One of the entrances to Lost Valley, at the end of an alley.
The hammer goes in here every time, taking a fixed route, in case he is too happy and beautiful in the market and cannot find his way back.
There are old houses on both sides of the alley, the kind for people to live in, and there are a few shops from time to time, which sell similar things to the shop he snatched clothes from before.
But I have to say that although the houses are very old, compared with the people in the ghost town, the housing conditions are still much better. Even the head of the group can't live in such a well-organized house.
In order to withstand the wind, the houses they live in are all strange shapes that follow the wind, and many of them cannot stand in the house.
Ning Gu's hut can stand upright, the price is that it has been blown over four times, each time he lost a lot of small things he collected, some of which he can go door to door to snatch back, some don't know where to go.
There was even a tragic incident in which the things exchanged from the land king were picked up by the old profiteer and exchanged with him again.
There were no pedestrians in the alley, and of course there would be none. When the alarm sounded for the arrival of travelers, everyone retreated to the house.
Some people are afraid, some people are not so afraid.
But it is certain that travelers are not welcome, just as travelers also have a certain displeasure towards the people in the main city.
Ning Gu could feel the eyes from both sides when passing through the alley.
It's just that every time he turned his head to look over, he could only see slightly shaking curtains and suddenly turned off lights... he was still much scared.
Is it so scary
Ning Gu thought for a while, of course there is, after all travelers are monsters, and the two of you just robbed a piece of clothing and kicked the shopkeeper twice.
With the murderous intent of just finishing the robbery.
"Here we are," Hammer pointed forward, "follow me, you are not joking, let's not get separated."
"Understood." Ning Gu waved at him.
The scene ahead is a little weird.
Not all places in the main city have high metal walls. From here, one can see the Black Iron Wasteland at a glance.
And this alley, as if being cut by some huge force, came to an abrupt end in front of it.
There seems to be a line. Standing here, there is a city with dawn and dusk. Crossing it, there are ruins and ruins that can't be seen at a glance, and a rough and lifeless hard wasteland.
The entrance is in a small building that has half collapsed. Open the door and you will go down the stairs. It is pitch black, you can't see anything, and there is no sound.
When Ning Gu turned his head back and forth, he glanced at the alley.
"It's almost gone," Hammer said. "I heard from them that this alley used to be longer. The entrance we're entering now, like that one, used to be within the scope of the main city, where people lived."
"Then how did it become like this?" Ning Gu asked.
"The main city has been collapsing, I think, sooner or later, it will all turn into a black iron wasteland." Hammer looked at the paint mark on his hand, and walked down the stairs.
Ning Gu also looked down at the mark on his hand.
A picture! I'm looking for a painting! I am Ning Gu! Come find a painting! I want to go back to Ghost Town!
After following the hammer and walking down for a while, he smelled a smell that he had never smelled before.
It smelled good, with a hint of sweetness, and several other smells, one of which he must have smelled in the crazy uncle's house.
When I stayed in the ghost town, I couldn’t smell anything, the wind was too strong, even a fart in the clothes would be blown away by the wind, and I could only smell the fart when I was in the house... and those he changed back The smell of small objects in the house often feels very old and old. This kind of smell is very good, which is not common.
"What's the smell?" When he asked, he saw a curve ahead, and there was a faint red light coming through from the corner.
"Here we are." Hammer stopped and took a deep breath, as if he was about to step into some great place.
Ning Gu didn't know if this was a necessary procedure, but he still took a deep breath, whether it was necessary or not, he could still have a sense of ritual.
After turning the corner, Ning Gu saw a world completely different from the ghost town, the wasteland, and the main city.
A black cave that grew and spread out in an unknown way in the hard metal world.
They couldn't see the whole picture standing at the entrance. He knew in advance that it was a hole in the ground, so he could judge that it was a hole.
The stairs at the foot extend down, and one can see layers of light. Numerous openings and tunnels are densely distributed on each floor in all directions, and one cannot see the bottom, nor the edges on all sides.
As far as I could see, there was a red light coming from the cracks in the cave wall. It wasn't too bright, but it was enough to illuminate my surroundings.
Ning Gu stared at it for a long time before coming to a simple conclusion.
A huge underground world.
"It's the smell of tea," Hammer answered his previous question at this time. "It's a very rare thing. Don't think that you can get it just because you can smell it. You may not be able to find a pack even if you go around the Valley of Lost. This smell is the smell inside. People here spray their bodies with tea-flavored water, which is fashionable.”
"Then I'll get some more water for the nails." Ning Gu said.
"What can you change?" Hammer asked.
"What do you need to exchange?" Ning Gu also asked, when he came here, he really didn't think about exchanging anything, he just wanted to take a look.
"At least it must be a glass thing, a vase or something," Hammer said.
"I didn't." Ning Gu thought for a while, "Should I just grab the line?"
Hammer glanced at him: "Don't say such things in the open, it's so embarrassing."
"Understood." Ning Gu nodded.
There was no one at the entrance, and the hammer led him down a flight of stairs.
Before reaching the bottom of the stairs, Ning Gu heard someone talking, and on the right was a huge hollow, like a hall.
There are shop-like huts in a circle, but not all huts can be entered, and many of them are closed.
There were people here, and at a glance, I saw several bats wandering around in the hall.
The characteristics of bats are obvious. It is said that they are not sensitive to pain, so they are diligent in transforming their bodies. The style of transformation basically cannot match their own skin and flesh. As long as you see that the bones grow outside the flesh or are metal, you can be sure that it is a bat.
Of course, the content of the transformation is not limited to the bone exterior...
In addition to the bats walking around with mysterious or dazed faces, or looking suspicious to everyone, there are also many people whose identities cannot be identified.
According to Hammer, many of these should be travelers and homeless people in the main city trapped here by "too happy".
"Some escaped by themselves," Hammer said, "but this part is very small. It is really difficult for ordinary people to escape from hyenas and come here."
Ning Gu didn't speak, after all, he had a deep experience and just finished it.
Although he escaped from the hyena, and even from Lian Chuan, he hasn't felt too excited so far.
He didn't even understand how he escaped.
When Lian Chuan approached him little by little with the breath of death, there was nothing else in his mind except "I don't want to disappear yet and I haven't seen anything yet".
Therefore, he defeated Lian Chuan with his mind.
Telling this to any traveler will only result in wild laughter.
It belongs to the kind of bragging without finding the correct posture.
"Every time I come here, I come here. When I walk around, I can see a lot of interesting things. Some can be exchanged, and some cannot be exchanged. Of course, if you have the common currency of the main city, you can also buy it," Hammer led him away. He said, and introduced him in a low voice, "If you don't do anything, you can listen to their chats and inquire about things, but they just stay here, and they may not know more than us... By the way, there are food and drink here. The rations are all things we haven't eaten, and the wine... "
When Hammer said this, he turned his head and looked around: "You can't drink wine. If the leader finds out, he will be hung in the bay of his tongue and let his tongue be licked for three days."
"Can't drink?" Ning Gu looked at him, "I bet on a glass bottle, the first thing you do is to find a drink, and your performance is too obvious."
"Is it obvious?" Hammer straightened up, and smiled after thinking about it, "Nail always said that I can't pretend."
"You are indeed not as good at pretending as he is." Ning Gu nodded.
Thinking of Nail, he looked at the red lighted hut next to him. He wanted to help Nail bring a goggle back, but he wondered if he could get another one for the clothes he was wearing.
"See the passage?" Hammer asked him.
"Well, I saw it." Ning Gu saw several tunnel-like long holes around the big cave hall.
To be honest, he felt that his eyes were not enough.
He was born in a ghost town and grew up in a ghost town. He has never been to other places. The well-organized houses in the main city have opened his eyes, and now this underground world is a novelty at every glance.
"Remember the one we came from, and then follow the three on the right," Hammer pointed with his finger, "all of them can be walked. I can't go in, I haven't been in before."
"Well," Ning Gu wrote it down seriously, "What about the other halls? I think there are many floors..."
"What are you thinking?" Hammer interrupted him in shock, "Just here, I don't go anywhere else, I only go to these few places every time I come, enough! I have everything!"
"... Oh." Ning Gu was also shocked.
The hammer stared at him, and finally poked his chest with his finger: "Ning Gu, I know what you are thinking, this is not a ghost town, I know you are a bully in the ghost town, everyone is afraid of you, you are not afraid of anything, but Don't you know everything here? You are a fool who came to the main city for the first time."
"Understood." Ning Gu also stared at him, "You don't need to put it so harshly, you are the fool."
"Fool," a person suddenly approached beside him, "This is the first time? Do you want to learn more from me?"
Ning Gu couldn't believe his ears, he turned his head and looked at the man whose beard had grown to his nose.
Judging by his attire, he should be a homeless man with no metal bones on his body.
"Who are you talking to?" Ning Gu asked.
"You," the homeless man replied impatiently, "you're such a fool, I look at you and ask who I'm talking to..."
Ning Gu raised his foot and kicked him on the chest, the homeless man flew out and fell into a hut when he landed.
This movement was a bit loud, originally there were only a few people walking around, but after this kick, a group of strange-looking people appeared out of nowhere.
When the homeless man came out of the hut cursing, two people followed behind him, who looked like bats.
One has only half of its face, and the other half has been replaced by metal. The workmanship is not very good, and the pits on the metal surface can still be seen from such a distance.
There is also a popular model modified by bats. There is a piece of skin on the leg where the metal leg bone is exposed.
"Go." Hammer said.
"What?" Ning Gu turned his head. Hammer is not an honest person in the ghost city. Don't talk about being afraid of trouble, it's okay to take the initiative to make trouble. Walk.
Now there are only a few spring legs, let go
"It's empty down here," said Hammer.
Ning Gu was stunned, and realized that the ability of a hammer needs a solid ground, and this underground market is composed of holes and tunnels... For Ning Gu who grew up on the ground in the ghost town, this situation is really difficult. Accident.
In other words, the two of them are standing here as two ordinary people, and they are still very arrogant.
"Go!" Hammer tugged at his sleeve, turned around and walked quickly to the second passage.
And just as he turned around, that half face and spring legs suddenly rushed forward.
Based on Ning Gu's many years of experience in fighting and being beaten, he immediately judged that this was aimed at the hammer. After all, the hammer without ability looks like a thin and weak boy.
Ning Gu was furious, not because of sneak attacks and pick on the weak, he always did this kind of thing, what made him angry was that this person dared to beat his friend openly in front of his face!
"Go far!" He said in a calm voice, and rushed towards the two bats at the same time.
The modification of the spring legs is somewhat useful, running in front of half of the face.
But according to Ning Gu's blind analysis and random judgment on bats before, the combat effectiveness of spring legs is definitely not as good as that of half face.
So he jumped up in the middle of the run, put his foot on the stepping spring-legged thigh, and kicked hard.
Since the bat can jump so high, he should be able to bounce quite high with the help of this leg.
Unexpectedly, he made the right bet. The bat's legs are like a springboard.
After the bat howled and fell to the ground, Ning Gu jumped into the air.
It was only when I hit my head on the top of the cave that I realized why the bat just ran and didn't jump.
He could hear the sound of his own head banging.
Boom!
It turns out that the elasticity of the spring legs is so good
Fortunately, he may have a potential ability with a strong head that has just been stimulated, and the impact did not knock him out. He turned half of his body during the fall, and with the help of the inertia of the fall, he punched half of the face. face.
This comprehensive force was so huge that half of his face fell to the ground and passed out.
When Ning Gu fell to the ground, all the people around surrounded him, wondering if there had been nothing interesting for a long time, and they started fighting against him.
Although he was a bully in the ghost town, the ghost town really didn't have the habit of fighting in groups. He was punched and kicked and fell to the ground immediately.
"Hit him! Hit him!"
A group of people who don't know what they came from shouted around him.
As he squeezed out of the crowd, he waved his fists at those who were close to him.
In the confusion, someone grabbed him.
It was very powerful, comparable to the force he used to smash half of his face.
He was immediately dragged out of the crowd, and before he could figure out what was going on, he was dragged into a room without red light.
And someone from the shouting crowd outside pointed this way, and the noise subsided for the most part, and turned into a buzzing sound. After buzzing for a while, it seemed as if they suddenly lost interest and dispersed in all directions.
Ning Gu straightened his ripped coat, touched his face again, turned his head and looked behind him: "Thank you..."
There is no one behind.
He turned around again, but still saw no one. After turning his head four times in a row, he was sure that there was no one in the small dark room that blocked all the light-transmitting gaps.
"Thanks." He insisted on thanking him, and walked quickly to the door.
A small wind rolled past his side, and a voice rang in his ear: "Who are you?"