Chapter 25: The City of Olympia
The stargate was in the middle of the fortress hall, and the walls around the hall also opened up one room after another, with a total of more than fifty floors, like several buildings connected together.
Ji Xinghuo climbed to one of the floors and walked into a bank.
"Hello."
The staff behind the counter greeted politely, "What kind of service does Mr. need?" ”
"I'm going to get cash."
After Ji Xinghuo finished speaking, he entered his bank account number on the machine at the counter, and successfully logged in to the account by brushing his face and fingerprints.
Electronic devices cannot be used in the astral plane, so there is naturally no online payment.
But there is also a strong demand for trading.
Therefore, paper money that has been obsolete on Earth for many years has been used again, and people will take out a sum of cash and carry it with them before entering the astral plane.
"Mr. Ji, how much do you want to take?" The staff glanced at Ji Xinghuo's account information.
Ji Xinghuo replied: "One million." ”
"Wait a minute."
The bank clerk was not too surprised, most of the strangers who traveled back and forth between the Earth and the astral plane were very rich, and the transactions were hundreds of thousands, millions, and tens of millions of them occasionally happened, and a million cash was not strange, and it was encountered almost every day.
Ji Xinghuo waited patiently.
At this time, the mobile phone had received the bank information, and one million cash had been withdrawn.
He looked at the balance and had an indescribable feeling.
On that day, he received 10 million Asian dollars from Xia Qingyu, the championship bonus of the Leaf Shooting Cup was more than 180,000, and there was also a reward for killing Ji Zongbang, plus his original deposit, the total deposit reached more than 10.5 million.
Proper multi-millionaire!
If it is an ordinary person, it is enough to live happily for a lifetime.
But after buying the life spirit seed, he transferred another 700,000 to Lu Yunhai, and now he has withdrawn 1 million, and the deposit has dropped to six figures in the blink of an eye.
"I've only been a multimillionaire for ......three days," Ji Xinghuo sighed in his heart.
Soon, the bank clerk pushed out a large stack of cash from behind the counter, "Mr. Ji, your cash is ready, please count it." ”
Ji Xinghuo quickly counted them.
According to his own requirements, 800,000 of the millions of cash are worth 10,000 Asian dollars, 100,000 Asian dollars are worth 1,000 Asian dollars, 80,000 are worth 100 Asian dollars, and the remaining 20,000 are 50 Asian dollars and 10 Asian dollars.
The bank gave me a backpack very intimately, just to put all the money in.
Ji Xinghuo carried his backpack and returned to the Star Gate Hall.
He walked up to an "entry tunnel", took the number and lined up, and moved behind the line.
It was now more than two o'clock in the morning, not the peak of the traffic at the Star Gate, the team was moving very fast, and after five minutes, it was close to the Star Gate, and there were less than ten people left in front of it.
When it was almost time for Ji Xinghuo, he took out his mobile phone and entered the mailbox, and set the emails and videos that had been edited before to be sent on a regular basis.
A few hours later, when the siblings wake up, they receive an email knowing that they have entered the astral plane.
"It's your turn."
The people in front disappeared one by one, and it was finally Ji Xinghuo's turn.
The Astral Army soldier in charge of guarding this passage glanced at Ji Xinghuo, and saw that he was dressed in casual clothes, except for the bow bag and backpack on his back, it didn't look like he was going to fight at all, and at a glance, he knew that he was a rookie who had entered the Astral Boundary for the first time, and he was alone.
The soldier frowned and shook his head secretly.
However, he didn't say anything to stop him, checked Ji Xinghuo's identity again, and waved his hand to let him go.
Ji Xinghuo stepped onto the circular platform step by step, the star gate was already close at hand, and every time he took a step closer to it, the world around him became more distorted.
When he was only one step away from the stargate, he looked at the space he was in and distorted to the extreme.
I can't hear voices, I can't see others.
The whole world was silent, as if he was alone, and there was only darkness in front of him.
Ji Xinghuo could only continue to walk forward, groping ahead, as if he had touched something in his hand, at this moment his feet were weightless, the sky was spinning, and his limbs subconsciously wanted to scratch around, but before he could act, he felt the earth again.
The eyes lit up.
Sight, hearing, smell, all perception is back.
Ji Xinghuo found himself standing in an open-air square, the ground paved with flat rocks, and the pitch-black star gate behind him.
However, the stargate here is larger, with a much larger diameter than the Chaka stargate, which is more than fifty meters in sight.
The astral boundary at this time is daytime.
Ji Xinghuo looked up, and the sky was cloudless.
A golden sun hung in the western sky, it was two or three times larger than the sun on the earth, but the light was not blazing, and the sunspot patches on the surface of the sun were visible to the naked eye, which was extremely oppressive, and it was emitting warm sunlight to the astral plane every moment.
The square is surrounded by a huge city, but unlike modern cities on earth, the buildings in the city are not very high, and few have more than ten floors.
The largest building in the city is the city walls, which are more than 100 meters high and have no end in sight.
"Olympia City!"
"I'm finally in Olympia."
From the opening of the stargate in 2033, after 18 years of arduous and bloody battles, the human beings on Earth have repelled the alien invasion at a heavy price, counterattacked the astral boundary, and finally regained control of the stargate.
In 2051, the nations of the Earth at that time worked together to build the city around the Star Gate.
After voting, the city was named "Olympia"!
This was the place where the Olympic Games were held for the first time in human history, when the Astral Defense Council, which was still dominant, quoted "Faster, Higher, Stronger – More United!" slogan.
In particular, the phrase "more united" was very much in line with the common vision of all mankind at that time.
That's why Olympia is also known as the "City of Unity".
Although the name may seem ironic more than a century later, Olympia is still used by countries to refer to the city.
In the sky, more than a dozen huge peaks hang hundreds of meters in the air.
"Hanging Mountain!"
Ji Xinghuo saw the Hanging Mountain for the first time.
Each peak has three or four thick chains anchored to the ground, huge in size, but swaying back and forth with the wind as if it had no weight.
"Huhuhu......"
Ji Xinghuo's breathing was suddenly a little rapid, and a strange feeling rushed straight to his brain with his breathing, but he got used to it after a few seconds.
"Is this all the air of all souls?" He felt very novel.
The composition of the "air" of the astral plane is different from that of the earth's air, and so far, scientists have not studied its composition.
What's even more amazing is that this air can not only be breathed by humans, but also by all races that rely on breathing, whether it is the Astral Aborigines or the Galactic aliens, can sustain life.
That's why it's called "all soul air".
"Go ahead, don't block others." The Astral Army soldier next to him urged.
Ji Xinghuo hurriedly stepped forward and followed the crowd to the outside of the square.
Although there are thirteen stargates on Earth, each one leads to the same place, which is the city's Stargate Square. Entering the astral plane from different star gates, when you arrive, you will appear in a relatively fixed area.
Each of these thirteen regions is fan-shaped and surrounds a stargate, and each sector corresponds to a stargate on Earth.
There are three stargates owned by APAC, and the teleportation area is exactly one together.
Combined, it occupies nearly a quarter of the square, and a striking red line is drawn on the ground of the square, and the citizens of the Asia-Pacific Community walk in this area.
Most of the urban areas in the extension of this area belong to the Asia-Pacific Community sphere of influence.
Ji Xinghuo walked to the edge of Xingmen Square and suddenly stopped.
He covered his right eye.
A tingling pain came out of his brain, and the aperture in the pupil of his right eye flickered at high frequency, but fortunately, during the day, he covered his eyes in time to avoid being noticed.
The interface of the Vientiane Star Pupil automatically popped up, and the stinging pain quickly subsided.
Three arrows appear on the periphery of the interface.
"What is this?"
Ji Xinghuo was shocked, and took a closer look, the three arrows pointed in different directions, and the size was not the same.
One of the arrows is the largest, more than ten times larger than the other two, which is very eye-catching.
He turned his body towards the largest arrow, keeping it directly in front of him.
Suddenly, Ji Xinghuo heard a call from afar.
He vaguely sensed an unknown thing, which was closely connected to him, and as long as he followed this direction, he would definitely find it.
"Another part of the Vientiane Star Pupil?"
"No, it won't!"
Ji Xinghuo was surprised and delighted.
He didn't forget that the Vientiane Star Pupil was broken, and he thought it would be impossible to encounter it again, but he didn't expect that there would be a clue as soon as he entered the Star Boundary.
Three arrows, representing three broken parts?
He turned around again, and found that the other two arrows seemed to point so far away that he couldn't sense anything even in the right direction.
"Are you looking for it?"
Ji Xinghuo looked at the biggest arrow and hesitated in his heart.
The people who passed by saw him standing motionless at the edge of the square, and they all cast inquiring glances, many of them extremely powerful Inhumans.
"Let's find a place to stay."
Ji Xinghuo habitually took out his mobile phone, wanted to glance at the time, and found that the mobile phone had been turned off.
The power shoes worn on the feet also lose momentum, and are no different from regular shoes.
In the astral plane, all electronic devices fail.
He couldn't help but shake his head.
If you just look at what you see in front of you, it feels like you are on the earth, the air, the earth, the trees, the city, everything is so normal, you can't imagine that this is another world.
The astral plane is macroscopically similar to the planets in the Milky Way, and it is difficult to perceive the difference when you are in it.
But its essential rules are completely different from the real universe!
Ji Xinghuo walked away from Xingmen Square quickly, it felt very dangerous for him.
In the magnetic field, the endless buildings outside the square were all military camps, and the Astral Force of the Asia-Pacific Community was stationed here.
In the depths of the barracks, there are several very powerful Inhumans.
"Those humanoid magnetic fields should be legendary aliens!" Ji Xinghuo didn't dare to stay for a long time, walked a few blocks in Olympia City, and chose a hotel to stay in.
After closing the door, Ji Xinghuo looked at the simple room without any electrical appliances, and then breathed a sigh of relief.