The Death List Novel - Chapter 84

Chapter 84 Landing
Walking out of the Veluriyam Hall, two giant warrior statues appeared in front of Qin Lun and Didi.

The two statues stood face to face. They were 20 meters apart and over 50 meters tall. Their backs were leaning against the thick and heavy city walls. They wore armor and were armed with knights’ swords and square shields. The two knights’ swords collided in the center of their heads, forming a majestic city gate.

Through the city gate, a spacious avenue inlaid with green strips of stone spread towards the city center. As Qin Lun walked along Bluestone Avenue into the city gates, the noise of the city rang in his ears.

Turning around to look at the situation near the city gate, a knowing smile appeared on Qin Lun’s face. Even Little Brother Brindisi’s face revealed an expression of realization.

The new apostles who had gathered together and entered the Horn of the Devil didn’t go far. They were surrounded by a group of apostles in a corner not far from the city gate.

Although these apostles wore fancy smiles on their faces, they clearly had ill intentions. Perhaps he was pulling the rookies into the group, perhaps he wanted to squeeze benefits out of these rookies, or perhaps he wanted the new apostles to sell themselves to support a certain management race, just like the old Abyss Devil Berylseth.

Even if they didn’t use force, it wouldn’t be easy for a weak rookie to escape the siege. In any case, if he didn’t pay a price, he would probably be entangled for a long time. These people were all very perceptive. Perhaps there were still their spies in the Veluriyam Hall, and they could easily identify these new apostles who had piled into the Horn of the Abyss with a single glance.

Although provocation was equivalent to battle in the Horn of the Abyss, the veteran apostles had no psychological burden in oppressing the rookies. Back then, they had also come this way.

Of course, not everyone was surrounded by the new apostles. It was estimated that some people, like Qin Lun, should have sensed this situation and avoided the entanglement ahead of time.

Actually, there were city guards standing guard near the city gates. They just watched all of this, but did not take the initiative to come over. The new apostles did not shout for help from the city guards. They were a bit less considerate than Qin Lun, but that did not mean that they were idiots.

How could a person who could become an official apostle be an idiot? A loud cry for help could indeed summon the city guards, and the surrounding apostles would immediately let them go. After all, the absorption of new apostles was the foundation of an apostolic city that would never fall. Since the Horn of the Devil had promised to protect the new apostles, it would never go back on its word with its reputation.

However, no new apostle would be willing to give up his dignity for such a little trouble. Even this embarrassment required asking the city guards for help. What other apostles were they doing, what other world missions were they carrying out? They could just wipe their necks, so that they wouldn’t be looked down upon alive.

Qin Lun, who was wearing a demon mask and leading Little Goblin to the city gate, did not attract any attention. His image did not look like a new apostle, so naturally, no one would come to pester him.

“Master, did you expect this to happen?” Didi asked in a sneaky whisper.

Qin Lun smiled and shook his head. He was not a deity, how could he have expected such a specific situation? The murderer only realized that no one from the Abyss Devils was following the new apostles before he left, so he remembered what happened when he first entered Handan Prison.

At that time, four ferocious prisoners died on the spot in the bathroom of Handan Prison. Qin Lun, or Joey Foster, lay in the intensive care unit of the prison before returning to the cell three months later.

“Your Excellency the Apostle, would you like to use a carriage?” A loud voice sounded from behind Qin Lun and the other two.

Qin Lun turned around and saw a middle-aged “dwarf” appear behind him. This dwarf’s shoulders were wide and thick, like a square block. He had a beard on his chin and a big nose. It was as if God had casually placed a ball of mud in the middle of his face. From the aesthetic point of view of human beings, he is very ugly.

“Your Excellency, as long as there are three broken crystals, I will send you to any corner of the city!” The short middle-aged man said carefully with a respectful smile on his face.

Although the apostolic cities had strict regulations to protect the intelligent races serving the apostles, in practice, the service providers were still in an extremely vulnerable position. Serving in the Corner of the Abyss is a risky and highly rewarding venture.

Looking at the middle-aged dwarf, Qin Lun’s heart skipped a beat. He recalled another management race in the Horn of Devils-the dwarf race.

“There are too many broken crystals. We live very close to the center of the city. One broken crystal is enough!” Before Qin Lun could say anything, Little Goblin jumped out from behind and began to perform his duties as an attendant.

Qin Lun shifted his gaze away from the two people who were arguing and observed the buildings on both sides of Bluestone Avenue. Most of the buildings in the Evil Demon Corner were relatively low, and very few had more than five floors. Basically, they were around two to three floors.

Perhaps because the area was vast and sparsely populated, these buildings occupied a very large area. The alleys connecting Bluestone Avenue were basically seven to eight meters wide. In front of the buildings, there were neat sidewalks and underground water channels covered with stone slabs.

Most of the buildings on both sides of Bluestone Avenue were for commercial purposes. The buildings nearer the city gate were mostly the reception area of the Chamber of Commerce and the carriage and horse shop. It seemed that there were also some recruiting places for the apostle guild. Perhaps there were quite a few recruiters surrounding the new apostles.

Far from the city gate, Qin Lun could vaguely see taverns, inns, potion shops, and equipment shops with various names. Through the flash of light in the shop window, he discovered that the technology used in the shop was extremely advanced, and there was actually a 3D stereo projection for introduction.

What surprised Qin Lun was that apart from the windows and doors, the outer walls of these buildings were not made of wood or stone, but metal. Although the exterior walls are painted with dye and lime to prevent reflective light from blinding, the exposed parts of the wall are clearly metallic in luster.

The architectural style of the whole city has the flavor of a medieval stone ancient city, but the stone building has become a metal building, the ancient furniture furnishings are full of ultra-modern science fiction technology.

Ancient architectural style combined with advanced technology interior decoration! Qin Lun tapped on his temples with his fingers, and a strange expression appeared on his face.

At this time, the bargaining between the middle-aged dwarf named Ram and Didi had come to an end. The two of them finally hired Ram’s carriage at the price of two broken crystals.

When Lam pulled the carriage over from nearby, Qin Lun was surprised to discover that it was really an ancient medieval carriage. However, the carriage was actually pulled by two mechanical horses powered by magic crystals.

Qin Lun sat speechlessly in the open carriage and closed his eyes to rest. On the other hand, Didi and Ram seemed to have had an affection for each other, and they had been chatting all along the way. However, Qin Lun knew that Little Goblin was trying to get information.

Didi is smart and mature. The explanation Qin Lun gave him not long ago immediately made Little Goblin realize that his master could not expose the ignorance of the new apostles in front of others. Therefore, he could only use it to talk to Ram and obtain some common knowledge about the Horn of the Abyss.

Ram was very talkative. Along the way, he not only introduced various shops on both sides of the road to Didi, but also introduced some important areas of the city.

If Berylseth and the Demon Girl’s introduction to the Horn of the Abyss was a skeleton, then the fragmented information in Ram’s words added a lot of flesh and blood to the skeleton, giving Qin Lun a vague general impression of the Horn of the Abyss.

From Ram’s words, he also learned about the level of consumption of the Horn of the Devil. In this apostolic city, the average apostle consumed about 20 shattered crystals a day, or 600 a month, including shelter and food.

For an apostle like Qin Lun, who performed an alien mission every half a month and had a basic mission of 2,000 shattered crystals, this wasn’t a big expense. However, for the apostles who only carried out a half-yearly mission to another world, it was a bit unbearable.

If he wanted to live a normal life in the Horn of the Abyss, it would be the minimum for him to perform an alien mission once every two months. Apart from that, doing more urban hiring tasks was another option. Looks like this is the eligibility criteria for the resident apostles in the Horn of the Abyss.

No wonder some of the apostles chose to live in the original floating city. Apart from liking the original city better, it was also likely that they could not afford the high consumption of the apostle city.

These apostles would only trade with the apostle cities through the regularly opened starry gates when they had accumulated some surplus equipment. Although such a transaction would be subject to a very high transaction tax from the Horn of the Devil, it was still better than not being able to gain a foothold.

Qin Lun was now more and more satisfied with Didi, the little attendant. The little fellow was still insignificant in the moonlight forest. After arriving at the Horn of the Abyss, Little Goblin finally showed his worth. Qin Lun didn’t want the trivial matters in his life to involve his energy, so it wasn’t easy to find a smart and tight-lipped follower on an ad hoc basis.

The city of the Evil Demon Corner wasn’t very big. Half an hour later, the carriage arrived in front of the house the Evil Demon Clan had provided for Qin Lun. Didi used Qin Lun’s identity token to pay for the car. After exchanging a communication number with Lam, he followed his owner into the house.

This was a double-decker modern villa, separated by a row of other villas, you could see the main street, the location and lighting were good.

The villa was well furnished and had a large area. Apart from no spare clothes and food, everything else was available. There was also a complete set of tableware and refrigerators. Didi also had a big room of his own, which made him look very satisfied.

In the evening, the alarm bell suddenly rang in front of the villa.

Didi went out and opened the door. Outside the door were two elves, Malfoy Moria and Adrienne Moria, who had been scheduled to visit.

“Welcome, Sir Maffa!” Qin Lun smiled and walked out of the living room. “Long time no see!”

“Haha, Sir Qin Lun, it may have been a long time since the apostles went out on missions, but in our eyes, we haven’t seen each other for only two days!” Malfoy shook his head with a bitter smile.

Qin Lun was stunned and immediately realized that he had stayed in the orphan world for an entire month, but he had not seen Malfoy in the Broken Star Sky for only two days.

“Haha, you will slowly adapt to this change!” Malfoy smiled and said, “I’m here to deliver something to you. We’ve fulfilled your request for Edeline!”

As he spoke, Malfoy took out a few items from his bag and placed them on the coffee table in the living room. Looking at these items, a complicated expression appeared on Qin Lun’s face.