Fantasy Game: Infinite City

"Woo~"

A day later, the train arrived at its stop in Chuangu County.

The station in Kawaki County is very clean and tidy. There are four railway tracks on the platform. The train carrying Han Zu and Saori is parked on the rightmost track.

Of the three railroad tracks on the left, the one closest to Han Zu had no trains stopped, but there were some people wearing Prajna masks, not sure if they were humans or something else, who were inspecting the tracks.

There was also a train parked on the second track, with quite a few people standing next to it. The strange thing was that only people were getting on the train, no one was getting off, and almost everyone was wearing similar clothes. Both men and women wore traditional Japanese kimonos, but in different colors.

There was no train stopping on the leftmost track, but there were many monsters with animal features standing on the platform, seemingly waiting for the arrival of the train.

"Sir, sir? We have arrived in Chuangu County."

Saori gently pushed Han Zu's arm while he was sleeping. Han Zu closed his eyes and waved his hand.

"I'll sleep a little longer. No rush. Hehe..."

"Yes."

After yawning, Han Zu turned over and fell asleep again. Saori also sat back on the sofa and closed her eyes to rest.

"Woo~"

After an unknown amount of time, the whistle sounded again, but it was from another train. The train drove out of the station, and the number of people in the station suddenly decreased by one third.

Shortly after the train left, those people wearing Prajna masks seemed to have completed the track maintenance and left the station. Now, only Han Zu's train and those monsters were left in the station.

"Ah..."

Han Zu woke up with a yawn, moved his body up a little, and put his legs on the table. He pushed the coat covering his body aside, took off the military cap covering his face, and put it on the table.

"My lord, you are awake."

"Um..."

Han Zu, who had just woken up, was a little groggy, with sleepy eyes and a somewhat unfocused gaze.

"Pour your Excellency a cup of hot tea."

The faceless man behind the bar nodded, walked out of the bar, took out an iron kettle from the hollowed-out internal organs of the red ghost, returned to the bar, took out an exquisite teacup that was obviously brought on the train from somewhere else, brewed a cup of hot tea, and held the teacup in both hands and placed it on Han Zu's table.

"Whoo~"

Han Zu blew away the hot air gently, drank a sip of tea, and felt much more energetic. He stretched his neck, and Saori stood up, sat next to Han Zu, and stretched out her hand to massage Han Zu's shoulders. The slit-mouthed woman in an evening dress also came over and massaged Han Zu's legs.

"Sir, we have arrived at the station in Kawaki County."

"Is there anything unusual in the station?"

Han Zu asked questions while enjoying his massage. Saori and the slit-mouthed woman told him what happened in the station just now. Han Zu pointed towards the carriage window on the left. The faceless man walked over and pulled open the wooden brocade demon that served as a blackout curtain.

Looking at the large group of monsters not far away, Han Zu said to the faceless man thoughtfully,

"See if there's anything suitable. Oh, and add some fuel to the train."

The faceless man bowed and instantly disappeared inside the carriage. A few seconds later, the roars and fighting sounds of monsters were heard outside the carriage. Beams of light composed of monster power, light balls, and a series of attacks or spells created considerable light pollution.

Seeing Han Zu frowned, Sazhi waved her hand and pulled the "blackout curtain" on the car window to block the light pollution outside.

"Sir, do we want to..."

"Go find them. As long as they don't cause me any trouble, ignore them. Otherwise, get rid of them."

"Yes."

The slit-mouthed woman stood up and turned into a wisp of smoke with a floral scent, floating towards other carriages, but not long after, she came back again.

"Sir, they are missing. We have searched the other carriages as well. They must have left the train earlier."

"Then just ignore it for now."

A few minutes later, the station became quiet. The faceless man returned to the carriage, holding two small monsters in his hands. The monsters' limbs were tied with white threads, unable to break free. Their mouths were pierced by threads, unable to open. The monsters twisted their bodies frantically, trying to escape from the faceless man's clutches.

"Okay, let's make some soup, something light for the morning. Remember to add some fuel to the train."

The faceless man placed the monster on the floor of the bar kitchen and teleported to the front of the car. This place was full of cores left behind after the death of souls, filling up most of the front of the car, leaving almost no place to stand.

The faceless man waved his hand, and a large number of cores fell into the carriage. He grabbed a handful and threw them into the boiler at the front of the train. A happy sound came from inside, and it sounded like the man was a little full.

Back in Han Zu's carriage, the faceless man processed the ingredients neatly, and before long, a pot of fragrant hot soup was placed on Han Zu's table.

"Let's eat together."

If it weren't for the monsters around, this would have been a pretty normal scene, but now it seems very strange.

After eating and drinking, Han Zu gave a few instructions to the faceless man, put on his coat, held a cigar in his mouth, and walked off the train with Saori. After a few steps, his back disappeared into the station on the platform.

Inside Han Zu's carriage.

"What did he just say?"

The slit-mouthed woman sat on the sofa that originally belonged to Han Zu, playing with the empty teacup.

The faceless man didn't say anything, but took something out of his pocket and threw it to the woman with the slit mouth.

"What is this? A watch with only the dial left?"

The faceless man moved his fingers, and some white lines appeared in front of the slit-mouthed woman, forming Fuso language characters.

"If he doesn't come back in two days, start the train and leave here."

The slit-mouthed woman slumped on the sofa, crossing her legs. Her thin evening dress revealed her smooth and slender legs. She snapped her fingers, and a lady's cigarette appeared in her hand. Puffing out smoke, she continued her conversation with the faceless man.

"So he's a living person? And he has weirdly powerful powers?"

The faceless man's white lines reorganized, and a line of words appeared in front of the slit woman.

"No, he just looks like it."

Outside the Kawaguchiko County Station.

Standing under the sign in front of the station, Han Zu's eyes were dazed and he stood there not knowing what he was thinking.

After spending the past few days together, Saori discovered that Han Zu always made this move, but the duration was different each time. Especially this time, Han Zu took an exceptionally long time, and the cigar in his hand was even extinguished.

After a while, Han Zu returned to normal, relit his cigar, walked down the stairs in front of the station and came to the street.

There were not many people on the street, but there was one interesting thing: although it was not raining, almost everyone on the street was holding an umbrella. They seemed to have no purpose, just wandering around the street like headless flies.

Han Zu approached a person randomly and grabbed her. From her appearance, she looked like a high school girl. He pushed away the umbrella in her hand and looked at the student in front of him carefully. After seeing clearly, Han Zu frowned.

The rest of the body of the female student in front of him was normal, but the head that was previously blocked by the umbrella looked very strange, as if the texture was missing, or it was a transparent template whose appearance design had not been completed, but she had normal hair.

Han Zu snatched the umbrella from the female student's hand. The female student suddenly maintained the last posture before the umbrella was taken away, and froze in place, motionless. Han Zu reached out and touched her face, and felt a strange touch on his hand.

It feels more like elastic jelly than skin.

Putting the umbrella back into the female student's hands, she started moving again after a few seconds and walked slowly in the direction she had been going before.

"These... people are very strange, sir. They are more like some kind of afterimages left behind. The souls I feel in their bodies are..."

"Incomplete?"

"No, on the contrary, the souls of these people are not incomplete, but have an extra part. This part seems to be forcibly sewn onto their souls by a spell. The spells look complicated, but their effects are very crude."

Han Zu recalled the information he had just seen through the drone swarm. This Kawaki County was not small. In fact, according to Fuso's urban planning, this place should not be so big.

Within the field of vision of the drone swarm, there are actually quite a few people holding umbrellas on the street, but their locations are very scattered. However, judging from their movement routes, these guys do not have a clear destination and are really just wandering around.

"There must be some pattern here. If it were me, I would never use such a complicated method to produce such a large amount of "waste"."

"My Lord, what do you think?"

"Chuangu County is located in a place surrounded by the sea on two sides and mountains on one side. Only to the east where we are now is a plain. With such a geographical location, the main buildings of government agencies should be very close to us."

Han Zu exhaled a puff of smoke and checked the surroundings again through the bee swarm. He did not find any major government buildings. After thinking for a while, Han Zu decided to rely on the physical characteristics of this body, whose specific functions he did not know. Four or five blocks in front of Han Zu, there was a three-story residential building. The residential building emitted a unique pulse signal, which Han Zu's physical characteristics clearly sensed.

"Go this way."

With Saori, Han Zu followed the location he sensed and walked forward steadily. After walking through a block, Han Zu saw a small square surrounded by buildings. This small square was very unusual. There was a torii at the entrance. The torii was only half on the left, but for some reason it did not collapse.

In the middle of the small square is a well, which looks like a cultural relic. The edge of the well is a little damaged, but other than that it is very clean.

It looked normal, but Han Zu frowned, because Han Zu didn't see this place at all in the swarm's vision, even now.

"Saori, tell me what you saw between those buildings."

"Yes, sir, this is..."

What Saori saw was the same as what Han Zu saw, with no difference. That meant that this was either an illusion, or it was an advanced illusion that even Saori could not distinguish.

Walking past the Torii Gate and coming to the well, Han Zu squatted down, closed his eyes, and placed one hand on the edge of the well. The feeling on his hand was no different from what he had seen before, indicating that this place really existed and was not an illusion.

Standing up, he looked into the well. It was very dark underneath, and seemed to be quite deep. He picked up a small stone from the ground and threw it into the well. After a full minute, he could hear the faint sound of water.

Han Zu's eyes turned dark in an instant. He looked down into the well again and saw clearly what was inside. There was nothing unusual. There were some signs of water corrosion on the well wall. There was well water below, but it looked a little turbid.

"What's the matter, sir? Did you find anything?"

Han Zu didn't say anything, but raised his chin towards a place behind Sazhi. Sazhi turned around and found a large number of people with umbrellas appearing from all directions. Their number was still increasing and the speed was getting faster and faster. Soon, they surrounded the place and no one could get in or out.

The umbrellas in the hands of the crowd suddenly melted into liquid and flowed to the ground, and the crowd stood still. Some colorful lines appeared from the circle of people closest to Han Zu and Sazhi, and the lines entangled with each other to form a big net, covering the entire square.

The large net composed of colorful lines emitted colorful light, which quickly dissipated to form a transparent barrier. As more and more colorful lines appeared outside the barrier, the thickness of the barrier became thicker and thicker. Saori tried to destroy the barrier, but the barrier was very strong. Saori, who was not yet proficient in using her abilities, was unable to destroy the solid barrier.

Saori then tried to directly absorb souls to cross the barrier and kill the people outside, but because the barrier has a weakening ability, Saori's actions were ineffective and she could not destroy the barrier from the outside.

"My Lord, I can't do it. Maybe I can use your power and we..."

Han Zu raised his hand and interrupted Saori's suggestion. Han Zu had no desire to attack, of course, it was only temporary.

According to Han Zu's deduction, one of the roles of these created people should be to use their numerical advantage to create an indestructible and solid barrier to isolate enemies or important locations.

Although Han Zu's attack could kill a large number of people at once, considering the number of people, doing so would definitely waste a lot of time, and Han Zu's attention was not on this for the time being. He was more curious about the well in front of him.

"Saori, come here."

"What's wrong, sir? Oh!"

Han Zu picked up Sazhi, and Sazhi wrapped her arms around Han Zu's neck and clamped her legs around Han Zu's waist. Han Zu held Sazhi's waist with one hand and pointed at the ground with the other hand. Without any warning, he jumped into the well holding Sazhi.

After a while, the sound of heavy objects falling into water was heard from the well.

“Buzz~!!”

There was a roar of a large number of aircraft engines coming from the air. This time, several bombers appeared in the sky. They dropped a large number of bombs with the small square where Han Zu disappeared as the center.

"boom!"

Explosions continued one after another, and several blocks were turned into a blazing sea of ​​fire. A large number of people were burned to ashes. After they died, the people behind them once again stepped into the sea of ​​fire and were also burned to ashes.

However, even though there were heavy casualties in front, the barrier surrounding the small square remained strong and was not affected at all.