Destiny is ashes

Chapter 71 Danlin Town and Chips
"Thank you very much, brother!"

Upon hearing this, Huo Qing was immediately overjoyed - according to Fu Chen's local habits, he should thank God if his mouth was not silenced after being caught and questioned.

The injury on his shoulder was not serious. For a practitioner, it would heal in a few days or so and would not affect his activities.

But now, this injury made it difficult for him to move, and without help, there was no way he could return to town before morning.

By then, if he encounters those 'jackal cultivators' who pick up corpses, or a team from other gangs that collect corpses, the other party will definitely not mind turning him into a real corpse!

Once you are ready, it's time to set off.

After listening to Huo Qing's story, An Jing also had a general understanding of Danlin Town.

Danlin Town is located in the east-central part of Fuchenyuan. It is one of the largest towns among the 17 towns in Fuchenyuan, with a permanent population of over 50,000. There are eight large-scale alchemy workshops, production lines for everything from muskets to sword cases and various magical instruments, and an extremely developed spiritual herb cultivation industry.

Almost half of the elixirs in Fuchenyuan are produced here, as well as the initial processing of raw materials by many large enterprises in Xuanye City.

In addition, some special wood-based magical instruments, ornamental spiritual plants, and accompanying combat spiritual plants are also produced here.

With An Jing's speed, he soon arrived at the vicinity of Danlin Town with Huo Qing.

Its center is not a huge furnace like other floating dust towns, but a giant tree over 300 meters high. Its canopy shades half of the town. From a distance, it looks like a green hill, with its roots deeply rooted in the ground, rising into a mound.

Densely packed white greenhouses cover the roots of the tree, using the power of this giant tree to cultivate many spiritual plants.

This is the 'Danye Qingmu', the greenest plant An Jing has ever seen in the Tianyuan Realm. Most of the plants in this world appear scorched and decayed due to the erosion of demonic energy and acid rain, only this giant tree is full of vitality.

“Perhaps there are giant trees like this deep in the mountains of Huaixu Realm.” An Jing looked at the giant tree in the distance, feeling quite emotional: “Nature is so magical that it can create such a great thing!”

"right here……"

Seeing the familiar Danqing giant tree, Huo Qing, who had been pinched on the back of his neck all night, breathed a sigh of relief: "I'm finally back."

After a night passed and the dawn broke, the shouting and screaming in the dusty plain gradually died down, and various caravans returned from all over the wilderness.

Among them, there were many wounded soldiers like An Jing and Huo Qing who supported each other and returned to their respective bases, stumbling and falling.

"Huh, it's safe." Looking at this situation, Huo Qing's eyes flickered slightly, and he breathed a sigh of relief: "The gang just sent a message, saying that the fighting is temporarily suspended and it should not affect the normal production of the town during the day."

"We can go back to town now, brother."

"Send a message?"

An Jing also noticed the unusual light in Huo Qing's eyes, and the other party suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, as if he had received some news: "When."

Huo Qing also pointed at his forehead and said honestly: "It's a chip. People in the wilderness don't have it. Only people like us in the safe zone and the city have it."

"Interesting, there is such a thing?"

An Jing also became interested at this time. The technology and various magical instruments of the Tianyuan Realm have really reached an extremely powerful level. Although he didn't know what this chip was for the time being, perhaps it was similar to some concepts he knew in his previous life?
If it really is that kind of brain chip, can I try to make one myself?
If the functions were richer, I would feel like I, with the chip, would be able to defeat the enemy in the Huaixu world!

"How can a...wilderness person like me get a chip?"

He asked as soon as he thought of it, and An Jing's tone was rarely filled with desire.

But Huo Qing was in a dilemma: "I really don't know... I have the chip when I was born. Every newborn in the safe zone has one. It's like proof of identity."

"Those who don't have it are all 'wilderness people'."

At this point, Huo Qing racked his brains and recalled some rumors: "But I know that there are indeed rumors that the wilderness people have obtained the chip, but it is very difficult... I will go back and help you find relevant information?"

"Then trouble you."

An Jing was not in a hurry, as long as he knew that such a thing existed.

His main goal at the moment is to use the weapons and equipment from the Tianyuan Realm to shake off the pursuers from the Huaixu Realm's evil cult.

If you can't handle this, everything else is just lies.

The town of Danlin has walls, ditches and towers, and is more like a small fortress than a town.

The entire town is surrounded by a special kind of lead-gray bricks and stones. There are two strange tall towers like high-voltage power towers standing at each of the four gates. Fluent spiritual inscriptions flash, outlining four different colored formation patterns.

"A simplified version of the Four Spirits Demon Suppression Array." The sword spirit commented: "The North Black Tortoise, the West White Tiger, the East Azure Dragon, and the South Vermillion Bird, the four spirits of the four directions, suppress the demons and condense their Qi. In the center, there is an Evergreen Danmu tree as the center of the array to suppress it. Once it is fully activated, ordinary Purple Mansion True Persons cannot break in." "This town is well built, with guidance from an expert."

"The spiritual energy is also much richer." After approaching Danlin Town, An Jing also felt that the air was much fresher, with a sweet smell of the mountains.

He took a deep breath and even felt refreshed: "There is a huge difference between the town and the wilderness. The air quality is much better."

All kidding aside, An Jing thought that if the average life expectancy of people in the wilderness was only forty or fifty years old, then just relying on this air, people in the towns could live twenty years longer than them.

However, considering the brutal fighting between town gangs, we can only refer specifically to natural lifespan.

An Jing brought Huo Qing to the South Gate. The soldiers guarding the gate were extremely well-equipped and wore a light blue exoskeleton armor. The style was a bit similar to the Ming Guang Armor in An Jing's previous life, but it was nearly three meters high and mostly made of steel.

These sergeants, who were clearly not gang members, checked the faces of everyone entering the town in turn, scanned and registered them, and then let them pass one by one.

When it was An Jing's turn, An Jing was not nervous at all and took off his mask and gas mask openly - this immediately scared Huo Qing who was standing by. He never expected that his savior, the person who ruthlessly pointed a gun at his head and forced him to reveal information, was actually a teenager.

"A wild man?"

The sergeant guarding the city did not find An Jing's appearance in the database of past entries into the city, so he did not care much: "It costs five merits to enter the city for the first time, and one merit each time thereafter."

Of course, An Jing didn't have any such thing as good deeds, but before he could ask if he could pay in kind, Huo Qing at the side quickly said, "I'll pay for him!"

The payment was simple. Huo Qing looked into the guard's eyes, and an orange light flashed in his pupils, and that was it.

"Not low in strength..."

After An Jing followed Huo Qing into Danlin Town, he looked around thoughtfully. He could sense that the gates and towers of Danlin Town were guarded by practitioners who were probably at a high level or even at the peak of Qi Refining, stronger than the owner of the Medicine Manor.

Inside the city, as soon as they entered the city, they saw a whole group of armed soldiers patrolling the city.

"Why do gangs still exist when the force is so strong?"

An Jing couldn't help asking, while Huo Qing beside him was a little puzzled: "The city guards are directly under the mayor, so they must be strong, but why do they care about gangs?"

"If we pay taxes honestly, it won't bother the mayor, right?"

However, after realizing that An Jing was indeed a wild man who knew nothing about the town, Huo Qing explained the nature of the gang to An Jing.

It turns out that the gang is essentially a "military force" jointly supported by major companies and enterprises in Fuchenyuan.

Take the Day Tiger Gang for example. Behind it are three large magic weapon forging workshops and several mining companies in Fuchenyuan. Baoguang Pavilion, which mainly produces "Qingling Powder" in Danlin Town, is also their supporter.

Going further up, behind these workshops and companies are the main companies and large groups of Xuan Ye City.

The mayor of Danlin Town was actually appointed by the big group in Xuanye City. The two parties were originally one family. The only difference was that one was a directly affiliated force, and the other was a local armed force spontaneously assembled by the small companies under it. Naturally, there was no need for them to make things difficult for each other.

On the contrary, different gangs and companies representing different camps may be competitors or may have grudges against each other.

In short, if violence is required, it will be done by gangs, and the company will be responsible for arming these violent gangs to destroy the targets of the rival company.

——So, the gang fighting here is also a business war in a sense?
An Jing couldn't help laughing at his own thoughts, but when he thought about it carefully, if the essence of gangs was the mercenary groups of major companies, then there was nothing wrong with this definition.

"We have entered the city, what should we do next?"

Thinking of this, at this moment, An Jing, who had been working hard all night, began to have his stomach churn, making a loud noise.

Don't get me wrong, a warrior's stomach won't move on its own. This was An Jing who urged it to move himself.

"Big, big brother..."

At this time, Huo Qing, who had already seen An Jing's true face and real age, was a little unable to say the word "big brother".

But in the end, he couldn't think of any other name to address me, so he said with difficulty: "You sent me back to town safely. Words cannot express my gratitude. If you don't mind, I would like to treat you to a meal, and then discuss the reward?"

"That's a good feeling."

An Jing touched his belly after his success and naturally would not be polite. Although he had sneaked into the town now, he had no money on him and could hardly move forward.

If he could get some gold coins from Huo Qing, or learn from him about the shop that could recycle the spoils, An Jing could start purchasing the weapons and supplies he wanted.

(End of this chapter)