Volume 1 Crime and Punishment in Fog City Chapter 13: Slave's Paradise
Although I had to wait, I ended up just hanging out and reading novels.
Li Lin did nothing for two hours just waiting for time to pass in the blood-stained carriage, and he believed that he was not mentally ill.
This is the most annoying thing about this kind of reading task. You have to stay in one place and wait for time to pass without doing anything. Moreover, Li Lin flipped through it and found that the basic steam science was not the high-end skill he imagined, but just a branch of science. Now he didn't even have the mind to study the skills.
Forget about the branch combat vortex sword book and Winchester shotgun skills. Li Lin probably won't find any use for them at the last moment underground. First of all, the terrain restrictions and ammunition restrictions are disgusting enough. If you really use the vortex sword and Winchester, if you accidentally fire it, it will be your head that will explode. Of course, it doesn't matter if you die, but losing your equipment is a big deal.
Thinking back to when a +3 legendary two-handed sword was dropped in the Black Forest, Li Lin still felt heartbroken.
'You have five minutes left to complete your mission. Please log in to the game.'
"Um."
Time always passes quickly when you are immersed in a novel.
Before he could finish reading a few pages of the interesting novel about a man turning into a shrimp, two hours passed by like a flash and he was left behind.
But Li Lin generally prefers playing games, and this kind of real-time online game can't wait for you too long. After connecting directly through the latest generation interface that has been debugged in the brain, Li Lin closed his eyes and opened them again, and what came into his eyes was a world of blood and minced meat.
"Ah... That's why I said sometimes it's not necessary to be so elaborate..."
I'm not a pervert.
Glancing with disgust at the blood plasma and meat scraps everywhere, Li Lin actually missed the automatic refresh of the old online games.
If there is an automatic refresh function, many things will become fake, but it will also be much more convenient. You don't have to kill people halfway and suddenly find the ground is full of corpses, and you have to step on the corpses to fight.
You have to know that no matter what body it is, it is definitely uneven. No creature is deliberately made flat so that you can kill it easily. Every creature you step on will make you hate Darwin's theory of evolution from the bottom of your heart, because they have evolved so perfectly that when you step on them, there will always be some bulges or depressions that make it difficult to step steadily. It is even possible to be killed directly on the pile of corpses because you don't observe carefully enough or your balance is not good enough.
And it's not just because of the balance problem, the pungent smell of blood and the blood and flesh scraps around are also a bit disgusting. Although Li Lin is a professional gamer, his hobby is not eating shit. He will definitely not be happy with the mess around him.
From these two points of view, automatic refresh is indeed a good thing.
I'll give some suggestions to the game companies when the time comes.
Touching the leather chair that felt inexplicably slippery due to some dried tissue, Li Lin curled his lips, rubbed the film on his hands, and began to whistle out of boredom.
Perhaps, just as the police chief said, there was indeed something wrong with this train. In fact, it was only after the train was delayed for half an hour that Li Lin could barely see some dark blue lights outside the pitch-black window.
This means that they have initially arrived at the area of the underground city of Sodom.
"…The smoke is very thick."
Li Lin, who was fiddling with his cloak and turning it into a bird and a wrench, raised his eyelids and took a look, and keenly noticed the difference between underground and above ground.
If the area above ground is still considered a steampunk city where people live, then the underground pipelines along the way are simply drawn by the designer after smoking 800 kilograms of marijuana and drinking three tons of soju. Under the faint blue light, all the pipelines are entangled and extend less than one meter away from the car window. Those ancient pipelines with an unknown history make people feel a little numb.
A thick, semi-solid fog always enveloped the vehicle. As the carriage slowly moved one could even see the locomotive and the whistle stirring up the smoke. And he didn't know if it was Li Lin's illusion, but behind the smoke and pipes, there seemed to be something distorted and unbelievable, something like a street. There were pale creatures that looked like humans, with only the whites of their eyes left, staring numbly at Li Lin's moving train, which made him subconsciously feel a little itchy at the back of his head.
Aboriginal people? Or some kind of native monster?
As if aware that it was being observed, the pale monster suddenly turned and gave Li Lin a creepy smile.
The eye sockets and mouth were deeply sunken into the pale white skin, looking more like a shrunken ball oozing pus and blood. The horrifying scene made Li Lin's eyebrows raise, and he felt a little irritated.
But before Li Lin could think more, a long whistle sounded from outside.
"All colonists, please get off the bus and line up in an orderly manner. Do not crowd or fight. The dawn of a new world awaits you."
A distorted sound rang out in the car, and with it came a layer of hazy fog. It seemed that because the car door was opening, the fog from the outside was flowing in and out.
However, after just one puff, the archaeologist felt a little dizzy.
The brain that had been tortured by the Black Forest virus seemed to have fallen into a deep state of numbness. Just like being drunk, everything in front of him looked so magnificent and beautiful, as if he had entered a second world.
Outside the window, those dark red pipes that looked like blood vessels twisted into branches that looked like tree branches. Looking out from the carriage, the underground world was bright and sunny, and countless beautiful girls like fairies were laughing and playing outside the window, looking at the people in the carriage curiously, blinking their eyes and whispering, and occasionally bursting into laughter.
Golden light powder swirled around, and the holy water channel sprayed countless light particles. The whole station was like a stairway to heaven. The hazy and beautiful music spread from the depths of everyone's heart, and even the ground was made up of lush trees and green grass. It was unbelievable that this was a corner underground. In fact, even in a separate carriage, Li Lin could hear the excited cheers of the slaves outside.
But how could this be true? People who sold themselves to atone for their sins wanted to go to heaven? That was too good to be true.
“…An illusion.”
Looks like it's time to enable the features of these gears.
Facing the magnificent scene floating in the air that looked like heaven, Li Lin pressed a button on his watch expressionlessly.
The watch, which looked harmless, suddenly slid open a narrow gap, and the slender needle immediately stabbed into Li Lin's wrist. Dark red blood filled the pipe of the watch, causing some gears to emit a series of starting noises after being lubricated.
Soon, the blood filled the watch, which only played the role of an air pump, and completely activated it. With the sound of spring gears interlacing and tightening, the dark red runes on the dial vaguely showed the appearance of a clock. The faint tingling sensation from the wrist and the intravenous injection of drugs circulating in the needle made the distorted illusion in front of the eyes like broken glass, and it was instantly swept away.
It was only then that Li Lin saw what the real scene was that those noisy and bustling slaves with countless fantasies were facing.
"How interesting..."
The ground is so boring, this is what I want.
Squinting his eyes and looking at the real creation that had peeled off the illusion, Li Lin licked his lips, reached out and grabbed the mask and put it on, picked up the beheading sword and walked out, feeling a little bit of anticipation in his heart.
