Chapter 20 The Destruction Begins Here

With a murloc leading the way, it is not difficult to find the home base of the resistance organization. The difficulty lies in how to gain their trust. However, this is for others, and it is not a problem for me at all, because I have no intention of staying here for a long time, so I don’t want to gain their long-term trust. As for short-term trust... scaring is enough. Let them see that I have the ability to crush them to death without harming them. This is enough for short-term cooperation.

"Is this your home base?" I asked in slight surprise, looking at the transport warehouse in front of me that was similar to the exit I entered before.

Although the guy I caught had confessed everything, he was still not convinced, so he was not polite to me. After hearing my words, he immediately asked in a bad tone: "Then do you think the base of the resistance organization should be What would it look like? Build a cathedral-like building in the wealthy area above, and then hang a sign at the door saying Resistance Headquarters?"

I was stunned for a moment when I heard what this guy said, and then started laughing. It's fair to say that they are a resistance organization and they clearly want to do underground work. How can they create a high-sounding headquarters? It's too late to hide it. Are you still afraid that others won't know what's going on?

When the other party saw me laughing, he didn't want to say anything. Of course, even if I didn't laugh, he wouldn't dare to say anything. After all, he is still my prisoner. It's okay to talk a little bit, but it's not a good thing to go too far. When he comes back, he still has the power of life and death in my hands.

The two of us finished talking and were about to go in. Unexpectedly, I heard a beep behind me. When I turned around, I saw a blue light ball flying towards me. I raised my hand out of habit, and the light ball directly hit my palm. Then I held it in my hand, but it didn't disappear, but was still spinning there. In the astonished gaze of the other party, I pinched my fingers sharply. The ball of light exploded with a pop, but it did not explode with the expected power. Just a few sparks were sprayed out and they completely disappeared.

"Is this your personal weapon? Isn't it very powerful!" After successfully crushing the ball of light, I turned around and said to the fishman prisoner next to me, who had his mouth open and a look of dementia on his face. Although I did show his irresistible ability when I captured him before, he was not a combatant, so in his view, being more powerful than him was not a big deal. However, now I actually did it in front of me. He received an energy bomb in the face, and it exploded very easily. What is this strength?

"You, you, you..." The guy who opened fire was now looking at me with a dumbfounded look, forgetting to even hide. However, it is normal for him to be so surprised, because he clearly knows that what he is operating is not an individual weapon, but an energy cannon that has been removed from an underwater motorcycle for repair and has not been put back. If it were replaced with a real concept , that is, things like vehicle-mounted cannons, which are not the same concept as individual weapons at all. If a person sees someone else receiving a **** bullet with his bare hands. You can still think of him as a qigong master or something, but if someone catches machine shells with bare hands, he is not a qigong master but a superman!

Seeing the guy stammering and pointing at me and trembling, I walked over directly and asked, "Are you going to stand here and tremble like this all the time? Or do you want me to go in and have a chat?"

The guy who brought me here just now realized what he was doing and ran over and said to this person: "Don't worry, he is not one of those bastards from the mermaid tribe. This is the helper invited by Duludu. This appearance is a disguise. You’ll be able to see it when you get in.”

The guy looked at me doubtfully for a while after hearing his companion's words, but finally chose to believe his words. It wasn't that he trusted his companion's words, it was mainly my attitude and reaction that made him believe the fishman's words. After all, if the mermaids really discovered their resistance organization, I wouldn't be the only one here.

Under this guy's warning, we were finally brought in, and the people inside immediately started to stir up chaos when they saw me appearing. Fortunately, the guard who just brought me in was born in time to stop their chaos, otherwise it would have been estimated that After a while, energy bombs will be flying all over the sky. Although it can't hurt me, with so many energy weapons attacking at the same time, I definitely can't hold them all. If they hit a bulkhead or something, the noise will be huge.

With the explanations of the two murlocs, the other murlocs here finally relaxed a little, and soon those murlocs with slightly higher status gathered around to wait for our explanations. I didn't defend myself as soon as I came up. Instead, I asked Amynis to complete several transformations for me on the spot, simulating the forms of several species from Traveler City that I saw on the road. Finally, I asked Amynis to transform the previous ones. The fish-man who attacked me at the door turned into a mermaid. This performance finally made the other party understand that I am not a mermaid, but a pretender.

"Hello, powerful existence, don't know what to call me?" After proving my identity, the supreme leader here finally asked.

"You can call me President Ziri."

"So, can we ask what your purpose is?"

"I was hired by the Archon of Duludu, and was ordered to discover and guide Duludu's army to launch an attack. Of course, if possible, I will also be responsible for directly destroying it, or at least paralyzing Traveler City's mobility." said There was obviously a commotion around here. I waited for them to calm down a little before continuing: "But after knowing that you guys are not monolithic, I think it is not a bad idea to change the execution method."

"You don't know what you mean...?"

"What the governor of Duludu hopes is that no one will interfere with the normal development of Duludu, so destroying Traveler City is just a helpless move. Since you already have a resistance organization, I think as long as you promise not to cause trouble with Duludu again, , it’s not a big problem to help you overthrow the mermaid clan’s rule.”

"This... can we discuss this?"

"certainly."

Of course, you need to be careful when discussing this kind of thing. But the other party also knew that the opportunity was rare, so it only took more than ten minutes to make a decision and agreed to cooperate with me.

"Okay, now that we have reached an agreement, let's talk about what we should do next." I first said: "So, can any of you introduce to me the specific situation of Traveler City? I'm referring to the situation of mechanical equipment. You know. To stop this big guy, you can't achieve the goal by simply destroying it. Besides, since I agreed to let you become the master of this place, you definitely don't want to repair a thousand things after the war. A tourist city riddled with holes, right?"

After hearing my words, the guys immediately began to introduce me to the structure of various important facilities in Traveler City. It has to be said that the people of the lower class also benefit from the people of the lower class, because all superstructures are built on the basis of the people of the lower class. Once the people of the lower class no longer intend to support the superstructure, then the collapse of the superstructure will be a disaster. It's just a matter of time. Scholars in our country have understood this truth a long time ago, so the idea that "water can carry a boat but also capsize it" has been passed down.

Although the murlocs in Traveler City are all lower-class people, they are humble because of their status. Therefore, they are responsible for all kinds of hard work in the city, which of course includes mechanical repairs, as well as the maintenance and operation of the navigation equipment in Traveler City. Unlike machinery such as airplanes and cars, things in the water are often not directly controlled. Even in modern times, the cabs of large ships are actually just common control mechanisms. There will be a backup operating system in the engine room. Even The cab was completely destroyed. Large ships will not lose control. Of course, that is another matter if no one is in control.

The technical features of Traveler City have a bit of a steampunk flavor, with some magical equipment mixed in, but the overall technical intensity is not high, so the navigation system controls here are also separated. The people in the cab are not directly operating the city navigation, but are giving instructions to the engine room, and then the hard workers in the engine room turn huge winches or handles to control the movement of the city. To put it simply, if the hard workers in the engine room go on strike collectively, the mermaids in Traveler City will not be able to control the operation of the city, because the control levers and other things in their beautifully decorated cabs are not connected to the mechanical equipment at all. , if no one applies their operations to the machine below, the machine below will not read the operation instructions.

Because these murloc workers fighting in the engine room are the hardest, their willingness to resist is also the strongest. There are many such members in this resistance organization, but those kind of workers are working on the front line, and the headquarters here There was no sign of them around.

With the cooperation of the headquarters staff here, I was quickly taken to the engine room and met with several murloc rebels who were responsible for maintaining the operation of the city. These very old fishmen are like old mechanics here. They have worked in the engine room all their lives. It can be said that they can recognize every screw here. It was too easy for such old workers to cause the machine to malfunction, so I didn’t need to take action at all. I just briefly told them my intention, and these old workers immediately thought of a bunch of solutions. .

"We can throw some scrap iron filings into the fuel port." An old worker suggested: "I still remember that time when Little York was loading fuel, the shovel hit the feed port, and a piece of iron broke into the fuel chamber, and finally melted The metal solution covered the ignition magic array and caused Unit 3 to stop. More than a thousand tons of thermal conductivity solution solidified in the pipes. It took three months to clean it up."

Before I could nod, another old man next to me immediately said: "Your method is too destructive. We only need to make the machine unable to operate for a few hours. Are you not harming yourself? In the end, it's not all Let’s clean up these thermal solutions?”

"Then what do you think we should do?"

"It's stupid." The old man said: "Just find something hard and stuff it into the No. 9 gear. Then the gear will automatically roll in the foreign object. In the end, a bunch of gears will definitely be damaged, and the crank arm of the main shaft will also be stuck. , to get something out, you have to reverse the crank arm.”

When the old man said this, another old man next to him immediately continued excitedly: "But the crank arms of all thermal engines are connected to a main shaft. To get things out, all other thermal engines must be moved. If we stop, it will take at least three hours for us to clean things out, and it will take another hour for the thermal engine to warm up after it is shut down and restarted, which means we can gain at least four hours."

"No, no, no, it should be eight hours." The contact person of the resistance organization who brought me here said: "You can passively slow down the work. As long as you don't strike, the supervisors won't really do anything to you. You can take your time. Anyway, Find all kinds of excuses to delay time, just don't fix things. In this case, it should be okay to use twice the time, right?"

"What a brilliant idea." The liaison officer of the resistance organization nodded and said, "Let's do it like this."

After agreeing on the time for action, I went with my contact person to meet with personnel from several other places, and then finalized some departments that needed to be destroyed. After a final round of waiting and confirmation, there were only ten minutes left before the agreed time. , and at this time, my liaison with the resistance organization officially began to separate. With such a big plan, of course their resistance organization must take the opportunity to do something, otherwise wouldn't it be too wasteful?

After I separated from the connector, I transformed into the image of the mermaid tribe, and at the same time released Aina. As the princess of Atlantis, Grandina is a real mermaid. With her accompanying me, the probability of being discovered is much higher. After all, one pretender can easily arouse suspicion, but if there are more people, it will be less likely to be suspected.

"How long is it?" Grandma and I asked as we walked along the stairs to the upper level of Traveler City.

From what we know from the resistance, the internal structure of Traveler City is segmented. Because I entered Traveler City from the bottom, the first floor I entered was full of heavy machinery and various factories. In fact, this was the industrial area and equipment area, while the residential areas in the city were actually moving towards It takes two floors to get there. The two floors below are actually the mechanical area where workers work. The work here is very dangerous and very arduous, and it is basically done by fishmen.

When we entered the upper level, we found several guards from the sea beast tribe at the door. Although these guys had human limbs and torsos, their heads looked more like monsters, their limbs were well developed, and their bodies were unusually tall. Inversely proportional to their bodies, these guys' intelligence is generally not high, and they are professional warriors in Traveler City. Because of the mermaid shapes of Auntana and I, the two guards let us pass without even asking us. But the moment we passed the exit, the entire Traveler City suddenly fell into darkness. . (To be continued...)