So, after all these things were arranged, Luke didn't waste any time and immediately led the others out of the area.
Uvogin, Phinks, Nobunaga, and Feitan didn't have much to pack; they were all essentially solitary.
One person's food feeds the whole family, so they took all their belongings with them.
This made their departure much easier.
"Go straight from here, and we'll almost reach the first city in the outside world."
Luke took out the map of Meteor City that Elder Veyron had given him and looked at it.
He already had a general idea of the surroundings, and now he was just reconfirming it.
According to official information, Meteor City is roughly the size of Tokyo and Saitama prefecture combined.
It covers an area of 6,000 square kilometers and has a population of nearly 10 million.
There are three generally accepted archetypes for this place.
One is the study room of Togashi himself. However, this likely corresponds to the similarly awful rooms of the final gatekeepers, Dwun and List, after completing the game Greed Island.
The second is the suburbs of Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, which is also filled with garbage, turning the city into a garbage town.
That massive mountain of garbage also supports tens of thousands of people. When people are desperate and out of work, they flock to this mountain.
The third, considered the most similar, is the Zabbaleen in Greater Cairo, Egypt.
This is the city truly called the garbage city, where people literally live among trash.
Even the Zabbaleen word itself literally means garbage people in Egyptian Arabic.
To leave Meteor City and reach the outside world, one must pass through a vast expanse of yellow sand.
In other words, the area surrounding Meteor City is a desert.
Add to that Phinks and Bonolenov Ndongo, who, when they first appeared, were dressed like Egyptian pharaohs and mummies.
And there's the most crucial reason: when Togashi was creating the Phantom Troupe and Meteor City, he happened to be traveling in Egypt with his newlywed wife, Sailor Moon author Naoko Takeuchi.
As Togashi himself later described it in an SBS interview.
[The greatest benefit of this trip to Egypt was that I found inspiration in the Pyramid and incorporated it into the Phantom Troupe arc.]
[Those novel auction methods (underground auctions), antique assessments (Gon and Killua auctioning the antiques), all had an inseparable connection to that journey.]
Later, some researchers even confirmed that the background of Meteor City closely resembled Zabbaleen's urban layout and streetscape.
Thus, the prototype of Meteor City was locked in.
But all of this was irrelevant to Luke.
Even knowing it wouldn't change anything.
No matter how many times they said the phrase, we're all trying our best to survive, it wouldn't make the world do anything for Meteor City.
All he could do was change the current state of Meteor City and the outside world's perception of it.
Whoosh!
The raging yellow sand before him seemed to block the people of Meteor City from reaching the outside world.
But it didn't do anything to stop the garbage trucks that rolled in one after another.
Or rather, they couldn't stop them.
The conventional way to leave was to find a garbage truck and sneak onto it.
For example, most homeless people leaving Meteor City did this.
Of course, one could also forcefully seize a truck.
But few would do that, and even if they did, they wouldn't endanger the lives of the people on the trucks.
After all, the residents of Meteor City still needed these people to transport their supplies.
But for Luke, this wouldn't be such a hassle. He then pulled out a capsule half the size of his palm.
Then he pressed his thumb firmly against it and threw it forward.
Puff!
With a boom and a swirl of dense purple-pink mist, an RV appeared before them.
Invention: Universal Capsule Set - RV
Origin: Dragon Ball - Capsule Corporation
Function: Compresses an RV into capsule form; upon activation, it instantly expands for use, making it a must-have for travel and adventure.
Such an invention, the universal capsule, comes from the Dragon Ball universe.
Developed by Bulma's father, Dr. Brief.
As the founder of the Capsule Corporation, Dr. Brief is a brilliant but eccentric scientist. Whether it was Son Goku's airships or the hypergravity training room used by Vegeta, they were all his creations.
Of course, his eccentric daughter, Bulma, also inherited his brilliant mind.
She developed inventions like the time machine and the dragon ball radar.
Besides that, Bulma's nymphomaniac personality might also be related to Dr. Brief and his wife.
After all, he was the one who often had the cold shoulder with his wife, and Bulma distrusted him because of his collection of illegal reading materials.
And then there's the fact that his wife was always dreaming of going on dates with Goku and the others.
"Alright, everyone, get in the vehicle."
After the purple mist dissipated, Luke beckoned Uvogin and the others, who were standing there in a daze, to get in.
"Is this another one of your inventions, captain…?"
Uvogin smacked his lips: "You can really pull out anything!"
"It seems to be much better than those trucks that frequently haul goods in and out of Meteor City!"
Nobunaga stroked his hair and said in amazement.
"No, this car is much better than those garbage trucks…"
Phinks also recovered from his shock, his eyes sparkling as he surveyed the RV.
It was like the look of a grown boy seeing a beloved toy.
"Those garbage trucks? They don't even compare to this invention by the captain."
Feitan glanced at him sideways, then opened the door and walked in first.
Once inside, the group was stunned again by the decor and facilities.
They had never seen anything like this modern-style equipment before.
Well, in 1984, the outside world probably didn't have the kind of RV layout Luke had.