Section 31
The dark, oppressive underworld makes people can't help but want to leave this oppressive environment.
"Is it hard to get back to the surface?" The students thought it would be easy to get out of the nest.
In fact, the bottom nest is easy to come in and difficult to get out. Many people who are determined to enter the bottom nest have difficulty surviving on the surface, and are forced to survive in the depths, as if the invisible mire is dragging them into an abyss that sinks, and the layers of invisible rules restrict them from turning back.
This is the penultimate layer, which means "the penultimate worst".
"Where are we under our feet?"
"Darklight!"
"I mean the layer underneath."
"That's the penal colony......" Only then did the locals see the young rat-man wearing a mage's robe behind Annan, and said in horror, "Why did you bring the rat-man here!" ”
It seems that the nest people have divided themselves from the rat people.
"What's going on with them?" Annan asked.
Locals say that because of the curse with pollution.
Every once in a while, the blasphemous dust appeared, getting worse the deeper you went. Their breathing, touching, and eating will ingest dust uncontrollably. For example, now that the dust is thick, the locals are wearing face masks.
There are only two ways to get out: leave the bottom nest, or head to the upper level.
"I know that the Imperial Capital has dumped all the garbage into the nest, and that there are warlocks and lichs doing evil experiments here, and this is how the poisonous mist must come out......," Amy whispered.
To justify the name of the warlock, Annan is obliged: "The warlock never studied, the mage will." ”
After generations of survival and reproduction, the polluted Bottom Nest people mutated under the pollution of dust, and finally even the Bottom Nest people could not contain these inhuman and ghostly creatures, and banished them to the penal colony.
The locals' tone is indifferent. This is the Bottom Nest, where dead people are more common than food, and he was killed by something else before the poisonous mist could kill him.
"Have you ever seen anyone like us?"
"Yes."
"When?"
"Now."
“…… What about other than us? ”
"No,......," the locals shook their heads, but their eyes were fixed on the kinnar.
Annan still had many problems, but they were being exposed to the dust, putting away the kinnar and exchanging it for a silver coin to throw at the locals.
"It's not the same as saying yes!"
"You just asked me to take out a gold coin, and you didn't say to give it to you." Annan said calmly: "Giving you Jinnar will get you in trouble, give you the silver coins first, follow us." ”
The locals stopped saying anything and walked in front to lead the way.
"You've been here?" Alice asked in a low voice.
"No, I lied to him."
Annan returned to normal: "Tell us about the nest." ”
The penultimate layer at your feet is called the Dawn Layer – meaning the closest thing to darkness.
Bottom nesters like to spruce up their environment so that it doesn't look so bad. For example, the third layer is called the treasure layer, because it is where the surface dumps garbage.
Speaking of the treasure layer, the eyes of the locals are shining, saying that there are always lucky treasure diggers who get rich overnight, but many treasure points are controlled by big people.
Another example is the second layer of revelation, where it is said that the security is comparable to the surface, and there is a commercial street, so you don't have to worry about getting your head smashed when you walk on the road, and you don't have to worry about getting drunk and being stripped naked and thrown on the street.
"Have you been there?"
"No, but all the Bottom Nest people say so, and they don't lie to themselves...... I still remember my dream when I was a kid to be a treasure digger on the treasure floor and buy a room on the revelation floor......"
It can take a week or more for the people of the surface to earn a single silver coin a day in the nest, and the attitude of the locals is visibly enthusiastic.
In the Dawn Layer, this is early morning and late at night, and only the "town" has a faint order, such as the Dark Light Town in front. But if you really believe that the town will punish the bad guys, you will only be eaten to the bone—fortunately, such a naïve person will not survive now.
The wilderness outside the town is relatively safe, and at most there are cavemen and kobolds who no one knows where they came from, but they can't kill them all. The real danger is those nests. There are cavemen and kobolds in the front, as well as humans and rat people.
Locals say he was caught by Darklight and taken by the "Expedition" to attack the newborn rat-man lair, where dried corpses, both human and rat-man, were sticked with sticks...... He lamented that only a few survived the expedition, and he was one of them.
"Why don't you resist?" Someone asked.
"What are you talking about...... "The local swallowed the 'stupid words' back into their stomachs, "If we were so good, we wouldn't have come to the bottom nest." ”
The outline of Darklight Town gradually became clear, a gathering place of dilapidated shacks made of broken wood and stone, and ragged silhouettes walked on the uneven streets.
The young mages who had only scratched some dust from climbing the rock pillars were like stars in the night sky.
There were locals who ran away when they saw them, and there were locals who came closer.
The locals pulled out the sharpened pieces of iron and told them to roll away.
"Gray wolf!"
But he couldn't drive anyone he knew. A young man with a strip of cloth around his waist cried out: "I am a wild dog! ”
"I know."
The gray wolf let the wild dogs get closer. The approaching wild dogs first flattered Annan and gave them a nondescript etiquette, and then asked them what they needed.
He seems smarter than the gray wolf.
Annan told him: "Two things, we are looking for a golden invitation, and a witch doctor. ”
"We know where the witch doctor is! Gray wolf, you take the nobles to the witch doctor, and I ask the gold...... Gold ......"
"Invitation."
"Where's the Golden Invitation?"
The gray wolf wondered the attitude of the wild dog, and was pulled aside by the wild dog: "Idiot." They are surface people. ”
"I know they're not going to take me back to the surface."
The gray wolf knew that they were not easy to mess with, so he only cared about the gold coins.
"But it can take us to other levels!" The wild dog's whisper made the gray wolf shut his mouth.
This is the Dawn Layer, the closest thing to darkness...... Even if he only goes up one level, he can live a long longer.
As the two locals muttered, Amy whispered to her companions, "Beware of the conspiracy. ”
They had only seen Annan summon a few elite elements, and it shouldn't be enough to fight against the bottom nest forces...... Only Alice, who knew Annan's skills, was silent.
When Annan was serious, the Imperial Ministry of Ceremonies had to beg him not to destroy the nest - if Mr. Svarro and the people of Typhoon Shelter were summoned.
Speaking of Typhoon Shelter Town...... Do you want to let Olmedo and the doves occupy the magpie's nest and become the shadow of the imperial capital?
Forget it, the eyes of the ceremonial department must be watching them, and the bottom nest environment is too bad.
The gray wolf came back and flattered him a lot, and even wanted to return the silver coins.
"This is for you." Annan said this, but still took back the silver coin: "I promise you." The next thing to do for us is that I will bring you to the top, even to the surface. ”
(End of chapter)