Chapter five hundred and ninety eight: encounter acquaintances
The internal structure of the City of Steel was completely different from what Lu Qing had imagined before arriving. It was narrow, crowded, dimly lit, and had a smell of rust that was always floating in the air.
This place is like an iron cage built by human beings for survival. They lock themselves here and never take a step to the outside world...
"Boom, boom, boom..."
There was a huge sound of metal friction, it seemed that it was time to work, and the machinery in various factories in the Steel City was running at this moment.
Lu Qing had no idea of exploring these factories. She and Ling continued to walk towards the interior of the Steel City. As they moved forward, the buildings on both sides of the street became more lively.
Lu Qing took off her unsociable festival clothes and put her smart cloak on the outermost layer to cover her long silver-white hair. At the same time, she also let her spirit hide under her cloak.
Some residents of the Steel City woke up from their sleep. They walked out of their narrow rooms and looked at Lu Qing with curiosity, who was neatly dressed and carrying a large number of weapons.
Of course, it was just for a look, but no one dared to go up and talk to Lu Qing. In the City of Steel, people's hearts were as closed as steel.
They have their own jobs, but these jobs are very cheap. They work from dawn to dusk every day, and they can barely maintain food and clothing. But at least, this is much better than those homeless people who have nowhere to go.
Without wasting too much time on Lu Qing, the men lowered their heads and hurried towards the factory.
Lu Qing looked at the backs of those who left, shook her head in her mind, and gave up the idea of asking about these people's conditions.
She now needs to collect information, and at least have a basic understanding of this city made of steel.
As for the ways to obtain information, there are many ways. Lu Qing looked around and then came to a boy squatting on the ground playing with stones.
"If you put it like this, all the stones will collapse." Lu Qing said after seeing the boy holding a stone in his hand and trying to stack it on top of the stones.
"..." The boy glanced at Lu Qing, stood up from the ground, and ran towards the distance without looking back.
"Uh, it failed." Lu Qing looked at the little boy leaving and scratched his cheek with his fingers in embarrassment.
She picked up the stones that the boy had dropped on the ground, and then carefully stacked them on top of the stone tower left by the boy.
There was a sound of stones colliding with each other. As expected, the stone tower built by the boy with stones collapsed. There was nothing that could be done about it. After all, the boy built it wrong from the bottom, and the foundation was not even done.
How high can it be?
Speaking of which, it was only then that Lu Qing remembered one thing. If she guessed correctly, she was currently experiencing the backlash effect of the lucky coin, and her own luck would decline.
Maybe this is why the boy ran away immediately after seeing her?
But if luck has really declined, then why didn't anything bad happen during the train's travels, such as a sudden engine failure or something like that?
There are two possibilities. One is that the lucky coin does not reduce luck very much, and the other possibility is that the effect of the lucky coin in reducing luck may be instantaneous.
When she encounters something that may be critical, her luck suddenly decreases, causing a backlash.
Lu Qing hoped it was the first type. If it was the second type, then she would be in bad luck. I believe everyone will have that kind of thing. As long as she is lucky, the result will be completely different...
....
Suddenly, a burst of chaotic footsteps sounded. Lu Qing looked in the direction of the sound and found a group of soldiers wearing steel armor and holding brass steam rifles coming to this street.
Gu Shu
After Lu Qing observed carefully for a while, he discovered that their target did not seem to be him, but a building next to the street.
One of them kicked open the door of the building, and the rest of them rushed into the house with steam rifles.
"Raise your hands, someone reported you for having contraband here!" Lu Qing, who has excellent hearing, heard what the other party said in the room.
"What are the contrabands?" Lu Qing thought curiously. With the [Aura Interruption] skill brought by the Florence Eagle Ezio card, she quietly touched the side of the building without causing any disturbance.
One person's attention.
"I, I don't have any contraband here, it's all slander!" A man's voice came from the room.
"It's not up to you to decide whether there are any contraband. Search for me!" The person who seemed to be the captain said in a cold tone.
After the words fell, the remaining soldiers began to search the room. After a while, the captain's voice sounded again: "Haha, there is no contraband? What is this?"
"I...I..." The man was speechless. Just when Lu Qing was curious about what the contraband was, she suddenly noticed a force belonging to the void.
The breath spreads in the room.
"I was forced, why did you force me!" The man's distorted voice sounded in the room, in addition to the captain's roar.
"Quick, he has gone crazy, fire!"
"Bang bang bang!!"
The loud sound of the steam rifle reached my ears, and within two minutes, the movement in the room disappeared.
"Those weapons also have the power of the fire element!" Ling, who was hiding under Lu Qing's cloak, seemed to have sensed something and said quickly.
"Pack up his body and throw it into the crematorium." The captain said to his soldiers.
"yes!"
Listening to the sound of something giant being dragged in the room, Lu Qing roughly guessed what happened inside.
The man who possessed the contraband must have used the power of the void to transform into some kind of powerful monster, and the soldiers used steam rifles with the power of the fire element to kill the transformed man.
Otherwise, it would be difficult for an ordinary steam rifle to cause damage to creatures contaminated by the void.
However, Lu Qing was still a little curious about what the contraband was. She waited patiently for a while, and soon saw one of the soldiers walking out of the room holding an iron box.
What surprised Lu Qing was that the items in the iron box actually emitted a blue light that belonged to props!
This further strengthened Lu Qing's idea of taking that thing away. With this thought, she suddenly burst out of the shadows and grabbed the iron box in her hand without anyone reacting.
"Who!?" Although the team leader reacted quickly, when he raised his steam rifle, Lu Qing had already disappeared from their sight.
After a while, Lu Qing appeared in a dark alley, the hood on her head slowly slid down, revealing her long silver-white hair.
Before Lu Qing could open the box and check the properties of the props, a female voice that sounded familiar sounded from behind her.
"Excuse me, are you...your highness the princess?"