The map given by the shop owner only recorded Infinite City and the location of its entrance. Everything concerning Infinite City was pitch-black.
Once they reached the entrance, the map became worthless.
Information about Infinite City clearly had to be explored firsthand.
Since the Game Administrator stationed at the entrance had explicitly stated that food supplies and temporary rest could be enjoyed for free within the Black Wall,
Han Dong no longer had any reservations and called his companions into the entrance passage.
"Come on, let's take a look inside."
The passage was roughly ten meters deep, and at its end stood a complex Lifting Device.
After some kind of scanning device identified the Killer Badges worn by the three of them.
Rumble!
Multiple gears and powerful motors began to operate, carrying them rapidly upward inside the Black Wall.
In less than twenty seconds, they had risen a full thousand meters.
When the lift stopped, what appeared before them was not the "rest area" they had expected.
It was instead a circular City Within Walls built inside the Black Wall.
Circular railways, neon lights, steel buildings, and residents fitted with various Prosthetic Limbs—it felt as though they had stepped into a city of night.
"This... I thought the inside of the Black Wall would merely contain some sort of temporary rest area, like the one before a game begins.
"They actually built a circular city within the wall? Is this some kind of comprehensive shelter?"
Just then.
A Mechanical Geisha floating in midair slowly drifted down before them.
Her mechanical jaw lowered with the turning of gears, revealing a brass pipe-like vocal device.
"Welcome to the outer wall of Calmus.
"This is the only place of rest in Infinite City, as well as an important area you will often need