Aqua regia landed with dozens of containers.

He was joined by six Awakened Ones, but they all seemed to be old fritters who had disappeared after getting off the barge.

The barges of the system caravan were docked at a very large old wharf.

By the time of day, it had only just fallen at night, but the thick black clouds seemed to have been formed for a long time, and the vision of the regia was full of fine rains and faint lights blurred by water vapor.

The docks are constantly moving.

Large-scale structural robots and vehicles are loading and unloading all kinds of containers, and in the transshipment warehouse not far away, there are still a large number of porters loading goods onto trucks.

Aqua regia felt a distinct fluctuation of extraordinary energy in them, but their working environment didn't seem to be good.

The marina is busy, but it's not chaotic.

In addition to the porters, there are many patrolmen in groups of threes and twos, not all of them are uniformed, but their eyes are unanimously indifferent and fierce.

Wang Shui's observation quickly caught their attention, but before they could get close to ask, Wang Shui left the place first.

After leaving the dock, Wang Shui updated the digital atlas to confirm his location.

The wide, old-looking street where he was located was the main road on the periphery of the Third Storage City.

The buildings on both sides of the road are basically the same appearance, they are old but neat.

There are a lot of pedestrians on this street, but most of them are in a hurry, and there are really not many entertainment shops in the area.

Wang Shui didn't wait long, and after confirming his destination, he boarded a double-decker bus, which is not fast and passengers can get on the bus as it moves.

Or rather, they can only get on the bus like this.

Because these buses don't have stops along the street, they don't stop anywhere other than the main station.

The bus has no windows, and the body is just a frame welded out of metal, which is very convenient for passengers to get on and off the bus independently.

Wang Shui did not dislike the dilapidated nature of this vehicle, and he was still observing the city.

About ten minutes later, the bus drove past a corner of the industrial area, and Wang Shui suddenly frowned.

From the moment he got off the barge, Wang Shui was trying to parse the smelly air of the city, and when he arrived at the intersection of the industrial area and the warehouse area, there were some new things in the turbid air.

Wang Shui was the only one on the second floor of the bus, and he stretched out his right hand and gently pinched it, and the somewhat moist and turbid air around him immediately converged into a small gray-black ball at his fingertips.

The air is poisonous, there is no need to guess, but the complexity of this toxicity is indeed beyond the expectations of aqua regia.

Aqua regia was able to determine that this poison was also quite lethal to transcendents.

If you don't modify your body and enhance the poison filtering function of your organs, even if you are a third-order transcendent, your body will slowly collapse.

On the street next to it, only about half of the people who were busy walking through the gray-white fog wore full-length gas masks and small cylinders.

The rest of the people, at most, wore improvised masks, and some even covered their mouths and noses with their sleeves.

It's obviously a megacity with several large spaceports, but it gives Wang Shui a feel of an industrial world.

The atlas tells Wang Shui that Dulin is the largest city on the Star of Utus, and that it has a developed economy and a pleasant environment, which is very suitable for tourism and recuperation.

However, it is limited to the inner city.

This megacity has three parts: inner, middle and outer, and the inner city is under a spherical crystal dome, and there is paradise.

And the corner of the city that Wang Shui sees now is not the worst outer city.

This is the Midtown District, which is a vein that surrounds the Crystal Dome. And the three billion people living in Midtown are the blood surging in their veins.

They are responsible for providing nutrition to the inner city and removing waste.

Wang Shui looked at the numbers on the briefing and got a rough idea of the size of the city - the inner city shrouded by the crystal dome was more than 6 million square kilometers.

This reminds Wang Shui of the super city that holds the alchemy exhibition - [Triad].

Although both are also under the shield and have the same huge footprint, they feel completely different.

Triad was built on a planet with a harsh environment, and in order to transform the planet's environment, those aristocratic investors spent a lot of money to build it.

All the districts there are planned in advance, so they are particularly neat and orderly.

The city of [Dulin] was slowly formed on a habitable planet, and the society here has become what it should be.

However, looking at the appearance of this mid-city area, Wang Shui had already roughly guessed what the outer city would look like.

Soon, Wang Shui left his fleeting thoughts behind him - he arrived.

He jumped out of the bus in front of a familiar complex.

The complex block made of steel in front of him reminded Wang Shui of the most depressed half a year of his life.

Yes, this place is very similar to the [Iron Edge City] where Wang Shui once lived, but the street structure here is much more complicated, and there are obvious traces of transformation.

Outside the street, Wang Shui saw the small shop opened by the awakened, but he didn't go in directly, he needed to change his costume a little.

What Aqua regia is currently using is the alchemy body of the [Primary Color Ruby] that has just been restored.

His body is cultivating in a special space that coincides with the clone, and with the alchemy body as an anchor point, he doesn't need to return to reality from time to time to "breathe".

Wang Shui only needs to separate some thinking computing power to control the clone, and he can practice while moving, but in this case, the computing power he uses to think will be much lower.

Moreover, there is another problem with using clone activities - the alchemy body cannot change its appearance casually.

Every physical detail of the clone is designed through alchemy, and changing the bone and muscle characteristics requires a lot of simultaneous adjustments, which is more troublesome than making a new body.

If you can't pinch your face casually, it does restrict the activities of aqua regia.

When he was repairing the body of the [Primary Color: Ruby], he had already taken the time to transform the body into [Benjamin Brown] M. Russell], he was going to use this body to become a scholar.

Now, of course, he can't look like Benjamin to mess around in the block controlled by the system.

So when Wang Shui got out of the car, he didn't get particularly close to the street, he walked around the neighborhood, found a time when no one was around, stealthily burrowed into the alley next to him, and made a little camouflage inside-

He changed his hooded cloak to the usual gray-black color scheme of the locals, and then put on a silver-gray flat metal mask.

This seemingly ordinary mask is actually quite high-tech.

The material used to make the mask is the latest anti-demon alloy blended by aqua regia.

The process of shaping the mask also integrates several master-level alchemy arrays.

This allows Wang Shui to avoid most of the detection when wearing this mask.

Wearing a mask, a hood, and a little more rickety, the small adjustment made Wang Shui's whole temperament change immediately.

He has gone from being a simple person to being unapproachable, to becoming a little more ruffian.

Wang Shui stealth out of the alley, went around the main street, and then entered the system block from the front.

Then, everything in front of Wang Shui's eyes suddenly became familiar-

Alchemy workshops, combat consumables, second-hand equipment, maintenance, ability scrolls, and various small shops with the "Personal Supply" brand make Wang Shui feel very friendly.

In addition to these common shops, the streets are filled with various battle clubs.

In these clubs, there are all kinds of extremely realistic combat scenes for the awakened to exercise their extraordinary abilities, and of course, there are quite a lot of entertainment facilities in them.

It's the price, it's a little expensive.

Wang Shui had also been to a combat club before, and when he didn't know how to acquire skills, he once found a shooting club to practice guns.

If you just work out on your own, the cost is not too high, and what is really expensive is one-on-one private instruction and a variety of convenient entertainment services.

I have to admit that the realistic battlefield of the battle club is indeed much cooler than the [full perception virtual game].

In addition, there are some clubs that support the certification of [Battle Master] qualifications, and they have regular master exhibition matches, so they are full every day.

This kind of club is not only liked by the awakened, but also by the transcendents outside the system.

Wang Shui strolled through the drizzle of the streets, the faint energy force field helped him keep his body clean and dry, he didn't rush to a certain store, but walked the whole street first.

What surprised Wang Shui was that there didn't seem to be any gangs or big hunting groups here, not only on the streets, but even in some quite lively clubs, there were no special people to keep an eye on the field.

It's strange that the people here seem to be very well-behaved?

Moreover, it is clear that everyone here is having a leisurely time, but the vast majority of people are shrouded in numbness and solemnity that is difficult to ignore.

After walking around, Wang Shui, who recorded the information of the nearby space, walked into a comprehensive club called [ST1001 Dream].

This shop, which has the same name as the block, is the mission center set up here, and the awakened are used to calling it "Old Shop" directly.

In most of the system control areas, the first store is the task center of the system.

But much of the business seems to have been outsourced.

Wang Shui was not familiar with this kind of [old shop], because if there were too many awakened people, this kind of old shop would be upgraded to a quest square, which was the case with the [Iron Blade City] where he lived before.

The front of the old store is not big, and when Wang Shui first came in, he even felt a little crowded, but the inside of the old store gave people a deep feeling.

If you go inside, you will see a variety of expanded service areas.

Wang Shui stopped in the first area, which is the system task area, which is divided into two fields.

As far as the eye can see, there are scattered sofas in the front court, this is a social place, a place for the awakened to form a team.

A little further afield, there are semi-open private rooms, which are suitable for groups of 7 to 21 people to temporarily rest and have meetings.

On the left side of the front court, there is a large space separated by a bar serving drinks and food, and the back court is the front court.

There is a special passage in the backyard that leads to the backstreet, and there is the mission settlement area.

It's very convenient to submit some large quest items or to receive rewards.

In fact, most of the tasks can be picked up and submitted through the Internet, but even if it is a lone wolf, it will come to the old store from time to time to visit and sweep the market on the spot.

There are not only time-limited high-reward missions here, but also a lot of time-sensitive information, even if it is just to avoid competition with some big hunting groups, it is worth a trip.

Wang Shui stayed in the front rest area for about ten minutes, he was not only inspecting the task section, but also observing the awakened here.

Generally speaking, the Awoken will only be active on the planet they first came to, and only those above the fifth order will move across star systems.

So, there are some numb awakened people here, all of whom came to the front line in the first place.

The system does not set up a special novice area, it only provides an awakening world, and the aqua regia is barely awakened and directly descends on the war planet.

In the stalemate of the [Gaofu Star], the intensity of the war has been reduced a lot, but many newcomers are still unable to directly participate in the war.

At the level of a newcomer, the risk of doing logistics is not small.

Therefore, they can only go to the fantasy world to develop slowly, or withstand the dangerous environment and force those tasks with low returns.

Gradually, recent newcomers are more inclined to take on [Reality Front] missions on nearby planets, which are just as dangerous but have much higher rewards.

And this seemingly peaceful planet [Utus] is not close to the planet [Gough] to which Shui Wang belongs.

This is systematically defined as the area where the punitive mission is performed, indicating that the [Frontline] here is far more dangerous than other fronts.

According to the update of the quest punishment, Wang Shui will have to complete twenty backlogs here before he can return to [Gaofu].

But when Wang Shui browsed the task list, he found that almost all the tasks were unacceptable.

Because isn't it a backlog?

Wang Shui arranged the task list in reverse order of release time, and sure enough, those tasks from a long time ago could be taken.

These backlogs all share some common features – most of them have no time limit, average rewards, and a danger scale of "3" or even "4".

This is already the limit of the difficulty of regular tasks.

"Hazard Scale: 3" means that a complete third-order seven-person squad is required to complete it relatively smoothly.

There was a feeling that I didn't know where to start, so Wang Shui directly started to check the strategy on the Internet!

Sure enough, punishment missions are not uncommon, and there are naturally many such strategies.

It's just that a large number of strategies are mixed with a lot of interference information, and an old brother suggested buying a local and asking him to post a bunch of turnip pit tasks (such as finding a specific thing), and then waiting for the tasks to enter a backlog state, and then he can complete them all in one go and brush off the punishment.

In the following posts, many of them are scolding, and they use the method of the old brother, and as a result, the number of punishment tasks has doubled without exception.

Among them, according to the more reliable post suggestions, Wang Shui only needs to refresh the task list in the early hours of the morning every day to pick up those tasks that have just entered the backlog.

Many of these tasks are backlogged because the pay is too low, and it is easy to have low-difficulty tasks.

Generally speaking, the easier tasks are slowly disposed of by the punished Awoken, and only the really tricky stuff will continue to accumulate until the quest publisher updates the rewards.

Then, Wang Shui carefully sorted out the tasks that had only recently entered the backlog, and there were indeed some good choices.

In the backlog of tasks in the last six months, most of the danger scales are "3", and the only scale "4" is to ask the Awakened to eliminate a "small" gang in the outer city.

That gang seems to have some special beliefs, they have more than 100 second-order thugs and above, and the strongest guy has a fifth-order, Wang Shui really can't understand why this kind of task is only set as a "4".

The most terrifying thing is that the reward for this mission is only three third-order mass-produced mobile armor and 3 million cash, which is really a bit wishful thinking.

The small hunting group couldn't do it, and the big hunting group was too lazy to do it, which led to a backlog of a few tasks.

In these newly completed tasks, Aqua Wang also discovers the existence of several dangerous scales "2", as well as a unique scale "1".

The task of "1" on the scale is an open task for a general research institute to recruit "guinea pigs".

They need transcendent individuals who are physically and spiritually under thirty years old and have not undergone genetic modification to test some new drugs.

The institute promised that the life of the subject would not be in danger, and that all the side effects of the drug would be compensated, and the reward for the entire mission was very high.

But for the Awakened, they rarely have individuals who keep their genes clean, and even if they want to make this money, they don't have the conditions.

This task is indeed not difficult for Wang Shui, but he will not consider it at all, he is not so downcast that he lacks this kind of money.

And those tasks with a scale of "2" are basically [Point Kill Missions], that is, tasks that kill someone by name.

The reason why they are overstocked is, of course, that the risk and reward are not proportional.

Wang Shui swept back and forth a few times, and first took on an unlimited task, and the message in the corner reminded him that he had three more chances to give up the task.

Wang Shui's idea is very simple, he first grabs a task that seems relatively simple, and when the system determines that he is passive and slacking, if there is no simpler task, he will do the task at hand.

After stepping on the system's turf for a while, Wang Shui quietly left here.

He first concealed his whereabouts, and then directly boarded the automatic rail vehicle (above-ground light rail) to the inner city.

Although his actions seemed to be a bit of a battle of wits with the air, Wang Shui just wanted to make this kind of caution his habit.

After all, the [Russell Family] is his future, and the identity of the System Awakened is his present, and if he wants to enjoy the resources on both sides, he must maintain this kind of caution.

Now the system is not only a platform to provide Wang Shui with a fantasy world, but also an important business channel for him.

Just yesterday, their [Night Rain Technology] mobile armor products attracted a lot of attention at the exhibition within the Awakened, and they won a large number of orders.

This kind of market resource is unimaginable for ordinary small arms companies.

In a normal society, if it were not for the procurement of regular troops, private arms companies would not be able to deal in high-end weapons of war.

If they smuggle to some private armed forces, they will inevitably be sanctioned by the main regime.

And Wang Shui's [Night Rain Technology] company doesn't have to worry about this problem at all, the system encourages the awakened to produce independently.

Due to the war mercenary nature of the system, many civilizations have imposed various trade restrictions on the system, which leads to the system having to rely on internal production capacity to produce some high-level equipment.

Overall, it's easy for the system to supply the top group of awakened people.

For the awakened at the bottom, other things are fine, and it's more troublesome to deal with mobile armor. Many established arms companies can't do it either.

The Awoken will either choose the Smuggler Assembler or suffer from the monopoly price of the Mobile Armor Company.

The [Night Rain Technology] company, located inside the system control area, is an emerging enterprise with mobile armor production capacity in this environment, and they can directly produce on the war planet, low-cost and license-free, bringing huge profits!

However, to the outside world, the [Night Rain Technology] company named by Wang Shui is just an empty shell for consignment, a real merchant and producer, and an anonymous workshop.

Wang Shui once seriously consulted the awakened predecessors who were professional in making imitation products, and they relied on the guise of this consignment model to avoid the attention of the system, as long as the system did not pay attention, there was no need to consider any copyright issues.

For the business territory he is rolling out, Wang Shui has invested too much money and time, and now he is also seeing signs of making a lot of money.

So in this case, he can't be too careful.

Outside the car window, there were still black clouds overpowering the city, and the dim and blurred lights did not provide effective illumination.

But Wang Shui can still see the outline of Midtown.

As the vehicle continued to get closer, the edge of the crystal dome shining through the clouds shimmering, reflecting the half-sunken beast in the mud of Midtown.

(End of chapter)