Chapter 686: Bad Situation
Seeing that Sans was holding the wood carving tightly and experiencing the power given by the wood carving, Leo was also surprised by the choice that Sans had just made, originally he thought that Sans would definitely choose the kind of wood carving that could give great strength, but he chose to benefit from all the wood carvings, the weakest, but also the most special wood carving fog rat.
The fog rat is the only one of these wood carvings made by Leo that has nothing to do with the beast, it is the most common beast in the Minsk continent, this beast does not have much special place, the only thing worthy of others to remember is that this beast is the most unlikely to die accidentally.
When the medical school was editing the biological atlas, they had carefully observed and studied this beast, and the researchers at that time found that the fog rats had a strong sense of danger, as long as the slightest malicious gaze fell on them, they would immediately sense it, and instantly chose the most correct way to escape.
The researchers had built a maze of great complexity, then made a safe house at the only exit of the maze, and then placed fog rats into the maze and a wild cat next to it.
After that, an astonishing scene occurs, the fog rat immediately senses the feral cat's malice, and travels through the maze at great speed, finally reaching the end of the safe house, without making a mistake in between, as if it knows the right route to reach the safe place.
It is naturally impossible for Leo to completely imitate the ability of the fog rat through the rune magic array, but the rune magic array in the wood carving can give the holder a very strong sense of crisis, which is definitely not much worse than the fog rat, even if it is not as good as the fog rat.
When Leo introduced the functions of these wood carvings to Sans, Sans chose the wood carving of the fog rat at the first time, which shows that he must be avoiding some dangerous things, and hopes to use the power of the wood carving to let him sense the danger in advance before it comes.
As for what kind of danger Sans will face in the future, Leo has no intention of exploring it, nor does he intend to help Sans solve the problem, in his opinion, being able to sell a wood carving to Sans is already the most suitable help.
Leo left the camp and boarded a steam railcar in the form of the city.
This steam railcar is almost the same as the steam railcar that appeared in Miria, except that in order to increase the load capacity, the steam locomotive here is a little larger, and there are two more carriages, so there is a lot more dense fog and dust erupting from the train.
However, this kind of steam and dust, which caused countless accidents in Miria City and was disgusted by everyone, became an inconspicuous little thing in Dry Steel City, because the smoke erupting from the chimneys in the city was the real big trouble, and with this big trouble entwining in the city, the small trouble was naturally not so conspicuous.
Most of the wealthy people in the city live in the suburbs, and almost all of the people who live in the city are steel mill workers.
Although the workers' uprising in the Mares Kingdom is now very large, it has not affected the Dry Steel City, because in terms of treatment, the workers of the Dry Steel City far exceed the workers in other parts of the Maris Kingdom, and even better than the factory supervisors in other places, and the only flaw is the environmental problem.
The main reason why it is so different is that the founder of the board of directors of Kugang City had a very wise vision, and from the beginning codified the provisions related to the treatment of workers into the basic rules of the board of directors of Kugang City, and subsequent board members also followed these codes.
These codes include basic rights such as medical insurance and education for workers, the provision of basic housing, and the provision of annual wage increases and pension policies, etc., it can be said that when the board of directors of Dry Steel City announced these codes, all the people in the Kingdom of Mares thought that the people of Dry Steel City were fools, and some people even thought that this was a trap designated by Saran, the Elector, in order to bring down Dry Steel City, because Saran, the Elector, also participated in the formulation of the code.
But what happened later showed that the benefits of these rules definitely outweighed the disadvantages for the factory owners in the dry steel city, and the loyalty of the workers was even more than comparable to that of other places, and there were even more than one time when the factory was in trouble, and the workers gave money to help the factory tide over the difficulties.
Of course, there have also been some new factory owners who are unwilling to abide by the code and prefer to implement the harsh methods of exploitation from the outside world, and these factory owners usually either die or are quickly run out of bankruptcy by the factories controlled by the board of directors, so the board of directors has always firmly grasped the situation in the dry steel city.
Although some local workers wanted to take advantage of this momentum to get better treatment of the workers from the board of directors, the limelight was immediately suppressed by the internal factory union, and the instigators disappeared.
When the outside world is in turmoil, the dry steel city is still very calm, and the factory owners in the dry steel city are even more happy with the stalemate of the war, because as long as the war continues, the two sides will definitely need to manufacture a large number of weapons, so that the steel of the dry steel city will not worry about sales.
As the board members had discussed, orders for steel from the Royal Government Army and the Workers' Rebel Army rained down on the board desk.
In fact, both sides actually have smelters, but most of these factories have been secretly destroyed by the people sent by both sides, and they cannot be repaired for a while during the war, so they can only be purchased from outside, and Dry Steel City has become the most suitable place to buy.
Therefore, relying on orders from both warring sides, Dry Steel City can be said to have made a lot of money during this time, and even the workers have paid bonuses several times, if it continues, Dry Steel City can be said to be the richest city in the Maris Kingdom just around the corner.
But as the situation of the civil war in the kingdom began to change, the good days of the city seemed to be passing, and it was also getting involved in the civil war, because the opposing sides wanted to control the city of steel in order to obtain a stable supply of steel and cut off the source of the other party's steel supply, so both sides coincidentally sent a number of their elite troops to the northwest region of the kingdom, so that several cities in the northwest region were involved in the war, and a recent civil war battle was only a day's journey away from the city of dry steel.
It's just that the war is not the most serious thing for the Withered Steel City, after all, the Withered Steel City itself has a gendarmerie belonging to the board of directors, with extremely sophisticated weapons, and any party to the civil war must negotiate to solve the ownership of the Withered Steel City, and anyone who wants to take the Withered Steel City by strong means will find that this is a hard stone.
What really gave the board of directors of the dry steel city a headache was the monsters that appeared in the city, and the time when those monsters came out in less than half a month had already caused the order of the dry steel city to encounter an extremely serious test, if it weren't for the prestige cultivated by the board of directors for many years, so that the workers still retained the strong confidence of the board of directors, the workers would have been unwilling to work and fled in all directions.
The monsters that appeared at first were easy to deal with, and although the gendarmes had never dealt with these monsters, they were still able to kill those monsters with powerful weapons such as steam crossbows and cannons with special ammunition in their hands.
At that time, they thought that all the monsters had been solved, but they didn't expect that the monsters that were killed on the spot were only a part, and some monsters were hidden among the citizens, and they were no different from ordinary people in normal times, but after night, they would turn into some monsters with strange powers to attack the people in the city.
Some of these monsters become puddles of water on the ground, and as long as someone steps on them, they will be wrapped in water and eaten instantly, and some even become a cloud of dust and mist that can be seen everywhere, and when people enter, they will never come out again.
These elusive monsters are difficult to spot, and most of them are only noticed when the victim appears afterwards, but at this time it is impossible to find the murderer, and even if the well-armed gendarmes or police encounter these monsters, it is impossible to deal with them, because even the strongest machine crossbow cannot kill a cloud of mist.
If it weren't for the fact that the board of directors had concealed the news that the monster would be hidden among ordinary people, the entire city would have fallen into mutual suspicion and suspicion, and the city might have collapsed without waiting for the arrival of government forces or rebels.
To this end, they advertise bounties on the city's bulletin boards to recruit bounty hunters who can solve monsters, and the black market in Dry Steel City has also made similar announcements, such as the one Leo is looking at right now.
The reason why Leo entered the urban area of Dry Steel City was mainly for the black market in the city, he didn't know the specific location of the black market in Dry Steel City, and he didn't even know if there was a black market in Dry Steel City, but in his opinion, with the current scale of Dry Steel City, the black market must exist.
As for the simplicity of finding the black market, he no longer needed human guidance to find the black market as he did at the beginning, he knew that any black market would leave some marks near the city square that only people with extraordinary powers could see, and through the guidance of these marks, it would be easy for outsiders to find the location of the black market.
The black market in Dry Steel City is a four-story office building, which looks no different from other ordinary office buildings, the first floor is a ubiquitous steel trading company, and the black market is located above the second floor, and there is a transcendent person guarding the stairs on the second floor, he seems to have mastered some kind of ability to sense the power of others, some like a spiritual network, so when Leo wants to go to the second floor, he does not stop him at all.
All the rooms on the second floor have been demolished, and there is only one empty floor, which is supposed to have been converted into a free market like a catacommodal cemetery, but now this free market is not lively, more precisely, it is deserted, there are only five people here, and they are not selling anything, but standing in front of the bulletin board in front of the market, discussing something.
When Leo walked over, those people also noticed it, and they all stopped talking, and looked at Leo in unison, with a little surprise on their faces, as if they were a little surprised that there were outsiders coming to the black market in Dry Steel City at this time.
At the same time as these people looked at Leo, Leo's spiritual network also swept over these people, and grasped their situation clearly.
None of these men were transcendental, but their physical fitness was far superior to that of ordinary people, and it seemed that they were bounty hunters with some special training.
There are a large number of such bounty hunters in the dark world, and most of them are inadvertently exposed to things in the dark world, and they are curious about the world behind the real world, so they try to join in.
It's just that after they joined in, they found that things were not as rosy as they thought, and it was full of dangers, and they wanted to quit, but at this time they couldn't quit, because no one who knew the truth of the world could go back to normal life.
Although these ordinary people who recklessly break into the dark world cannot be compared with the transcendent in terms of strength, it is not useless, whether it is the church, or the night watchman, or the witch society and other underworld organizations, they will specially train some ordinary people, as their peripheral personnel, most of the people who have undergone these trainings have far more physical strength and combat ability than ordinary people, and in some cases they can even threaten the life of the transcendent.
The bounty hunters who appeared in front of Leo at the moment did not have the marks of other underground forces, so it was judged that they should be bounty hunters trained in the black market training camp.
Black market training camps are different from other underground organizations, they do not need to carry out any identity, ideology, etc. screening and testing, as long as there is money, it is enough, so the ability and quality of bounty hunters from the black market are uneven, and there have been many cases of bounty hunters killing and robbing employers.
It is not clear what the people and abilities of these bounty hunters are, but their eyesight is very good, although Leo deliberately restrained all the strength in his body, making himself look similar to ordinary people, but they can still feel Leo's difference, as well as potential danger, after Leo approached, they all stopped talking, and made a way for Leo to approach the bulletin board.
In front of the bulletin board, Leo can see the information about various items he wants to buy, but the biggest information is the bounty information from the board of directors of Dry Steel City, I have to say that the bounty information is very attractive, and even Leo is tempted by the price on it.
"What's going on here? has it always been so deserted?" asked Leo as he turned to the bounty hunters after reading the bounty information.
"Of course not, it was overcrowded a few days ago. Someone immediately answered Leo's question, saying, "However, many fools who thought they could earn the board bounty died at the hands of their prey, and the rest went here." ”
As he spoke, the man pointed to the other two pieces of information on the bulletin board, only to see that these two messages turned out to be recruitment information for government forces and rebel forces, and the recruitment requirements on them were capable people, as long as they passed the test, they could directly become officers, and there was no doubt that this was very good for bounty hunters.