Fantasy Game: Infinite City

11:21 pm, inside the jewelry store.

The group of women stared at the person in front of them who had just walked into the jewelry store wearing heavy armor. They didn't know whether it was a human or a ghost. Although they didn't look abnormal, in fact all of them quietly reached their dominant hands behind their backs, ready to deal with any possible battle at any time.

However, the armored thing at the door did not seem to be prepared to fight with them. It might also be that he simply did not take these women seriously. The helmet covered by the veil just glanced around casually, and then he no longer paid attention to the women around him and started moving again.

“Boom…Boom…Boom…”

The jewelry store was very quiet. Apart from the heavy footsteps of the man in armor, there was no other sound. The man in armor seemed to be very purposeful. He walked straight through the women, stopped in front of a wall, and then stood facing the wall, temporarily stopping moving.

The woman called "sister" gestured to the others, telling them not to act rashly, and slowly faced the armor, cautiously backing away from it. After they gathered together again, "sister" winked, and one of the women pulled out a corner of a piece of brown paper from the gap between her chest. The two exchanged glances, nodded to each other, and stuffed the brown paper back.

However, these women did not seem to intend to leave, as if there was some secret in this jewelry store. But the armored creature in front of them prevented them from making any offensive moves for the time being, and they could only stare at the next move of the armor.

"Tsk~~"

Soon, a harsh sound similar to nails scratching on a blackboard broke the silence in the jewelry store. It was the sound of the sharp claws on the gauntlets of the armor rubbing against the wall. Just as everyone looked at each other, wondering what the armor was going to do, the gauntlets of the armor suddenly pierced into the wall, removing a large piece of the wall, revealing something. It was a mechanical device hidden under the thick wall, which looked like a switch to turn on something.

"Ka...Ka-la."

"boom..."

The suit of armor pulled the lever of the mechanical device, and something seemed to vibrate. The suit of armor suddenly turned around and walked to the center of the jewelry store. Then it suddenly lifted up several display cabinets at that location, threw them aside, and lifted the carpet underneath. Sure enough, a vertical downward secret passage entrance was slowly opening.

“It’s actually here…”

Those women seemed to be looking for something as well. They were indeed not the owners of the jewelry store. One or two of them exchanged glances with "Sister" and wanted to go down and take a look, but "Sister" did not respond to them. Instead, she continued to stare at the armor.

The man in armor walked to the front of the secret passage and jumped down without even looking. It took two or three seconds before the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground was heard.

"Sister, we should go down too. The things we are looking for are probably where this secret passage leads to."

"Sister" held her forehead and did not respond immediately. She stared at the entrance of the secret passage, hesitating about something, but the other people around her temporarily dispelled her hesitation with a few words.

"I know you didn't ask us to act rashly just now because you saw that the guy in the armor is a very powerful person, but we have to go down and find what we want. This is our chance to truly gain freedom."

"Besides, since the guy in the armor knows how to use the mechanical device, it means that he is not an evil spirit, but just playing tricks. For our freedom, we are willing to sacrifice our lives. Should we stop just because of a powerful weirdo?"

The words of the people around made the woman they called "sister" temporarily suppress the uneasiness in her heart. She gave an order and waved her hand, and everyone followed "sister" and jumped down to the entrance of the secret passage without hesitation.

"Hu~~"

Just before everyone was about to touch the ground, a strong wind blew up from the ground without a source, greatly slowing down their falling speed and allowing them to land steadily on the ground. After standing firm and counting the number of people, everyone began to look around.

This should be a secret vault with the power system turned off. From the hundreds of embedded safes of various shapes that make up the surrounding walls, it can be roughly judged that there should be a huge space built in one piece. The space here is not divided, and there are no complicated corridors and passages. There are only some filing cabinets that are also tightly locked, serving as a distinction.

“Boom…Boom…Boom…”

The heavy footsteps did not disappear, but were a little far away. Everyone could still hear them clearly. However, the source of the sound, the guy wearing heavy armor, should be on the other side of the room.

"Hurry up and try not to run into that weird armor."

Everyone quickly began to search, while deliberately avoiding the strange guy in armor, but neither they nor the guy in armor seemed to find what they wanted. After spending some time opening all the locked safes, everyone began to search through the mountains of documents, archives, ancient books, treasures and various strange things.

The identities of this group of women are very mysterious. They came to Q City before the manager of this urban area, who is also the person in charge of the trading center, fled. At that time, the rebels had not yet begun to attack Q City. It is unknown which force they belong to, but they have been looking for something in secret, and the location of this thing should be in the secret room under this jewelry store where they are currently.

In fact, there is another detail. The person in charge of this city did not flee because of the strange rumors. In fact, he fled because of these women. He seemed to have learned some information about these women in some unknown way. After confirming the accuracy of the information, he immediately fled here and was secretly controlled by the people of the unlimited company. However, these women should have no relationship with the unlimited company.

The leader of this group of women, who was called "Sister", never took her eyes off the strange guy in armor from beginning to end. Of course, she didn't stare directly at the direction of the armor. Ever since that guy appeared in front of them, she felt an extremely powerful force from him, which was also a strange force that could make her soul nauseous. That force had nothing to do with the armor. On the contrary, it could be said that the armor was being eroded little by little by the strange force. Although the guy in the armor knew how to operate the mechanical device, the armor should be a person, or at least something that could think. However, this force that could not be ignored, which made her soul nauseous and was even eroding a lifeless armor, gradually made "Sister" think wildly. She began to gradually doubt whether the rumors she heard in the past few days were really rumors?

"Sister, what's wrong with you? Is it because of that guy?"

"Well, I always feel... something is weird. Did you find anything? I always have a bad feeling. I think we should leave here quickly."

"Come to think of it, that guy does give people a feeling of... how should I put it? Physically and mentally feeling uncomfortable..."

"Keep your voice down, maybe that guy can hear you..."

Everyone looked in the direction of the armor and gradually quieted down. They continued to search for what they needed from the piles of debris. After nearly half an hour, one of the women waved the fluorescent device in the direction of "sister". She seemed to have found something.

"I found the "sister", this should be it."

"open to take a look!"

What was found was a bag made of tanned animal skins, the mouth of the bag was tied with an oil-soaked rope and tied into a knot. The woman who found the bag snapped her fingers, and a frost fragment that could be used as a dagger suddenly appeared in her hand. She used the frost fragment to separate the rope, turned the bag over, and poured the contents into the hands of her companion who was waiting below.

There wasn't much in the bag, just a piece of parchment with strange words engraved on it, a few dry branches as long as fingers, and half a piece of something engraved on the kraft paper, which looked like a map or a ritual pattern.

"jingle."

"what is this?"

After shaking the bag, something that didn't fit in with the bag and its other contents fell to the ground. When I picked it up, it seemed to be a strange solvent, packed in a metal, well-sealed reagent bottle.

"The color seems to be... gray?"

"There's no sign on it, so I don't know what's inside."

"It doesn't matter. We only need this half piece of kraft paper. We don't need the other things. Pass it on. Everyone, memorize all the symbols of the pattern on the kraft paper, including their positions!"

"Understood, sis."

Starting with "Sister", the women immediately began passing the half piece of brown paper and writing down what was on it.

"It's coming."

"Sister" suddenly said a short and confusing sentence, which attracted the attention of the other women. Just when everyone was wondering what was coming, the heavy footsteps coming from afar told them the exact answer.

When they looked up, they saw the strange armor standing behind them. Everyone immediately turned over and distanced themselves, drawing their weapons. Their weapons were almost identical except for some minor differences in appearance, all of which were polymer vibration daggers and gallows carrying high-voltage electricity. From a structural point of view, these gallows seemed to be able to be combined with those polymer vibration daggers to form another weapon similar to rope darts.

These women moved incredibly fast. While they were distancing themselves from the armor, they tore off the decorations or hems of their clothes that hindered their movements. When they assumed fighting stances, they could see that their clothes were unusual. A lot of energy was flowing rapidly between the fabrics. These thin-looking clothes should have high defensive capabilities.

However, the battle did not take place. Although the suit of armor extended the sharp claws on the left handguard towards them, it only extended one finger. Following the direction of the finger, it could be confirmed that the suit of armor was pointing at the metal sealed reagent bottle that had just fallen out of the bag.

"Give it the thing. We don't need it."

After thinking about it, the "sister" gave an order, and the woman under her threw the thing to the armor. After the armor grabbed the metal sealed reagent bottle, it no longer paid attention to them, took two steps back, turned around, and from the side, it could be seen that the thing in the armor seemed to have lifted the veil covering the face in front of the helmet.

"Click."

“Gulp..Gulp…”

Just when these women were confused, they heard a sound of something being cut. It should be the sealed metal reagent bottle being violently opened, and then they heard the sound of swallowing liquid.

"Boom... Boom... Clank! Clank..."

Everyone noticed that after drinking the bottle of solvent, the armor put down its veil again and stepped forward to leave. However, it had not taken a few steps when it suddenly lost its balance and fell to its knees with a loud noise. Even the floor tiles were smashed to pieces where it knelt. Then an even more bizarre scene appeared. The armor suddenly lost its internal support. The gauntlets, helmet, and shin guards suddenly fell to the ground. The helmet rolled twice and then stopped steadily on the ground.