The roads in the town were far from as easy to navigate as the three had imagined.
There were ice spikes everywhere. It would be more accurate to say that Cheng Shi and his companions were climbing over hills made of ice rather than walking through the town.
Along the way, they found several scattered traces of scavengers. After capturing and questioning them, they finally had some preliminary understanding of this small town under the abyss.
Not to mention how Sandales became the experimental waste dumping base of the Tower of Material Science in the past, let's just talk about the current scavenging ecology here. Just as Hammer said, the lucky ones who just fell here can only survive in the outer circle even if they are not dead. Only when they have adapted to the climate here and can barely survive by scavenging, will they be qualified to approach the center of the town and join the scavenging groups that have been operating there for many years.
These scavenger groups who are obsessed with encircling their own land are the current "bosses" of Sandales. They gather together on the edge of the town center, enjoying the areas with the richest resources. At the same time, they are wary of any lone wolf scavengers and strange faces, preventing outsiders from rushing into the town center. For this reason, these groups that have been at odds with each other for years have even worked together in the marginal areas of the town center to build a huge protective net to protect the...treasure in the center of the town!
Yes, it’s a treasure.
According to the scavengers, all the secrets of Sandales are in the center of the town, but outside scavengers cannot get close at all, so they don’t know what is hidden inside.
The old scavengers claimed that they were fragments of divinity, but if they were just fragments of divinity, it would probably not be worth it for these people to go to such great lengths to "rebuild" some kind of order in a dead place where there is almost no order.
Considering the purpose of this trip, Cheng Shi wondered if these scavengers were guarding the Prying Ear.
He briefly discussed his guess with Zhang Jizu, who nodded in approval: "It seems you already have an idea. What do you want to do?"
Cheng Shi stood on a high ground between some ice ridges, looking at the even more broken town center in the distance, and said with a smile:
“Since the scavengers are the protagonists here, if we want this performance to go more smoothly, we should naturally give these protagonists more roles.
You said that if we unite all the scavengers here, then these people will become our eyes?
In this way, wouldn't it be easy for us to track down the whereabouts of those two bastards and our mysterious teammate who disappeared?
Of course, considering that the 'natives' here pose almost no threat to them, perhaps we can help them and do something with them so that these scavengers will passively release 'warning signals' when they are attacked.
For example, an explosive trap or a flashing magic circle, what do you think, Lao Zhang?"
"Sitting back inside and luring the enemy outside sounds feasible, but it is a waste of time.
Don't forget that we only have three days. I think their purpose is probably the same as ours, so before finding what we want, are you sure you want to spend a lot of time paying attention to the other two of you?"
"I know time is precious, but I always feel that these bastards might be hiding somewhere, secretly watching us, waiting for us to explore the way ahead, and then when we find the treasure, they will rush out at the right time to reap the spoils."
As he spoke, Cheng Shi looked back meaningfully with a playful expression.
Zhang Jizu narrowed his eyes and looked a little strange, but it must be a good thing to have the local native intelligence system in his hands, so as long as he speeds up the "unification", it should be a good thing to sharpen the knife before chopping wood.
So he nodded again and said:
"Then go ahead, we'll wait for your good news."
"???" Cheng Shi was shocked. He turned around and looked at Zhang Jizu with a strange look in his eyes. "Mi Lao Zhang, you were not like this before."
“People change.”
"Then why don't you change for the better?"
Zhang Jizu narrowed his eyes and chuckled: "He who keeps company with vermilion becomes red, and he who keeps company with ink becomes black. The words passed down by our ancestors do make some sense."
"???"
No, man, what do you mean?
Just as Cheng Shi was emptying his stomach and preparing to scold Zhang Jizu, Ai Si tightened the velvet collar of his clothes and sighed:
"Although it is inappropriate, you two will have plenty of opportunities to engage in a war of words in the future. If you don't take action now, the unification plan will fail.
No, it should be said that it has gone bankrupt. It seems that someone has already taken the lead and dealt with the scavengers here."
As he spoke, Ai Si's eyes condensed, and he kicked the tip of the sword straight, kicking the giant blade that was sticking on the ice directly into the shadow of a ruin not far away.
Everyone only heard a loud "bang" and then screams came from the shadows. A lame old man was blown out from the shadows and fell to the ground. His face changed and he struggled to run outside.
But how could the three people at the scene let a lame old man run away under their noses? Cheng Shi raised his eyebrows, threw out a dice, and with a snap of his fingers, he exchanged positions with the dice and came in front of the old man.
The old man was so panicked that he bumped into Cheng Shi and actually pushed Cheng Shi away a little. Seeing this, Zhang Jizu narrowed his eyes, but the corners of his mouth slightly raised, while Ai Si was shocked:
"The Dice of Destiny?
Isn't he a liar? Isn't Fate Weaver just a fake identity? But why is he still using the power of Fate? "
Zhang Jizu smiled but said nothing. He looked around cautiously and then walked towards Cheng Shi.
"He deceived the believers of [Destiny]? No, that is the universal talent of [Destiny], not the talent of the Weaver of Fate!
He merged? He merged with [Destiny]?" Ai Si followed behind and asked in surprise.
"Things are complicated, you can understand it this way first."
"......"
complex?
Ai Si's expression became even more complicated. She thought that being matched with the God's Chosen One was already discouraging enough, but when she thought about the fact that the only two teammates in this game had already completed the fusion of faith, and those who dared to play Cheng Shi were most likely to have also merged, for a moment, she felt a sense of powerlessness and frustration in her heart.
Are these the top players?
Their pace is so fast that when ordinary people just know the existence of the second faith, they have even become pioneers on the road of dual faith!
But since they have already merged, why do they still need to come here to look for opportunities?
Looking at Cheng Shi's playful expression when he was interrogating the old man, and Zhang Jizu's calm and steady back, Ai Si quietly clenched his fists, thinking that if he had the chance, he must gain something from this trial.
She glanced towards the center of the town, and a hint of desire flashed in her eyes that was not noticed by outsiders.
Is there really a faith out there that you can choose from?
If so, will it be mine?
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