Chapter 1118: Outer zone
The group of sculptures that stood quietly in the darkness were left by the earliest builders of the Twilight capital. When they finally stabilized the urban structure inside the barrier and were able to smoothly control the barrier opening and closing, they were once divided in the past. The people in the city left these things outside the gate. Now that the two thousand years have passed, these sculptures have been rebuilt and replaced many times, but they still remain 100% in the same year. They stand in the dark, reminding the survivors of the Twilight capital to remember them. The entire world beyond the barriers that have passed away.
There are many versions of these sculptures about these sculptures, but even if they don't understand these stories, Hao Ren can see a lot of things from the sculptures with different looks. It is said that each of these statues is indeed a person, the last group of people who fell outside the gate when the light barrier was raised. Wendell is familiar with the stories of these sculptures.
So in Wendell's narrative of the sculpture group, the pedestrian crossed the door of the aura.
Hao Ren feels that he seems to pass through a faint wind wall. The layer of light shield that shelters the whole city is actually only a thin layer. When he comes over, he can hardly feel the thickness of the thing. At the moment of passing through the barrier, he felt that the burning scent and harmful radiation filled in the air were completely isolated, and a smell of smoke that was not so good was blowing.
He looked up and found that the entrance to the city was even more desolate and dilapidated than he had imagined. It was clearly an important gate of the shelter, but there was not even a decent sentry around it, and even more people smoked. The entrance here is full of dilapidated and tall gray-black buildings. Two twisted towers stand symmetrically on both sides. The exterior walls of the tower are mottled and exposed, revealing a jagged metal structure inside, a wide **** with an upward slope. The road stretches out in front of the road. Both sides of the ramp are all high and low waste facilities and buildings with sparse lights. Metal pipes and steel cables are intertwined in the sky like spider webs, and smoke is hovering among these "cobwebs". It looks like a mist.
And the line of sight extends along the sloping ramp, and you can see that the Twilight Capital is piled up like a spiral-up mound, and the stacked buildings have been piled up infinitely, just like buildings are overcrowded. So that the entire city's terrain is squeezed into a swollen package. Between those stacked buildings, from time to time, you can see a group of white smoke rising up. It is faintly visible that there are huge mechanical devices in the place where the white smoke rises. The sound of booming and banging echoes throughout the city, monotonous and fascinating. Irritated.
"That is a big boiler." Wendell couldn't help but smile when he returned to his hometown. Although he was on a journey of searching for light with a heart that had no return, people's feelings could not be avoided. He can return to here again to make his heart full of joy. "There is the biggest steam boiler there, and half of the power in the whole city is provided by several large boilers."
“Steam boiler?” Hao Ren suddenly reacted at this time. “Are you steam powered?”
"Yeah, great steam technology," Wendell said. "It is said that this thing was originally created by the giants of the ancient times. The king of the flames is the master of all steam power, but when the gods fall After the collapse of the heavens and the earth, the power of steam was scattered around the world, and gradually became something that humans could control. I used to have a workshop. I was good at making gears. But the workshop was closed long ago."
Hao Ren snorted and his eyes cast around. He noticed that even if the entrance and exit were desolate and ruined, it was not without people. From the dilapidated buildings that seemed to have been in existence for a hundred years, a lot of people were drilled. These people are wearing ragged clothes and squatting. They looked weird. They were surprised to see someone coming in from outside the city. They were far from patrolling and dare not approach. Then someone finally recognized Wendell as a "light-seeker." Then the man gave an exclamation and turned and ran away quickly.
There are still a few people who ran away with him.
“Don't worry about these people,” Wendell said while walking forward. “They are the 'miners' on the outer edge of the city. They have long-term exposure to the radiation environment outside. These people are somewhat neurotic. They deserve respect. But still can't integrate into the inner-level community, so they all gather here."
"Mine", as the name suggests, is the person responsible for collecting resources. But in this twilight capital, the work of miners means a heavier price.
They are outside the twilight barrier responsible for collecting resources outside the city.
These people start with heavy protective gear every day, take the steam locomotive and leave the city from another exit to the dig in the dark. The mining site has low-power protection, but it is completely incompatible with the powerful light barrier: these miners are thus exposed to deadly magic radiation and toxic gases for a long time. These terrible harmful environments continue to erode their bodies and spirits, and eventually these people are described as dry and desperate, and they are what Hao Ren sees. The Steam Council provides the families of these miners with the best rations and housing in the city, 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 the outer edge area.
However, in order to allow their families and future generations to enjoy a superior living environment, many people still voluntarily come to the outer edge of the city to become a miner. Of course, there are people who are not willing to do, that is, the criminals who have been exiled to this place, but they usually have no way to show up.
Wendell and Hao Ren and his entourage left the avenue and walked into a lane hidden in the shadow of the building. Hao Ren thought that the other party was deliberately avoiding something: "You are hiding from the steam council? In fact, we are only 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 layer of the city, you must take this road. The road is overworked, since the team of light-seekers has shrunk, that The road is almost abandoned, and the other roads are 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 layer of the city. After that, I will go there. I can get in touch with the light seeker's headquarters."
Hao Ren nodded and no longer snorted, just silently followed Wendell, walking deep into the dark, dirty buildings like the crouching steel monsters, while walking all the way curiously watching this A strange city in a closed state.
Obviously, after the dusk of the gods, the survivors of this world did not let the civilization completely stagnate. Although their development route became very weird, the cities within the barriers were also deformed and distorted everywhere, but their society was still tenaciously developing. . Two thousand years ago, the humans of Midgard were the experimental and playthings of the Nordic gods. They lived the primitive and rough life like other human beings of the same period. Today, two thousand years later, they built in the light barrier. A steel city driven by mechanical and steam power, Gallardol, was horrified.
In this case, their technology tree is still developing!
Wendell took everyone along the path and went through a lot of old buildings that looked like abandoned, but still sounded from time to time. Judging from the **** of the road, Hao Ren thought that he was on the road. Go to a higher place.
In the end, they arrived in an open place.
This is a huge steel platform supported by large, striking pillars that are completely volleyed over several tall buildings, while the edge of the platform extends out of several parallel rails. One end of these rails stretches straight into the distant twilight barrier, through the aura of the barrier, disappearing into the darkness: they are clearly leading to those mines, and the other end of the rail is along the way. The city's terrain extends upwards to the top of the cone 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.
It was two heavy but sturdy mechanical monsters that were larger than any of the trains that Hao Ren had in mind (including the old steam heads he had seen in the movie). The cylindrical locomotive traction section was clothed. Full of large pipes and rivets, the dark steel machine is extraordinarily thick and heavy, and behind this powerful tractor head, there are several dirty compartments dragged.
Many men in greasy overalls are busy around the two locomotives. They are busy applying grease to the machine, calibrating the gears, tightening the valves, and writing sacred letters on the front of the car with white paint to protect the steel. The body can return safely in the darkness outside the twilight barrier. A large number of miners are waiting for the ride next to the rear of the car. These miners are wearing heavy protective clothing. The dirty clothes are inlaid with some kind of metal soft silk, and every miner still has an ugly waist. A spherical helmet made of leather and metal and joined by two tubes and clothes.
These heavy protective suits are slightly similar to those worn by Wendell, but are significantly rougher and more awkward, and although they look heavy, they are quite limited. The light-seeker's equipment and amulets allow the wearer to cross the ruins of the nine kingdoms. The protective clothing and helmets on the miners only allow them to survive safely for ten hours. It is necessary to come back and replace some key points. Parts and recharge the Russian characters.
Therefore, the most important lesson for every miner to get into the job is to catch up with the returning steam locomotive. (^)