surface are not enough to feed so many people, and then in order to compete for very few resources, there will also be war.