Chapter 2118: The Sole Holder of Angel's Fangs
Inheritance?
Xu Huo paused for a moment, then chose to accept.
[Congratulations, Passerby A, for receiving an inheritance gift. The contents of this inheritance are five "Angel's Fangs." Since Passerby A has become the sole holder of this item, you have also obtained the holding rights to the remaining ten "Angel's Fangs." The remaining ten "Angel's Fangs" of this item are still located at the E27 Wormhole Point. You are free to choose whether to retrieve them immediately.]
"Angel's Fangs" were suspected to be one of the components of the super item Field Battle Angel. Unlike parts such as "Angel's Eyes," "Angel's Fangs" had subtly appeared as a mission within an instance. Old Lady Bai, who held them, seemed to know the item's origin but did not value it highly, even gifting one of the fangs to a stranger player who entered the instance.
Of course, Xu Huo had also had questions about Old Lady Bai. She bore grudges against the local government controlled by outsiders and had little attachment to Block Fairy Tale City itself, as if she only stayed there out of some habit. Later, when the Box Carrier arrived at Block Fairy Tale City because of the Smiling Puppet, the city should have been destroyed once. But after that, Xu Huo searched for tickets for that station, and they were still available. Moreover, when he later encountered the Paper Servant Master in Clown City, the Paper Servant Master said Old Lady Bai was fine, which seemed even stranger. In his memory, Old Lady Bai was someone who could die at any moment. She had survived when the Box Carrier destroyed Block Fairy Tale City, yet now she had suddenly given him all the "Angel's Fangs"... Had something happened? Had she already passed away?
Based on the game's prompt, Xu Huo realized that Old Lady Bai had already planned for him to inherit this item someday when she gave him the first fang. He immediately turned and left the ruins, calling the Painting Woman to leave Harmony City.
He originally planned to buy a ticket for Block Fairy Tale City and go directly to the station, but the game platform no longer had tickets for that station. The district where Block Fairy Tale City Station was located had already been reduced to a farming zone, with few instances, sparse population, and xenomorphs everywhere. Leaving Block Fairy Tale City, there were hardly any places left for people to survive. Without tickets for Block Fairy Tale City Station, it was almost impossible for players to reach that district.
Xu Huo searched for relevant information on Under Dimension, but Block Fairy Tale City was only an E-rank instance, with very few people discussing it. Thus, he couldn't obtain the current specific situation of Block Fairy Tale City. He then posted a bounty on Under Dimension for tickets to Block Fairy Tale City Station and a "Doorbell" item that could travel between the game world and semi-closed districts. There were no tickets, but a player selling a "Doorbell" told him that if the district where Block Fairy Tale City was located no longer had instances, it was highly likely it had been removed from the instance district list. Such a district would either end up abandoned or become a venue for high-risk random instances. Since there were no instances, the "Doorbell" naturally couldn't reach it. However, he could still go another way: purchasing a one-time cross-district device. As long as he accurately located the area near the station's district, he could open a portal, but such a device was extremely expensive.
Xu Huo had experienced cross-district devices before, even being carelessly thrown into a nearby high-risk instance venue. Such device technology was basically monopolized by the Game Government. Even when district governments bought them at high prices, they treated them as consumables. Even under such strict usage restrictions, the distance these devices could transmit was graded—cross-district, cross-wormhole point. The most basic version couldn't locate a district at all, making it impossible to find the place. And in the game, accurately locating a district was no easy task.
"Do you have a way to accurately locate the district?" Xu Huo sent a message.
The other party replied quickly. "D-rank and above instances have district information. E-rank instance tickets don't carry it. But since you want to go to Block Fairy Tale City, that instance was upgraded some time ago and happens to carry district information. I can help you locate it for free. As long as you enter the wormhole point where the district is located, using the teleportation device should be no problem. You can leave with a ticket. But the teleportation device isn't cheap, and ordinary people can't get their hands on it. I'm selling it here for three hundred million White Notes."
For a one-time device that transmits within the same wormhole point but across different districts, this price was clearly inflated. However, Xu Huo didn't haggle. Instead, he proposed trading through the game's bounty platform.
One advantage of the bounty platform was that it ensured honest transactions.
The other party probably wanted to skip the bounty platform and was reluctant to go through this channel. Xu Huo didn't say much and instead posted a bounty for a new one-time cross-district teleportation device at two hundred million White Notes. Many people came to him, but most were just trying to scam a deposit.
In the end, that player agreed to trade on the bounty platform. Xu Huo paid three hundred million White Notes and obtained a teleportation device with the destination already set. After checking the district information and verifying the device's authenticity, and confirming that districts like Block Fairy Tale City, where instances had completely disappeared, still fell within the range where tickets could be used, he took the Painting Woman to the wormhole point where Block Fairy Tale City was located. Upon arriving at any district, he used this one-time teleportation item.
The wrist-thick metal ring activated and deconstructed in the air. The light released by six metal shards formed a halo, which projected onto the space ahead, quickly creating a dazzling circular portal. Xu Huo stepped through and appeared in a dry forest the next second.
Catching the now-defunct teleportation device, he looked around, then took a step forward. After moving quickly through space several times, he encountered the first abandoned city, mostly occupied by xenomorphs. This city had suffered the ravages of war, with most buildings reduced to rubble. Scorched earth and yellow sand dominated the landscape. Even the xenomorphs lurking here seemed to have evolved the ability to blend into their environment, hiding in the soil and dust to hunt each other.
Finding a preserved map in a cellar, Xu Huo confirmed that this was indeed the district where Block Fairy Tale City was located. The map also indicated the city's position.
After locating it, he used the teleportation item to arrive directly at Block Fairy Tale City.
The city, once famous for tourism and capable of attracting visitors from other districts, had become a ghost town. Not only were the residential areas empty, but the Government Hall and even the Yongxing Hotel were vacant. The stench of garbage and dead animal carcasses fermented throughout the city, as if the fragrance of food and flowers had never existed.
Xu Huo walked all the way to the city center. He saw no people, no human corpses, and not even any xenomorphs had entered this place. The entire city had become a ghost town, as if all living things had evaporated. (End of chapter)