The Record of Unusual Creatures Chapter 1118: Outer area

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The sculpture group standing quietly in the dark was left by the earliest builders of the twilight capital. When they finally stabilized the urban structure inside the barrier and were able to successfully control the opening and closing of the barrier, the old days The people who were divided in the city left these things outside the gate. Now two thousand years have passed. These sculptures have undergone some unknown repairs and replacements, but they still maintain the same appearance of the year. They stand in the dark, reminding the survivors of the twilight capital to keep them in mind. Everything that has passed away-the whole world outside the barrier.

About these sculptures, there are many versions of the stories now circulating, but even if you do n’t understand these stories, Hao Ren can see a lot of things from the faces of the sculptures with different looks. It is said that each of these statues is indeed a person. It was the last ancestors who fell outside the gate when the twilight barrier was raised. Wendell is familiar with the stories of these sculptures.

So in Wendell's account of the sculpture group, a group of people crossed the door of the aura.

Hao Ren feels like he is passing through a whimsical wind wall. The light shield that protects the entire city is actually only a thin layer. When he came over, he could hardly feel the thickness of that thing. As soon as he crossed the barrier, he felt that the scorching breath and harmful radiation that were filled in the air were completely isolated from the outside, and a not-so-smelling smoke breath came out.

He looked up and found that the entrance to the city was even more desolate and dilapidated than he had imagined. It was obviously an important gate to the shelter, but there was not even a decent sentry post around him, and it was even less populous. The entrance here is full of shabby and tall gray-black buildings. Two crooked towers stand symmetrically on both sides. The outer walls of the tower are mottled and fall off, revealing the uneven metal structure inside, a wide **** that slopes upward The road stretched out in front of the eyes. Both sides of the ramp were full of scattered waste facilities and buildings with sparse lights. Metal pipes and steel cables interlaced like spider webs in the sky, and smoke circulated between these "cobwebs". It looks foggy.

The line of sight extends along the **** that slopes upward, and you can see that the twilight capital is piled up like a spiral upward mound, and the stacked buildings have been stacked up infinitely, just like buildings Overcrowded. So much so that the terrain of the entire city was squeezed into lumps. Among the stacked buildings, from time to time, you can see a cloud of white smoke rising up, vaguely visible where the white smoke rises, huge mechanical devices are running, the rumbling sound reverberates throughout the city, monotonous and exciting Irritability.

"That's a big boiler." Wendell couldn't help but smile when he returned to his hometown. Although he embarked on a journey of seeking light with the heart of going back and forth, the feelings of people are after all It is unavoidable, and being able to return to this place filled his heart with joy, "there is the largest steam boiler, half of the city's power is provided by several large boilers."

"Steam boiler?" Only then did Hao Ren react suddenly, "Do you use steam power?"

"Yeah, great steam technology," Wendell sighed, "It is said that this thing was originally created by the giants in the ancient times. The king of flames, Strel, is the master of all steam power, but when After the gods fell and the world and heaven collapsed, the power of steam scattered around the world and gradually became something that humans can control. I used to have a workshop, and I was good at making gear mechanisms-but the workshop was closed long ago. "

Hao Ren Oh snorted and looked around. He noticed that even though this entrance was desolate and dilapidated, it was not deserted, and many silhouettes had been drilled out of the dilapidated buildings that looked like a hundred years old. These people wore ragged clothes and were sloppy. With a strange look, they were surprised to see someone coming in from outside the city, patrolling from afar and daring not to approach, and then finally someone recognized Wendel as a "light seeker". So the man exclaimed and turned away quickly.

A few others ran away with him.

"Don't care about these people," Wendell said as he walked forward on his own. "They are 'miners' on the outer edge of the city. These people are somewhat neurotic when they are exposed to the radiation environment outside for a long time." They deserve respect. But they are still unable to integrate into the society of the inner layer, so they are all gathered here. "

"Miner", as the name suggests, is the person responsible for collecting resources. But in this twilight capital, the work of miners means paying a heavier price.

They are responsible for collecting resources outside the city-outside the twilight barrier.

These people wear heavy protective gear every day and leave the city by another steam locomotive from another exit to the quarry in the dark. The excavation site has low-power protective devices, but it can't be compared with the powerful twilight barrier: these miners are therefore exposed to lethal magic radiation and toxic gas for a long time. These terrible and harmful environments continue to erode their bodies and spirits, which eventually leads these people to describe the withered, slow mind, and become what Hao Ren sees. The Steam Council provides the best distribution and housing in the city for the families of these miners, but these miners themselves ...

Their blood is poisonous, their hair and nails are poisonous, and even their breath is poisonous—they can only live in outer areas.

However, in order to allow their families and future generations to enjoy a superior living environment, many people still volunteer to come to the outer edge of the city to become a miner. Of course, there are also involuntary people, that is, the criminals who were exiled here, but they usually have no way to show up.

Wendel left the avenue with Hao Ren and his party and walked into a small lane hidden in the shadow of the building. Hao Ren thought that the other party was deliberately avoiding: "You are hiding from the steam council? Actually, we are just not interested in that council, and we are not planning to hide from them ..."

"I didn't hide from them," Wendell shook his head helplessly. "Just to go from this gate to the inner city, you have to go this way. The broad road is in disrepair since the light seekers have shrunk. In the future, that road will be almost abandoned, and the other roads will be more difficult to walk. I will take you to find an old friend who is the administrator of the mine locomotive. He can take us to the inner city. After that, I will be able to contact the light seeker headquarters. "

Hao Ren nodded and no longer said a word, but silently followed behind Wendell and walked deep into the murky, as if dormant steel monster, while observing curiously all the way This strange city in a closed state.

Obviously, after the evening of the gods, the survivors of this world did not completely stop the civilization. Although their development route became very strange, and the cities inside the barrier also appeared deformed and twisted everywhere, their society still Tenaciously developing. Two thousand years ago, Midgard ’s humans were the guinea pigs and playthings of the Nordic gods. They lived a primitive and rough life like other humans in the same period. Today, two thousand years later, they were built inside the twilight barrier. A steel city driven by mechanical and steam power-Galazhuoer was surprised.

In this case, their technology tree is still developing!

Wendel took everyone along the path, winding through a lot of old buildings that looked like abandoned, but there were still sounds from time to time inside, and judging from the **** of the road at the foot, Hao Ren thought that he was Go all the way to higher ground.

In the end, they arrived at an open place.

This is a huge steel platform, which is supported by large and striking pillars, completely erected on top of several tall buildings, and the edges of the platform extend out several parallel steel rails. One end of these rails stretched straight into the far twilight barrier, passed through the halo gate on the barrier, and disappeared all the way into the darkness: they obviously led to those mines, and the other end of the rail went all the way. The topography of the city extends upwards to the top of this conical city.

This is a large artery.

When Hao Ren and his party arrived at the platform, they saw the "steam locomotive" in Wendell's mouth.

These are two heavy but rugged and powerful mechanical monsters, which are larger than any of the Hao Ren impressions of the train (including the old steam locomotive he saw in the movie), the cylindrical locomotive traction section It was covered with thick pipes and rivets, and the black and heavy steel machine appeared extra heavy and heavy, and behind this powerful traction head, it dragged several dirty cars.

Many men in greasy work clothes are busy around the two locomotives. They are busy applying grease to the machine, calibrating the gears, tightening the valves, and writing the sacred Runi text on the front of the car with white paint to bless This steel body can return safely in the darkness outside the twilight barrier. A large number of miners are waiting for the ride by the car behind them. These miners are wearing heavy protective clothing, and the dirty clothes are inlaid with a certain metal soft wire inlaid with Ni words, and each miner has an ugly waist hanging Spherical helmet made of leather and metal, connected with two tubes and clothes.

These heavy protective suits are slightly similar to those worn by Wendell, but are significantly rougher and clumsy. Although they look heavy, their effect is quite limited. The equipment and amulets of the light seeker can allow the wearer to cross the ruins of the nine kingdoms, but the protective clothing and helmet on the miners can only allow them to survive safely for ten hours under magic radiation-after this time, they must come back to replace some These key components and recharge the Runi script.

Therefore, the most important lesson that every miner must take before entering the job for the first time is that the steam locomotive must be caught up in time. (To be continued.)