A strange world

Chapter 373 Chapter 31. Dark Light Town

The dark and depressing underground world makes people want to leave this depressing environment.

"Is it difficult to return to the surface?" The students thought that it was easy to escape from the bottom nest.

In fact, it is easier to get in than to get out of the bottom nest. Many people who are determined to enter the bottom nest find it difficult to survive on the surface and are forced to seek survival in the depths, as if the invisible quagmire drags them into the abyss of sinking, and layers of invisible rules restrict them from turning back.

This is the penultimate level, which means "the second worst".

"Where are our feet?"

"Dark Light Town!"

"I mean the level under your feet."

"That's the place of exile..." Only then did the locals see the young rat man wearing a mage's robe behind Annan, and said in panic: "Why did you bring the rat man here!"

It seems that the Underhive people have distinguished themselves from the rat people.

"What happened to them?" Annan asked.

Locals say it's because of curses and pollution.

Those blasphemous dusts appear every once in a while, getting worse the deeper you go. Their breathing, contact, and eating will uncontrollably ingest dust. For example, now that the dust is thick, the locals’ faces are covered with masks.

There are only two ways to escape: leave the bottom nest, or go to the upper levels.

"I know that the imperial capital dumps all domestic waste into the bottom nest, and there are warlocks and lichs doing evil experiments here. This is how the poisonous fog should come out..." Amy whispered.

Annan was duty-bound to rectify the name of the warlock: "Warlocks never study, only mages do."

After surviving and reproducing from generation to generation, those polluted Bottom Nest people mutated under the pollution of dust, and became more and more serious. In the end, even the Bottom Nest people could not accommodate these neither humans nor ghosts, and banished them to Penal colony.

The locals sounded indifferent. This is the bottom nest, where dead people are more common than food. He was killed by something else before the poisonous fog killed him.

"Have you ever seen anyone like us?"

"I've seen it."

"when?"

"Now."

"...Besides us?"

"No..." The local shook his head, but his eyes were fixed on the gold.

Annan still has many problems, but they are being exposed to the dust, put away the gold, exchange it for a silver coin and throw it to the locals.

"This is different from what was promised!"

"You just asked me to take out a gold coin, and you didn't say to give it to you." Annan said calmly: "Giving you the gold coin will get you into trouble. I will give you the silver coin first and follow us."

The locals said nothing and just walked ahead in a muffled voice to lead the way.

"Have you been here?" Alice asked in a low voice.

"No, I lied to him."

Annan returned to normal: "Tell us about the bottom nest."

The penultimate layer beneath your feet is called the dawn layer—meaning the place closest to darkness.

Bottom nesters like to spruce up their surroundings so they don't look so bad. For example, the third level is called the treasure level because that's where the garbage on the surface is dumped.

When talking about the treasure layer, the locals' eyes light up, saying that there are always lucky treasure diggers who become rich overnight, but many treasure spots are controlled by big shots.

Another example is the second level of revelation. It is said that the security there is comparable to that on the surface, and there is also a commercial street. There is no need to worry about having your head smashed while walking on the road, and there is no need to worry about being stripped naked and thrown into the street when you are drunk.

"Have you been there?"

"No, but all the Underhive people say so. They will never lie to themselves... I still remember my childhood dream was to be a treasure digger on the treasure level and buy a house on the revelation level..."

A silver coin earned by people on the surface in a day would take a week or more in the bottom nest, and the attitude of the locals became visibly enthusiastic.

In the dawn layer, it is early morning at the top and late night at the bottom. Only "towns" have a weak order, such as the Dark Light Town in front. But if you really believe that the town will punish the bad guys, you will only be eaten to the bone - fortunately, such a naive person will not survive now.

The wilderness outside the town is relatively safe. At most, there are some cavemen and kobolds wandering around who don't know where they come from, but they can't stop killing them. The real danger is in the nests. There are those composed of cavemen and kobolds, as well as humans and rat people.

The locals said that he was once captured by Dark Light Town and sent by an "expedition" to attack the lair of newborn ratmen. There were drying corpses stuck with wooden sticks everywhere, including humans and ratmen... He lamented that only a few survived from that expedition. , he is one of them.

"Why don't you resist?" someone asked.

"What are you talking about..." The locals swallowed back the 'silly words': "If we were so powerful, we wouldn't come to the bottom of the nest."

The outline of Dark Light Town gradually became clearer. A collection of dilapidated shacks made of broken boards and stones formed the town. Ragged silhouettes walked on the uneven streets.

The young mages who had only collected some dust from climbing the rock pillars were like stars in the night sky.

There were locals who ran away when they saw them, and locals who got closer.

The locals pulled out sharpened pieces of iron and told them to get away.

"Gray Wolf!"

But the people he knew couldn't be driven away. A young man wearing only a strip of cloth around his waist shouted: "I am a wild dog!"

"I know."

The gray wolf allowed the wild dogs to approach. The approaching wild dog first flattered Annan and the others with a nondescript courtesy, and then asked them what they needed.

He looks smarter than the gray wolf.

Annan told him: "Two things, we are looking for the golden invitation letter, and the witch doctor."

"We know where the witch doctor is! Gray Wolf, take the nobles to the witch doctor, and I'll ask about gold...gold..."

"Invitation card."

"Where is the golden invitation?"

The gray wolf was surprised by the wild dog's attitude, and was pulled aside by the wild dog: "Idiots. They are surface people."

"I know they won't take me back to the surface."

The gray wolf knows that they are not easy to mess with, so he only cares about the gold coins.

"But it can take us to other levels!" The wild dog's whisper made the gray wolf shut his mouth.

This is the dawn level, the place closest to darkness... Even if he only goes up one level, he can survive for a long time.

As the two locals murmured, Amy whispered to her companions: "Beware of the conspiracy."

They have only seen Annan summon a few elite elements, which should not be enough to fight against the forces of the bottom nest... Only Alice, who knows Annan's abilities, remained silent.

When Annan was serious, the Imperial Ceremony Department had to beg him not to destroy the bottom nest - provided that Mr. Swallow and the people from Typhoon Shelter Town were summoned.

Speaking of Typhoon Shelter Town... Should Olmedo and the others occupy the magpie's nest and become the shadow of the imperial capital?

Forget it, the eyes of the etiquette department are definitely staring at them, and the environment in the bottom nest is too harsh.

The gray wolf came back, flattered a lot, and even wanted to return the silver coins.

"This is for you." Annan said, but he still took back the silver coins: "I promise you. If you do things for us next, the reward will be that I take you to the upper level, or even to the surface."