Fantasy Game: Infinite City

At 9 o'clock in the morning, Han Zu woke up from his sleep.

Scratching his face, Han Zu sat up, subconsciously reached for the cigar box on the table, took out a cigar and hung it in his mouth, fumbling for the lighter, which was not on the coffee table, so it might have fallen somewhere.

“Suck, suck, suck…”

Lu An's voice came from the side. Turning his head, Han Zu saw Lu An sitting on the carpet next to him, teasing the two Death Realm Hounds.

"Awake? I don't know when these two guys appeared. I saw them as soon as I woke up and walked out of the bedroom."

Han Zu opened his mouth and wanted to say something in return, but found that he could not make a sound.

He reached out and rubbed his throat, but it didn't work. He couldn't speak. Han Zu pointed at his throat and shook his head to Lu An.

"what happened?"

Han Zu took the phone and typed on it.

“I can’t seem to speak.”

"Ah? What's going on?"

“Not sure, maybe we need to go to the hospital.”

"Um... Is it because you smoke too much?"

"What are you talking about! Impossible, absolutely impossible!"

"It just so happens that I have a college classmate who works in a hospital. I'll help you contact him."

Lu An took out his cell phone and searched through the address book, but Han Zu's phone rang. It was Han Zu's calendar reminder.

"No need for now, I have something to go back to my hometown for."

"Is there something wrong with your relatives?"

"No, my parents are both only children, and we don't have any close relatives. I want to go back to worship my ancestors and burn some incense and paper for my parents."

"Oh... My condolences. Wait, are we offering sacrifices to our ancestors now? Isn't it only October? According to the customs of our City C, shouldn't we offer sacrifices to our ancestors before the New Year or before the New Year?"

"My family is a little special. My parents taught me this way since I was a child, including when I was five years old. My grandfather was still alive at that time, and he also worshipped his ancestors in October."

"Oh, then can I help you find a car? This place is not close to the airport."

"Thank you very much. I will pay for the ride myself."

"Um... can I go back with you?"

"?"

"I don't mean anything else! You can't talk right now, it must be very inconvenient, and the Infinite City is also under maintenance these two days, so I don't have anything to do, so what do you think..."

“You don’t have to go to work?”

Han Zu thought of something and quickly typed a line of words on his mobile phone.

“Oh, by the way, I forgot you are a rich second generation.”

"Ah... If possible, I really don't want to stay in my house..."

"Okay, then you can call a taxi for me. You can take two thick clothes. I'll play with the dog for a while."

Putting down his phone, Han Zu pulled the two Death Realm Hounds over and stroked the two cute little guys.

"Woo!"

The hounds rubbed against Han Zu affectionately, their tails wagging happily.

To Han Zu, the sudden appearance of the two Death Hounds brought him nothing but happiness. He tried to feed them some food and unexpectedly found that they were not picky eaters at all. They ate everything, including raw meat, vegetables, fruits, and snacks. They accepted everything and ate it all.

They were very intelligent and could almost completely understand Han Zu's meaning, even though Han Zu couldn't speak now. They hardly made any sound, except when Han Zu teased them, they would make some happy noises. They were usually very quiet, and they didn't seem to need to go to the toilet. Of course, there was one thing Han Zu liked most about them.

They don’t shed at all.

After playing with the two Death Hounds for a while, Han Zu felt a little hungry, so he got some food and had a simple meal with Lu An. After the meal, Lu An took out his phone, called a car, and then took out a suitcase and loaded the luggage into it.

Han Zu didn't have much to pack, so he put his cell phone and house keys in his pocket and sat on the sofa waiting.

"Toot~!"

Half an hour later, a truck whistle was heard outside the warehouse.

“You called a truck?”

"What else? You can't take a normal car."

"If that's the case, I think we can take these two little guys with us."

"Take them?"

"Woo!"

The two hounds were very happy to hear Lu An's words, and they wagged their tails and acted coquettishly towards Han Zu and Lu An.

"Oh, so cute! Okay, but do you have something to tie them up? Although it is no longer illegal to keep wild animals, you have to be able to control them so that the relevant authorities won't cause trouble for you."

“That’s easy!”

Han Zu came to the storage room on the other side of the warehouse. Although the door was not locked, Lu An and even Han Zu rarely went in.

From the storage room, Han Zu quickly took out two very strong iron chains with iron rings on one side. They looked like they were used to tie up some ferocious beasts.

"Why do you have this thing at home?"

"This warehouse originally belonged to a circus. When I bought it, there were still some tiger chains and fire rings left. They were hardly used, so they were basically new."

"Is there still a circus in City C?"

"No, it went bankrupt the year Infinite City was released, so I was able to buy this warehouse cheaply."

"Oh, let's go then."

After taking the chains, the two hounds were very obedient and stretched their necks to let Han Zu put the chains on them. Han Zu tied the other end of the chain around his waist, put on his coat, and left the warehouse with Lu An, who was carrying a small suitcase, and got on the truck.

Han Zu and the hounds could only sit in the container at the back of the truck, while Lu An sat in the co-pilot seat. From the paint job on the outside of the truck, it should be a truck used exclusively by a company, probably from Lu An's family.

"I can call a transport plane from my family's company, so we can save time waiting at the airport. Where is your hometown?"

I opened my phone and saw a voice message from Lu An.

After telling the address, the truck started and drove towards the airport. Han Zu leaned in the container and touched his throat, but still couldn't make a sound.

Han Zu quickly discovered something.

The container was fully enclosed, so after closing the container, Han Zu should not be able to see anything. However, now he could clearly see everything in the container, such as the two hounds lying beside him and licking their teeth.

There are ventilation facilities in the container, but the tiny pipes are spring-type, so they are not light-transmissive. Generally speaking, it is difficult for ordinary people to detect the location of the ventilation facilities. However, Han Zu is different. He can clearly sense the direction of air flow.

Han Zu also discovered that his body had also undergone some changes. He couldn't describe the specific manifestations, but he could feel that his muscles seemed to be much denser, and the surface of his skin seemed to be harder than before.

"Ah.."

His throat felt a little tight, and Han Zu coughed subconsciously. He was able to make sounds, but he was still some distance away from being able to speak.

Han Zu simply stopped thinking about these things for the time being and took out his cell phone to play.

After dozens of minutes, the truck slowly slowed down, turned a few corners, and then stopped. The truck's engine turned off, the surroundings became quiet, and Han Zu heard the sound of the car door closing.

"Clang!"

"Here, get out of the car."

Lu An knocked on the container several times and opened the door. Han Zu got out with two hounds. The container was clean, so Han Zu's pants were not stained with dust. He and Lu An came to a loading area on the apron. There was a small private plane refueling nearby.

"Let's go, that's the one. The airport you mentioned is not big, and large transport planes can't land normally, so I called a private plane and asked you and the dogs to make do in the cargo hold."

Han Zu shrugged, he didn't care.

After getting on the plane, soon the plane completed the fuel supply, entered the runway, began to taxi, raised the nose, took off smoothly, retracted the landing gear, and flew steadily.

Lu An was lying in his seat, using his tablet to browse the official website of Infinite City to see if there was any new information, but apart from the maintenance announcement, there was nothing new.

Opening the forum of Infinite City, players did not pay much attention to this maintenance, but one post caught Lu An's attention.

A player claimed that he found something strange while traveling. He found a village in a foreign country that was exactly the same as the Infinite City dungeon he had entered. The furnishings and villagers inside were exactly the same as the dungeon. In the place he remembered, he actually found the traces he had left in the dungeon, and a child in the village actually recognized him, which made him feel very strange. He gave one of his ornaments to the child. After the trip ended and he returned home, the player entered the dungeon again and actually found the ornament he gave to the child, but the child no longer recognized him.

There aren't many comments under the post, but some players have said that they encountered the same situation. Some of the comments below have not been refreshed yet.

I refreshed the page and the entire post disappeared abruptly. It must have been deleted by the official.

"strangeness..."

Lu An was just about to look for some more relevant information, but suddenly he was overcome by an irresistible sleepiness and fell into a deep sleep.

When he woke up again, the plane had arrived over the destination airport and was slowing down in preparation for landing, and Lu An had completely forgotten what had just happened.

The plane opened its landing gear and landed on the runway. After a short taxiing, the plane landed smoothly. The plane moved to the hangar not far away and stopped steadily inside. The hangar was very old and looked quite old.

Lu An got off the plane and waited in the hangar for Han Zu and his hounds in the cargo hold. He took out his cell phone and prepared to make a call.

"Strange, why is there no signal?"

"Woo!"

There was a hound barking behind him, and the hound rubbed Lu An's hand, so Lu An touched the hound's face. Han Zu took out his cell phone and typed on it.

"Come on, let's go this way."

"I don't have a signal on my phone. I was trying to call a car. Do you have a signal on your phone?"

Han Zu turned his hand over, took a look, and shook his head.

"What should I do? This airport looks very small, and I don't even see a terminal..."

Walking out of the hangar, Lu An looked around. Han Zu patted her on the shoulder and pointed to a place in the distance, a small bungalow of more than ten square meters. He typed a few words on the phone and handed it to Lu An.

“Departure lounge.”

"Ah? If you hadn't told me, I would have thought it was the guard room. Why is it so small?"

"It's an old city. This city was one of the first cities to build an airport. It must have been there for at least 50 years."

"It can't be that old! No one has built a new one in all these years? It's okay to just renovate it!"

"After the industrial process ended, young people and young adults gradually left here. If it weren't for the huge industrial contribution back then, this place would have become a town instead of a city. Now, the ones who remain here are basically some elderly people, or some young people of the same age as us who are tired of the deadly pace of life in big cities."