Mysteries: Arcana Wars

A sudden adventurer, a detective who dropped from the sky, and a useless radio station.

This three-person dungeon exploration team was formed inexplicably.

When they fell, both Fors and the adventurer lost consciousness and could not remember the way they came. When Fors proposed to return from where the detective fell, the three found that the passage had been blocked by a landslide.

God knows how deep this place is. How did this detective get down here and accurately hunt down this adventurer? Is he a gopher?

Fortunately, the place where they are now looks like a passage that is still used by people. The wall lamps that are always on, the pipes that can explode with steam when fired, and the wires that are obviously inconsistent with the other devices are all traces of fixed human activities.

Since it was not so easy to go up, and both of them had some goals in the dungeon, after the reconciliation, the detective and the adventurer said nothing and walked straight in a certain direction of the passage, as if they had quickly reached a consensus on the question of "where to go next".

Of course, Fors's opinion was not asked.

Where are we now? Where are you going now? What were you talking about? Who are we going to kill next? Who is going to kill me? When can I go back?

Fors had a lot of questions and thoughts in her mind, but she only dared to think about them in her heart and didn't dare to speak out in this atmosphere.

The two big guys walked in front without saying a word. If they dared to chat with the adventurer, it was because they had been "secretly" "withstood" bullets and gunfire, but the detective had a cold face as soon as he came down, and he and the neurotic adventurer were silent, as if they were in a silent competition. The atmosphere in the tunnel became more depressing.

After walking in the tunnel for an unknown amount of time, Fors finally saw a particularly bright spot ahead, and the pipes around him that were coiled like tree branches were all heading there.

In the bright lights, there is a door.

The size and design of this door look very old, but the door itself is not old. It should be that this underground building has some history, but the door itself is new and should have been replaced during the renovation in recent years.

There were a few burly men leaning against the door, chatting and drinking. When they saw the three people approaching in the tunnel, they immediately became interested and walked forward, twisting their joints, revealing the shiny big pistols on their waists.

"Hey, three of you over there, the toll is ten Ruen pounds per person. If you can't pay, get out of here."

As soon as he finished speaking, the accomplice beside the big man fell down with a few bangs, and fell asleep at his feet. The big man was immediately shocked and looked around, and when he raised his head, he put on a black gun muzzle.

The man, dressed retro-style, wearing a hat and gold-rimmed glasses, tilted his head to one side.

"Step aside."

The big man nodded immediately, then tremblingly stepped aside. The metal door finally showed its full appearance in front of the three people, revealing two lines of metal inscriptions.

Backlund is 669 meters underground.

Dungeon Night Harbor.

The adventurer and the detective walked through the door that looked like an air-raid shelter without looking around. Fors was stunned for a moment and then hurriedly followed them carefully.

After passing through the not-so-big door, Fors's vision suddenly became clear, and a very open space appeared before her.

This looks like a very large cave. From the reinforced dome and walls, it can be seen that it was once a very important engineering project. Thick pillars stand like big trees between the ceiling and the ground. Between the pillars, houses are built in this narrow space, naturally leaving a passage, presenting a pattern similar to the ground street.

The underground space itself was not depressing. Fors looked up and estimated that it was about seven to eight meters high. However, layers of pipes and equipment were coiled under the ceiling. There were ventilation, electricity, air, high-pressure steam and water... all kinds of engineering facilities were squeezed more than two meters thick.

The design style of these facilities was very old, and Fors felt that they might be the product of the end of the electrical age. At the same time, due to the changes in the times and functions, they were randomly remodeled again and again. The network cables and communication lines unique to the information age, as well as more efficient wires, were entangled in the antique pipes, like a thick spider web woven on the clusters of jagged rocks, making the entire top structure even more bloated. Therefore, the houses on both sides were upright, and could barely squeeze out a two-story building.

Most of these buildings look very shabby, retaining very old styles and materials, and even have a sense of time travel. This is understandable, For thought, after all, this is more than 700 meters underground, building materials are difficult to circulate, and the houses have been patched up for another 30 years.

Fors couldn't help but secretly look into the house on the street, wanting to see if the structure inside the house was as cramped as she imagined. As a result, she met the eyes of the shop owner, who glared at her fiercely. Fors was frightened and looked down at the ground. However, she couldn't suppress her curiosity and looked around quietly. There were many people around, most of them were silent, staring at the surroundings vigilantly, and cast a warning look when they felt Fors's gaze.

Uh...it seems like the people here aren't very friendly...

Fors had no choice but to look up at the bloated ceiling. Many small lights fell from the gaps in the pipes and were hung on the distant ceiling by a long silk thread, illuminating this abandoned world with a faint light, giving a feeling of a sky full of stars.

"So this is 'Eternal Night'..." Fors muttered, "Then why is this place called 'Port'..."

"There are many tunnels here, and we can safely go to other dungeons." The adventurer suddenly said, "This is an abandoned mine."

Thanks to Leonard's popular science in the dream, Klein secretly thought that in this era, if one wanted to establish the identity of an "adventurer", one must have some knowledge of dungeons.

During the previous apartment meeting and after the Tarot Club, Leonard had given Klein some general knowledge about the underground city, but that information was from three hundred years ago. Since the underground city was built illegally on abandoned underground buildings, there were a lot of variables, and the lifespan of each underground city area was very random. Leonard could not guarantee that his information was still reliable.

But what surprised Klein was that after Leonard fell, he immediately recognized that the passage outside led to Evernight Harbor, and quickly explained the situation to Klein in his dream. This showed that Evernight Harbor had existed before the Sky Curtain War and had lasted for at least three hundred years.

Anything that can survive this time, whether it is a person or a force, is worthy of awe.

From Leonard's previous intelligence, we can learn that the predecessor of Evernight Port was an abandoned mine, a huge underground engineering system built for the purpose of mining minerals. It was built during the heyday of the electrical age and was abandoned a hundred years later. Before the information age, the Church of Night discovered that some people were entrenched here, and Evernight Port was established since then.

The reason why Yongye Port has survived for more than 300 years is closely related to the various passages left over from the mining era. Yongye Port further excavated some underground passages until they were connected to other relatively stable underground cities, and used the remaining electric tracks to establish transportation. The high tolls and transportation costs have become one of the pillars of Yongye Port's survival to this day.

But from Leonard's reaction just now, it seemed that the people guarding the gate were just a few thugs, and it was not a toll-free passage. If you want to use the tunnels or transportation carefully operated by Evernight Harbor, you have to leave a large sum of money.

But in contrast, most corridors are deserted - you can try, but Evernight Port is not responsible whether you die there.

It seems that the mine was not so far from the ground at the beginning, but because no one maintained it after it was abandoned, and coupled with land subsidence, this underground building moved farther and farther away from the ground, and finally became the current Evernight Port.

"Subsidence," Leonard emphasized the word.

For Backlund Underground City, "subsidence" sometimes does not simply refer to a physical effect, but may also be some extraordinary disaster.

Most underground cities close to the ground cities can often retain their original life-support systems, so it is not difficult to rebuild the living environment. However, these underground buildings that are farther away often lose their connection with the ground due to "settlement". However, as an underground city with stable living conditions, a reliable life-support system and material channels are essential.

Therefore, to be able to build such a stable underground city in a deep ruin that has undergone physical or extraordinary "settlement", it is very likely that there is an extraordinary force behind it.

Klein suddenly remembered the information Scott had sent him.

Under this endless expanse of earth, how much of the prosperity that once belonged to Backlund, the "Land of Hope", is there?