Deep in the Living

Chapter 266: Hive Street
Fei Ji stood on one of Rody's shoulders like a pet, which directly indicated Rody's identity as a "new recruit" to prevent his appearance and strange attire from being specifically targeted by the Ji Ji.

Moreover, ordinary soldiers will not be assigned to the conscription backbone separately.

Click~
Unlock the door and push open the door.

Rody subconsciously took back his steps as he was about to step out of the threshold.

Because there was no corridor outside the door as expected, but it was empty... hundreds of meters above the ground.

This [Apartment] in the Chaos Hive is completely different from the human world. It is a huge barrel-shaped structure with more than 100,000 residents.

Such apartments are only considered small or medium-sized among the hive cities.

There are no elevators, no stairs, no passages, no corridors.

There are only a few single apartments embedded between the walls, densely packed like a honeycomb.

Residents who are able to obtain residence rights in Zhongchao have very good development at the spinal level, and "wall climbing" is one of the most basic abilities.

No need to borrow any equipment to go up and down stairs.

Residents leave and return to the apartment by climbing over the wall.

This design can not only exercise the body but also save space.

Moreover, the material used in the construction is not reinforced concrete but the "marrow mud" unique to spinal cord.

The material looks like bone, but in fact it is top-notch in terms of hardness, toughness, heat resistance and sound insulation.

This material also possesses a biological property - [regeneration].

If a structure is damaged during climbing, it can be healed quickly in a short period of time.

After getting information about the building, Rody jumped directly from the 42nd floor where he lived, then inserted the butcher knife in his right hand into the wall to slow down his descent and land steadily.

The cut wall was indeed healing quickly, and it would probably be back to normal in less than ten minutes.

Under Fei Ji's guidance, we walked out of the apartment and officially arrived at the streets of the hive city.

When he saw the so-called "street", he was stunned. The street in front of him was completely different from the street he had in mind.

It is several times, dozens of times wider than the streets in human cities. At the same time, there are a large number of sky bridges and aerial streets that are intertwined, making great use of the space.

Buildings with keywords like "horn", "spine", "huge" and "dense" can be seen everywhere.

At the same time, you can also see hell factories that are larger and more sophisticated than ordinary buildings. The chimneys bulge upwards and continuously emit thick smoke, and it seems that they are operating at full capacity all year round.

Compared to the brimstone and ashes of the Hell Wasteland.

The Chaos Hive had filtered out most of the ashes, and the smell in the air was no longer the stench of sulfur, but a smell that Rody had smelled in a restaurant before.

A spinal cord is roasted and has a charred smell.

It's quite fragrant.

In addition, even such a wide street was almost full of pedestrians.

The so-called "pedestrians" here are naturally the spines, [demons] with a similar body structure to humans. Most of them expose their spines, which is after all their proudest and most important body structure.

[Skin color]: Most of them have a [red] similar to lava. This red represents high temperature, heat, killing, and the love of war.

"Physique": The spine group worships the body, and most of them have large physiques after being molded by the body. Even the so-called slender group is between 1.8m and 2.2m tall. Most of them are 3m to 5m tall.

"Horns": In addition to the iconic spine, they have more or less "bone horn" structures, mostly in the form of curved horns growing on both sides of the forehead, or in the form of a single horn structure growing in the center.

"Clothing": Except for a small number of people who wear robes or culottes made of leather, most people's clothing can be called armor, made of bone or metal.

Wearable or even embedded directly on the surface of their skin, covering key parts of the body and reducing exposure to weak points.

It can be seen that the Chiropractors are very inclusive. The materials and designs of various costumes are different. As long as it can enhance their personal strength, it is a good thing. There is no exclusion or prejudice.

"So many Spinemen?" Roddy had no way of estimating how many residents there were in the so-called hive city. What he could see now was probably not even the tip of the iceberg.

Fei Ji raised his spine with some pride, "This is Chaos Hive, one of the largest cities in the real hell... with a total population of 60 billion."

"60 billion?! All of them are Spine?" The world where Rody lives has only billion people, but now there are billion in just one city.

Fei Ji shook his wings, "How could they all be Ji people? The total number of Ji people is probably about 200 million. After all, there are not so many "hell creatures" to produce.

Although the population of the hive city is large, most of them are non-Spines and live in the several times more crowded lower hive area.

These people love war, and they aspire to become [Spines] and are willing to live in the lower nest area. It is all thanks to them that the city helps "digest" domestic waste, otherwise it would be difficult for the nest to achieve a certain internal circulation.

As long as they perform well enough, they are indeed qualified to be awarded "Hell Objects" and become Spinemen.

of course.

The middle nest we are in now is basically full of spine fighters like you, and most of them have already belonged to a certain legion."

"Don't they need to go to war?"

"Of course we need it~ So less than half of the people are left in the city, and the rest are either in the war or on their way to the war."

Just as Rody was observing the streets of the hive city, the spinemen here also smelled a different scent.

They soon noticed this side and discovered this outsider who was different from them in clothing, appearance and skin color.

But when they discovered the recruiting backbone standing on the outsider's shoulders, they became somewhat jealous and more fearful, and no longer stared at the foreign apostle.

Luo Di naturally noticed the changes in these people's eyes, but he didn't care too much, and there was no need to care.

He continued to carefully observe this huge city beyond imagination with the camera provided by his suit, trying to obtain as much information as possible and store it in the form of videotapes, perhaps with a chance to bring it to the human world.

Cameras capture every detail of the hive city's streets.

Although the spine people living here all have extraordinary physical fitness, facing such a huge city, they still need the help of transportation to achieve efficient movement.

It’s just that the means of transportation here don’t have much to do with machinery, at most they are just some metal decorations.

Various spine-related beasts serve as a means of transportation. The beasts also come from the hive factories and are transport creatures created by biological blacksmiths.

It can be mainly divided into the following three categories:
Single and double-person mounts, reptile-type multi-person vehicles, and flying-spine mounts.

These biological vehicles have two characteristics.

1. There are two kinds of logos on their bodies, one is the transportation permission, and the other is the lumbar vertebrae logo representing Zhongchao.

These two tokens must be obtained before biological vehicles are allowed to operate in the mid-nest.

2. There is a connection port on their spinal structure, and the rider can insert the coccyx into it to establish a neural connection with the mount, thereby achieving the most perfect control and eliminating any subjective operational errors.

For some reason, Rody was interested in this kind of biological vehicle.

He raised his hand and pointed at a hell beast that was covered in black armor, with a physique comparable to that of an adult lion, without eyes or nostrils, and only a serrated mouth exposed.

“Can I get this?”

"You haven't even joined the legion yet, and you want to get a mount? This thing can't be bought with money. You need to bravely kill enemies on the battlefield and accumulate military merits. Then you will naturally be approved for the mount and get the corresponding war beast reward."

"Ah."

He even wanted to bring this mount into his world, perhaps it could be of great assistance when exploring corners.

in addition,

The streets of the hive city also have many places similar to those in human cities - [shops].

There were many shops at the bottom of the building for trading, most of which were restaurants. There were also some shops that Rody had never seen in human cities, such as animal shops, insect servant shops, juice shops, etc.

Some of the shops inevitably reminded Rody of the underground places in Pluto City. During his observation, some spinal warriors in exaggerated clothing made invitations to him.

After seeing that Rody had a basic understanding of the hive city, Feiji flew away from his body, bending its body and pointing to a specific direction.

"That's all for familiarizing yourself with the city. You'll have plenty of opportunities to get familiar with it and even make some Spine warrior friends. Come with me. We have to complete your service assessment today.

The conscription ground is still some distance from here, we can take the circular track to get there."

(End of this chapter)