Chapter 7 Entering the City
Shenjiao City is located on the border of the Seven Towers Federation, and Sheshou Town is a small town established during the opening up war more than 20 years ago, although the surrounding land has been developed.
But the danger has never been really eliminated, and he is often attacked by spirit beasts.
With the recommendation form, Duke boarded the special car of the Law Society.
This is a special route car commonly known as "Black Beetle". It looks like a beetle the size of several houses. There is a thick smoke pipe standing on the front of the car. When it is ready to start, the smoke pipe will emit continuous black smoke.
Similar to the black smoke from factory chimneys, it is caused by burning spiritual slag.
For factories and cars, which consume a lot of spiritual energy, it is unrealistic to rely on the spiritual storage card to supply energy, and the price is seriously uneconomical. Burning cheap spiritual **** is the normal operation.
As for pollution.
Black smoke is the romance of the industrial revolution.
"Woooooooooooo!"
The black beetle car whistled, and the black smoke from the pipe quickly intensified, and then several solid tires the size of a millstone slowly turned, rolled over the gravel-paved road, and drove out of the town.
Duke was sitting by the car window, looking at the town that was getting far away, feeling a special feeling.
Sheshou Town is said to be a small town, but it is actually not much different from a small county town. Seventy to eighty thousand people live in it, and many people, including Duke, have never left here.
This time.
It was the first time he left Sheshou Town and headed towards Shenjiao City.
The speed of the Black Beetle is not fast, and the carriage is also very bumpy. There are no expressways or even asphalt roads, and all roads are gravel roads.
This kind of road is also called a route.
Because in areas far away from towns and cities, spirituality stimulates all things, even if humans wipe out them over and over again, there are still countless spirit beasts lurking, destroying roads and attacking convoys.
Every trip is like an unknown voyage.
Bang Bang Dang, Bang Dang.
The car body suddenly bumped violently, almost knocking Duke up.
Someone in the carriage shouted: "Can you drive? Don't you know how to detour if there are pits?"
Soon a flight attendant came over and explained: "I'm sorry everyone, the road ahead should have been destroyed by diggers, the whole area..."
Before the words fell, the car body bumped violently again. The flight attendant hurriedly grabbed the handrail to ensure that she did not fall. After she stabilized, she continued to explain: "The entire road has been dug and damaged, and the patrol road repair team has not had time to repair it, so please sit still and wait until you cross this bad road."
"Damn Digger!"
"When I go out hunting, I must kill a few more diggers!"
Passengers complained and cursed the 0-ring spirit beast Digger, a kind of bug that looks like a cockroach but is bigger than a cat, wandering in groups in the wild.
After bumping for a while, the black beetle car stabilized.
Not long after, Duke saw from the car window that the car had already passed another small town, and then had to pass through four small towns before arriving at the final destination.
After stopping for a while, some got off and some got on.
Soon set off again, leaving the market town, leaving the farmland, and driving into the vast wilderness.
Duke greedily looked at the scenery outside the window. Compared with the earth, this place is full of exotic customs. The strange plants make him dizzy, and occasionally he can see strange beasts.
Suddenly.
The Black Beetle stopped.
"Please stay calm, everyone, don't open the windows casually, there are a few spirit beasts blocking the road, and the big knight who followed the car has already got off the car to drive them away." The flight attendant smiled to comfort everyone, this situation is common to her.
Duke didn't stay in his seat.
But I saw two big knights in armor confronting several black spirit beasts that looked like leopards and wolves. Each black spirit beast was the size of a calf.
"It's a skinny-cheeked black panther with a ring of spirit beasts. There are only six of them, not enough for two great knights to fight." A passenger said easily.
The confrontation should not exceed three minutes.
One of the big knights suddenly moved, holding a shield with one hand and a sword in the other, and suddenly slammed forward into the thin-cheeked black panther, and then swept around with the sword in one hand, splitting a circular sword glow.
Another big knight stepped forward slowly, maintaining the threat to the thin-cheeked black panther.
A main attack, a threat.
The six thin-cheeked black panthers bared their teeth while dodging, as if they were about to move, but after all, they mainly evaded and did not attack the two big knights.
And soon, one of the thin-cheeked black panthers simply slipped away.
The remaining skinny-cheeked black panther roared a few times, and then slipped away.
A spirit beast attack came to an abrupt end. The two great knights returned to the black beetle car, talking and laughing with each other. Black smoke billowed up, and the car continued to run over the gravel road.
Duke returned to his seat, thinking about the short battle just now.
"That sword light should be the fighting spirit of the great knight." He thought of the blood boiling potion he had taken before, hoping to open the sea of blood, so as to gain the talent of knight practice.
Unfortunately, it didn't work out.
"Speaking of which, whether it is the sea of blood or the sea of qi, they have all been included in the spiritual arcane system, and they are recognized as branches of the spiritual sea, and they are also a place where spirituality gathers."
In his mind, he used his thinking to communicate with Xiaoyi: "Xiaoyi, tell me, is there any possibility for me to open the sea of blood and the sea of air?"
"Xiaoyi lacks relevant information, so it is temporarily impossible to calculate the possibility."
"All right."
Duke had no choice but to give up thinking.
He is just a fifteen-year-old orphan at the moment, who has just stepped into the threshold of practice with one foot, and knows nothing about the real practice of Sanhai.
…
Half a day later.
Shenjiao City is in sight.
The first thing that caught Duke's eyes was the billowing black smoke from the countless chimneys, but when the black smoke rose to a certain height, it seemed that there was a constant strong wind, blowing the black smoke away and blowing it out of the city.
"It should be the arcane art related to wind."
The black beetle car drove into the station, bustling with special buses for various special routes. After getting off the car, Duke walked out of the station along with the crowd, and then saw a row of tram buses passing by on the street.
He quickly took his bag and ran to the nearby bus platform.
Although it was his first visit to a big city, he had already asked old Sam about the details of basic necessities of life in the big city.
"Excuse me, how many buses to take to Faling Pagoda?" He asked a middle-aged woman. There was no route sign on this platform, only a sign that said "West Station".
"Faling Pagoda, it seems to be the Seventeenth Road." The middle-aged woman said, and asked her companion, "Is that true, the Seventeenth Road can go to the Faling Pagoda, right?"
"Yes."
"Thank you." Duke expressed his thanks.
Bus No. 17 has tickets sold, and it takes 5 copper dragons to go to Falingta Station, which is obviously not cheap, much more expensive than taking an ordinary human-powered rickshaw.
But Duke has money, so he wants to try something new.
The tram bus is very stable, but the driving process can be called exciting. Pedestrians, animal-drawn carts, and trucks almost ignore the traffic rules, rampaging and attacking every corner.
Fortunately, the speed of the car is not fast, and it will not kill anyone if it hits it.
"Messy, dirty...yet alive," Duke thought.
(end of this chapter)