There is no guarantee for the lottery? So what?

Qi Jing and Tan Zuoyin arrived at the east gate, holding hands.

On the east side, there are three gates; the two smaller gates on the left and right allow direct access to the Yuandao Bund.

The central east gate is significantly larger than the south gate, spanning over twenty meters in width, and it directly connects to the west gate of Bixiao City via an equally wide arched passage.

"It's huge!" Qi Jing exclaimed.

The reason for not building an open-air overpass is likely to avoid the impact of the massive waves here.

Qi Jing reached out to test it; it was made of an extremely sturdy material, not pure metal, but rather like the shell of some creature.

Walking on the sidewalk on the right side, Qi Jing suddenly, like a curious husky, gently punched the walls on both ends.

"There's no sound at all."

"There is, it's just quieter."

"Then I'll try again."

Tan Zuoyin's ability is sound; if she uses it to its full extent, she is extremely sensitive to sounds, but that would mean hearing too much noise, so she usually has to turn off most of the ability's effects.

As soon as Qi Jing raised his hand, she knew what he was thinking, so she amplified her ability's power in advance.

Sure enough, Qi Jing once again heavily punched the wall.

"I still can't hear it."

"It's a bit louder than before, but the sound is still very small, almost unchanged."

Tan Zuoyin made an OK sign with her right hand, with no gap between her index finger and thumb.

"This material is really hard; it doesn't look like metal either. I guess it might be the shell of some creature."

"Young man, you guessed right. The shell of the Deep Sea Great Turtle is the hardest material in this sea. Back then, in order to smelt it, they gathered three Level 5 ability users: 'Thunderbolt King,' 'Warm Emperor,' and 'Incompetent,' and it took them five days and five nights to cast it into the outer wall of Bixiao City."

An old bald man walking behind them said beside them:

"This city is so big, can you guess how many Deep Sea Great Turtles were used?"

He picked up his oddly shaped wine pot and took a sip.

Qi Jing didn't expect that smelting this shell would require the mobilization of three top-level ability users, let alone that the entire outer wall of Bixiao City was made from it.

You know, Bixiao City is a full fifty square kilometers in size.

Tan Zuoyin guessed: "Since senior is asking this, then it definitely doesn't exceed ten. And the hardest to guess within ten is one, so I guess only one was used."

The old man took another sip from the wine pot and said, "Smart little girl, you guessed right, only one was indeed used.

You're going to Bixiao City, right? How about taking my car?"

Tan Zuoyin replied: "Since senior has invited us, then we shall accept with pleasure."

Zuoyin knows how to talk, Qi Jing thought to himself: It's so great not having to interact with unfamiliar people.

That strange old man took out a tattered bag from his arms, which looked like it had been patched up several times.

Then he put the wine pot in it and took out a strange… toy rocking car?

Under Qi Jing's suspicious gaze, he placed the toy rocking car, which wasn't even the size of a finger skateboard, on the ground.

Then… he stepped on it twice.

Why are this old man's things so… how to say it… unbelievable?

Just as Qi Jing was distracted thinking about idioms, the toy rocking car "thumped" and grew bigger.

After it grew bigger, it didn't look much like a rocking car, but it was even uglier.

It looked messy, and besides the six wheels underneath, it was hard to believe it was a car.

Indeed, no matter what it is, smaller things are always cuter.

"Don't look down on my car because it's ugly; it has won the runner-up title in the Mad Dash Competition for four consecutive years."

Really? I don't believe it.

Although Qi Jing hadn't heard of the Mad Dash Competition, could this crooked car really run? Qi Jing was deeply skeptical.

"Get in the car."

Qi Jing wanted to see how this car could "dash madly."

He found the door handle among the colorful, varied, and chaotic car body, opened it, and got in first. Tan Zuoyin followed closely behind.

Sure enough, the inside of the car also had an abstract art style.

And it was a bit eerie, what was going on.

There wouldn't be any black cars that rip people off in this other world, right?

If there were, what kind of "ripping off" would it be?

The old man opened the car door, sat in the driver's seat, and said, "Let me show you the driving skills of Bixiao City's car king."

He slammed on the accelerator, and the car only started after buzzing twice.

And this speed was slower than Uncle Pan's driving ~

Walking the dog is faster than this.

Qi Jing thought this old man was really some kind of car king.

He almost believed it!

The old man continued to tell the story of the Deep Sea Great Turtle in front:

"When the C-dimension portal first appeared, that Deep Sea Great Turtle was lying asleep on the largest island.

Its figure blotted out the sky and the sun, and every evening it would cast its shadow over, reminding us of its existence.

We were so scared. Except for those who weren't afraid of death, no one dared to come to this portal.

Fortunately, it was big, otherwise it might have really run to Earth.

I still remember Hong Wei saying that he alone was helpless against it.

For safety's sake, we directly sealed this other-dimensional gate with stone-based abilities, leaving only a detector to observe it."

"What happened later?"

"Later, we found that it had been sleeping, a full year, without waking up once, and we became bolder.

We demolished the stone wall and built a small base here underground, which was the prototype of the Yuandao base."

"Then how did you solve it later?"

"After that, another seven years passed, and we were fortunate enough to successfully promote four Level 5 ability users, namely 'Incompetent,' 'Thunderbolt King,' 'Warm Emperor,' and 'Gambler.'

Together with 'Hunter,' they joined forces to break a piece of its outer shell, directly drilled into it, and steamed all its meat dry, leaving only the shell.

When they examined the shell, they found that its inner layer was softened a little, making it very easy to shape.

After cooling, the hardness would even increase.

So they used it to build a city, as a stronghold behind the C-dimension portal.

Thanks to this stupid turtle always shrinking in its shell to sleep, otherwise we wouldn't dare to provoke it."

Sure enough, sleeping can ruin things, even costing you your life.

The story of this Deep Sea Great Turtle tells us that you must not sleep too deeply, otherwise, once you close your eyes and don't open them, your life is over.

"That's not right. Logically speaking, shouldn't it be called 'Sleeping Great Turtle' or 'Island-Occupying Great Turtle'? Why is it called 'Deep Sea Great Turtle'?" Qi Jing asked.

"Good question. After we established the base here, we began to explore the surrounding sea area and found that there were more than a hundred islands of various sizes, the largest being the Great Turtle Island, which is more than thirty times the size of Bixiao City, and the smallest being Yuandao.

We slowly cleared the alien beasts on the nearby islands, but after killing a batch, another batch came from the sea, and we couldn't kill them all.

So we began to explore the ocean. The shallow waters here are home to many fish, and every year there are creatures that migrate back to breed, so we slowly abandoned the method of completely clearing the surrounding creatures and turned to only clearing high-level alien beasts, leaving the rest for the students to practice.

Then, as we explored deeper into the ocean, we found that the water depth here was very deep, and the further we explored, the more we found that the ocean was bottomless.

During this period, we discovered many marine creatures, such as deep-sea electric eels, deep-sea ribbonfish, deep-sea lizards, and other big guys, as well as colonies of Deep Sea Great Turtles.

You heard me right, colonies. Such creatures are actually social animals. They live in trenches very, very far from here. I don't know how the one we slaughtered ran over here."

Sure enough, they could learn a lot of information from the mouths of veterans.