Otherworldly Desert Dust-Chapter 425 380 Ancient Temple Shura Head

Wu Hen generously paid a pimp for a week's worth of prostitute fees, ensuring Chen Fanfan wouldn't be forced to see clients for that week.

With the assurance of a week's purity, Chen Fanfan also calmed down a lot.

However, Chen Fanfan still reminded Wu Hen not to show off too much wealth in this small town, otherwise, the town might turn into a band of robbers and throw Wu Hen into the swamp to feed the crocodiles.

After nightfall, Evil City would go into curfew.

That was the strange part: despite being a fortress that flourished on vice, the time after dusk was when the visiting patrons were most willing to spend their money, but the curfew was enforced, preventing anyone from going out.

This clearly indicated a problem, and yet this key piece of information hadn't been delivered to the information analysis department of Steel Eagle City. This convinced Wu Hen of Levi's previous hypothesis that there must be spies from enemy cities among the subordinates of Mayor Chi Luo.

There were only sixteen hours left before that foolish mayor would launch the attack.

Wu Hen still had a critical task to complete, which was to determine whether Evil City had been annexed by Grand Canyon City.

Once annexed, the engines of the fortress would connect with Grand Canyon City, forming the living hub mentioned by Levi.

This living hub needed to be manually dismantled, roughly equivalent to a miniaturized military fort. Since they had to sneak into and escape from Evil City, they had to first find the living hub connecting Evil City with Grand Canyon City, and during the battle between the two great cities, initiate the dismantling process to grant Evil City independent control.

After night fell, as Chen Fanfan was doubting Wu Hen's motives were pure, he was already preparing to delve into the underground.

There must be a connecting area between Evil City and the underground city. According to Chen Fanfan's description, it was likely underneath the casino. There were many levels beneath the casino, where unspeakably shady dealings were taking place.

"This gentleman is looking for some thrills; he's loaded and willing to pay handsomely for a good time," Chen Fanfan said to the bouncer at the casino.

"Due to special circumstances, we are not open to outsiders for the time being," said the person guarding the elevator.

"Ah, whether it's our own people or outsiders, isn't it up to you, brother? This is a little something for you; hold on to it, then later I'll bring brother some big benefits," Chen Fanfan immediately slipped the guard a small crystal strip.

The guard actually knew nothing about the strategic deployments of the two great cities; his order was simply to stand guard. The management of Evil City was quite lax. They usually had no rules, and this sudden switch to a militarized regime actually made them somewhat uncomfortable.

"Alright, if you run into a patrol, just say you're my cousin," the guard, all smiles, was easily bribed.

"Thank you, cousin."

...

Having successfully entered the lower levels of the casino, this was where the true face of Evil City was revealed, with all varieties of illegal crimes present, some even nauseating—yet, some of those seemingly glamorous individuals were particularly excited.

Each level had different activities for different groups of interests. Chen Fanfan also told Wu Hen that these underground spaces were all connected to the control rooms of the buildings on the surface; essentially, controlling this casino was equivalent to controlling Evil City.

The structure wasn't too complicated; it was even somewhat similar to Levi's prison system.

Levi's prison system was also closed and interconnected, only it was used for detaining prisoners, while this one was used to foster crime.

"If that's the case, it won't be difficult for the residents of Prison Town to quickly take over Evil City," Wu Hen concluded after observing.

"It should be very difficult to go further down, but it's definitely going to be scary," said Chen Fanfan.

"We both have strong hearing; stealth isn't difficult for us."

"That may be true..."

"What's to fear for a woman of your social standing?" Wu Hen said.

"Let me tell you, I used to be very brave!"

...

The connection between Evil City and Grand Canyon City was an underground warehouse.

These warehouses were filled with loot plundered by Evil City: gold and silver jewelry, energy ore, original weapons, Food Grain Storage, Engine Parts...

There were many people working in the underground area of the warehouse, as it seemed that in order to make Evil City appear more prosperous, the side of Grand Canyon City was transferring Dark Energy Crystals and other materials into this fortress's warehouse.

Steel Eagle City possessed energy scanners; once the equipment detected a large amount of Dark Energy Crystals and a massive amount of Engine Parts below Evil City, even the command level would struggle to remain rational.

"This is rather delightful!"

Wu Hen saw the scene in this underground warehouse and a smile appeared on his face.

"What's up?" Chen Fanfan asked, puzzled. She also wondered, how come deeper beneath this fortress, there was such a massive supply of resources being delivered?

"They're bleeding themselves dry to build nests, but the bait for these nests will soon become our reserve for escape," Wu Hen said.

"Oh, oh, that makes sense, but what exactly is down there?" Chen Fanfan asked.

"Come on, let's open your eyes and let you see what a real Hell Living City is like," Wu Hen said.

The guards here weren't as strict as he had imagined.

After passing through the warehouse area and reaching a mechanical staircase bridge, Wu Hen and Chen Fanfan, disguised as transport workers, easily entered further into the depths of the underground.

Descending the mechanical bridge, a cavern suddenly opened up before them, brightly lit. Stone walls and buildings were perfectly integrated together, industry and machinery embedded within those massive rock bodies. At first, Chen Fanfan thought this was an underground factory, but when she looked through a cavern window and saw the myriad of lights below, she stood frozen in place, her heart unable to calm down for a long time!

Who could have imagined that the underground area would be as broad and clear as Taoyuan, and who would have thought that beneath this small fortress lay such a thriving megacity with thousands of houses, roads weaving back and forth like blood vessels, mechanical conveyor belts intertwined, and a red giant furnace like a central city lake!

"This... this... this..." Chen Fanfan was at a loss for words.

She had never seen such urban civilization. It was impossible to describe with terms like cyberpunk, nor with revered Holy God, or even with bizarre and twisted. It blended the tranquility of many ancient temples with the vigour of heavy industrial fortresses. The entire Underground Kingdom, while filled with the sediment of ages, also shone with the brilliance and prosperity of advanced technology. It was like the city bore the turns of every epoch for tens of thousands of years, from the most primitive stone tools, quenching, craftsmanship to distribution workshops, industrial giants, to fully engine-powered, full crystal machinery... The primitive technology in history books, the energy drives familiar in the present day and the Living City technology she had never seen, made her feel both fractured and united, finally becoming a shock that was indescribable in any language, a shock to the visual senses and to the soul.

"You haven't seen it when it's alive," Wu Hen added.

This was the city, in all its shocking magnificence, that Wu Hen had personally witnessed crawling up the flames of the Grand Canyon to the Sky Dome, and hunting among the clouds in Yunluan with its nine bodies.

"What do you mean, they can move??" Chen Fanfan exclaimed in amazement.

"Oh, you haven't seen their other state yet, not even a village or a small town?" Wu Hen sighed.

Indeed, Chen Fanfan's horizons were still too narrow; she had not seen these cities in another dimension.

"What are they doing??" Chen Fanfan asked.

"Hunting, they are waiting for prey from the sky to come down," Wu Hen said.

"Prey from the sky? What is that??" Now Chen Fanfan had become a total novice, like a child on a bus entering a big city for the first time, never having seen a skyscraper or a magnificent interchange.

"We have only seven hours. We need to find the live connecting nodes between the fortress and the city. Your hearing is no worse than mine. I will take care of this end, you take care of that end, we must find all the live nodes connecting Grand Canyon City with the fortress," Wu Hen instructed.

"Oh, okay, got it, got it," Chen Fanfan agreed, no longer arguing.

She knew she was too inexperienced, and that Wu Sangui before her knew this Da Xuan Dynasty better.

...

With Chen Fanfan's help, their efficiency greatly improved.

Moreover, she was more familiar with the fortress and could distinguish the voices of the people there.

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The leaders of the fortress were mostly at the live nodes. According to the two of them, there were five live nodes total, four of which were relatively easy to deal with, but there was one node that was troublesome...

"I saw you leave a bronze spear and a Demon Blade at two of the nodes, I've never seen you mark it this way," Chen Fanfan said.

"When the time comes, you may not be as clever as them, you can't be completely unskilled, or else you would have been a real streetwalker by now. The node with the least guards is yours to tackle. My people will come and you just need to open the door for them," Wu Hen pointed at one of the live nodes.

"I can handle the guards there, but are your friends reliable, can they drive and operate? It feels very complex; we don't understand it, and we don't know how to start it," Chen Fanfan said.

"Don't worry, they are reliable locals, true citizens of Da Xuan, and they were trained in the big city," Wu Hen assured.

"So, where are you heading? To that live node over there? Don't you feel something squirming next to that node, by the wall of the ancient temple complex?" Chen Fanfan said.

She didn't have Visual Awakening, so she couldn't see what that ancient temple complex represented.

But Wu Hen had personally witnessed how that group of ancient temples transformed into one of the arms of Hell, a Hell Nine-Headed Asura Head!

One of the live nodes was very close to the Ancient Temple Shura Head in Hell Nine-Headed City. The difficulty of dismantling that node was the greatest because anyone who approached would be devoured by the Ancient Temple Shura Head.

There was no choice, the most difficult task had to be done by himself.

He could only hope that when the fighting started, the Ancient Temple Shura Head would be at the forefront, so he could covertly dismantle the node right beneath its formidable presence.