Outside the window, the triangular red moon has risen to the center, shining in scarlet light.
He put on his old shabby black coat and walked out of the narrow shack.
This is a slum area, with gray cement lattice buildings piled up layer upon layer like a honeycomb, forming a huge thing like a walled city.
The place where Dunjun lives is only six square meters in size, but the environment here is actually pretty good.
The few friends he knew all lived in "pigeon cages", which were coffins like iron cages. The average living area was only a little over one square meter.
From within the walled city, more and more people came out.
They were emaciated and emaciated, as if they had been malnourished for a long time, causing their bodies to become thin and emaciated, and their faces lacked much energy. They were like corpses that were moving numbly, converging into a long gray stream.
Boom!
The ground trembled slightly, as if a long-worm beast surged past, roaring with heat.
Dunjun knew that it was not some ferocious beast, but a pipe through which the steam of a part of the underground steam engine flowed.
The entire "Steam City" is built on a huge steam engine.
If the core steam engine is the heart of the entire city, then the constant stream of high-temperature and high-pressure steam transported to various places through pipelines is the blood of the city!
The furnace is never extinguished, and the blood is endless, supporting this city of survivors.
survivor!
This name has some different meanings. In the legends passed down by mouth, they are a group of remnants. In an era that cannot be recorded in history, a terrible world-ending disaster occurred, which wiped out most of the land and sky.
, only a small number of survivors survived, and the remnants are the descendants of those survivors.
Dun Jun doesn't know how the world-destroying disaster came about.
However, he knew that prehistoric civilization must have been very powerful and advanced.
After all, the core power furnace of the City of Steam was excavated from the remains of a prehistoric civilization.
It must have been a place where our ancestors studied science and enlightened their wisdom.
Its name is - Victor Steam Power Museum!
Therefore, the City of Steam has also set up a 'museum' as a place for 'naturalists' to study knowledge. It is a place where only the most knowledgeable people in the city can go. Workers like Dunjun who don't know a few words can only
Much to envy.
Following the flow of people, Dunjun came to his factory.
His job is very simple, that is, swing the shovel and throw shovelful after shovelful of coal into a huge opening.
The furnace mouth is simply like a monster that never knows how to be satisfied. No matter how much it is filled, it will never be full.
Shovel after shovel...
Dunjun quickly broke out in sweat, and his expression became more and more silent.
He still needs to work for eight red months before he can go down to rest.
In the sky of this world, there is always only a triangular red moon. The moon never sets, and it provides scarlet light to the world.
Every day, it will be in the middle of the sky during the twelve red moons, which is also the conceptual daytime for all the people of the City of Steam.
At other times, it will mischievously appear randomly in the four directions of southeast, northwest, and perhaps only naturalists can figure out the rules. However, because the red moon in the four directions will be a little weaker, it forms a theoretical night.
Dun Jun wiped his face, and a black stain suddenly appeared on his face.
Bang!
Suddenly, a loud noise came.
He paused and realized that the steam pipe had exploded. This kind of thing was not very safe in the first place.
And if there is an unlucky person nearby, the ultra-high temperature steam can even melt bones and flesh!
"What are you stopping for? Work quickly!"
The overseer roared and roared.
All workers continue to transport and dig coal numbly...
For their daily work, they can only get two meals of suspicious black goo and a steam coin worth one cent. They cannot get sick. Once they get sick, they lose their source of livelihood and fall into a vicious cycle.
Of course, we can't expect to get married or anything like that.
But it doesn't matter, the population of Steam City is still growing, and some animals from the wilderness are asking to join and be exploited.
Because in the wild, life is more dangerous and terrifying!
Not only do all kinds of wild beasts live there, but there are also unexplainable strange creatures that can kill you if you are not careful!
In the City of Steam, there is at least the most basic ‘security’!
Although Dunjun's expression was numb, there was a fire in his heart.
He knows that there is no future at all if he continues like this. Before the age of thirty, he will definitely be eliminated due to various illnesses, be kicked out of the rental building, and die on the roadside.
'If you want to live, if you want to get better... you must sign up for the 'Abyss Game'!'
The City of Steam is divided into two urban areas, Upper City and Lower City.
People in the upper city are well-dressed, have no shortage of food, and enjoy themselves all day long.
The people in the lower city are like coolies like animals, without any hope.
No, they still have one life left to participate in the Abyss Game!
Although the mortality rate of this kind of selection is extremely high, there are indeed one or two lucky people in each session who can succeed, enter the Shangcheng District, and become a master.
This is also the only hope for the lower class!
Although the population of Lower City is dozens of times greater than that of Upper City, the riot is unlikely to succeed.
The people in Uptown have mastered terrible weapons, and even possess strange and extraordinary powers!
According to rumors...the Abyss Game is the way to obtain extraordinary abilities!
Dun Jun clenched his fists. After finishing the work, he received the day's salary, came to the supervisor, took out a handful of iron coins, and said expressionlessly: "This is one dollar... I signed up... to participate in 'The Abyss'"
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'This kid...has a lot of bad luck. Can he be considered a character on the stage of the times?'
Fang Xian watched all this from the perspective of 'dream land'.
Although his body is close to being asleep, part of his spirit can still pass through Dreamland, barely break through the abyss, and observe the outside world.
Although the time and scope are very limited, this is already the limit of Dreamland.
At this moment, Fang Xian felt like an evil god who had been exiled from the world.
Only through various efforts and attempts can we occasionally get a glimpse of this world.
The previous few breakthroughs were just wilderness and no man's land.
Only recently did I finally locate the City of Steam.
The changes here made Fang Xian stunned.
The civilization that stretched across the stars has completely disappeared, leaving only the last remaining human beings still struggling to survive on a dark continent.
This change is really too huge and weird.
If he hadn't carefully checked the coordinates, he might even have the idea that he had traveled to the wrong world.