The City of Ashes.

In the wilderness, there are not only grasslands, jungles, mountains, rivers, but also cities.

The City of Ashes is one such place.

No one knows how the city came to be or how it was founded, but there is no doubt that it belongs to one of the most famous places in the wilderness, along with the Ant Hill.

Drive to the City of Ashes, and as far as the eye can see, it is a desolate and dilapidated scene.

The collapsed buildings are overgrown with weeds, the roads are desolate and deserted, and there is not a trace of people in sight.

Unlike the cities in the world of the Terminator, the Ashen City does not see much modern architecture, despite being in the same apocalyptic ruins.

There are also occasional handful of car wrecks, but they are only dotted to make it look less like a modern city and more like a desolate and remote town, with a huge technological span - thatched huts burned to ashes, and high-rise buildings made of steel. There are a small number of cars, but there are also some flying machines that can only be seen in TV and movies, and even some steel robots, heavy mechas, and so on.

The off-road vehicle drove slowly on the desolate road, full of ruins, as if it had experienced a terrible fire, and the traces left by the fire were everywhere, no wonder it was called the City of Ashes.

As you follow the road, you can see all kinds of huge corpses.

Most of these corpses belonged to the wild beasts, some of them were familiar to Shen Yi, some were not familiar to them, but there were no humans.

Judging by the weathering of the corpses and the dilapidated extent of the ruins, the place has been abandoned for at least decades.

The size of the City of Ashes is not small, and the entire ruins are long and narrow, leading from the second to the third area, spanning two difficulty areas. Therefore, it is not surprising to encounter fierce beasts from the third difficulty here, which is also one of the most troublesome places in the City of Ashes.

Since Zisha had never been to the North Second District, Shen Yi didn't have much information about the City of Ashes. I only know that the main people who are hovering here are some undead creatures, and those fierce beasts that live in the jungle and wilderness rarely visit here.

In addition, the satellites did not give any clues, and the pictures were all ruins, and the whole ruins looked quiet and lifeless.

The car came to a stop at an intersection.

Shen Yi and the others jumped out of the car, and then took the car back to the coat of arms.

He took a few quick steps forward, jumped onto the ruins of a building, pointed to a dark shadow in the distance, and said, "That's the Emerald Mine." ”

The Emerald Mine is where the quest command cards are produced.

To be exact, a must-have location to obtain a mission command card.

The quest command card itself is not obtained by killing the ferocious beast, but must obtain a special jade of seven colors in the Emerald Mine, which can be combined and given by the system. And these seven types of jadeite are not obtained by killing monsters, but by searching for ores. Of course, there will inevitably be some fierce beasts in the mines that will trouble you.

Therefore, the quest command card can be said to be the easiest and most difficult of the four special items to obtain - half by luck and half by strength.

Luck is even more important than strength.

"From now on, we will be living here for at least fifteen days. During these fifteen days, we have to pay attention to searching for skill improvement scrolls on the one hand, and find a way to dig up all the seven-colored jadeites on the other hand. Shen Yi said.

"It sounds like a game, and you have to mine. Hong Lang muttered: "I really don't know what the designers of the city think." ”

"Haven't you noticed that the world was designed according to the characteristics of the game. Shen Yi curled his fingers: "There are cities that can be used for living and trading, there are quest worlds similar to dungeons, there are wildernesses with strictly divided difficulty areas, and there are even mines that can be mined......"

"The question is why?" said Gentle, "Could it be that the creator of the city is just to play a game, and we are all players?"

Shen Yi's face suddenly became gloomy: "Of course not, it's just that in their opinion, such a world is the most acceptable world for human beings at present." ”

Gentle and confused: "I don't understand what you mean by this?"

Shen Yi didn't explain, but his eyes became more and more profound.

After a while, he raised his head and said softly, "Once, there was no bloody city here, only a death camp. This was told to me by the staff officer, and I wondered why there was a bloody city later, and why the existence of the city was so in line with the needs of humanity...... I didn't know that until yesterday, when I suddenly understood. ”

"Got what?" asked King Kong.

"Management. Shen Yi replied: "The reason why people love online games is because they can get experiences that ordinary people can't get in games. But few people pay attention to the social structure of the game. It is simpler, more convenient, and able to meet the needs of the people, which is conducive to management and governance...... Bloody City, maybe that's why it exists!"

The meaning of Shen Yi's words was a little vague, everyone was confused, and they were about to ask again, but Shen Yi had already raised his hand: "Don't ask anymore, there are some things I only have to guess now, and there is no exact answer, but don't worry, sooner or later, one day, we will know everything about this world." ”

At this moment, Wen Rou suddenly pointed into the distance: "Look, what is that?"

Looking at the gentle fingers, Shen Yi saw that it was clearly the skeleton of a fierce beast. But the skeleton looked so great that it looked like a hill from afar.

Everyone looked at each other and ran towards the skeleton, and when they got closer, they realized that it was indeed a skeleton. It's so huge that you have to get some distance away from it to get the full picture.

The skeleton was about 400 meters long and 30 meters high, and the white ribs poked out into the sky like sharp swords, looking like a giant dragon lying on the ground.

But if you look closely, you can see that it is not a dragon at all, because the skeleton also has hundreds of claws, and it looks more like a large centipede.

Shen Yi and the others stood under the white bones, like ants standing at the feet of giants, looking up at each other one by one, and at the same time there was an incomparably shocking shock in their hearts - if this thing was alive, how powerful should it be?

What's even more surprising is that there is no record of this creature, either in the information given by Zisha or in the legends of the city. With the size of this creature, it could not have been unknown in any way, but no one had ever seen it in the wilderness, except for the corpse left here.

Occasionally, people are found, but they don't know what it is.

In the middle of this huge "centipede", one of the vertebrae has been broken, and the centipede has been split in two.

But that's not its fatal wound.

Shen Yi went around to the bones, looked at them carefully, and said, "The top of the head was hit, and the injury penetrated the entire head, which is a fatal injury." ”

After thinking about it, he simply jumped into the skull to examine it.

Gentle was a little scared: "Be careful!"

Shen Yi looked back and smiled: "Be careful, what? This big guy suddenly came to life and ate me?"

Gently stuck out his tongue and smiled without saying a word.

Shen Yi said to himself while observing: "The edge of the fracture is not neat, it is narrow and long, and the length is about one meter, which should be a melee weapon damage." One meter in length, what weapon can be so wide?"

King Kong Interface: "The super huge sword is like the sword of the Hell King before it became smaller. ”

"That's right, even bigger than that. It was also a giant who killed it. Shen Yi said in a loud voice, he looked around: "A total of sixty-four teeth, very sharp, thick mandibles, the bite must be super strong, this is a terrifying carnivorous creature." ”

He called Zeus out: "Analyze the skeleton to see how long it has been dead, it would be better if more conclusions could be drawn." ”

"What's in it for me?" Zeus asked rhetorically.

"There is no benefit, but if you refuse to carry it out, you will suffer the fate of being disassembled. ”

Shen Yi walked to the throat of the giant bone: "There was also an attack here, the entrance of the cave is round, half a meter in diameter, and there is a charred black ball nearby, it should have been hit by an energy-type weapon from a distance, it was not killed by a person." ”

Walking along his throat, Shen Yi found several more scars.

One of the ribs was broken, apparently broken by a fist, and there were marks of a man's fist on it.

Shen Yi compared his fist to the fist print, which was about the same size.

He suddenly threw a punch at a bone.

only heard a bang, and the bones turned out to be nothing, and the shock made Shen Yi's arm numb.

This scene made people's hearts frightened, and Shen Yi had already shouted: "Hong Lang, cut off this bone!"

The Flood Tiger roared and swung the Sword of the Hell King, slashing at a rib that was cut out of a crack but was not broken.

Hong Lang was stunned, he didn't expect this bone to be so hard. With his current strength and the Sword of the Hell King, even a heavy tank could break it in two, but he couldn't do anything about the bones of this dead thing.

This infuriated him: "Bloody Mania!"

He roared and swung his sword again, slashing at the same place he had attacked before, finally breaking it in two.

Shen Yi nodded, pointing to the fist mark imprinted on the bone: "This punch must have at least two hundred points of strength to do it." ”

Two hundred points of strength? Everyone looked at Shen Yi together: "You mean?"

"Well, it was killed by at least a few adventurers with general-level strength. ”

"What are you kidding!" Hong Lang shouted, "This is District 2, how can there be a monster that requires several generals to join forces to kill?"

Shen Yi replied lightly: "In the wilderness, there was no division of difficult areas, and the establishment of order always took time. ”

Everyone was about to ask something more, but Zeus suddenly said: "Mean sir, according to my tests, I found that this big guy should have some kind of powerful flame spitting ability during his lifetime. ”

"How strong?" asked Shen Yi.

"Give it enough time to reduce a city to ashes. ”

Shen Yi was silent.

After a while, he said, "I think we know how this place was destroyed." ”