Chapter 418 Light City

“The shuttle bus will stop fifteen kilometers away from the lamp city of Ignaxi. It is recommended that you go on foot for the last part of the journey.

Since Ignace is the largest lamp city in the old world, the daily flow of people is very large, and the recent arrival of the Duke has reached its peak.

In addition to the identity check and city entry procedures that I told you before, the entire city has turned on the "city wall lights" to the maximum, and the area within ten kilometers will be illuminated by strong lights.

Those who are not equipped to withstand light exposure can purchase "sun protection clothing" from the Light City in advance, which costs about 200 coins each.

Visitors who can finally arrive at the city gate regardless of light exposure are eligible for identity verification.

This can effectively screen out outsiders with purchasing power, and can also well control the traffic problem of the entire city. "

Yi Chen just listened silently without making any comments.

 The train arrives at the station.

When Yi Chen stepped out of the carriage, a strong light immediately surrounded his body. However, he had already prepared protective clothing in gentleman's clothing and even put a film on his eyeballs, so it was no big deal.

Even though we are still fifteen kilometers away from Lantern City, the surrounding area is sparsely crowded with visitors who want to enter the city.

Moreover, some people are "gamblers" at first glance, guys who want to gamble with the Duke and then turn around. Most of them are stooped or crawling with bloated bodies, and they are even ready to take the throne for the Duke if they fail in gambling.

 Look ahead,

 You can also see the sick people facing the bright light, preparing to go to the city of lights. Most of them are running forward while using their ailments to protect themselves from the bright light, especially dealing with their eyes.

For example, a cancer patient directly caused a large area of ​​thick hyperplasia in his eyelids. Two iron-like abscesses hung in front of his eyes, blocking his field of vision and reducing the exposure to light. At the same time, he huddled his body to reduce the area of ​​​​illumination. It uses the soles of its feet and appendages derived from its calves to walk.

“Little Grape, I’ll leave it to you to resist the light later.”

Yi Chen also joined the team of those who walked towards the lantern, but his speed was much faster than them. He did not deliberately shrink his body, but ran in a normal human posture, slowly turning into a galloping forward leaning 45°.

A Dengcheng employee wearing a metal diving cap on his head and selling sun protection clothing on the way was almost knocked out by the speeding Yi Chen.

But he didn't curse anything, and he didn't dare to curse. He must not be able to offend a person who could run into the light at such a speed.

Many people along the way were amazed when they saw Yi Chen's galloping speed. At the same time, some people noticed that the clothes on his body came from a leather factory, but they felt inferior. They wondered how such an ordinary leather slave could not be afraid of the light. .

As he gets closer to Ignaxi, the light intensity rises sharply, and Yi Chen's gentleman's clothes and eyeballs are also covered with ember patterns.

Not only does it not appear uncomfortable due to the light, it absorbs strong light to increase the content of the ember. Of course, the improvement effect is negligible.

The real evil sun cannot be compared to this kind of illumination.

Yichen even raised his head relatively easily and looked directly at the largest lamp city in the old world.

"Hmm! What kind of structure is this?" When the city wall structure came into view, Yi Chen almost stopped because he was so shocked.

The city wall is more than 100 meters high, and its surface is covered with honeycomb-shaped grooves and niches, which are densely packed and countless.

Each honeycomb niche is enclosed by light-transmitting glass and houses a special lighting candle.

This kind of candle is completely different from what Yi Chen has seen in human society. The brightness of the fire released by burning can reach more than a thousand times that of ordinary candles.

 The firelight is reflected by the polyhedral structure inside the honeycomb niche, and finally converges on the translucent glass on the surface of the niche, thereby emitting strong light.

I don’t know if it was Yi Chen’s illusion, but he could even see a hateful face looming on the surface of the candle.

The city is also specially equipped with "candle changers" who will promptly replace candles that are about to burn out from within the city walls to ensure that at least 95% of the candles in all niches are burning simultaneously.

 The 95% here is the maximum limit value. This candle burning rate will be maintained whenever major festivals are encountered, such as when the Duke's Chamber of Commerce arrives.

 Under normal circumstances, the candles between city walls only need to be kept at 40%.

There is also a huge hemispherical closed mesh on the city wall, which covers the entire city of lights, completely closed and not disturbed by the outside.

 When we arrived at the city gate, there were already many people lining up here.

There were even four open-level sedan-carrying slaves lining up. They were carrying a red sedan, and the patient sitting in it must have a high status.

It seems that Yi Chen smells a strange smell that does not belong to the old world.

 A head covered by a red hijab peeked out of the side window of the sedan chair.

The exposed chin was completely fleshy and stringy, with no mouth and completely exposed gums. The other party was observing this interesting young man through the hijab.

Yichen also noticed that there was a structure similar to an insect's jaw between the corners of the woman's torn mouth.

 “Some kind of insect disease?”

At this time, a hand stretched out from the sedan chair,

Even though the whole arm is wrapped with a bandage, only relatively complete skin is exposed, but there are two forked palms at the end of the arm, which are slender and grayish.

Hooking her fingers, three tongues of different lengths came out of her mouth, hoping that this young man could get on her sedan chair and do some entertaining things.

Yi Chen made a more gentlemanly move and declined the other party’s invitation.

The woman didn't mean to force it, and a hissing sound came out from under the white hijab. Her hands and tongue were all retracted, and she stopped making any unnecessary moves.

Yi Chen also breathed a sigh of relief. He didn't want to get into trouble before he entered the city. He was an unfamiliar place here and it would be very dangerous if he was surrounded.

 The queue is not slow and you will be released once your identity is confirmed.

 When it was finally Yi Chen's turn, he quietly showed the "Seal of Transaction" on the back of his hand and immediately received permission to enter the city.

　　When you walk into the narrow corridor under the city gate, the bright light is no longer there, replaced by ordinary candles embedded in the corridor wall, guiding outsiders into the city.

 As we walked out of the corridor, we finally had a panoramic view of this neutral city.

 A diverse city that is mainly made of metal, mixed with all kinds of old world weirdness, flesh and blood, ancient and modern. The bright light outside the city wall no longer has any impact on this place.

The fully enclosed light city-Ignaxi has roughly three types of continuous light sources spread throughout the city.

  1. The most common one is the kerosene wall lamp hanging at the door of every house, with different styles, and the design of the container represents the type of store.

For example, a wall lamp made of multiple fingers corresponds to a nail salon. After being processed by the store, customers' nails are not only given beautiful patterns and hardened nail structures, but can also burn for a long time and even cause claws to strike. Comes with fire damage.

  2. A mobile lighting device that runs throughout the city, providing both public lighting and private borrowing for a fee - "Cranial Lamp"

 A skull with wings only growing between its ear holes flies around every corner of the city. The skull is filled with lamp oil (the mouth and nose are both closed, and a transparent diaphragm separates the eye sockets so that the amount of lamp oil can be directly observed).

A wick is inserted through the skull and provides long-lasting illumination.

 When the lamp oil content falls below 20%, these skulls will fly back to the supply station for refueling.

Any pedestrian only needs to wave to the skull lantern, and they will fly over quickly, insert an ancient coin into the coin slot on their head, and they can borrow it privately for one hour.

 You can hold it in your hand or let it fly beside you.

If you recruit them without paying, just for fun, some of the ill-tempered Skull Lanterns may commit suicide attacks.

  3. At the highest point in the center of the Light City Ignasi, between the indescribable metal and flesh-and-blood buildings, there is a huge sphere that resembles an "underground sun".

This sphere has very low brightness, providing weak illumination that radiates throughout the city. It seems to be the prototype of the template initially developed when creating the underground sun. It was used as the symbol of Ignaci and was embedded in the central building.

but,

Little Grape's eyes can identify the "twilight" emitted by the first-generation sun among the many rays of light. Behind this shimmer of light are multiple eyes for prying eyes, making Little Grape's saliva flow.

Yi Chen was not very comfortable, "Will any individual exposed to this kind of light be monitored... It's really uncomfortable."

 (End of this chapter)