Chapter 43: The Labyrinth of the Great Necropolis
Time flies.
Ji Xun spent two days of peaceful days.
In the past two days, except for the mission to collect corpses in various streets in the East Fifth District, he spent almost the rest of the time in the morgue practicing the golden remnant breathing method.
Practicing the breathing method is already very boring, especially for beginners.
The breathing method of condensing mana requires the breath to inhale the free elemental particles in the air, and then work in the body for a week with the tricks of those mantras.
The whole process requires full attention, and there is no room for error.
Otherwise, as soon as the qi is dispersed, this cycle will be wasted.
It's like counting from 1 to 10,000 in your heart, you can't interrupt, you can't fall asleep.
The effect of this golden fragment far exceeded expectations.
But in the same way, the difficulty of cultivation is also several times more difficult than the [Great Darkness Breathing Method].
The difficulty of each cycle is roughly like counting from 1 to 10W.
It's no wonder that the owner of the bookstore thinks it's strange to learn how to breathe and absorb a variety of elements.
After all, this is not at all a difficulty that ordinary people can digest.
To control the multiple elements and breath, and to maintain the delicate balance of the mana of each element in the body, it is so difficult that ordinary people can not understand it at all.
It's very hard just to get started.
Even Ji Xun himself, if he didn't have the premise of the trickster's "comprehension +10", he didn't have the confidence that he would be able to master this breathing method in a short period of time.
Fortunately, he has enough understanding.
And his temperament can endure loneliness.
As long as he doesn't go out of the task, he can sit for most of the day every day.
His super high comprehension allowed him to quickly comprehend some tricks of the breathing method, and after getting acquainted with it, it gradually became like breathing, as if it was an instinct.
At least the first mantra is already proficient.
The people of the Governor's Cao family did not come to the door, and the aftermath of the cellar in Tailor Street was gone, and there were no strange people to disturb during this period.
Mana is skyrocketing every day.
Everything is going in a good direction again.
......
And although Ji Xun didn't have any trouble in the past two days, the city of innocence was very lively.
The corpse collector can always have access to many murder scenes, and can also know more first-hand information.
Field missions have become more frequent on these two days.
Later, when I inquired, in addition to the disturbances I made in the black market on Dark Rain Street two days ago, there were many armed fights in the city.
What's more, there is a rumor coming out of the City of Innocence.
There was a rumor from the mouth of the intelligence merchant that the Cao family of the Governor's Mansion had obtained an extremely high-grade ancient relic!
Some people say that it is the mysterious relic that the "lone wolf" Baron brought out in the Demon Cross before, and some people say that it was a catastrophic object related to the cataclysm brought out by a mercenary group, and there is also that the treasure of Space 407 was obtained by the Cao family... Various versions are available.
In short, it is a treasure.
There are also high bounties in the black market of Innocence City, and some mysterious people ask for this treasure with a lot of money.
Therefore, in the past two days, unknown personnel have infiltrated the Governor's Mansion to investigate, and even assassinated the Governor and his family many times.
Ji Xun's first reaction when he heard the news was not to be curious about what kind of relic it was.
Instead, I feel that someone wants to fish in troubled waters and mess up the situation in the City of Innocence.
Even the news of the relics was deliberately spread by someone.
It's like someone throws a stone into the pool, and the water is suddenly muddy, and some of the kings, turtles, and silver carp that were originally hidden in the mud are exposed.
In fact, as he expected, the fighting of weapons in the City of Innocence has become more and more frequent in the past two days.
Because there are too many hidden piles of the Cao family in Dark Rain Street, the conflict between the Governor's Mansion and several major gangsters in the lower city has become more and more acute. Recently, there has been an influx of outsiders of unknown forces and local gangs in the city, and some people have even attacked the Nugget Docks, the only way to the Old World.
In retaliation, various bounties for assassination of the Governor's Mansion appeared on the black market, with a bounty of 200,000 for the killing of a magistrate and 500,000 for the killing of a Governor's Palace guard... There was even a bounty on the governor.
This price has exacerbated the turmoil in the City of Innocence.
There is a sense of chaos that is about to come.
As a result, the crematoriums in the major corpse collector branches almost never stopped.
Ji Xundao also likes this kind of excitement.
The more lively the Cao family is, the less time they have to come to find themselves.
Others will also think that the treasure has fallen into the hands of the Cao family.
What's more, the quality of the corpses harvested from the mission is much higher.
Although the corpse collector is the lowest level, he can participate in the aftermath of many high-end incidents.
Ji Xun felt that with this posture, he couldn't tell when he would be able to have another big opportunity like a "Tailor Street Cellar".
With the aura of a doom gambler, he felt that the possibility was not small.
Risks certainly go hand in hand.
But Ji Xun was a little looking forward to it.
......
However, there is one thing that Ji Xun never thought of.
He had come to work as a corpse collector in order to devour the transcendent.
But it ignores the occupational disease of the corpse collectors.
The average corpse collector is exposed to pollution all year round, and his body is bound to become weaker and weaker.
But because of the [feast], Ji Xun's body is getting stronger and stronger.
Now the constitution value is around 3.6, which is more than three times the previous one.
The increase in attributes is also reflected in the body size, and the muscle dimension is also much larger.
Although the melee professionals on the streets of Innocence City are all strong men, they should not be corpse collectors.
This made Ji Xun have to wear some loose clothes, and his body pretended to be weak.
Occasionally, if the qi and blood are too vigorous, they will draw a faint smoke to disguise themselves as contaminated.
Fortunately, he had a solid foundation in acting in his previous life, and he didn't miss any flaws for the time being.
But as time goes on, he gets stronger and stronger, and that's a big problem.
Ji Xun also figured out how to solve this hidden danger in his heart.
......
After lunch, Ji Xun came to the office of Team Five.
Today is payday.
Collecting corpses is a high-risk profession and is paid once a week.
knocked on the door, and it happened that the captain Dong Jiu and the other two people were inside.
Except for work, Ji Xun walked in and said directly: "Captain, I'll get the salary." ”
Dong Jiu looked at him, opened the drawer and took out a thin stack of banknotes at random, and said, "This is yours." ”
Ji Xun took it, and he didn't have to count it to know that the number was obviously wrong.
The salary of the corpse collector is 3500 per week, and there are more than 1,000 yuan in his hand at most.
He asked directly: "I see that the company's recruitment says..."
Before he finished speaking, the veteran player next to Dongjiu, the leper Liu, seemed to know that he would ask this, and sneered: "Do you think the captain doesn't go up and down?" If there is no captain..."
Ji Xun was not interested in listening to this guy's words at all, and before he finished speaking, he confirmed again: "That is, I can only take so much?" ”
He didn't understand there, the three of them had long regarded this position as a cash cow.
You don't have to do much work, but you get a lot of money, and you rely on the group to squeeze the newcomers.
Hearing this, Dong Jiu squinted his eyes and asked rhetorically, "Otherwise, what do you think?" ”
Sometimes, a glance tells you that some people are really evil.
Before his exile, Dong Kowloon was a robber who killed people and crossed goods, and the other two were rapists and traffickers who traded in illegal human beings.
Ji Xun listened with his expression as usual, and said lightly: "Oh." ”
There is no reason to talk about the City of Innocence.
The law of the jungle is the basic rule.
With that, he turned around and left.
This attitude made the three of them stunned.
.......
Ji Xun didn't care about this money.
Two thousand yuan can't even buy a page of breathing.
Not to mention resentment.
This kind of small role is not worth looking at at at all.
But Ji Xun also believes that a dead reason is his, it is his, it is his.
This job is needed now.
The rest of the salary is just kept with those guys for the time being.
After receiving the salary, Ji Xun originally wanted to go to the morgue to dispose of the corpse, and by the way, he continued to devour the transcendent characteristics.
I didn't think that as soon as I got up the elevator, suddenly a shout came from the brass pipe.
"Hey, boys, there's a big job! All the corpse collectors in the East 5th District hurriedly took the guys to the car, remember to bring more body bags! ”
"Boss Gong, what's wrong?"
"I just got the word that a gang of guys attacked a train carrying supplies uptown to the elevator near the cemetery on the outskirts of the city. Now the two sides are fighting fiercely. ”
"Who is so bold as to attack the supply train in the inner city?"
"Probably a marauder or a gangster. Whatever, a lot of people may die this time, and some of them will be busy. We have to hurry, or we'll be too late for the rest of the team to arrive first, but there won't be much oil or water. ”
"Okay!"
“...”
Temporary missions are normal for corpse collectors, and they are more frequent in the past two days.
But... Big job?
Ji Xun was instantly interested.
On weekdays, the sunrise mission is a team, and this is the first time that four teams in the East Fifth District are together.
Ji Xun heard who this thick and rough voice was, Gong Xu, the head of the Yinyue Company branch in the fifth district of the east.
Because Gong Xu has a good relationship with the high-level of the Golden Oak Headquarters, he can always get first-hand information.
This also allows several corpse collection teams in the East Fifth District to often reap more benefits.
There is a firefight, which means that there will be a lot of corpses, and the corpses of the gangsters who dare to rob the freight train are much more valuable than the corpses of gangsters who are on fire in the city.
This is a corpse collection task with oil and water.
And it's a suburb of the city, so you have to rob it.
Whoever grabs it is whoever's.
"A suburban cemetery?"
Ji Xun's thoughts turned again.
He remembered seeing a teammate recruitment at the Hunters' Guild before.
It seems to be a rudimentary extradimensional space, and it is not very difficult.
He didn't delay, quickly picked up the materials and carried the toolbox and ran out of the dormitory building and got into the truck parked on the side of the road.
Without waiting for a moment, the four corpse collector teams of the East Fifth District drove out of the city in a majestic manner.
......
The city of Innocence is separated by a few kilometers of rock formations in the federal city pool above the bonanza layer, and the exiled prisoners used to walk on foot, a walk that took several months.
Now that the Old World has been discovered, the nobles and lords in the upper echelons have made an elevator, and a large number of people and materials are transported down every day.
There are also many treasures from the ruins of the Old World, which will be transported from the City of Innocence to the upper levels.
And between the city of innocence and the elevator, there is a railway carrying more than 100 kilometers.
It was also targeted by some robbers who plundered supplies.
In the carriage, Captain Dong Jiu and the other two looked a little excited.
After all, such a "big job" really requires good luck, and maybe you can get rich overnight.
As long as you can arrive as soon as possible, the loot in the suburbs will be collected by the corpses.
Now it's all about speed.
Several steam trucks are running at full speed all the way through the city.
There were only four people left in the car of the fifth team now.
The little fat man Gibb never came back after taking leave to go home, and he didn't know if there was an accident.
Now there is only one Ji Xun who works.
The East Kowloon Trio is a small group, and they never talk to newcomers when they chat.
Ji Xun didn't want to deal with it.
A man sat quietly in the corner, looking out the window.
The dungeon has little to offer except for the spectacular ruins of the building.
After leaving the outer city wall and leaving the city, there was no light source around, and it was a dead silence.
The lights of the car were connected in a line, like a thorn of light piercing into the endless darkness. Occasionally, in the dim light, you can see some dark shadows near the railroad, which are ghouls and aberrants roaming the wasteland.
"Necropolis" is a place name along the railway line in the eastern suburbs of the city of Innocence.
It is said to be an ancient mass grave, and a large number of skeleton monsters are often loitered here.
There is also a sinless city that is almost universally known to everyone in the extradimensional space - [Necropolis Labyrinth].
The car was idle and bored, and Dong Jiu and the two veteran team members also talked about the maze.
"The entrance to the [Necropolis Labyrinth] has a large range of influence, and there is no pattern in the way it is triggered. When the time comes, everyone should be smart, don't touch things you don't understand, in case you touch something catastrophic and get involved in the extradimensional space, it will be troublesome. The degree of space exploration has always been only about 40%, and no one knows the full picture of it so far, and it is all up to luck to get out. ”
"Yes."
"But Captain, this labyrinth is just a rudimentary space, why is the exploration degree only 40%?"
"Because this is a puzzle-type space, it is said that the maze is very large and the structure is so complex that it will take days to enter it once. The slightest mistake can lead to a lot of wasted time and even trapped inside. Moreover, this space only produces low-level skeleton materials, which is not of interest to large teams and high-level hunters. Except for puzzle solvers and card master apprentices who need low-level necromantic materials, no one wants to come to this hellish place..."
"Oh."
“...”
After all, the squad leader Dong Jiu is an old prisoner who has been exiled for several years, and he knows more than the average person.
Ji Xun in the corner of the carriage listened carefully to their conversation.
I also have a general impression of this labyrinth: the yield is low and the risk is not small.
Nothing to worry about.
Not only the Old World, but also the Innocence City has a lot of strange extradimensional spaces.
Ji Xun also has a strong interest in those magical dungeons.
He still hasn't figured out what kind of existence the extradimensional space is, like fragments of a low-latitude world? A game of gods? Or maybe the projection of the high-latitude world?
None of that seems right.
Just like the "enlightenment", the extradimensional space also has an indescribable mystery.
Thinking about it, a bright light appeared in front of me.
The destination has arrived.