Chapter 27
The night is dark and without light.
Somewhere on the twenty-meter-high city wall, a shadow darker than the night sky slowly rose. When it reached half the height of the city wall, it suddenly accelerated.
Easily climb over the wall and land steadily on the ground outside the wall.
A place without life.
This was the first time An Rou had set foot on the land outside the wall since entering the game.
She hugged the rich man's neck and looked around.
Everything was pitch black, with the faint outlines of clusters of trees in the distance making it possible to discern them. Occasionally, the angry howls of ghouls echoed from the woods, drifting in from afar and only adding to the stillness of the land.
It is said that the Land of No Life is a place where ghouls are rampant. Few players dare to wander around alone. They usually go out of the city gate in groups during the day to go to the nearby woods to clear out some unleveled crazy ghouls to accumulate experience and rewards.
As soon as the sun sets, everyone rushes back to the city; no one stays out overnight.
"It's not as scary as people say." An Rou muttered.
Paopao lay beside him, grabbing the outer edges of Baofu's flat body with both hands, but he didn't dare to hold too tightly, as this would make his arms sore.
After hearing An Rou's words, he couldn't help but complain in his heart: You are riding an SS-level ghoul, like a king patrolling the mountains, which ghost dares to come near you.
"Where?" An Rou asked.
Paopao squinted his eyes to identify it, then pointed in a direction: "Over there, a fifteen-minute walk will lead you to the railway tracks. Pay attention to the searchlights on the city wall."
On the distant wall, two searchlights swept back and forth at night, leaving two white lines in the darkness.
It was said to take fifteen minutes, but Baofu, with its four-meter-long legs, arrived in no time. Despite its massive size, it ran with remarkable agility. When the searchlight swept over it, it simply jumped to avoid the scanning area.
An Rou stared at the scene in astonishment.
She didn't ask, and Paopao didn't say anything. It turned out that the so-called "railway tracks" were not on the ground, but on an elevated platform that was twenty meters high!
Ahead, the elevated road stretched like a giant dragon, disappearing into the darkness. Behind it, it spanned nearly two kilometers, passing directly over the towering wall and disappearing into Lengbing City.
Every few steps, there is a bridge pillar standing tall from top to bottom, which is as thick as four or five people can hug together. There are blue lines appearing and disappearing on the surface, but they are too subtle to be seen from a distance.
"Baobao, come closer."
An Rou stretched out her hand, and Paopao immediately reminded her, "Don't move! High voltage!"
An Rou quickly shrank back: "High voltage?"
"That's right," Paopao said. "There are a lot of wires embedded in the bridge pillars, and some places are deliberately exposed to form an electric grid to keep out ghouls."
An Rou suddenly realized. The railway was built on a land devoid of life, so the first thing it would have to face was ghoul sabotage. Naturally, they had to find a way to intercept it.
She smiled and looked at Paopao: "Oh, if it were me, I wouldn't say anything."
If Paopao hadn't stopped him, even though he had a high level of wealth, An Rou, an NPC with a small body, would definitely have been electrocuted.
Paopao smiled awkwardly and wanted to remain silent, but he couldn't help but say, "It's not just you, boss. I'd be shocked too."
After all, both of them are on the back of sudden wealth.
It's quite honest.
"This elevated road leads all the way to Ghost Island, two thousand kilometers?" An Rou asked.
Paopao nodded: "That's what the guide says."
A big deal. An Rou thought, no wonder there is only one railway in the whole Lengbing City, and several major guilds are fighting so hard for it.
She pointed upwards: "Is there any high voltage electricity up there?"
"I don't know either. We haven't checked it yet, but Brother Qin said there shouldn't be any. After all, there's high voltage electricity on the tracks, so even steam trains can't run."
Steam locomotive, high voltage electricity, rails, two thousand kilometers of elevated roads... these words mixed with the real objects gave An Rou a sense of magic.
The background setting of Soul Society is too mixed.
The players in Lengbing City still used cold weapons, while the players on Ghost Island had already adopted firearms. The former clearly lagged behind the latter, yet they remained firmly at the top of the four factions.
An Rou suppressed these strange thoughts and pointed her finger above her head: "Bao Bao, jump up. Don't touch the pillar."
Baofu bent his limbs, leaped suddenly, and landed easily on the elevated platform. There was nothing unusual around him, and there was indeed no high voltage electricity on it.
The creature was enormous, much wider than the elevated structure, its limbs dangling at its sides. Fortunately, it had over twenty one-meter-long bone blades beneath it, which now served as its "centipede legs," supporting its massive body forward.
"Be careful, don't hit the rails." An Rou said.
The bone blade avoided the steel and pierced the stone between the sleepers. The clinking sound turned into the sound of stone friction.
An Rou turned her head to look at the city wall. The searchlight was scanning the city wall regularly as usual. Perhaps because it was too far away, the soldiers on it didn't hear anything.
Baofu walked forward along the railway track. Paopao lowered his head from its back and said, "It's too dark. I can't see."
It was too dark at night, and the nearby railroad tracks were shrouded in the shadow of the huge body of the rich man, so the shape of the railroad tracks could not be seen at all.
An Rou's heart moved: "Baobao, can you see it? If you can, just scream, but be quiet."
Bao Fu growled.
Sure enough, since it can prevent the bone blade from hitting the sleepers, it must have strong night vision capabilities.
About five minutes later, Bao Fu stopped and growled again.
An Rou's eyes lit up: "Put me down."
Baofu lowered his body, and the two of them slid down its neck onto the railroad tracks. When they got closer, they saw that there was indeed a misalignment between the two sections of railroad tracks.
With only one track, a train running here would inevitably derail and cause an accident. Furthermore, on a 20-meter-high elevated platform, the outcome is predictable.
"The cut is so smooth, it must have been vandalized by someone. It must have been the Gal Guild!" Paopao said.
In real life, he would have called the police without saying a word.
This is downright anti-social behavior.
But, it's only in the game now.
He looked at An Rou: "Boss, should we go down and ambush nearby? T21 is about to leave."
The train station is located in Sub-Zone 9, right next to Sub-Zone 8. It is estimated that it will arrive here in a quarter of an hour at most after the train departs.
An Rou turned around and looked towards Leng Bing City.
She shook her head, "No, it's not close enough to the farm."
"Huh? Why do we have to be so close? Wouldn't it just draw attention if we were too close?" Paopao was puzzled. "What if too many ghouls break through the city wall? The farm will be the first to be hit and will definitely be exposed."
An Rou thought: "So, we can't get too close."
After passing through Sub-Area 9, the track makes a small bend, so from our current position, it appears to be heading directly towards Sub-Area 8, the direction of the farm. However, the distance is actually three kilometers away.
An Rou climbed onto Bao Fu's back: "Bao Bao, go back."
After a moment, stop at the place where you jump onto the elevated platform.
This place is just beyond the searchlight's range.
Paopao was still looking around in confusion when Anrou gave the order: "Baobao, cut the tracks."
Paopao opened his mouth in surprise.
Is the boss also so anti-social?
That's right, otherwise she wouldn't have done such a sensational thing as raising a ghoul.
As the bone blade slid, the rails shattered without even making a sound, which shows how sharp the bone blade became after the sudden wealth upgrade.
Just at this moment, a long whistle sounded from far behind.
The bus has departed.
*
Water dungeon.
Chizen Ichimura never imagined that such a highly developed and civilized society still retained such barbaric punishments.
He coughed violently, and ice water that stung his mucous membranes spurted out of his mouth and nose.
His usual look was no longer cold, nor was it filled with fear, but was instead filled with deep hatred.
Looking at the minister sitting behind the interrogation table two meters away.
In the past two years, he has been working for this kind of person and this kind of organization!
"If you don't think about yourself, you should also think about your family!"
In response to the minister's words, a familiar cry came from the corridor.
Chiqian opened his eyes wide in disbelief, and his clenched teeth finally loosened.
The door to the interrogation room was slammed shut. The director cast a cold glance at the weeping woman and asked his secretary, "Are all the branch members ready?"
“All online!”
"Move out immediately, outside the walls of District 8! The Huaiyin branch must make amends!"
*
In District 9, beneath the majestic city walls stretching across three towns, there were crowds of people.
A player walked in and lowered his voice: "Boss, all members have assembled."
The director of the Juyang branch of the Orli Guild was wrapped in a black robe. Hearing this, he raised his head and looked towards the city wall of District 10.
If Qin Wudi's clues were correct, there should be many players from the Gal Guild gathered there at this time.
"Minister, T21 concerns the interests of the entire guild..." the subordinate continued, somewhat doubtfully, "Are you really not going to report this to headquarters?"
"A train of T21s, if it can help us take the lead and dominate Oli. Is it important?" He asked his subordinates with a smile.
At the same time, the melodious sound of a train whistle rang out from the city.
Not too far away, in District 10, the city walls were crowded with people.
After all, it is adjacent to the uninhabited land and is on the outskirts of nearby towns. There is no one around late at night, so there is no need to worry about being discovered.
Everyone looked in the direction of the train whistle.
Above the town, the sparse lights cast a long, straight, dark shadow, and the clanging sound was faint and continuous.
"What's going on with Oli?" the vice president of the Gal Guild asked, turning his head.
"Apart from the Huaiyin branch mobilizing all personnel to stand by, there has been no further activity, and no further news has leaked on the forums."
"Alright. Notify everyone on the channel and dispatch immediately to reach the mission location before T21! Also, tell Ali to go all out."
"yes!"
In the darkness, a row of figures fell outside the wall, using movement skills to disappear into the land of no life at a speed far exceeding T21.
District 9.
"Minister, they're out!"
Minister Juyang rubbed his palms together and said, "Alright! Everyone, follow us. Use the elevated structure for cover and don't reveal your whereabouts."
Not far from the city wall, under the elevated railway, two people hid in the darkness, taking cover under the bridge pillars.
An Rou raised her index finger: "Shh, Bao Bao, don't make any noise."
The clanging sound of the train was getting closer and closer, but Paopao didn't notice Baofu's low roar.
He had already digested the fact that An Rou had somehow managed to communicate with the crazy ghoul.
"Boss, what does it say?"
An Rou smiled slightly: "Bao Bao said that many souls passed through from both sides."
"It... can really talk?"
Baofu naturally couldn't speak, so Anrou was just guessing. In the consciousness waves that Baofu had just sent out, he started to cry out for hunger again.
It was obvious that he had just eaten not long ago.
This shows one thing: Sudden Wealth has smelled the fragrance of soul again, and it is a soul that is enough to arouse its appetite - a high-level player.
The rise and fall of hunger cries indicated that there was more than one high-level player. As Paopao had said, the T21 mission was indeed a conspiracy, and many players had already made advance preparations before the accident even occurred.
The deployment location must be where the rails are misaligned.
Unfortunately, An Rou chose to cut the tracks again, causing T21 to crash prematurely.
Under the secret gaze of countless eyes, the train was getting closer and closer, and a long whistle sounded again.
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