Chapter 74 Under the City
Chen She controlled Grantham to walk through the streets of Dawn City.
After changing my identity and looking at Dawn City again, I suddenly had a completely new feeling.
Before, Chen She had been trying to observe the world from the perspective of an ordinary person. He founded Lishan Technology and opened an experience store in a relatively chaotic neighborhood. He also dealt with these small vendors and gangsters and helped many homeless people.
But no matter what, there is still a lot of gap between him and the lowest existence in this world.
Sometimes, a person’s identity is a natural transparent barrier that cannot be overcome by hard work.
But at this time, walking in the streets of Dawn City as Grantham, leaving the paradise-like area controlled by the Lishan Technology Experience Store, more and more chaotic and disorderly scenes appeared before Chen She's eyes.
It turned out that Chen She did not dare to act too recklessly for the sake of his own safety and had to act under the protection of Zhang Sirui. But now that he can control his servant Grantham, he can act boldly.
After all, the worst result is nothing more than the loss of 5 units of space-time particles. Even after Grantham's death, Chen She can find a way to reshape him.
I just don't know what the current status of the Time and Space Knights' branch in Dawn City is.
Chen She came to a very remote corner, which was littered with garbage. Except for the occasional homeless person who came to pick up rubbish, everyone else stayed away from it.
There are many such corners in Dawn City. Although the prosperous area in the core of the city is very expensive, there are many corners on its borders that should be demolished and rebuilt. Until now, the corners are still in a state of desolation and eventually become a paradise for homeless people.
Painted on the wall was a distinctive symbol of the Spacetime Knights, and there were many such symbols in the dark alleys of this city.
Chen She controlled Grantham to put his right hand on it, and used his synesthesia to connect with this special mark. Then Chen She felt that part of his synesthesia was consumed, and a narrow space-time rift appeared in front of him.
Chen She hurriedly stepped in.
Many synaesthesia classes can create space-time rifts and travel through the void for a short period of time. For example, the pure synaesthesia class, the Space Traveler, is very powerful in this regard. The higher the energy fluctuation level, the longer the distance traveled using the space-time rift. Classes like Assassin and Ghost Walker combine space-time rifts with assassination abilities, appearing and disappearing mysteriously and killing people without being seen.
This special symbol is not only a code used by the Time and Space Knights to communicate, but also means the Time and Space Knights' special entrance to this city. Only by mastering a special method can they enter.
After passing through the entrance, Chen She found himself in the underground part of the city.
Liming City, like other megacities in the Old Land, was newly built not long after the emergence of space-time activities. So compared to the old cities in the Old Land that have disappeared in the snow of time, these new megacities have made many special plans at the beginning of their construction.
Liming City has a large underground space, which is not only for better drainage and avoiding various possible risks, but also for the possibility of underground development.
After all, under the threat of time snow, living in a dark underground city is better than dying.
Because according to the original plan, in a few decades, the population of these big cities will grow rapidly and continue to expand. By then, even if more high-rise buildings are built on the ground, it will not be possible to accommodate so many new people.
However , there are many limitations when it comes to expanding the energy barrier to cover large cities or further expanding the scale of large cities and satellite cities .
Therefore, at the beginning of planning, a lot of space was left in the underground parts of these cities for future use.
However, in the more than 100 years since the construction of Liming City, its population has not shown any significant growth, and has even declined in some years.
Obviously, the original builders overestimated the people's desire to have children in this city and underestimated people's yearning for the ground and sunlight.
As long as these people have any chance, they will never spend their days in the dark underground city.
In the beginning, there were indeed some residents in the underground area, and it maintained good contact with the surface area. But not long after, this area began to inevitably decline and the connection with the surface area became increasingly severed. Without law and order and sufficient supplies, most people evacuated from the underground area.
In order to prevent the underground area from becoming a hotbed for various criminal organizations, Dawn City decided to seal off several main entrances and completely abandon the area.
But sealing the entrance cannot stop the Knights of Time and Space.
It is obvious that the Knights of Time and Space have made the underground area of the city their branch, where they secretly plot various dangerous activities.
Chen She couldn't help but complain silently in his heart: "You are a rat-like organization, controlling rat-like space-time creatures, and living in underground sewers like rats. Tell me, how do you deserve the name of the Knights?"
He continued to move forward according to Grantham's memory and the symbols on the wall. During this time, he also opened up space-time rifts through marks and passed through certain specific nodes.
Finally we arrived at a relatively large underground space.
This looks like a grand underground square. Apparently, when the designers first built it, they wanted to avoid giving the residents of the underground city the impression that it was dark and narrow, so they reserved some grand spaces in case of emergency.
But all these efforts were in vain. After all, it was difficult for people at that time to imagine what the old land would look like 100 years later.
There was no light from the ground inside the underground city, but there were many wall lamps using high-energy fuel for lighting. At this moment, Chen She felt as if he had come to an old era more than 100 years away from modern society.
Obviously, the Knights of Time and Space prefer to associate with time and space creatures, and they don’t care much about the various high technologies in modern society.
If they were not afraid of causing panic, Chen She highly suspected that they would even wear black cloaks and parade around with the time and space creatures when they went out on the streets.
Chen She stopped because he felt someone walking towards him from the shadows ahead.
"Master Priest?" There was surprise in the knight's voice.
Chen She recognized Grantham instantly through his memory.
This knight's name is Kirkel. He is the most powerful knight left in the Spacetime Knights branch of Grantham and a spacetime traveler with level three energy fluctuations.
When Grantham attacked the Fujido Group base, although he brought the entire branch's powerful combat force, he must have left some stronger people to guard the base. After all, there are still many space-time particles, various supplies and believers who were not brought to the battlefield.
But Chen She felt something unusual.
So he asked, "Where's Joyce?"
Joyce is Grantham's follower. Every time he goes to the experience store, Grantham takes him with him, which is enough to show Grantham's trust in him.
Coker said quickly, "Something unexpected happened during your absence, Master Priest. A member lost control while practicing summoning space-time creatures, and Joyce was injured trying to stop him, so he can't come to greet you now."
"I wonder how this operation went. What about the others?"
Chen She said calmly: "The operation was successful. We made some necessary sacrifices for our great goal."
Coker bowed his head: "May we meet in the world of time and space."
Chen She continued to walk forward, and Kokol followed behind him very respectfully.
Walking along the long underground passage, Chen She saw more members of the Knights of Time and Space.
There were a large number of kidnapped homeless people crowded in a very small space. They sat on the ground with confused eyes, like corpses without souls.
Although there were only a few knights left in the entire branch of the Spacetime Knights, nor were there many truly powerful followers left, these vagrants still did not dare to make any resistance. After all, any knight here could kill them all without any effort.
"Your Excellency the Priest, Joyce is inside." Cocker said very respectfully.
Chen She stepped in, but found that there was no light blue light coming from the so-called Joyce, and he had turned into a corpse.
At this time, Cocker, who was following Chen She, had disappeared.
The other two knights and the remaining 20 or so believers surrounded Chen She.
Coker's dull voice came from the void: "Gransome, I didn't expect you to come back alive. The wisest thing you could do would be to escape immediately, but I didn't expect you would actually fall into the trap."
"I have long said that it was a stupid plan, but you insisted on doing it for the sake of space-time particles. Now that you are on the verge of losing control, how much power do you have left? Is it a second-level energy fluctuation or a third-level energy fluctuation?"
"You should have died in the Fujido Group's base."
"But it doesn't matter. Since you refuse to go to the Spacetime World, let us send you there ourselves."
Chen She couldn't help but sigh. It turned out that the Space-Time Knights were not a monolithic group.
Grantham took the elite forces of the entire branch to the base of the Fujido Group and buried them all there. After three consecutive days of no news, Cocker and the two knights who remained in the branch decided to replace them .
Although Grantham can see the connection between time and space like Chen She, his profession is a manipulator after all, not a curse scholar. When he encounters someone who also has synaesthesia, this kind of observation will be seriously disturbed.
What’s more, people change.
After Grantham disappeared, Cocker had already thought about replacing him, and even joined forces with others to kill Joyce, who supported Grantham.
At this time, Grantham suddenly returned, his strength seriously damaged. Kirkel obviously had no other choice but to make Grantham disappear completely and make himself the new priest of Dawn City.
Chen She didn't expect to be welcomed like this as soon as he arrived at the branch of the Spacetime Knights, but fortunately he had made sufficient mental preparations in advance.
The strength of these two knights is not strong, only the second level of energy fluctuation. They have summoned space-time creatures from the space-time rift.
These two space-time creatures are similar in size to hounds, and also have secondary energy fluctuations.
It was a rather unoriginal way of fighting, but it was also normal. After all, the most capable fighter in the entire branch had been taken away by Grantham and buried in the base of the Fujido Group.
Chen She also waved his hand casually, and a miniature space-time rift appeared at his feet. A space-time creature similar to a mouse came out of the rift, posing a ferocious posture.
The two knights on the opposite side were stunned for a moment, and then couldn't help laughing.
Because this was in such stark contrast to their expectations.
As a manipulator, Grantham originally controlled level 5 or even level 6 space-time creatures. The oppressive feeling after summoning such a huge creature was suffocating. It was definitely enough to make the two knights kneel on the ground and tremble.
As a result, Grantham's power is now severely damaged, and he can only summon such a weak mouse. It's really hard to hold back laughter.
But their smiles soon froze on their faces, because when the little mouse pounced on them, they suddenly realized that this mouse was not a space-time creature with first-level energy fluctuations as they knew, but a third-level energy fluctuation!
This matter was very bizarre and beyond their understanding.
Because all space-time creatures are naturally formed in the space-time world, the controller cannot create them out of thin air, but can only summon space-time creatures that meet the requirements from the space-time world.
A space-time creature of this size can only have level one energy fluctuations at best.
But what they didn't know was that the space-time creature that Chen She was controlling at this time was not summoned from the space-time world, but the one that defeated the monster together with Grantham in his own spiritual world.
In other words, this space-time creature that only existed in Chen She's conscious world would have the same energy fluctuation level as Grantham once it came to reality. It could appear as a mouse, or become the same level as its energy fluctuation, and of course its strength would not change fundamentally.
The two knights realized that something was wrong, and they hurriedly drove their space-time creatures to try to stop the little mouse , but the little mouse turned very flexibly in the air and bit one of the space-time creatures directly, killing it with one blow!
Space-time creatures themselves are special life forms composed of space-time matter. For humans, conventional means of attack, whether firearms or cold weapons, can cause a certain degree of damage to them, but it is difficult to kill them with one blow.
But this is not the case for battles between space-time creatures.
This little mouse was more agile than anyone imagined. He jumped up and down like lightning and killed the other two space-time creatures before they could even react.
Then the little mouse leaped again with all its might and rushed to a certain position in the air.
At this moment, a tiny space-time rift appeared in the air, and a scream came from behind the rift.
Chen She said calmly: "Come out, or you will die in the space-time rift."
A space-time rift appeared in front of him, and Kirker walked out tremblingly. The little mouse lay on his shoulder, staring at his throat all the time.
As a time traveler, Coker can use the space-time rift to hide himself, but his body is still fragile. And no matter how deep his understanding of the space-time rift is, it will not be stronger than that of the space-time creatures. After all, for the space-time creatures, the space-time rift and the space-time world are where they live. This is an instinct.
Of course, not every member of the Knights who controls space-time creatures can achieve this level. It depends on their affinity with the space-time creatures.
Only the best animal tamers can make wild beasts jump through fire hoops and walk across a single-plank bridge, while a mediocre animal tamer would be lucky enough not to be eaten by his own lions.
Coker said tremblingly: "Master Priest, I..."
Chen She placed his right hand on his forehead and interrupted him: "Don't get me wrong, I let you out of the space-time rift not because I wanted to let you go, but simply because I didn't want your body to be wasted."
