Chapter 481: Cursed Twin Towers

From a distance, you can see two tall towers standing tall, all in black, with straight spires; both sides of the road are full of parents with their children. The rich will drive a hover car, and the poor will hold their children on foot. Neither is rich. Even those who are not poor can drive a horse-drawn carriage or drive a hover scooter.

The closer we get to the Twin Towers, the more pedestrians are on the road. They all have the same goal, and their eyes are full of expectation.

"Are these children being taken to exchange for special powers at such a young age?" Xia Fei asked in surprise. He saw many children under one year old along the way. The oldest was only two or three years old, and many were still in their infancy.

According to the general rules of the alliance, the child must wait until the child is seven years old to practice the Starlight Art. If the child still has no powers prescribed at the age of twelve, he or she can use a child-type genetic optimization fluid that does little harm to the body. However, there are not many such examples. Most parents They will wait until their children are adults before trying drugs.

The reason for doing this is for the health of the child. In the Blood Candle Empire, children who are only a few months old are sent to activate their powers, and it is done through physical exchange. Even if they get the powers, they will lose part of their bodies. Function, in Xia Fei's view, doing so is tantamount to undermining success.

Constantine said helplessly: "Blood Candle is a barbaric place. Many children have to earn money to support their families as soon as they learn to walk. The pressure of life is unimaginable to outsiders. Therefore, the sooner you activate your powers, the sooner you can learn them." The sooner you can use it, the sooner you can earn money for your family in exchange for necessary food and daily necessities. Even the children of the royal family are required to be sent to the Tower of the Curse before they are two years old."

Xia Fei nodded. There was no distinction between young and old when faced with pressure. Even young shoulders must carry the burden of life.

The terrain began to get lower, and the twin towers were in a basin, like a deep crater struck by a meteorite.

The tower is surrounded by an alloy wall. The material is of course the most common red Thai alloy. Countless tents stand outside the wall. Many parents live with their children in the open air. A few stones are surrounded by simple stoves. The wilderness The weeds and dead wood in it are firewood.

"Since there are many people who want to enter the Tower of Curse, it doesn't matter. People who can't afford the money to worship will queue up here. If you go quickly, you can enter in three to five days. If you are unlucky, you will have to wait for more than ten days, or even one day. Two months," Constantine explained.

A special road led to the inside of the wall, and Constantine and Xia Fei drove in with swagger under the salutes and attention of countless people.

After getting out of the car, Xia Fei found a long queue in front of one tower, while the other one was deserted. There was a thick layer of dust on the steps entering the tower. Apparently no one had visited it for a long time.

"You never said there are two Towers of the Curse. Why is there no one in this tower, but there is a long queue in the other one?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard excited cheers from the other side. A child who had just turned one year old threw a fireball in his hand and burned his father's head directly. However, the father did not show any intention of being angry and held his arms. The child danced and shouted proudly to the crowd around him: "This is my son! He has gained the power of fire!"

Not to mention the excitement, there were envious looks from all around. Under the gaze of everyone, the father hugged his son and ran out in big strides. Passing by Xia Fei and Constantine, he bowed politely. Xia Fei found that his son's left ear had disappeared, as if it had been cut off at the root after surgery.

Constantine said with a smile: "Another lucky guy. His son has combat powers and will be able to serve in the army in the future. If he is lucky enough to become an officer, the fate of this family will completely change."

Xia Fei shrugged without comment. He studied carefully and found that Blood Candle people can indeed reach very good heights by exchanging their bodies for superpowers. Star field level warriors are everywhere in Blood Candle. Unfortunately, there are no one in the entire Blood Candle. For a legendary warrior, their level will end when they reach the galaxy, and the higher eternal level will not exist at all.

An immortal strongman is born in the alliance every few years, but Blood Candle does not even have a legendary level. It can be seen that the exchange ability allows Blood Candle to have the highest penetration rate of abilities, but at the same time it also greatly reduces the production of masters. It can even be said that they have no masters at all, and they only rely on teamwork.

"You haven't answered my question yet." Xia Fei asked again.

Constantine said: "One of the two towers can exchange abilities, and the other can exchange technology. You can only choose one of them. If you enter the tower of abilities, you will not be able to enter the tower of technology again. In the Blood Candleman It seems that the superpower is more important, so this technology tower has not been opened for many years. "

"Tower of Technology? Do you need to exchange your body to enter this tower?" Xia Fei asked curiously.

"Yes, no matter which tower is 100% able to obtain rewards, it is one thing to obtain superpowers, but it is another thing to cultivate your superpowers to a certain level. If you choose a tower of technology and fail to obtain it, What kind of technology will be disastrous to the poor blood candle people, and the child's life will be ruined. "

"After all, no matter how weak the power is, even 1% of the seventh brain domain's activation level will make a person smarter, live longer, and have better physical strength. Don't underestimate this. A little bit of improvement is enough to survive in the desolate Blood Candle, which is enough to determine people's fate, so few people are willing to risk becoming useless and enter the Tower of Technology."

Xia Fei nodded. Practicing superpowers is not simple. Most people in the alliance have superpowers and have opened the seventh brain area. It's just that the degree of activation is high or low. It's absolutely unbearable to fully open it like Xia Fei. Called a miracle, most people have acquired dispensable powers and cannot reach the height of their level throughout their lives. If powers were so easy to cultivate, the alliance would have been filled with supernatural warriors.

"Your maintenance skills are quite good. You must have obtained them from this Tower of Technology?" Xia Fei asked.

Constantine said: "Yes, although there are few people entering this tower, it is not none. There was once a family who sent their children in and became an expert in repairing it. My skills come from what he wrote before he died. "It's a book. Unfortunately, my father doesn't like things other than fighting. I got scolded by him for studying this book."

The two people were talking as they walked towards the tower where powers were exchanged. According to Xia Fei's estimation, the tower was over two thousand meters tall and looked very majestic.

Walking along the periphery of the tower, Xia Fei discovered something strange. The material used in this tower was not the red Thai alloy common in Blood Candles, but the more precious Clo alloy, which was the material of the Moon God. Clo alloy has the function of enhancing thought transmission and is most suitable for use by people with mental powers. The amount of Clo alloy consumed by such a huge tower is very scary, but I have not heard that Blood Candle produces a large amount of this alloy.

There are many textures on the tower body. Seeing these complicated lines and patterns makes you dizzy. You don’t know what they mean. However, they are definitely not the common patterns of Blood Candle. The local area is wild and the Blood Candle people like nothing more than horses. Xia Fei had never seen such a cheetah in the imperial city before.

"Who built these two towers?" Xia Fei asked with a frown.

Constantine said: "No one can answer this question for you. It is said that the two cursed towers appeared overnight. Later, people gradually discovered the beauty of the towers. In the era when there were no twin towers, those who were alliance The mortality rate of exiled prisoners is extremely high, and even cannibalism is not uncommon. However, after the appearance of the Twin Towers, ordinary people gained a large number of superpowers, so more talents survived in this barren place, and finally gradually evolved into an independent For countries outside the alliance, from this point of view, the Twin Towers are the real saviors of the Blood Candle.”

After stepping on the thirteen steps, Xia Fei and Constantine walked as if they were inside a superpower tower. There were no stairs or elevators leading to the second floor. There were ninety-nine egg-shaped vessels in the empty hall. The people put their own Put the child in it, and then the egg-shaped container will automatically close, and the child's cry will disappear.

People were waiting anxiously. Xia Fei found it interesting, so he lit up a cigarette and chatted casually with the waiting parents. From the conversation, he learned that these people came from other planets and traveled long distances with their family's last savings. I came here just so that my child can get a good superpower, be able to fill his stomach in the future, and not be bullied by others.

The Blood Candle Empire consists of three living planets. The cost of each interstellar voyage is not small for these poor people, so some villages will have the village chief come forward to bring all the new-born babies at once to reduce the cost. expenditure.

Children who get special powers will be brought back to the village to be carefully nurtured, while those who don't get them will be discarded directly in the wilderness. After all, it costs money to bring a child back. There is a centralized dumping ground for babies not far from here. A group of jackals gathered there, waiting for their lunch.

Constantine shook his head in shame and said, "Bad habit, you have seen the darkest side of the Blood Candle Empire."

As a relatively civilized Earthling, Xia Fei naturally couldn't bear to abandon children and the elderly, but he also understood that the weak and the strong had always been the eternal law of the universe, and humans could do many incredible things to survive. matter.

After a while, the egg-shaped utensils were opened one by one. The children were either missing arms or eyes. Some people in the hall were cheering and some were sad.

After walking out, Xia Fei looked at this two-thousand-meter-tall giant tower, "Why does this tower only have the first floor? What will happen when you go up?"

Constantine shook his head and said: "The Tower of the Curse is sacred. It is said that many curious people tried to go to the tower to have a look in the early years. Unfortunately, none of them came back. They were either thrown to death or disappeared out of thin air. From then on, there will be no more No one dares to climb the tower anymore.”

The two of them walked towards another tower. Xia Fei suddenly felt that someone was staring down at him from behind. It seemed that there was someone on the tower!

"There are energy fluctuations on the tower, intermittently. Whenever the children are sent to the tower, the energy fluctuations will increase." Ghost Shadow said to Xia Fei in a deep voice.

Xia Fei nodded, "I also felt someone staring at me from the tower."

The ghost was slightly startled, "No, there isn't even a window in the tower. Who would be watching you?"

Xia Fei smiled and said, "It doesn't matter who it is, we'll find out if we go see it tonight."

"This is the Tower of Curses! It will be cursed!" Ghost Shadow hurriedly tried to dissuade him.

Xia Fei straightened up and said stubbornly: "I only believe what I see with my eyes, gods, curses, I don't believe in any of these things."

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