By then, Xu Huo had no more questions. The other three had nothing to add either. As a perk for joining the team, Yi Mao handed each of them a miniature bomb and a medical kit stocked with items like Antidotes and Self-Healing Agents.
During the preparation period, Yi Mao recruited two more Players. Once the team was more or less ready, they got into a vehicle and headed for the protective wall.
Only after leaving the venue did Xu Huo get a good look at Clown City. Unlike Building Block Fairy Tale Town Station, with its surface-level splendor and excessive enthusiasm for life, Clown City looked perfectly ordinary—much like Ting City. After their vehicle pulled out, pedestrians on the street even came to see them off, waving Clown City flags.
The biggest difference was the architecture. The city had something of a Future City look to it. Looking up, they could see circular tracks crisscrossing overhead and round public spaces stacked one above another. Overall, it looked like a lotus pond dotted with blossoms of varying heights, while a few buildings that stretched from the bottom to the top of the city served as central pillars.
In other words, Clown City was built in layers.
The venue they had just left was on the third level. As they passed through a circular track, they could see the level below from the side.
Public spaces and some residences on adjacent levels were usually offset from each other. There were only a dozen or so pillars, each with climbing tracks running up and down, winding through every level of the city.
"The buildings here are so tall," the female Player marveled. "So many of them are over fifty stories. The tallest building is the one at the city's heart—it's a full