fantasy novels Chapter 3729 Black Tube Alley
Chapter 3729 Black Tube Alley
Chapter 3729 Black Tube Alley
Originally, Rayleigh was going to lead the way and send Angel out himself; because there were forks in the road everywhere inside the Tomb Street, it would be easy for people who had never been here to get lost.
But with a wave of his hand, Ingres used magic to simulate a cross-sectional map of the Tomb Street.
It's still holographic.
Many of the forks were unknown to Rayleigh. For example, Rayleigh had never heard of the roads that led from the underground of Tomb Street to the surface.
So, Reilly said no more, and he and Com watched Angel leave silently.
After Angel left, the nightmare aura lingering in Rayleigh's mind slowly dissipated, and the memory of the prologue was also blocked as the nightmare aura disappeared.
Kang's memory was not blocked because the nightmare aura on his body did not dissipate.
Instead, it condensed into a special mark - a lion's heart covered with thorns.
This mark is engraved on the back of Com's hand.
Although Com didn't know what the pattern on the mark represented, through the feedback from Nightmare Information, he knew that this mark was a kind of "contact mark."
On the other side, Angel had disappeared and was walking up along the path of Tomb Street.
The mark he left for Com was indeed for "contact".
It allows Angel to contact Com anytime and anywhere.
The reason for leaving this mark is naturally because Com possesses the "lucky king's appearance".
This fairyland dungeon has many places where you need to draw cards and open blind boxes, and Angel doesn't trust his luck. And the existence of Kom can be called an enhanced version of the living transfer ceremony.
So, he left a mark, and when he needed to open the blind box, he could contact Com to borrow the money.
of course……
It was hard for Angle to say whether Com would be needed in the future.
……
The reason why Tomb Street can lead directly to the surface is naturally because... there used to be a large tomb here.
It is a tomb, so there must be a way leading to the outside world.
However, most of these tomb passages are controlled by the wandering house, and there are even special security personnel guarding the door to prevent underground residents from entering.
Angel had no intention of meeting these security personnel, so he remained hidden throughout the entire process.
Going up all the way, we soon arrived at the entrance of the tomb.
At this point, the Wandering House is no longer in control, but the Fashion Guild's world.
In the hall near the entrance to the tomb, Angel even saw security guards and patrolling mechanical dogs.
They were communicating with the security guards of the homeless house not far away. They could clearly see each other, but they pretended not to see each other. They each guarded one side.
This also shows that there is a certain tacit understanding between the Fashion Guild and the Wandering House.
This reminded Angel of what Bonette had said before.
Bonette speculated that the "Dark King", the boss behind the homeless house, actually came from the sun, and might even be the one sitting on the highest throne.
Bonette's guess was almost obvious.
In her opinion, the Dark Lord is most likely a high-ranking member of the Fashion Guild!
Looking at the harmonious coexistence of the Fashion Guild's sheriff and the people in the homeless house, Angel really felt that perhaps Bonette's guess... was not wrong?
However, these had nothing to do with Ingres for the time being, so he just went through them in his mind and put them aside.
Angel bypassed the mechanical patrol dogs that were wandering nearby and returned to the surface easily without attracting anyone's attention.
After returning to the surface, Angel discovered that in terms of brightness, the underground blocks might be brighter.
As for the surface...it is relatively dim because of the thick polluted clouds overhead.
Moreover, Angel felt the air on the surface and smelled a faint sour smell.
Just then, the clouds in the sky surged.
A drizzle of rain began to fall.
Although the rain was not heavy, the residents of the surrounding streets all ran indoors to avoid the rain... Only the mechanical soldiers and Angel remained in the open space.
At first Ingres didn't quite understand, until the raindrops fell on him and left a black stain, he understood.
This rain...is not clean.
Although it has not reached the level of "acid rain", it can also be called dirty rain.
No wonder, no one wants to get wet in the rain.
"The pollution in Modern City..." is even more serious than he had imagined.
Angel sighed, opened the barrier, and looked up at the high-rise buildings in the distance. Even in the dark evening rain, the neon lights on the exterior of the high-rise buildings did not dissipate, and even the projection images on the outer shell of the city train in the air were still flashing bright colors, even brighter than when it was not raining.
The thick rain clouds also reflect the light pollution projected from the neon lights all the time.
Looking at this scene that is both futuristic punk and extremely fragile in ecology.
Ingres inexplicably thought of the Yirong Kingdom on the Fan Continent.
Yirong Country is famous for its Sky Mechanical City. Trains run all over the continent, and those ambitious capitalists even want to build a steam railway into the Devil's Sea.
There is no doubt that steam machinery has brought convenience, but it has also cast a layer of haze over the sky of the prosperous continent.
The situation is not so serious in other places, but the air in Yirong Country is already filled with large polluted particles.
It's very similar to Modern City.
"Perhaps, this is the pain period brought by progress." Angel shook his head and walked towards the nearby high-rise platform.
Taking the shuttle train around the city again, Angel was already very familiar with it.
I easily found a window seat in the car. While looking at the neon city shrouded in the drizzle, I entered the God's perspective and looked in the direction of the 14th Town.
Under the leadership of the homeless houses, the underground blocks are gradually connected with the surface and are becoming more and more standardized.
This also brought some convenience to Ingres.
For example, Ingres could easily find the location of the "Black Tube Alley" through road signs and door signs.
Black Tube Alley, as the name suggests, is a "dark" alley hidden between buildings.
There is almost no light in this alley, and the tall residential buildings on both sides also block the mechanical light sources overhead.
Therefore, this alley is very dark.
Few people would come into such a dark and narrow alley. Therefore, Angel quickly locked onto the "location" in the designated intelligence.
The information in the intelligence is not straightforward: "In the dark alley of the black tube, under a red and white grid, bright red blood is flowing out."
At first glance, it may seem a little confusing and you may not understand what this sentence has to do with “fashion tailors”.
But if you combine the situation in the dark alley of the clarinet, Ingres immediately understood.
Deep in the dark alley, a wall with red and white grids appeared.
Yes, the pattern of the wall is red and white dark grids. From the soft cement in the gaps, it can be seen that the wall has just been repaired not long ago and is still moist.
This red and white grid wall extends all the way to the deepest part of the alley.
At the end of the dark alley, in front of a small glowing door, is the tail end of the red and white grid wall.
But perhaps something unexpected happened at the end of the wall, and it collapsed. A large number of red and white bricks fell down, forming a small hill on the ground.
And underneath the pile of bricks, bright red blood was flowing out.
There is no doubt that the place where the blood was flowing is the location specified by the intelligence.
Zooming in, Angel finally saw the situation under the bricks...
A girl, about fifteen or sixteen years old, was pinned under the bricks, with a bloody wound on her forehead. Blood was constantly flowing out of the wound.
There was a bucket of wet cement next to her.
Seeing this, Angle could almost imagine the previous scene...
The girl must have been laying bricks here not long ago, and this red and white wall was built by her. It was probably during the bricklaying process that she was attacked by the "fashion cutter".
Then she fell into a "trance" state and knocked down the unsolidified brick wall.
The bricks fell and buried her underneath, even causing her to bleed...
Of course, the actual situation may be slightly different, but it shouldn't be too big.
Seeing the miserable state of the girl, Angel finally understood why the designated intelligence was so "rushed" this time, with only a time limit of thirty minutes.
This time limit does not mean that the girl can complete the "Fashion Tailor" challenge within thirty minutes, but that after thirty minutes, according to the tragic situation at the scene, the girl is probably dead, and it would be meaningless even if Angel rushed over.
According to the current level of bleeding, she might die in less than thirty minutes.
Angel had originally only intended to survey the intelligence site in advance, but he did not expect the intelligence to be so disastrous.
Watching the ground slowly turn bright red, Angel thought about it and decided to help.
He was afraid that the girl wouldn't be able to hold on until he got over it.
And Angel's way of helping is very simple, that is... calling for help.
The girl was building a wall at the door, and there was actually someone inside the door, but it was a drunk middle-aged man, and because he was drunk and sleepy, he didn't hear the noise outside.
However, judging by the fluttering of his eyelids, he should be waking up soon.
This also made Ingres feel a little relieved. If the person was deeply drunk and asleep, it would be impossible to wake him up just by transmitting the sound.
After calling for more than ten seconds, the middle-aged man woke up in a daze. However, he was obviously unconscious and kept shouting "Erica", "I'm thirsty, pour me some water"...
After shouting several times and getting no response, he stood up staggeringly.
While complaining, "That dead girl must have gone to the tailor shop to work as a free laborer again," he walked towards the door where the kettle was placed.
"The door isn't even closed." The middle-aged man became even more resentful and kept complaining.
From his complaints, we can know that Erica might be his daughter, and he is not very satisfied with his daughter because she actually went to be an apprentice in a tailor shop at the corner of the alley. The most important thing is... she helped with cutting and sewing without charging any money. It was purely free labor.
This made him very unhappy and he kept complaining.
However, Angel could see that apart from complaining that his daughter did not listen to advice and went to work as a free laborer, he had no other grievances.
The relationship between him and his daughter should not be a tit-for-tat one.
Soon, the middle-aged man came to the door and looked outside while pouring water.
Then... the glass fell.
The middle-aged man saw the pile of bricks outside and the bloodstains underneath.
He looked panicked, and while calling out "Erica"'s name, he came to the bricks...
After seeing him start to rescue Erica, Angel finally withdrew his gaze.
About three minutes later, Ingres got off the train.
Angel got on the bus in the West 15th District and now he is back in the West 15th District.
Compared with before, there are obviously a lot more people here, obviously they were all attracted by the previous sky projection.
A few minutes later, Angel entered the underground block through the nearby sewer.
Just like before, after entering the sewer, there was also a guide set up by the homeless house; but this time, Angel did not hire anyone, but walked along the sewer, straight towards the direction of the Fourteenth Town...
Five minutes later, Angel arrived at the gate of the 14th Town.
At the same time, the designated information in the text column changed.
The original Fashion Tailor's information had a time limit: after thirty minutes, the information would disappear.
But at this time, the time limit has disappeared.
This means that Erica is no longer in danger of death.
However, Angell saw from a God's perspective that Erica's father, who had just sobered up, did not know that Erica was out of danger. After stopping Erica's bleeding, he saw that she had no signs of waking up, so he hurried out the door, as if he wanted to find a doctor.
As soon as he came out of the dark alley of the clarinet, he met a doctor in a white coat and a mask passing by.
His eyes lit up and he stopped the other person directly.
He bowed and begged the doctor for help.
After hesitating for a moment, the doctor finally agreed to follow him into the dark alley...
"Doctor, what's your name? Are you the doctor at Beverly Nursing Center?" After the middle-aged man brought the doctor into the alley, he vaguely felt that it was too much of a coincidence, and... there were only two clinics in the 15th Town, and he had seen several doctors in them.
It seems that there is no doctor with this body shape.
Is he really a doctor?
He suddenly felt something was wrong, but he was already in a difficult situation, so he hesitated and asked the doubts in his heart in a tactful tone.
"You can call me Pat." The doctor paused. "I'm from the Lentz Clinic."
"Lenz Clinic?" The middle-aged man paused, as if thinking of something: "I seem to have heard of it. This is..."
"The clinic in the Eighth Town." The doctor said softly.
"Oh, yes, it's the Eighth Town!" The middle-aged man's doubts gradually disappeared when he heard that the other party was from a clinic in another small town.
"So why are you here..."
"Visiting relatives."
When the middle-aged man saw the other party frowning, he realized that he seemed to have talked too much and quickly shut up... Thinking about it carefully, it made sense. He had nothing and the other party couldn't possibly want anything.
So, he was still too cautious.
Seeing that the middle-aged man stopped asking questions, the doctor stopped talking.
There is no doubt that this "Dr. Pat" is Angell.
The Black Tube Alley was not far from the town gate, and when Angel came over, he happened to see the other party coming out of the alley. So, he changed his appearance and followed the other party into the alley...