ACT169: Sewer Legends
In Ramsey, the "Legend of the Sewers" has always been the most famous urban legend here. As the largest and most complex underground labyrinth in the world, dwarven engineers have preliminarily judged that the total length of the sewer is more than 30,000 kilometers, and the deepest point is 15 kilometers underground.
Such an exaggerated project, the dwarves took a full 2,000 years!
When the city was built, the dwarves had just become a sapient race. Although it was decided to live on the surface, the cave-dwelling habit was not something that could be changed immediately, so at first the sewer was not a simple drainage system, but an underground mall where people could live, but later it slowly emptied the residents and completely turned it into a sewer. And even if it is inhabited, the sewers have to be used as underground bunkers and troop transport passages during the war, and they are built in all directions.
Such a huge underground city, the deep and dark labyrinth attracts adventurers to come to find excitement, and at the same time, it also gives birth to a large number of legends!
Mysterious races underground, monsters in the sewers, unknown spaces inhabited by undead souls...... And so on and so forth.
In addition to adventurers who have gone down in person, some newspaper and magazine reporters will also have the mentality of writing novels when there is no news, and make up some unbelievable legends with their brains. These thrilling stories, true and false, are mixed together to make up Ramses' unique "sewer legend".
Perhaps because there are so many fake stories, many people think that "Tales of the Sewers" is made up nonsense. Only a handful of people know that many of these seemingly false stories are true!
"The entire sewer system has about 300 floors from top to bottom, divided into 12 zones, some of which have been reconstructed from pits and underground caves, with a total area of ...... Unknown. The reason why this happened was because the municipal library had a fire and most of the drawings were burned, so that's all they could provide us!"
In the name of her grandmother, Lytis borrowed a copy of the sewer construction plan from the Ramses Municipal Archive, but when she got her hands on it, she realized that it was an incomplete mutilation!
The administrator reluctantly told her that as early as more than 50 years ago, the city management office had abandoned the management and maintenance of the space below the 36th floor of the sewer, and most of the passages to the lower level had been blocked.
In addition, the official ban on anyone entering the space below the 36th floor without authorization, on the grounds that a large number of harmful gases have been deposited in the lower space, but this still can't stop some self-proclaimed "adventurers" from drilling down one after another, and even 7 years ago, a man claimed that he had gone down to the 203rd floor, and brought back a rare fluorescent orchid.
"At the moment, it's certain that there is no suffocation problem in the sewers. People who have been there say that the air quality is 'fresher' than expected, and harmful gases are only present in certain blind spots. ”
"Then why did the political axe prohibit adventurers from going down?" Ling Lan asked inexplicably.
According to official statistics, nearly 30 percent of people who venture into the sewers without permission each year never return to the surface. Some got lost and starved to death in some unknown corner, while others were attacked by dangerous creatures. I heard that even the rats have grown to the size of piglets, and there are hundreds or thousands of rats in a litter, so it is not a problem to bite a person to death. ”
"The dwarves haven't thought about governing?"
"The dwarves did have plans to deal with it, and they wanted to put corrosive gas into the sewers, but the goblins strongly objected. The money-loving greenskins thought that the sewer legend would boost the city's tourism industry, so they incorporated the sewer ecosystem into Ramses' environmental protection system, so the matter was finally over. ”
"Hearing you say this, how do I feel that the vassal clan of goblins, is about to climb to the head of the clan?"
"That's not true, but now it's basically an equal relationship, and the two races get along much more harmoniously than we do within the human race. ”
The sewers must be searched, and everyone felt that they could not give up Alpha because of difficulties. But at the same time, they also have to face a serious follow-up problem, that is, when they do find Alpha, they may inevitably have to fight her captors. They don't know what the strength of the other party is.
"It's not enough for us to search the sewers, I think we should probably find some help......"
While Weiss and the others were still investigating and preparing to find Alpha, a large group of people were busy in the depths of the underground, in a secret facility unknown to the outside world. Located on the 123rd floor of the sewers, this facility was once a dwarven underground military station with a large amount of space, but has been secretly converted into a research facility.
In a relatively large space, a large group of staff in white jumpsuits were assembling all sorts of strange equipment. An oval-shaped, translucent machine was placed in the middle, with a large number of pipes and wiring connected to the bottom, and several high-ranking staff members were engrossed in debugging, surrounded by a ring of heavily armed guards, who were not allowed to approach even their own people. In the circle, two idlers, an old man and a young man, were standing in front of the machine and talking.
"Doctor, why is such an important experiment not being conducted at headquarters?"
"Because the experiment requires the use of the leylines to connect 6 magic cores, the total amount of magic gathered will be an astronomical amount. The cowards at the headquarters were worried that they would be killed, so they handed over the test to the branch for conduct. ”
"Uh...... How severe will the explosion be?"
"Then it depends on how much magic is leaked, if it is light, it is an innocuous little explosion, and those dwarves above can't even feel it, if it is heavy...... I guess I need to redraw the map!"
“......”
With a playful smile, the old man held back a slightly unnatural nervous look from the purple-haired youth, and then walked out of the cordon with a smile behind his back and walked towards a little girl sitting in the corner with his knees crossed. If Wess had been here at this time, he would have discovered that this Loli was the three-nil girl he had rescued from the hooligans that night.
"Omega, end standby mode, switch to combat mode, and let Sigma out. ”
Hearing the old man's words, the seemingly well-behaved girl nodded, and then her eyes instantly lost concentration, and even her body stiffened. But this state of sudden death only lasted for a few seconds, and his eyes soon glowed again, but the old man suddenly frowned after seeing the other party's eyes, and scolded in a displeased tone.
"Miao, you're disobeying orders again!"
"Am I just that annoying you? dear lord~lord~!"
"I don't have a disobedient granddaughter like you. ”
The girl who was very well-behaved just now is completely like a different person at this moment. The other party got up from the ground, patted the dust on the corner of his skirt, and then jumped back slightly, and sat down on the wooden box he leaned on before. The girl's upper body leaned back slightly, her casual legs were crossed, and there was an evil smile on her face that did not match her age at all.
At first, the old man glared angrily, but the other party turned a deaf ear, and in the end, the old man was defeated in front of the little one.
"Forget it, it's the same with you. Doing the first experiment after 3 days can be painful, so I need to explain to you the precautions. ”
"Oh~!Are you worried that I'll feel nervous?"
"Originally, I was going to have Sigma act as the 'control body', but I changed my mind just now. In terms of mental toughness, you're undoubtedly the tallest of the three, and while the psychiatric guys say you're too violent and lack effective control, I don't think so. ”
"If you compliment, save it, just tell me the key points, how much strength can I get this time?"
"The ideal level is about 40% of the final value, the first step is to build the foundation, we will give you the 'immortal' ** from the level of 'law', as long as everything goes well, you will become the strongest existence in the mortal world!" (To be continued.) )