The Righteous Player(s)

From the temporary base of Justus, there should be nothing to investigate.

This kind of double-storey building that looks like a round cake and a crown is also seen in the coal barrens ten years later.

This is called the "base room". It is a very popular architectural form in underground cities.

The entrance on the first floor is the front desk and the lounge. The lounge has seven doors, direct access to the kitchen, storage rooms occupying two rooms, power room and four residences. After going up the stairs on both sides of the ring, there are eight rooms upstairs, a total of twelve houses.

Generally, if you don’t know whether to build a city or if there are wastelands where people will come, you will first pave this type of stronghold.

This kind of building with composite functions is not preferred to be demolished anywhere, and can be placed anywhere. Even if there are more residents behind, they can be converted into bars, hotels, shops, warehouses, dormitories, or safe houses.

This can be regarded as the initial "population building".

Shooting five or six consecutively is enough to accommodate the use of the pioneering stage.

Generally speaking, the higher the proportion of base houses in the city, the lower the degree of development of the city.

After Annan followed Justus and left the stronghold room, he saw the extremely desolate street.

Compared with the coal barren land ten years later, I am afraid that there is not even a tenth of the area here. It's not so much a city, it's a station in the wilderness...It's like a dilapidated town in a western movie.

Even the sky is not so bright. This is because the corpses of light ants here are not too thick, and there is no long-term light ant layer formed.

The ground here is dark brown after the lava has dried up. There are only three streets with two horizontal and one vertical, and the number of buildings can almost be counted with two hands.

The streets are empty at the moment. There was nothing except the two of Annan—no people, no insects, no monsters...not even wind, and it was extremely quiet.

"Look at the furnishings in your room, you should be here soon."

Annan raised his eyebrows and turned to look at Justus: "Is the coal barren so quiet?"

"How can it be."

Justus frowned: "Before it was submerged by lava, it was a famous gold mine and coal field. Later, it would be submerged by lava and destroyed the city. It was also because the workers made mistakes to dig through the veins.

"You may not know that right above here... is the furnace mountain in the province of San Felix."

"I remember Lushan is an active volcano."

Annan raised his brows.

Of course he knows the name.

Frederick, as a winter man, should also know.

Lushan is one of the few mountains in the Principality of Winter that is not completely covered by snow, and it is also the place where people who have been expelled from the city bet on their fate. If you are lucky, you can find their predecessors by digging through a thin layer of snow. The windbreak cave left behind.

The caves in Lushan have natural floor heating. You can also heat the snow to get fresh water. You can also barbecue and boil water inside, so you can survive safely even in winter. In the Good Year, Lushan is the famous hot spring area in the Principality of Winter.

The only problem is... Lushan is not an extinct volcano, but an active volcano that has been active. This is also the reason why there are no cities near Lushan.

"Usually when Lushan is approaching an eruption, the Tower of Storms will be responsible for suppressing it. But this only delays the eruption time and provides evacuation time for nearby townspeople... Lushan still maintains an eruption once every fifteen to twenty years. The law."

Justus sneered: "But do you think...Where is the magma pressed down by the Tower of Storms?

"——The coal barren is destroyed in this way."

"But it's rebuilt now."

Annan said calmly.

He and Justus walked slowly and vigilantly on the street, not too far away from this reliable teammate.

Justus glanced around like a falcon.

He sneered while looking for the anomalies around him: "Who makes it produce gold?

"Compared with human lives, the diggers and wise men obviously think that the gold here is more valuable. So there is an investigation report... The report shows that the probability of a volcano erupting near the coal barren is extremely low, and it is recommended to resume prospecting operations. ."

"Extremely low?"

"Extremely low-of course it is extremely low. Before it was used as the'Coal Barren Land' and when it was also called the'Black Gold Field', the last safety report was simply'safety'. In fact, if it weren't the Tower of Storms It will be shot, it is indeed impossible to have an accident... But who can tell this kind of thing clearly?"

Justus smiled and took out the hip flask from his waist and took another sip.

He muttered in a low voice: "When the volcano is about to erupt, it is impossible for the Winter people to inform us in advance,'The volcano is about to erupt, we are going to let the Tower of Storms take action'."

"They don't have this time."

Annan said softly.

Justus sneered silently: "Even if the Winter people have this time, the Council of the Wise Men will not notify us. The Wise Men have no feelings.

"——Because the cost of disaster relief is too great.

"If they knew that this place could be destroyed at any time, it would be impossible to send a mercenary group to enter and lead the residents to evacuate...because it is illegal to hide this kind of information, and if you disclose this information to the mercenary group, you will have to add money.

"No one knows what the scale of this disaster is ~www.readwn.com~ Will the veins collapse? Will the mining area be destroyed? Will lava flow in, and if so, how much will it flow in, Will it destroy the town, or will it just fill the ground? Or will it flood the city together?

"If they rescue, they can only be rescued by everyone. This cost is too high...At the same time, if the disaster is not serious in the end, then the mine owners and miners will be the first people to come out and complain about the ‘make a fuss’.

"Because the evacuation operation has seriously delayed their work progress... it may even cause their equipment to be stolen, man-made sabotage, or damaged due to disasters.

"Those wise people in the Council of the Wise, don't do this. If the Winter people really give a warning, they will not pass it down... They may even send mercenaries to block those who escape - especially the mine owners. go back.

"In this case, the'mining rights' sold in this city can be sold again; because the mine owner is also dead, there will be no compensation. Everything is just an accident... Then no one can sue , The matter will end here."

Justus complained constantly.

His words are full of ridicule... and unchecked hatred.

Annan paused.

He intends to take a risk.

So Annan slowly said, "You still can't forget Ingrid."

Hearing this, Justus turned around and stared at Annan behind him.

Annan did not look at him.

Instead, he continued to move forward blankly.

Because Justus was much taller than Frederick, the hood that Annan pulled down covered most of his expressions. This made his emotions elusive.

After a while, Justus followed.

"……Yes it is."

Justus whispered, his tone unusually calm.

"I will make them pay sooner or later..."