Overturned Tower

When Ringo arrived at Tongshen Island, he felt strong discomfort.

Almost the exact opposite of sun-drenched Sun Island.

It's just too dark and gloomy here.

Even the narrow and crowded third disc will never affect the lighting for residents. What idle people there like most is to bask in the sun on the beds and chairs leaning against the street.

Thoth psychic powers will never take away anyone's right to bask in the sun. Even imprisoned criminals can apply for one to two hours of sunbathing every day as a rest. The tradition they left behind regards the sun as a sacred thing.

They believe that people will get sick if they don't get the sun, and trees will rot if they don't get the sun. Even if it is a metal prosthetic body, you should take the time to take it out to bask in the sun, otherwise the Yin energy wrapped around it will easily make people go crazy - yes, they regard sunbathing as a way to prevent cyberpsychosis.

Although the Cyber ​​Church has never promoted belief in the sun, such folk customs have always been circulated in the Sun Island.

Only those who have gone to school will know that this is ridiculous... but after they go to school, they will no longer have any contact with the ignorant people in the third disc. But even so, Sun Island scholars have never refuted this folk belief.

In other words, they are also enjoying and nostalgia for the dim sun above the gray dome.

Tongshen Island is another extreme.

It seems to be telling how depraved and filthy the city will become after losing the sunshine...

The time they arrived at Tongshen Island was half past two in the afternoon.

This point can be said to be in the afternoon, but at least it is not far from noon. But after they got off the airship, they just walked a few hundred meters in one direction and were submerged in the dark steel forest.

The sunlight above the head is almost completely blocked, and only a small amount of light as thin as a needle can shine through between the overlapping metal skeletons like thorns and tree crowns.

And they look so pale, dim, and weak against the neon lights.

Instead, neon signs can be seen everywhere.

Red, purple, green, pink, blue...

In the dim streets and alleys, these signboards shine as brightly as they can.

Either extremely strong contrasting colors, high-frequency flashing, or dazzling lights;

And on the large screen, there are those obscene advertisements that are flirtatious; and the startling brainwashing advertisements that are accompanied by the repetitive playing of funky music.

It is a low-grade advertising method that is just to attract the attention of others, even at the expense of disturbing people. It causes various colors of light to be reflected on the faces of passers-by, making them change into various colors and even keep changing.

The seductive murmurs were accompanied by canned laughter, and the sensational saxophone and pulsing electronic music disrupted each other's atmosphere.

The lame comedian on the left screen looks like a clown, wearing a one-size-fits-all formal suit and greeting his girlfriend's parents with stuttering words. At the same time, he reads the brand name in a stuttering voice, which happens to form a bad joke; right On the side screen, a young man in a neat suit with oily hair and pink face reads a long list of advertising slogans at a high speed, as if he was anxious to finish it for a minute.

Walking further, a bejeweled middle-aged lady on the left introduces her own jewelry with a glowing face, and at the same time contemptuously belittles the users of "other-name jewelry"; opposite her is a store selling "affordable jewelry" In the advertisement, a 17- or 18-year-old girl enthusiastically introduced the luxury offer of buy two, get three free for a limited time. Although it was a pre-recorded advertisement, each person was talking about one sentence at a time, as if the women on both sides of the screen were having a weird quarrel.

The passers-by on the street have long turned a blind eye to this noisy scene.

At most, they put their hands in front of their mouths to focus the sound to make their voices clear when they are on the phone; or they reach out to cover one ear in distress to try to hear what is being said on the other side.

Two or three o'clock in the afternoon... There are not many people on the street at this time. The people coming and going were all office workers who were busy with their business. You could also see some young people riding jet skateboards, speeding through the middle of the road at extremely dangerous speeds. When they passed someone, they would tap them on the shoulder. It was like a prank greeting.

"It's... so depraved."

Ringo frowned: "The walls on this street are covered with green moss marks, and there are garbage everywhere on the street... There are even graffiti painted on the walls with highlighters!

"I even smelled a putrid smell. This is what happens when the city has poor lighting and is too humid. These neon cold lights cannot really bring dryness and warmth."

"Neon lights cannot bring you dryness and warmth, but at least they can illuminate the road."

Russell just shook his head and gave a gentle negative word.

Ringo disagreed.

But she has good professionalism and obviously does not intend to quarrel with Russell.

So she directly brought up the topic, frowned and looked at the steel city that she regarded as undoubtedly "degenerate, dissolute, and ignorant", and asked: "Where should we start to investigate?

"How about asking a passerby first?"

Hearing this, Russell couldn't help laughing.

Ringo asked with some dissatisfaction: "What's wrong? Did I say something stupid?"

"Ah, it's nothing. But what can I say...I think it should be soon..."

Russell's words were unclear.

But just when Ringo wanted to ask the riddle cat next to him what he wanted to say.

But a skateboard boy passed by her, slapped her on the shoulder hard, and pushed her to stagger.

"--Yo!"

He shouted so loudly that the jet skateboard swung and swung into the crowd.

"What is he doing!"

Ringo was suddenly pushed, and the hair on his tail exploded in shock.

She looked unhappy: "It's so rude——"

"You should be lucky that you didn't bring anything that could easily be stolen."

Russell, who was walking beside her, said leisurely: "Otherwise, I'm afraid it's no longer on your body now.

"In other words, you should be glad that this is on the street. Otherwise, maybe instead of pushing me away just now... I would put a sharp wire hoop around your neck."

"……Why?"

Ringo frowned: "Do I look like a very annoying person?"

As she spoke, she subconsciously followed Russell into a dark alley.

Across the alley there was still a bustling crowd, which was quite big even in the afternoon.

But at this time, Russell suddenly stopped in the middle. He put his arm around Lin Yu's shoulders and signaled her to stop.

"Of course it's because we are outsiders... we were discovered the first time we came in."

Russell said softly.

Three tall and thin figures appeared at the end of the alley against the light.

Ringo turned around vigilantly and found that there were two people blocking the exit of the alley.

Less than twenty minutes after getting off the airship, the two of them were blocked in an alley.