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Chapter 438: Ditch Area

Soon, Tanjiro Kamado and Sakonji Urokodaki met the natives of Zaan.

Clothes soaked in haze are a characteristic of every person living in the slum area.

That's right, where they are is the lowest level of Zaun. Even in Zaun, which is the lower city, the gutter area is the most dangerous, dirtiest and most hopeless area.

The haze was rolling in the streets and was visible to the naked eye. Some people wore integrated outer filters, some wore reusable inner filters, but more people had nothing and could only let the haze block their mouths and noses. They had no expression on their faces, like the walking dead.

"them."

Tanjiro Kamado opened his mouth and then quickly closed it. As a child with very strong empathy, Tanjiro Kamado could feel the despair from these Zaun people. This was a terrible place, a place where there was no hope.

“They are all trying hard to survive.”

Urokodaki Sakonji understood what Ke Ling said. Even though they lived in such a place, these Zaun people were trying hard to survive.

"You guys! Where are you from?!"

However, before they could finish expressing their feelings, trouble came knocking.

A few weird guys surrounded us. They all wore filters, had all kinds of strange tattoos on their bodies, and held iron rods and knives in their hands. From their expressions and postures, you could tell that they were not good people, and they all looked ferocious.

The reactions of the pedestrians on the road, who were like zombies, also proved this point. They all dodged in fear and did not dare to look over here, as if they were afraid of getting into trouble.

"What are they talking about?"

Tanjiro Kamado looked at Ke Ling with a bewildered look on his face. There was nothing he could do. Unlike Ke Ling, he did not have a system that could allow him to automatically learn languages. Faced with this situation, he could only stare blankly.

"Qiang!"

Urokodaki Sakonji drew out the Nichirin Sword. Although he didn't know what those guys were talking about, it was definitely not a good thing.

"Woo!"

Nezuko Kamado, who had been following the crowd quietly, also bared her teeth and looked ferocious. She also felt the malice of those people, especially the malice when they looked at her.

"Oh, I forgot to put the translator on for you guys."

Ke Ling finally reacted, but he was not in a hurry. He wanted to solve the problem in front of him first. He was familiar with the translator. He had used it when he took Jack, V, Sasha, Lucy and others to the world of "Fairy Tail" to play.

This time, we bring Tanjiro Kamado, Nezuko Kamado, and Sakonji Urokodaki to the world of "League of Legends", and naturally they can be reused, but the language being converted is slightly different.

However, it doesn’t really matter what language is being converted. As long as Ke Ling can understand it, the translator can translate it.

"Draw your sword? I said these guys were weird. They are spies. Did they come from the upper city? They are dressed like this. Do they take us for fools?"

The leading thug sneered and pointed at Ke Ling and the others, laughing. It was obvious that although Ke Ling and the others were not dressed very luxuriously, one could tell at a glance that they were definitely not from Zaun, and it was even more unlikely that they were from the Ditou District.

"boom!"

With a gunshot, the gangster who had just spoken had his head exploded, and red and white objects flew everywhere. It looked as tragic as it could be.

“噗咚。”

The body fell to the ground and made another noise, which woke up the other shocked thugs. They looked at Ke Ling.

"Sorry, the caliber is a bit large."

Ke Ling turned the gun in his hand. His gun was indeed large in caliber, and the black barrel was like the dark eyes of the god of death.

Even Urokodaki Sakonji and Kamado Tanjiro were frightened by this scene. They thought that these thugs should give up.

"Damn it! Kill him!"

Unexpectedly, these thugs did not flee in panic, but rushed towards the crowd with ferocious faces. They waved iron bars and knives in their hands and attacked Ke Ling and others. None of them seemed to be afraid of death.

how to say?

Their courage is indeed commendable, but their strength is seriously insufficient. These people are indeed just gangsters. They attacked Ke Ling and his companions relying solely on their fearlessness and ruthlessness.

Ke Ling didn't even make a move. Urokodaki Sakonji rushed forward and beat these thugs to the left and right, easily knocking them down.

Of course, Urokodaki Sakonji did not kill the person. After all, he had been a member of the Demon Slayer Corps for so many years, and not killing had become his code of conduct.

"So weak."

Tanjiro Kamado complained. There was nothing he could do. Although he didn't think he was very powerful, these gangsters in front of him were indeed just ordinary people. To deal with these ordinary people, he still had an absolute advantage after learning the breathing method.

Of course, in Zaun, especially in the sump area, his breathing method would indeed be greatly reduced because he couldn't breathe at all!

The weather today is actually pretty good, the haze is still thin, and you won't cough up phlegm if you take a deep breath.

If the weather is "gray warning", using the "breathing method" will be a torture, because every breath you take will make your throat tight and your chest hot, which is even more outrageous than "vampire magic".

Under such circumstances, visibility was not even more than an arm's length away. It could be said that Zaun was truly shrouded in haze.

"These scum will only bring harm to others if they are kept."

Ke Ling said that in a place like Zaun, there was no need to be kind, at least not to those who abused their power, because who knows how many lives were in their hands.

Even if you kill ten thousand scum like this, not even one of them will be innocent.

"."

Urokodaki Sakonji probably understood that these people deserved to die. This could be inferred from the "very happy" expressions of the people around him. They did not feel fear, but instead felt that it was good for these thugs to be killed or beaten.

But even so, Urokodaki Sakonji would not kill him. This was not in line with his philosophy and would go against what he had always insisted on.

This is true for Urokodaki Sakonji, and even more so for Tanjiro Kamado. He is kinder and doesn't like fighting with others, but he is also full of sense of justice and will not allow bad guys to commit crimes everywhere.

"Just hand them over to law enforcement here."

Tanjiro Kamado spoke up. He didn't want to let these people go just like that because they were bad guys and they had obviously wanted to attack his sister just now, which he could not tolerate.

"Law enforcement agency?" Ke Ling looked at Tanjiro Kamado, looking very nervous. Zaun's law enforcement agency? Does such a thing really exist?

In name, the law enforcement agency should be the police from Piltover. After all, Zaun and Piltover are two cities in one, and Piltover is the main city of the two cities.

Perhaps, Zaun, which has not changed its name, seems to better represent the city of "Zaun". Piltover, which is no longer called "Zaun", sounds like a traitor.

But before that accident, Zaun's city hall, police department and other buildings were actually on the side that did not collapse, on the Piltover side, so in name, Piltover should indeed rule and manage Zaun.

In reality, the police in Piltover have very poor control over Zaun, especially in the lower areas.

The cops wouldn't even come to the sewer area because the knee-high mud in the sewers would dirty their shoes, and the poisonous gas emitted from the alchemical wastewater pool below the sewers would make it difficult for them to adapt.

"So don't think about law enforcement agencies. No one will care about what happens in the Gutter. In a sense, this is the law of the Gutter."

Ke Ling raised his fist. That's right, in the Digou District, violence is the law, and whoever controls violence controls the power to enforce the law.

As long as you can kill others and not be killed by others, what you do is legal.

"."

Tanjiro Kamado widened his eyes, finding it a little difficult to understand. This strange world indeed gave him quite a shock.

"Has this place been abandoned? Is there nothing of value here?"

Urokodaki Sakonji asked, if this place had value, it shouldn't have fallen to this point.

"The value of this place is that it serves as a garbage dump. All wastewater and waste will eventually be discharged into this ditch area. Do you see those complicated pipes? That is the value of the ditch area."

Ke Ling pointed to the sky, and Tanjiro Kamado and Sakonji Urokodaki looked up.

Most of Zaun's building structures are based on steel grids. The iron used in the buildings either comes from boiling furnaces or is recycled from waste from above. Overall, they appear very old.

Yet while the bolt-and-mortise construction of Zaun’s buildings provides only the most primitive of functions, its inhabitants have created astonishing architectural wonders that pierce the fog and reach toward the sky.

Pipes are an important part of Zaun's architectural style. In fact, the people of Zaun do not want these complicated pipes. They were built by the people of Piltover. They are a symbol of their rule over the Twin Cities and their oppression of Zaun.

Every day, countless wastewater and waste flow into Zaun through pipes. Zaun is the price paid for Piltover's rapid development.

“噗咚。”

Ke Ling casually dealt with those thugs and threw them into the quagmire nearby. Soon they all sank into it.

I don’t know how many people are buried in the quagmire of the ditch area, and I don’t know how many lives are drowned in the alchemical wastewater pool.

"I think we really should do some disguise, otherwise we will be too conspicuous in this sump area."

Ke Ling said that this was very necessary.

Those ordinary workers in the gutter area may not dare to target them, but the various forces entrenched in the gutter area and the thugs on the streets will definitely target them, because very few fat sheep from the upper city dare to come to the gutter area.

That’s right, there are factories in the Gutter District, and the factories are backed by someone, maybe the Alchemist Baron, or maybe the black glove of someone from the Upper City. In short, they all have a big background.

Opening a factory in a sewer is certainly not a good thing. It will either cause serious pollution or involve various inhumane experiments. In short, it must be something shameful, otherwise it would not be opened in a shameful sewer area.

The residents of the ditch area are called "rats" or "ditch area rats" in the eyes and even mouths of the people in the upper city.

They don't even allow the rats in the gutter to go to the upper city, let alone give them any chance to change their fate, even if it means being an apprentice who provides unpaid labor.

Even these various "factories" built in the gutter area do not pay much salary to the "gutter rats".

This is why the workers are like zombies, because there is no hope of change in their lives and the world, and they can only rot and stink in this sewer area.

"Thank you, big brother."

A little girl approached Ke Ling timidly. The child was covered in dust and looked dirty. She opened her mouth to thank Ke Ling.

Then, before the confused people could say anything, a woman who was also covered in dust and dirt came over and pulled the girl back. Everyone here was covered in dust and dirt, regardless of their age, because no one had the ability to clean themselves regularly.

"Thank you for avenging my father!"

The little girl did not resist when being pulled away by the woman, but just shouted.

Ke Ling didn't feel anything about this. His heart had long been as cold as ice, and he was not surprised by such things.

But Tanjiro Kamado and Sakonji Urokodaki both seemed somewhat touched, which could only mean that their understanding of Zaan had deepened.

Ke Ling opened the "Shadow Gate" and took a few people back to the castle of "Shadow Island", then simply changed his clothes.

how to say?

Although it is not very useful, it should still be of some use. At least it is more low-key than before, so it won't become like a light bulb, attracting attention wherever it goes.

"Actually, there's no need to worry. Just look at the environment in the ditch area. If we stay there for a while, we'll probably be covered in the same haze as them. There's no need to deliberately make it look old or anything like that."

Ke Ling said this with a smile, because when he took a look at the few people, he saw that they were already covered with a lot of haze just from the short time they had been there.

Therefore, people in the upper city can easily distinguish the lower class people, especially those in the slum area, because the haze on them is too obvious.

Unless you take a shower and change clothes immediately after arriving in the upper city, your body will inevitably be covered with a lot of haze as long as you go up from the slum area.

“It’s an outrageous world.”

After sighing, Tanjiro Kamado, Nezuko Kamado and Sakonji Urokodaki followed Ke Ling back to that outrageous world.

This time, they did look a little more normal, but they were still a little bit clean, there was nothing they could do about it, they could only wait a while and rely on the haze to take effect.

Before coming back this time, Ke Ling equipped Tanjiro Kamado and Sakonji Urokodaki with "translators" so that they would no longer be unable to understand the language here. As for Nezuko Kamado, she had no share because she couldn't communicate with others anyway.

In addition, Ke Ling also modified a filter for Tanjiro Kamado and Sakonji Urokodaki, which looks quite steampunk, but the technological content is full of cyberpunk.

(End of this chapter)