Star Gate world-Chaos Faction, Black Cage Fortress.
Thud, thud!
With two dull thuds, two enormous woven plastic sacks tied together were kicked out of the convenience store and hit the ground hard.
A dark-skinned young man in a straw hat and slippers used the stick in his hand to hoist the two sacks, then slung them over his shoulder.
"Little Tudou, nice work." The old man tending the convenience store smiled and praised the young man.
"Heh, thanks."
The dark-skinned young man waved and carried the two sacks deeper into the Hutong.
Old high-rises stood on either side, with very little space between them, making the Hutong dark, damp, and utterly filthy, with an air of decay everywhere.
If you stood in the Hutong and looked up at the sky, the sunlight you could see was actually scattered, appearing in patches or long strips.
Countless wires, awnings, and all kinds of haphazard structures wound upward, blocking and dividing the sun that nourished the earth, leaving only a little light to spill down into the human world.
The dark-skinned young man carried the two enormous sacks onward and soon reached a rust-covered exterior staircase.
Four people stood outside the staircase.
They were He the Actor, who had just returned from the northeast; Yao Sen, who had once tried to attack Ren Daguo, only to get his foot stuck in a sewer and nearly get run over; Mr. Lu, who owned an independent Star Gate and listened to a group of women sing every day; and Little Dwarf, who had taken part in the apartment building battle in Shanghai.
The four had come to Black Cage Fortress mainly to escort the Chaos Faction players who had already secured slots for the Great Qian Dynasty mission.
Black Cage Fortress was the Bell Society's