Douluo: Reverse Dimension

Chapter 146 Extra Story (Twelve: World View)
Card empty dimension, human base.

The base of the entire Talos Federation is divided into five regions, with the most central "City of Light" as the head, and the rest of the city as supplementary, distributed in the four directions of the southeast, northwest, and stars, forming the center of the main city. surrounded by it.

The "City of Light" in the center is extremely prosperous and vast. It is the center of resources and political strategy. It gathers the world's most powerful federal high-level figures. It has a powerful force that determines the world and the destiny of mankind.

There are many versions about its origin, but the most representative and convincing one is the one described in the textbook:
Thirty-five years ago, on the morning of October 35th, a mysterious celestial body fell from space into a small city in the hinterland of a certain coast. The huge impact created a mysterious forbidden area. Sweeping across the world, the environment has deteriorated sharply, and human civilization has once again fallen into silence as expected.

At the same time, under the erosion of the virus, a crisis of "Horror Tide" born by unknown influences broke out. Creatures headed by humans were seriously polluted. They became violent beasts, and even mutated into distorted monsters.

However, after about five years of silence, a "strong man of mankind" was born out of this despair. In order to prevent this disaster, all human countries abandoned their prejudices and upheld the belief of "a community with a shared future for mankind", setting up the code name "Hunting", and The strong form an alliance to jointly resist this disaster.

Thanks to the hard work of this group of strong men who control taboo forces, the remaining armies of various countries have won successively. It took less than two years to disperse a large area of ​​​​infected areas, and established an independent new city-state amidst the flames of war and gunpowder. The general regulations began to develop something called "light crystals", which were transported to various regions in the early days to help people tide over difficulties.

The various areas affected by the "Hungry Tide" gradually entered a period of stability under control and became the inner city of the new city-state. The city of Talos grew from this and became the only light crystal mining area in the world.

This brand-new city-state was named "Taros", which means "the city of light that shines with the hope of mankind", and it soon became the most prosperous and dynamic super city for mankind in the era of catastrophe.

The Talos Federation transported the mined light crystals to the central City of Light for use in mysterious technology research and development. Over time, it established its position in the federal base, and it also led mankind to start a "recovery era".

This is the content recorded in the most famous book "Light" "Tarot's Creation War", and it is also something that is carved into the bones of every member of the Talos Federation.

After school, I walked for a while, and it was close to six o'clock in the afternoon. Due to the terrain, the temperature here was lower than that in Midtown. The pale white and yellowish fog permeated the surroundings, and the shadows of people coming and going were blurred, and the evening was cold. It penetrated into the clothes, climbed up the skin, and flooded into the heart, making Song Ke shudder coldly.

Touching the tip of his nose, Song Ke looked around. In the distance, all kinds of low, dilapidated houses with no architectural style were piled up like temporary patchwork tents. The distance between the houses and roads was no more than two meters, and the vision was very good. narrow.

Although there is only a distance of more than [-] kilometers between here and Midtown, it seems to be two worlds. It is hard to imagine that there is such a desolate place in this super city known as "the last home of mankind". exist.

Beside the house and on the road, people in worn-out robes and yellow complexions used the most primitive way to raise smoke and prepare their own dinner.

Beside them, there are discarded steel parts scattered all over the place, or colorful wires entangled together, like spider webs, spreading on the upper part of the house, acting as a drying rack. It looks like a garbage dump, a concentration camp for refugees.

No, it's not like, this is a refugee camp, garbage and excrement can be seen everywhere, and the air is filled with the smell of sweat and stool mixed, that kind of feeling makes the scalp tingle.

But none of these affected Song Ke. He silently and skillfully avoided various buildings, shuttled through the crowd, nimbly like a monkey.

He had to be careful where he stepped, so as not to step on those dense "bombs" scattered on the street, and not to annoy those homeless people huddled in the corner.

He had suffered in this area, and since then, without the help of his brother Song Ling, he has learned to hide himself, not to carry any food, and every time he passes by here, he will leave without prying or stopping.

There are many such places, not only Talos, but the other four survival bases have similar sites, but they are all located in the most remote places of each urban area. The people living here are not seriously ill or poor, and Genetic defects, or "infected", they were abandoned by the federal government and imprisoned here forever. They have no resources and have to rely on the garbage discarded by the upper class to survive.

Every time Song Ke passes by here, he thinks of more than ten years of tragedies. People crowd here to fight for the poor living supplies, and sometimes they even fight. The bum on the corner offers a "lunch".

Thinking of this, his heart sank for a while, and his pace quickened.

Passing through the "refugee camp" and taking a breath of fresh air, Song Ke walked for more than half an hour and came to the most prosperous city in the lower city.

This place is located in the center of Kitaxia City. Although it is not as prosperous as the "City of Light" in the center of Talos, it is not too bad.

There are many pedestrians coming and going on the street, and the architectural style is more towering and dense, and it has a more aesthetic sense of design. There is no comparison, but if you take it out alone, it can be regarded as a bustling city no matter how you look at it.

At this moment, it is close to 06:30, and the buildings on both sides of the street are lit up with lights of different colors, such as red, green, blue, and light. They pass through the glass, fall on the street, reflect on the roof, and reflect on the In the pupils of the people, the originally quiet and gloomy streets are decorated with liveliness.

"Come, come, fresh fruit just out of the greenhouse, [-] federal currency per catty..."

"Delicious and inexpensive light crystal radiant soup. After eating it, you can improve your physique and guarantee that you will have sex every night. It only costs [-] federal currency..."

"Hot steamed stuffed buns, one hundred federal coins..."

"Fresh salmon raised in pollution-free water, [-] federal currency per piece..."

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In the bottom shops on both sides of the street, there are vegetable sellers, fruit sellers and cooked food sellers shouting loudly, greeting pedestrians who come and go, some of them will stop to inquire carefully, buy, and some will impatiently wave their hands and yell, Because today is really bad.

Song Ke could not help shaking his head slightly as he smelled the various scents erratic on the street and heard the prices of those commodities.

Light Crystal Radiation Soup?I'm afraid the store owner is confused and dares to sell this kind of thing openly. If my brother finds out about this, isn't it a capital offense?Song Ke complained silently, which was obviously a gimmick to gain attention.

As for the lowest [-] federal currency buns, if the money is used to buy vegetables, although it is not much, it can still feed the whole family for two days.

After the reunification of the Federation, one federal currency is equivalent to a coin with a face value of ten purchasing power in the old world, and one hundred federal currency is equivalent to 1000 yuan in the old world.

As for why finished food is so expensive, the reason lies in the processing cost.

After the baptism of the catastrophe, pollution caused people to lose most of the productive land, which had a greater impact on the output of some raw materials, and the production of food was also greatly reduced, so it is not unreasonable for those vendors to have high prices. Rare is more expensive.

The federation concentrated some rare ingredients and distributed them to those powerful traders to ensure the normal supply of food in each area.

He exhaled, rolled up his sleeves, and Song Ke looked at the watch on his arm. It was silver as a whole, with many cracks and rust on the strap, but the green hands that looked like gems were beating steadily.

At 6:46, when the time was set, Song Ke covered his watch with his long sleeves, bent slightly, and walked through the noisy street at a brisk pace.

Where there are many people, there are thieves. Like the watch in Song Ke's hand, if it is exchanged, it should be worth [-] to [-] federal coins, but this is the only item left to him by his father before his death. It is equivalent to priceless, so he must be careful.

Especially this street, the surface is prosperous and bright, but there are many unemployed and poor civilians in the dark, as well as those hungry children who are driven by others, stealing your money and some valuable belongings inadvertently.

Along the way, Song Ke skillfully walked around for more than ten minutes. When the crowd density returned to normal and the noise in his ears gradually dissipated, he straightened his back, raised his head, took a breath, and looked at end of street.

There, there were a few drunk men, standing, lying or leaning together under the dim street lights, loudly and intermittently telling each other about their recent experiences, blaming the injustice of the world, and finding no one to support themselves work.

Not far from them, at the intersection of street lights and darkness, bursts of erhu sounds can be heard. The melody is sometimes melodious, sometimes tense, and sometimes sad, as if the performer is telling the past through music.

Beside the rubbish dump, a few thin, ragged children with congenital genetic defects used the light upstairs to rummage carefully with their immature hands, and cheered for finding good things from time to time, as if they had a chance to survive. courage.

After tidying up his clothes, Song Ke overtook them, walked for 10 minutes, and finally came to the end of the street, the row of apartments downstairs.

Raising his head, Song Ke glanced at the apartment building with not many lights on, and skillfully went around to the second row, and the third building, where the houses are more densely populated and the C sign is hung downstairs.

(End of this chapter)