Chapter 485: Departure (Thanks to Nakajima Wind's Alliance Leader for the reward)
More than a month later, in the White City, the highest dock area, an icy sea breeze blew in the distance.
If you look down from the top, the whole White City looks like a tall tower, stretching straight upwards until the sharp top is directly submerged into the raging ocean.
The sharp edges and corners like a blade split the surging tide and pierced shallowly into the sea.
Here, up and down seem to be an extraordinarily ambiguous concept.
As one of the few large-scale open borders in the world, the entire bustling city is like a mountain, stacked with layers of buildings, all the way to the very top dock area, and even truly submerged in the endless sea overhead.
If you look up here, it feels like you're hanging upside down. He could see the gray-black ocean being torn apart by the spire of the tower a few inches above his head, opening up and making a roaring sound.
If you look down, you can see the hustle and bustle of the city under your feet - like a sand castle in front of the tide, as if it will be crushed and crushed by the sea water on the sky dome at any time.
The white tower reflects the sea, and the whole world is purely black and white.
This is one of the famous attractions in the White City.
As a transit point for many routes, in order to minimize the need to carry and load and unload goods, the creator has repeatedly adjusted and modified the frame here, forming an extended gravity belt.
The miracle that was formed was the spire that sank a few meters below the surface of the sea.
What may seem like a small distance actually overlaps the entire border and the Endless Sea. Maximum contact is maintained without causing the framework to be unbalanced and causing a total collapse.
This design is not without ingenuity.
Huai Shi was very happy to take pictures here, and after taking several photos with the scissor hands for local tourists, she put away her mobile phone with satisfaction and dragged her luggage to the waiting area.
He's been here for more than half a month.
Different from the last time I was in a hurry, this time I finally appreciated the customs of the border.
As one of the top five bustling cities on countless borders, the inhabitants of White City have a wonderful sense of superiority over people from the present and other frontiers.
After learning that Huai Shi came from the present world, there was always a very restrained enthusiasm in his expression. It's like saying, "Ah, since you're here, let's have fun, let's have a good walk, it's a good thing to open your eyes......
After getting used to the existence of the Endless Sea, it is difficult for the people here to imagine the empty sky of the present realm.
With only a few coral clouds floating around, doesn't it feel empty?
Without a lid, it always feels like it's going to fall off.
Different from the essentia equilibrium in the current environment, here, the abundance of essentia always fluctuates, forming a tidal cyclical phenomenon. In addition, leaving the central area of the Zarathustra Miyi, more often than not, there will be no strong suppression of the Silver Sea, and a series of other reasons, the success rate of the Frontier Ascendant is actually much higher than the current situation.
Even people who have not been sublimated have more or less abundant essentia.
Even though most of the physiology and current conditions are no different except for some border races, they can still be distinguished at a glance.
At least the locals can distinguish between them, and even people from different borders can judge each other's origins by experience and feeling for the first time after they come into contact with each other.
However, there are often times when judgment is wrong, after all, it feels like this kind of thing is often not very unreliable, except to the extent that the characteristics and accents are very obvious.
The variety of border cultures is truly eye-opening, including food.
To his surprise, the local people do not eat seafood, but highly respect vegetarian food.
If you think about it, it's normal, the Endless Sea looks like it's liquid, but it's still very different from the sea, and basically no normal fish creatures can live comfortably in it.
What can be caught on a large scale is either very tasty or poisonous, and if you accidentally catch something terrible, I am afraid that the whole ship can be dragged into the sea.
Moreover, it is also mixed with abyssal precipitation, and after eating for a long time, the whole person may suddenly solidify and become an erosion species, grow gills and jump into the sea...... Of course, this is just an urban legend of the White City.
The source of the legend is probably the mermaid tribe that roams the ocean overhead, right?
This large group recruited by the White City from the abyss was actually a security force hired by the White City, and they had been serving the White City for more than two hundred years, longer than some local families, and it could be said that they had become part of the White City.
Huai Shi also saw burly and huge Naga warriors and patrols with scales and gills behind their ears on the streets.
As a rare group of sapients in the Abyss, some of their members are even smarter than most humans.
It's just that the environment in which they grew up makes them not care about the complex knowledge of human beings - of course, there are many beings who have been assimilated by humans.
For example, in the hotel that Huai Shi booked, the lobby manager once mysteriously stuffed him with a business card on the 9th floor, suggesting that if he couldn't sleep at night, there was still a place to talk about life with young ladies of all races......
Huai Shi actually wanted to see it in her heart, well, purely out of confusion about life, and wanted to hear some experience.
Besides, he just looked at it, and it didn't cost anything!
But every time he looked back and saw the mysteriously smiling crow on his shoulder, he wisely snuffed out this thought.
Discipline is a good thing, once you throw it away, you can't pick it up.
With the deep sound of the clock in the waiting area, Huaishi's half-month trip to the White City is about to come to an end.
This was incredible to him.
Although most of the past six months have passed without shock, it is surprising that it is calm compared to years ago. But this time, after being at the border for so long, he didn't get caught up in any mess......
No one fell from the sky, no bombs exploded suddenly, and even the black-hearted businessman who occasionally encountered two rip-offs just wanted to trap him for a few dollars.
Safe overstep!
This made Huai Shi feel very uneasy, for fear of making a big news for him before he left.
It wasn't until the waiter walked into the lounge and told him that the line from the Ivory Tower was about to arrive, and Huai Shi hadn't come to his senses.
Looking up incredulously around the lounge.
The old man who sat in the corner and felt extremely gloomy, the waiter behind the counter who occasionally peeked at him, and the men who hurried past outside the luxurious lounge with a fierce look in their eyes, and the middle-aged traveler who sat across his table and played cards with him with great interest......
There is a sense of loss that I have some tasks that have not been triggered.
Is there something wrong?
However, until he picked up his luggage and left, nothing happened.
And as soon as he walked out of the lounge with his front feet, the gloomy old man in the corner immediately seemed to collapse, and the whole person collapsed in the chair and breathed a sigh of relief.
The waiter who quietly spied on Huai Shi watched the young man go away, and began to spy on the next guest who walked in, pursed his lips, and swallowed his mouth.
In the distance, the sound of brawl sounded, and the vicious sublimators who had just hurried past actually clashed with the Naga warriors, and in the faint chaos, there was an emaciated figure with a package stuffed in his arms unknowingly hitched a cargo ship from afar, and left silently.
In this way, the unaware of the current situation of the felicit who escaped from prison, the serial killer who is looking for the target, the fanatic who is ready to launch the blood sacrifice to attack, and the thief who steals the treasures of the White City...... And so on.
Huai Shi finally saw the special line that came to greet her.
A ...... Truck.
At the end of the strange corridor that twists and turns, the Endless Sea has gone from overhead to foot, with a subtle change in gravity.
Huai Shi stood on the edge of the pier, stunned as the sea water in front of her gurgled and bubbled.
Immediately after, a huge truck rose on all four wheels.
Like something accidentally falling into the sea.
When Huai Shi hesitated to call the police for rescue, the large truck stopped firmly above the sea like a drunk man turning over from the curb of the road.
Although it is still dripping down, the degree of fantasy has finally returned to the range that ordinary people can accept.
A big bearded man poked his head out from behind the glass in the wheelhouse, looked down, saw the boy on the dock, looked down at the list in his hand, and suddenly said: "Mr. Huai, right? I'm Raymond, the driver who came to pick you up and go to the Ivory Tower......
"Ah, hello, hello. ”
Huai Shi hurriedly raised her hand and shook hands with Raymond, who had half of his body out from behind the window.
In the politeness, the two raised their eyebrows at the same time, feeling the calluses on each other's fingers.
Heavy weapon, profound attainments, cocoon distribution and palm muscle group emphasis, it should be a long weapon...... Spears, scythes, flails, hammers, or Roman halberds?
The mind was racing, but the handshake was touched, and the two smiled tacitly.
Immediately afterwards, Raymond looked behind Huai Shi: "Doctor Ye, are you also together?"
Huai Shi frowned, and then looked back in astonishment, only to realize that before he knew it, there was an extra person behind him - it was the passenger who was playing cards with him in the lounge.
The middle-aged man known as Doctor Ye had an aura of vicissitudes, but his eyes were quiet and soft, and he spoke quite softly and softly, which left a very good impression on Huai Shi.
The two of them sat quite close in the lounge, and during the long break, they also played two Wanshi cards to relieve their boredom, but they didn't expect to be companions.
"Hello, officially introducing, my surname is Ye, Ye Su, the school doctor of the Ivory Tower. ”
Dr. Ye took off his hat and smiled kindly: "You should be Mr. Huai Shi who just came here this semester, right? ”
"Where, where. ”
Although she felt a little wrong, Huai Shi still shook hands with him politely: "It's my luck to be able to meet my colleagues in advance." ”
After a few polite words, the two men stepped on the gangway that spread out in the huge cargo box of the truck and got into the car.
The cargo box turned out to be an elegantly decorated narrow hall, which was much larger than the outside and quite comfortable.
Perhaps disgusted that the two of them had wasted too much time outside, Huai Shi had not yet sat down when he heard a cold snort from the sofa in the hall.