The plaza and the surrounding area where Han Dong had been active in the Black Tower belonged to the bottom layer. (The Fight Club's corresponding inpatient department was located outside the Black Tower.)
Any participant who came from outside the Black Tower would appear in the plaza on the bottom layer when they arrived at the Black Tower through normal means.
Moreover, most of the transit station's activities, such as various transactions, mission handover, reward exchange, information inquiry, and organization activities, could be completed at the bottom layer.
Large organizations like the Fight Club also had their main base at the bottom layer. Even Headless, a powerhouse equivalent to the previous king, could operate at the bottom layer.
The Black Tower's level did not represent an individual's strength. It only involved the Black Tower's authority.
In most cases, there was no need to visit the middle layer.
The middle layer did not have many free areas. 70% of the area was occupied by the Black Tower's organizations and companies. This area mainly dealt with international issues, such as the Black Tower's management and shelter issues.
The famous Black Tower Shelter was also located in the middle layer.
This was also why the middle layer's management was extremely strict.
For non-official employees, if they wanted to visit the middle layer, they had to have a valid reason, pass the relevant checks in the bottom layer, and be accompanied by a commissioner.
Everyone who entered the middle layer would have their movements recorded in real time.
Generally, Fate's Participants who came to the middle layer were here for business. They would not stay for long.
…
[Ding Dong! Welcome to the Black Tower's middle layer, Mr. Han Dong.
As this is your first time here, please follow the "guide" throughout. Without permission, you are not allowed to explore the middle layer. For more details, please refer to the "Management Measures for Foreigners in the Middle Layer."]
Han Dong rode the fully enclosed elevator set up in the Black Tower's bottom-level office.
The elevator continued to accelerate during its transportation, and for a time, it exceeded the speed limit.
After ascending for several thousand meters, Han Dong finally received a notification about the middle layer.
At the same time, he felt as if his body had crossed some kind of barrier.
When the elevator's hatch opened, Shi Feng was greeted by a city of steel with a strong neon hue. The style of the city was completely different from the bottom-level office.
Compared to the super large and free plaza at the bottom, this place was an extremely dense steel jungle.
Whoosh ~ Heavy rain poured down.
The middle layer had an advanced real-time weather system built into it, and it was currently in a rainstorm.
"Mr. Han Dong, since you're not familiar with the rules of the middle district, please follow me throughout the journey. You're not allowed to act alone.
Once you violate the rules here, your identity and authority will be stripped, and you may even be executed. "
"Okay … if I have any questions, can I ask you?"
"Of course, you're using your life to serve Black Tower. I'll answer all your questions patiently."
With that said.
The masked man handed Han Dong a raincoat with the Black Tower coat of arms that could be recognized by the system and motioned for him to follow.
The heavy rain suppressed the neon lights in the city.
There were basically no idle people on the street like there were in the plaza at the bottom level. Most of the 'residents' had a similar appearance.
They were wearing semi-enclosed helmets.
A large number of cables extended from the back of the helmet and connected to the spine on the back.
At the same time, their spines were embedded with a "metal box" about the size of their bodies. The box was connected to the spine through some kind of high-end biological surgery. Destroying the box would also lead to their death.
About 80% of the 'residents' on the street were in this form.
"Who are they?"
"Transporters … are the bottom-level employees of the middle layer.
The Black Tower institutions, enterprises, and organizations in the middle layer account for 70% of the entire Black Tower. Most of the time, it's impossible to transfer objects through information transmission, mechanical transportation, or spatial transmission.
Many important substances must be personally transported by organisms to ensure their stability. "
"Important substances? Are they substances extracted from different worlds? "
"More or less … Depending on the situation, the worlds that have signed an agreement with the Black Tower will allow the Black Tower to extract some of the substances in their worlds for confidential research.
The substances stored in the Transporter's' spine box 'may be worthless ordinary liquids or priceless world oddities.
Of course.
If a Transporter is attacked, the attacker's information will be instantly uploaded, and the attacker will be wanted by the entire Black Tower. Therefore, this job is safe and stable. "
"Even if it's very stable, I'm afraid most people aren't willing to do it, right?"
Those who could come to the Black Tower were all individuals with great strength. Who would be willing to deliver goods here? At the very least, Han Dong wouldn't waste his time on such a task.
"That's right. The participants who participate in the delivery often owe a large sum of money to the Black Tower for some reason. Moreover, the Black Tower's evaluation agency determines that they are in a state where it is difficult to return the money.
Of course, there are also some Transporters who are not participants. They were born in the Black Tower, but they are cowardly and unwilling to deal with death. So, they became Transporters. "
"Mhm."
Except for the Transporters.
Most of the individuals on the street had the same purpose as Han Dong. They had come to the middle layer to do something. Each of them hid in a cloak and didn't stop for a moment.
Of course, there was also a small number of Patrol Officers who exuded a powerful aura.
Apart from the issue of personnel, the buildings in the middle layer were also very interesting.
Most of the buildings were directly under the Black Tower's management. Strict identity verification devices were installed at the main entrance, preventing non-internal employees from entering.
However, Han Dong still discovered a "top building" that couldn't be ignored.
Even though he was in a steel jungle surrounded by tall buildings, he could still see a black building that reached the sky. It was so tall that he couldn't even see the top of it.
This building was far taller than the other buildings in the middle layer. It even felt like it was connected to the upper floors.
"That is?"
"The [Black Tower Shelter] is a building used to control, research, and control Rampagers.
It is also the most important core building in the middle layer. All of the middle layer's laws are more or less related to the shelter.
Its existence maintains the stability of the multidimensional universe to a large extent. "
"This is the shelter? It's the place where Pennywise escaped through the dimensional storm back then … "
It was no wonder why Han Dong felt a sense of familiarity when he stared at this black building. However, he didn't pay too much attention to it. He would naturally have a chance to understand it in the future.
Under the masked man's lead …
Half an hour later, they arrived at a relatively spacious intersection.
In front of them stood a silver building that was only second in size to the shelter. It was hundreds of stories tall.
The structure of the building was similar to that of "silver blocks" built by stacking building blocks.
Densely packed exposed black tubes were also distributed outside the walls. These tubes served as the building's "blood vessels," enabling energy transmission, magnetic field generation, and information transmission between different floors.
Through holographic projection, the middle of the building reflected a huge ring-shaped text outside the building.
[World Search Agency — General Office]
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