Chapter 16 Watson District
"You have a new message from Olivia..."
The information panel on the window pushes a message prompt box, and the sender's name is a bit outrageous.
Oh ~
Leaning on the window frame, the wind chime covered in orange-red sunset light shook her tail, turned her head to look at the window that suddenly made a sound, and called Zhu Jue, who was sitting behind the computer desk.
“1103, play the information!”
Zhu Jue held a pen and copied some characters on his notes, saying without looking back.
"The information is now played: Zhu Jue, you have to get your home certificate in Shuguang City before June 10. I will help you get a quota for the on-site assessment of the Archaeology Association. I need time to sort out the content of the assessment. There should not be too many problems in this regard. After all, the combat department you are going to take the exam does not require high professional knowledge of archaeology."
After having had an exchange with Olivi in Anling City, Zhu Jue, who returned to Shuguang City, considered it over and over again, and finally decided to follow Olivi's advice and find a way to join the Archaeological Association.
On the one hand, Zhujue needs a channel to obtain "zero" information, and it is obviously unrealistic to rely on oneself to investigate. If this kind of organization that can be found by the whole world can be found casually, they will not deserve to exist for so long.
On the other hand, Zhu Jue's existing abilities come from the monsters of the source of spiritual pollution. The result of enhancing mental power through gems and ancient crystals can only make his existing abilities continue to be stronger but cannot spawn new abilities. He is obviously not difficult to satisfy this, so he still wants to contact more things from the source of spiritual pollution monsters. Now that the weird studio is gone, the Archaeological Association is undoubtedly the best choice.
After listening to Olivi's message, Zhu Jue just recorded the date of June 10, and set a reminder of the day for this date in the memo on the computer, and then put all his attention back to the booklet in front of him.
"The Book of De Chian"
Zhu Jue's initial concept of this book is roughly similar to the content he had received about human-faced rats and ghouls. It was an unknown product of evil. Therefore, although he got it, he never had the intention to read it.
However, Olivi's description of the "Tao Lord" and "Merlin" in the "Zero" religion made Zhu Jue realize that their abilities may not only come from sacrifices to evil gods or monsters from spiritual pollution sources, and their source of power cannot be that simple.
He took out the remaining two dark purple talismans in his hand and placed them on the edge of the keyboard, and his eyes were on the mysterious characters on the front of the talisman. After obtaining these two talismans, Zhu Jue had a communication with the shopkeeper of Xiangfeng Restaurant, who mentioned the "Seven Chapters of Xuanjun's Secret Sutra".
Therefore, Zhu Jue can conclude that this book is undoubtedly deeply entangled with the cults in Rong Xiacheng. Now, I think about it, but I am a little worried about why I didn’t stay for a few more days at that time, but couldn’t wait to return to Yecheng. It is naturally impossible to pursue clues from five years ago.
But then again, Zhu Jue was not interested in these things at that time. Even if he knew that there was such a strange book, he probably didn't have much interest.
"Listen, the son of the earth, listen to the voice of your teacher, the sons of the stars."
"You must learn that there is neither height nor depth here, everything is dissolved into one..."
"The descendants of the Mother of Darkness fill the universe, and great wars go on inside and outside them."
"This war will determine the fate of the universe, and the seeds of the gods will appear everywhere and reappear."
The opening of the booklet is a passage that Zhu Jue had heard from Flo. When he read out this passage that was plausible and vaguely expressed some mysterious information, the long-lost sense of confusion came into his mind without warning.
However, compared to five years ago, Zhu Jue's spiritual will is stronger today, and this is just a summary of the knowledge gained in dreams. It is incomplete and even has many mistakes.
Zhu Jue only read a few paragraphs and found that there were many typos. Obviously, Flo's mental state was worried when he wrote these contents based on his memory. He probably had no interest in modifying typos after experiencing the nightmare feeling again, so many of these contents would be wrong.
"Tsk... I can't stand it anymore."
I don’t know if it was because of the typos in the booklet and the confusion, and I don’t know the so-called paragraphs or because of the trance when reading. Zhu Jue just read it for about 10 minutes and had to give up reading, and instead took two agate stones to absorb energy to keep his mind stable.
The existing content did not help Zhu Jue too much. As mentioned before, most of them were content that he could not understand, such as "angels", "evolution", "biology", and such rhetorics often appear, but they did not help Zhu Jue's understanding of this book.
After closing the booklet, he got up and walked into the studio, put it in with the bags of gems. Zhu Jue just took a honey-colored agate stone and stuffed it into a necklace that he made when he came back yesterday.
There is a hollow iron ball in the middle of the silver chain, and the gem is placed there. However, wearing it close to the body makes it easier for Zhujue to absorb the energy in it anytime and anywhere. He is ready to absorb as much as possible in the next week to prepare for that trip.
But before that, he still has something to do.
Take one of the prayer certificates belonging to the Church of Usa on the desktop and one of the three materials of coins into your pocket.
"Wind chime, go shopping~"
He shouted at the windowsill, and Fengling rushed over and jumped into Zhu Jue's arms.
The gentleman could not disclose any information about Rubber Gold Bank on the phone, but did not prohibit Zhujue from checking it himself. This prayer volume and these coins themselves are a collection of information.
In order to be somewhat sure in the next gathering, Zhu Jue decided to take these two things to ask someone before that.
Where to go?
Of course it is Watson District.
Zhu Jue has checked the situation of various urban areas of Shuguang City. To some extent, Watson District is a "market" and "entertainment area" for residents of the middle and lower levels of Shuguang City.
There are quite a few antique shops he is looking for in this neighborhood.
Pass Metro Line 3, take about 6 stops and go from Parakeet Street.
The buildings in front of you are very different from Zhujue in Heywood District.
The entire Watson District can be said to be a gathering place for the world's multicultural cultures, but while cultural integration, it retains its own unique style in some places, such as the aristocratic community here.
Don't get me wrong. The "noble" prefix in this aristocratic community is not because of the identity of some people, but simply because of the names of people living here to improve their style.
Western restaurants, taverns, and nightclubs are the main tone here. Although the building is still tall, the style is mixed with ancient Roman and Gothic styles. For example, the bell tower that Zhu Jue passes by now is a very representative building.
Among the crowds were blonde men in tuxedoes, and ladies in puffy skirts dotted with circles of lace flowers. Occasionally, a group of men in holographically projected Scottish skirts and holding strange instruments in their hands playing melodious music.
The sunset is still hanging in the horizon, and the light passes through the tall city buildings and reflects on the surface of the big red fire hydrant on the roadside, scattering a light of unknown color.
Several unknown birds with white hair on the wings squatted on the signs hung in several nearby shops. Zhu Jue also saw a piece of bird shit left behind in one of the signs, hanging obliquely in the center, and following the fluorescent light signs "shining" under the sunset.
The street here is not spacious. Although it is better than the Haywood District, it is still not as good as other urban areas that Zhu Jue saw online before. It is only three lanes, and the number of aerial rail cars is not much different from that of Haywood District.
It was probably because he hadn't been shopping with Zhu Jue for a long time. Feng Ling seemed very excited. He ran around the area around Zhu Jue since he left the subway. He jumped to the fire hydrant to pretend to be a mongoose, supported his body with three tails, and half-squatted like a human. He put two small paws on his chest, exposing his belly to the sunset. He ran to the window of a nearby Western restaurant and stared at the steak on other people's tables, looking at the steak on his desk. He wanted to eat the steak with his eyes. When the guests inside noticed it, he trotted back to Zhu Jue and walked between his legs, almost letting the latter mix himself.
Oh ~
By chance, when I passed by a street and alley, Feng Chin's footsteps suddenly stopped. He stared at a nearby alley and shook his nose. It smelled the smell of blood from there.
"What's wrong... Oh, it turned out to be an underground market."
Zhu Jue and the other side looked over and saw that there were more than a dozen steps between the streets and alleys here, and there were some glass doors below. Zhu Jue, who had seen the "Strategy" before, suddenly recognized that it was the entrance to the underground market.
Above ground mall, underground market.
This is a refined description of the current situation in the online forum of Watson District.
The two words "Mall" and "Mall" have similar meanings, but in many people's concepts, the former is obviously more formal.
Simply put, Watson District is a commercial area specially opened to ordinary people in Shuguang City, while the underground market is specially prepared for those "special people".
The things and items sold inside are also quite different from those on the ground malls. For example, the supermarkets on the ground sell toy guns containing plastic bb bullets, and the shops underground sell to heavy sniper rifles containing armor-piercing bullets...
"We'll go down and go shopping later, it's not the time."
The underground market is not open during the day and it must be ten o'clock in the evening. This is to some extent to protect the ordinary people and avoid unnecessary conflicts as much as possible.
Chapter completed!