No, he had to find a place to stay. Du Feng immediately made a decision. He had to find a place to stay. Even if he couldn't buy a house, he had to at least rent one, because it wasn't safe to stay in an inn. Two people jumped out of the room next door and died last night, and two people were also killed when they opened the window, but the inn didn't mention it, and the customers chose to forget about it.
Did they really not know what happened? That was obviously not the case. Everyone was afraid of getting into trouble, so no one dared to mention it. All of them came to a conclusion, and that was to hole up at night. Not only couldn't they go out, but they also couldn't go to the window to see what was going on. They couldn't even make a sound.
Last night, when he looked out of the window, he felt that the Cloud Capital was extremely desolate. But when he looked again in the morning, it was incomparably prosperous. The inns were located on the outskirts. After Du Feng left the inn and walked into the city, he felt more and more alarmed.
The Cloud Capital was too big, and he couldn't see the end of it at all. He could only vaguely see a tall city wall in the distance, and it felt even taller than the wall at the city gate. He hurriedly bought a map and compared it to the map. He immediately understood that it was the so-called inner city of the Cloud Capital.
As expected, there was no curfew in the inner city, nor were there any monsters. The so-called outer city was basically used for sacrifice. It was the same situation as when Du Feng fought against the monster wave in Stony Plain City.
He couldn't enter the inner city for now, so he could only find a way to live further in. There had to be a reason why all the inns were built on the outskirts. To put it bluntly, people had to die for it. All the talented youths in the Weiyang Continent wanted to come to the Cloud Capital. Some older martial artists also wanted to try their luck. But they never expected that they would be used as food for monsters after coming in.
Du Feng did not believe in any ghost legends or curfew that had existed since ancient times. From his perspective, the invisible monsters that ate people at night were the same thing as the tentacles that dragged people off the Black Dragon Bridge. Or maybe they were the same monsters.
There was only one explanation for this thing being able to survive in the Black Dragon River for so long, and that was that the higher-ups of the Cloud Capital tacitly acknowledged its existence and didn't destroy it on purpose. Or rather, that monster was raised by them. Perhaps it was to strengthen centralized control, or perhaps it was to defend against foreign enemies. In short, the existence of that thing was definitely not a coincidence.
The Cloud Capital was so big, and Du Feng wasn't the only smart person. How could they not understand what was going on? It was true that many martial artists really believed in the so-called ghost legends, but people like the inn owner definitely knew the inside story.
This matter was truly terrifying. From the upper echelons of Cloud City to the local residents, everyone knew that there was a man-eating monster here, but no one tried to destroy it. Instead, they tacitly acknowledged its existence. What kind of perverted city was this for the people to become so numb? He didn't even feel anything when he saw his own kind being eaten by monsters.
Now, Du Feng seemed to understand a little. If his father, the Pill Sovereign, was trapped here, it would not be strange at all. Even if he wasn't locked in a sealed space, no one would care about him. This world was cold to begin with, and the Never-Ending Continent was even colder than the Lower Realm. The coldest place was the Cloud Capital.
Walking on the streets, everyone lowered their heads, and no one was willing to look at each other. If there were people looking around, they would definitely be like Du Feng, a newcomer who had just entered the city.
"Big brother, do you want to rent a house? The price is fair, and I'm honest."
As Du Feng was walking, a little boy suddenly came up to him. This little boy's Cultivation level wasn't high, so he was probably born in the Cloud Capital. Otherwise, with his Cultivation level, he wouldn't even be able to enter the city, let alone cross the Black Dragon Bridge.
The little boy looked quite cute, but his face was covered in dust and was a little dirty. Judging from his clothes, he didn't look like a bad person. Besides, Du Feng happened to be looking for a house, so he might as well ask him first.
"Little brother, do you really have a house?"
Although the little boy didn't look like a bad person, Du Feng still had his suspicions. A child like this was most likely an orphan, so where did he get the house?
"Shh … I know which house can be rented out."
The little boy acted mysteriously and didn't let Du Feng speak loudly. He gave Du Feng a look and led him into an alley. After walking along the alley for a while, they arrived in front of a ruin. They found a hole in the ruin and went in.
"Uh …" Looking at the pile of dirty ruins, Du Feng was a little hesitant. The key was that the hole was dark, and there might be someone lying in ambush. But thinking that he could ask about renting a house, he braced himself and went in. Of course, the prerequisite was that he had to first put up a True Origin Barrier and hold the Thunder Fire Sword in his hand. As long as there was a situation, he would not hesitate to slash with his sword.
"Ahem, Xiaopi, who did you bring back? Don't randomly bring people here in the future."
After entering the hole, Du Feng immediately relaxed. Because other than the little boy, there was only a young girl in the house. She didn't look much older than the little boy, at most eighteen or nineteen or twenty years old. The girl's face was sallow, and it was unknown whether it was because of illness or serious injuries. With such a combination, there was no way they were plotting anything.
"Big Sister, I was wrong, big brother doesn't look like a bad person!"
Seeing the little boy's aggrieved expression, Du Feng felt a little embarrassed. He even suspected that he was plotting something, but after all this time, the big sister was afraid that he was a bad person. How could such a pair of sisters, who depended on each other for survival, defeat a young man like him?
"I'm sorry, you want to rent a house, right? I can't help you now."
When the girl saw that Du Feng had been tricked by her little brother, she knew that he wanted to rent a house. Martial artists who had just entered the Cloud Capital would all encounter such a problem. But renting a house was not that simple. Because the local residents of the Cloud Capital were not willing to rent their houses to others.
There was once a martial artist who rented someone else's house, but later on, they worked together to kill the owner and forcibly took over the house. Ever since that happened, no one was willing to rent a house, unless they had an acquaintance to introduce them to others.
The two sisters in front of him were locals, and originally had a house left behind by their ancestors. Moreover, the girl even introduced others to tenants. But one time, they ran into an unscrupulous tenant who wanted to kill them and seize their property. If it weren't for a passing city guard who saw them, they would have already lost their lives. Even so, the girl was seriously injured.
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