Chapter 103: The Ghoul Under the Bridge
The people of Rick are proud of the towering walls of Brass Pass and the canal that runs through the city of Warland. Stretching from the port area to the outskirts and into the flow of the Aran River, this artificially dug canal, spanning hundreds of kilometers in total, can already be called a wonder at the level of production of medieval civilization.
Not only did it serve as a transportation hub for water transportation, the canal that crossed through the center of the city of Warland, but also served as a drainage canal for the royal city. The physiological needs of millions of people are here, and if the most basic sanitation problems are not solved, even the most magnificent cities will be drowned in stinking excrement.
The carriage drove on the main road of Valland City, and Jiang Feng manipulated the ghost to lock on to the coordinates of the man in black, while chatting casually with the coachman who drove the carriage about the customs of Valland City, and from time to time instructed him to correct the direction of the carriage.
At first, the coachman was quite reserved, but after discovering that Jiang Feng was not so difficult to get along with, he quickly opened the conversation box and told Jiang Feng about the good places of Walland and the joy of life of the people at the bottom.
For example, which tavern has the sweetest ale and the most beautiful chick...... Putting aside these minutiae, there were a few pieces of news that aroused Jiang Feng's interest. For example, Vallan's Alchemist Guild, which is said to be home to the most learned alchemists in the entire continent of Aditya.
According to Jiang Feng's understanding of the alchemy of this world, it is a technology that integrates the technology of the mysterious realm into tools, not only applying the knowledge of the mysterious realm, but also involving the knowledge of basic chemistry and basic physics.
For example, the crossbow bolt fired by the Assassin earlier.
Ordinary crossbow bolts can't be nailed to granite walls, but with gear transmission and enchantment, they can.
Jiang Feng was still quite curious about this technique that fused basic magic with basic science. In the past, there were many idealistic civilizations in the galaxy, and most of the primitive idealistic civilizations had given birth to skills similar to alchemy, but none of them really brought the road of dual cultivation of magic technology to the interstellar age.
There had never been a chance to contact him before, but now that he had this opportunity, Jiang Feng decided to wait for the time to visit over there when he was not busy.
"This is the Caines Bridge, and in front of it is the slum of Valland, and the security situation inside is terrible," the carriage stopped by the river, and the coachman asked Jiang Feng in a hesitant tone. "Do you want to move on?"
"That's it," Lifting the curtain of the carriage, Jiang Feng looked at the arched bridge across the canal in front of him, "You wait for me here for a while, I can finish my business before dawn." ”
"Yes, sir." The coachman said respectfully.
The Cairns Bridge leads to the slums, which is the most chaotic place in the whole city of Valland, where bloodshed occurs every day, and the intertwined alleys and alleys are like a complex labyrinth, even if the entire royal city guard is thrown into it, it will not be enough, so the attitude of successive warland magistrates has been to turn a blind eye to this place, as long as the crime does not spread to the nearby city, they will not take action to clean up this gray area.
The Cairns Bridge is notorious not because it leads to the most notorious part of the city, but because two or three floating bodies can be seen every day in the canal under the Cairns Bridge. On a planet with a high abundance of stardust, rotting corpses will not only bring plague, but also cause something bad to be born due to the gathering of resentment.
For example, ghouls.
"This is really miserable, was he cut open in the chest by an axe when he was alive?"
Standing next to the drain pipe at the bottom of the Caines Bridge, Jiang Feng looked at the two monsters crawling beside the piers and eating corpses. The facial features can no longer be seen clearly on the blistered face, and there are even mushrooms growing on the rotten body, and the life function is completely stopped, but the instinct to eat is still retained under the drive of resentment.
This reminded Jiang Feng of some bad memories a little.
In the past, when the Earth Federation was in the galaxy, the Earth Federation's observatory on a certain type of humanoid indigenous civilization planet detected anomalous phenomena, and when the Age of the Star Ring arrived, 80% of the life of the entire planet had turned into the walking dead, and the remaining people who were still alive were struggling with the fear of zombies and their own kind.
In the end, Jiang Feng followed the orders of the Federation Command, recovered the virus samples and raw data, and contained the living aborigines into a dormant warehouse and took them to the "Aboriginal Cultural Nature Reserve" in other star fields.
Just as Jiang Feng was thinking about these past events, the ghouls beside the bridge pier had already noticed him, and four pairs of dark green eyes locked on him.
"With the addition of water attributes and dark attributes, it should be no problem to use fire."
Looking at the ghoul who was staggering towards his side, Jiang Feng took out a tube of gunpowder from his belt and sandwiched it between his fingers, and threw it out fiercely. At the same time, he spat out the incantation in his mouth, and pointed the index finger of his right hand at the potion.
"Chaos Fire!"
In the chaos type of sorcery, dark fire is equivalent to general-purpose one-star sorcery, and Jiang Feng has made certain improvements to its sorcery model, weakening the damage of the chaos attribute while also reducing its mental power consumption to the apprentice level.
The moment the dark tongue of fire touched the test tube, the huge flames instantly covered the entire surface of the water. The ghouls engulfed in the flames let out a miserable, hoarse howl, and in a few moments fell to their knees, reduced to a dry, charred corpse.
"That's it."
Easily dealing with the ghouls under the bridge, Jiang Feng stepped forward, took out the tools for collecting samples from the spatial ring, and skillfully removed the crystal nucleus behind the ghouls' brain. This dark green crystal is a crystalline metabolite produced by a certain fungal substance, and is a useful alchemical material for making necromantic sorcery items.
Jiang Feng learned all this knowledge from Monkyrie's alchemy notes.
"Now it's time to deal with the little mice."
Looking at the drainage pipe under the bridge pier, the corners of Jiang Feng's mouth hooked up a smile.
The Assassins were so clever that they placed the entrance to the colony under the Cairns Bridge, and the Intramural Guards would not have imagined that the rats in the gutter had hidden their rat holes in a crowded area where no patrols would pass through.
Add to that the fact that there are ghouls watching the door outside, and this is a perfect place to hide.
However, once discovered, there is no point in it.
"Corrosive acid."
The index finger pointed at the iron fence at the entrance to the drain pipe, and streaks of acid shot out of the fingertips. Jiang Feng, who had already confirmed that the target was inside, was too lazy to waste time cracking the mechanism at the door, and directly chose the simplest and rude way to dismantle the rusty iron rods.
The previous ghoul cry should have alarmed the people inside, Jiang Feng didn't stop at the door for long, took off the Galaxy K1 hanging on his belt, pushed open the safety with his index finger, and killed at the entrance of the sewer pipe.