Chapter 134: Dark Alley Encounters (My Cat Hansan is back again~)
Led by Aegis, Xue Hua and Varif entered the so-called "Lugoin Sixth Sector" through a staircase that descended from the wellhead.
At the bottom of the staircase is a long platform with handrails, which extends a small section from the wall of the shaft and is linked to the staircase, which is obviously also a mechanism node.
At the end of the platform, there was a black iron door, and there was a very small hole in the iron door, and Aegis walked up to the iron door, took out a special small black hammer from his bosom, and knocked on the edge of the iron door rhythmically with this small hammer.
The hammer was apparently made of a very special material, as the sound it made when it knocked on the iron door was not even audible from this side.
Aegis knocked on the door six times in total, and the small hole in the door was quickly twisted open.
An eye resembling a snake's pupil and emitting a faint yellow glow appeared behind the orifice.
"Name, credentials, guides."
The cold, hoarse, slightly hissing voice came from the orifice, and it sounded very uncomfortable, as if a slippery, cold snake had just crawled up your back.
At the same time, Isha warned Xue Hua from within the mind of the main nest, saying that a relatively strong psionic disturbance had suddenly appeared on the walls of the cave around him, suspecting that a mechanism was about to be triggered and advising him to leave immediately.
However, Xue Hua didn't care, because he knew that these traps with psionic disturbances should be a layer of protection set up in the mysterious "dark alley area" behind the door, just to prevent the guide Aegis from being kidnapped.
If the two of them are unable to produce the credentials or the credentials do not match the names, the traps will immediately erupt and destroy the intruder humanely.
So although he felt a little unhappy about being pointed at by these things, Xue Hua didn't say anything, just motioned to Varif to follow the other party's rules.
Varif took two steps forward and handed the black tin sheet he had shown to the guy behind the counter, who took the object to the iron door and put it in a stone groove by the door, and said to the small hole in the door.
"The entrants are Varif and Xue Hua, and the guide is Aegis."
Then, he raised his hands and shook them in front of the hole, signaling that he was free and not controlled.
There was silence inside the iron door for a long time, and then there was a sudden "click" sound, and then the iron door slowly opened outward.
"Be careful, don't get into trouble."
A guy in a black robe stood behind the door, holding a gold-level giant crossbow in his hand.
Through Isa's psionic probe Xue Hua, he learned that this guy is a professional, and his level is about level 63-65.
But he's supposed to be a man, so his profession won't be Amazon, and the reason why he stands behind the door with a crossbow is probably to give a slap in the face to those who are ready to wait for the door to open and make trouble.
When the iron door opened, Aegis had no intention of following up, he took the black iron sheet from the black-robed man's hand, turned back and gave it back to Varref, then saluted, and turned back up the stairs.
Xue Hua and Varif had no choice but to walk deeper along the long passage behind the iron gate under the guidance of the black-robed man.
The two of them had been walking for about twenty minutes, and just when Xue Hua was about to get impatient with the damp and gloomy environment in the passage, a little light finally appeared in front of them.
After a few minutes, they finally walked out of the dimly lit passageway, and what appeared in front of them was a huge space.
This space is more than 20 meters high, and the space inside is quite large, almost the size of a third of the commercial area.
The space is almost completely filled with rows of huts made of various scraps of materials, and these huts are built without any planning, and there are all kinds of shapes and styles.
They were piled up in a haphazard manner, and in Xue Hua's opinion, this place was even more chaotic than the kind of slums of tin houses that he had seen on the Internet in his previous life.
"Varif... This is what you call a 'secret channel'? Xue Hua asked with some surprise.
"Trust me... It's my first time here......" Varif twitched the corners of his eyes twice, and replied in a hoarse voice.
He hadn't taken them too seriously when he had received invitations from this so-called "dark alley area", he just thought it was another fledgling gang doing it.
It was only after some things later that he had a relatively one-sided understanding of the powerful power hidden in the secret of this "organization", but he never imagined that this so-called dark alley area could create such a huge area under Lu Gaoin as a shelter.
"Okay, so what do we do next?" Xue Hua sighed, looked at the narrow alleyway in front of him and asked him.
"Hmm... I'll take a look at ......" Variif pulled the note from his waist pocket once more, and glanced at it by the light of the torch next to him.
Then, he nodded at Xue Hua, motioned for him to follow him, and walked towards the alley first.
Xue Hua followed him into the alleyway, paying attention to the inhabitants and ecology of the area as he walked.
Most of the people here wear long black hooded cloaks that hide their faces in the shadow of their hoods, and some wear various masks on their faces, and even make their voices hoarse when they speak.
And Xue Hua and Varif did not do anything to hide their behavior in this narrow alleyway is very eye-catching, and almost everyone along the way will scan them with a mixture of greed and malice.
Some guys would also squeeze a cold laugh out of their throats when Xue Hua looked over.
However, there are also some guys who just sit on the dirty and damp ground, taking care of the stall in front of them and the goods placed on it, and have no interest in the arrival of Xue Hua and the others.
Xue Hua also noticed that there were some half-human-high iron cages under some simple buildings on both sides of the narrow street, but the iron cages were not animals or monsters, but people.
Some of the ragged and glazed-eyed men were locked in iron cages, with heavy chains on their hands and feet.
At the same time, the outside of those iron cages were marked with wooden signs with some numbers, and Xue Hua guessed that these should be prices.
If he's not mistaken, these caged creatures should be captured slaves.
Rugoin was not slavery, and had long since declared the sale of human beings illegal.
If traffickers are caught, they are generally hanged.
Therefore, even the courtiers in the royal palace, if they provoke the king, in the open, Jehein can only dismiss them at most.
Of course, it's hard to say what will happen to those people in private.
Xue Hua didn't know where these people came from, but it wasn't his turn to take care of these things.
So although this kind of behavior was unacceptable, Xue Hua still chose to ignore it.
However, the impression of this so-called dark alley area has already been formed in his mind.
- This is a black neighborhood of all kinds of criminals, gangsters, villains and outlaws.
Isa's psionic attribute detection also corroborates this impression.
In the only 100 meters of this road, it had identified no less than dozens of Evil Pact's psionic signs, which showed the level of chaos in this neighborhood.
Just as Xue Hua was paying attention to the situation on both sides of the street, Varif, who was leading the way in front of him, suddenly stopped, and immediately after, a loud noise came from a tin hut on their right.
A figure flew out of the door of the hut and slammed into the middle of the street.
At the same time, three or four strong men of five or three thick men ran out of the hut, and kicked the figure in the center with a vicious look, accompanied by all kinds of filthy insults in their mouths.
Behind the strong men, a middle-aged man wearing a pure golden robe and the lower part of his face covered by a white veil walked out of the hut and looked at this scene coldly.
When Varif saw the man, he couldn't help but look overjoyed, and he hurried over to the man, shouting incessantly.
"Himer! Himel! ”
"Huh?" The man turned his head to look at it, and soon laughed as well.
"Varref! You're finally here! I've been waiting for you for a long time! ”