Chapter 516: Regional Capital (1/2)

When Xue Wei looked out the screen that displayed the outside of the carriage, he could not help but feel that there was a vast difference between where in the Ghost Realm one traveled.

He had been spending so much time in the wilderness, just stopping every now and then at the villages, so crowded areas were rare. Even though many people gathered in the villages, one could not call it crowded, but now that they had entered the regional capital, Xue Wei understood that the Ghost Realm was genuinely bursting with ghosts.

The regional capital was surrounded by a large and domineering wall. One had to enter through one of its four gates to gain access to the city.

Many ghosts came wandering from the smaller villages, or from the wilderness, to settle in the city. Others came to sell their wares, and yet some came to purchase items that were hard to gain elsewhere.

Everyone who came to the regional capital had their own purpose for being here.

Xue Wei, and the caravan he was part of, had also arrived outside the city gates. A long and straight queue was in front of him, and while Xue Wei wondered if the other gates were less busy, the middle-aged ghost shook his head.

”This gate is without a doubt the least busy one,” he began explaining. ”We came from the north, and the north is where the poorest areas are. Here, not many travel around, and there are no other regions north of this one.”

Xue Wei understood the implied words. Since there was no other region north of here, then that meant that the only people who could enter through the north gate came from this region, and that they were much fewer than in many other gates.

Knowing this, Xue Wei could not help but raise an eyebrow in surprise.

This regional capital had to be humongous to house so many ghosts. While he was aware that ghosts would go missing every day, one also had to remember that there were no ghost families. While there might be couples, none of them had children, nor did they have pets.

It was impossible to trust one another, so roommates were also relatively rare. Xue Wei was not sure what to expect from the city. When he had been in the villages, the architecture was very similar to the living world, but was it the same in the cities? He did not know, and due to the towering wall, which blocked every view of what was on the other side, Xue Wei would get no answers for now.

The caravan had come to a stop. It slowly advanced as the line diminished, and when it was their turn, the guards ordered all of them to exit the carriages.

It was clear that this was the typical procedure, and all of them exited the carriages before they went to the guard.

The guard was flicking his hands, and a small shining rune appeared on the tips of his fingers before they embedded themselves into the ghosts' foreheads, and slowly vanished from sight.

These runes were the rules of the regional city. It made it so that when you entered the city, you could not kill others, and were only capable of attacking in self-defense.