Chapter 212 - Chapter 212: 108. A useful tool for 'buying” books.

Chapter 212: 108. A useful tool for “buying” books.

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The sun was just rising, and the morning light came into view.

Noland Lee sat on the speeding motorcycle, squinting his eyes, raising his hand to block the dazzling sunlight, and gazing at the black line on the horizon.

In a certain animation related to Titans, there had been a massive high wall surrounding the city.

Noland Lee was now seeing it in person.

The black line rising on the horizon gradually became the city wall spanning tens of kilometers.

Standing as tall and thick as a large water conservancy dam project, the wall reached for the heavens, shielding the sky.

The wall stretched several kilometers underground, enclosing the entire aberration den in the Great Rift, forming a semi-closed container.

Such a massive alchemy engineering project was not designed to protect the residents within the wall from the invasion of the outer world, but to monitor and limit the aberration den in the Great Rift inside the city.

The iconic building of Union City was this circular wall surrounding the entire city.

Essentially, every alchemy workshop, alchemist, ordinary person, every building, and every person in the city were contributing to the containment of the aberrations in the Great Rift.

What interested Lee was, why were the people and buildings placed on the inner side of the wall?

Noland Lee raised this question to Farrell Scott.

Fars Scott shook his head and spoke like a storyteller:

“In the beginning, Union City was not called Union City; it was called the Aberration Control Zone. Inside the wall, there were no buildings or humans, only regular entries into the fissure to clean up aberrations and maintain the underground pipeline facilities.

“I told you before that high-purity all-purpose metal powder is contained in the feces of aberrations.

“While constructing the wall, the Alchemy Cathedral installed a complete set of alchemy devices for collecting aberration feces and extracting all-purpose metal powder in the underground aberration nests.

“Every three months or so, the underground alchemy devices use strong air currents to eject the collected all-purpose metal powder onto the ground, forming a metallic dust rain lasting about one day. We call this day ‘Spray Powder Day’.”

Fars sighed:

“Human greed is the driving force for all things, Ray Lee.

“Originally, according to the plan, people could only enter the city wall on Spray Powder Day to collect all-purpose metal powder. However, some people violated the rules and built strongholds inside the wall, occupying advantageous positions for a long time. This caused infighting among the many alchemist factions.

“The Alchemy Cathedral intervened and, together with the various parties, decided to allow all alchemist factions to develop areas within the city. The Alchemy Cathedral divided the city into more than 20 lots, which were auctioned off to alchemist factions. The specific ownership of the lots was determined by the auction results. After that, the Union City you see now came into existence.”

Noland Lee nodded slowly, “So in this case, if we think it’s too crowded inside the city, we could still move out and live, right? As long as we enter the city before Spray Powder Day, it would be the same, right?” “No, no, no.” Fars’s head shook like a rattle drum:

“What you don’t know is that after the ownership issue was resolved, everything inside the lot belongs to the lot’s owner, including the air above the lot, the un-fallen all-purpose metal powder, and all underground areas below the lot. You cannot collect the all-purpose metal powder in the lot without the authorization of the lot owner.”

“So that’s how it is…” Noland Lee thought and said:

“In other words, the so-called division of lots is actually the division of the area for collecting powdered metal, right? If there is more metallic powder falling in a certain area, the price of that lot will be high; otherwise, it will be relatively cheap.”

“That’s more or less the idea.” Fars looked at the wall blocking the view, his tone becoming excited:

“Finally back! Once I deliver the spring water to the alchemy workshop, I’ll take the remuneration to pay the rent for the laboratory and then soak in there for ten days and half a month before coming out… Ah, no, no, Mark, when is the next Spray Powder Day?”

Mark has been driving the motorcycle all night.Seᶐᶉch ᶇewᶇoᶌeᶅ, oᶉg on ᶃooᶃl℮

He raised his hand, covered his mouth and yawned, counting with his fingers:

“Let me think… about seven or eight days from now. I’m not sure.” Mark turned his head and looked at the captain:

“Captain, do you know the date of the next Spray Powder Day?”

“Spray Powder Day is in seven days. Stay in Union City for the time being, so you won’t miss it. If you want to make money, Spray Powder Day is the most crucial thing. As long as the alchemy facilities are intact, the collected powder will naturally be abundant, and the remuneration from the company will not be lacking.”

Kent smiled at Noland Lee:

“If your luck is good, you’ll have the 100,000 on your identity card sorted out in seven days. Our Security Corporation doesn’t directly participate in the powder collection work, but we do protect the alchemy facilities that collect the powder. If the facilities are undamaged, then we’ll have a good harvest.” Kent gently touched his head and sighed:

“But I’m just afraid of people causing trouble. Iron Thorn Shield has offended quite a few gangs. During the three days of Spray Powder Day, gang members will come out like rats to sabotage and cause yet another scene of bloody turmoil.”

Noland Lee asked puzzledly:

“Why does the Alchemy Cathedral allow such violent gang forces to exist? In the Empire, such groups would be treated as illegal forces, but the situation in the Golden Federation is completely different..”