Fei Spine stood on Luo Di’s shoulder like a pet, which clearly indicated Luo Di’s "new recruit" status to prevent him from being specially targeted by the Spine due to his appearance and strange attire.
Moreover, ordinary soldiers are not assigned to Recruitment Spine alone.
He unlocked the door and pushed it open.
Luo Di instinctively tried to step out but quickly withdrew his foot.
Because there was no corridor outside the door as he had imagined, but an empty space... hundreds of meters above the ground.
This apartment in Chaos Nest City, unlike the ones in the Human World, has a huge barrel-shaped structure and accommodates more than a hundred thousand residents.
Such apartments are considered medium to small size in Nest City.
No elevators, no stairs, no passages, no corridors.
Just single apartments embedded in the walls, densely packed like a honeycomb.
Residents who are granted living rights in the Central Nest, at the level of the spine, have good development; "wall climbing" is one of the basic skills.
No need for any elevational facilities,
Residents enter and leave their apartments by climbing the walls,
This design not only exercises their bodies but also saves space efficiently.
The building material is not reinforced concrete but rather Spine’s unique ’Marrow Mud’.
Although it appears to be made of bone, it is top-notch in hardness, toughness, heat resistance, and sound insulation.
This material also possesses a biological trait—[Regeneration].
If Spines damage the building while climbing, it can heal quickly in a short time.
After getting the information about the building, Luo Di jumped down directly from the 42nd floor where he lived, then used the Pig Slaughter Knife in his right hand to embed into the wall, slowing his descent to land steadily.
The cut-open wall was indeed healing quickly, likely to be restored to its original state in less than ten minutes.
Guided by Fei Spine out of the apartment, Luo Di officially stepped onto the streets of Nest City.
He was taken aback at what was called the "street," as it was entirely different from the streets in his memory.
The street width was several to dozens of times wider than human city streets, with numerous skywalks and aerial streets intertwined, efficiently using the space.
Buildings characterized by keywords like [Horn], [Spine], [Huge], [Dense] were seen everywhere.
Additionally, Hell Factories with larger and more precise specifications than ordinary buildings were visible; chimneys rising and continuously emitting thick smoke, seeming to operate at full capacity all year round.
Compared to the sulfur and ashes in Hell’s Wilderness.
Chaos Nest City has filtered out most of the ashes, and the scent drifting in the air is not the stench of sulfur but a smell Luo Di once encountered in a restaurant.
It was the scent produced when spinal cord is cooked and charred.
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Moreover, even such spacious streets were almost crowded with pedestrians.
Here, the so-called "pedestrians" are naturally Spines, [Demons] with body structures similar to humans, most of whom exposed their spines, which after all are their proudest and most important body structure.
[Skin color]: Predominantly a lava-like [Red] which represents high temperatures, dry heat, slaughter, and a passion for war.
[Physique]: The Spine community values physicality, and after Physical Casting, most of them have large physiques, with even the so-called slender ones reaching between 1.8m to 2.2m. Most are between 3m to 5m tall.
[Horn]: Besides the characteristic spine, they more or less possess ’Bone Horn’, mostly curved and growing on both sides of the forehead, or as a singular horn structure in the center.
[Clothing]: Apart from a few Spines wearing robes or skirts made of Skin, most of their clothing could be described as armor, made from bone or metal.
They wear it, or even have it directly embedded into their skin surface, covering vital body parts, reducing the exposure of vulnerabilities.
It’s evident that Spines have great inclusivity, with varying materials and designs in their clothing. As long as it enhances their personal strength, it’s considered good, without any rejection or prejudice.
"So many Spines?" Luo Di could not estimate how many residents were in Nest City; what he was seeing was probably just the tip of the iceberg.
Fei Spine seemed slightly proud, raising its uppermost spine, "This is Chaos Nest City, one of the largest cities in True Hell... with a total population reaching 6 billion."
"6 billion?! All Spine warriors?"
In Luo Di’s world, there are only eight billion, but now just this one city has six billion.
Fei Spine shook his wings, "How could they all be Spine warriors~ The total number of Spine warriors is probably around 200 million, after all, there aren’t enough ’Hell Items’ to produce them.
The population of Nest City is large, but the majority are not Spine warriors and they live in the much more crowded Lower Nest area.
These people love war and aspire to become [Spine warriors] and are willing to live in the Lower Nest area, relying on them to help the city ’digest’ living garbage, otherwise, it would be difficult for Nest City to achieve some kind of internal cycle.
As long as they perform well enough, they indeed qualify to be granted ’Hell Items’ and become Spine warriors.
Where we are now in the Central Nest, it’s mostly Spine warriors like you, the vast majority already belong to some legion."
"Do they not need to go to war?"
"Of course, they need to~ so less than half of the people stay in the city, the rest are in the war or on their way to war."
Just as Luo Di was observing the streets of Nest City, the Spine warriors here also smelled something different.
They soon noticed him, spotting this outsider whose clothing, appearance, and skin color were different from theirs.
But when they saw the Recruitment Spine on the newcomer’s shoulder, they felt somewhat envious and even more cautious, and no longer continued to stare at this Outer Realm Apostle.
Luo Di himself also noticed the change in their eyes, but didn’t pay too much attention, nor did he need to.
He continued to use the cameras in his clothing to carefully observe this unimaginably huge city, trying to gather as much information as possible and record it for storage, perhaps to bring it to the Human World someday.
The camera captured various details between the streets of Nest City.
The Spine warriors living here, while each possessing extraordinary physical fitness, still rely on transportation tools for efficient movement given the city’s enormous size.
However, the transportation tools here aren’t much related to mechanics, at most they include some metal decoration.
Various beasts related to spinal structures serve as transportation tools, their sources are also the Nest City Factory, created by Biological Blacksmiths as transport beings.
Mainly divided into the following three types:
Single or double riders, multi-person crawler vehicles, flying Spine mounts.
These biological vehicles have two characteristics:
1. Two types of marks are branded on them, one for transportation permission, and the other representing the lumbar mark of the Central Nest.
Only with these two marks can the biological vehicles be allowed to operate in the Central Nest.
2. There is a connecting port in their spinal structure, where riders can insert their tailbone to achieve nerve connection with the mount, thus achieving perfect control, with no subjective operational errors whatsoever.
Luo Di is interested in these biological vehicles for some reason.
He pointed to a Hell beast fully covered in black armor, with a physique similar to an adult male lion, lacking eyes and nostrils but with only a sawtooth mouth visible outside.
"Can I get this thing?"
"You haven’t even joined a legion yet and you want to acquire a mount? These things can’t be bought with money, you need to bravely kill enemies on the battlefield and accumulate battle achievements~ then naturally, you can get mount approval and corresponding War Beast rewards."
He even thought about bringing such a mount to his world, perhaps it could assist nicely when exploring Corners.
Streets in Nest City also share some similarities with human cities—[Shops].
There are various shops for trading at the buildings’ base, predominantly restaurants. There are also some shops Luo Di has never seen in human cities, like beast shops, bug servant shops, juice pressing shops, etc.
Some of these shops inevitably reminded Luo Di of the underground places in Mingwang City, during which some extravagantly dressed Spine warriors threw inviting gestures.
Fei Spine, seeing that Luo Di’s basic knowledge of Nest City was about right, then left his body, bending its body and pointing towards a special direction.
"Let’s leave it at that for city familiarity for now~ In the future, you’ll have plenty of opportunities to familiarize yourself here and even make some Spine warrior comrades. Follow me, today we need to complete your service assessment.
The recruitment ground is still some distance from here, let’s take the ring rail there."