From Douluo Dalu to Queen

Chapter 396 Dream Paradise
I have to say that the old man is worthy of being a tailor. This dress was made for his own daughter in the past. It cannot be said to be very high-profile, but the materials are quite good. The style is quite simple and elegant, and it looks very low-key when worn on the body.

Yu Shudie was very satisfied with this. She changed her clothes and studied the water source in the alley for a while. Then she understood how to use it and simply washed up.

Originally, she had fair skin and a beautiful figure. Needless to say, she was one of the most beautiful women in the entire Douluo Continent. However, her experiences during this period made her very embarrassed, like a pearl covered in dust. But with a simple wipe, she can shine again.

Looking at her own reflection in the water, although it was not very clear, Yu Shudie was very satisfied and walked in the direction the old man pointed.

With this outfit, no one on the street looked at her strangely anymore, but many teenagers couldn't help but glance at her out of the corner of their eyes. Although beautiful girls were everywhere in the northern provinces, those who were this beautiful were extremely rare.

The members of the patrol team are carefully selected and trained people with strong wills. Naturally, they will not be tempted by mere beauty. However, they will only check those who are suspicious or may endanger social order. In their eyes, Yu Shudie is no different from an ordinary passerby, so they will naturally not take the initiative to check.

In this way, Yu Shudie walked along the main road towards the center of the city, but the further she went, the more frightened she became.

She originally thought that the places outside were pretty good, but when she got here she found that there was actually no difference between the outer areas and the slums.

From a distance, you can see rows of tall buildings, about seven or eight stories high, and each floor is three or four meters high.

If there were only one or two buildings, it would not be surprising, but if almost all the buildings were high-rise buildings like this, it would seem a bit scary.

It is hard to imagine how much manpower and resources were invested in this.

There was a huge construction site between the prosperous area inside and the periphery, where densely packed workers were working, building buildings as tall as those in the distance, paving roads, and various infrastructures that she could not understand.

Passing through the area under construction, Yu Shudie discovered that in addition to taller buildings, the highly developed areas also dazzled her with a variety of infrastructure. There were trash cans everywhere, iron pillars with glass balls hanging on them, and cables hanging in the air that connected the various buildings and these infrastructures. The open roads were paved with fine blue bricks, and there were some pretty trees or flower beds planted on both sides of the roads, making both sides look very symmetrical and beautiful.

The whole street was so well organized, very clean and tidy. From time to time, some trucks and strange-looking steel monsters that she had seen before passed through the main road in the middle. Passers-by were no longer surprised by this, and no one was wandering in the middle of the road. Everyone was walking on the small roads on both sides.

Walking towards the center, the shops on both sides of the road have changed from various small restaurants to large hotels, as well as various entertainment venues.

In Yu Shudie's impression, there are actually only two kinds of entertainment venues, and they are all closely related to people like them. However, these entertainment venues are different. The plaques on them say "game hall", "chess and card room" and so on, which seem to have nothing to do with places where people sell their bodies.

Although the waitresses in these places are all young and pretty girls, they are dressed very appropriately and it is hard to think of that in that way.

The business hours marked at the door are from 4pm to 9pm, only five hours a day.

After a day of hard work and a long walk, it was already dusk. Many people had finished a busy day's work and walked into the entertainment venues, pubs and more upscale restaurants on both sides of the road in high spirits.

Although it is called a high-end restaurant, in fact, its main customers are ordinary people. To have a good meal here, you only need to save a few days' money, and you can enjoy a delicious meal that you could not eat in your entire life. In fact, it is not too expensive. It is also dinner time, so it is naturally very lively.

Yu Shudie thought about it and decided to go into the game hall first. It would be easier to get information in such a lively place, but when she saw the ten-copper-coin entrance fee posted on the price list at the door, she gave up the idea.

A few hundred meters further along the street of this prosperous area is the restricted area mentioned by the old man. A checkpoint has been set up on the main road. Trucks carrying goods are constantly passing through here. There are also many people in uniforms who walk in openly after submitting some kind of documents. There are also many people coming out talking and laughing.

The rest of the area was surrounded by a five-meter-high wall with some extremely sharp iron spikes on it. Not to mention ordinary people, even low-level soul masters would have a hard time jumping over it.

The wall is not far from the buildings in the urban area, forming a remote alley. Since it is too close to the restricted area, most people will not approach it. However, in Yu Shudie's opinion, this place seems to be just right for her to live. She can sleep here when she is tired, and she doesn't have to worry about being disturbed by others. Next door is a restaurant that looks very lively, so picking up some leftovers should not be a problem.

As the sky darkened completely, the glass balls on the iron pillars she saw lit up, and bright lights also lit up in the tall buildings, dispelling the fear that the night brought to mankind.

Everyone's face is filled with happiness and joy, and they can't hide their enthusiastic hope for the future as they talk and laugh. For the people here, such an environment is not much different from the paradise in their dreams.

Yu Shudie also thought so, but now, these had nothing to do with her. She was just glad that there were no lighting devices installed in this alley, and she could also observe the outpost outside under the cover of night.

She didn't know when she would be able to meet those trustworthy senior people. She also needed time to observe the organizational structure and to distinguish the levels represented by the certificates and clothes of these people, whether they were direct members, whether they were loyal to Miss Leng or locals with complicated backgrounds. Only by distinguishing these could she ensure that she would not lose her life in vain.

For this reason, she had already prepared to sleep on the street. After all, she had been in worse environments before.

Just as she was thinking about where to find a good position for observation, she didn't know that her every move had already been seen clearly by the gunner on the distant watchtower, the soul king stationed at the outpost, the flying dragon in the sky, the radar observer in the factory area, and several heads sticking out from the roof of the building next to her.

(End of this chapter)