"What a coincidence." Xu Huo responded indifferently.
"Thank you for your help yesterday." Liang Yi hesitated for a moment before bringing up the old matter again, and then said: "You must never believe that Dong Yu. If she invites you to go together, you must not go with them."
"Have you been to Area 002?" Xu Huo asked.
"I have a friend in Area 002..." Liang Yi paused, "He mentioned that many players in Area 002 are engaged in human trafficking, and some players will abduct foreign players on the train. Area 002 is not like them.
That's so well said."
Xu Huo thanked her for her kindness and said nothing more.
Liang Yi stopped and returned to the room after finishing speaking.
There were few people in the VIP room, and few players came out to move around. The next two days passed very peacefully. Thanks to his strong self-healing ability, Xu Huo's injuries were almost recovered, and he walked through the day area and ushered in the dark night.
At that time, the train arrived at the destination area 002.
As soon as I got out of the car, boundless darkness came from all directions, which was different from the previous nights.
The night in the usual sense is not a complete night. Although the skylight and starlight are weak, in the eyes of players with the ability, they are not much different from the daytime. However, the night in Area 002 is different. There is no light source in the pure black sky.
The night seemed to block the line of sight. Except for the solitary lamp on one side of the street, the surrounding buildings and even the entire city were immersed in black. This meant that there was no day, only night. District 002, the famous night city
.
Night City is another name for Area 002. As the name suggests, it is a city with only night. I don’t know if it was originally like this or because of some accident. In short, all the information about this place in the dimension will mention the night here.
People living in a normal world may have difficulty imagining what kind of environment this is. Just make a simple subtraction.
In a world where day and night are normal, a person's work and rest are reversed, sleeping during the day, active at night, and never seeing the sun 24 hours a day - it doesn't sound difficult. Then remove most of the natural light at night, such as skylight and starlight.
Moonlight, etc., seems to be acceptable, because in highly urbanized places, human lights are the main theme of the night.
What if this main theme is removed?
It ranges from indoor lighting and dim light from electrical appliances to architectural lights and urban lighting, leaving only small street lights that are only one hundred meters apart. Do you feel that the world has suddenly become quiet?
It's not a third or a half of a day, but a life like this day after day, year after year.
Since there is no daytime, all lighting in Area 002 relies on human power. Although people still live according to a certain schedule, only one-third of the time is "daytime", which means that the power supply is only available for a maximum of eight hours a day.
, in special circumstances or when a large city requires a large amount of power supply, some small cities will deduct these eight hours.
In this environment, the government advocates frugality, and there is an upper limit on the electrical appliances that each power supply branch can carry. This means that people cannot freely use electricity storage equipment, and must use it frugally during the prescribed "night"
Store electricity, and the stored electricity can be sold back to the government, which is also a source of household income.
It was "night" time in Area 002, so most of the places Xu Huo saw were dark. If it weren't for the use of reflective materials on the exterior walls of buildings, even with night vision he wouldn't be able to see very far.
"This is darkness without light." Xu Huo walked alone on the street for a while, ignoring the two tails following him, and found a place marked "Accommodation". After knocking on the door, the small door on the door opened.
The hole opened, revealing a pair of eyes that seemed to be covered with a layer of dust.
Because people in Area 002 have lived in darkness for a long time, their vision has deteriorated, and their eyes have also changed accordingly.
The other party stared at him and said, "Two thousand white bills a night."
Xu Huo glanced at the price tag next to him, "Isn't it five hundred?"
"Love can't last!" The small hole was about to close as he spoke.
"Open the door." Xu Huo stopped him.
The boss looked outside cautiously for several seconds before opening the door a crack to let him in. Then he closed and locked the door with a smooth technique. When Xu Huo turned around, three locks had been fastened on the door.
The boss was not interested in his identity. He held up a shimmering fluorite and said, "You have to leave at dawn tomorrow morning. The key is on the counter. You can take it as you please after paying."
Xu Huo gave him a new key and asked casually: "Who are those people following me?"
The boss was shocked when he heard this. He thrust the money back into his hand, took away the key, turned around, opened the door, and pushed him out: "You can find another place to live!"
After saying that, the door closed mercilessly.
Xu Huo had no choice but to take back the money.
Darkness breeds not only the perfect power circulation system, but also the endless emergence of criminal groups.
Under the premise that the "light source" can be destroyed at any time, not to mention "at night", even "during the day" Area 002 is not necessarily safe. As Liang Yi said, human trafficking is one of the more common crimes, except in more developed metropolitan areas.
, many small and medium-sized cities here are almost under the joint governance of local governments and local gangsters. On the surface, the government has the final say, but in fact, the government has less control than the gangsters.
So at night, ordinary people basically don't go out.
But not going out doesn’t mean it’s safe.
Three places, two hundred meters, three hundred meters, and three hundred and fifty meters away from him, were experiencing home invasions and kidnappings respectively.
Xu Huo put the map he had just taken from the innkeeper's counter into his pocket, lowered his head and walked into a dark alley.
The two people following behind gestured at this and blocked the entrance of the alley one after another. However, when they entered, the person who entered the alley first had disappeared.
Xu Huo simply shook off his two tails and went to the scene of the home invasion and kidnapping. He tied the two people carrying the sacks to the chairs and made a silent gesture to the little girl who crawled out of the sack. He waited until the other party made a move.
After quickly going out and closing the door, he carried a chair and sat in front of the two of them, placing one side on his overlapping legs and playing with the strings with the other hand:
"I have a few questions to ask you, please cooperate with me."
"Do you know who we are from? Don't think that you are a player..." Before the man on the left could finish his threatening words, the flying strings strangled his neck, and he and his chair were half suspended in the air.
, ignoring the other person's flushed neck, Xu Huo looked at the other person, "What about you?"
The other person saw his companion whose face was gradually turning purple, nodded hurriedly, and deliberately lowered his voice, "I will tell you, as long as I know it!"
"Very good." Xu Huo raised his fingers and heard a crisp snapping sound before dropping the body and controlling the strings to fly to the man's neck.
