Chapter 505: City of Sin
[Seventh-level weapon: Sword of the Abyss]
[It comes from the starry sky, produced by the Hastings family, using a new forging process, with expensive materials and exquisite workmanship, it can be called a work of art among weapons]
The introduction of this sword is very simple, just a few words.
From the outside, it is indeed a work of art.
The sword body is long and narrow, and the forging patterns on the surface are extremely delicate, like flowing clouds in the sky. The sharp blade is emitting a faint metallic glow. Every inch of it appears extremely perfect, which is truly amazing.
Of course, in Su Xia's mind, any weapon is a work of art. After all, killing is one of the most wonderful arts in the world.
He slowly grasped the hilt of the sword, which felt cold to the touch, like December ice.
At the end of the hilt, there is a [Black and Gold Rose] logo, which belongs to the Hastings family.
"Yes, it is a good sword."
Su Xia waved the sword lightly. The sword was just the right weight, as if it was tailor-made for him.
This thing is destined to be with him.
He put away his sword, turned around and told Hal behind him, "Hal, I'm going to use a psychic potion, and I might be unconscious for half a day to a day. Close the entrance to the wreckage and don't let anyone in, even acquaintances. Wait until I wake up before you come in."
"clear!"
Little Hal did his duty and immediately blocked off every area of the wreckage to ensure that not even an ant could crawl in.
After that, Su Xia entered a lounge deep in the wreckage.
He closed the door and took out a large amount of intermediate psychic potions.
These potions were all extracted by him from the psychic pearls. They are of high purity and excellent quality.
Looking at these medicines, Su Xia took a deep breath and slowly lay down on the soft bed in the lounge.
"call……"
He picked up a potion, pointed it at his arm, and stabbed it hard.
Soon, a feeling of dizziness came over me, and the world around me became distorted, dreamy and unreal again.
The bed below seemed to have turned into a lake, wrapping around Su Xia's body and carrying him down little by little, into a world of endless darkness.
After an unknown amount of time, Su Xia vaguely heard a voice.
"Doctor, Doctor..."
The voice gradually became clearer, as if it had broken through some barrier and reached his ears.
In addition, there are some noisy sounds around, such as low coughs, the friction of tracks, the shaking of carriages, etc., which sound a bit confusing.
Su Xia slowly opened her eyes, the darkness in front of her eyes faded away, and the picture went from blurry to clear.
He was on an old tram.
The tram was in a very dilapidated state, with rusty interiors, all kinds of messy advertisements pasted on the roof and sides, and dirty seats. It swayed as it moved, and its parts creaked as if they would fall apart at any time.
There were more than a dozen passengers on the bus.
Some people coughed, some chatted in low voices, and some looked out the window silently.
Su Xia was one of the people who was silently looking out the window.
As expected, he once again became Dr. Aigar in his hallucination.
The doctor's face was reflected in the old and yellowed tram window. He was already quite old, middle-aged, with an untidy beard, a tired face, bloodshot , obvious wrinkles at the corners of his eyes, and messy hair.
He was silent, looking old.
There is no trace of the genius doctor who once traveled the starry sky in him.
What happened?
Su Xia couldn't help but wonder what could have caused Dr. Aigar to become like this?
"Doctor, Doctor..."
Beside him, a female robot's voice came. It was Dr. Aigar's mechanical assistant.
Dr. Aigar turned his head slowly, his eyes tired and his voice hoarse: "What's wrong?"
"Doctor, we are almost at our stop," the female robot reminded gently.
"good."
Dr. Aigar turned his head and continued to look out the window with his eyes lowered, as if he had a lot of worries in his heart.
Su Xia still couldn't control herself in the hallucination and could only follow the doctor's gaze and experience everything in the hallucination.
It is raining outside the window, and cold rain is falling from the gray sky.
The world outside is dark and somewhat depressing.
"What a strange world."
Through the glass window, Su Xia saw isolated and dilapidated high-rise buildings.
The main means of transportation in this world seems to be the tram.
Countless old and rusty trams shuttle between the high-rise buildings, like long snakes made of scrap copper and iron, leaving unique mechanical traces under the gloomy sky.
The cold rain stuck to the car windows, blurring the flashing neon advertisements on the tall buildings and blending all the colors together.
I don’t know if it’s because of the rain, but the whole world feels chilly, as if covered with the cold tones of an old science fiction movie.
Boom——!
"We have arrived at Platform 6."
A cold mechanical sound suddenly came from the horn in the tram, sounding devoid of any emotion.
The car slowly slowed down and stopped in front of an old platform in the drizzling rain.
There were several passengers on the platform outside who had been waiting for a long time. They were all wearing similar old-fashioned gray-black jackets. They stood silently under the rain and lights, like lonely shadows.
Dr. Aigar was wearing similar clothes. He lifted the hood on his back to cover his messy hair, put his hands in his pockets, and slowly walked out of the tram.
Whoosh…
There's a cold wind outside and the temperature is very low.
The female robot walked silently beside him, letting the rain hit her alloy shell.
After leaving the platform, there are old high-rise buildings outside. There is no green vegetation to be seen, only various advertisements, either displayed on rusty advertising screens or projected into the gray sky. The colors are messy, giving people a very strange patchwork beauty.
There were few pedestrians on the street, all of them walking silently in the cold rain.
Su Xia noticed that many people were modified humans, and the degree of modification was not low.
After walking for about ten minutes, there were fewer tall buildings on both sides of the street.
The road began to become bumpy and dilapidated, and low houses came into view.
Ahead is a garbage-like old town.
Su Xia could only think of the word "garbage" because there was no word more appropriate than these two.
Many houses were pieced together from mechanical waste. He saw roofs welded from tank shells, and strange doors made from spaceship hatches. Various parts, modules, and shells could be seen everywhere.
Colorful electronic lights flashed continuously on many houses, and there were even flickering electron tubes, which seemed to be for decoration, adding a different sense of brokenness to this rusty area.
It's very strange in this area.
Even the street lights are weird.
The first street light Su Xia saw was composed of a switch, a solar panel, a battery module, a broken robot head and a rusty metal pole.
The robot's head seemed to have been shattered by some large-caliber bullet. A small half of it was missing. There was a large gap in the upper left side of the head, and the messy wiring inside could be seen.
But the luminous module in its brain is still functioning normally.
Therefore, residents in this area connected the wiring of the light-emitting module to the battery module and solar panel separately, and finally welded it to a metal pole, and then fixed it on the side of the street to make it a street lamp.
Flip a switch and the eyes on the robot's head will glow, illuminating the shabby road ahead.
It was the first time that Su Xia saw such a rough and simple design.
“What a strange place.”
Continuing to move forward, Su Xia saw more strange things made of mechanical garbage.
There are many strange mechanical stray cats and dogs running around on the roadside. Their bodies are rotten and some are simply welded with the outer skin of iron barrels. They make crackling sounds when running, and occasionally a few pieces of rust will fall off their bodies.
The signs on the street are very vivid. At every fork in the road, there will be a broken mechanical broken arm pointing in different directions. The rusty shell on the surface of the broken arm is lifted up, and several gray-black lines extend out, connecting to a long strip display screen, which gives the name of the street in that direction.
These mechanical broken arms are obviously high-tech prosthetic limbs, but they are used in this kind of place.
Su Xia wondered if there was a group of junkers who liked to open treasure chests living here.
"Meow……"
A rusty robotic kitten suddenly walked up to the doctor's legs, rubbed against his trouser legs , then rolled over on the ground with its limbs facing upwards, as if wanting to be petted.
But the doctor did not stop and walked straight forward.
The female robot paused, smiled, reached out to pick up the kitten, and gently stroked the rusty little head.
Most of the ear on the kitten's head had broken and fallen off, leaving a dark red rust mark on the crack, and the remaining half had been corroded by the rust to form several small holes.
After walking a distance, a strange-looking building appeared on the right side of the road.
It looks like a building, but its exterior resembles a crashed spaceship.
There was a bright light on at the entrance of the building, and there were many colorful and chaotic graffiti on its surface.
More than a dozen thick steel beams were inserted obliquely into the soil, with the other ends welded to the surface of the building, as if to support the building and prevent it from falling apart.
"Is this a restaurant?" Su Xia smelled a fragrance, the smell of tomato stewed beef, which he was very familiar with.
The doctor walked straight into this strange building, and after passing through a corridor that looked like the interior passage of a spaceship, he came to the depths of the building.
This is indeed a restaurant with more than ten tables inside.
The dining tables are fixed to the ground, similar to the design of some spaceships.
There were no diners in the restaurant at this time. The skinny owner was sitting next to the kitchen. He had a sallow skin and wore a pair of small round glasses. He squinted his eyes and was reading a newspaper in his hand.
【City of Sin|City Evening News】
At the top of the newspaper, these words were printed in dark yellow letters.
When Su Xia saw these words, she suddenly understood.
So this is it!
Exile Planet, City of Sin, a city full of interstellar criminals!
When he was chatting with Sarah, the submarine's intelligent housekeeper, at the bottom of the sea, he learned that Dr. Aigar had been exiled to a planet but had managed to escape.
"No wonder there are so many mechanical and electronic garbage. This planet is not only for exiling prisoners, but also for discarding garbage. Prisoners are only worthy of living on garbage..."
Su Xia thought of Sarah's description of this kind of planet.
Not only is it an exile planet, it is also a garbage planet.
If you want to survive here, you must have superb garbage picking skills and at least know some basic mechanical knowledge, otherwise it will be difficult to survive.
Everything here was built by interstellar criminals using garbage.
Even the skyscrapers, billboards, neon lights, trams, tracks, etc. are remade from garbage.
The entire planet is a prison made of garbage!
While Su Xia was thinking, Dr. Aigar had already walked to the opposite side of the boss and asked in a deep voice: "Is my meal ready?"
The boss looked up at him, then slowly put down the newspaper and said, "It's done, come with me."
He stood up slowly, seeming to have some difficulty with his legs, and limped towards the kitchen.
Dr. Aigar and the female robot followed him.
The two sides walked through the kitchen, one after the other, and then entered a dark metal passage.
At the end of the passage is a round alloy hatch.
“Bang!”
The boss pressed the switch, and the hatch slowly opened, revealing a mechanical staircase spiraling downward.
His eyes were calm as he held onto the handrail on one side of the stairs and slowly walked down. About ten meters down, he came to the depths of the underground and then opened a hatch.
"Come in, here's what you want."
He said, and then walked in.
Dr. Aigar followed him and walked into the cabin.
It was rather dark in the cabin, with only a few blue light strips lit around.
This cabin is very large and seems to be a storage cabin. In the center of the cabin, there is something covered with black cloth. It is about forty meters long, cylindrical, and more than ten meters in diameter. It is impossible to tell what it is just by looking at the outside.
“Bang!”
The boss pressed the remaining light switches in the cabin, and the entire cabin instantly became bright.
Then he walked to the center of the cabin, reached out and grabbed the black cloth, and pulled it hard.
With a swish, the black cloth was pulled off by him.
And the thing covered under the black cloth was also completely presented in front of Su Xia.
"That is..."
Su Xia's eyes fixed on the thing.
It turned out to be a huge engine!
The boss patted the tail of the engine and said indifferently, "The B16 overspeed engine is a product that Orlok Company has eliminated for hundreds of years. I spent a lot of money to let the employee of the garbage transporter ship wrap this thing in a pile of garbage and bring it here. The power it converts is enough for you to rush out of this planet. As for the energy needed by the engine, you have to figure it out yourself."
"Yes!" Dr. Aigar replied.
"Don't forget our deal after you leave," the boss said calmly.
"Um."
Dr. Aigar walked forward slowly, looked up at the huge monster in front of him, and finally there was a hint of fluctuation in his tired eyes.
Although it is a product that has been obsolete for hundreds of years, it is still usable and very useful.
Only it can allow the Doctor to leave this evil planet that binds him!
"From now on, I am no longer a citizen of the Empire, but just an interstellar wanderer." The doctor murmured in a low voice. Escaping from this planet means escaping from prison.
"Doctor, after we get out, as long as we collect enough evidence and explain everything clearly to the Imperial Court, we should able to restore our citizenship." The female robot said gently.
"No, you are wrong, my friend."
The doctor shook his head slightly, his eyes were bloodshot, and there seemed to be a hint of madness in the depths of his fatigue. He murmured: "The Imperial Court is just a tool to help those in power manage the lower-class citizens. It will never provide justice to people like us."
The female robot was stunned. This was inconsistent with the Imperial Court described in her information. It even touched her underlying logic, causing her to have some logical conflicts.
She hesitated and said, "Then let's..."
"We want to break this false world and seek the truth."
