Devouring the Starry Sky begins with the battle of geniuses

Chapter 99 The Eternal Cage

The feather ship sailed into the second layer of the abyss. Compared with the first layer, the energy concentration suddenly increased by [-]%.

We have just left the abyss passage, and are still about 0.5 light-years away from the ground on the second level. Looking down from above, unlike the first level of the abyss, where more than [-]% of the wild land is barren, the deep red land on the second level of the abyss is already relatively green. Sparse vegetation is often seen.

The closer you get to the deep layer, the higher the energy concentration, but the wind-eating phenomenon becomes more serious. These vegetations can survive the wind-eating phenomenon. Most of them are special plants with strong rooting ability and have been infected by the power of the abyss.

If you don't worry about the pollution and erosion of the power of the abyss, many of them can be directly used as medicine and are valuable.

The feather ship flew in the abyss passage for two weeks, and it took a full year to descend from a height close to the first level of the abyss to a position close to the second level of the abyss. After another two months of flying on the second level of the abyss, it finally arrived for the first time. A city comes into view.

This is the axis city of the Silver Ghost Clan in the second level of the abyss.

As one of the largest cities, it not only has the richest material reserves, but is also the administrative center of the second-level Silver Ghost Clan's forces.

Most of the lower-race residents on the Yuchuan must complete their settlement in this city and become people with legal status on the second level.

As the place of dispute among the abyss royal clans, second only to the tenth level of the abyss battlefield, the first level is extremely chaotic.

In the past few months of scavenging in Black Rock City, there was no shortage of encounters with the aftermath of royal battles, both in the city and in the wild.

The royal family of the abyss always comes and goes like the wind, and every time they are trampled at will, many lower races will be involved in death, just like what Hunzhen saw at the beginning.

With the exception of Old Man Huo, who not only has acceptable strength but also has extremely strong survivability, most people on the first floor have been affected by royal battles more than once in their lives.

And as long as you are not lucky enough once, you will most likely end up with a tragic death.

Almost every month, someone dies unexpectedly in every city.

Considering the lifespan of the weakest and star-level life in the Purgatory Abyss, this mortality rate is not only high?
Precisely because people become missing persons every once in a while, except for a few cases, the city management does not pay too much attention.

This also creates a looser management model.

From a naive point of view, most of the residents on the first floor can hardly guarantee three meals a day and cannot save money. They know that they cannot win the qualifications for the lower class and leave their life and death to God. Bad people.Since you can't resist, why don't you just fight to the end?
Most people with a strong desire to survive became scavengers, relying on their senses and experiences to avoid the opportunity for the wind-eating phenomenon to appear, while gathering enough wealth and squeezing their heads to escape to the lower levels.

Of course, there are also some scavengers who feel the difficulty of gathering wealth and go to the other extreme and become the Moonlight Clan, just like most of the scavengers in Black Rock City.

Of course, no one who can get a ticket to the second level of the abyss is a weak-willed person.

Of course, starting from this second level, there is already a rudiment of order.

The gap from the first level of chaos is one day and one place.

The feather ship did not enter the city, but stayed in mid-air outside the city wall and began to lower the crowd.

However, this process is not so logical.

"What? You mean the disembarkation fee? Didn't I already spend money to qualify?"

In front of the door opened on the side of the feather ship, a young man of the ninth level of the universe, dressed as a ship guard, stopped a resident from the first floor.

The guard said coldly to the resident who wanted to get off the boat: "Sorry, sir, I don't know where your so-called qualifications come from. All our actions are in compliance with the regulations and are carried out according to your ticket information. . And your ticket information shows that your ticket only supports boarding on the first level. If you want to disembark on the second level, please pay additional fees."

"I, I bought the ticket to get on the ship, and now you are telling me that the tickets to get on the ship and the tickets to disembark are sold separately!? Is there such a way to sell tickets?"

The man in simple clothes who was a scavenger suddenly became angry. This was the money he had saved by risking his life as a scavenger and working continuously for decades!
"Sir, I think your words are biased. But there are many people who just want to experience the flight of a feather boat and take a feather boat for sightseeing."

The escorting young man glanced at several livid faces in the team behind the man and said: "Sir, there are still many people behind you who want to disembark. If you don't want to disembark, you can wait for this feather ship to return to the first level after its natural voyage. Thank you cooperation."

The simple man gritted his teeth and finally couldn't bear that his years of hard work had been wasted and asked: "How much, how little, money?"

The guarding young man stretched out his hand with a calm expression: "Cheng Hui has a white demon body."

The simple man's eyes suddenly widened: "Why don't you go and grab it!?"

Looking at this scene, Hunzhen also frowned slightly.

Taking Black Rock City, where the competition is not particularly fierce, as an example, one lower-level quota requires five white devil bodies.

As for the conversion rules between Mo Luo Guo, there is a hundredfold difference in value from the cheapest gray level demon head to the higher level white level demon body.

Five white demon bodies are five hundred gray demon heads and five thousand gray demon bodies.

If normal scavengers are not as messy as the scavengers in Black Rock City, they can only earn about a dozen gray devils per month after deducting basic food expenses and housing taxes.

To earn five White Devil Bodies, one has to risk the wind-eating and work non-stop for thirty to fifty years.

If Hunzhen had not taken the relics of Old Man Huo and others, even if he had accelerated the scavenging as much as possible, he would have had to work for at least a few more years to collect them all.

And this escort young man asked for a white demon body just to get off the ship, which was equivalent to taking ten years of his income in one go. How could he not break his defense?
"Very surprised?"

Noticing Hun Zhen's frown, Xing Luo walked to Hun Zhen's side, shook his head, and said via voice transmission: "I think you have guessed that the so-called disembarkation fee is not a rule set by the two royal families, but by each city lord. It’s a self-inflicted act in order to take advantage of these people who are trying to cross class.”

Hunzhen said calmly: "Only 'lower-level qualifications' are the rules set by the royal family?"

Xingluo nodded: "This part of the wealth can only be regarded as an addition to the actual master of the abyss. But the two royal families know that the ascending passage must be strictly controlled, otherwise it will cause chaos. What they care about is to transfer the wealth The process of handing over, not the wealth itself.”

"However, this 'little' wealth, to each city lord, is a piece of delicious food that is clearly right in front of you, but you can't touch it. Every year, how much money is apportioned to each city? How astonishing is the wealth of a white devil, flowing down like water? But they can barely extract any oil or water. Oh, our Black Rock City is a special case, and for some reason we have ended up in this old age situation. In short..."

Xing Luo paused and said: "They finally joined forces and created an additional charging item like 'disembarkation fee'. This method not only allows them to peel off the oil and water from the bottom layer, but also allows them to achieve non-renewable performance." There must be additional growth. After all, most people who want to enter the lower class have a strong longing for the lower class. Even if they are forced to return, they will work hard to make money next time to grab a spot and board the feather boat."

Hunzhen suddenly thought of a doubt and asked: "Listen to what you said, when the quota is reported, the royal family only pays attention to the number, but doesn't a problem arise here -"

He pointed in the direction of Axis City and said: "The number of people settling in does not match the quota."

Xing Luo smiled slightly and said: "Hunzhen, you are very keen. But... the lower-level quota is the lower-level quota, and the number of settlements is the number of settlements. For example, people like us who occupy two first- to second-level quotas, But it won’t create two more household registrations on the second floor.”

Xing Luo looked at the simple man who could not afford the money and retreated with a dejected look on his face, and said lightly: "Only the city lords of adjacent levels can contact each other between classes, and they have already reached an alliance of interests. So, as long as Since he didn't settle down, he was still counted as a resident of the first level. He could only complain that he didn't get clear information. Because no one would seek justice for the lower races, and no one would go out of their way to verify it. As for why he got the Got this quota but didn’t go to the second level? Missed the opportunity, was maliciously retaliated before leaving, or regretted it temporarily? No one cares.”

Hunzhen looked solemn: "You're just going to tell me these secrets?"

Xing Luo laughed and said: "What can we do even if we know this kind of thing? Not to mention how many people will believe it, even if some people do believe it, there is no way to shake it. What's more, we will not stay here, and we have already talked with them It’s not a class. No problem, no problem. But you, why are you not surprised at all when you hear what I said?”

Hunzhen said noncommittally: "They are not the same in any way? They are just using each other and exploiting each other."

Xing Luo sighed: "Yes. What's the difference?"

He looked up to the sky.With the foundation of the upper level blocking the line of sight, the scope of the dark sky that can be seen is also reduced.

"The world is a huge cage."

"We, the lower race, did not resist the cage called the two royal families. Instead, we fought with each other in the cage, and even brutally used the flesh and blood of the same kind to strengthen the cage that bound us."

"He is the ruler of the abyss. As far as his status as a prisoner is concerned, he is no different from us."

At this moment, looking at Xing Luo sighing softly, Hunzhen seemed to have a vague glimpse of the reason why he dreamed of flying across the sky and breaking away from this abyss world.

His true meaning is still unclear, but at least... Hunzhen has clearly realized that this man has no respect for the abyss royal family.

After that, as Xing Luo said, the two of them did not need to pay the disembarkation fee.

After everyone who could pay the boat fee got off the boat, a domain master on the feather boat personally led them to transfer to another feather boat.

Just like the first level, the feather ship accepts people who intend to dive to the third level.

After three months of flying on the second level, the feather ship the two of them boarded finally completed the acceptance of personnel in the area it was responsible for and set sail again. It took a total of half a year to reach the third level of the abyss.

The appearance of this third floor has been upgraded again, and it is no longer comparable to the desolate and barren place.

The coverage rate of green vegetation even exceeds that of most cities that lacked greenery in the previous life of Hunzhen.

But this time, after landing in Axis City for another year, they did not directly transfer to the submersible feather ship.

The reason can be easily figured out after a little thought.

This kind of "dedicated line" that goes directly from the third floor to the ninth floor is certainly not as easy to make a round trip as a "bus" that spans two fixed floors.

On the third level of the abyss, in the Axis City controlled by the Silver Ghost Clan, there is an inn.

After the two Hunzhens entered the city, they waited in the guest room here.

There were no feather boats passing through the inn, but every corner was kept clean, and there were even the most outstanding-looking waiters and maids serving it.

And not long after Qingzhen moved in, she discovered something surprising.

He saw that in other guest rooms, there were silver ghosts who had checked in earlier than them.

"This?"

If he remembered correctly, the Abyss Royal Family should be able to directly adapt to the pressure of deep diving without being affected.

Why are they waiting here for departure?
And that didn't stop him from being surprised.

A week after they checked in.

A Territory Lord-level Silver Ghost arrived here with a group of hundreds of Universe-level Silver Ghosts.

Maybe Xing Luo knows something.

But in the past few days, he seemed to have some inspiration, and stayed in the guest room without leaving the door. Since Hun Zhen had accepted Xing Luo's support, it was natural not to disturb him at this time.

Almost a month had passed since they arrived at the inn, and the long-awaited "special car" finally arrived.

A silver-colored battleship that looked like it was wearing silver armor sailed into the inn.

There is no need for Xing Luo to explain. Just by looking at the unique appearance of this feather boat and its high-grade hull material, you can tell that it is special.

"This material seems to be tougher than the flesh and blood armor on the Domain Lord-level silver ghost."

Hunzhen recalled the physical signs of the Territory Lord-level silver ghost he had observed at a glance that day, compared them with this silver feather ship, and made a judgment with some disbelief.

After Xing Luo's popular science, he already knew that most of the skeleton and main body of the feather ship were composed of the remains of the abyss royal family.

And the remains that are obviously more advanced than the ordinary remains of the abyss royal family——

"Is this a feather ship made from the remains of the core royal family members of the Silver Ghost Clan?"

Eliminate all impossibilities, and the remaining conclusion, no matter how incredible, is probably the answer.

The silver feather ship entered the apron, and it seemed that the silver ghosts led by the domain lord were the last passengers.

Of course, they started boarding the ship.

And Hun Zhen soon noticed another thing that made him murmur.

Nuo was a big feather ship, and there were only two of the "lower races", namely him and Xing Luo.

There is no doubt that the two of them appearing here are special cases.

This is a top-notch feather ship specially provided to the Abyss Royal Family.

If nothing unexpected happens, most of the Silver Ghosts who come here on this feather ship will go to the battlefield of the abyss level to fight and gain experience.

This situation is probably the same among the black demons on the other side.

Just like Zagalad and Nofelik that day.

As soon as they got on the boat, Hunzhen noticed the looks from the surrounding silver ghosts towards them as if they saw something dirty.

This did not surprise him at all. In the eyes of the Abyss Royal Family, inferior races were synonymous with livestock, slaves, and servants.

Sharing a ride with them would be as unacceptable to the Silver Ghosts as it would be for an upper-class person to see two wild boars invited as guests to sit at the same table with them during a candlelight dinner.

The strange thing is that no one came directly to find trouble about this matter.

As if he came here specifically to slap Hun Zhen in the face, just when he was thinking this, the Domain Lord-level Silver Ghost Clan suddenly stopped and cut him in half with one glance: "You have tarnished the glory of the King's Blood, and are so filthy. "

He looked at Xing Luo, not hiding the disgust in his eyes.

(End of this chapter)