Chapter Twenty-Four: The Seaside City (Thanks to the Silver League for playing back the holiday guys!) )
"I want, some candy?"
"A new quilt would be nice!"
"Really? Professor...... That, then I want a new dress! ”
"Dean, can you really choose?"
At the first ship, at the port boarding bridge, Su Sun, who was surrounded by a large group of children, squatted down, listened carefully to what gifts they wanted, and kept all these gifts in his heart.
The man who asked the children what they needed was expecting to hear some exaggerated requests, such as the knight's sword, which many local children loved.
But Su Sun didn't expect that the children in the orphanage would even have such practical wishes, they didn't dare to have any gifts beyond their common sense, and even asked for a little candy and clothes, which didn't seem to be 'necessities', they would feel panicked and uneasy.
"Clothes, candy, a little extra potion, and flowers to grow."
Standing up, Su Sun repeated the children's wishes, and he nodded: "Because the flowers raised in the orphanage didn't have time to be brought out?" It was my mistake, little Moxie, and this time I'm sure I'll bring you a pot of the same flowers as before. ”
Of course, in addition to these gifts, which were still in the normal range, Su Sun also got some special requirements.
Isabella, the girl who had a fever and was cured by Su Sun, made a wish to him a little timidly: she wanted Su Sun to lift him up and turn him around, which was the favorite game her former father played with her.
She had never dared to ask for this before, after all, the dean was indeed very slow, and although the girl wanted to, she was really embarrassed.
As for now, as the dean, Su Yan is duty-bound.
After lifting the light little girl up and turning around on the deck of the Chuyao ship amid the laughter of the other party, Su Sun took Gasha and Loya out of the boarding bridge of the seaside capital.
Gasha carried a metal box on his back, which looked rather heavy, which was an unbearable burden for an ordinary teenager, but for a black-haired boy with dragon blood, it was at most a warm-up during exercise, and he took the initiative to ask Su Sun for this task.
As for Luo Ya, with the list of goods to be purchased by Su Yan when he entered the Seaside Capital this time, he waved goodbye to his companions behind him and made a few grimaces.
Just like the airplanes of the previous life, the mobile city and many mobile ships of different specifications cannot dock perfectly, and the port staff use the boarding bridge like the 'boarding bridge' to connect, and the entire mobile city port presents an inverted semicircle, from which steel passages protrude directly to the deck of the battleship.
Surprisingly, the boarding bridge runs automatically, like an elevator, and as soon as you step on it, you don't need to walk, and the turning stairs will drive people forward.
"It's a privilege of VIP access."
Sighing softly, Su Yan couldn't help but nodded: "It seems that the industrial level of the Aion Continent is quite good, when I was bent on killing that nobleman in Evander City, I didn't seriously observe the technological level of this world. ”
"If you think about it, you can't be too far behind in technology to create a behemoth like a mobile city."
The Seaside Capital is a mega-mobile city, and its landing port is essentially a hollow hill made of metal, which is impossible to complete without the help of powerful transcendents, and it is.
The creator of the seaside city is a couple of Tianlong nobles and winged nobles, because of the love affair that is not allowed by the family, the two young people took their respective family backgrounds to explore the world of Aion, and finally chose the southeast Sanzhi area as a place to open up the foundation, and carried out construction for more than 100 years.
In the process, they repelled the Origin Energy Beast Cluster, and faced the pursuers who had seen the family come to clear the portal; They defeated all the enemies who peeked into their wealth, and confronted the natural scourge head-on, becoming the powerhouses of the disaster in the moment of crisis, and finally established the greatest mobile city in the south of the continent in the middle of the desolation.
Their descendants adhere to the codes of 'equality and shared prosperity' and 'trust and tolerance', and rule the seaside city to this day.
This mobile city has a total of three layers of walls, 16 outer cities, eight inner cities and two core cities, divided into land structure and sea structure, the overall area is three times the size of Avander, nearly 10 million people live directly in it, and a large number of people who cannot be counted live in the outer city temporarily.
Including the other mobile cities of vassals, it is likely to have more than 30 million people attached to it, which is comparable in scale to the imperial capital of the Asmodean Empire.
Where Su Sun is now is the eleventh district of the land structure.
Leaving the automatic boarding bridge is equivalent to leaving the confines of the port, and there is a lot of people, and a large number of port workers are working hard, controlling machinery, and even carrying various materials by hand, presenting a busy scene.
There are even a lot of construction trucks and forklifts driven by energy here, which emit a slight seismic sound.
In order to facilitate visiting merchants and tourists, in this busy port, there is a passage leading directly to the city, Su Ri glanced at the overall structure of the port, and then walked directly towards the city with his two children.
Dawn needs to sit on the battleship, so naturally it is impossible to leave easily, and Suiguang, as the only force other than Su Sun and Dawn, naturally cannot let the battleship be unmanned, so he stayed with Seneca and Aunt Daria to see the child by the way.
As for Gasha and Loya, their spiritual paths are very smooth, and their talents are indeed excellent, but they are limited by their past experiences and family backgrounds, and it is difficult to understand some broader concepts and things.
Like Gasha, he didn't even understand how big the 'world' really was, and he didn't have the slightest idea of distance or territory.
This is also a common symptom of most children who only live in mobile cities.
That's not going to work.
Whether it's saving the world, or destroying it; Whether it's a future demon king or a savior, at least have some understanding of the ground under your feet.
Su Sun planned to take them out to see the market and see the vastness of the world.
At the end of the passage leading to the city were several city guards, dressed in full-body armor and even special gas breathing masks, with heavy metal purifiers behind them that could almost be used as shields.
After checking the voucher given to Su Sun by the previous winged receptionist, the two of them saluted solemnly, retreated to their original places, and continued to check the follow-up pedestrians.
There was no extortion, no hint of bribery, and in Svetley's professor's memory, it was almost impossible to happen—too many people wanted to be city guards because it was too easy for the profession to make a small bargain.
Su Sun noticed that one of the two guards was a demonizer.
It's just that the mask and armor hide his features, so no one knows.
The seaside capital is indeed a crowded metropolis.
The outer city alone is already bustling with people, with people from all over the world moving through the streets between high-rise buildings, and all sorts of strangely shaped vehicles driving in the middle of the avenue.
According to the previous Tsubashi receptionist, the large trading house of the seaside capital is located at the junction of the inner and outer cities, while the seaside auction house where the year-end auction is held is located in the second core city near the sea.
What Su Yan has to do now is to use the perfect metal he made to mortgage it at the auction house in exchange for some cash to buy some more urgent materials.
Because it was early winter, most of the people were dressed very tightly, and they couldn't see their own characteristics, following the flow of people, Su Tian looked at Luo Ya around with curiosity, and Gasha, who seemed too calm and was alert to the possible danger in the flow of people around him, entered a wide avenue.
The crowd came and went, and Su Sun noticed something quite interesting.
That is, on the streets, there are indeed a large number of demonic beings, walking on the streets like normal people.
In other mobile cities in the Aion Continent, demons cannot enter the inner city, and ordinary people need to give way and hide aside when they encounter ordinary people on the street, and they have to kneel down and retreat when they encounter nobles, even if they encounter a shadow, it is considered blasphemy, and they will be beaten to death.
This is not the case in the seaside capital.
Su Yan took the children and observed the city while walking.
He noticed that the vast majority of demonizers were wearing armor or clothing that seemed to be extremely tight, and quite some of them were wearing equipment similar to gas masks.
At the same time, most of the city guards who were patrolling the streets, maintaining order, and putting an end to strife and quarrels were also demonics.
If the ratio of ordinary people to demons is one-tenth, then the number of demons in the city guards accounts for six out of ten.
Guards, city guards, patrol guards, and guards in front of shops...... A considerable number of demonizers are in the positions of these grassroots armed forces.
They acted, they worked, and they all seemed confident.
Unlike their counterparts, who are discriminated against in the outside world, the Demonizers in the Seaside City are friendly and friendly, responding to visitors' requests for directions and greeting familiar residents around them, with the exception of masks and clothing presumably set up to ward off demonic infections.
Demonic beings are indeed contagious, but if it is not direct contact with the source, or negative distance contact, the probability of infection is less than 1 in 100,000.
It is basically impossible to make a normal person become a demonic person just by breathing and skin contact, just like there are children in the Xiguang Orphanage who are not demonized, and they have been with a large number of demonized people for three or four years, but they are still healthy.
But in the coastal capital, the vast majority of demonizers voluntarily wear breathing masks that can isolate energy fluctuations, as well as thick clothing.
By making this almost insignificant sacrifice, they have gained the right to communicate with normal people.
"At least in terms of life, they have dignity."
Su Sun looked back and forth, making sure that this was not a special situation, but a normal situation, and he nodded: "The seaside capital is indeed beyond my imagination. ”
"It's hard to imagine......"
Even Gasha couldn't help muttering to himself, and he, who was also a demon, looked at the people walking on the street, showing a somewhat envious gaze: "We can ...... Walk the streets openly......"
"There will be a day when the whole world of Aion will be like this."
Su Yan nodded slightly, and then continued to walk forward.
The seaside city is indeed different from the city of Avend, the people here, even in the outer city, most of them are not worried about life, and the buildings are basically tall and solemn buildings, even the hotels and restaurants where they stay are extraordinarily luxurious, and even have a bit of a shadow of the metropolis of the earth.
No, it's better to say that the coastal capital, with a permanent population of tens of millions, is the top metropolis even on earth.
On the way, Su Sun admired the city that was so prosperous that people would forget that the holy day was about to go out, and the two children were even more dazzled, and they needed to hold Su Sun's clothes to ensure that they would not get lost.
However, the more prosperous the city, the more likely it is that accidents are likely.
Just when Su Yan was about to walk all the way to the junction of the inner and outer cities, suddenly, there was a roar of scolding in the distance, violent fluctuations in source energy, and a crowd of people retreating in panic.
Apparently, because of some verbal altercation and conflict, a battle between the pros began.
"****, you dare to say that Lao Tzu's goods are not good? You've searched all over the Cliff Sea, and you can't find a purer Origin Energy Pearl than this! ”
"Laubert, you Demon Moon exhaust fumes, beast droppings, I can tell even if I'm blind in both eyes that you're just the most ordinary black clam pearl with a source energy film attached to it—well, there are a few true, but you're going to sell me this garbage? I'm ****! ”
"Slander Lao Tzu? I won't let you shut up completely today......"
The sound of a conciliatory argument came from a nearby trade market, and it seemed to be a farce of the unmasking of scammers and the fight between the unmaligned scammers.
And Su Sun and his party, including Luo Ya, who was already hiding behind Su Sun, all looked in that direction with a curious expression.
- It's all here, and you always have to see the excitement.
So the trio of one old and two young people went up the river and leaned over to watch the excitement.
It just so happens that there are also many people with good self-sustaining strength who have chosen the same action and watched the direction of the market from afar.
"Robert is the head of the fishermen on the other side of the cliff sea, his strength is not bad, and his power is very large, and the surrounding fishermen will obey his orders to form a fleet to go out to sea to fish, and there are several seafood breeding factories, so there is no need to make fakes."
"It seems to be Batol over there, right? I remember being a pretty famous wandering knight, how did he get up to Labert? ”
"Hey, Batool has an adopted daughter who has demonic disease and needs to use the source energy pearl produced by the black mussel as the main herb to alleviate the symptoms...... You get the idea, right? Concern is chaos. ”
I can faintly hear the sound of such discussions.
Su Yan looked up, inside the market, most of the other vendors had run out, the two people who were arguing had already gone up at the moment, the rough-looking fisherman and the sad-looking knight were scolding each other, and the object of communication had already fast-forwarded from the other party's immediate family to the cat raised by the great-grandfather.
The rage grew more and more intense, and their sources staggered, sending a blue-purple wind in the center of the market, and one counter after another was frozen and dissolved, and the terrible impact was imminent.
"Stop, don't disturb the market order!"
At this moment, a stern reprimand sounded.
With hurried and heavy footsteps, a group of guards from the seaside capital who were patrolling the perimeter arrived at the scene.
"Oops, damn it, there will always be such a guy with strength and no one in his eyes!"
The captain at the head saw the two people who were about to start fighting, and naturally knew that this battle could not be quelled with words, wearing full body armor and wearing a gas helmet, he pulled out the long sword at his waist, and the brilliant sky blue light flowed on this long sword, and the almost materialized brilliance even made the two professionals who had already started to fight can't help but look sideways.
"Don't meddle!"
"You don't have enough strength, don't die!"
Obviously, they both knew very well the difference between a private brawl and a brawl that led to the death of a seaside city guard, but now the two arrogant men could never stop, so they planned to open their mouths and let the other person retreat.
But before that, the patrol leader had already swung his sword.
Su Yan narrowed his eyes.
He saw that behind the patrol leader, there was a faint shadow of a killer whale roaring—although it was only for a moment, it was indeed the light of the heart that only the 'Heart Light Realm' would have!
And the strength of this patrol captain is just a mere Linghui high-level!
"Enchanted ......"
The man whispered to himself, his gaze became serious: "Catalyze your own demonization symptoms and forcibly increase your strength - this is an explosion of strength in exchange for your own life!" ”
Everything happened in an instant, as the patrol leader drew his sword and slashed out, a sky blue water ripple crossed the streets and markets with a 'bang', setting off a violent wind and angry waves, and the sudden wind was used in the direction of the onlookers, and Su Tian's white hair flew backwards because of this.
In the face of this sword light, the faces of the two who were fighting changed drastically at the same time, and they who were grappling immediately gave up the other party and retreated, avoiding this blow.
A sword mark nearly 100 meters long stretched from the front of the patrol leader to the place where Laubert and Batole had been before.
There was silence in the streets.
Until the captain withdrew the accessory in his hand and let out a clear hum.
"You two, follow me back to the Inspectorate and accept the punishment for disrupting the market!"
At this moment, the patrol captain's voice was extremely loud, and the momentum was even more blazing, and the faces of the two people who were originally angry changed their faces, but in the end they did not refuse strongly, but looked at each other viciously, and after a few cruel words, they obediently followed the patrol guard to the inspection bureau.
This farce ended quickly and so.
"That sword is so powerful!"
"Aunt Yelena seems to be able to cut this sword too, and it's a little easier!"
"But whether Aunt Yelena is at the middle or high level of Xinguang, she is definitely stronger than that armored uncle!"
Loya and Gasha lowered their heads and whispered, while Su Sun narrowed his eyes.
He stared in the direction in which the patrol guard and the two prisoners had left, and let out a breath.
"That guy, burst out his demonization ability and urge the demonization to deepen and temporarily gain power...... Indeed, he did gain the strength to suppress those two rebels, but at least twenty years of life. ”
Su Sun's gaze was solemn, and his tone was puzzled: "If there is no way to reverse - according to the deep sigh in the heart of that patrol leader, there should be no way to reverse - if he breaks out like this two or three times, he will really catalyze the demonic disease to the extreme, and his soul will die of filth." ”
"Is it worth it?"
"What's not worth it?"
On the side, a certain wingman professional who was watching the excitement with Su Sun heard Su Sun's muttering, obviously a local, he flapped his wings, and smiled indifferently: "Don't you know how generous the compensation for the death of the city guards and patrols in the coastal capital is!" Good guys, the average person can't make that money in ten years! There are also preferential treatment for children! ”
"A lot of demonizers just value this, and deliberately take advantage of the aggravation of their illness to break out and suppress those tricky guys, so that whether they die on the spot or not, the subsidy will definitely be given."
"Isn't it worth it that a rotten life that is already dying can be exchanged for money for the next ten years?"
Speaking of this, the winged professional looked in the direction of the patrol, and even showed a look of envy: "Obviously, these demonizers are taking advantage, but the lord above seems to be unaware, and he is recruiting these demonizers one by one...... Their strength exploded into a powerful situation, but so many subsidies flowed out in an uproar, it's too much of a loss, right? ”
"Is it really a loss?"
And just as the Winged Man was about to continue complaining, Su Sun's voice sounded leisurely, interrupting his words.
The man narrowed his eyes, and after looking around the city, he nodded thoughtfully: "Suffer...... It's a blessing. ”
"If you don't let others feel that you are at a loss, how can you attract people who like to take advantage......
"Let's go, Loya, Gasha, let's continue to the Core City."
He shook his head, didn't care about the stunned behind him, and was frowning and thinking about what kind of stupid logic 'loss is a blessing', and walked towards the center of the inner city.
And this time, Su Sun did not continue walking, but called a source energy drive car for transportation.
On the way, he chatted with the driver about the situation in the seaside capital, as well as the history of the city, the status of the demons in it, and what other normal people think of the demons.
Everything is similar to what Master Suiguang said - because it was originally a city created by a couple of different races, the Seaside City is open to all races, even the demonizers equally, and it has become the most willing city for all powerful demonizers in the entire Aion continent to settle in.
In addition, because of the strict protective measures, compared to other industrial cities, there is even less chance of infection, and the seaside city is also loved by normal people.
And most of their views of the demonizer are similar to the previous wingman professional, they do treat each other equally, and they even envy some of the other party's advantages...... It's just that it's far from making yourself a demonizer for the sake of this small advantage.
"You're talkative, old sir!"
When they got off the bus, Su Sun and the others had already arrived at the core city of the coastal capital, an area full of high-rise buildings, more like a modern city on earth.
The bearded driver gave Su Sun a thumbs up convincingly, for the first time he saw a tourist who could stun himself - good fellow, he sounded almost omniscient, worthy of being an elder who had lived for so many years.
And most of the experiences were made up, and Su Day, who even wanted to say 'thank you for the invitation', waved goodbye to the driver's eldest brother quite happily after obtaining a lot of information he wanted.
Then, he turned his head.
A small building that was not very tall compared to the surrounding dozens of high-rise buildings, and the decoration was mediocre, without the slightest luxury and pompous style, appeared in front of Su Tian's eyes.
【Auction House】
There are no superfluous prefixes, only the word auction house.
Several people dressed in greetings were waiting in front of this small building, and one of them seemed to be aware of the credentials Su Sun was carrying, so he immediately stepped forward quickly, and said in a very respectful, but confident and proud tone: "Please come in, honored guest." ”
"Welcome to the City of the Sea!"