Chapter 20: The Smoke
Zhou Shun still clicked on the positioning shared by the light-green-haired sister Mia.
Previously, he also tried panoramic navigation and found that there was no such place, "It seems that some special institutions or organizations will not be open to the public." β
The coordinate positioning shows that deep in the west block of the middle city, there is a speakeasy called 'Smoke Blaze'.
Zhou Shun climbed over the iron fence and walked into the city, at this time the sky had already crossed the dusk, and night began to fall.
Everywhere you look, there are many dilapidated high-rise buildings, but there are few lights, and occasionally one or two rooms flicker with frightening lights from time to time.
The desolate streets are full of all kinds of destroyed old robots, and old smart metal trash cans are flying across the streets, making a sizzling sound of electricity and a mechanical call, "T006 is malfunctioning, T006 is malfunctioning, smart call is not answered, smart call is not answered!"
Countless scrapped four-wheeled cars roamed the streets, congesting the streets and leaving no one to manage.
His 2R Mixer recognises that the four-wheeled cars seem to have existed in the 19th century, reached their greatest use in the 21st century, and are now in the 22nd century with advanced suspension technology, and those four-wheelers have long been a legend of history.
The West Block is not a commercial area, let alone a residential area.
He searched casually, and the headlines that appeared in the air were all old rumors about the West Quarter.
The area appears to have existed since the end of the last century, but was abandoned for unknown reasons. Until now, the area has not been redeveloped, but has chosen to enclose a high iron fence.
Follow the navigation and head your way to your destination in the depths.
I was surprised to find that the entire abandoned urban area of West Street, in addition to being full of dilapidated metal, has no excess garbage, like a huge metal abandoned mine.
As he walked along, he spotted from time to time some people with clothes and hats of unknown color leaning out of the dim and crooked shadows of the lamp, only glancing at the young man in front of him, and his figure disappeared.
Some of them are mixed with the aura of demons, and some of them are just ordinary people.
For Zhou Shun, he has long been accustomed to immersing himself in the Fantasy Sword Domain for a long time, what scene has he never seen?
Following the flickering streets, we finally went to the depths, and entered through a completely dim path on the side, and not far away hung a dappled light sign - "Smoke Blaze"
There was a man standing in the dim doorway, and the aura of the demon emanating from his body was not strong. In the night, I couldn't see his face clearly, but I could vaguely see him holding a cigarette, and the end of the cigarette emitted a flashing orange light.
Biomonitoring by the 2R Mixer also shows, "Unknown man, approximately twenty-one or twelve years old. β
"It seems to be here," Zhou Shun walked over, and the man naturally noticed that someone was coming, and turned his head to look.
A moment later, the man's choking warning voice was heard, "Hey, boy, stop! β
"Mechanic Demon, join the meeting!" Zhou Shun said loudly, his footsteps did not stop, but continued to walk forward.
After half a ring, suddenly.
"Whewββ"
An unfinished cigarette butt shot like a needle bullet from the man towards Zhou Shun's head.
For such a mysterious urban area, even if he was used to it, Zhou Shun was still a little guarded, and immediately noticed it, and dodged the attack of the cigarette butt like a needle bullet with one side head.
Then in the darkness, a fierce fist wind containing a special aura enveloped the surrounding Qi and attacked Zhou Shun.
"Hoo ββ"
The fist wind is about to blow, filled with the breath of the machine demon, which is a fist covered by the machine demon. Zhou Shun didn't dodge, he stretched out his palm first, and in a flash, he grabbed the man's fist arm in the dark, pulled it to the side, and then he hit the man's abdomen with an unstrengthened knee.
"Boom!"
The hard slam on the iron block was the man's abdomen that had been strengthened by the machine and demon in an instant.
"Hiss ββ"
Even so, after such a violent impact, the man stepped on the ground and slid backwards for dozens of meters before he stopped.
"Yao!" Zhou Shun called softly, and before he could react, he rushed forward, swung out a strengthened red metal fist, and blasted towards his strengthened abdomen again.
"Boom!!"
The man was caught off guard and bombarded more violently, and he turned upside down and flew out.
Finally, before landing on the ground, he pressed his hands on the ground, flipped over in mid-air, stepped on the ground and slid backwards, barely stopping his body.
Seeing this, Zhou Shun planned to attack again and set off.
"Stop, stop, stop, stop, enough, go in!" suddenly heard the man's shout in the distance.
Hearing this, Zhou Shun immediately stopped his figure and did not respond, but just caught a glimpse of the half-cigarette butt that fell on the wall not far behind him, and it still emitted a flashing orange light.
He rolled up a gust of wind with his left hand, blowing away the smoke and dust from the street behind him, rolling up the cigarette butts not far away, and instantly scraping the dust off the cigarette tail.
The left hand waved casually at the man in the night opposite.
"Whooshββ
The wind behind him carried the cigarette butt, and it was bounced back like a needle bullet along the wind.
The man was slowing down, and he didn't see what was suddenly happening, but his reaction speed was still quite fast, he strengthened his two fingers, threw it out suddenly, and easily clamped the flying needle bullet with a clip of his hand.
Zhou Shun looked at it, and after a few breaths, he seemed to notice that the other party was looking at the thing between his fingers, his expression seemed to change slightly, and after half a sound, he still put the half of the cigarette back into his mouth, and a trace of smoke slowly rose in the dark, and a large piece of cigarette ash slowly broke off.
"Goalkeeper," and then Zhou Shun also paused, no longer caring about the man, and pushed open the handrail iron door next to him, turned around and walked in.
......
There is no light in the ladder, go down the winding stairs, turn the corner of the ladder, there is an underground door in front of you, a transparent glass baffle on the door, inside is like a KTV, from time to time to shine mottled lights.
I walked straight down, pushed open the door and entered.
Zhou Shun stood at the door of the chimney bar, and there were lights of the kind that had just passed through the baffle, and there was DJ music in the whole scene around him.
All of a sudden, did you come to the wrong place?
"Evebody!, bouncing, bouncingββ, there is wood and getting high!" came from the panoramic sound of no dead end, which was deafening.
"Ho!!" came from the left with an excited shout.
Suddenly, there was a bar-style drinking room, with a bar in front and a door behind the bar, and a woman with short yellow hair standing in a bar, wearing a maroon formal professional uniform that she had never seen before, with a good appearance.
There were also several tall muscular men sitting in front of the stage, their eyes seemed to be looking somewhere to the left, holding a classical cup in their hands, drinking ice, gurgling, and shouting excitedly: "Ah~, it's still a cold drink here, devil ice! and spicy!"
To the right of the door is a large AR information exhibit, just like the quest bar in the game, but you have to look through the 2R Mixer to see the information, otherwise it's just an empty wall and a special metal plate underneath.
"Ho, kill him for me!!!!"
In the hall not far to the left, there were many fierce voices from people, as if they were gambling or something.
The woman at the counter noticed that someone had come in at the door, an extremely young and unfamiliar face, so she greeted him with a smile, "What kind of ice do you want?"
At the same time, there were other big strong men in front of the stage, and they were stunned, "Cut! It's the kind of weak ghost who wants to run over and be a demon hunter to die." β
After finishing his 'cut', he continued to look towards the noisy hall, and continued to drink the cold cry in his hand.
Zhou Shun didn't know this group of people either, and the ghost didn't care what they looked at, but he was sure of one thing, "This should be the Demon Hunter Guild." β
"Not for the time being!" After Zhou Shun was polite, he found a place on the edge of the stage and sat down, and also looked in the direction of the hall on the left. That thin wallet now has no food, and God knows how much it costs here?
The hall was so wide that it was at least half a football field, which was unimaginable!
In the hall was a large ring, on which there were two broad-faced, gigantic contestants whose bodies were dyed bright ink, and they collided violently, making a deafening metallic sound, which was obviously a body skin strengthened by mechanical demons.
In the fierce shouting of a group of people around the audience, some key words such as "gambling", "magic crystal", and "demon hunting points" floated into Zhou Shun's ears.
After he swept his ears and eyes, he found that there were several very powerful mechanical and demonic auras here, no less than those tutors in the school.
After watching the battle from a distance for a while, Zhou Shun also had a general understanding, so he began to think about continuing to get down to business, turned his head to look at the short-haired yellow woman, and asked, "How do I register a demon hunter?"
Hearing this, the yellow-haired counter woman was slightly surprised, and after a while, she still said politely, "I thought you were already a witcher." If you want to become a witcher, you must pay a magic crystal to register. β
"How do you get magic crystals?"
Zhou Shun was also stupid, and immediately asked a very common sense question, which attracted surprise, disdain and ridicule from the two strong men around him, "Boy, no, there is still that mechanical demon master who doesn't know about magic crystals these years?" I advise you to get out as soon as possible, otherwise you won't know how to die by then." β
"Thank you for the advice!" Zhou Shun replied slowly and briefly.
"Boy, don't listen to the advice, the hair hasn't grown, and you will really die an ugly death," the strong man laughed again with disdain and warning.
"However, you can register for the 'Rookie Demon Hunter' first, so that you can take on the basic quest, but at the moment almost no one wants to do this, because there are no points and there is no need to pay magic crystals. The yellow-haired woman thought about it and gave advice.
"That's okay, let's register first!" Zhou Shun didn't care too much, waited for the money online, and begged for direct transfer.
"Come with me. β
As soon as the words fell, just as the yellow-haired woman was about to take Zhou Shun to the registration room, a very immature female voice sounded from Zhou Shun's right side, below the right side of the bar counter: "Sister, sister, give me another drink!"
Hearing the sound, Suo Ji walked away, only to see a young hand holding a classical glass on the bar, and the glass wafted out a strong whiskey smell.
Looking down, a little girl about two or three meters tall sat on a low mechanical stool, which slowly rose.
The girl had red hair, a young face, and shining eyes, which was very cute, and appeared in front of Zhou Shun.