Mysteries: Arcana Wars

The black smoke and the illusion dissipated together, followed by the familiar feeling of dizziness and nausea.

The aftereffects of the illusion became stronger and stronger. Even though Melissa only stayed in Klein's world for two minutes, he could still feel his hands and feet becoming numb and out of control. Fortunately, the illusion lasted only two minutes. The confused feeling of having the senses misplaced gradually subsided after ten deep breaths.

After that experience on the road, everyone was used to Klein's sudden madness. But when Klein was silent for a moment, raised his hand and pressed the buttons in the correct order to open the door, Evan looked at the adventurer with a strange look in his eyes.

With the roar of motors and the sound of machinery running, the heavy iron door opened and a group of people walked in one after another.

After entering Hazel Street, Klein was somewhat surprised by the scenery before him.

Compared to the chaos and wild growth of other underground cities, Hazel Street is obviously much cleaner and tidier. All the supporting structures and partition structures are combined in a reasonable way. The height of the entire underground space is more than ten meters, and the small buildings next to it are three stories high. Its ceiling is different from the rough form of exposed structures and network cables in other underground cities. Instead, it is organized with a certain grid structure. Although it does not use a suspended ceiling to cover the equipment like the above-ground buildings, it still makes the entire ceiling space much neater.

The underground city in front of him actually looked a bit like Backlund's old street above ground, especially the mechanical equipment clinging to the buildings and the huge and complex substation at the street corners, as if they were the legacy of the electrical revolution hundreds of years ago. The conspicuous Nixie clock hung on the ceiling in the middle of the street, indicating that the time was already past midnight. Perhaps this was why there were not many people on Hazel Street now. The empty street corners were only filled with arcs from old equipment from time to time. In a trance, Klein even suspected that he had fallen into a historical gap and came to the glorious electrical age.

This is a carefully designed dungeon.

It was born to be a neighborhood buried deep underground. Most other underground cities are transformed from abandoned underground spaces. Unprofessional spaces and unprofessional transformations make their normal operation precarious, and they cannot be compared with places like Hazel Street that are designed to be underground neighborhoods.

A nameplate hangs below the Nixie tube clock. This nameplate is relatively new and is engraved in Rune.

[Backlund Underground 3427 (strokes) 3430 (strokes) (many unclear numbers) 3441 meters, Hazel Street]

It seems that this underground city was originally planned to be built at a depth of 3427 meters underground, but during subsequent use it subsided a little and reached a depth of 3441 meters.

Occasionally, between the houses on both sides of the street, there were some places replaced by huge electric motors. This should be one of the infrastructures of this underground city, but the technology used is very old. Klein has only seen pictures in university textbooks. It should be a product from the electrical age. It seems that the Hazel Street underground city was built in the electrical age. In the past few hundred years, it has only sunk down a dozen meters, which is within the normal range of subsidence.

This place is indeed very different from the various dungeons Klein has passed by, and the biggest difference between Hazel Street and other dungeons is order.

The order in the dungeon is often a state of wild growth, which is more disorderly than stable. The order between people is often set by a powerful force occupying the dungeon, or by unreliable interdependence and fragile social structure between people. Yongye Port is recognized as a relatively stable place, but the order of Yongye Port relies entirely on the personal power of its boss and their rules of "equal exchange" and "honesty". It can even be said that the order of Yongye Port only exists in trading relationships. As for the various thefts, murders, frauds, etc. that occur in the city, the boss will not intervene unless it endangers the safety of Yongye Port's power.

But on Hazel Street, Klein vaguely sensed a completely different order. This simple and plain order was a bit like Backlund on the ground, or even a bit like some kind of giant factory.

"It's getting late. According to the clock on Hazel Street, it's 'closing' time. No one will pay attention to you except for places like hotels and restaurants."

Evan glanced at the red Nixie clock in the distance.

"We plan to find a place to stay for the night and then go to work tomorrow. I suggest you do the same and find a place to rest first."

The three of them looked at each other, then agreed to Evan's proposal and followed Evan to a hotel to rest.

"Well, guests, it's time for us to say goodbye."

Miss Christine flicked her tail gracefully and jumped from Evan's shoulder to Evan's chicken coop head.

“We have things we need to do. In about two weeks, we will set out from here and return to Evernight Harbor.

"According to the boss's instructions, we are only responsible for taking you to Hazel Street, not taking you back to Evernight Harbor. But if you want to follow us back then, just meet us here in two weeks. The price per person is 150 Rune gold pounds.

"Of course, if you suddenly want us to take you back immediately during this period, then there will be a different price, usually 500 Ruen gold pounds per person. If you are carrying any goods or have any enemies or pursuers behind you, you will have to pay more."

"So expensive?!" Fors asked in surprise, "Can't we just go back the same way?"

As soon as she asked this question, Fors immediately discovered the problem. The road that Evan and Miss Christine took them on was not a regular route, but a shortcut with danger and uncertainty. There were many stone roads that were rarely traveled along the way, and it was easier to go down than to go up. If they wanted to return to Evernight Harbor from Hazel Street, they could either take the most common regular route or bypass the one-way street and develop a shortcut. But Fors didn't know either of these two routes.

"Madam, in the dungeon, the route is life, and this price is not expensive. Of course, you can also find other guides, but I believe that other guides charge more." The black cat said lightly while licking his paw. He was very confident in his and Evan's ability to lead the way.

Klein and Leonard looked at each other and said they would consider this suggestion. Then they thanked the two guides for their help and said goodbye to them. After Forth rested, Klein and Leonard discussed it and decided to try to collect some information before meeting with Tesla siblings tomorrow.

So Leonard was in charge of keeping watch in the room, while Klein came to a bar that was still open, ordered some food, sat down, and secretly observed the customers.

Just like the atmosphere Klein felt at the beginning, compared to the attitude of drinkers on Earthworm Island in Evernight Harbor who were wary of each other, the atmosphere of the tavern on Hazel Street was obviously much more peaceful. Although it did not reach the normal level of taverns on the ground, it was not as bad as that in Evernight Harbor.

This shows that the Tesla family has a strong dominance over Hazel Street. Perhaps the entire Hazel Street is under the control of the Tesla family, and they have spent a lot of effort to maintain the stability of this underground city. It is even possible that this underground city was designed and built by the Tesla family from the beginning.

So, why did the Tesla family spend so much effort to build such a secluded base three thousand meters underground?

While he was daydreaming, Klein suddenly had an idea. Then a large white object rushed in from the door of the bar, and then circled around Klein's feet affectionately.

"Hey, Sota, what are you doing? Come back here!"

A fair-skinned young man ran in from the bar door in a panic, grabbed the dog leash again, and then kept apologizing to the adventurer who looked difficult to deal with.

"I'm sorry! I'm so sorry! It was my negligence. Sota has never been like this before... I'm sorry, this is really an accident. Can I buy you a drink as my apology?"

Klein looked up, and a familiar face jumped out of his memory.

This is his old colleague when he was a programmer at Speedy Feather: Kerrich Andu!