Chapter 1129 Races in the Engine Room

Regardless of the details, Hao Ren and his group of uninvited guests caused a huge chaos in the Twilight City - and sometimes, "chaos" is a necessary means to solve problems. In order to successfully reach the deepest part of the city, verify one of Vivian's guesses, and understand the operating mechanism of this twilight city, Hao Ren needed a chaos so that all the troubles could be concentrated on the large platform in the upper city.

The piercing whistle continued to sound, and more Twilight Guards responded to the call and came to the upper city. In the view of the person in charge of the defense force, this incident has taken a strange and unbelievable direction. And the whole situation is gradually getting out of control. The top commanders couldn't figure out why such a powerful turbulent force suddenly appeared in the city, and this turbulent force was also entangled with a light seeker who had just returned from the dark wilderness.

Over the past many years, the city has maintained a relatively peaceful situation, although there have always been problems of one kind or another - resource shortages, equipment failures, mining accidents, and even the most serious one, a local fire in a large boiler. , but no matter which time the problem is at least clear, experts and scholars can always find the root of the problem quickly. But this time, the unrest that suddenly appeared in the city cannot be explained at all.

Their origins could not be traced at all, and there was no warning of this incident.

Most of the tracks and platforms in the upper city are under martial law. The two giant gear sets located in the middle and upper part of the Twilight City make a heavy roar. Huge steam columns erupt from the gear sets. The speed of the entire set of machinery changes with the speed of the gear sets. It gradually slowed down. The large boilers are reducing their output to prevent the threat from spreading to the vital central pressure pipe: once the large boilers are attacked and explode, the damage to the city will be immeasurable.

In order to avoid this danger, the Twilight City has its own emergency plan, one of which is to relieve the pressure of the central pressure pipeline.

Near the top platform, fierce fighting is still continuing. Reinforcements from all over the city have gathered 70%, but they still cannot solve the threat. Looking in the direction of the big elevator, you can see bursts of gunpowder smoke rising there, and the faint roar of artillery explosions.

Near the large boiler in the upper city, in a square tower made of steel, the leader of the Steam Council and the senior commander of the Twilight Guard were studying the intelligence coming from the "front line". A bald man with one arm and eyes inlaid with mechanical lenses The man from the team had just arrived here, and he brought the latest news: "The enemy's tactics are ever-changing, and they have the ability to transform. The situation up there is now in chaos, and it is even impossible to count the exact number of opponents and their appearance. . Those guys probably still have the power to summon phantoms, and there should be powerful wizards among them: there are summoned creatures on the scene to join the battle, which makes the information even more confusing."

"Where did these guys come from?" The Speaker of the Steam Council, a middle-aged woman with a serious expression, asked with a frown, "I heard some bad rumors, and it is said that they have contacted some ancient descendants. "

Sitting in the shadows in the corner of the room was a thin man. This man completely wrapped himself in a black short robe, almost blending into the surrounding darkness. He spoke hoarsely: "This is not a rumor, it is a scholar. Judgment. Basilisks, giant wolves, and fire giants, their characteristics are basically consistent with ancient legends. Now it seems that we are not the only ones who survived Ragnarok - they also survived, and they have been hiding in the In our city.”

Everyone in the room couldn't help but gasp when they heard these words, and all kinds of more negative conjectures came out one after another.

In this way, the chaotic battle that took place on the elevator platform was spread to the ears of the city's administrators. With the random thinking of a group of people, it was gradually evolving into something even more bizarre.

But the participants in this melee didn't know this at all.

Lily was happily rolling around in front of the Twilight Guards' defense line. After the transformation, her fur could completely resist the attacks of ordinary guns. Occasionally, she would scream when she was hurt by an overly powerful artillery. With his throat, he returned to Nangong Wuyue to receive some psychological and physical treatment, then turned around and turned back into a fierce dog; Yzaks kept throwing fireballs towards the sides of the elevator platform, making preparations to forcefully open a passage. With his appearance, he attracted almost 60% of the hatred; Anthony floated in the air, surrounded by arcane balls that were like stars, and single-handedly completely suppressed the most elite group of wizards in the Twilight City. , and he hasn’t taken it seriously yet...

Compared with these powerful guys, the golden dragon Galadra is the most unstoppable existence for the Twilight Guards. The Dragon Queen had now transformed into her original form. At first she competed with the Twilight Guards' anti-aircraft firepower with great interest, and then she realized that flying in the sky as a moving target was really stupid (more importantly) The reason is that the roots of the wings are fragile, and anti-aircraft shells will really lose health!), so she simply flapped her wings and turned around to sit on a huge black tower on the edge of the platform. This tower was obviously a crucial and fragile one. Facility, the Twilight Guard's heavy artillery was throwing rat weapons here, and the soldiers could only use limited-power muskets to attack Galadra. The Dragon Queen immediately felt relieved when she saw this situation: she squatted there and used her wings to directly attack Galadra. Hold your head, look at your eyes, nose, mouth, mouth and heart. At this time, you have just fallen asleep for the second time...

Although this is very unsightly, for the golden dragon, this is really the most effective protective posture. The dragon queen holding her head and squatting in defense is almost an invulnerable fortress. She is so old and stuck in the whole place. In the most eye-catching position on the battlefield, the Twilight reinforcements who were constantly coming from other parts of the city would be diverted by this huge golden creature at the first sight.

So no one realized that this line of defense had actually been breached.

In the ancient elevator shaft, Hao Ren, Vivian and Wendell were quickly heading to the lower city.

The sounds of fighting coming from the upper floors of the city have faded away, and the occasional faint explosion sounds are as distant as coming from another world.

In order not to alert the city guards, Hao Ren and the others did not activate the transportation equipment in the passage. Instead, they directly let the data terminal drill into the shaft through a ventilation hole. Then the three people teleported in flew directly down the shaft: Vivian helps, this kind of flying is very simple.

They are "dive" in this incredibly ancient and complex city that looks like a three-dimensional maze. The scenery along the way gives people the feeling of walking through a bizarre dream. The city continues to stack up over the years, and the elevators connecting the upper city and lower city continue to stack up with the sun and the moon. The former upper city has become the lower city, and the former elevator platforms have also been demolished and renovated. It became a new passage support, leaving behind distinct stacking zones: just like fossil specimens between rock layers, the elevator passage preserves the historical trajectory of the city.

This shaft is very wide and has a perfect circular shape. The walls of the shaft are supported by steel. As they continue to travel to older areas of the city, rocks and some kind of gray-white man-made material gradually appear in its materials. The entire shaft wall is not sealed, but huge openings and gaps can be seen everywhere. Some are dedicated passages for personnel to enter and exit, and some are purely cracks caused by the building structure. Thick black steel pipes are crisscrossed on the shaft wall, and the safety valves of the pipes emit steam from time to time. In some areas of the shaft, the steam even forms continuous clouds - even in small areas. Rainfall, this phenomenon amazed Hao Ren.

"Under the elevator channel is Lake Milton," Wendell introduced the deepest secret of the city. "All the steam in the city condenses into water and will eventually return to Lake Milton."

Hao Ren hummed. At this time, Vivian slowed down her descent and he could see the surrounding situation more clearly. This should be close to the lower city, or has already entered the lower city: the shaft is in an extremely vicissitudes in this section. Through some large holes in the well wall, he saw a very vast space outside. Huge gears were rumbling, steam pipes were winding, and black sticky grease was flowing along the ground. Some of it had already flowed smoothly. The water flowed into the shaft through the hole in the shaft wall. He also saw people - or creatures similar to humans. Those humanoid creatures moved between the steam pipes and the bearing gears. They were pale, short and agile, with almost no hair on their bodies and no hair on their heads. They turned around When the faces came, Hao Ren saw that they had unusually large eyes, which were almost terrifying.

"They are a race that lives in the engine room. They have maintained the pressure pipes and bearing groups below for generations. I don't know when they started. They no longer leave the engine room. After many generations, they became like this," Wen said. Del fulfills the responsibility of a guide, "They were also humans once, but scholars believe that they are now..."

"You are still human," Vivian said. "You are all trapped in this little box. There is no difference."

After continuing to descend for a while, Wendell broke the silence: "We are in the lower city."