Abyssal Wanderer

Chapter 131 NO.0082: A City Without a Name

The development of things is too strange...

On the way to "Sage City", Jiang Zhou thought to himself.

These people were obviously still shooting at themselves before, but when they turned their heads, they yelled around them in great surprise, calling themselves "newcomers".

Not only that, as if they were some distinguished guests, they also expressed that they must take themselves to the city where they live.

Then, before Jiang Zhou could react, he was half pushed by the crowd and walked on the road leading to the city not far away.

The so-called hospitality is hard to come by, that's what it means to reach out and not hit the smiling face-Jiang Zhou, who originally planned to continue to intimidate them, suddenly lost his energy.

"I'm really sorry for the previous offense. At first, I thought it was the 'last man' who was making trouble... I didn't expect you to be a newcomer."

On the way, the captain who had emptied the magazine earlier apologized very sincerely.

"It's nothing, I didn't get hurt anyway, it's just... what do newcomers and last-persons mean?"

First he waved his hand to indicate that he didn't care, then Jiang Zhou asked curiously.

Previously, he thought that "newcomer" was just "newcomer" in the literal sense. But after hearing the contradictory statement of "last man", he felt that he probably misunderstood it.

Hearing this question, the guard who was leading the way turned his head to look at Jiang Zhou, as if he was about to say something. As a result, the captain on the side just coughed lightly to remind him, and the man immediately turned his head back.

"The newcomers are those who have come to our city, and the last people are the destroyers of our city order, some very bad bad guys."

It's that simple.

The captain replied like this—it sounded like a schoolboy who grew up listening to fairy tales would say it.

If I were a child who still believed in the real existence of "Ultraman", I'm afraid I would really believe your nonsense...

Therefore, Jiang Zhou thought about this answer.

But since the other party is unwilling to say it now, it is not a correct choice for him to continue to pursue this issue and not let go.

Therefore, Jiang Zhou planned to approach the relationship first and then talk about it.

Thinking of this, he asked politely:

"Excuse me, what is your name?"

"name?"

Regarding this question, the captain first repeated the word strangely, and it took a long time before he confirmed it as if he had suddenly realized:

"Oh, oh, you mean, a special name used to distinguish the difference between everyone, right?"

But this time, Jiang Zhou was the one who felt confused.

What is there to confirm?

Is this some kind of difficult concept to understand?

Jiang Zhou nodded, and then, the captain's answer made him fall into shock.

"In Sage City, no one has a name."

The other party replied with a serious tone.

"no name?"

"Is such that."

Jiang Zhou took a breath, and then he asked:

"Then do you call each other by numbers or code names?"

"Nor this one."

"Then how do you usually address each other other than 'you', 'he', and 'hello'?"

"The current occupation will be used, for example, now they will call me the captain of the guard."

"Then isn't that the code name?"

"This is only temporary. I may become the resident singer at night, and tomorrow the captain of the guard may be replaced by another person."

"But why do that? It's still going to be troublesome, isn't it?"

"Because only in this way can people have absolute freedom."

"Absolute... freedom?"

"People will not be constrained by personal relationships, nor will they be defined by identities. Everyone can do what they want at any time and become who they want to be."

When the captain of the guard explained this, his tone clearly carried a slight sense of superiority—just like the tone that "civilized people" would have when facing uncivilized "natives".

Jiang Zhou's thinking suddenly fell into chaos.

After being silent for a long time, he opened his mouth and said:

"In other words, in your city, there is no private identity, only public identity?"

It's like a huge masquerade, where different professions are masks. Putting on different masks, you are the corresponding character, and the identity under the mask will always be a mystery to others.

If this is the case, then Jiang Zhou can probably understand why these guards guarding the city have no combat effectiveness - they were not sent here because of their own ability to do the job, but because they have the will to be guards. That's why I took the initiative.

Becoming a guard is just to realize their own value.

Regarding Jiang Zhou's summary, the captain of the guard said:

"Although this understanding is a bit too rough, you can roughly think so now... Also, please don't tell anyone your name. In the city of sages, names are meaningless things. Let others Remembering who you are will only disrupt the order of the city."

The city of sages is probably the name of this wandering settlement.

Obviously the residents here have no names, but the city has its own name.

Jiang Zhou thought sarcastically.

From this point of view, my previous speculation was correct—in such a place without the constraints of living materials, people will spontaneously form a new order that is unprecedented in the base reality.

An order without personal identity.

During their conversation, everyone had already arrived at the gate of the city.

The translucent girl from before still followed behind Jiang Zhou, and the others didn't express anything about it. When Jiang Zhou had doubts about this, the other party said that this is not a big problem, and it can be properly resolved when he goes to the place called "Dionysus Bureau" later.

The captain of the guard said so, walked to the gate and entered a series of passwords. After clicking "OK", a rotating regular tetrahedron projection appeared in front of everyone.

"Now is not the time to hand over the shift, report the situation."

A mechanical voice came from the projection.

"We found a newcomer wandering the plains, and now we request to open the door to register with the Dionysus Bureau."

The captain said in a suppressed excited voice.

The projection did not respond to the voice, but with the unlocking sound of "click", the gear parts on the door began to rotate, and the door slowly opened.

Three spider-shaped self-disciplined chariots slowly climbed out from behind the door—it could be seen that they were the real guards of the city.

As soon as he showed his head, many sensors on the self-disciplined combat body scanned Jiang Zhou's body for a while—at least he felt a magnetic field scanned his body, and focused on the broad-spectrum energy core in his body.

"Category II existence, below the warning line threat, has obtained entry permission."

After the scan is complete, the projection says so. As soon as it finished speaking, the three self-disciplined combat vehicles moved out of the way, revealing the bustling city and the bustling crowd that they had previously covered.

Are there so many people here?

Jiang Zhou was very surprised - the number of people here was completely beyond his previous expectation.

"let's go."

Seeing this, the captain of the guard turned his head to look at Jiang Zhoudao:

"On the way to the Dionysus Bureau, I can explain to you the origin of this city."

there is another chapter later