Chapter 58: 57. Urban Interlayer

57. Urban Interlayer

After walking for a distance, Li Ang understood what the "Interlayer" meant.

There were some iron windows for ventilation in the dark passage he was walking in. Through them, he could see the city sewer. But if one were in the sewer, it wouldn't be easy to find these iron windows, and even if they were found, they couldn't pass through the tortuous gaps into this dark passage.

According to the system miniature map, he was currently under the city of Spark Port.

The Urban Interlayer was just a large secret passage connecting many exits. Its real focus was the exits of those secret passages.

He arrived at another exit, walked up the steps, opened the mechanism, and found that this was a cellar.

Ice cubes were everywhere, and the goods placed inside were all related to sugar, oil, and milk. Looking at the labels of the goods and the location on the map, he judged that this should be the cellar of the dessert shop he had eaten at before.

Did this shop know there was a secret passage under their house?

Li Ang returned to the secret passage and found that some other exits were also inside buildings.

This was very much like a secret passage built because of war.

Looking back at the history of the Ignis Airspace, it was once full of war, and the legitimacy of the empire was established at that time.

Spark Port was close to the entrance of the airspace shipping lane, so it must have been a must-contested place in the war. It was not strange to have such a secret passage.

Today, since it was judged as a "hidden location" by the system, most people probably didn't know about the existence of the secret passage.

What "rewards" and "secrets" were inside here?

The secret passage was tortuous, and sometimes it inevitably passed through some exits, so Li Ang checked them all.

Some doors were now storage rooms, some were unoccupied houses, some were inside wellheads, and some doors might be bedrooms of the rich. He heard strange noises through the doors, so he didn't open them.

Finally, he found a special door.

There were magic lamps on both sides of this door to facilitate those who entered to take lighting. These lamps looked old but were gorgeous on the outside, and they should have been expensive back then.

The miniature map showed that the area above this location was full of large houses, clearly a noble or rich area.

Behind this kind of door, there might be wealth or secrets.

He slowly pushed open this door and found a row of clothes behind it.

They were almost all long dresses, hanging neatly on hangers. This space wasn't large, and there were many clothes.

Pushing aside the dresses slightly, Li Ang saw two open wooden doors.

Was the exit of this passage a wardrobe?

Looking out from the gap in the cabinet door, this was a young girl's room. The room was quite spacious, with many kinds of flowers and plants raised on the balcony. Tea sets were placed in the room, and there were bookshelves, desks, and dressing tables. Various places were decorated exquisitely and gorgeously.

Dorothy was sitting at the tea table.

Li Ang was stunned. He didn't expect this exit to connect to her house.

However, this lady had a good background, and it wasn't strange at all to live in a large house.

Li Ang didn't intend to pry into privacy and was about to turn and leave, but he saw Dorothy take a sharp knife from a box on the table in front of her.

The blade was shining with silver light. Dorothy seemed to have used it countless times, her fingertips skillfully rotating the hilt, and then she cut straight down at her wrist.

Blood gushed out immediately. Her enchanting face, which had no expression, converted into a kind of sorrowful smile after cutting her wrist.

She didn't stop, cutting hard one knife after another, and fresh blood splashed.

Li Ang didn't expect such a situation.

Dorothy slowly lowered her wrist, letting the blood flow rapidly to the floor. There was a white porcelain basin placed there in advance, and the bright red blood gathered in it, producing a strong visual contrast, which was shocking.

The lady leaned on the back of the chair and closed her eyes, waiting for the end of everything.

Watching life slowly flow away, Li Ang gritted his teeth and decided to go out.

He couldn't intervene in other people's family affairs, but he felt it was necessary to persuade the death of someone he knew.

He pushed open the cabinet door and stepped forward, grabbing the lady's wrist.

Dorothy opened her eyes and screamed in fright at the man who suddenly appeared. Li Ang hurriedly covered her mouth.

After seeing Li Ang, her expression calmed down immediately, and Li Ang withdrew his hand.

"What's going on?" The lady raised her eyebrows: "Are you this kind of person? Tailing? How did you hide in here faster than me? Wow, pervert."

She laughed lightly with a playful tone: "Why? Are you so curious about what I said back then?"

However, as Dorothy spoke, she seemed to remember something, and her cheeks suddenly flushed.

"You, you just saw it?"

"What are you talking about?"

Li Ang couldn't understand why she was committing suicide, but now she had the mood to pull and chat. It was as if she wasn't committing suicide at all.

He held her wrist, preparing to release a healing spell.

She would use healing spells herself, but cutting so hard, she definitely didn't intend to heal herself, and the degree of spells she mastered couldn't heal wounds that affected life in time.

"Hmm?"

The cut wound was very shallow, and it wasn't bleeding anymore.

Li Ang blinked. He clearly saw her cut the wound; he couldn't have seen it wrong.

Not understanding, he still released a shaman's healing water wave on the wound first.

The clear stream washed over the girl's wrist, and the wound seemed to be washed away with the blood scab. The place it washed over was as white as before.

Dorothy froze, holding her wrist, gently stroking the healed place.

"What's the point of suicide?"

Li Ang felt that from her behavior of testing and following in the afternoon, she didn't look like someone who was going to seek death in the first place. That could only be stimulated by other things.

"I might be meddling, but I think, dying for trash like Winders Finat is too devaluing."

"Well scolded."

Dorothy nodded, not mentioning her suicide at all.

"And, I'm not a pervert." Li Ang said.

"Hiding in my wardrobe and not a pervert? You saw everything!"

Dorothy was reminded again. Her face burned red, beautiful as peach blossoms. Her hands grabbed Li Ang's lapels with claws.

"You saw everything! You saw everything..."

She said, lowering her head, and then asked in a low voice: "Since you saw everything, how do you view me? Do you think I am what kind of person? Am I like this—"

"I don't know anything, really. I just arrived."

Li Ang pulled aside the row of long dresses in the wardrobe, revealing the secret passage.

Dorothy raised her head and ran to the wardrobe door, poking her head into the dark passage.

"What is this place? It turns out that behind my wardrobe is like this. I didn't notice it at all. Why do you know this kind of place?"

Turning her head, the shame on her face faded rapidly, and she became indifferent again.

"Oh, I see, you didn't see it."

Li Ang felt that her expression seemed to be a bit disappointed again.

Not intending to think about the things behind this, he said: "This secret passage—"

"I won't say it out."

Li Ang looked at her, thinking about what to do.

The current situation was also different from what he expected.

He originally thought Dorothy had fainted, so he left after releasing the healing spell, leaving a note of persuasion, telling her that Winders was about to be captured, and she might not need to seek death.

But why was she alive and kicking? And why did she care about other things? It was as if she wasn't committing suicide at all.

In order not to be treated as a pervert, the secret passage was also known.

Before the exploration was completed, lock her up first?

"I know you're not at ease."

Dorothy's corners of her mouth raised slightly. She put her hands together in a delicate posture and raised them in front of Li Ang.