In the end of the world, I become an immortal alone

The seven or eight people were all thin young men, skin and bones, but their faces looked relatively clean.

They ran into the light and shrank back in fear when they saw Lan Yuzai; some of them clearly recognized him.

But when they saw the figure behind Lan Yuzai wearing a mask and a baseball cap, their eyes lit up and they shouted:

"Boss! Need a guide, boss!"

"I know all the fun places in the Lower City! I can take you there! You only need to pay me two starch sticks! I can even wait for you outside!"

"Boss, I can take you to absolutely thrilling places! Thrills you can't even imagine!"

Clearly, in their minds, anyone who came to the Lower City so furtively was a Middle or Upper City boss coming to 'spend'.

"Get lost! Dare to come near and I'll kill you!"

Lan Yuzai's expression was fierce and menacing as he shouted, even pretending to kick at them.

The group of young men scattered in fright, still calling out persistently; if Lan Yuzai hadn't revealed the tattoo on his arm, they probably would have pounced on him directly to drag him away.

Lan Yuzai lowered his short-sleeved shirt, muttering:

"A bunch of little ghosts who wouldn't even spit out the bones after eating someone! Is this my first day here or what!"

After the two of them shook off the young men, they entered a long passageway.

Lan Yuzai's expression became somewhat awkward as he said softly:

"By the way, that, Boss… is it okay if you carry these? I won't run, I want to follow you now and learn some skills! I really want to become stronger, so they'll all be afraid of me! It's just… I'm still a somewhat famous big brother in our local area up there…"

"You're also famous here?"

Wang Jixuan's right hand took the bag of emergency food that had cost Lan Yuzai two months' worth of food rations, while his left hand still gripped Lan Yuzai's right elbow.

Now was the most dangerous moment, and Wang Jixuan's spiritual sense was at its maximum.

"I wouldn't say very famous, but a little bit, yes!"

Lan Yuzai raised his head and puffed out his chest, instantly becoming spirited as he strode forward with Wang Jixuan, saying:

"Besides anything else, I, Lanyu Zai, am loyal and have wide connections; I have acquaintances in all seven major gangs. Later, I'll have to trouble you to pretend to be my little brother… Right, right, what are we doing here?"

Going directly to wipe out the Blackfire Gang?

If Wang Jixuan had the Golden Core Realm cultivation, he wouldn't hesitate in the slightest, but now… reason told him that he should first make some low-level talismans and prepare a few magical artifacts to better deal with the Black Gang's large number of firearms.

He said: "I heard that there are some general stores in the Lower City that sell all kinds of things."

"There are many, located on several streets, but most of the shops exchange things for things, and they're all very exploitative, and they're all opened by the gang members themselves."

Lan Yuzai asked softly:

"What do you want to buy? I have a few shops I frequent."

"You have a gun, are you going to buy bullets? That stuff is expensive, even more expensive than guns!"

As they spoke, the two turned a dark corner and entered a street filled with orange-yellow light.

Wang Jixuan maintained his utmost vigilance, always walking to the side and slightly behind Lan Yuzai.

In his perception, there were many people ahead, and these people…

Were lifeless.

Spiritual energy was trapped in a mire here, and everywhere was filled with the turbid air released by human bodies.

As far as the eye could see, a relatively wide, straight street stretched inward, and at the end of the street was a psychedelic scene illuminated by signs and neon lights.

On both sides of the street were narrow, rusty tin houses, and several people were either lying or sitting in each room. Most of them were emaciated and scantily clad, and it was impossible to know how many there were at a glance.

The only light source these people could get was from the two rows of low streetlights by the road.

Wang Jixuan frowned as he walked through this place.

He had thought that the Lower City of this fortress would be terrible, but he really hadn't expected it to be like this.

This was almost no different from the scenes of starvation everywhere during the famine years of the mortal world recorded in the master's records.

Lan Yuzai was already used to it, revealing the tattoo on his shoulder and glaring fiercely at the surroundings, causing those who looked at them to immediately lower their heads and dare not speak.

At the end of this street.

Several well-dressed men and women were chatting and laughing while smoking cigarettes. They were each wearing armored vests, with pistols and magazines on their waists, and two of the men were holding submachine guns with large magazines.

Looking past these men and women, one could see a cluster of low buildings covered with signs and neon lights.

There were people coming and going, and there were also some simple means of transportation.

The previously spirited and arrogant Lan Yuzai immediately tucked his tail between his legs, lowered his head, pulled at Wang Jixuan, took two emergency food packets from Wang Jixuan's bag, and pulled a crumpled paper bag from his coat pocket.

Lan Yuzai tilted his head and instructed: "Don't speak, and definitely don't take action. They all have guns, and there are rifles on those rooftops. This is the territory of the City of Joy."

As soon as he finished speaking, the men and women guarding the street over there looked over.

"Oh, hey! Lanyu Zai!"

"Hey! Brother Zhang! You're guarding the street today? Thanks for your hard work."

Lan Yuzai nodded and bowed as he went up, taking out a few cigarettes and a skull lighter from the paper bag.

Wang Jixuan silently gripped five pencils, calculating the angle of attack.

As long as Lan Yuzai dared to ask for help…

The Black Gang members from the [City of Joy] smiled as they took the cigarettes, each taking out a button lighter to light them, and then took the two bags of emergency food that Lan Yuzai handed over.

"Lanyu Zai, didn't you just come down a few days ago? What, has your territory gotten bigger, more blood bags?"

"Hey, I'm on the thirteenth floor, you know that, there's not much to gain there, and that captain who just came is also ruthless."

Lan Yuzai's eyes were as pure as an elementary school student at this moment:

"I want to get a gun to take up there and use, things are a bit unstable over there."

Get a gun?

The others said:

"Carry a gun on the thirteenth floor? Don't you want to live? You can't get guns above the twenty-eighth floor, don't you mess up the rules, kid!"

"I heard that there was a big news on the thirteenth floor, Blackfire's Big Mouth Hua was killed! That guy is really useless, I heard he wanted to play with a female doctor, and then the female doctor stole his gun? Is that true or not?"

"The Blackfire Gang has been sending people up there these past few days, that female doctor seems to have some background, someone is protecting her, what's going on?"

Lan Yuzai scratched his head: "I don't know the specifics, but there is such a thing, the Blackfire Gang has also put out a lot of conditions, asking us locals to find the two people involved."

"What happened to your neck?"

"Someone messed with it," Lan Yuzai said with a chuckle, "I came to get a gun, I have to take it back!"

"You're useless enough, go in."

"Hey, thank you Brother Zhang, thank you Brother Zhang!"

Lan Yuzai turned his head and glared at Wang Jixuan: "What are you standing there for, call him Brother Zhang!"

"Brother Zhang," Wang Jixuan said calmly.

"My new little brother is still a bit shy," Lan Yuzai said with a smile, "I'll take him in to have some fun."

"Go ahead."

The Black Gang members waved impatiently, and Lan Yuzai clasped his hands together and shook them constantly to express his gratitude, leading Wang Jixuan into the colorful and muddy ground with a smile on his face.

'He didn't ask for help.'

Wang Jixuan subconsciously grabbed Lan Yuzai's elbow as he walked forward, frowning as he stared at the street ahead.

Everywhere were two- or three-story buildings, and 'City of Joy' gang members could be seen walking back and forth on the roofs.

These people occupied the areas with the best view, controlling the lighting on this street.

The street was full of people, and everyone seemed so busy.

Thin men in simple clothes sat on their respective rickshaws, waiting for the arrival of the next business.

Young waiters either stood by the street waiting for customers, or wiped those display windows. The display windows contained all kinds of goods, the most common of which were men and women dressed in sexy clothes, who, under the illumination of the dazzling and chaotic lights, posed in various tempting poses, enticing passing customers.

The most ⊥ new ⊥ small ⊥ say ⊥ is ⊥ in ⊥ six ⊥ 9 ⊥ ⊥ book ⊥ ⊥ bar ⊥ ⊥ first ⊥ hair!

Many well-dressed figures could be seen on the street, including no shortage of light blue uniforms of the Middle City Security Team.

The smell in the air also became dull and cloying.

The two streets before and after seemed like two different worlds.

At one moment, Wang Jixuan seemed to see a five-colored giant python coiled in the underground space more than thirty meters high, spitting out its snake tongue, watching him with a pair of cold eyes, as if to swallow him in one bite.

"Boss… Boss? It hurts so much!"

Lan Yuzai called out in a breathy voice.

Wang Jixuan came back to his senses and realized that he had subconsciously squeezed Lan Yuzai's elbow too tightly, so he released his fingers.

Lan Yuzai's face flushed red with pain.

"Don't look, we can't afford to spend money in this place," Lan Yuzai muttered, covering his elbow, his eyes glistening with tears.

"Find a general store," Wang Jixuan ordered.

"This way… Don't worry, I really won't run. The Blackfire Gang's territory is on the forty-ninth floor, this is the forty-sixth floor, the territory of the [City of Joy] and the [Silver Party]. The Silver Party and the Blackfire Gang don't get along… I really want to learn some skills from you and become awesome!"

…

Making talismans requires two basic items:

Talisman paper, talisman ink.

If one is particular, the talisman brush also needs to be made of good demon beast hair… Wang Jixuan couldn't pick and choose these things at the moment.

The so-called general stores were actually just shops ranging in size from a dozen to dozens of square meters.

Some shop owners were diligent and organized all kinds of items neatly. Most of the shop owners showed a state of letting things go, and the randomly piled goods on the shelves presented a sense of chaotic beauty.

Inside were all kinds of items, a wide variety, too numerous to mention, but there were not many brand-new products.

Wang Jixuan was quickly disappointed.

符 paper is generally made from the tree pulp of spirit wood. Beside Wang Jixuan's cave, where he secluded himself for many years, there were several thousand-year-old trees, from which the extracted spiritual liquid exuded a rich spiritual energy.

However, in these shops on the forty-sixth floor, Wang Jixuan only found a small amount of blank paper.

These papers were recycled paper, reused countless times. It couldn't be said that they had no spiritual energy, but they were essentially useless.

If he could find suitable talisman paper, he could actually make some emergency talismans.

Because blood is the most common talisman liquid.

Evil-breaking talismans often use rooster blood, and Five Elements talismans often use the blood of spirit beasts corresponding to the respective attributes.

At worst, Wang Jixuan could directly bite his finger and draw talismans. His blood now also contained a trace of spiritual energy.

"What kind of paper are you looking for, boss?"

Lan Yuzai asked somewhat blankly from the side:

"Are you really not here to buy weapons? Go to another street to buy bullets."

Wang Jixuan asked, "Why would I buy weapons?"

"To take care of… take care of those people!"

Lan Yuzai glanced around guiltily:

"What are you buying paper for, boss? Do you need to write something? Isn't there paper in Central City? Some of the paper here was even obtained by us from Central City."

Wang Jixuan glanced at him.

It was also his request that Lan Yuzai not leave his two-step radius, otherwise, he would directly attack.

Wang Jixuan said, "Don't ask so much."

"Alright," Lan Yuzai looked towards the street outside. This shop street, protected by the Silver Party, was considered the third most prosperous area on the forty-sixth floor. He also wanted to wander around.

—If the boss could give him freedom.

Wang Jixuan suddenly stopped, looking down at a messy shelf, carefully pushing aside some bone fragments of unknown origin.

Was he mistaken?

Why was there obvious residual spiritual power on these black bone fragments?

What is this?

He searched carefully and soon saw a faded label on the shelf displaying similar black bone fragments.

Low-level Blade Beast Exoskeleton · Scavenged Item.

—None of the labels here had prices.

Blade Beast?

That's right! This world has demon beasts! Moreover, humans were driven out of the surface by Blade Beasts, establishing fortresses to survive with difficulty!

A gleam appeared in Wang Jixuan's eyes, and he quickly searched the nearby shelves.

Soon he had a new discovery.

A large dusty glass bottle was filled with light pink liquid, labeled [Deactivated Blade Beast Blood], specifically marked as [Collectible].

Most of the spiritual energy within had dissipated, but there was still some remaining.

'If ordinary paper is soaked in this liquid, it can gain spiritual power! In the future, if I want to start refining pills, demon beast blood will also be indispensable! Good stuff!'

Wang Jixuan's thoughts immediately became extremely active.

He turned to look at Lan Yuzai, who was picking his nose.

"Do you… have any currency used here?"

Lan Yuzai nodded blankly: "Yes, yes, this is the most prosperous floor in the Lower City, using Happy Coins from the casino. I've saved some, and we can also barter with them using the food we brought. The rules of Happy City prohibit robbery."

Although Wang Jixuan had tried his best to remain calm, he still looked aside somewhat embarrassed.

"Lend me some… I'll pay you back later…"