After looking at the metal suitcase, Iswin came closer.
"Boss, since everyone is dead, why don't we just swallow the money? Why go to Lizard Town to make deals?"
"You don't want the boat? Besides, if this trip can be made, we can make a few trips by ourselves in the future, and maybe we can make money back. With the capital, we can tinker with some gadgets like Dogo's, and we will be prosperous again in no time."
Although there was no crew, luckily there was Loken, who was able to command the servitors on the ship. After four more hours of trouble, they finally landed outside a fragmented town.
This is located next to the huge sea of sewage in the bottom nest. It doesn't even have a decent parking area. There is only a piece of rotten wooden piles and planks sparsely placed on the black coastline. After the boat is parked, there is not even a place to tie the cable.
, can only anchor on the spot.
This place is basically the lowest level of the hive. There is no order or security, so there is no need to cover up. They have exposed all their weapons. Only in this way can they "dissuade" those thieves, bandits, and mutants from plundering.
Or, or something else.
Although the Underhive is synonymous with poverty and chaos, it is not without value. It is precisely because of its high degree of chaos and disorder that some things that will attract law enforcement as soon as they appear in the hive can only be found here.
.
Rozim, who was deeply in debt, had to make a transaction on behalf of a gang boss. Since this transaction would involve an outsider, it meant that the risks and profits were high.
Very high——
Although most areas of the Bottom Nest are dark, due to the existence of the distant and huge wastewater treatment plant above, its long and bright light almost becomes a small moon, which gives this area a unique hazy feel.
The feeling, coupled with the resin-like smell in the air, and a breeze blowing, it is difficult to imagine that this is the bottom nest.
However, roadside road signs made of human spines and skulls, as well as the bones of giant reptiles, clearly tell all visitors that this place is by no means a paradise.
Lizard Town is so named because a poisonous lizard about the size of an adult male lives in this area, called the Sleeping Lizard.
Sleeping lizards are amphibious creatures that also move in wastewater oceans. Perhaps due to long-term exposure to pollution, they also produce venom glands in their bodies. That kind of toxin is very deadly to warm-blooded animals, but it is very deadly to cold-blooded creatures.
It is an extremely powerful and safe anesthetic, so some bottom nest hunters will try to hunt these creatures and remove their poison glands to make powerful hunting anesthetics. This kind of thing is very popular among alien beast hunters because it is very effective and does not kill.
Killing prey will even protect the brain and heart and lung activity of the prey, so there is no need to carefully consider the dosage.
Alien beast hunters will use sleeping lizard anesthesia to hunt those dangerous giant cold-blooded animals in the dead world, and sell them at high prices to the rulers and nobles who come to the nest to obtain huge profits.
The target of this transaction by Rozim and others is the sleeping lizard anesthetic.
Soon they arrived at Lizard Town. It was said to be a small town, but it was actually a large hastily built metal structure and various tents, with a protective wall made of rough metal spikes outside.
When a strange wind blew, the tent coverings fluttered in the breeze, and they walked along a dirt road while Rozim observed the residents coming and going.
Most of them are savage, rude and extremely aggressive.
Based on a series of information he heard before, Rozim knew that there were about six forces in Lizard Town, and they could be seen on the streets.
The sleeping lizard hunters who first settled here were a group of agile warriors, wearing camouflage cloaks and light green clothes. They had totems erected on their territory, and each totem had a lizard painted on it.
Then there's the violent gangster-turned-Venom Clan, cruel and vicious guys scarred from head to toe in some weird ritual, with poisonous spines on each fingertip like a bear's paw, and they talk.
It will make harsh noises at all times, and is always on the lookout for outsiders. Sometimes it even claims to be the defender of the town and collects protection fees from the intruders.
Then there is the White Caveman family. They are a group of bottom-nest refugees suffering from family albinism. Although they do not have strong military power, they are proficient in some mysterious knowledge. In the small town, you can see the sturdy cone-shaped tents they made, and in
Strange herbs were burning at the door, and the drowsy incense mixed with the smoke from the bottom nest gave a strange feeling.
The fourth is the church in the small town. The influence of the state religion often penetrates the lower classes more than the rule of the empire, but some strange changes often occur during the penetration process. The church in Lizard Town is a church that doesn’t know where it came from.
Founded by a barbarian shaman, he claimed that by taking a trace amount of sleeping lizard anesthetic, believers could briefly contact the emperor - in fact, they were essentially a group of drug dealers, making some kind of hallucinogen from the sleeping lizard venom glands for sale.
Those priests call themselves Dream Apostles, always wearing robes made of sleeping lizard skin, their eyes full of viciousness and gloom, and they always ask for money from outsiders or unsuspecting people in the name of collecting the "Holy Tithe"
, and even turn the other party into a slave.
The last group, in principle, can be regarded as the real "managers" of Lizard Town. Their leader holds a Sheriff's Letter of Appointment issued by an unknown legal department bureau, claiming to be appointed by the Imperial Ministry of Justice to protect and maintain order here. It's a pity that
After that letter of appointment was passed down to six generations, they probably no longer remember their responsibilities. Only guards in black metal armor are left walking around the crowd, demanding respect and taxes.
And the guns in their hands have become more convincing than their identities.
In addition to these people, there is no shortage of outsiders in Lizard Town. Every day there are 20,000 to 30,000 non-residents who come here for various purposes, including businessmen, bounty hunters, refugees, or people like Rozim who are preparing to carry out activities.
Some people who deal in secret.
You can see people wearing colorful costumes, but they all carry weapons uniformly, and they are not placed in holsters or belts, but held in their hands or inserted randomly into their clothes, as if they are preparing for a duel.
There is no sign of law here, no imperial rule, and all the "superior people" are not interested in the lawless world below them, but Rozim has a good feeling about this place, and he has a premonition that he will find a fortune here.
Although he doesn't have much capital now, as the saying goes, as long as his thinking does not slip, there are always more solutions than difficulties.