By the time they arrived at the famous twin city, the banquet on the ship had ended. When they left, the explorers who took away a lot of precious treasures from Shurima and killed many natives spared no effort to make their glory and meritorious deeds more obvious. When they disembarked from the ship, they were greeted with cheers and screams from a large group of people.
It was under such circumstances that they got off the ship, and almost no one noticed the two men who were carrying only two large trunks.
The first street they set foot on was actually a street in Zu An City, but it was very beautiful. There was a sci-fi looking avenue that led to a large elevator powered by steam and magic. Some of the workers, who were wearing shabby clothes and goggles, were eagerly looking at the people disembarking from the ship, waiting for their foreman to assign them work. Li Ke also saw a lot of young people among them.
It was a familiar smell, just like the real industrial revolution in Europe.
"If you're recruiting sailors in this city, most of them used to be labourers like this, right?"
Li Ke asked Sarah, who was beside him, as he carried the heavy gold.
"Yes, and many of them will be disabled. To be honest, if it's not necessary, I really don't want to recruit sailors here, because although many of them look fine, they will soon fall ill. This is intolerable for any captain."
"Then it seems like you'll look down on the sailors from Skin City."
"Of course, why not? If it weren't for their advanced weapons, they would be nothing at all. "
Sarah immediately perked up when they talked about her old profession.
"That's interesting."
Li Ke didn't say anything else. He turned his attention to the city. When the ship approached, he had a rough idea of the city. It was indeed a magnificent sci-fi city, and it looked like a work of art assembled from exquisite clock parts. However, he wanted to see the smaller parts.
"Ah, if you want to go to Skin City, I'm not too familiar with it. However, I'm quite familiar with Zu An City. Most of my connections are there."
Sarah saw through Li Ke's thoughts, so she didn't bring Li Ke to the streets with countless brass parts, smooth and clean stone tiles, and even trimmed trees and straight street lamps. Instead, she led Li Ke to another road.
This road was much more rugged than the clean and tidy one. Even though the tiles were smooth, the street lamps were replaced with crooked lanterns. The architectural style was also unusually rough. Exquisite and symmetrical brass parts were nowhere to be seen. Instead, they were replaced by various thick and asymmetrical pipes.
Some of these pipes were connected to the houses, while others were simply part of the walls. The signboards around them weren't as neat as they were in the movies. It was like a small town in Jiulong or a small town. Not only were there all kinds of fog, but there were also stacked signboards. The places where the lights shone through were densely packed together. Overall, it was very similar to the style of a tube-shaped apartment in the 80s.
It was just that the red brick buildings were replaced with iron and brass barrels. However, it was also because of this that all kinds of rust could be seen. Under the corrosion of the faint green fog, Li Ke saw many strange red and green stains on the buildings.
And the most important thing was …
"The air here is poisonous."
Dust and fog were visible to the naked eye. Due to the proximity to the port, the fog wasn't very obvious. At least, it wasn't enough to make Sarah feel uncomfortable. However, Li Ke's sharp senses allowed him to see the pervasive dust and the things contained in the dust.
Not to mention PM2.5, the dust here couldn't even contain the fog. No, it would be more accurate to say that the floating fog was some kind of poisonous gas mixed with the small dust and some water vapor.
"Cough cough, indeed. Everything about Zu An is good, but the air here is really unbearable. Furthermore, it's very easy for poison to leak out. One of my old buddies was caught in a poison leak while he was accompanying one of the dancers here. That unlucky fellow's entire body started festering, and he ended up clawing his own neck to death."
Sarah carefully avoided a glass container truck that drove past them. The huge glass container contained a green viscous liquid. According to Li Ke's senses, the thing in the huge glass container was the aggregation of the green dust he breathed in.
Therefore, the things here were not dust at all, but something even more terrifying.
Rubbing his fingers, Li Ke used his mana to gather some dust. Then, he was surprised to find that these grain-like dust directly condensed together and turned into a strange crystal. Adding a little water into it, a soft and elastic colloidal object was obtained.
"No wonder they all wear breathing masks."
Li Ke couldn't help but curl his lips. He finally understood how terrible the gray haze in the introduction was. And he looked around. No matter what their clothes were, most of them would have something similar to a respirator or a mask on them.
But this wasn't standard. There were still many haggard people who didn't have anything on them. They just hurriedly ran past the places where the fog was scattered.
"So let's go quickly. I don't want to catch any diseases."
Sarah tugged at Li Ke, who was still observing what was going on, and pulled him to another place. When they walked out of the alley, Li Ke thought that he could see most of Zu An's appearance.
This was a city built on a cliff, and it was divided into layers of conversion. It was as if countless houses were built in the walls of a large iron barrel, and then all the houses were connected by a spiral staircase. It was full of a strange feeling of absurdity.
But just as he was about to take a closer look, a man suddenly jumped out from the side, grabbed the suitcase in his hand, and smashed the metal stick in his hand toward Li Ke's head.
And he also greeted Li Ke warmly.
"Welcome to Zu An!"
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