Chapter 4 Screaming Lift
"You don't have to emphasize your gender specifically."
Oriana chuckled.
Isn’t it just that you misread the gender at first glance? Is it necessary to answer something irrelevant?
It was the first time she had seen such a person when everyone was in danger. She was so interesting. She rarely went out. This was the first time she came to the city under her feet alone and was a volunteer.
Above the not-open cave platform is a huge patio, with three vertical rails of lifts standing in the middle, perpendicular to the ground and at the same height as the surface. Each one is two meters in diameter and is cast with cooked iron. The area surrounded by three columns is the transportation channel of the screaming lift.
Geno looked up and saw poisonous mist on his head, and these gases poured out through ventilation ducts on the well walls, swaying on people's heads.
He could not see the lift in the fog, but he saw the oil-swept iron frame of the ventilation duct tremble violently, making a friction sound that makes people feel sour.
The harsh roar became louder and louder, and a huge click sound poured into the cave, hitting the wet moss-green wall, making a deafening echo. In the eyes of everyone, a giant iron cage broke through the poisonous fog and came overwhelmingly on the platform.
The wind pressure temporarily blew away the poisonous fog, and Geno was able to get a glimpse of the big guy's appearance.
Taking a breath, Geno looked at the lift in front of him called Screaming.
Bird cage! The first impression is a huge bird cage!
The shape of the elevator is close to the cylinder. The enlarged gears in the middle are fitted with the grooves on the longitudinal rail. The top is connected by thick cables. Light yellow glass is installed between the outer railings, like a window covered with dust.
Unlike bird cages, the elevator is sealed. Through the glass, you can see that the cabin is divided into many layers, and there is a spiral staircase connecting the cabins on the bulkhead.
There are two upper and lower hatch doors. When the elevator rises, the lower hatch door is the entrance and the upper hatch door is the exit; when the elevator falls, the opposite is true.
This is similar to an elevator, or a vertical bus. Geno thought to himself that he received news of increased proficiency in Hex's technology. It turns out that observing other Hex technologies can improve proficiency.
Since mastering the Hex Technology skill, Geno can easily tell whether the Hex Enhanced Body on others is true or false.
A lady Picheng next to her was wearing an implanted jaw plate and a single-piece glass in the shape of a gem. Her arm was holding a man, who was wearing metal gloves, and the grating surface reflected a shiny light. The two Hex Technology reinforcements were fake, and the jaw plate was just formed silver foil, glued to her face. The monolithic glasses were just ordinary gem identification lenses, and the craftsman's seals were also imitated. The male companion next to her only had an ordinary bronze glove on her hand, and some kind of luminescent algae was contained in the glass tube on the surface. It must have been from a certain cultivation tower in Zuan.
Not far away, a hunchbacked man wearing a one-piece work clothes had a respirator on his back. The liquid pool was filled with bubbles of green liquid, and the atomized steam rose up. This breathing device was real, and the hunchbacked man's blood-covered eyes, plus the tough material of the one-piece work clothes, was enough to show that he came from the deep underground of Zuan.
Geno understands the reason why these people do this to demonstrate their social status.
A person's social status depends to a large extent on the wealth and power displayed by a person, and the two are cause and effect. Similar practices are everywhere: the cutting of fabrics used in daily life, the bright and bright colors of paints, and the charity that is full of variety and widely advertised.
Of course, the Zuan people are generally not as exaggerated as Picheng people. They are idle and have nothing to do. They spend all their thoughts on how to survive in this bad place or how to make money to move out of here.
The lower cabin door slowly opened. Seeing hope, the crowd around him began to stir up, and Geno took the opportunity to squeeze into the elevator with Oriana in the crack.
Then he found that even if he did nothing, the crowd would squeeze them to the feet of the elevator.
The police officers were hired to stand in front of the cabin door to charge, and the alchemy poles on their hands were sizzling with electric arcs, making a dull sound from the glass jar:
"No matter whether it is adult or child, one person has three gold seas, pay the money first."
The couple in front of Geno frowned, took out six gear-shaped gold coins and handed them to the hiring policeman with rubber gloves, and entered the whistle first.
(Golden Sea is the abbreviation of Jinhaix Coin, Picheng Zuan general currency, 1 Gold Sea = 100 silver wheel = 10000 copper ring)
"It's getting expensive... I only spent 1 gold sea when I came down." Oriana complained, then took out 6 gold coins and walked to the upper platform in the cabin with Geno.
The internal space of the elevator is large and is enough to accommodate hundreds of people, provided that it will be very crowded.
Geno touched the metal guardrail in the cabin, and a large amount of heat was transferred to his fingers, which felt hot. This was an overheating phenomenon caused by frequent use, so he chose a position to stand against the glass window.
"How do you know I have money?" Oriana came over, and she didn't want to lean on the hot railing.
"You are filled with the fragrance of money, and you are out of place with Zuan." Geno replied.
"Is there any? Why don't I know!" After hearing this, Oriana subconsciously smelled her arm, but when the breathing mask on her face rubbed against her sleeve, she found that she was being fooled.
She glared at Jeno fiercely, and the charm could be felt even through the mask.
"Haha, kidding. I found out from your appearance that you are a young lady. You have fair and healthy skin, well-proportioned breathing, and delicate clothes. You are not the one who often stays in Zu'an.
Zuan is located in a canyon with little light, so people's skin is very pale. This paleness cannot be avoided even by people born with black skin. In addition, Zuan is lingering in haze all day long, and people have more or less respiratory diseases. At least nine out of ten people cough, and the remaining one is pneumoconiosis. Finally, Zuan people are generally poor. Children often use pigments to express their personality to use marks or tattoos on their faces, rather than dressing carefully like you."
Geno found out the messy memories, and after a while of comparison, he concluded that in his opinion, many people in Zuan looked like vampires who had taken drugs, and many of them looked like vampires who had been mechanically transformed.
"Oh... I've changed into simple clothes, but I didn't expect to be able to integrate into Zuan."
Orianna pinched her hands in annoyance and leaned against Geno. The second floor was gradually filled with people, just like when they encountered the subway during the rush hour after get off work, there was no room for people to leave.
"Why isn't it started yet?"
"What are the staff doing?"
Rich and poor people cannot avoid being together at the same time. People's small movements are constantly happening, and a dull feeling fills the entire elevator space. Riots escalate and conflicts may break out at any time.
Orianna put her forehead on the glass, trying to see what was happening below. She saw the various aspects of life in the poisonous fog, her indifferent face, impatient feet, helpless eyes, and silent mouth.
"Jeno, I want to know if Zuan people hate Picheng people? They often call us Picheng guys. When I first came down, I wanted to help an old man wear a mask, but he said that I was taking a fake and wanted to cheat his coffin money... This is the latest mask developed by my father, which is much better than the alchemy glass jars on the market, but he just doesn't believe me."
"Grandpa may not have seen such a high-tech breathing mask, or he is too confused when he is old and alchemy waste gas. I think no one will hate a good girl like you, unless he is not a human being."
"My father also told me that it is unnecessary and impossible not to try to make everyone like me."
"Yeah, no matter what you do, you will have a stinger coming out to argue."
"Bargling? What an interesting word, do people in Zuan say that?"
"No! Only I would say that."
"You are the most interesting Zuan person I have ever seen!"
"Isn't it the handsomest?"
"You are really special..."
...
While waiting for the roar to start, Geno talked about Oriana all at once, and asked some questions intentionally or unintentionally to resolve his doubts about the world.
Chapter completed!