Chapter 1190, Not Having Seen the World

The wide sewer was dark, and the deep hole looked like it was trying to suck out all the light.

No wonder Mei Ge was scared, even a battle-hardened person like Qian Weining would have to mentally build up in advance and take a deep breath for a long time before going in.

Chen Jingshu was calm, that was because she knew where this sewer led to.

Ren Xiaosu realized that he was afraid that the entire bounty hunter organization already had a pivotal position in the underground world of Ghent City, and they were very familiar with this place.

He surveyed the sewer exit curiously and asked, “Wait a minute, this is a sewer built by modern craftsmanship ah, even though it’s very worn out, but the problem is that the Sorcerer Kingdom doesn’t have this kind of craftsmanship, right?”

On the wall of that sewer entrance, the concrete had been corroded very badly, even the steel bars inside were exposed.

This was the first time Ren Xiaosu had seen a reinforced concrete building structure in the Sorcerer’s Kingdom, and it was as novel as when he had seen the ruins of human civilization in the Realm Mountains.

So, the fact that the entire Ghent City was built on the foundation of a pre-cataclysm human city was a bit surprising to Ren Xiaosu.

Moreover, he was even more surprised that the sewers had been preserved for so long.

In theory, reinforced concrete had a high lifespan with no upper limit.

However, in reality, as long as these buildings were exposed to the air, they would naturally be affected by oxidation, weathering, rain and snow, and if the reinforcing steel inside the concrete decayed, it would be damaged a bit faster.

Therefore, this sewer must have been built with a high level of craftsmanship before the Calamity, or else it wouldn’t have lasted 200 years later.

Chen Jingshu looked at Ren Xiaosu, “Is this construction process all over Middle Earth?”

“Basically all in the barriers,” Ren Xiaosu nodded, “At least it’s a bit more practical than masonry.”

Chen Jingshu said, “In fact, when the Calamity descended, most of the people in the Sorcerer Kingdom lived in this underground city, and everyone turned the original air raid shelters into new homes in which to languish.”

Everyone around them listened quietly, even Qian Weining was hearing about these things for the first time, these were all past events that the Sorcerer Organization no longer really wanted to mention.

Chen Jingshu continued, “Then after the calamity passed, the sorcerers brought everyone back to the surface to rebuild their surface homes, and they got along quite well in the beginning, but when Russell died the sorcerer organization began to intensify their exploitation of the commoners, and so the post-calamity human group became divided.”

When everyone was in the underground, all of them united only to fight against that cruel period of calamity, and although there were injustices existing at that time, with the existence of Russell as well as those new wizard forces beside him, they at least got along.

Because of Russell’s personal charisma, everyone was willing to take him as their leader, trusting him to handle things fairly.

At that time, Russell even established a temporary post-disaster committee underground and formed a temporary underground court, even if a sorcerer breaks the law and oppresses ordinary people, he will be sanctioned just the same.

And what’s even more ruthless is that sorcerers who break the law will be directly confiscated the eye of true vision.

Without the Eye of True Vision, a sorcerer is the same as an ordinary person.

At that time, the old aristocrats also wanted to fight against Russell, but they couldn’t beat Russell before the disaster, and even more so after the disaster.

These old nobles can’t even feed themselves, they can’t feed so many sons, blood succession sorcery has no soil to exist, so they can only be hung up and beaten by Russell.

Therefore, after everyone returned to the surface, the reason why everyone wanted to kill Russell so much, in fact, is to know, as long as Russell is still there, that sorcerer old aristocrats will never be able to turn over the day.

At that time, Russell had already started planning for the wizard school, if he was allowed to break down the class barrier between wizards and ordinary people, then the wizard aristocracy’s bloodline system would naturally be disintegrated.

The nobles, in order not to surrender their exclusive sorcery and to ensure the continuation of the bloodline, turned on Russell’s servant Worth to poison Russell.

Once Russell was dead, the new power of wizards naturally dissipated, and most of those who remained died in the siege of the old nobles.

When the exploitation system was re-established, some people could not bear to be oppressed themselves and had a great disagreement with the wizard old nobles.

In order not to be killed, they reentered the underground world and continued to survive and continue in the dark world.

The people from the Sanctuary Organization also followed everyone back underground that time.

Chen Jingshu looked at Ren Xiaosu and said, ”The days of hiding underground were arduous, the old nobles of the sorcerers came down to encircle us many times at first, and we all had to hide from them in order to do so, but fortunately this underground world was huge enough, and they weren’t too good at finding our traces. Later on, everyone realized that it was actually okay to live underground, and slowly the supplies became abundant, and the surface and the underground became two completely independent systems of operation.”

“Then why did you suddenly come out again now, I think you guys should be making a big move, right?” Ren Xiaosu curiously said, “What made you guys risk coming out, even if you lose your lives.”

“Because the building facilities underground are close to decaying,” Chen Jingshu said, “According to estimates, this underground will last for another twenty years at most, and I’m afraid it will collapse. We don’t have the means to repair and reinforce it, so we can only return to the surface.”

“O, so before returning to the surface, you guys have to settle the matter of the sorcerer’s old nobles before you can do so, or else coming to the surface will be a death,” Ren Xiaosu nodded, “But you guys have struck too late, the surface sorcerers have already become a climate.”

“There’s always a silver lining to look for,” Chen Jingshu sighed, “We all know it’s hard, but how do we know exactly where it is if we don’t fight for it.”

“Now you’ve found it,” Ren Xiaosu said with a smile.

Chen Jingshu said calmly, “You’re going to say that you’re the silver lining right.”

“All know how to snatch the answer, there is progress,” Ren Xiaosu said, “Without external force, you guys can’t beat these sorcerers even if you develop for another two hundred years, you can’t do such a big thing just by relying on those smooth-talking sorcerer family dudes, so you can only rely on external force. ”

Chen Anan on the side stubbornly said, “We are also very powerful.”

“It’s a pity that you don’t have rich experience in struggle, it’s unrealistic to keep hoping for a metamorphosis within the sorcerer aristocracy, how can these vested interests sincerely help you?” Ren Xiaosu said, “Therefore, you need to let those exploited proletariat comrades stand up …… Forget about it and stop talking about it, saying that something is going to happen.”

Chen Jingshu listened with a blank stare, “Then what makes you say that you are the silver lining, I don’t think you have much experience in struggle, right, and you’re not familiar with the place, who are you going to unite with? And besides, I know you won’t stay in the Sorcerer Kingdom for too long, you don’t have the time and energy to do that.”

Ren Xiaosu laughed, “What Russell did in the beginning, that’s what I’m going to do now.”

The so-called Russell’s way of doing things was of course to first hang and beat up the old nobles and then maintain a high level of agreement with everyone.

But Ren Xiaosu was going to be a little more ruthless than Russell, and while he wasn’t good at fighting, he was good at killing.

Russell didn’t kill because he himself was a member of the sorcerer group, but Ren Xiaosu wasn’t, he didn’t have any compassion for the sorcerers from the very beginning, and all that existed between each other was a blood feud.

Qian Weining and the others listened to the two men’s conversation from the sidelines, then grew more and more silent.

Just yesterday, Qian Wei Ning had thought that Ren Xiaosu was just purely trying to get sorcerers killed, only to realize now that the other party was actually trying to challenge the entire sorcerer nation.

These two things seemed to have a somewhat similar process, but the results were very different, and the difficulty was also very different.

Ren Xiaosu turned back to Qian Weining and the others and smiled, “Don’t be afraid, even if you fail you guys can still come with me to the Middle Kingdom, this is the retreat I left for you guys.”

“Master needn’t worry much, as long as master doesn’t turn his back on us, we will naturally follow to the death,” Qian Weining hurriedly expressed his loyalty.

At this time, Chen Jingshu went to the side to cut branches, then had An An fetch oil cloths and wrap them around the branches to light them.

Ren Xiaosu froze for a moment, “What is this for?”

“Lighting the torch,” Chen Jingshu said, “After entering the cave entrance, you must follow me closely, in case you take the wrong path with the torch, you will either enter some death zone and be poisoned to death, or you will suddenly set off an explosion and blow yourself up.”

“Death area? Blow up?” Ren Xiaosu said in a daze, “Are there still organs in this sewer, who set them up?”

Chen Jingshu said, “Probably set up by the person who built this underground city, the explosions always come very suddenly, I don’t know why.”

Ren Xiaosu cried and laughed, “What the hell is this a mechanism, it’s clearly your torches that ignited the methane gas that had accumulated underground and then triggered the explosion.”

This huge underground city in the beginning of the design must have considered the ventilation problem, but after so long the ventilation facilities are destroyed, some places inside the collapse, will certainly cause the problem of methane gas accumulation, this torch is close to, do not explode is strange.

So this thing is not at all what someone deliberately set up organs ……

Ren Xiaosu said, “Alright, don’t light the torches.”

He pulled out more than a dozen strong flashlights from the palace and handed them out, then he himself pulled out a tritium lamp as a lighting device, that said, this tritium lamp was still the one he had snatched from Qing earlier.

Chen Jingshu and Qian Weining and the others held the flashlight with a confused look on their faces, “What is this?”

“Press the switch,” Ren Xiaosu demonstrated for them, only to see a beam of light shining into the sewer, actually illuminating a distance of tens of meters at once, the entire sewer was as bright as day.

Chen Jingshu was instantly shocked, “What is this thing?!”

At this moment, Ren Xiaosu suddenly had the illusion of a high level civilization crushing a low level civilization ……

He patiently explained, “This is technology, a device that uses electricity as an energy source to provide a lighting effect, a flashlight should be able to have dozens of hours of illumination if you only turn on the lowest gear effect.”

Qian Weining scrutinized the flashlight in his hand, as if he had picked up a treasure: “Master, such a precious thing, you even gave it to us to use?”

Ren Xiaosu cried and laughed, “What precious item is this, in Middle Earth this is the standard equipment for combat troops! You guys are really too ignorant of Middle Earth, and under the control of the Sorcerer Organization, you are also too ignorant of technology.”

“Is Middle Earth so amazing?” Qian Weining lamented, he actually had an urge to visit Middle Earth at this moment.

Ren Xiaosu smiled and said, “A strong flashlight can make you all feel surprised, then how amazed you must be to see things like cameras, running water, televisions, and so on… Don’t worry, in the future, even if you are required to stay in the Northwest Branch of Daxing, you can still go to the Middle Earth often to take a stroll.”

This side of the Sorcerer Kingdom was only a thousand kilometers away from Fortress 178, it wasn’t that out of reach in front of modern transportation, if one drove a steam train at full speed, ten hours would be enough to get there.

At this time Chen Jingshu looked at the tritium lamp in Ren Xiaosu’s hand, “And what is this in your hand?”

“This thing is called a tritium lamp,” Ren Xiaosu said, “It uses radioactive material as its lighting energy source, and can last for 20 years or more without damage.”

“Wow, 20 years?!” All the people around them marveled.

For a moment, Ren Xiaosu felt like he was facing a group of curious babies.

He silently sized up this group of curious babies before taking out another military telescope and handing it to Qian Weining, “Come on, try it out, this thing will allow you to see very far.”

“Wow! So clear!” Qian Weining marveled, “What is this thing that is so amazing?!”

Chen Jingshu took the binoculars and then realized that she could even see details several hundred meters away through this odd tool!

“Is this the technology of Middle Earth,” Chen Jingshu murmured.

Everyone passed around the binoculars to play with, and then one by one, they let out a marvel that originated from within.

“I just love how you all look like you’ve never seen the world,” Ren Xiaosu said with a smirk.

These words made Chen Jingshu and the others feel a bit uncomfortable, but they didn’t know how to retort ……

Ren Xiaosu glanced at them, then took out another pistol with a silencer on and fired a shot towards the sparrow flying through the sky.

Only to see that the sparrow was hit so hard that its feathers fluttered and fell straight towards the ground.

“Wow, so powerful?” The surrounding people marveled once again.

Ren Xiaosu asked Qian Weining to pick the sparrow back up, “Look at this sparrow’s wound.”

Qian Weining examined it, and was shocked to find that the sparrow’s body was pierced through and bloody.

He was stunned, “Master, is this a weapon from Middle Earth?”

Qian Weining was 31 years old, so he hadn’t participated in that war 17 years ago, but he had still heard of Middle Earth weapons.

However, at that time, when he heard others describing up the firearms, he was always a bit skeptical, and it wasn’t until this moment that he realized how ruthless this thing was.

“This is on the edge of Ghent City, so I can’t show you the power of the other weapons, the pistol is just one of the least powerful ones,” Ren Xiaosu explained, “It’s characterized by accuracy far higher than bows and arrows, power far higher than bows and arrows, and it’s extremely fast, almost impossible to dodge. ”

Chen Jingshu said, “This thing, it’s far too powerful than sleeve arrows.”

For example, people like Chen Jingshu and Qian Weining were able to understand the gap between firearms and bows and arrows in an instant, while Meigo, along with Li Fruit and Liu Ting, could only stay at “Amazing!” “Wow!” “Crap!” They know that this thing is powerful, but they don’t know how powerful it is. ……

Ren Xiaosu stuffed the pistol into Qian Weining’s hands, “I’ll have the chance to take you guys to practice your marksmanship in the next few days, and after you familiarize yourselves with it, we’ll equip each of you with one, and then each of you will be given 100 rounds of ammunition to use.”

Qian Weining was instantly moved, “Master, can you give this to us as well, you are so generous!”

“Ahem, you’ve all sworn allegiance, so of course I can’t hide anything,” Ren Xiaosu said.

Chen Jingshu hesitated for a moment, “Can you sell me one, I can pay for it, is one hundred gold coins enough?”

To be honest, at this moment, Ren Xiaosu really wanted to make an arms deal with the Wizard Kingdom, a mediocre pistol, but it could be exchanged for a hundred gold coins here? This is simply a great deal of money!

However, Ren Xiaosu didn’t accept the deal in the end, and instead directly gave one to Chen Jingshu, he stuffed the pistol into the other party’s hand and said: ”I can give it away free of charge, but before I teach you to shoot it, don’t use it, it’s easy to get into trouble. Also, always remember that this thing is extremely dangerous, the muzzle should never be pointed at your own people.”

The reason why Ren Xiaosu suddenly thought of distributing guns to these people was because he suddenly felt that he might have taken some detours before.

What he was thinking about before was to set up the first Sorcerer Knights, this kind of extremely strong fighting spell turret regiment was simply just like a bomber, think about it, it was strong, and it didn’t cost any money or waste any arms.

But then Ren Xiaosu was thinking, anyway, pistols and automatic rifles are not worth a few bucks, bullets are not worth a few bucks, then why don’t you arm these people into a modernized force before they become sorcerers?

With automatic rifles and heavy machine guns, wouldn’t the cavalry be hung up and beaten? If they found favorable terrain, it would be no problem for more than a hundred of them to beat thousands of cavalry, right?

Moreover, on the way to the north, Qian Weining also showed his best skill: the secret distance measuring method!

This thing sounds mysterious, in fact, is the thumb as a dense reference to measure the distance to the enemy.

That is to say, Qian Weining is simply a natural artillery billet ah …… a little cultivation, can carry a long-distance mortar running around, although it is a physical strike, but in fact with witchcraft is not too different right, and this can be compared to those little wizards ruthless a lot… …

Even Ren Xiaosu doesn’t dare to say that he can ignore the artillery fire now, at most he can just dodge the ballistic trajectory, if there is really an artillery shell smashed on him he has to die.

Even Ren Xiaosu was afraid of something, let alone the sorcerers.

Therefore, before setting up the Sorcerer Knights, it would be better to set up the first modernized unit in the Sorcerer Kingdom, and he has all the armaments anyway ……

“Let’s go, let’s go in first,” Ren Xiaosu said.

Chen Jingshu held up a strong flashlight and led the way in front, the crowd’s footsteps on the sewage made a clattering sound, the sound echoed inside the pipes, sounding particularly abrupt.

Ren Xiaosu looked to the sewer wall, actually also saw some strange graffiti, there are Chinese, there are also sorcerer language, those words colorful, like a special spiritual symbols.

He couldn’t read wizard language, but he could read Chinese.

On that wall were words like, freedom, resistance, and so on, accompanied by flamboyant and weird patterns.

Ren Xiaosu asked, “Who wrote all this?”

“The underground dwellers, of course,” Chen Jingshu said, “Just random cathartic graffiti, I heard that people liked to scribble on the walls before the Calamity.”

“I heard earlier that the Norman family killed off all the underground people in order to find Donnery?” Ren Xiaosu asked.

“Almost,” Chen Jingshu said in a calm tone, “Probably killed a small half of them, but they were no longer familiar with the underground after more than a hundred years, so our newly found hiding spot wasn’t discovered by them. It was also that incident that made us determined to go up to the surface and stop being slaughtered.”

Ren Xiaosu illuminated the walls on both sides with a tritium lamp, and suddenly felt that the graffiti had a strange chaotic beauty to it.

Walking further, the scene in front of them suddenly opened up a bit, and a wider underground world appeared in front of everyone’s eyes: a huge spillway capable of traveling tanks, staggered steps, and overhead there was also to the point of no longer being able to see the steel.

The decay on the steel had piled up so thickly that Ren Xiaosu suspected that those things would be crushed to pieces with the slightest touch.

Chen Jingshu followed his gaze, and then explained, “Those things overhead are probably pre-catastrophe pipes that no one has touched in a long time.”

Ren Xiaosu lamented amidst his awe that this place was like an abandoned underground factory, filled with a hardened sense of mystery.

There were also those colorful graffiti everywhere, turning more into portraits, such as angels with withered wings, such as someone’s back, such as crows and tigers.

The patterns here didn’t have any clear chapters, as if someone just drew whatever came to mind onto them.

Chen Jingshu said, “In fact, these patterns are secretly mysterious, and they contain instructions for some routes, as long as a few underground people can just read them, these people are the leaders of the underground.”

“So you can read it, and you are one of the leaders?” Ren Xiaosu was curious.

“I’m not, but Chen Anan and Chen Cheng’s father is,” Chen Jingshu explained.

Ren Xiaosu pondered at this time, if the underground people really wanted to rebel against the spirit, then wouldn’t their own weapons be enough to arm a resistance army out ah.

Chen Jingshu and the others had never seen modern weapons, so they felt that there had to be enough wizards to overthrow the wizards; after all, ordinary people couldn’t fight against wizards.

But Ren Xiaosu instead felt that this matter seemed to be less complicated ……

Modern heat weapons are enough to slaughter a god’s existence, let alone a group of pseudo-gods.

Ren Xiaosu touched the paint on the walls, ”This isn’t just any paint, it’s minerals ground into it, right? It’s the only way they can keep such vibrant colors underground.”

Ordinary paints could not be preserved for a long time, especially when exposed to dirty air, unlike mineral paints, the decay period of minerals was much longer than that of ordinary paints.

Hearing Ren Xiaosu’s question, Chen Jingshu immediately blushed, and chose to avoid the question.

Ren Xiaosu continued, ”That’s why you continued to excavate a larger space on top of the original underground world to be able to find these colorful minerals, or else this kind of thing wouldn’t have appeared in the original sewers. The reason why the Norman Family didn’t manage to besiege you guys is also because they didn’t know that you guys dug out other spaces, such as the second, third, and fourth floors of the underground.”

Chen Jingshu frowned, “That’s a bit of an underestimation.”

“There’s no need to be so surprised,” Ren Xiaosu laughed, “When my companions come here, they’ll refresh your perception even more.”

Immediately after, as they traveled a few hundred meters further, a voice suddenly came from the front, “Who? Inform your identity!”

“Monday, Divine Fall,” Chen Jingshu replied in code.

Qian Weining behind Ren Xiaosu took a few steps forward, blocking in front of his new master on careful guard, he swept the beam of his flashlight away, and a young man with tattoos covering all of his face suddenly appeared.

Chen Jingshu explained to Ren Xiaosu, “Those who have tattoos on their faces are those who can no longer integrate into the surface city, they are the guardians of the entire underground world.”

Ren Xiaosu suddenly felt that the world underneath Ghent City, on the contrary, was more like a product of the Waste Land Era than any place he had seen before.