Shenjiao City is located on the border of the Seven Towers Federation, and Sheshou Town was established during the opening war more than 20 years ago, although the surrounding land has been developed.
But the danger is never really eliminated, and we are often attacked by spiritual beasts.
With the recommendation form, Duke boarded the special car of Faling Society.
This is a special route car commonly known as the "Black Beetle". It is shaped like a beetle several houses big. There is a thick smoke pipe standing on the front of the car. When it is ready to depart, the pipe will spit out a continuous stream of black smoke.
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It is similar to the black smoke from factory chimneys, which is caused by burning spiritual slag.
For factories and cars, which are large consumers of spiritual energy, it is unrealistic to rely on spiritual energy storage cards to supply energy, and the price is seriously uneconomical. Burning cheap spiritual slag is the normal operation.
As for pollution.
Black smoke is the romance of the industrial revolution.
"Woooooo!"
The Black Beetle blew its whistle, and the black smoke from the pipe intensified rapidly. Then several solid tires the size of millstones slowly rotated, running over the gravel road and heading out of the town.
Duke sat by the car window, looking at the town that was gradually going away, feeling very strange.
Sheshou Town is said to be a small town, but in fact it is not much different from a small county town. Seventy or eighty thousand people live in it, and many people, including Duke, have never left here.
This time.
It was the first time that he left Sheshou Town and headed towards Shenjiao City.
The Black Beetle does not travel very fast, and the cabin is also very bumpy. There are no highways or even asphalt roads, and all roads are gravel roads.
This kind of road is also called a route.
Because in areas far away from cities and towns, spirituality activates all things. Even if humans clean them out over and over again, there are still countless spiritual beasts lurking, destroying roads and attacking convoys.
Every time I go out, it's like an unknown voyage.
Bang, bang, bang.
The car suddenly jolted violently, almost knocking Duke off his feet.
Someone in the car yelled and cursed: "Do you know how to drive? If there is a pit, don't you know how to take a detour!"
Soon a flight attendant came over and explained: "I'm sorry, everyone, the road ahead must have been damaged by digging insects. The whole area..."
Before she finished speaking, the car bumped violently again. The flight attendant quickly grabbed the handrail to ensure that she did not fall. After it stabilized, she continued to explain: "The entire road has been dug up, and the patrol road repair team has not had time to repair it, so please
Everyone, please sit still and wait until you cross this bad road."
"Damn diggers!"
"When I go out hunting, I must kill a few more diggers!"
Passengers complained and cursed the 0-ring spirit beast Digger, a bug that looks like a cockroach but is larger than a cat, wandering in the wild in groups.
After a while of jolting, the Black Beetle finally stabilized.
Not long after, Duke saw from the car window that the car had passed another small town, and it would pass through four small towns before reaching the final destination.
After stopping for a while, some people got off and some got on.
Soon we set off again, leaving the market town, leaving the farmland, and driving into the vast wilderness.
Duke looked at the scenery outside the window greedily. Compared with the earth, this place was full of exotic customs. The strange plants dazzled him, and occasionally he could see strange beasts.
Suddenly.
The Black Beetle stopped.
"Please be patient and don't open the windows casually. There are several spiritual beasts blocking the road. The knight following the car has already got out of the car to drive them away." The flight attendant smiled and reassured everyone. This kind of situation has become commonplace for her. Duke did not stay in his seat.
Like others, he ran to the window near the front of the car and looked out to join in the fun.
But I saw two knights wearing armor, confronting several black spirit beasts that looked like leopards and wolves. Each black spirit beast was the size of a calf.
"It's a ring of thin-cheeked black panthers. There are only six of them, which are not enough for two great knights." A passenger said easily.
The confrontation should not exceed three minutes.
One of the great knights suddenly moved, holding a shield in one hand and a sword in the other, and suddenly rushed forward into the thin-cheeked black panther. Then he swept the sword ring with one hand and struck out a circular sword light.
Another great knight stepped forward slowly, maintaining the threat to the thin-cheeked black panther.
One main attack, one threat.
The six skinny-cheeked black panthers dodged while baring their teeth, as if they were about to make a move, but after all, they mainly dodged and did not attack the two knights.
And soon, one of the thin-cheeked black panthers simply ran away.
The remaining skinny-cheeked black panther roared a few times and ran away.
An attack by spiritual beasts came to an abrupt end. The two knights laughed and joked with each other before returning to the black beetle car. Black smoke billowed into the sky, and the car continued to run over the gravel road.
Duke returned to his seat, recalling the brief battle just now with some unfinished thoughts.
"That sword light should be the fighting spirit of the great knight." He thought of his predecessor who had taken the blood-boiling potion, hoping to open the sea of blood and gain the talent of knight cultivation.
Unfortunately it didn't work out.
"Speaking of it, both the blood sea and the air sea have been included in the spiritual arcane system and are recognized as branches of the spiritual sea and a place where spirituality gathers."
In his mind, he used his thoughts to communicate with Xiao Yi: "Xiao Yi, do you think it is possible for me to open the sea of blood and sea of qi?"
"Xiaoyi lacks relevant information and cannot estimate the possibility for the time being."
"Okay."
Duke reluctantly gave up thinking.
He is just a fifteen-year-old orphan at the moment. He has just stepped into the threshold of spiritual practice and knows nothing about the true practice of the Three Seas.
……
Half a day later.
Shenjiao City is in sight.
The first thing that caught Duke's eyes was the billowing black smoke from the countless chimneys. However, when the black smoke rose to a certain height, it seemed that there was a constant strong wind, blowing the black smoke away and outside the city.
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"It should be that the arcana related to the wind has been fixed."
The Black Beetle drove into the station, and it was bustling with special buses for various special routes. Duke got off the bus and walked out of the station along with the crowd, and then saw a tram bus passing by on the street.
He quickly grabbed his bag and ran to the nearby bus stop.
Although it was his first time to come to a big city, he had already asked Old Sam about the details of food, clothing, housing and transportation in the big city.
"Excuse me, which bus route can I take to Faling Pagoda?" He asked a middle-aged woman. There was no route sign at the platform, only a sign saying "Western Station".
"Fa Ling Pagoda, it seems to be Route 17." The middle-aged woman said and asked her companion, "Really, Route 17 can go to Fa Ling Pagoda, right?"
"That's right."
"Thank you." Duke expressed his gratitude.
Someone is selling tickets for the No. 17 bus, and it costs 5 copper dragons to go to Faling Pagoda Station. This is obviously not cheap, and is much more expensive than taking an ordinary rickshaw.
But now that Duke has money, he wants to try something new.
The trambus is very stable, but the process of traveling is exciting. Pedestrians, animals pulling the bus, and trucks almost ignore the traffic rules and run rampant, taking advantage of every opportunity.
Fortunately, the speed of the car was not very fast, and no one would be killed if it collided with it.
"Chaotic, dirty...but full of life." Duke thought in his mind.