Chapter 485 Steam
Dunjun opened his eyes.
Outside the window, the triangular red moon had risen to the center, shining a scarlet light in.
He put on his old, worn black coat and walked out of the narrow shed.
This is a slum area, with layer upon layer of gray concrete lattice buildings piled up like a honeycomb, forming a huge fortress-like behemoth.
The place where Dunjun lives is only six square meters in size, but the environment here is actually considered pretty good.
The few friends he knew all lived in "pigeon cages", which were like iron cage-like coffins, with an average living area of just over one square meter.
More and more people came out from the walled city.
They were emaciated, as if they had been malnourished for a long time, causing their bodies to be thin and lifeless. They were like a bunch of wooden moving corpses, converging into a long gray stream.
Boom!
The ground shook slightly, as if a long worm-like beast was rushing past, emitting a hot roar.
Dun Jun knew that it was not a ferocious beast, but a pipe through which steam from an underground steam engine flowed.
The entire "Steam City" is built on an enormous steam engine.
If the core steam engine is the heart of the entire city, then the high-temperature and high-pressure steam that is continuously transported to various locations through pipelines is the blood of this city!
The furnace never goes out and the blood flows endlessly, together supporting this city of survivors.
survivor!
This name carries some special meaning. In the legends passed down by word of mouth, they are a group of remnants. In an era when history cannot be recorded, a terrible world-destroying disaster occurred, which destroyed most of the land and sky. Only a small number of survivors survived, and the remnants are the descendants of those survivors.
Dun Jun didn't know how the world-destroying disaster came about.
However, he knew that prehistoric civilization must have been very powerful and advanced.
After all, the core power furnace of the Steam City was excavated from the ruins of a prehistoric civilization.
That must be the place where our ancestors studied science and inspired wisdom.
Its name is – Victor Steam Power Museum!
Therefore, the Steam City also established a 'museum' as a place for 'naturalists' to study. It is a place that only the most knowledgeable people in the entire city can go to. Laborers like Dunjun who barely know a few words can only envy it.
Following the crowd, Dunjun came to his own factory.
His job was very simple, which was to swing a shovel and throw shovelful of coal into a huge hole.
The furnace mouth was just like a monster that never knew satisfaction. No matter how much it was filled, it would never be full.
Shovel after shovel...
Dunjun soon began to sweat and his expression became more and more silent.
He still needs to work for eight red moons before he can go down to rest.
In the sky of this world, there is always only one triangular red moon. The moon never sets and it provides scarlet light to the world.
Every day, it will stay in the middle of the sky for twelve red moons, which is also the daytime in the minds of all the people in the Steam City.
The rest of the time, it will mischievously appear randomly in the four directions of east, south, west and north. Perhaps only naturalists can figure out the pattern behind it, but since the light of the red moon in the four directions is a little weaker, it forms a theoretical night.
Dunjun wiped his face , and suddenly a black stain appeared on his face.
Bang!
Suddenly, there was a loud noise.
He paused, realizing that the steam pipe had exploded. This kind of thing was not very safe.
And if there is an unlucky person nearby, the super-high temperature steam can even melt flesh and bones!
"What are you stopping for? Get to work!"
The overseer's roaring and snarling voice was heard.
All the workers continued to transport and dig coal numbly...
Their daily work could only earn them two meals of suspicious black paste and a steam coin worth one cent. They could not get sick, because if they did, they would lose their source of livelihood and fall into a vicious cycle.
Of course, there is no way I can expect to get married or anything like that.
But it doesn’t matter, the population of the Steam City is still growing, and some of the livestock from the wilderness are asking to join and be exploited.
Because in the wild, life is more dangerous and terrifying!
Not only do all kinds of wild beasts live there, but there are also countless strange creatures. If you are not careful, you may lose your life!
And in the Steam City, there is at least the most basic "safety"!
Although Dunjun's expression was numb, there was a fire in his heart.
He knew that if he continued like this, there was no future at all. He would definitely be eliminated due to various illnesses before the age of 30, be forced out of his rental building, and die on the roadside.
"If you want to survive and get better... you must sign up for the 'Abyss Game'!"
The Steam City is divided into two urban areas, the Upper City and the Lower City.
People in the upper city are well-dressed, have plenty of food, and enjoy themselves all day long.
The people in the lower city were forced to work like animals, without any hope at all.
No, they still have a life and can participate in the Abyss Game!
Although the mortality rate of this kind of selection is extremely high, there are indeed one or two lucky people in each session who can succeed, enter the upper city area, and become the upper class.
This is also the only hope for the lower class people!
Although the population of the Lower Town was dozens of times that of the Upper Town, a riot would not have been successful.
The people of Upper City have mastered terrible weapons, and even possess strange and extraordinary powers themselves!
Rumor has it... the Abyss Game is the way to gain extraordinary abilities!
Dun Jun clenched his fists. After finishing work, he got the day's wages, walked up to the supervisor, took out a handful of coins, and said expressionlessly: "Here is one dollar... I sign up... to participate in 'Abyss'!"
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"This kid... has a lot of bad luck on him. Can he be considered a character on the stage of the times?"
Fang Xian watched all this from the perspective of a 'dreamland'.
Although his body was close to sleeping, a part of his spirit was still able to break through the abyss through the dreamland and observe the outside world .
Although the time and scope are very limited, this is already the limit of the dreamland.
At this moment, Fang Xian felt like an evil god exiled from the world.
Only through various efforts and attempts can you occasionally catch a glimpse of this world.
The previous breakthroughs were all just wilderness and uninhabited areas.
Only recently have we finally located the City of Steam.
The changes here left Fang Xian dumbfounded.
The civilization that crisscrossed the stars has completely disappeared, leaving only the surviving humans, still struggling to survive on a dark continent.
This change is really too huge and weird.
If he had not checked the coordinates carefully, he might even have thought that he had traveled to the wrong world.
